From Funkadelic to Free Spirit: Kim Manning’s Journey to Self-Acceptance
In this powerful episode of Wildly Wealthy Life, Kat and Lee sit down with the multi-talented Kim Manning—singer, actress, champion artistic roller skater, and creative force behind Royal Rollers. Kim shares her journey from poverty in small-town Oklahoma to international stages, the Grammys, and the big screen. She opens up about limiting beliefs, perfectionism, reclaiming joy through movement, and redefining success on her own terms. Through her story, Kim reminds us that confidence and creativity flourish when we stop apologizing for our existence.
Discussion Links:
00:00 Kim reflects on how her upbringing became her superpower
02:00 Introduction to Kim’s artistic journey and career highlights
04:59 What keeps skating magical after all these years
06:49 Kim’s first job after college: skating for Oprah
08:00 How skating re-entered her creative life on the P-Funk tour
10:00 George Clinton’s advice: “Put on your skates and try it”
13:00 Partnering with Trey Knight and the lessons of grit and greatness
19:05 Letting go of the “shoulds” and doing what brings true joy
24:22 Bringing engineering thinking into teaching skating
26:03 Advice to young Kim: stop apologizing for your existence
29:00 Reframing her life as a success—even if it looks different than expected
32:05 The power of mentorship and guidance in childhood
33:00 Exercises to challenge limiting beliefs and reframe self-talk
38:22 Owning her message and teaching others to embrace imperfection
45:00 Sharing fun moments from her acting career, including Jane the Virgin and Barbie
52:00 What Kim learned from George Clinton about soul over skill
53:00 Kim’s definition of a “Wildly Wealthy Life”
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Transcript
I think at some point I had to forget, like there was a lot of hurdles that
Speaker:I had to go over that a lot of other people did, but in some ways I. That
Speaker:poverty that I came from was actually my strong suit because it allowed me a
Speaker:to, you know, suck it out and like stay in the industry and keep moving forward.
Speaker:It gave me sort of preservation and, um, creative abilities.
Speaker:Um, and it also like kept me working.
Speaker:Like, I was always kind of constantly working and so I used to like sort of be
Speaker:sort of a ashamed of that, but now I'm like, wow, that's actually like the reason
Speaker:that I was like on the road forever.
Speaker:'cause I could deal with it.
Speaker:I like had this career a little bit because of it, you know?
Speaker:And I think I've been.
Speaker:In light of that and like, um, I, I, I've been going through all of
Speaker:the family photos and everything and seeing the me skating and like me in
Speaker:pageants, it was very interesting.
Speaker:Like I saw the age in which you could see sort of my posture change and like my
Speaker:insecurities creep in and I could see it.
Speaker:Like, I could see all a sudden me being like, oh, I'm so excited, but
Speaker:I'm actually here and here I was this like pretty little girl, you know, with
Speaker:loads of talent and like, you know, sort of apologizing for my existence.
Speaker:And I think that in general, that's.
Speaker:Like a big note that I'm coming into him when I'm skating.
Speaker:I'm like, I didn't have to apologize for my existence.
Speaker:Like how would I skate?
Speaker:How would I move?
Speaker:How would I talk?
Speaker:I think that that's like perfectionism and then you have like perfectionism in there
Speaker:that like creates the problems because then you're here, so then you got third
Speaker:place instead of first place, which you would've got if you were, you know, not
Speaker:apologizing for your existence, you know?
Speaker:Today's guest is Kim Manning.
Speaker:Kim is a champion artistic roller skater.
Speaker:She's been skating since she was three years old and owns her own entertainment
Speaker:company called Royal Rollers, as well as works with night Rollers, moxie
Speaker:skate team, and other pro skate groups.
Speaker:Kim and her partner Trey Knight.
Speaker:Our regular featured acts for Lagunitas Beer Circus, as well as Debbie
Speaker:Allen's Hot Chocolate Nutcracker.
Speaker:Kim Manning's also been on a lot of television appearances in the role of
Speaker:actor, singer, dancer, or P Funk All Star.
Speaker:Uh, Kim has appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, the
Speaker:Late Show with David Letterman.
Speaker:She's been a part of BET for their silver anniversary special
Speaker:and the 46 annual Grammy Awards.
Speaker:As an actor, Manning has made appearances on Boston Public, the Bernie Mac Show.
Speaker:Uh, she's also known as Peaches and the VH one Reality Show Flavor of Love, which.
Speaker:17 million of y'all, uh, I've already seen.
Speaker:But, uh, she does an excellent job on screen, in person, on stage, and we're
Speaker:very excited to have her on our show.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Well stay tuned.
Speaker:Hey, my name is Kat.
Speaker:And I'm Lee.
Speaker:And welcome to the
Speaker:Wildly Wealthy Life Podcast.
Speaker:In this show, we explore the journey of what it means to live a truly
Speaker:exceptional and fulfilling life.
Speaker:Each episode focuses on how a foundation of brilliant minds and brave hearts.
Speaker:Nurtured through the arts leads to lifelong success.
Speaker:Get inspired with actionable tips to foster a growth mindset,
Speaker:leadership values, and creativity in children and adults turning
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Speaker:Well, in just a second, we're going to bring Kim in, but before that
Speaker:we'll do a little quick recap on what we loved about the episode.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:And uh, when you get a chance to hear her story, you're gonna hear how she's
Speaker:really great at finding her identity and identifying different triggers
Speaker:in her own life and being able to like, grow and adapt from those I.
Speaker:Standpoints.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And I think my favorite part about, uh, what Kim, uh, discussed in
Speaker:our conversation today is the tool that she shared that really helped
Speaker:her overcome some of the limiting beliefs that she had as a child.
Speaker:And I think that you're not gonna wanna miss this episode, so make sure you
Speaker:stay tuned all the way till the end.
Speaker:Here we go.
Speaker:O.
Speaker:Well, Kim, thank you for being here today.
Speaker:It is such a pleasure to have you and to see your smile, to see your face, because
Speaker:it's been a while since I've seen you.
Speaker:And, um, I just wanna start with, you've been skating for a very, very,
Speaker:very long time, which is amazing.
Speaker:What keeps it magical for you?
Speaker:You know, skating.
Speaker:I think a lot of people that skate feel this way.
Speaker:And maybe it's just like one of those things that it's sort of like if
Speaker:it's your destiny or whatnot, but you know, it's just, it never gets old.
Speaker:I mean, I think it's, it's one of those skill sets you'll, you'll never master.
Speaker:Um, you know, even when you're like, uh, train night, who, who's my, my, my old
Speaker:partner and that he's been coaching me and he's a world champion in our sport,
Speaker:and I remember one of my students.
Speaker:Asked me once, you know that if Trey went to a coach, would
Speaker:he have anything to teach him?
Speaker:And I was, that's a good question.
Speaker:So I asked Trey, and Trey was like, well, of course, why else would I get a coach if
Speaker:I didn't expect him to teach me something?
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:And I was like, well, yeah, I guess, you know, the skating never ends.
Speaker:And so that in itself kind of perpetuates the excitement about it.
Speaker:Um, I don't know.
Speaker:I, I, I didn't skate for about four years of my life.
