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Kim Alexis's Beauty to Wellness Journey · The iDesign Lab Podcast

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Voice Over: This is iDesign Lab, a podcast where creativity and curiosity meet style and design.
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Voice Over: Curator of interiors, furnishings and lifestyles.
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Voice Over: Hosted by Tiffany Woolley, an interior designer and a style enthusiast, along with her serial entrepreneur husband Scott, idesign Lab is your ultimate design podcast where we explore the rich and vibrant world of design and its constant evolution in style and trends.
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Voice Over: Idesign Lab provides industry insight, discussing the latest trends, styles and everything in between to better help you style your life, through advice from trendsetters, designers, influencers, innovators, fabricators and manufacturers, as well as personal stories that inspire, motivate and excite.
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Voice Over: And join us on this elevated, informative and lively journey into the world of all things design.
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Tiffany Woolley: We welcome Kim Alexis, iconic supermodel turned wellness powerhouse, as the National Wellness Ambassador for Trilogy by Shea Holmes.
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Tiffany Woolley: Kim crafts healthy menus, writes inspiring wellness content and motivates communities to move, thrive and live life fully.
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Tiffany Woolley: With a legendary modeling career, a passion for health and a drive to uplift others, kim's design for life is nothing short of inspiring.
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Tiffany Woolley: Who is in Scottsdale, arizona?
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Tiffany Woolley: So we are remote today, but we're looking forward to a great conversation.
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Tiffany Woolley: Kim Alexis is going to tell us a little bit about herself, but she was found at just 17 years old as an international supermodel and has designed a career with staying power, and we're excited to hear how now her life is focused around the health and wellness and hear a lot about the details in between.
1:49
Tiffany Woolley: Welcome.
1:50
Kim Alexis: Welcome, yeah, thanks, it's really good to see you.
1:53
Scott Woolley: It's been a very long time since I last seen you.
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Tiffany Woolley: Yes, you and Scott have a history, which is fun.
2:00
Scott Woolley: Going back to the late 90s, is it?
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Kim Alexis: Going back to the late 90s, is it?
2:04
Kim Alexis: Well, we had a show called Parenting in the 90s and then it hit the 2000s, and then we did Parenting and.
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Kim Alexis: Beyond Correct.
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Tiffany Woolley: That's like right when we did Meet, we did a lot of episodes of that show.
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Tiffany Woolley: That was before.
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Scott Woolley: Scott was a parent.
2:21
Scott Woolley: Yes, yes, and I changed my life around after I became a parent.
2:28
Scott Woolley: I only wanted to have three children.
2:29
Scott Woolley: I didn't want to have 200 and some children.
2:31
Scott Woolley: I guess that's good, we sold that company and now doing different things.
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Tiffany Woolley: Yes, we are.
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Scott Woolley: So I want to jump in with Kim.
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Scott Woolley: Your career started at 17.
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Kim Alexis: I mean, I was discovered at 17 in my small little town in Buffalo.
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Kim Alexis: Well, I was from outside of.
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Kim Alexis: Buffalo.
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Kim Alexis: I used to drive into Buffalo to go to modeling school and I got discovered there at 17.
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Kim Alexis: So I graduated high school at 17 and decided when I turned 18 that I would just give it a shot and try modeling for a year and could always go back to college.
3:11
Kim Alexis: So I was registered at the University of Rhode Island in the pharmacy program and put them off for a year, thinking I was just going to see what transpired with the modeling.
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Kim Alexis: And I had a cover within four days for Italian Bazaar and things just took off immediately.
3:30
Kim Alexis: I had my first national makeup ad within three months and it was a whirlwind.
3:36
Tiffany Woolley: That is a whirlwind.
3:37
Scott Woolley: So did that all start in Buffalo or did you end up going to?
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Kim Alexis: New York, by the way, or somewhere else.
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Kim Alexis: I graduated high school and moved to New York City literally at 18.
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Kim Alexis: So I started my career in New York City.
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Scott Woolley: But you were, if I remember correctly, a competitor.
3:56
Scott Woolley: You swam, correct.
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Kim Alexis: Yes, yeah, I was swimming five and a half hours a day.
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Kim Alexis: I was number one in New York state.
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Kim Alexis: I was a butterflyer and a backstroker, so, um, we were always in the pool.
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Kim Alexis: I mean, my hair was always wet.
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Kim Alexis: I used to show up at the modeling school with wet hair.
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Scott Woolley: Did you have aspirations of like Olympics or anything like that?
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Scott Woolley: Swimming wise Cause five hours a day?
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Scott Woolley: That's a dedication.
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Kim Alexis: I know.
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Kim Alexis: No, I was kind of happy to be number one in New York State.
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Kim Alexis: I, I don't know, I don't think we did nationals um, but no, I I thought that I was going to be a pharmacist, so I was ready to go to a five-year college to get a degree, and that all changed it.
4:44
Tiffany Woolley: It's interesting that, like your life kind of did come full circle, with your passion now being in the health and wellness and you were going to dive into pharmaceuticals and you were an athlete, so it's kind of like the modeling was a little pathway, it was a sidebar.
5:03
Tiffany Woolley: A sidebar, that's a better way of explaining it.
5:05
Scott Woolley: Yeah, a little sidebar, but swimming is very competitive and, from what I know of modeling, modeling is extremely competitive, correct?
5:14
Kim Alexis: No, I would say modeling.
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Kim Alexis: To me, modeling was not because you either had the look or whatever they wanted.
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Kim Alexis: And it was nothing that you could do.
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Kim Alexis: Your efforts did not create the job in my opinion so interesting.
5:33
Scott Woolley: But as you grew in modeling and you're on over 500 magazine covers, I mean you stayed pretty grounded, you stayed like.
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Kim Alexis: Yeah, I just.
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Kim Alexis: I mean, I got knocked off my peg a couple life and I was one of those self-reflecting, always checking in with myself to see where I could improve or change, and so I was willing to make changes because I enjoyed being humble.
6:20
Kim Alexis: Oh, that's amazing.
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Kim Alexis: And I'm a Christian.
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Kim Alexis: So I feel like my job is to serve others Right, and so I felt more comfortable being down to earth than I did being up in the clouds.
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Kim Alexis: So I guess that's where I wanted to end up.
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Kim Alexis: I just want to.
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Kim Alexis: I mean, you can't ever say you're humble, because if you claim you're humble, then you're not Correct.
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Kim Alexis: But I try my best to help and serve others and put other people first, and that's just important to me.
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Tiffany Woolley: So what was a highlight of your career at that time of your life, like, was it a magazine cover, or was it, you know, traveling abroad, or what was the drive or the highlight?
7:08
Kim Alexis: I can't say what the drive was, except I I dove into a business that I never wanted which I always feel is a lucky way of stumbling in when you never wanted it.
7:21
Kim Alexis: You don't have anything to lose well, I think a lot of your successful models never grew up studying fashion and um thinking about modeling or thinking about makeup.
