You’re Allowed to Want More — And Pivot When It No Longer Fits

16 Jun 579: You’re Allowed to Want More — And Pivot When It No Longer Fits with Kim O’Hara

Posted at 07:00h in Business, Entrepreneurship, Life, Mindset, Podcast by AJ Wallace

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What if the thing you’ve spent years building no longer fits? And what if that’s not failure, just your next gutsy move?

Today’s guest, Kim O’Hara, is a book coach, author, and creator of the Delicious Life brand, a platform built entirely around permission. Kim spent over a decade coaching women to write and publish their books, built a business from scratch as a single mom, bought a house — and then found herself at a pivot point she didn’t see coming. A New York editor told her to throw out the book she’d spent six months writing and start over. And instead of that breaking her, it cracked her open.

We talk about what happens when you write a book from your heart, and why AI can never do that for you. We get into the real, raw territory of pivoting when something stops fitting: the financial fear, the identity shift, the moment you have to ask for help, and how terrifying that is for women who are used to carrying everything alone. And we talk about the permission to want more. More ease. More joy. More of what actually feels good, not just the version of you that’s been grinding for everyone else.

Featured Guest

For over 30 years, Kim O’Hara has shared her professional expertise with individuals looking to achieve their writing and publication dreams. As a Book Coach, she is sought after for her high success rate in both guiding authors to the finish line and partnering on a book they are proud to publish.

Featured as the Today Show Motivational Book of the Month, on The Kelly Clarkson Show, WSJ Top Ten Business books and #1 in Barnes and Noble non-fiction, as well as countless Amazon Best-Sellers, her clients use their books to position themselves as the go-to authority, premiere new brands and share stories that resonate with audiences.

In this episode:

Writing a book from your real, lived experience
Pivoting your brand and identity when the old model stops fitting
Permission and receiving — why women struggle with both
The financial reality of making a big pivot
What a “delicious life” actually looks like in practice
Asking for help and letting yourself be supported through change

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

Kim O’Hara — book coaching, the Book Roadmap Intensive, and free resources: kimohara.com (Gutsy Podcast listeners get $1,000 off the Book Roadmap Intensive — just say “I’m gutsy”)

Live Your Delicious Life newsletter — Kim’s growing community where she shares events and everything delicious life

I Give You Permission Substack — Kim’s Substack where she digs into permission, writing, and reinvention

The Gutsy Collective — A community for women who are ready to stop doing it alone and start making their next gutsy move. Start your free 30-day trial!

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NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE

“Once you can say that yes to writing the book, everything else is kind of like semantics, and organization, and scheduling, and accountability coaching, basically.”

“I feel like if you can write a book from your heart, and you can really put yourself out there in a dynamic way, you will serve others, but you will also change.”

“I believe that the universe will kick you out of whatever nest you’re all cuddled into.”

“This is sometimes what happens when you change.”

“A delicious life is random acts of self-kindness, and they teach you, like compound interest, how to lean into what intuitively feels good for you, where you have more self-trust.”

“You just know — one of the gutsiest things that you can give yourself is the permission to let something go that needs to go.”