Speaker:I maybe longer 'cause I quit.
Speaker:Well, I roller bladed for a while, so I guess that counts.
Speaker:I quit competitively skating when I was like 16 or 17.
Speaker:Then I roller bladed I guess for about a year or so.
Speaker:And so, yeah, I didn't skate all through college.
Speaker:And then like my first year out of college, after I graduated from college,
Speaker:I just had all these dreams when I was sleeping that I would be, um, skating
Speaker:and I would be doing an air best.
Speaker:You know, like guess we call it a spiral, but I would be doing an air
Speaker:best and I always had this big smile.
Speaker:And I realized like, wow.
Speaker:And so I had my mom mail me my old skates, which at that time were from when I
Speaker:was like 16 years old or 15 years old.
Speaker:So my feet had grown, but I stuffed my feet in 'em and,
Speaker:and started skating again.
Speaker:I actually got my first job within a week for Oprah Winfrey of all things.
Speaker:So, you know, it, it's funny how that works, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:That's awesome.
Speaker:That's really cool.
Speaker:Was there anything that you learned, um, did you actually like, get
Speaker:a chance to interact with her?
Speaker:Was there anything that you learned from that experience with her?
Speaker:You
Speaker:know, I didn't really get to interact with her, but it was this private
Speaker:party that was for, I believe only four individuals and she was one of those four.
Speaker:So, and then it was like a prince and a whatever, and,
Speaker:and we were doing Anna Carina.
Speaker:They do like a book club.
Speaker:And, um, so we were performing Anna Corina, which was like incredible.
Speaker:But um, the woman who was the director, she was, she played the
Speaker:waitress in PeeWee's Big Adventure.
Speaker:She was absolutely in Incre, you know, the redhead like, oh my God,
Speaker:she was incredible and I learned a lot from her and actually continued
Speaker:to work with her as an acting coach.
Speaker:And so, you know, you know, I guess that's how it works.
Speaker:You know, your first, you know, you get these Hollywood, I was already
Speaker:singing with George Clinton at the time, but hadn't thought about skating
Speaker:on P-Funk stage for like another year or so before that happened.
Speaker:So yeah, this was kind of like the first time sort of my Hollywood
Speaker:career was like happening, but.
Speaker:That's really cool.
Speaker:So, took a break, did school dream, started flooding you?
Speaker:Was there, I mean, I guess like once you step into that, that circle and you had
Speaker:that immediate like, um, gratification 'cause you had the first job and
Speaker:whatnot, um, was it just an acceleration from right then, or did you have to
Speaker:build up to where you are currently?
Speaker:What, what was kind of like the, the life cycle.
Speaker:Yeah, the list, God, it was like, gosh, it was like a, it's
Speaker:the never ending cycle, right?
Speaker:So I did that and then shortly after that I got a film as an actress being in
Speaker:a roller derby called Room 33 and like, you know, we were roller derby girls.
Speaker:So, okay.
Speaker:That started to happen.
Speaker:And then, um, why did I put on, I must have just.
Speaker:Put them my skates on my feet one day in UNK tour.
Speaker:And George was like, everybody was like, oh my god.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:And it's weird because I went to college for music theater.
Speaker:So, you know, I, I was actually double major.
Speaker:I studied engineering as well, but my degree in music theater and
Speaker:um, so it's really weird that I.
Speaker:Didn't skate because I thought I was trying to be serious.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:I was trying to like act and sing and dance and do things
Speaker:that would further my career.
Speaker:Like I never, and all my college friends are like Kim, like the
Speaker:people that were in theater with me.
Speaker:They're like, why did we not know?
Speaker:Why do we not know that you did this?
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:And I was thinking in my mind, like no one would ever wanna see me skate.
Speaker:Like I just, I don't know, as an artistic skater really kind of.
Speaker:Like, we're so technical that we just know.
Speaker:We get focused on what we're not versus what we are.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:And I quit figure skating, right?
Speaker:Whenever I should have been entering the junior world class, so like right when I
Speaker:should have been ready to be, you know, best in the world, but I quit, right?
Speaker:So there's always, in my mind, I wasn't good enough, right?
Speaker:So anyway, um, yeah.
Speaker:So one day I put my skates on my feet in P-Funk and everybody was like, oh my gosh.
Speaker:And then from that point forward it was like, um.
Speaker:Kim, you're wearing the skates.
Speaker:And George actually had a phrase, uh, George Clinton, and he would say, um, you
Speaker:know, go put on your skates and try it.
Speaker:So like, if we'd, if they'd be doing like a little dance, like a little, you
Speaker:know, they're doing their like, cool dance moves and I'm like trying to do
Speaker:it and I am probably like, don't blend.
Speaker:And then George is like, Kim, go get your skates and try it.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So that makes sense.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And he'd be right.
Speaker:Normally I put on my skates and actually he's right.
Speaker:All of a sudden now I look cool like everybody else.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Then it came a thing where it was like, even if I was singing, like if
Speaker:I couldn't hit the high note, it'd be like, go get on your skates and try it.
Speaker:Or if like I wasn't singing it with the right inflection, go
Speaker:get on your skates and try it.
Speaker:You know, even if my skates were like back at the hotel, you know,
Speaker:it became like a joke and, and in my life that's kind of what it became.
Speaker:So, um, you know, I quit that band and.
Speaker:2015 and I thought I was gonna focus on my, uh, solo singing career.
Speaker:And that's about the time that I met you.
Speaker:I was also really interested in the circus arts and I just, that
Speaker:kind of came outta left field.
Speaker:I always had this sense that I wanted to fly.
Speaker:And so I just started training the circus, and I thought too, oh, if
Speaker:I had like a trapeze, then I could wear my skates on smaller stages
Speaker:and have like a center point.
Speaker:It was a, it's a wrong idea there.
Speaker:I need more space, but whatever.
Speaker:You know, it.
Speaker:That was what got me there.
Speaker:And so I'm studying circus.
Speaker:I quit P-Funk because I wanna focus on my solo career.
Speaker:And then I got, um, an agent that works for like background
Speaker:specialty people and does like, you know, through my yoga school.
Speaker:And she got me this Apple commercial rollerskating and I. Met Trey Knight
Speaker:there, and then Trey Knight does, he's the world champion who I mentioned
Speaker:earlier, and he does the stunts, the skate stunts that, you know, I
Speaker:had been wanting to do for about 20 years but could never find a partner.
Speaker:And um, so he was like, Hey.
Speaker:You know, let's, let's do you know, have you ever tried this?
Speaker:And so then I started doing that.
Speaker:And then right away, you know, we started booking things.
Speaker:We booked the, uh, the Olympic commercial for Toyota and we did Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Speaker:And then we started, um, doing, we did a lot of Nita Beer circus and did a bunch
Speaker:of different like private events and it all my sort of music career contacts
Speaker:all of a sudden were like, because of.
Speaker:That was, I was so involved with the Burning Man community and that
Speaker:underground culture as a musician.
Speaker:So they all knew me as like Kim from Wanderlust or Kim
Speaker:from, you know, the singer.
Speaker:But like all of a sudden they were like, oh, you got a, you got a circus act.
Speaker:You know, we got circuses.