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Kim Alexis: We were always doing other things, and so it was just an opportunity to see what would come of it, and it became a challenge in a way, I guess, to see what was out there and when things keep getting handed to you.
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Kim Alexis: I was being offered 14 jobs a day.
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Kim Alexis: And so I could pick and choose.
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Kim Alexis: It's hard to walk away from that, so I spent probably five years hard working, working every day.
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Kim Alexis: I mean I've got boxes and boxes of tear sheets where you can imagine one of the few businesses where you can physically and visually see what you did and so you can tell that I was just always working, because I have literally like five boxes banker boxes filled with tear sheets.
8:31
Scott Woolley: So is there a moment in your career at that time that kind of stands out?
8:35
Scott Woolley: Like you know, you're Sports Illustrated.
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Scott Woolley: You were in it numerous times, yeah.
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Kim Alexis: Yeah, sports Illustrated was more up my alley.
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Kim Alexis: Number one I was athletic.
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Kim Alexis: Number two I grew up swimming, so to me, being in a swimsuit was very natural right so funny, so yeah that was pretty easy for me.
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Kim Alexis: Uh, the hard parts was the high fashion which I had not grown up with and didn't really understand, so I spent a lot of time just being quiet and listening to all the experts and I was around the top experts in photography I mean, the best photographers in the world and the best hair and the best makeup people in the world and back then everyone stayed in their lane.
9:21
Kim Alexis: So if you were a hairdresser, you only did hair, you did hair.
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Kim Alexis: If you were a assistant to a photographer, you were into lighting or you were into the sound.
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Kim Alexis: If it was for video, everybody had their own lane.
9:33
Voice Over: Now, of course, we all have to write our own scripts and light it.
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Kim Alexis: I mean, I've got my own light here.
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Kim Alexis: You get to be an expert in all these other aspects and I fought it for a long time.
9:47
Kim Alexis: Like I'm not doing that, everybody should come to me and I'll just do this one thing.
9:52
Kim Alexis: Good, and back in the day you know how older people are like.
9:56
Kim Alexis: Back in the day we did things this way, right?
9:59
Tiffany Woolley: Yeah.
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Kim Alexis: Well, times change and you better change with them or you're going to be left in the dust times change and you better change with them or you're going to be left in the dust.
10:07
Tiffany Woolley: So when did things start to change where you were like, well, let me step away a little bit at all, or did you feel like you kind of always stayed in the in the modeling realm for?
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Kim Alexis: No, so I think probably things changed when I got a contract, so I was the ultimate two girl.
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Kim Alexis: I replaced Lauren Hutton, okay.
10:27
Tiffany Woolley: Yeah, yeah.
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Kim Alexis: It was Revlon, so I was paid to be exclusive and to not work in other modeling jobs.
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Kim Alexis: They wanted me exclusive, so that contract lasted three years.
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Kim Alexis: When that ended, I couldn't go backwards.
10:43
Kim Alexis: Three years when that ended, I couldn't go backwards.
10:48
Kim Alexis: So my name had my face, facial recognition, my name.
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Kim Alexis: Everything had changed and back in the 70s and 80s we weren't really thinking of brands like my name wasn't a brand, and so I naturally had protected that without knowing I was protecting it.
11:04
Kim Alexis: And so now I was a name, household name and a brand and I couldn't go back and do those catalogs the other girls were doing.
11:12
Kim Alexis: So I had to figure out other ways to have a career and make money and so I went into broadcasting.
11:18
Kim Alexis: I became the fashion correspondent on Good Morning America for three years and so I learned that craft and then went off to do hosting different cable shows back in the day when cable was a big thing.
11:31
Kim Alexis: And you're redesigning your life in this process and then worked with Scott, which is really amazing because you didn't realize it at the time.
11:40
Tiffany Woolley: But I mean, we talk about this on the podcast a lot, how we all are our own brand and you were kind of ahead of the curve curating that.
11:49
Tiffany Woolley: It's so interesting that you were able to push yourself to join all these other platforms.
11:57
Kim Alexis: Well, and I think another thing to think about is that there are a lot of beautiful girls out there.
12:03
Kim Alexis: I guess you'd say girls versus women, but to have the business sense, to be able to get to a certain point, modeling is a whole other thing to have that mindset.
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Kim Alexis: So it's a whole package.
12:15
Kim Alexis: It's not just the physical looks, it is how you conduct your life, and some of these girls would throw things away and and um not show up on time and um not be good to clients.
12:30
Kim Alexis: Paint their brand, yeah, and for some I mean it kind of was okay with the bad girl image, but uh, not for longevity.
12:41
Tiffany Woolley: yeah, yeah't last For the long world it's not.
12:44
Tiffany Woolley: That's unbelievable.
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Tiffany Woolley: So, as a brand ambassador for Revlon, what do you think you know was the that you learned the most from that experience?
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Kim Alexis: Well, I got to work with my mother a lot.
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Kim Alexis: So there was a one product they had called ProCollagen and it was three generations.
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Kim Alexis: So my mom got to work with me.
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Tiffany Woolley: Oh, that's so.
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Tiffany Woolley: What a wonderful like tidbit.
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Kim Alexis: Yeah, that was wonderful, and my grandmother did not want to be in it, so we found a woman and called her Aunt Nancy.
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Kim Alexis: That's so funny, yeah, but it was.
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Kim Alexis: That was in itself wonderful, and my mom had never modeled before and at the time she was probably about 45.
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Kim Alexis: I was in my 20s like early 20s, so she was probably about 45 and started at the top and she's like, oh, this is so much fun, it's wonderful, and I'm like Mom, you started at the top so for her.
13:46
Kim Alexis: Once my contract ended, hers kind of came to a screeching halt also.
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Kim Alexis: But that was a fun time to be able to work with her and help her see my world from the ground floor, you know.
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Scott Woolley: So it was neat what was your experience, you know, with the show on HBO that about face.
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Kim Alexis: Yes, yeah, that was fun number one.
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Kim Alexis: It was like a reunion to be with all the other models right um, because a lot of times when we worked we would work alone, so you were on set with hair, makeup and everyone else, but it wasn't like you were with a lot of your other top girls, so to be able to be in a room and talk with them and then have an interview, and we all did super long interviews and then they just took bits and pieces from each one of us.
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Kim Alexis: Long interviews and then they just took bits and pieces from each one of us.
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Kim Alexis: But yeah, it was.
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Kim Alexis: Uh, it was really fun to catch up with the girls that we had seen off and on here and there and and just get to hang out for the day that's interesting, that you know.
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Scott Woolley: I think most people think that all of you were together all the time on these different shoes and stuff, but I guess, not Even the Sports Illustrated swimsuits.
15:01
Kim Alexis: They would overlap if they needed a double shot of two girls, but each girl got their own like five days of working by themselves, and sometimes then someone else would fly in and someone else would be flying out, and so you'd get to do like I've done doubles with Paulina and also Kelly Enberg, and so each one of us had our own time versus standing there it's hard, because if you're sitting around watching someone else work.
