Overcoming the Odds: How a successful Businesswoman overcame teen pregnancies and raised her siblings.
The Steve Harvey Morning Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Kimberly Kelly.
A real estate broker and entrepreneur who overcame a challenging upbringing in foster care, teen motherhood, and systemic adversity to become a successful businesswoman. Kimberly shares her journey of resilience, faith, and determination, offering inspiration to anyone facing difficult circumstances. Her story is a testament to perseverance, adaptability, and the power of believing in oneself.
🧭 Key Points 🌱 Early Life & Adversity
- Raised in foster care from a young age due to her mother’s struggles with addiction.
- Took on a caregiver role for her younger brothers at age 9.
- Became a mother at 15 and had two children by 18, while still caring for her siblings.
💪 Resilience & Mindset
- Developed a survival mindset early on, driven by responsibility and love for her family.
- Found faith and spiritual grounding during her time in foster care.
- Never doubted her ability to succeed despite overwhelming odds.
🎓 Education & Career Path
- Returned to complete her high school diploma and pursued technical education.
- Earned a degree in electronics engineering and transitioned into the IT world.
- Later became a licensed real estate agent and opened her own brokerage.
🏡 Business Ventures
- Founder of a real estate brokerage in McDonough, Georgia.
- Focuses on educating and empowering first-time homebuyers and entrepreneurs.
- Co-owner of a property preservation company, Get Adventurous, with her husband.
🤝 Leadership & Branding
- Leads a small team of agents with a hands-on, mentorship-driven approach.
- Emphasizes adaptability, personal growth, and celebrating small victories.
- Operates within a price range of $250K–$750K and above, adapting to market trends.
💬 Notable Quotes
“I’m superwoman. I’m phenomenal.”
“Foster care is supposed to be temporary, but sometimes it becomes permanent.”
“It never dawned on me that I wouldn’t be successful.”
“You can do anything. There is nothing you can’t do in this life.”
“Practice resilience. If you don’t have a support system, look in the mirror and talk to yourself.”
“I’m always in the mindset of staying adaptable.”
“My goal is to educate, motivate, and teach people that we can own real estate.”
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| 0:04.6 | Hi, I'm Roshan McDonnell. |
| 0:06.4 | I host a weekly Money Making Conversation Masterclass show. |
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| 0:32.4 | Now, let's get this show start. My guest pushed through some difficult circumstances to achieve significant professional progress and become a business mogul, M-O-G-U-L. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Masterclass, Kimberly Kelly. How you doing, Kimberly? I'm doing phenomenal. How are you doing, Rashulmone? Phenomenal. You're not all of them positive. Were you coming out the box? Yes, you got to say positive. You got to say positive. |
| 0:54.5 | I'm superwoman. |
| 0:55.4 | I'm superwoman. |
| 0:56.1 | You're coming out of the box. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm superwoman. |
| 1:01.1 | A phenomenal woman. |
| 1:02.2 | I love it. |
| 1:02.8 | I love it. |
| 1:03.8 | That positivity, is that what drives your success, you being positive? |
| 1:07.9 | Yes. |
| 1:08.7 | Yes, absolutely. |
| 1:09.8 | That keeps me with perseverance, keeps moving forward, no matter what difficult moments, you know, happens. |
| 1:16.5 | Now, let's talk about you in difficult moments, you know, because I think that that stops a lot of people, you know, because we all have valleys, you know, you know, COVID knocked out a whole country and |
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