Speaker:So, so, you know, we were kind of all of a sudden.
Speaker:That all of it was weird how that momentum that I created as a musician overlapped
Speaker:quite nicely into circus artists.
Speaker:And, um, so I don't know.
Speaker:And then we were doing that up until around Covid and then Trey got
Speaker:cancer, um, and he's been fighting, uh, the, the Good Battle and mm-hmm.
Speaker:Currently is cancer free.
Speaker:Wow, that's great.
Speaker:Ever since.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's really amazing.
Speaker:He had stage four and it moved through.
Speaker:I'm like trying to count how many organs?
Speaker:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, I think six of his organs.
Speaker:I believe that's correct.
Speaker:Oh gosh.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:Um, so, um, yeah, but you know, again, I had the opportunity to really see
Speaker:what a world champion is and back to the ME that was 16 and gave up my
Speaker:dreams of trying to become a world champion, you know, world class Gator.
Speaker:Um, I understood actually like.
Speaker:Why?
Speaker:There were a lot of reasons, like there was not that level of
Speaker:coaching where I was at in Oklahoma.
Speaker:There was not really the financial means for me to like compete at that level.
Speaker:Um, but also, like, I don't, that's a lot of grit, like to be a world champ.
Speaker:I saw it in him like, you know, he faced cancer like a world
Speaker:champion, you know, and, um.
Speaker:I was kind of like, oh, I'm a funkadelic.
Speaker:Like I'm gonna use these things, you know, can we just go sing for a little
Speaker:bit and then get back to the hard work?
Speaker:You know, I understood myself a little bit better and seeing
Speaker:his experience fight with that.
Speaker:But, um, yeah, so Covid came and, you know, people were teaching that,
Speaker:like maybe it just started skating.
Speaker:They don't, they didn't understand the principles.
Speaker:There's like an actual, you know, it's like a 300 year old technology.
Speaker:So there's principles that are just sort of physics, you know,
Speaker:they're just, it's physics.
Speaker:It's not, you know, we don't need to reinvent the wheel.
Speaker:It's physics.
Speaker:It works in a certain way.
Speaker:It's like an airplane works, you know, because of the physics.
Speaker:And so, um, I felt like just this profound need to like help people because like in
Speaker:particular, people are saying, oh, you can't stop using your toe stop, which is.
Speaker:Ridiculous.
Speaker:And like, it's called a toe stop.
Speaker:You know, like, because it's just to stop with your toe, you know?
Speaker:But you know, that's like why it has the name, but for some reason, I mean, I don't
Speaker:understand why, because it's not good to do it in Derby when you have people that
Speaker:are aggressively coming from behind you.
Speaker:But you know, provided that that's not the situation, you know.
Speaker:Yes, it's the proper way.
Speaker:And so these are like foundations of skating and we're like getting
Speaker:lost because if you don't practice stopping with your toe A, people
Speaker:aren't learning how to stop properly.
Speaker:And so then they're sort of skating wildly outta control.
Speaker:And then B, you're not building inner groin strength to actually push off
Speaker:and have control as a skater that you need to in doing that stop.
Speaker:So anyway, I'm getting too deep with it all.
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Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Uh, with the, um, your whole story, like you think about the, the creativity
Speaker:that you had as a child, going up to about what I think 16, 17, when you,
Speaker:you had the break, um, pressing into engineering, so getting like that side of
Speaker:your brain to, to really click and then.
Speaker:Just how everything is really kind of culminating and come together
Speaker:for you is like a beautiful story, although on its own, it's really
Speaker:awesome just hearing that from you.
Speaker:And, um, it's more of a comment, I guess question, but when, uh, one
Speaker:thing you had mentioned was some of the, the beliefs that you had Yeah.
Speaker:That were kind of against maybe like your.
Speaker:Planned Destiny, um, or what you thought, you know, what you, what you thought,
Speaker:um, how, what was it like for you kind of getting past that and, and was there
Speaker:a particular moment that was like, alright, now I'm, I'm all in on, on this.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And I, I believe in myself to be able to, to, to really
Speaker:just run with this right now.
Speaker:Well, okay.
Speaker:So when I was a child.
Speaker:I told my mom, I wanna be a singing actress.
Speaker:Mind you, I was trying to become an Olympian at the same
Speaker:time, but I just didn't think of that as a career, you know?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And, um, we already went over that, right?
Speaker:So, uh, then when I graduated from college, everybody was
Speaker:like, oh, you gotta focus.
Speaker:You can't be a singer and an actress, Kim.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Kat.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:You can't DA singer, you know, dancing.
Speaker:You know, you gotta do, like, you gotta pick one, right?
Speaker:So I was like, okay, you know.
Speaker:I'll drop my acting agent.
Speaker:I'm gonna be a singer.
Speaker:And then for like, uh, for way too long, I was just focused and I
Speaker:was like, you know, doing all the things that I ought to do, doing the
Speaker:marketing, the flyers, the putting out the CDs, the like tours nonstop.
Speaker:Nonstop tours.
Speaker:I'm telling you guys for like three or four years of my life, I
Speaker:was only home for 11 days a year.
Speaker:And that would be like two days at a time, you know?
Speaker:And every day I was in a different city.
Speaker:And so I would go from tour with.
Speaker:Parliament and then I would leave, you know, parliament Funkadelic, it's one
Speaker:band for those of you guys that don't know, um, I would leave it and then
Speaker:I would go on tour with my own band.
Speaker:I would like literally go from one tour to another and it was
Speaker:just, you know, virtual nonstop.
Speaker:And, um, and then I, you know, I, I had a breakup with my, uh, solo band,
Speaker:which was called Wanderlust at the time.
Speaker:And I saw the, like how fragile everything was.
Speaker:Um.
Speaker:Within the music business.
Speaker:And I saw how, uh, difficult it is as a female, uh, to be in the music business
Speaker:because, um, that band was moving so fast and a large part of it was, it
Speaker:was me and, um, another man, Lance.
Speaker:And we were the fronts of the band and was, I mean, I really
Speaker:liked that project a lot.
Speaker:I thought it was great.
Speaker:I loved singing with him and I loved our project, but it
Speaker:also really helped to have.
Speaker:A male be in a band like venues that wouldn't book me before all
Speaker:of a sudden would, and it, it didn't make much sense, you know?
Speaker:And it was just very like disheartening to like finally see what was happening
Speaker:on the other side and recognizing it.
Speaker:And um, and so I quit that band and then about a month later
Speaker:I quit Parliament Punk Ade.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So I was just in this place of like.
Speaker:Being done with doing all the things that I should.
Speaker:You know, like I had this band that was like, we had a record deal in hand
Speaker:and we were starting to headline major festivals, and then I had this other
Speaker:band, which is of course well known.
Speaker:And you know, you get to meet everybody and stay in the band and you're in
Speaker:the industry and all these things.
Speaker:And I was just like, I just couldn't do it anymore.
Speaker:So then I decided I'm gonna quit doing that thing where you like manifest
Speaker:destiny and you are like, oh, this is what I'm gonna do and this is my goals,
Speaker:and blah, blah, blah, and dah, dah dah.
Speaker:And I just like was like, I'm done, I'm done.