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Kim Alexis: It's like, okay, why am I here?
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Kim Alexis: So their time best used was using each one of us all day for a couple of days and then rotating out.
15:40
Tiffany Woolley: Do you stay in touch with any of those girls or even, like you said, the people that were you were really with the most, like the photographers and the makeup and hair?
15:51
Kim Alexis: Yes, well, social media makes it easy to stay in touch that way.
15:55
Kim Alexis: But I have certain girlfriends that were models and we, if I'm going to New York, I'll stay with Carol Alter, nancy Donahue and I just saw Kelly Enberg.
16:06
Kim Alexis: She comes to Scottsdale.
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Kim Alexis: One of her other friends was here having a birthday so we got to hang out together and it's just one, it's like a sister and they understand aspects of the business that other people don't, and so it's that insider.
16:21
Kim Alexis: Oh yeah, I know how that feels, type thing.
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Scott Woolley: So you just mentioned social media, which we see you quite a bit on.
16:30
Scott Woolley: We follow you on it, oh good.
16:34
Scott Woolley: Again, you've redesigned your life and you're so involved in health and wellness and you know, tell us more about that, because it's a great subject matter, and I just think the things you're doing are great as well.
16:45
Scott Woolley: I mean just it's.
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Kim Alexis: So for me, I think, with the pharmacy interest, in my background.
16:54
Kim Alexis: I was very interested in cause and effect.
16:58
Kim Alexis: What we do here affects what we're like here, and that includes health and wellness.
17:05
Kim Alexis: And so I started diving into products and because I came from marketing, where you market a product of what it will do for you, I I wanted to.
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Kim Alexis: I just had this natural curiosity of, okay, well, maybe it makes my skin smoother or maybe it makes my life better or maybe it smells better, but what is that doing to my health?
17:29
Kim Alexis: So not the marketing aspect of how it helps you or makes your life easier or more beautiful or whatever it is, but what?
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Kim Alexis: How does that affect you health-wise?
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Kim Alexis: And so that's where I started diving in social media and I remember my first filming and I'd hired a PR, a local PR company here in Scottsdale.
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Voice Over: And.
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Kim Alexis: I thought, you know, because I'd had so much background with Good Morning America, that it would be easy, easy.
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Kim Alexis: But it's a different format and so I had to write my own scripts and they helped light and they helped shoot the video and stuff.
18:06
Kim Alexis: But for me it was oh, now, all of a sudden I've got the research and I have a platform and I'm responsible for what I say, and nobody else.
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Kim Alexis: I didn't have to run it by anybody, and so it's a whole different way of filming and being out there.
18:27
Kim Alexis: And I tell you, most of the time I love listening to the feedback from people, but sometimes there are some really mean people out there, really.
18:39
Tiffany Woolley: I know, and that's where your mindset has to stay, above all of that.
18:44
Kim Alexis: Well, I try and answer everybody, but some of their comments don't really deserve an answer.
18:51
Tiffany Woolley: An answer yeah, they're very accusatory.
18:53
Kim Alexis: For the most part, though, most of my 99% of the people who interact with me on social media are wonderful and kind and supportive and loving and respectful, but there's once in a while where you get these weird crude.
19:08
Kim Alexis: It's like what are you talking?
19:10
Tiffany Woolley: about.
19:10
Tiffany Woolley: Well, that's kind of everywhere in life, you know, and it becomes part of the, you know.
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Kim Alexis: Staying away from those types of people everywhere, in every aspect, yeah, so, as you dove into this, you know, new life of national wellness ambassador with Trilogy yes, so I work with Trilogy by Shea Homes and they've got communities around the country and they're active adult communities and they wanted to deliver a message to their members of health and wellness and so they've got different people they work with, but they hired me to come on and deliver that health and wellness message.
19:52
Kim Alexis: So I do things from curating menu items at their local clubs, their restaurants, to fitness videos, and I write articles every week on different parts of wellness or highlighting something that's important, and monthly videos also on their newsletter.
20:11
Tiffany Woolley: So what does that design process look like for you?
20:14
Tiffany Woolley: Do they give you input, like we would like you to you know, center around this this week or highlight this this month, or is it something that you, if I'm writing, articles.
20:24
Kim Alexis: yes, each month has a theme nationwide, and so we will write on things that deal with the theme of the month.
20:35
Scott Woolley: So you're writing menus, menus, so you're writing.
20:38
Kim Alexis: No, no, no.
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Kim Alexis: I write articles on some point of wellness or fitness, or we've just gotten a new app and gym equipment and ways to monitor your natural age, and so it's trying to educate the members on.
20:57
Kim Alexis: Use this app and you'll get exercises you can do at home or different ways to be able to map the progress and age that you currently are.
21:08
Tiffany Woolley: So it's pretty neat.
21:09
Tiffany Woolley: That is very interesting.
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Tiffany Woolley: How does the app like?
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Tiffany Woolley: Are you on the app yourself so like, are you actually taking advantage of some of the same technology?
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Kim Alexis: I take advantage of it, but they don't have me on the app.
21:23
Kim Alexis: It's techno gym, and so I believe that they already are established with other people and I'm not leading a class or something on their app yet, although I am studying to be a certified fitness instructor.
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Kim Alexis: I saw that too.
21:39
Tiffany Woolley: So what fitness are you like kind of honing in on?
21:42
Tiffany Woolley: I know like so much, Well so it's.
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Kim Alexis: It would be a group class and that could be anything from, and I'm not a dancer, so you're not going to see me doing Zumba?
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Kim Alexis: I think it would to me.
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Kim Alexis: I like strength training and circuit training.
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Kim Alexis: So it would probably be more of that, but I just felt it was important to get the certification so that others feel comfortable.
22:05
Kim Alexis: Sometimes certain states don't require any certification for an instructor, which is very interesting.
22:14
Scott Woolley: So do you plan on being an instructor and teaching and training?
22:19
Kim Alexis: That's not my number one priority no.
22:21
Kim Alexis: I've got a lot of irons in the fire.
22:24
Kim Alexis: I'm also a real estate agent, so I took the whole real estate course and got licensed just because I'm working with builders.
22:32
Kim Alexis: So Shea Homes is a national builder and I wanted to understand the whole process of buying and selling homes.
22:38
Kim Alexis: Yeah.
22:40
Tiffany Woolley: So are they based in Arizona Shea Homes or are they everywhere?
22:45
Kim Alexis: They're everywhere.
22:46
Kim Alexis: The original Shea Brothers are out of California but we have an office that's six minutes from my house here in Scottsdale and so I go there quite a bit.
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Kim Alexis: I was on a live podcast with them yesterday talking about where I came from and how I got to where I was in the wellness industry.
23:05
Kim Alexis: So we did that and we are just constantly developing.
23:09
Kim Alexis: This is a.
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Kim Alexis: In a way, it's a whole new area for someone of my expertise, um area for someone of my expertise, um number one.
