Kiki Lovelace - Embodied Leadership & Success Mentor, Berkeley, CA (2026)

06/20/2026

Comment “BOSS”

06/18/2026

For years, I thought being a good leader meant making everyone happy.
It didn’t.
It made me tired.
It made me the bottleneck.
It kept me stuck.

Everything changed when I made these 3 shifts:

1. I stopped needing everyone to agree with me.
I used to spend so much time worrying about what people thought. I wanted everyone to like my ideas. I wanted everyone to approve. But leaders don’t need permission. They make a decision, explain it clearly, and move forward. The less I worried about opinions, the faster my business grew.

2. I stopped doing everything myself.
I thought being involved in everything made me a good business owner. It didn’t. It made me exhausted. Every time my team needed me for an answer, growth slowed down. When I started trusting people and handing things off, my business got bigger and my life got easier.

3. I stopped leading from fear.
Fear made me avoid hard talks. Fear made me keep the wrong people too long. Fear made me hold on too tight. When I started using clear systems and clear expectations, everything changed. My team got stronger. I got more freedom.

Maybe this sounds familiar:

✖️ Your team always needs you.
✖️ Every answer lives in your head.
✖️ You work too many hours.
✖️ Taking time off feels impossible.
✖️ Growth feels harder, not easier.

Your next level does not need more hustle.

It needs leadership.

The dream team because…

The 4-day work week.
The unplugged vacation.

They start with the choices you make today.

💬 Comment CLOCKWORK

and I’ll send you the exact hiring process I use to find winning employee

06/18/2026

As a recovering people-pleaser, I can tell you this:

The moment you stop managing everyone else’s opinions and start leading your own life, everything changes.

Maybe your version isn’t a $6M business.

Maybe it’s a 4-day work week.
Maybe it’s becoming the breadwinner.
Maybe it’s taking a vacation without checking Slack.
Maybe it’s building a team that gets results whether you’re there or not.

If that’s the life you’re calling in, these are the 5 moves that changed everything for me:

1. I stopped hiding.
I stopped worrying about looking silly and stepped fully into leadership.

2. I designed my business around my life.
Instead of building a life around my business.

3. I learned to delegate.
Not because I couldn’t do it, but because I shouldn’t have to do it all.

4. I built systems.
I got the knowledge out of my head and into processes my team could actually follow.

5. I became a better leader.
Not a harder boss. A clearer one.

And that’s where most business owners get stuck.

✖️ Your team is always waiting on you.
✖️ You work too many hours for the money you’re making.
✖️ Everything lives in your head.
✖️ You avoid hard conversations.
✖️ Team drama keeps stealing your energy.
✖️ You keep hiring the wrong people.
✖️ You’re terrified nobody can do it as well as you.
✖️ You’re exhausted from carrying it all.

If that’s you, your next level isn’t more hustle.

It’s leadership.
and this starts when you can finally say to yourself:

I release the belief that I must do everything myself.

I attract capable people who elevate the mission.

I create systems that support freedom.

I lead with clarity, consistency, and confidence.

I build a business that works even when I’m not working.

The 4-day work week.
The dream team.
The unplugged vacations.

They’re not someday goals.

They’re already being built by the decisions you make today.

Comment CLOCKWORK and I’ll send you the exact hiring process I use to find winning employees every time. 👇

06/16/2026

My clients often blow my mind with the most BANANAS results in my programs — like J, one of my graduates from my Leadership Academy.

She said “Before working with Kiki I knew I had the potential to grow my business, but I felt disorganized and I didn’t know exactly what to do.

Over this last year +, I’ve stepped more fully into my role as owner and CEO, built my team and created more space in my schedule.

I’ve grown my retreat business and studio simultaneously, increasing revenue by $170K in only 1 year.

Now I’m the breadwinner in my family, and I know I’m only just getting started.”

Read that again!

FROM 😩; disorganized and confused

TO:
🎉 built my team
🎉 created more space in my schedule.
🎉 grown my retreat business
🎉 grown studio business
And…

Increasing revenue by $170K in only 1 year. 🍾

This IS the trajectory of my clients in my EMBODIED BOSS Leadership Academy:

1) build the dream team +
2) create a more spacious schedule +
3) develop in their leadership, mentoring and communication skills +
4) have more bandwidth and mental space to focus on strategic growth...
.. which all equals LESS hours working in the business
.. with more revenue, more profits and more personal time for rest, family and travel.

If you’re currently a founder who is making 300 K plus a year but your sacrificing six work days a week, and you’re ready to actually scale your business while also moving back to a four day work week it’s time for a change…

That change isn’t difficult.

I own three business businesses and I’ve had four-day work weeks for over 13 years because of a simple three part framework that I teach everybody I work with

Where to start?

Get the right people on your team!

Want to see the exact hiring process I use to attract dream applicants to my employee positions?

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for my free Dream Team Contributor Hiring Checklist

06/14/2026

I see you. ❤️

The women over 40 building businesses that didn’t exist when you started.

The women creating communities where people finally feel like they belong.

The q***r business owners 🌈
The non-binary business owners.🌈

The people brave enough to do things differently.
I see you.
And I hope you take a second to see yourself too.

Because what you’re doing is a really big deal.
Many of our grandmothers couldn’t get a business loan on their own.
Many of them had dreams that never got the chance to become businesses.

But here you are.
Building.
Leading.
Creating.
Changing lives.

And I truly believe we’re about to see something incredible.

One day soon, the headlines will say:

✨ The fastest-growing group of millionaires is women between 45 and 55. ✨

Not because they got lucky.
Because they kept showing up.
Because they solved real problems.
Because they built businesses around their experience, wisdom, and values.

If we haven’t met yet, I’m Kiki.

