Life & Leadership with Kim Williams
For C-Suite leaders who seek to serve others without sacrificing themselves.
Kim Williams
Show overview
Life & Leadership with Kim Williams has been publishing since 2022, and across the 4 years since has built a catalogue of 107 episodes, alongside 1 trailer or bonus episode. That works out to roughly 35 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence, with the show now in its 3rd season.
Episodes typically run twenty to thirty-five minutes — most land between 17 min and 24 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Business show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 31 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 38 episodes published. Published by Kim Williams.
From the publisher
Kim Williams is a multi-faceted woman. She is an introvert who loves to write and podcast. A happy wife of 28 years to her husband and best friend, Rawleigh, and the proud mom of her three accomplished children, Rawleigh III, Brian, and Alyssa. Professionally, Kim is a nonprofit CEO and executive coach with over 30 years of leadership experience. She's raised nearly $50 million dollars to fight poverty and homelessness in Dallas as CEO of Interfaith Family Services while simultaneously running Kim Williams Consulting, an executive coaching and consulting firm that specializes in change management for nonprofits. She is a two time-finalist for CEO of the year and her organization is the local outcomes leader in its field. Kim is also a woman who has battled insecurity, self-doubt, and high levels of stress for many years. She understands what is like to be a woman whose public persona does not always match her personal struggles. She shares how she overcame insecurity and found the power and peace of authentic leadership in her book, Diary of An Insecure CEO. Kim created the Life and Leadership with Kim Williams to share her stories and strategies to help you to successfully serve others without sacrificing yourself. While anyone can listen, learn, and be inspired by this podcast, it is specifically designed for leaders who work in the nonprofit and ministry sectors. We spend our days valiantly serving others while secretly struggling not to sacrifice ourselves, our happiness, physical health, and mental health in the process. Kim believes our situation is unique and our voices deserve to be heard in a safe space that is curated especially for us. That space is Life & Leadership with Kim Williams!
Latest Episodes
View all 107 episodesEpisode 105 | Warning About the 2027 Nonprofit Workforce Shake-up
Episode 104 | 5 Ways to Ensure Your Staff Survives Fall Fundraising
Episode 103 | 4 Ways to Prepare for the Fall Fundraising Push
Episode 102 | Your Mid-Year Reset Questions, Answered
Episode 101 | Leading Change Without Losing Your Team
Episode 100 | How to Face the Inevitable Budget Deficit
Episode 99 | Take One Action Today to Win at Year-End
Episode 98 | The Programs That Changed Everything: The Power of Engaged Giving
Episode 97 | From $20,000 to Six Figures: What North Texas Giving Day Taught Me About Community Trust
Episode 96 | Stop Asking Donors to Fund Growth. Ask Them to Fund Excellence.
Episode 95 | The Funding Cliff Is Real: How Help Your Nonprofit Avoid It
Episode 94 | How to Evaluate the Leadership Team You Inherit
Episode 93 | Everyone Said They Wanted Change…Until Change Actually Started
Episode 92 | Are You Ready for the 2030 Nonprofit Leadership Gap
Episode 91 | 4 Surprises Most New Nonprofit Leaders Face That No One Talks About Beforehand
Episode 90 | Crossover with Amplified Houston! The Women's Edition
Episode 89 | The Real Risks of Nonprofit Leadership Transitions
Episode 88 | Navigating Organizational Culture as a New CEO
Episode 87 | How to Talk About Hard Things Without Hurting Your Leadership Brand
S3 Ep 86Episode 86: How to Know When to Get Involved and When to Remain Silent
How to Know When to Get Involved and When to Remain SilentCourageous leaders are often the ones everyone looks to when something hard needs to be said. Over time, their colleagues’ frustrations can quietly become their battles, their voice, and their risk. In this episode of Life & Leadership with Kim Williams, Kim explores the discipline courageous leaders must develop: knowing when to fight and when not to fight.Drawing from her own leadership journey, Kim shares how she learned to recognize when people were trying to “borrow” her courage, and why wise leaders protect their courage like a superpower instead of using it everywhere, for everyone, all the time. She offers three practical strategies: discerning when a battle is truly yours, guarding your unique leadership strengths from overuse, and choosing only the battles that align with your mission and the people you are called to serve.If you have ever felt pressured to speak up for everyone else, or found yourself carrying conflicts that were never really yours, this episode will help you lead with courage and discernment—without setting yourself on fire to keep others warm.