23:23
Kim Alexis: there's not many supermodels that focus solely on longevity and fitness and wellness.
23:25
Kim Alexis: They don't have my fitness background.
23:27
Kim Alexis: I I always struggled in modeling because I was a little bit bigger and more muscular than the other girls and sometimes that doesn't fit.
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Kim Alexis: The clothes didn't fit so well, so I tried to prove that I was an athlete and I ran eight marathons.
23:41
Tiffany Woolley: Amazing, amazing, and it looks like you're keeping that up, that athletic background, right.
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Kim Alexis: Yeah, yeah.
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Kim Alexis: So yeah, fitness is important, wellness was important and it's so.
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Kim Alexis: Some of the other girls are off.
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Kim Alexis: I have one of my girlfriends is in real estate and I have another one who's doing what you do, tiffany, which is interior design, and so we all had our different passions, and so it's nice to see us growing up and maturing.
24:10
Tiffany Woolley: It really is, and continually learning too.
24:14
Tiffany Woolley: Yes, I feel like that is such an important part of growing in our life is to continue to try new things, challenge ourselves and learn Well and I never went to college and.
24:27
Kim Alexis: I loved school, so I am now making up for lost time.
24:32
Kim Alexis: I'm also halfway through a ministry degree, so to me I've been a.
24:36
Tiffany Woolley: Bible study leader.
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Kim Alexis: Yeah, so I just enjoy that aspect and I'd like to have that also.
24:44
Tiffany Woolley: How special actually.
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Tiffany Woolley: So with this shake because it's funny I was telling Scott last night I'm so I'm going to dive even more into that because I feel like kind of the golf community thing was a time in the world and now people are moving into these wellness communities and I've had a lot of clients relocating or empty nesters moving.
25:07
Tiffany Woolley: You know to retirement.
25:09
Tiffany Woolley: They're young, they're like in their mid-50s.
25:11
Tiffany Woolley: You know they had and they are choosing to go to these communities.
25:16
Tiffany Woolley: You know that are centered around health and wellness.
25:21
Tiffany Woolley: You know the interaction with other people coming.
25:24
Tiffany Woolley: You know whether it be a new marriage.
25:26
Tiffany Woolley: It's really like kind of a fresh start.
25:29
Scott Woolley: Yeah, in this area, the company that does it has a lot of these communities.
25:32
Scott Woolley: Gl Homes yeah, there's so many of them.
25:34
Scott Woolley: That has a lot of these communities.
25:35
Scott Woolley: Gl Homes there's so many of them.
25:38
Scott Woolley: There's five houses right now that we're doing that are in these GL Home communities.
25:42
Scott Woolley: That are the 50-plus communities where people are leaving where they've lived, moving here, buying one of these houses and Tiffany's renovating the whole house because it's probably 15 or 20 years old.
25:56
Scott Woolley: But when the clients are coming in here, it's all about health, wellness and pickleball.
26:03
Tiffany Woolley: Yeah, pickleball's a big one.
26:06
Voice Over: I know.
26:07
Scott Woolley: But about the community and the menu you know and the food that they're serving, and that's the conversation people are all looking at.
26:16
Tiffany Woolley: And they're not stopping, they're continuing.
26:18
Tiffany Woolley: The growth is just going right up the coast.
26:21
Kim Alexis: It's like kind of a fascinating niche yeah yeah, well, it's where I think people are understanding the value of a healthy, active lifestyle and socially interconnected with each other, and these communities are, if they're done correctly, offer so much that you may be in that last chapter of your life we don't know how long we're going to live but you want to do it well and you want to feel good, and so keeping with other like-minded people in a community is a neat thing it really is special, yeah these people I mean, they are the, the ones at the shea trilogies are just such great people and they've had such great lives and as
27:08
Kim Alexis: you talked about everybody's got this great history, yep, but they all want the same thing they want to feel good as they're older, they want to celebrate life, they want to celebrate each other and get out there and do different things and there's so many activities and you just feel part of a community and it's that you don't have to live alone or live in the home you had when your kids were there.
27:32
Tiffany Woolley: And now they're all gone, so true, which is such a mindset.
27:36
Tiffany Woolley: So as, like you know, you're in this journey of the fitness and health, what does your daily personal routine look like for health and wellness on my counter.
27:54
Kim Alexis: I did a video on that.
27:56
Kim Alexis: I'm like here's what's going on in my kitchen and my counter, so I've got kombucha tea.
28:01
Kim Alexis: That.
28:01
Voice Over: I have going.
28:02
Kim Alexis: I've got my sourdough yeast starter that I have to keep feeding every day.
28:07
Tiffany Woolley: And mine is completely nuts.
28:10
Kim Alexis: It blows up when I open it.
28:12
Kim Alexis: Oh, that's so funny.
28:13
Kim Alexis: So I'm a big person on having healthy well things in my pantry, all around my counter.
28:23
Kim Alexis: My poor husband, he's just got to deal with all the different things I've got going on.
28:28
Kim Alexis: I've learned how to make shrubs.
28:30
Kim Alexis: I don't know if you know what shrubs are no, no.
28:33
Scott Woolley: What is that?
28:34
Kim Alexis: so shrubs is taking like a mason jar, okay, adding herbs, or I mean I have a rosemary bush that's crazy in my backyard and I've got basil growing in my and thyme growing in my garden and so you shove that in the mason jar.
28:50
Kim Alexis: And then I've got citrus fruit, because we live here in Scottsdale, so right outside my door, and I take citrus fruit and I crush it up and pour the juice in there and then throw the rinds in and then you add red wine, vinegar and sugar so that it starts to ferment and all those flavors start to make an essence.
29:11
Kim Alexis: And after a couple days or weeks whatever you want you just pour out the shrub part, the sticks in the, in the leaves and things, and you're just left with this elixir of a part vinegary part, essence of whatever you just had in there.
29:28
Kim Alexis: So you can add that to.
29:29
Kim Alexis: I don't drink alcohol, but you can add it to alcohol, or you can add it to water or seltzer water, and what does it?
29:35
Scott Woolley: taste.
29:36
Scott Woolley: What does it taste like?
29:37
Scott Woolley: Is it?
29:38
Kim Alexis: well it.
29:38
Kim Alexis: I mean I like using my rosemary and my citrus, so it's got that bit of essence in it oh, it sounds really cool, so my counter is I think for me I'm.
29:50
Kim Alexis: I'm always keeping healthy options in my pantry so that I'm one of those last men I'm not a real, real planner.
29:56
Kim Alexis: So dinner sometimes at four o'clock it's like, hmm, I have this, I can mix it with this and I can put this and that's dinner, and so for me I have to be spontaneous and just have all my little tools around me so that I can create when the mood hits me.
30:13
Kim Alexis: And as far as fitness, I've got got a gym.
30:16
Kim Alexis: I love some of the classes because, as I said, I'm taking my own instructor course, so I want to see what other people are doing, but I'm a big believer in just going out and going for a bike ride for an hour.