Speaker:I'm just gonna become a trackies artist.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:And then I spent like way too much money to do that, you know?
Speaker:And way.
Speaker:Tons.
Speaker:I went back to that old me that although I wasn't a world class
Speaker:skater, I was still skating 40 hours a week pretty much my whole childhood,
Speaker:you know, 30 to be realistic.
Speaker:But like, you know, I went back to that mode and I went
Speaker:back into being an athlete.
Speaker:Um, I guess that was it.
Speaker:I just was so disheartened by music.
Speaker:I almost feel sad saying it, that I just went into.
Speaker:Being an athlete.
Speaker:And, and, and I began to just do that, which I was inspired by.
Speaker:And I had this phrase where I would do not what I, what I ought to, but
Speaker:what I want to, what do I wanna do?
Speaker:Not versus what should I do, what am I supposed to do?
Speaker:And then that was kind of when everything just started to fall into place.
Speaker:And like you said, you know, I, I trained the circus for like, I don't know, five
Speaker:years, six years before I met Trey.
Speaker:And so then when Trey and I started doing those spinny stunts.
Speaker:Although my stomach still had to, you know, get used to it, my body was trained
Speaker:for it, you know, like my bo and he said that, 'cause I'm, I'm big as a fire.
Speaker:I'm five, seven and a half, so I'm, I'm five, seven and three quarters,
Speaker:you know, so I'm, I'm not five big yet.
Speaker:You gotta grab that corridor.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Yeah, I know, right?
Speaker:It was really the quarter under, I'm not.
Speaker:Five eight.
Speaker:But, um, so anyway, but you know, it's like, that's it.
Speaker:I used to wanna be tall and I'm giant, you know, but like, I'm very big for what I
Speaker:do, but it's because of the strength that I built in the circus training that it
Speaker:was no problem for Trey and other partners to lift me because of, you know, I was.
Speaker:So it was weird how that just kind of came into place and then all of a sudden,
Speaker:you know, and then I think to continue on with your point is like, and then whenever
Speaker:Covid hit and, uh, we all started doing, you know, I started doing my tutorials.
Speaker:All of a sudden, that was whenever it came clear that the, the math
Speaker:and engineering training that I.
Speaker:Had came into play because of, I basically teach people from the perspective of
Speaker:like mechanical engineering, you know, I'm kind of multi-variable cal. I'm
Speaker:breaking down multi-variable calculus for people, like in a way that I can
Speaker:sort of see it quite easily, you know?
Speaker:Yeah, I was gonna say like that's the part, like where you just,
Speaker:uh, like in that little moment of explaining like how the toe break
Speaker:works and then the inner core mm-hmm.
Speaker:Or inner groin muscle specifically the hold and to stop and like how all of
Speaker:that is kind of unpacked for you because you have that left and right side.
Speaker:That's It's, yeah.
Speaker:Sounding awesome.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And I bet there's also a lot of the, you know, I mean, of
Speaker:course, like you did music, right?
Speaker:And, and there's so many research nowadays with how music really helps
Speaker:with our like, like math skills and brain and, and all of that.
Speaker:So I feel like it's just all for you, like coming together.
Speaker:Um, what I want to know is you had moments, right, like growing
Speaker:up where you are always like.
Speaker:Thinking about, well, what should I be?
Speaker:And, uh, now you're coming into this full circle where you're realizing
Speaker:it's not always from the perspective of like, what, what do I need to be?
Speaker:Or what should I be?
Speaker:What do I ought to be for the world?
Speaker:But it's like, what do I really want for myself that's gonna
Speaker:give me joy and, and what's gonna make it feel like home for me?
Speaker:And I feel like.
Speaker:Like what you said earlier, it became a joke.
Speaker:Well go grab your skates, Kim.
Speaker:Go grab your skates.
Speaker:If something wasn't working out, go grab your skates.
Speaker:And I was like, that's kind of like your home.
Speaker:It became your, your magic so sauce in your home.
Speaker:What would you say to Young Kim now, like every time Young Kim has that.
Speaker:Thing in her mindset and her thought pattern where she doesn't
Speaker:believe in herself because she would rather appease what she
Speaker:thinks other people want from her.
Speaker:What would you say to that little Kim now?
Speaker:Well, being back home, it's been very, um, obviously going through.
Speaker:Like recognizing where I came from.
Speaker:I'm from a very small town in Oklahoma that's, it's different in
Speaker:the Midwest than it is, you know, on the coast and the medium, like, um,
Speaker:sort of poverty levels, you know.
Speaker:And, uh, I kind of forgot like what I come from, to be honest, until I
Speaker:was back here and then, you know, I mean, I, I didn't forget, but I just
Speaker:like forgot how far I went I guess.
Speaker:Like I forgot.
Speaker:I think at some point I had to forget, like there was a lot of hurdles that
Speaker:I had to go over that a lot of other people did, but in some ways I.
Speaker:That poverty that I came from was actually my strong suit because it allowed me a
Speaker:to, you know, suck it out and like stay in the industry and keep moving forward.
Speaker:It gave me sort of preservation and, um, creative abilities.
Speaker:Um, and it also like kept me working.
Speaker:Like I was always kind of constantly working and so I used to like sort of be
Speaker:sort of a ashamed of that, but now I'm like, wow, that's actually like the reason
Speaker:that I was like on the road forever.
Speaker:'cause I could deal with it.
Speaker:I like had this career a little bit because of it, you know?
Speaker:And I think.
Speaker:I've been in light of that and like, um, I, I, I've been going through all
Speaker:of the family photos and everything and seeing the me skating and like me
Speaker:in pageants, it was very interesting.
Speaker:Like I saw like this very, um.
Speaker:I saw the age in which you could see sort of my posture change and
Speaker:like my insecurities creep in and I could see it, like, I could see all
Speaker:of a sudden me being like, oh, I'm so excited that I'm actually here.
Speaker:And here I was this like pretty little girl, you know, with load
Speaker:of talent and like, you know, sort of apologizing for my existence.
Speaker:And I think that in general, that's like a big note that I'm coming into.
Speaker:And when I'm skating, I'm like, I didn't have to apologize for my existence.
Speaker:Like how would I skate?
Speaker:How would I move?
Speaker:How would I talk?
Speaker:I think that that's like perfectionism and then you have like perfectionism
Speaker:in there that like creates the problems because then you're here.
Speaker:So then you got third place instead of first place, which you would've
Speaker:got if you were, you know, not apologizing for your existence.
Speaker:You know, for
Speaker:people who are listening and don't see what you're doing, like the hunching of
Speaker:the shoulders are kind of cowering back.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And then just boom, like the expression mm-hmm.
Speaker:Of opening up the shoulders and just being you like it's.
Speaker:Awesome to watch.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Continue on.
Speaker:Sorry.
Speaker:And when I've been skating at the rink for fun, you know, which I rarely do,
Speaker:I'm normally sort of practicing if I'm there, but sometimes I'll skate around
Speaker:for fun and like I've been experiencing.
Speaker:Okay, like, Kim, don't apologize for your existence.
Speaker:You know, like, and what I see immediately is I. Stop looking down at the ground
Speaker:and I start looking up, you know, like in the rink, I can trust the surface.
