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Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips

Aligning Ambition With Intention | Kim Rittberg (EP31)

Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips

Diane Boden

Education, How To, Home & Garden, Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

This podcast is part of the Clear Intentions series of the show.

What happens when you realize success isn’t success if it costs you your peace? In this episode, Kim Rittberg shares her journey from burnout to building a life and career that align with her values. Can you balance ambition with family, and still show up confidently in your work? Kim walks us through her shift from TV and digital video to launching her own coaching business, where she now helps others speak with confidence and authenticity. She shares practical tips on public speaking, overcoming imposter syndrome, and managing time with intention. This conversation is a reminder that you don’t have to choose between impact and balance—you can have both.

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About Kim|

Kim Rittberg is 6x award-winning digital marketer and video coach who helps self-employed professionals and businesses grow their income, leads & credibility through video & podcasts. She spent 15 years as a media executive at Netflix, PEOPLE Magazine, and in TV News and launched the first-ever video unit for Us Weekly magazine.  

Kim has been featured in Business Insider and Forbes and Fast Company, is a speaker across the country including Fast Company Innovation Festival, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Convention, Mom2.0, The Women’s Real Estate Investment Summit and guest lectures at Syracuse University.

She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg School. She also hosts the top 1% podcast The Exit Interview with Kim Rittberg spurred by her decision to quit corporate and launch her own business after working in the hospital while giving birth to her second child. The podcast helps self-employed people bet on themselves and win with founders’ stories and tangible concrete advice as well as solo mini-masterclass marketing episodes.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you're pregnant postpartum or planning to be, or you've got a friend in that season, listen

0:04.3

up. There's a lot in motherhood that we can't control, but your nutrition, that's a powerful

0:08.9

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0:13.8

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0:19.4

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0:22.7

the real nutritional demands of pregnancy and beyond. It's not the bare minimum stuff that most

0:27.3

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0:32.9

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0:38.6

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0:43.6

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0:49.1

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0:53.1

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1:03.8

code minimalist for 20% off your first order. Succeeding and working for like 15 years and then

1:09.4

getting what you thought you wanted. And it felt

1:11.9

really empty because while I was proud of what I did, I just realized I have just no control over

1:21.4

my career, my family time. And it just put me on this path of I need to sit down and think about

1:27.1

what is this life I want.

1:29.2

In theory, you could wake up at 6 a.m. and go to sleep at 10 p.m. and work all of those hours and

1:36.4

try to make as much money as you possibly can. Is that how I want to live my life? I was accomplished

1:42.3

but anonymous. Fake it till you make it, whatever, but you have to

1:46.2

believe in your message and you have to show up with a lot of confidence. Confidence and knowledge

1:50.8

is really, really contagious. So much of our life is fear that's like blocking us. And it hides

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