30:27
Kim Alexis: I've got a single speed bike.
30:29
Kim Alexis: I don't have a big fancy bike with all the gears because I want to work out.
30:35
Kim Alexis: I don't want to be like efficient and going 25 miles an hour so I stay on the out.
30:38
Kim Alexis: I don't want to be like efficient and going 25 miles an hour on the road.
30:40
Kim Alexis: That scares the heck out of me.
30:40
Kim Alexis: So I stay on the sidewalk and I'm just on my little beach cruiser and chugging along and probably burning more calories than they do.
30:48
Kim Alexis: So that's important to me, just getting.
30:50
Kim Alexis: I walk my dog every day.
30:52
Kim Alexis: I have to get outside, I have to be outside.
30:54
Kim Alexis: It's really important and it's easy here to do in Scottsdale.
30:59
Scott Woolley: Yeah.
31:00
Tiffany Woolley: So are you enjoying living in Scottsdale?
31:03
Kim Alexis: I yes, I love it.
31:05
Tiffany Woolley: Was it a big change for you, coming from South Florida?
31:09
Tiffany Woolley: Well, south Florida, north Florida.
31:11
Kim Alexis: Actually, I actually came from New York City, so I've moved around.
31:16
Kim Alexis: So I met my husband now when I was in Boulder, colorado, and then I moved to New York City and then he and I started dating and I thought I'd rather live here in Scottsdale than in New York City.
31:33
Kim Alexis: So he had been established here, and so now I've got girlfriends and a life and just enjoy being out here.
31:40
Kim Alexis: I do miss my sons, who are back in Florida, so I've got probably this a lot of travel coming up, as my first grandchild is going to be coming in two months.
31:50
Tiffany Woolley: So do we know if it's a girl or a boy?
31:52
Tiffany Woolley: It's a little boy, oh I love it.
31:55
Tiffany Woolley: It's just keeping coming.
31:56
Tiffany Woolley: I know I said it.
31:57
Tiffany Woolley: I know a little boy, oh, I love it, it's just keeping coming.
32:01
Tiffany Woolley: I know I said it, I know You'll just have all my grandsons.
32:03
Scott Woolley: Oh, I don't.
32:04
Scott Woolley: Three sons and a grandson.
32:04
Tiffany Woolley: Well it was funny because my grandmother always she wanted like a grandson too and it took like a lot of them to finally get a grandson.
32:13
Tiffany Woolley: So I pray you'll get.
32:15
Tiffany Woolley: I'm sure you will get there, but it's exciting.
32:18
Scott Woolley: So, with all the things that you're doing and you've done, you've also written a number of books.
32:22
Scott Woolley: Yes, anything new on the horizon.
32:29
Kim Alexis: No, I kind of slowed down from that.
32:31
Kim Alexis: So for a while I was a contributor a wellness contributor with Men's Journal, and so I was writing three articles of 500 words a day for Men's Journal.
32:42
Voice Over: And so I got a little burned out.
32:44
Kim Alexis: Writing.
32:44
Kim Alexis: Yeah, that's a lot.
32:44
Tiffany Woolley: I'm taking a break burned out writing.
32:45
Kim Alexis: Yeah, that's a lot.
32:46
Kim Alexis: I'm taking a break.
32:48
Scott Woolley: You mean your career has really it's been kind of all over the map in terms of all these very interesting things and it's nice that it's all like in the health you know and wellness and taking care of yourself and living longevity and philosophy and faith.
33:05
Tiffany Woolley: I mean you really touch a lot of facets.
33:08
Voice Over: Where did your?
33:09
Tiffany Woolley: faith journeys, you know, come into play and then you decide to.
33:16
Kim Alexis: I grew up a Christian and I went to a church with my mom and my sister.
33:20
Kim Alexis: My dad didn't want to go.
33:21
Kim Alexis: He was a chemical engineer and he felt that we couldn't prove God existed, so he was not going to church.
33:28
Kim Alexis: But I was an elder of my church at 17.
33:32
Kim Alexis: Before I got discovered and went to New York City, they wanted young people's opinions, so I was an elder.
33:37
Kim Alexis: But then I went to New York City and, of course, life happened in tons of different situations and by the time I hit 30, I was struggling in my first marriage and I had hired a young girl who was a Christian and I realized she would live with me in New York City and she was helping take care of my two sons at the time I only had two and just the way she lived her life, I'm like I want what you have.
34:05
Kim Alexis: What is it that you have that?
34:07
Tiffany Woolley: I don't.
34:07
Kim Alexis: So it was Jesus in my heart, and so I asked for that also, and my journey has just been wonderful and life changing.
34:17
Kim Alexis: From that point on, the more you study, I think, the more you learn that it changes your heart and who you are inside it really does, and is that something that you spoke about to your boys as well?
34:29
Kim Alexis: Oh yes.
34:30
Kim Alexis: Oh yes, oh yeah.
34:32
Kim Alexis: I know and I feel like from a very young age one, becoming a parent.
34:36
Tiffany Woolley: It's such a great foundation that you know everything in life is built on.
34:41
Tiffany Woolley: Yes.
34:43
Kim Alexis: Yeah, because he made it all.
34:45
Tiffany Woolley: It's so true In fact, I this year started what catechism in a year I'm like, I listened to so many podcasts I said let me at least do 20 minutes every morning to I'm a Catholic.
34:59
Tiffany Woolley: And on day three it was.
35:02
Tiffany Woolley: It was a whole thing on how, wherever you know there is a design, it was created by him.
35:09
Tiffany Woolley: So wherever it was and I was like, oh, I'm on the right track.
35:12
Tiffany Woolley: It was like a good aha moment for me that you know we were pushing through on the right thing, because wherever there is a thing, it was created and designed by someone.
35:24
Tiffany Woolley: And obviously God created us and this world and this life that we get to you know, conquer and enjoy.
35:34
Kim Alexis: Walking my dog.
35:35
Kim Alexis: I'll look at the beautiful flowers and, believe it or not, Scottsdale, there's tons of beautiful flowers.
35:40
Kim Alexis: Even the cactus bloom once a year, and so I just look at the intricacy of each different flower and it's like, wow, so much work was put into and artistry was put into each little tiny flower.
35:53
Tiffany Woolley: It's true, our God is an awesome God.
35:56
Tiffany Woolley: I mean for the bugs to the flowers, girls, and I say I say to them all the time when they bring something up, I'm like it's just our God is really like everything was thought out with such intention, which goes back to design too.
36:10
Tiffany Woolley: I feel like you know, Except mosquitoes and fire ants.
36:13
Tiffany Woolley: But they all serve a purpose too.
36:16
Kim Alexis: I'm going to ask what that purpose.
36:18
Kim Alexis: I'm sure they feed the bats or something, but do we have to have bats?
36:22
Tiffany Woolley: I know we love to entertain and at our house we have this one friend who the bugs we like are always outside.
