Kim Lewis, Finding Abundance in the Tiny
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week we're continuing our series, Going Against the Grain, with designer and tiny home aficionado, Kim Lewis. You may know Kim as the Lead Designer behind ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and founder of Kim Lewis Designs in Austin, TX.
Today, Kim and Jessica talk about the pursuit of minimalism and the personal battles that led Kim to strike out on her own and carve a new path.
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— Keep up with all of Kim's projects: http://kimlewisdesigns.com/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. This is your host, Jessica Honegger, founder of the social impact fashion brand |
| 0:07.3 | noon-day collection. Are you ready for honest and vulnerable conversations that will inspire you towards action? |
| 0:14.7 | Join me here every week for conversations on living lives of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared. |
| 0:22.4 | Today is such a treat. Kim Lewis. Kim Lewis. Ah, she is |
| 0:27.8 | gash. There are not many people in the world like Kim Lewis. She has a little lady with big ideas. |
| 0:33.6 | She's five or four feet 11, maybe. She's best known for her work as the lead designer behind ABC's |
| 0:40.6 | Extreme Makeover Home Edition. She's also founder of Kim Lewis Designs. Her work has been featured on ABC |
| 0:47.0 | as she TVed. She'll see National Geographic. But most recently, she designs restaurants. |
| 0:52.4 | Torcheese tacos, anybody, boutiques, and hotels around the world. She also has a passion |
| 0:58.7 | for building therapeutic arts centers for rescue children and Ghana, Cambodia, Thailand, and Han |
| 1:03.9 | tourists. So so many things that I could talk with Kim about. But what I wanted to do is have |
| 1:10.8 | her on the show to talk about tiny living. She has lived in a tiny house for several years, |
| 1:16.8 | some of those as a mom of young children. And I am always really fascinated by minimalists. |
| 1:23.9 | Because this girl, the seven on the anagram guys, I am not a minimalist. And so when I hear about |
| 1:29.9 | people for years, not just a season, you guys know I lived in an air stream for six months. But I |
| 1:35.4 | was not ready to go live in an air stream for years. But Kim is super committed to to tiny living |
| 1:44.0 | and leaving a small footprint on the earth. And we talked about tiny living. We also talked about |
| 1:53.5 | her own life. And she shared about losing her mom as a young girl, the end of her first marriage. |
| 1:59.0 | But you're going to hear that Kim truly is an encourager. And you know, when someone who's been |
| 2:04.7 | through a lot of suffering is an encourager, that encouragement comes from such a depth, such a |
| 2:09.9 | deep place. And right now, I am drawing energy from people who have been through suffering and |
| 2:15.3 | really walk in resilience. So you are really going to enjoy this conversation with Kim Lewis. |
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