Welcome to Impact the World, the show for and about creatives, change makers and entrepreneurs.

This is a conversation episode where a special guest shares with me what they are creating and the behind-the-scenes journey of their experience. Hi, welcome to this episode of Impact the World where I am thrilled to be with Kim Skipper

Corbyn, who I came to know through her work as senior publicist and social media manager for New World Library,

who published my book, Energy Speaks, in 2019.

But the more I came to know Kim and her wonderful, bubbly personality, the more I realized there was more to the story.

And the story goes that Kim started a movement,

which is all detailed at her website,

I skip.com, 20 years ago in 1999.

And so I said to Kim, this is a fascinating story.

It's a fascinating topic.

And you have had the typical creator's journey

of ups and downs with this mission of yours.

So I asked her to come onto the show and talk to me about it. So Kim, thank you for being here.

And thanks for having me. So skipping. Now, I did what you told me is the classic thing when we

first started talking about it because you were explaining to me that you started

this skipping movement and I did what you said the BBC had done coming from England. I was assuming

you meant jump rope and that you had people all over the world doing jump rope. But I was quite

delighted to learn, no, not that skipping at all. You mean literally the childhood playground skipping.

Yes. Yeah, like skipping down the yellow brick road. Yeah. So before you kind of turn this

into a thing for the rest of the world, what was your relationship to skipping? Was it something

you'd done all your life? No, I actually hadn't skipped since I was a kid until I, until 1997, so two years before I actually started the skipping movement.

And I was out with a couple of friends and one of them said, let's skip.

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