Meet Kim Sorrelle

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Kim Sorrelle. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Kim below.

Kim, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.

A few years ago I was diagnosed with breast cancer. 4 months later, my husband, my love, but it was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Passed away 6 weeks after that.
Single at 47 was never part of my plan. I had to figure out this new life, and how to live it fully and completely.
I wanted to know home what love truly was. I had a great relationship with my husband I loved him More than I knew was possible for anyone to love anyone. But what about love now? How do I know I’m doing life right? If I lead with love, live with love, then likely I would be doing this life right. But what is love? I think if you put small people in a room you’d get 12 different answers to that question. So I decided I would figure it out. I decided to dedicate a year using a 2,000-year-old poem, love is patient, love is kind, etc. And figure out what is love that is patient or love that is kind.
I happen to be in Haiti most of the year. I was working on this. The things that I found out rocked my world, blew my mind, and changed my life.
A beautiful bonus happened when figuring out loud, I also figured out my purpose. No questions asked, undeniable, go full out purpose.

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I started my first business when I was 18 years old. Since that time I’ve started several successful businesses that have sold for seven and eight figures. I run a non-profit organization, hoping and some of the most distressed areas of the world. I’m a bestselling author, speaker, and I’m here to rock the world. I recently spoke at the United Nations.

Above all, My passion is people. I love people, love meeting new people, love hearing people’s stories and believe if we all just loved each other or a better place.

Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?

I grew up in an entrepreneurial home. Learned very early. Hard work and dedication pay off.
One thing that made a big difference for me is Knowing that I don’t know everything. I read every business book out there, listen to mentors, joint groups with like-minded people to learn as I could. Go collection criteria. I’m functions. I refuse to let eco or pride get in my way.
Another thing that helped me along being fearless. I never even thought of failure so I couldn’t fear it. That doesn’t mean everything I touch turn to old but what it does mean is I was able to make decisions quickly and try all the time.
The third thing is never letting my gender be an issue. I never thought about my gender until it was pointed out. I treated everyone with respect and appreciated everyone for who they are regardless of any differences we might have. When my gender was pointed out and typically it was in a negative way like I was not as capable or as smart or as welcome into a room, I ignored it and just continue to do what I was there to do.

Before we go, any advice you can share with people who are feeling overwhelmed?

Overwhelm happens to the best of us. I always believe that it’s not what happens but how we handle it. When I start to feel overwhelmed, I sit down with with pay tribe pencil and write down the thing that I am finding overwhelming. Writing them on paper puts them into a different perspective. With them written down. I can then prioritize when needs to be done. Come on cross off anything that doesn’t it, and hand over anything that someone else can do.

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