36:29
Tiffany Woolley: Nobody has any bug situation and every time she comes over she's got the bugs well is, and that could be because some does.
36:41
Kim Alexis: She drink beer no, no like they.
36:44
Kim Alexis: There's a sweet smell that comes out if people have a lot of sugar or something, and a yeasty smell if they drink beer, and so some people attract way more bugs than others.
36:55
Kim Alexis: It's true, but then there's things you can plant like rosemary and mint, around the doorways or your windows, wherever you feel bugs might be coming in your house, and those are supposed to deter bugs and different things.
37:10
Kim Alexis: So you know, life itself with plants is pretty interesting too.
37:15
Tiffany Woolley: Yes, have you ever done the sprouts?
37:17
Tiffany Woolley: If you're into the, I love sprouts that was another thing.
37:21
Tiffany Woolley: I tried in like 2020, when we were home a lot.
37:26
Scott Woolley: Because, yeah.
37:28
Kim Alexis: Yeah, you have to do that again.
37:29
Kim Alexis: Right, You'll think about it and I was like, oh, I just thought about it.
37:32
Kim Alexis: I was like, oh, I need to bring that back out, Throw it in salads.
37:36
Tiffany Woolley: Right, and they say the broccoli sprouts is a good one too, for everything.
37:41
Kim Alexis: Yeah, broccoli alfalfa.
37:43
Kim Alexis: I love alfalfa.
37:45
Scott Woolley: So you started your career in front of the camera, with people taking photos and being videoed and so forth, and now you're what I notice you're at a point in your life where you're doing so much of it yourself for social media and so forth.
38:00
Scott Woolley: So you seem to be extremely engaged within social media and promoting and promoting health and wellness and so forth.
38:09
Scott Woolley: Do you enjoy that process of you know, videoing yourself and getting messages out and so forth?
38:17
Kim Alexis: Yes.
38:18
Kim Alexis: So I try not to focus too much on me, but what I can give other people to help, either inspire them or help them out.
38:26
Kim Alexis: One thing I won't do is collaborate, so I don't dilute my brand by promoting any product for money.
38:34
Kim Alexis: So everything I do is free and I don't get paid by anyone.
38:40
Kim Alexis: I don't believe in that, because if I'm going to promote something, it's as an ambassador, as an endorser, which I do for Trilogy by Shea Holmes, so I'm not interested in these tiny little.
38:54
Kim Alexis: Oh here, get this little mascara and then I make $10.
38:58
Scott Woolley: Right, no, but I have to tell you, because we've talked about this, the stuff that you're putting out is really good.
39:05
Scott Woolley: It's entertaining.
39:06
Scott Woolley: Well, and it's authentic, it's authentic, it's, it's entertaining, it's authentic, it's interesting and you know, and you say, I think everyone wants to also watch you.
39:14
Scott Woolley: You're a great presenter.
39:18
Kim Alexis: Oh well, thank you, yeah, and I do it all just by myself.
39:22
Kim Alexis: Last week I got kind of got a little irked at a comment, and so once in, once in a while, like you need to turn those off.
39:29
Scott Woolley: You need to just ignore.
39:31
Kim Alexis: No, I respond, and so I did one with absolutely no makeup on natural light, no filters.
39:38
Kim Alexis: I mean, people accuse me of using filters.
39:40
Kim Alexis: I'm like I'm not using filters.
39:42
Kim Alexis: This is just I don't know how to use a filter.
39:44
Kim Alexis: Oops, the cat, just cat, just walked off the couch.
39:46
Tiffany Woolley: I love that.
39:48
Kim Alexis: She's so cute.
39:49
Kim Alexis: Her food is right behind my camera here.
39:53
Scott Woolley: So funny, but do you enjoy that?
39:56
Scott Woolley: The whole social media process?
39:59
Kim Alexis: I do and what's interesting.
40:01
Kim Alexis: I'm not sure what drives me.
40:03
Kim Alexis: I feel I just me.
40:13
Kim Alexis: I feel I just I just want to express who I am and what's on my heart, but that it helps other people or that they're encouraged or inspired.
40:18
Kim Alexis: I don't like the ones that are irked.
40:22
Scott Woolley: You need to just ignore those people, because the stuff you're putting out is very good those people because the stuff you're putting out is very good.
40:32
Kim Alexis: Oh well, thank you.
40:33
Kim Alexis: Yeah, yeah, but I do it.
40:33
Kim Alexis: I believe that when you read people's intentions of why they do what they do like being on this podcast, it's it's not for me to make myself better, it's to help other people and inspire other people and help.
40:48
Kim Alexis: I've been through so much and I've learned so much that, yeah, it's my responsibility.
40:54
Kim Alexis: I mean, I'm a very big believer.
40:56
Kim Alexis: To much is given, much is required.
40:58
Kim Alexis: I say that all the time, and so I'm giving back and paying forward of what I've learned and maybe it can inspire other people, but I don't do it for monetary gain.
41:07
Kim Alexis: It can inspire other people, but I don't do it for monetary gain.
41:12
Kim Alexis: I do it just because it's on my mind and in my heart and I spit it out, do you?
41:14
Scott Woolley: but I don't think it comes across in any way like that is a monetary gain whatsoever now you're coming, you come across very naturally and I have to say that Shea Holmes should be extremely happy that they have you as an ambassador.
41:27
Kim Alexis: They are they are, and they're I mean every single person I've met that works at those company the company itself either, whether it's Shea or Blue Star, which handles their clubs and their golf clubs such nice people, I mean just kind, nice, caring people, and it's so great to work in that environment and to be respected for what I do and just to be able to contribute and help the members.
41:55
Kim Alexis: So tomorrow I'm flying to Vegas.
41:57
Kim Alexis: There's an opening of a new club and so it's fun to just go see new members who are just signing their first house deal and moving into this community and they don't know what they're going to expect.
42:08
Kim Alexis: Wow, it's so neat to meet these people and realize that they've made such a good investment in their future.
42:16
Kim Alexis: You know that they're with like-minded people that are kind and generous and caring, and so it's been wonderful.
42:25
Tiffany Woolley: And they're embarking on an exciting next chapter.
42:28
Kim Alexis: Exactly.
42:30
Tiffany Woolley: So when you're working on your social media, for example, do you like have a game plan set out at all or do you make like okay, you know like obviously are you doing content as the people?
42:43
Voice Over: say Scheduling, you mean Scheduling and yeah, so.
42:48
Kim Alexis: I hire people that, um, I I spit out what video.
42:53
Kim Alexis: I do so for me, and there's a bunch of stuff rolling around in my head right now that I want to spit out and so I get behind me is our prompter.
43:04
Kim Alexis: So we do have a teleprompter, which I love, and we just got that um, so I could do longer scripts.
43:10
Kim Alexis: If I'm going to dive into, let's say, magnesium as a supplement and what does it do for you, and it might be a three, four minute long video that I don't want to memorize by just yeah talk or memorize and kind of spitting it out.