Speaker:I don't need to look down.
Speaker:I look up and all of a sudden my posture goes up and then it's
Speaker:like a totally different Kim.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:So I guess maybe that's like what I would say to her.
Speaker:And I think I would in addition to that, say to her like, I just like
Speaker:recently, like literally maybe like.
Speaker:A week or two ago.
Speaker:I feel like in a lot of ways I feel like a failure in life.
Speaker:You know, I don't feel like I achieved the grand goals I had,
Speaker:but ultimately what were my goals?
Speaker:Like my goals were to like get me out of this town, which I did, and
Speaker:to like make a living in the arts.
Speaker:Which I did.
Speaker:Which you did?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And you're doing, yeah.
Speaker:You know, to travel the world making art, which I did, you know, to be on TV and
Speaker:film, which I did, you know, like, uh, be of influence for people, you know, which,
Speaker:which I get to do with the skating, like, and teaching people to skate on Instagram.
Speaker:So I'm like, so, you know, it doesn't feel like.
Speaker:I got where I want it to be because I expected it to be different.
Speaker:You know, I think all that's like Gen Xs and, you know, and young millennial
Speaker:or millennials, you know, life is that we're all, like, we were all told we'd
Speaker:be able to buy a house by this time.
Speaker:We were all told, we'd be like more comfortable with our jobs that especially,
Speaker:oh, you went to college, like, you know, you got graduated with honors.
Speaker:Like, good going, like, you're gonna, you're gonna be able
Speaker:to, but it's just, it's not.
Speaker:I guess that's, you know, what I would say to her, like, just like, relax,
Speaker:you know, stop apologizing for your existence and just, you know, I guess
Speaker:accept the ride you'll get there.
Speaker:But it's like, it doesn't, it's not gonna look the way we thought it would, I guess.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:What would have helped you, um, as a kid to, what do you think?
Speaker:Like, just looking back, you know, part of the reason why we kinda, um,
Speaker:brought the Wildly Wealthy Life Podcast back is for us, you know, a wildly
Speaker:wealthy life is really like stepping into your own, you know, like your own.
Speaker:Life.
Speaker:Like your own power.
Speaker:Your own energy.
Speaker:You said identity.
Speaker:Identity, yeah.
Speaker:Your own identity and, and living that to the fullest.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And it doesn't matter what people say, oh, this is what success should be.
Speaker:No, it's your definition of a fulfilling and, and an exceptional life.
Speaker:And, but I really believe that a lot of that has to do with our, um, upbringing
Speaker:and our mindset as we're growing up.
Speaker:Uh, we are so, you know.
Speaker:Open to learning when we're kids.
Speaker:And so anything that people tell us, we believe it.
Speaker:Like I remember, I remember as a kid, someone telling me
Speaker:like, oh yeah, you can't sing.
Speaker:You know, and I. I, I took that on like as an identity that I'm
Speaker:just someone who's trying to sing, but I actually really can't sing.
Speaker:I actually really have a terrible voice.
Speaker:But that one voice, you know, to like, I I took that on as an identity.
Speaker:What would have really helped you, or what would help kids in general, you
Speaker:think, um, to be able to push past of tho those mindset and self-limiting beliefs?
Speaker:Well.
Speaker:I too had people tell me I couldn't sing.
Speaker:I also wasn't over actor, you know?
Speaker:Um, and would certainly never have a career in the arts.
Speaker:I had my mother who was incredibly supportive of everything I did, and then
Speaker:I had my father and stepmother and that side of the family that was the opposite.
Speaker:So I too heard a lot about my lack of talent and possible future,
Speaker:and it affected me gravely.
Speaker:And you know, how we were talking about.
Speaker:When I'm skating, if I stop apologizing for my existence and all of a sudden I
Speaker:look up and then I, my posture's better.
Speaker:And now as we discussed, my physics are now better.
Speaker:'cause if your head's off, your axis is off, you know, and like, you know,
Speaker:you're compensating somewhere, you know, um, you know, so obviously
Speaker:I'm skating better and we can assume that I'm more magnetic, right?
Speaker:Whenever I am not in that place of like, you know, in
Speaker:those negative thoughts, right?
Speaker:So.
Speaker:For me, my, one of mine was that I couldn't sing on tune.
Speaker:And I remember, um, I had a counselor early on and she's lovely.
Speaker:Um, Dr. Jill Grove, and she, um, shout out.
Speaker:Yeah, she's little shout out.
Speaker:She's amazing.
Speaker:And she made me do an exercise.
Speaker:And this is what I would suggest for someone in this circumstance, and that is.
Speaker:She made me okay sing.
Speaker:She made me sing like a little like kid songs, right?
Speaker:And like Mary had a little Lamb and ro and that kind of stuff.
Speaker:She said, when you drive home today, sing those songs and I want you to pay
Speaker:attention to the thoughts in your head.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:So I was doing it and I'm all like, Mary had a little lamb, like, I don't
Speaker:want, I'm most afraid to like have the, the voice that I had, you know?
Speaker:And she was just like, you're outta tune this and that.
Speaker:You know that note, your voice sound closed.
Speaker:This, you know, like she is just off, you know, talking as I was singing,
Speaker:you know, like she's not there anymore.
Speaker:But she used to just have like a thousand terrible things to say, right.
Speaker:I was like, wow, this is really bad.
Speaker:And so I went back the next week, told my counselor like I did it,
Speaker:and boy, she's really terrible.
Speaker:You know, this is all the things she said.
Speaker:And then my counselor was like, okay, good.
Speaker:Now I want you to go home and on your way home today, I want you to put on the radio
Speaker:and I want you to listen to your favorite artists, and I want you to listen to
Speaker:them with the same critical voice, right?
Speaker:Oof.
Speaker:Yeah, but I listened to like one of my favorite epic singer artists, and I'm all
Speaker:like, oh, she's kind of outta tune there.
Speaker:Like, well, you know, like she sure had some slimming her throat on that note.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:Like, I started hearing it and I was like, oh, like, so, you know,
Speaker:music isn't about being perfect.
Speaker:Like, you know, maybe these days it's weird with, you
Speaker:know, auto tuning, whatever.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:It's still not, you know, uh, you know, I think Chapel Rowan's showing us that,
Speaker:and I, I'm not sure how I feel about her, but she can sing and she is singing
Speaker:and, you know, I listened to her.
Speaker:I did like a deep dive of her.
Speaker:And then I went on Spotify, listened to myself, and I'm like, oh, like what's the,
Speaker:you know, what's the sound difference?
Speaker:What's the, like, you know, what, what is the production level sound like?
Speaker:You know, this and that.
Speaker:And it was interesting.
Speaker:My overall impression was like, wow.
Speaker:My music's really joyous, even when I'm talking about like
Speaker:sort of socially progressive things or like, you know, anger.
Speaker:Like there's still this sense of like joy and hopefulness.
Speaker:And then when I was going through all the family pictures, I'm like, wow.
Speaker:Like I'm always like big cheesy grin Kim.
Speaker:You know, like, like I guess like my, my natural.
Speaker:State is sort of joy and kindness.
