E130: What If It Does? The Mindset Shift That Changes Everything

In this Founder’s Journal episode, Kimberly Houston shares an unplanned but powerful reflection on a belief that has shaped her life over the past several years: What if it does?

In a world filled with constant noise, breaking news, social media pressure, and endless distractions, it’s easy to begin doubting whether your effort, dreams, or vision even matter. But Kimberly challenges that narrative and offers a different path—one rooted in intentional thinking, emotional boundaries, and radical belief in what’s possible.

She talks about stepping away from the chaos of social media, becoming more intentional about what she consumes, and learning to pour into herself with the same energy she gives to others. Kimberly also shares a powerful perspective shift that transformed how she approaches other people’s problems, emotional energy, and the role she plays as a coach and leader.

Most importantly, this episode explores the mindset that has shaped how her children—and now she—move through the world: the belief that things are always working out in their favor.

If you’ve been questioning your path, feeling overwhelmed by the noise of the world, or wondering whether your dreams are even possible anymore, this conversation is your reminder that you always have the power to change your perspective.

Because sometimes the most powerful question you can ask yourself is simple:

What if it does work out?

Transcript

Kimberly Houston (00:01.326)
Hello friends and welcome back to this Founders Journal episode. So one of the things that has been super, super crazy heavy on my heart is the mantra that I developed for myself several years ago of what if it does? One of the things that I am realizing with the energy of the world, with the state of the world, with all the things that are happening is that people are doubting themselves more than ever. People are questioning whether or not the effort

that they're putting into their lives even matters. And have a couple of thoughts on that. So this is just off the dome. I didn't really plan this particular episode, but it's been eating away at me for a minute. And it just feels like I needed to get this out. So here we go. Number one, the things that we are being forced to...

involve ourselves in. The amount of news, the amount of chaos, the amount of breaking reports, the amount of unprecedented things happening in the world, it's all by design. It's all by design. It's on purpose. It's on purpose. And I want to present to you a new option. And that is stop watching it. Stop watching it. I...

for the past couple of months, this is month three of the year, right? So for the past couple of months, I have been...

removing myself from social media platforms. I used to be on social media all the time and now I'm not. I don't even really post on social media too much anymore because it's not social. It is media, but one, it wasn't growing my business and two, it wasn't allowing me any space to feel peaceful. And so as I...

Kimberly Houston (02:02.894)
began to do it less, I checked it less. The thing that I did do was whenever I am on, and it's not a lot, whenever I am on, I will type into the search bar what I'm looking for. I don't let it give me things. I don't let it tell me what I'm going to watch. I very intentionally seek out certain things. So depending on how I'm feeling, like I'll ask myself, why do you need to be scrolling social media right now? And it may be that...

I may be feeling anxious and so I will literally type in ways to overcome anxiety, grounding meditations, how to become grounded. I'm looking for the solution to whatever is happening inside of me. If I want to be entertained, I figure out how I want to be entertained. I know that there's a select few things that will give me that little dopamine hit, so cute babies.

sharing things back and forth with my kids. So my youngest loves animals. So I might find cute puppy videos to send to them, but it's very intentional. And I'm not just letting it show me things, right? Like I'm looking for things and even all the people in my life who send me things on social media, they do the same thing, right? Like they don't send me things that aren't within the things that I want to look at, right? Like.

If you send me something via Instagram DM and it's not something that aligns with my values, I don't respond. Like I literally just won't respond. I'll leave you on read. If you send me something that does align with my values, then like I'm going to respond to you. And so that in itself is showing people, um, she never responds to me because you're not sending me things that are in alignment with my life. And so I'm not going to be involved in this. I'm not going to explain that to you. You're an adult. You can figure that out. Right. And I want you to adapt that policy for yourself.

This also helps you stop people pleasing. You don't have to respond to people. There was a time back in the day, back in the analog days before the internet existed, before we walked around with these computer screens in our pockets where you had to talk to your friends at school. You had to write letters. You had to wait for a response. It's okay if you are not instantly available to people. Okay, so that's the first thing. The second thing is I...

Kimberly Houston (04:21.238)
began pouring into me in the way I was pouring into others. So as a coach, I am constantly pouring into other people all the time, literally all the time. One of the things that I learned when I was working on my second master's in transformational leadership and coaching was how to be able to pour into other people without emptying myself.

And so, you know, it's essentially is that people get the overflow and yes, that works, but also very strategically, other people's problems are not my responsibility to fix. had an Olivia Pope complex, right? Like I'm a fix everything. And I had to get to the point of understanding that just because I'm fixing it, does it mean I have to take on the emotional toll of the

If I can make this simple, my daughter had a computer issue a couple of weeks ago. That was emotionally charging for my child, but it wasn't for me, nor was it emotionally charged for the people I took it to to fix it, right? They took it, they assessed it, they told me what was wrong, they ordered the part, they fixed it, we got it back.

The only person who dealt with the emotional weight of that was my child. It wasn't me and it wasn't the person who fixed it. And so that is now how I live my life. I used to take on the emotional weight of everyone else's problems as opposed to now I ask you the question, do you want me to fix this or do you want me to listen? Because sometimes people don't want you to fix their problems. Right? And so that became another thing. Now,

How does this go back to where we started with this?

Kimberly Houston (06:20.36)
You can have whatever reality you want by changing your thought process. The world that I live in, the world that the other people in my home live in, even though we all live in the same house, all of our realities are different. All of our life views are different. And the thing we have to know and understand is, that

the things that I want to be available to me are available to me. One of my friends made a statement to me last week that she loves that my children believe, and I mean, this is a hardcore belief that everything works out for them, and it does. They believe, number one, they don't have to work hard for anything, and number two, that whatever they want, if it is in alignment with the timeline of their high is good, it will happen.

And they don't have to do a whole lot to make that happen. This is a belief. And it is very much so. Of course it did. Of course this worked out. Of course I got this gig. Of course I'm going to another country. Of course I'm doing this. Of course, of course, of course. And how do you get there? That's a mindset shift, okay? The fact that my two 20-somethings walk around this earth and they're like, of course, this is available to me.

Of course it is. Do they have time to they doubt themselves? Of course we all do. But inherently the belief that they have inside of them is I can have whatever I want because in the timeline of my high is good. These things have already happened. These are things that I had to go through in order to get to the next version I'm becoming. Now they had me as their mother, which means they had this level of belief implanted in them much younger.

than their mother did. I didn't get these beliefs until five years ago, right? But that means that during their formative years, these were beliefs that were offered to them. And so what I am offering to you is the thought and the idea that at any point you can change your mind, at any point you can decide that solutions are available to you, that opportunities are abundant for you, that you can have

Kimberly Houston (08:42.89)
anything you want with ease. That anything that causes you friction in your life can be removed without hurting you. That anything that is in your life that is not a part of the timeline of your highest good will dissolve and you won't even miss it. These are beliefs. These are mantras. These are sayings. These are knowings that you can develop for yourself.

If you feel like that's too big, then you can just borrow my belief in you. And you can say, well, CCK says I can have this, I will have this. And that in the timeline of my highest good, there's infinite abundance. That of course this happened for me. That it was only crazy until it happened. That whatever my thoughts, my hopes, my dreams are, because the seed was planted inside of me, then I am the person who can bring it forward.

even if it's never happened for anybody else, I am uniquely qualified, designed, and available to do it. Those are things that are available to you. Those are things that can happen for you. And you have to simply accept it, believe it, be available to understanding that you can have anything.

in your life.