43:25
Kim Alexis: So, um, we do have prompter capability, but a lot of my stuff is short and sweet and, again, I'm not there to sell a product but to just tickle you with an idea that maybe this will help your life, or maybe you should look into this, or maybe you should avoid cleaning your house with, you know, certain toxins, and there's just so much that's out there.
43:48
Kim Alexis: And so, depending on where I'm at in my, if I'm around the house for a long time and and my husband's not around, I will spit out a bunch of videos, a different bunch of different videos, and it's almost like it's it's stirring up in my, in my insides, and I have to spit it out, spit it out, you have to get it out.
44:08
Kim Alexis: Yeah, and so once I spit it out.
44:10
Kim Alexis: So I've done the lighting, I've done the script, I've done the filming.
44:13
Tiffany Woolley: You might as well do a few more, then I give it to my people to edit.
44:17
Kim Alexis: And so they edit and they put it in a file of a group of different ones, and we spit one out every day.
44:29
Tiffany Woolley: And do you primarily?
44:30
Voice Over: stay on Instagram or do you do other, I guess.
44:31
Scott Woolley: I'm on Instagram, she's on LinkedIn, she's on a number of different platforms.
44:36
Kim Alexis: I'm on.
44:36
Scott Woolley: TikTok, LinkedIn.
44:37
Scott Woolley: Right, so you do.
44:38
Tiffany Woolley: TikTok.
44:39
Tiffany Woolley: God bless, that's where my kids are and I'm like I get stuck in an old school.
44:45
Tiffany Woolley: I figure one out and I stay there.
44:48
Kim Alexis: Well, Tiffany's just an instagram person well, I'm more visual yeah yeah, well, yeah, and they each have their own platform and following and yeah, and then trying to keep up some videos immediately get tons of of comments, and so you try and stay on top of that and others are oh, that one didn't do so well so are you personally responding back on all of these, the content you're putting out?
45:16
Kim Alexis: I do on LinkedIn, facebook and Instagram.
45:20
Kim Alexis: I have someone that does TikTok for me.
45:23
Kim Alexis: What else do I do?
45:24
Kim Alexis: I guess that's probably it.
45:26
Scott Woolley: You are very busy, really busy, but they guess that's probably it.
45:29
Tiffany Woolley: You are very busy.
45:29
Scott Woolley: I know really busy.
45:31
Tiffany Woolley: But they say that's so healthy it is.
45:33
Tiffany Woolley: They say it's so healthy for our minds to stay active and stay connected and always be learning.
45:39
Tiffany Woolley: Yes, it's a huge.
45:43
Kim Alexis: If I'm not learning, I'm researching or reading an article.
45:47
Kim Alexis: I you know that's.
45:48
Kim Alexis: What's good for me about email and newsletters is that you get ones that are important to you and the research and learning and wow, I never thought about that Like there's ones on mouthwash and how the health of your teeth affects your gut health, and I'm like, oh okay.
46:08
Tiffany Woolley: I know, have you started doing the tongue scraping?
46:12
Kim Alexis: No, no, I do the oil pulling, but not the tongue scraping yeah the pulling.
46:16
Tiffany Woolley: I haven't done that one yet, but I've heard of that one.
46:19
Kim Alexis: I know there's just so many, yeah, yeah.
46:22
Kim Alexis: So tip on that one.
46:23
Kim Alexis: If you're using coconut oil and you swish your mouth, you can go from like five minutes to 20 minutes, but when you spit it out, spit it out in the garbage, not in your sink, because sometimes it can clog the sink.
46:35
Tiffany Woolley: That's so crazy.
46:36
Tiffany Woolley: Okay, we got to try that one.
46:40
Tiffany Woolley: So what's your ultimate message for women designing their best life, especially in a second act or possibly even a third act?
46:57
Kim Alexis: I'm a big believer in prevention and so anticipating things, trying to maintain what you've got.
46:59
Kim Alexis: And I'm a big believer in encouraging, because if you're despondent, you can have all the information in the world, but you don't have that move to do something about it.
47:09
Kim Alexis: And so I love trying to pull people into what I'm doing or what I believe, and encouraging them along the way.
47:17
Kim Alexis: It's about what's good for them.
47:19
Kim Alexis: It's not about what's good for me, unless it's what I've learned, and so that kind of that mindset of how I deliver I think is important.
47:30
Kim Alexis: It's not like, oh honey, I'm perfect and this is my perfect life and you don't have it and you never will, right?
47:37
Kim Alexis: No, it's more like this is what I'm learning and maybe this will help you, and so that's much more important to me and that's the intent behind everything I do.
47:47
Kim Alexis: So I hope that comes through.
47:49
Tiffany Woolley: No, I think it's great.
47:50
Tiffany Woolley: I love how you stay relevant and you know authentic.
47:57
Kim Alexis: I'm just glad wellness and health is relevant.
47:59
Tiffany Woolley: Isn't it?
48:00
Tiffany Woolley: I agree, and it's wonderful for me, even as a mom of young girls, like they're so aware and you know so much more.
48:09
Tiffany Woolley: I mean they never drink soda or eat junk, or I mean they're very in tune with it, and I'm just so grateful that they make healthy choices, our three girls follow Tiffany because Tiffany works out for an hour and a half every morning.
48:26
Scott Woolley: She does her three miles every day and you know just what we have in our house food-wise they're very clean.
48:32
Scott Woolley: I do the grocery shopping.
48:34
Scott Woolley: Wow yeah, because before you knew me with you know Five Star, I had a whole chain of grocery stores.
48:43
Scott Woolley: So I still do the grocery shopping.
48:46
Scott Woolley: But when our girls go with me they're all about dad.
48:53
Scott Woolley: We can't get that.
48:53
Scott Woolley: Don't get that, dad, you can't get that.
48:55
Tiffany Woolley: It's all about health they're very in tune, very aware and that's what cracks me up about social media, and they're juicing every morning before I take them off to school oh, I love it.
49:06
Tiffany Woolley: I say they're in a good algorithm because whenever they're getting you know, we kept them off social media as long as possible, but you know now that they're in it.
49:18
Tiffany Woolley: They're definitely in a good algorithm because they will share tips constantly to what they're learning and hearing, and asking questions things that I truly never even thought of.
49:30
Kim Alexis: Yeah, I love it, though.
49:31
Kim Alexis: That's what's so cool is that we've helped inspire these younger kids, and some, I think, don't grow up with any junk food, so they don't need to healthy substitute.
49:45
Kim Alexis: We kind of grew up with junk food, not knowing it was junk food Right and so now we need to find healthier alternatives, and so one of the books that I wrote was called Cheat Eat, and it's how to take a recipe.
50:00
Kim Alexis: So I love chocolate chip cookies.
50:03
Tiffany Woolley: You have a cheat for that.
50:06
Kim Alexis: Yes, well, you can use chickpeas or you can use different flours.
50:11
Kim Alexis: So, depending on what you're looking for, whether you're trying to be flourless, or if you're trying to watch your sugar, or which type of fats you put in your cookies.