Speaker:You know, I think we struggle and like all of us have been, like, the pandemic
Speaker:was tough, but I think I, I had the foresight and I feel in my life, I
Speaker:don't know if other people in, in other careers, but especially in the arts or
Speaker:failing this, where sort of like the pandemic was tough, but it's like been
Speaker:tougher after like, it's like the fallout, you know, that's like been, you know.
Speaker:Harder to deal with and there was a lot of support during the
Speaker:pandemic, but after the pandemic they were like, oh, everyone's fine.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:You're back to work.
Speaker:And we're, you know, kind of like, no, we're actually not back to work.
Speaker:And you know, like, you know, so, um, even through the dark times,
Speaker:like I still find myself to.
Speaker:Have a sense of joy and humor about life and maybe, you know, we were talking
Speaker:about identities and like maybe that's an identity that I'm beginning to recognize.
Speaker:Like I never thought of myself that way.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:I never wanted to be that even necessarily.
Speaker:I. As a musician, I always wanted to be very serious.
Speaker:All my songs were very serious.
Speaker:And then my most famous songs are Cannonball Before You Fall.
Speaker:Or, you know, sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones.
Speaker:You know, they're all like, these do the roller skit songs.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So, you know, like the, the lighter I got with that, like, even though that wasn't
Speaker:like, you know, in my mind, my identity, but you know, perhaps that is, and when
Speaker:I look back through all the pictures or when I listened to myself Chapel Row and
Speaker:then listen to Kim Manning, I'm like, oh.
Speaker:Yeah, same, same.
Speaker:But like, wow, like she's selling a lot of this and I'm selling a lot of
Speaker:like, Hey everybody, let's just be joyous and happy and spirit filled.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:So like, that's what I would say.
Speaker:It's an exercise, you know, you have to find those limiting beliefs.
Speaker:Do the action that you're having difficulties with whatever it is,
Speaker:singing, skating, whatever it is.
Speaker:Pay attention to the way you're thinking now.
Speaker:Watch someone and or listen to someone who does what you do that you totally admire.
Speaker:I guarantee if you watch me skate, you will see mistakes.
Speaker:You know what I mean?
Speaker:Like I know that they will, Trey will tell you all about 'em.
Speaker:Trey hears them, Trey, Tina, he'll hear me.
Speaker:Don't have to look at me.
Speaker:I'll be like, Kim, you aren't pushing off that toast off enough.
Speaker:I'm like, how did you hear that?
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:So it's like, you know, like we're all in practice, I guess.
Speaker:So that's, that's what I would say.
Speaker:I.
Speaker:Someone to guide them.
Speaker:'cause obviously as a child, like I feel like, you know, we, we
Speaker:don't know how our minds work.
Speaker:You know, nobody teaches us how, how our minds work at school.
Speaker:Nobody tells us, people teach us how to do math and science and history, but
Speaker:nobody tells us that, oh, our brains have a very specific way of working.
Speaker:And if we don't know how it works, it can actually literally take over
Speaker:our entire life in, in a, in a nuts.
Speaker:So good way, way.
Speaker:And I just, what I really love is that someone was there to be able to
Speaker:guide you through that and then you were, you became conscious of it and
Speaker:you were able to navigate around that.
Speaker:And the other thing that I really took away from that, when you were saying, you
Speaker:know, you just stand strong because you're no longer apologizing for who you are.
Speaker:Guess what?
Speaker:You actually skate better because your head is in line with your body and now
Speaker:you're more imbalanced in your skates.
Speaker:Talk about how, like just the way we were created as human beings.
Speaker:When we're in alignment, even in our posture.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:That's really how we were made to function in this world, is fully
Speaker:in alignment of who we are as human beings, because then we can step into
Speaker:our power, which is just incredible.
Speaker:I, I just, I got chills when you talked about that, Kim, because I'm like, wow.
Speaker:Simply by being in alignment in your body physically
Speaker:makes a change.
Speaker:Well, in skating.
Speaker:And Ariel's perfect for that 'cause of the moving, you know, the fact
Speaker:that we're moving, we'll immediately know, why am I not spending, oh,
Speaker:well, because you know, your, you know, hips are forward or whatever.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Or you pick up a little wobble because you're not quite Yes, exactly.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That's great.
Speaker:Wobble,
Speaker:wobble, wobble.
Speaker:Yeah.
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Speaker:I love too, the, um, I, when you were talking about like the, the person
Speaker:who told you like, you're missing all these notes with Mary had a little
Speaker:lamb in that, and I'm thinking back, I had an art teacher, um, and I think
Speaker:it's how we take things in too, right?
Speaker:I had an art teacher that told me, um, nothing about the
Speaker:art or painting or anything.
Speaker:She was good on that end, but she also was like, oh, you're
Speaker:such a good, um, like rural boy.
Speaker:Like, you're not gonna go anywhere.
Speaker:You're gonna be one of those who like.
Speaker:Lives and dies in this little town.
Speaker:And I grew up in a little small town, uh, in between Buffalo and Rochester, like
Speaker:cornfields and cabbage, like all over.
Speaker:And, um, that I was like, you wanna see me do something, tell me I can't,
Speaker:and then I'm gonna go after that.
Speaker:And, um, just as you said that, I'm just thinking back of like the
Speaker:different voices and how, you know, we have to be careful on, on who
Speaker:we say certain things to, but also.
Speaker:Aware of what we're saying, you know, when we let those, those words out because they
Speaker:have so much power and, um, that got me to get up and move, like I've been to mm-hmm.
Speaker:I mean, around the world also, uh, just through travel and
Speaker:vacations and all that kinda stuff.
Speaker:Moved to la um, I. Almost, not completely out of spite, but it was like, I don't
Speaker:wanna be just, I don't wanna be just here.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:Um, but there's other things that, you know, I, I didn't fly as far as hard,
Speaker:um, in different aspects because the same things that you're saying, you know, you
Speaker:have these thoughts, you have these fears, you have these words, um, that kind of.
Speaker:Lean into and you know, I've had a big martial arts background, so
Speaker:I was like looking at getting into the stunt world and everything too.
Speaker:And then part of me was like,
Speaker:hmm,
Speaker:I dunno if I'm make it like there's that whole nine to five world, I can just like.
Speaker:Be in a job and I can make money and I can provide, and I
Speaker:can do that stuff on the side.
Speaker:But, you know, kind of gave, I mean, honestly like gave up on that, those
Speaker:passions and, you know, can't tell anybody what to do, but like, going
Speaker:after the what brings you to the life brings, you know, go after what,
Speaker:what, where your identity really lies.
Speaker:I think those are some of the more important things.
Speaker:And
Speaker:yeah,
Speaker:listen, listen to the words that really uplift you.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And listen to the words that add to your life, you know,
Speaker:instead of like taken away.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:There's just great things that you're saying, Kim.
Speaker:I'm just,
Speaker:yeah, thank you Kim.
Speaker:You know when I read your bio it said something like, uh, Kim is many
Speaker:things to different people, you know?
Speaker:And it's true because you have had a whole world of different things.
Speaker:It's so funny 'cause I would be watching some random things on Netflix.
Speaker:I'm be like, oh, that's Kim.