I run three businesses and I’ve worked four-day weeks for the last 13 years.

And here’s what I know:
Freedom doesn’t come from working harder.

🥂 Freedom comes from having the right people beside you.

The right team changes everything.
Your revenue grows.
Your stress goes down.
Your time comes back.
Your business becomes something that supports your life instead of consuming it.

And you deserve that.

Want to see the exact hiring process I use to attract dream applicants?

💬 Comment CLOCKWORK and I’ll send you my free Dream Team Contributor Hiring Checklist.

Because your next level may not need more hustle.
It may just need the right people. ⏰✨

06/12/2026

I’ve had four day work weeks for 13 years because I know how to lead a team.

You keep throwing money at your team, but that’s not it

A misaligned team member will be misaligned no matter if you pay them $20K or $200K.

‘Cause the truth is: it’s not actually about the money.

A+++ contributors want autonomy, first and foremost. It’s more important than compensation, benefits, and even schedule flexibility.

And employee autonomy comes from autonomy-supportive leadership, i.e. the kind of leadership style where bosses:

💪 listen and take into account the perspectives of their employees

💪 don’t micromanage the how, giving choice and agency instead

💪 trust their team members to use their best judgment and do a good job

💪 encourage their employees to take initiative and experiment until they find what works

💪 communicate in supportive, non-manipulative ways rather than bombarding them with ick, old-school power dynamics,

and

💪 avoid trying to motivate people solely through rewards and punishments

Bold, confident, clearspoken, visionary, and trusting of both your team AND your self: THIS is the kind of leader I’m teaching my EMBODIED BOSS Leadership Academy clients to be.

And the results don’t lie...

🚀 6 figure++ increases in income in a single year

🚀 more efficiency, creativity and productivity for both you AND your team

🚀 harmony in your business relationships rather than drama, unspoken tension and ick

🚀 a team that runs the day-to-day so you can step back and get in your ACTUAL zone of brilliance (which is visioning and creating, of course)

🚀 more personal time for your family, self-care, girlfriends and volunteer projects

🚀 and a business that continues to scale in both income and impact, and that YOU ACTUALLY ENJOY RUNNING.

This is the norm in my world, not the exception.

And it all starts with your Leadership!

if you don’t know how to lead the team, there’s no team to build a business with.

💬 comment team

And I’ll send you a free video training that will help you lock in your dream team.

06/11/2026

My newest private client said the darndest thing to me recently:

“Kiki, I wish I had known you before I fired ###x because I would have handled it so much better.”

This was at the end of a 2-week private mentoring container where I coached her through my Staff Change Communication Protocol after a popular team member submitted her resignation.

Instead of gossip, confusion, and lost clients, she got a TON of messages from customers saying how much they love her business and would never leave.

Then she said:

“I realize now that you can’t go to bigger levels and make more money if there’s no structure around building and leading my team.”

Bam.

Ain’t that the truth.

Here’s what I want you to know:

When you implement 3-Touch Leadership, your life as a business owner gets lighter, not heavier.

Less work.
Less chaos.
Less people drama.
Better results.

I have 25+ years as an entrepreneur and almost 10 years mentoring business owners, but my résumé isn’t the reason you should hire me.

The real reason is that I went from mountains of debt and 70-80 hour work weeks to:

• Retiring my husband and becoming the sole earner for our family
• Buying our dream home overlooking the San Francisco Bay
• Working 25 hours a week, 4 days a week, 3 weeks a month, with 16 weeks off each year
• Navigating multiple economic downturns and living to tell the tale
• Building my dream team after years of gossip, resentment, and toxicity because—even as a natural-born leader—I had no idea how to be an actual boss

This work will open up your world and your calendar.

And you won’t have to suffer through more drama to get there.

We’ll implement it slowly, at the pace of you and your team. And when uncomfortable situations come up, I’ll coach you through them in a structured, repeatable way that creates more peace, stability, and freedom inside your business.

Comment TEAM for a fast and powerful video training.

06/09/2026

The difference between growing a business that supports you and staying as stuck in a business that’s burning you out is three simple structures that create the whole framework

If you dream a four day work weeks and having a thriving business comment “team” to peek behind the curtain on how you grow the team to support your framework.

06/08/2026

If you’re a female, non-binary, or q***r business owner making between $300K and $700K a year...

I need you to hear this.

You’ve probably been taught that success comes from working harder.
Giving more.
Holding everything together.
Taking care of everyone else before yourself.

And while that might make you a wonderful human...
it makes for a terrible operating system.

Because your business was never meant to run on your nervous system.

It was meant to stand on its own.

I’ve been taking four-day work weeks for almost 13 years.

Not because I’m lazy.
Not because I don’t care.
But because I learned that the greatest gift you can give your business is the opportunity to function without you constantly holding it up.

Ironically, the less my business depended on me...
the more it grew.

It didn’t happen overnight.
And it definitely wasn’t always easy.

But I discovered that every sustainable, scalable business only needs three simple things working together:

A strong team.
Simple operating systems.
And recurring revenue that doesn’t rely on your energy every single day.

The funny thing is, business owners are experts at making things complicated.

We think we need more clients.
More ads.
More staff.
More hours.
More hustle.

But my clients are taking 9-day vacations without their laptops.

They’re opening second locations.

They’re doubling their revenue.

They’re stepping away from the day-to-day while loving their businesses more than they have in years.

Not because they worked harder.

Because they stopped being the thing holding the business together.

If you’ve ever caught yourself thinking,

“I just need to push a little harder...”

I want you to know there might be an easier way.

Comment TEAM and I’ll send you a short video training that breaks down the first piece of the simple three-part framework that’s helped me run three successful businesses while protecting my four-day work weeks.

I think it’s going to completely change the way you think about growth.

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