50:22
Scott Woolley: So if you want to watch your sugar, what would you recommend?
50:26
Kim Alexis: Monk fruit or there's date sugar yeah, those don't really raise your yeah, they don't raise your insulin levels.
50:35
Kim Alexis: So, um, those two are ones.
50:38
Kim Alexis: I use stevia also, but each one of those you have to watch if it's super processed and so some of them are processed a little bit better than others.
50:46
Kim Alexis: The less processed anything is from its natural way is better, so you can have an ultra-processed monk fruit.
50:54
Kim Alexis: That would not be good for you.
50:55
Kim Alexis: Maybe it would be better to have raw cane sugar.
50:58
Kim Alexis: So it gets very in-depth, depending on what you're looking to accomplish or substitute, or substitute.
51:06
Kim Alexis: Some people can't have eggs, so you can use flax meal or chia seeds and make eggs or applesauce for a recipe instead of eggs.
51:15
Tiffany Woolley: That's cool.
51:15
Tiffany Woolley: Actually, chia seeds is a cool option.
51:19
Kim Alexis: Yeah, you just mix in a little bowl and mix it with water and it gets gooey.
51:23
Kim Alexis: Yeah, that's so brilliant.
51:25
Tiffany Woolley: I didn't even think of something like that.
51:26
Tiffany Woolley: There is so many tricks now too, and you're right, our girls really don't think of supplementing, they're just constantly aware.
51:36
Scott Woolley: Well, our middle girl is completely anything processed, can't be in the house.
51:40
Scott Woolley: She's like so much about non-process.
51:43
Kim Alexis: She's your police.
51:44
Tiffany Woolley: She is, she's an authority on a lot of things.
51:49
Kim Alexis: What is this doing in the pantry Pretty?
51:52
Scott Woolley: much.
51:53
Tiffany Woolley: Pretty much.
51:54
Scott Woolley: What are you cooking for dinner, dad?
51:55
Scott Woolley: Why can't there?
51:56
Tiffany Woolley: be a vegetable.
51:57
Tiffany Woolley: Yeah, we're in the thick of it.
52:00
Tiffany Woolley: Good, it's so true.
52:04
Tiffany Woolley: Yeah, and it's neat when they teach us.
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Scott Woolley: We like to wrap up our podcast by always asking one or two questions having to do with design and kind of things that have come across your life.
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Tiffany Woolley: Especially with all your travels and your but one is which is your favorite hotel to visit?
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Scott Woolley: From a design standpoint.
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Tiffany Woolley: And design could be a feeling too.
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Kim Alexis: Interesting.
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Kim Alexis: I don't know the answer to that.
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Kim Alexis: The first thing that comes to my mind was the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow which was neat.
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Kim Alexis: But it wasn't that it was so much a design, it was that it was like a beautiful safe place in a weird city that I didn't know much about right, and so it was like home base.
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Tiffany Woolley: I'm very much a home body, so I enjoyed what a cool that's on my bucket list is moscow yeah, yeah, it's a cool place to be.
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Kim Alexis: So what about a restaurant?
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Scott Woolley: Is there a restaurant that, from a design standpoint, or you walked in and go wow, this is unusual, this is unique, or the food is designed.
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Kim Alexis: Yeah, so we've got such great restaurants in Scottsdale.
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Kim Alexis: I mean I can't tell you Between golf courses and restaurants we've you don't need to go anywhere.
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Tiffany Woolley: There's a restaurant that I love in Scottsdale Oceans.
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Kim Alexis: Yes, ocean 44.
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Kim Alexis: That's what I was going to actually say.
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Scott Woolley: Oh wow, they have the best season salad.
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Kim Alexis: Yes, I love that.
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Kim Alexis: Yeah, so, yep, that would be one here in Scottsdale that I definitely love.
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Kim Alexis: But there's tons, I mean, and it depends there's farm-to-table ones, there's, I mean, just so many options.
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Scott Woolley: So, for our audience, who's listening to this or watching this podcast, what are some of the social channels that people can follow you on?
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Kim Alexis: I'm on on instagram.
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Kim Alexis: The underscore kim alexis facebook is the kim alexis um tiktok.
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Kim Alexis: I think is the kim alexis.
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Kim Alexis: Someone took my name so I had to put a the in front of it.
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Scott Woolley: That's so funny they took your name really and you couldn't get it back, or couldn't?
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Kim Alexis: I've got it from my website and so.
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Kim Alexis: I've gotten every kimalexiscomus right.
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Kim Alexis: Right, you know you pay just to keep them.
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Scott Woolley: I know we did that for our kids yeah, when they were born I went and got the URLs for them and and so forth how cute is that?
54:45
Tiffany Woolley: isn't that funny?
54:45
Tiffany Woolley: Well like, because we really are our own brands now.
54:49
Tiffany Woolley: It's just crazy.
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Kim Alexis: Yeah, interesting.
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Kim Alexis: I'm going to do that for my grandson.
54:54
Tiffany Woolley: That's a great gift.
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Tiffany Woolley: You know your son will be impressed.
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Tiffany Woolley: Well, you got to see if it's available first.
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Scott Woolley: But you know the dot com he's got an unusual name already.
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Kim Alexis: So my grandson, his, my son Noah.
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Kim Alexis: His father was a New York Ranger hockey player.
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Scott Woolley: Yep.
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Kim Alexis: So yeah, so our grandson's going to be Ranger.
55:19
Tiffany Woolley: That's adorable oh really.
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Tiffany Woolley: I love that name actually.
55:23
Tiffany Woolley: Yeah, yeah, I love it.
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Kim Alexis: So Kind of unusual, that's a good name, very cute.
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Kim Alexis: I love it.
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Kim Alexis: Kind of unusual, that's a good name.
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Kim Alexis: It's very cute.
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Kim Alexis: I always told Tiffany He'll grow into that one too.
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Voice Over: It's adorable when you're little.
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Tiffany Woolley: And it's so.
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Tiffany Woolley: It's like handsome too.
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Scott Woolley: I always said to Tiffany if we had a boy, I wanted to name him Senator.
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Scott Woolley: So when he grew up and he went to a restaurant he would say what's your name?
55:48
Tiffany Woolley: That's why God didn't give us any boys.
55:51
Kim Alexis: Yeah, or governor yeah.
55:56
Scott Woolley: Well, we really appreciate you joining us today.
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Scott Woolley: Thank you so much for your time.
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Scott Woolley: It was great seeing you.
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Tiffany Woolley: It was Wonderful to catch up.
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Scott Woolley: Yes, thanks for having me, and we're going to continue to follow you and support you on your social channels.
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Scott Woolley: We do like watching your stuff that you put up.
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Tiffany Woolley: Oh good, Thank you.
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Tiffany Woolley: Have a great trip to Vegas.
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Scott Woolley: I know, Travel safe.
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Kim Alexis: I will Bye-bye, thank you.
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