Speaker:I saw you one time on like Jane the Virgin.
Speaker:And I was like, I was literally sleeping that
Speaker:day.
Speaker:They were like, that girl here, she's sleeping.
Speaker:She's perfect.
Speaker:She gets it, move her, and they like move.
Speaker:They literally moved someone out, moved me over.
Speaker:I was afraid I was in trouble 'cause I like, I had no sleep.
Speaker:And I was like, because I had a rehearsal the night before in Anaheim for skating.
Speaker:And so I was in rehearsal until 11:00 PM and then I got my call time oh
Speaker:3:00 AM in, oh my gosh, Redondo Beach.
Speaker:Oh gosh.
Speaker:I had to go back to Hollywood.
Speaker:I had about two hours of sleep.
Speaker:Had to come in curlers.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Show up.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So I literally was asleep like this.
Speaker:Like, 'cause they, we were in a waiting room, right?
Speaker:And they had us like waiting and it was so hard to stay awake, you know?
Speaker:So I was asleep and the next thing I know they were like, Hey
Speaker:miss, miss, you know, wake you.
Speaker:They didn't say wake up, but they woke me up, miss, miss.
Speaker:They're like, move over here, move over.
Speaker:And I was like, what's.
Speaker:Going on.
Speaker:You know, they like put me right between me.
Speaker:They're like, she's perfect.
Speaker:She gets it.
Speaker:She's
Speaker:so, you never know.
Speaker:Sleeping on the job is actually okay.
Speaker:There was one time it worked for me.
Speaker:That's amazing.
Speaker:That's hilarious.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I would just see you randomly on on different things and, and I
Speaker:knew that you were in the Barbie movie, but when I was on the plane
Speaker:and I was like, oh look, it's Kim.
Speaker:It's just really fun seeing you everywhere.
Speaker:I feel the
Speaker:same way.
Speaker:I. Think of you and I like see us spinning or I see you spinning
Speaker:around, smiling with me being like, it's okay, Kim, you can do it.
Speaker:Just put right back here.
Speaker:I'd be like, oh, ka.
Speaker:Oh, you're right.
Speaker:I can do it.
Speaker:Thanks, KA.
Speaker:You know, like that's sort of like, you
Speaker:know,
Speaker:you still, uh, when you're here in LA do you still go to Circ School
Speaker:or no, you haven't been there?
Speaker:Well, I haven't
Speaker:been, you know, I started doing the hair suspension and then, you know,
Speaker:now I've been doing a lot of SR wheels.
Speaker:You know and mm-hmm.
Speaker:I saw you with the steering wheel and I've been on it when someone
Speaker:just takes me along for the ride.
Speaker:It's a trip.
Speaker:It's a trip.
Speaker:It's a trip.
Speaker:It is so
Speaker:scary.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Be worried.
Speaker:Like your finger.
Speaker:It really is scary.
Speaker:It's scary.
Speaker:I mean, I haven't done the upside down yet, so I'm not there at
Speaker:that level of scare, but already like the, for the fingers.
Speaker:But like the, it's scary.
Speaker:I mean, it's, it's heavy and it's got its own life.
Speaker:And I'm not like, um, a ball person or juggles or frisbees or throw me your keys.
Speaker:Like if you throw me your keys.
Speaker:There's a 90% chance I will not catch them.
Speaker:Like, I'll be like, Ugh, I need throw 'em over there.
Speaker:You know, like, I'm not, like, that's not how I roll.
Speaker:So it's that, that part's scary for me, but it's also, it's heavy.
Speaker:Well, I wear skates when I do it, so that actually made it a lot better.
Speaker:Oh, you mean to catch the keys?
Speaker:Actually that maybe would work.
Speaker:'cause I have really fast like muscle reaction, so I maybe would have enough
Speaker:time to like catch myself with the skates.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:I'm like, oh, ooh, no, I got it.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Can't put your skates on.
Speaker:Exactly.
Speaker:So, yeah.
Speaker:But anyway, yeah, so the whatever, you know, just I, who knows?
Speaker:And like I started doing the cereal 'cause I wanted to, and, and then,
Speaker:you know, I start posting it and.
Speaker:Be virals, like, can we repost every single one of these?
Speaker:And you have more, you know, it's like people like love it.
Speaker:And I'm like, well, you know, and I just did a job.
Speaker:And they were like, oh, will you, you know, bring the sr.
Speaker:Well, I was, I've actually been like requested to bring the S wheel
Speaker:a lot and I'm like, oh, you know, because I, again, you know, you
Speaker:get stuck on what you can't do.
Speaker:Like I know I can't coin roll.
Speaker:I know I'm not very good at spending in it yet.
Speaker:Like, I know I don't have these like sort of like.
Speaker:Big, you know, like I'm not a real SR wheel person, right?
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:I'm not a real contortionist.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:I'm not a world class skater, right?
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Like I could say all these things.
Speaker:I'm not.
Speaker:I'm not, I'm not.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But the truth is, it's like just me skating around, like
Speaker:spinning the stupid SR wheel.
Speaker:Like people like that more than me doing crazy tricks skating
Speaker:in a thousand splits, you know?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's like, like, I don't know, like, you know, it's sometimes it's just like
Speaker:whatever's most visually app pleas.
Speaker:Whatever's most visually pleasing for everyone.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Versus that which is like the most technically exciting.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Like or gratifying for ego.
Speaker:Look what I can do, you know?
Speaker:And everyone's like, ah, that was cool.
Speaker:That thing, where's young by her neck?
Speaker:I don't know, whatever.
Speaker:But man, when she did those splits, you know, like.
Speaker:Yeah, you just gotta do the splits then.
Speaker:It's always the splits.
Speaker:Ever since I was young, like every family like gathering,
Speaker:they're like, Kat, do the splits.
Speaker:I'm like, what am I a split monkey?
Speaker:What?
Speaker:You're the split we're we are split monkeys, but there's
Speaker:no splits with the wheel.
Speaker:Because like, you know, oh yeah, true.
Speaker:You, you can't because I'm kind of holiness, so I can't really
Speaker:get down to the ground, you know?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But, um, maybe I'll find a way, but I have yet to figure it out.
Speaker:If
Speaker:anyone could find a way, you would
Speaker:probably,
Speaker:you know, as your bio said, like your, a lot of things to different people.
Speaker:But to me, you know, when I think about you, Kim, it's just.
Speaker:It's this woman that I met at Circ School with the biggest
Speaker:smile and the kindest soul.
Speaker:Like, I just really, every time I get to see you, I'm just like, oh,
Speaker:you're just such a bright light.
Speaker:So thank you for being that.
Speaker:Because you know, in, I think that in this industry sometimes, um, when
Speaker:people do a lot of like amazing things and you, you do, you, you become.
Speaker:Accomplish in like what you do sometimes there's just that ego, you know?
Speaker:And, and it's like, like, I'm, I'm, I'm too cool now.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:And, and I never, I feel like you are just one of those people who's
Speaker:always like, remained so grounded.
Speaker:Um, and I. In who you are as a person and like your, your desire
Speaker:to help people, you know, with, with your skating and all that.
Speaker:So I just really appreciate that about you and thank you for showing
Speaker:up for yourself over and over again.
