Kim Becking: Grace, Grit, and Getting Back Up (ep. 772)
Live Inspired Podcast with John O'Leary
John O'Leary
4.9 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Kim Becking is a New York Times bestselling author, founder of the Unstoppable Momentum Movement, cancer survivor and mom of three. A leading voice on navigating change, she’s on a mission to help people lead with purpose, build real resilience, and face life’s challenges with courage.
Today, Kim shares how she went from growing up in a trailer in small-town Missouri to becoming a lawyer and public servant. Plus, she shares the bold choice to leave a high-powered career to prioritize family, the breast cancer diagnosis that rocked her world at 30, the life-changing advice from her late friend Patty, how she’s redefining resilience, and why “grit without grace” just doesn’t work.
My friends, if you’ve ever faced a setback that left you wondering how to keep going, this conversation is for you. You’ll walk away with practical tools to build real resilience, the permission to pause and give yourself grace, and the reminder that while the headwinds may be real, the foundation is firm, and the best is yet to come.
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| 0:00.0 | You know that Keeley companies is all about fostering the world-class culture through their incredible cultural pillars. |
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| 0:29.4 | In the words of Rusty Keeley, we are just getting started. |
| 0:34.3 | You can learn more about that just getting started mentality and all the work they do |
| 0:38.7 | by visiting my friends at keely companies online at keelie companies.com. Welcome to the live-inspired |
| 0:48.7 | podcast with John O'Leary. John is the number one national bestselling author of the book On Fire. He's a world-class |
| 0:56.0 | inspirational speaker, and he's the host of the Live-inspired podcast. John interviews extraordinary |
| 1:01.5 | individuals on their life story so that you can wake up from accidental living and more |
| 1:07.5 | fully live your life story. Here's your host, John O'Leary. Well, hello, my friends, |
| 1:14.4 | and welcome to the Live Inspired podcast with John O'Leary. Our guest today is a New York Times best-selling |
| 1:21.1 | author. She's the founder of the Unstoppable Momentum Movement. She's a cancer survivor. And in her spare time, she's the mom of three. |
| 1:30.4 | A leading voice on navigating change. She's on a mission to help people lead with purpose, |
| 1:36.0 | build real resilience, and face life's challenges with courage. Today, our guest, Kim Becking, |
| 1:42.9 | shares how she went from growing up in a trailer in a small town in northwest Missouri to becoming a lawyer and a public servant. |
| 1:51.3 | The two of us are going to discuss her bold decision to leave a high-powered career so that she could prioritize her family. |
| 1:58.6 | We'll discuss her breast cancer diagnosis that, of course, |
| 2:01.6 | rocked her world when she received it at 30 and the life-changing advice from her late friend Patty. |
| 2:08.6 | We'll talk about redefining resilience and why grit without grace just does not work. |
| 2:15.3 | My friends, if you have ever faced a setback that left you wondering how to |
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