Feature: Voyage LA Magazine.

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kimberly Lewis.

Kimberly, please share your story with us. How did you get to where you are today?
I always thought I knew who I was and what I wanted. As I get older I realize I never had a clue, truly. I grew up in the church, a preacher’s kid, and kind of became burnt out on church very early on in life. I spent my childhood in a perpetual state of loneliness and rejection. I never could really figure out what it was that I was purposed to do. I had temporary desires that I tried to make long term but I could never really finish anything that I started and if I did finish it was a drag to the finish line. I was never able to find fulfillment in any one skill, talent, or passion. I didn’t feel purposed in anything I was doing. Nothing had meaning.

I grew up in the small country town of Jasper, TX and always knew I wanted to move to the city. So as soon as high school was over I left and moved to Austin, TX and attended the University of Texas at Austin. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do at all. Getting this college degree was not fueled by passion or desire, it was just something I needed to complete and it was a drag to the degree, honestly. Being transparent, I actually walked the stage a year and a half before I got the degree. Upon Graduation, I got a really great job but felt empty in it and unfulfilled in it. I couldn’t commit myself to something I hated so much and I lacked the wisdom to know that I needed to persevere through things that I did not want to do in order to grow, I never wanted to go through a process. I didn’t recognize that the process was necessary. I quit the job and uprooted my life from Austin to Dallas and started a business, which also fizzled out.