Speaker:'cause when you show up for yourself, um, it becomes an encouragement to other
Speaker:people and that's actually how other people are impacted by who you are,
Speaker:simply by showing up fully as yourself.
Speaker:So thank you for that.
Speaker:Well, you know, I have to really give that to George Clinton.
Speaker:Um, he taught me that, he taught me all of that, you know, you know him and Gary
Speaker:Schneider, uh, who's, who's now passed.
Speaker:But, you know, I remember Gary, he, when you did really good, he'd be
Speaker:like, you know, like, you'd be like, oh, you know, good job tonight.
Speaker:When you kind of got that like, you know, oh, I did good.
Speaker:He'd like, well, you know, but you know, it, he'd always back down You.
Speaker:You know, and George would always kind of, you know, say the same thing.
Speaker:Like they were, they were never really like, I don't know, the, the
Speaker:better you got, sort of the greater an understanding you had for how much
Speaker:further there was to go, I guess.
Speaker:And, um, I think that it was never about talent.
Speaker:Like there are so many talented people in the world, you know?
Speaker:Um.
Speaker:In Parliament, like the way that you got into that band was like, yeah, you had to
Speaker:be talented, but it was more about like a, a spirit and a and a soul that you
Speaker:had and you, and, and in order to like have that spirit, you couldn't sort of.
Speaker:You had to kind of have a, a sense of humbleness, like they came hand in hand.
Speaker:And so, you know, I guess that's like the nature of funk, right?
Speaker:It's funky for a reason.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You know, and like, and I guess like that's when I said, you
Speaker:know, working with Trey, you know, being a and tres public too.
Speaker:Like, but you know, he's this.
Speaker:Pristine world champion skater.
Speaker:And I was like, oh, I think I'm a funkadelic.
Speaker:Like, I kind of get it, like I have to tell him sometimes,
Speaker:like when he is training me, I'm like, Trey, I'm a funkadelic.
Speaker:Don't forget.
Speaker:Like, you know, there's like, you know, like, you know, there's a a sense of like.
Speaker:George installed in me a sense that soul is more important than
Speaker:ability, and that your spirit is more important than your ability and
Speaker:the message that you're channeling is more important than your ability.
Speaker:Wow, that's great.
Speaker:Well,
Speaker:so you know.
Speaker:That's where it's at for me, I guess.
Speaker:That's amazing.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:Well, I feel like that was a very strong note.
Speaker:I know we could probably go on forever, but that was a
Speaker:pretty strong note to end on.
Speaker:So thank you, Kim.
Speaker:I really appreciate your time spending with us.
Speaker:Babe, do you have any last words for Kim?
Speaker:I mean, I was gonna ask like what, how would you define a wildly wealthy life?
Speaker:Oh yeah, last one, but you kind of.
Speaker:Did it a little bit 'cause you kinda already did it, but how about in
Speaker:your own words,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:if in your own words.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:yeah, yeah.
Speaker:I mean, that's ultimately what it came down for.
Speaker:You know, the wildly, wildly wealthy life because wealth is, um, comparative.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Like in LA a person who is poor and feels poor, trust me, I know, comes
Speaker:to a small town in Oklahoma and they're gonna be like Rich, you know,
Speaker:they're gonna be on the rich side of town in their nice hybrid car.
Speaker:Literally, you know, that's me.
Speaker:Like, you know,
Speaker:you know, I don't have a Tesla, but I have a Prius, you know, so it's like, um, you
Speaker:know, money is, wealth is comparative.
Speaker:You know, health is real wealth and spiritual health and sort of balance
Speaker:with your soul and feeling happy with who you are and knowing that you're.
Speaker:Following your daily messages as they come.
Speaker:And you know, like you were talking about identities and you know, in some ways
Speaker:finding your identity is the process of losing identities, you know, and when
Speaker:you're losing those identities and then you're able, and I feel like right now
Speaker:I'm going through a huge shift in that with, you know, my mother passing and
Speaker:with everything that's happening in the industry and with Trey getting sick.
Speaker:You know, it's like, okay, Kim, like I've, I've accomplished this, far
Speaker:gone this far, and I, I have this much more time left in my life.
Speaker:Physical, active sort of life, right?
Speaker:What do I wanna do with those years?
Speaker:You know, what, what do I want to do?
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:And I think that a person that's living in that, you know, place.
Speaker:Of doing what they want and making choices so that they're set up in the future
Speaker:so that they can do what they want.
Speaker:You know, on some level, like obviously things change and we don't have the
Speaker:perfect knowledge, but, you know, making those choices so that you're like,
Speaker:well, in 10 years I really hope that I can still be doing cart Wilson splits.
Speaker:Well then I probably should keep stretching up doing PT now.
Speaker:Start adding some theand, start, you know, eating, whatever.
Speaker:You know what I mean?
Speaker:Like.
Speaker:I think that that is, and, and having the ability to do that.
Speaker:Like even just to be able to afford nice food, you know, healthy food, you
Speaker:know, like that is, you know, maybe that is, like, I was thinking just
Speaker:this morning, well, what would happen if I can't afford nice food anymore?
Speaker:Like, I, I, I have to start gardening like all the time.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:You know?
Speaker:So even that's, well having like enough land and water where you can, you know,
Speaker:have your own garden and your own chickens or whatever, you know, you want, you know.
Speaker:To me, that's what it is.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:that's great.
Speaker:Thank you, Kim.
Speaker:I appreciate it.
Speaker:We enjoyed chatting with you.
Speaker:This is so fun.
Speaker:And, uh, where can people find you?
Speaker:Well, um, I'm on Instagram and TikTok and Facebook occasionally.
Speaker:I'm Kim Manning's, space Queen.
Speaker:I also am on YouTube and uh, Pinterest.
Speaker:Sometimes you can find me there.
Speaker:And I have a website if you wanna.
Speaker:To roller skate, uh, skate like a pro.com, and that's skate with an
Speaker:eight, SK eight, like a pro.com.
Speaker:And uh, you can sign up for my free program and learn to fall, which is, you
Speaker:know, good if you ever just wanna even go to the rink for a birthday party.
Speaker:And, uh, yeah.
Speaker:That's awesome.
Speaker:I, I feel like I actually need that,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:I, I mean really everyone should.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I'm the worst at skating.
Speaker:Uh, Kim.
Speaker:Like really the worst.
Speaker:I It's hilarious.
Speaker:It's, it's too funny.
Speaker:It, it am not good.
Speaker:Well, you sound brave, so.
Speaker:You sound brave enough and I know you can do a cannonball, so
Speaker:I could probably get you there.
Speaker:We could get you there.
Speaker:That's true.
Speaker:Between bravery and a cannonball, anyone can learn to skate.
Speaker:That's so true.
Speaker:You know, like
Speaker:a squat, like a primal squat.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Those are the two
Speaker:necessities for learning to skate.
Speaker:It is very fun though, watching people, and I love, I do love every time I
Speaker:get to see you, um, and your videos.
Speaker:It is, it's just fun.
Speaker:Well, thanks.
Speaker:Thank you, Kim.
Speaker:This has really been wonderful.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Thanks guys.
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