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Meet Kim Louise
Hi. I am Kim Louise.
Being a writer and storyteller, I thought the best way for you to get to know me, is to share with you a few pieces of my current book I am writing.
I believe it is important to share our stories, as you never know when someone may be stuck in life, or may need a little bit of hope, and inspiration to lift their spirit. See you on the other side!
Kim Louise
The Teenage Entrepreneur
I was 13 years old at the time, when our family moved from Burnaby, B.C., to our new home on a 130 ranch, located in 100 Mile House, B.C. I rode my horse in the summer, or my skidoo in the winter, to the bus drivers house, a couple of miles down the road. Our school was a 10 mile drive, into town.
Back then I was given a family allowance. It was not enough for me, as I wanted to buy presents for everyone. One Saturday morning, I had a brain-storm, idea! I could babysit my neighbours kids! Excited, I saddled up my horse, Gidget, with a goal to win over 2 customers. However, when one neighbour saw me riding Gidget on to their property, they asked me, instead, "Can you look after our horses and animals while we are away on vacation?" Of course I said YES! Word got out to the other ranchers about my services as a home and pet sitter. The rest is history!
I continued my pet sitting business after I graduated, with a change over to domestic dogs and cats. Part of my gift to my clients was cleaning their homes for their return, which eventually they hired me full time, leading to an executive cleaning business. This early life, entrepreneurial experience, kept food on the table, and rent paid, while I figured out what I wanted to do with my life.
Creativity Blossoms
It only takes one person to change your life forever. One Friday afternoon, I was cleaning a house for one of my elite clients. It happened to be her 60th birthday that day. I decided to restyle her whole house, for her surprise birthday gift. I had 8 hours to do my magic before she came home from work. My client was so elated when she walked through the door, she rang up her neighbours and invited them over to see her re-designed home. Yes! Once again, the rest is history!
I freelanced under the name, "Display & Design" to get my feet wet, while I took a retail management position in the fashion industry, eventually moving over to work for The Bay department store, as their 'visual presentation specialist', in charge of store merchandising, and window display.
I worked my freelance business on weekends and nights, doing still photography styling for stock photography magazines with photographer, Tony Hurely. I also decorated Christmas parties, trade show booths for consumer product displays, to exclusive flower designs for weddings, to landing a 2-year contract with a modeling agency, and then turning around and becoming a petite model myself. This training led me to teach modeling and design fashion shows for runway, and tearoom shows.
Bluffed My Way To Fame
One job I was called on was located at the Bay Shore Marina, in Vancouver, B.C. The client wanted to sell their boat and asked if I could make it look pretty. At the same time, I had just restyled our home for resale, which magically sold on the first showing.
The realtor asked if I did home staging for a living, A shock wave went through me. I bluffed and said, "Yes, but I ran out of business cards." He gave me his card and told me to meet him at his office in a week and he would refer me lots of work. I went along with it. Every once in awhile a bluff is okay, if it means opportunity is knocking! I immediately collapsed, Display & Design, and THE SPACE STAGER was born.
I had no idea what I was doing! I just put on my bold hat, and had faith in my design ability, I knew I could do it. The realtor wasn't bluffing, I became so busy, two years later I ended up on the front page of West Coast Homes and other newspapers.
I enjoyed my newspaper fame, while it lasted, However, unexpectedly, adversity would come knocking at my door. Life would never be the same.
Adversity Hits Hard
Around this time, my sibling and I had been losing family members, to cancer; mostly through our late 20's to late 3o's. It was the combination of my stepfather passing, and then two years later, my mother passed to cancer, a day before her 59th birthday, when something felt suspicious. Why did my family all die of the same disease, yet in different organs? A majority of my family were around the 60-age-bracket.
I drove eight hours in a blizzard-of-a-storm, to visit my mother's body. I arrived at 10:00 pm, at the Williams Lake, hospital. I was shaking profusely, as I asked to see my mother. The administration said no, it was too late. Right at that moment, a woman came from behind and grabbed my arm, and took me down the hall to a room. Five minutes later my mother was rolled into the room. I was given an hour to be with her. Little did I know this angel was the person who was with mom, when she passed.
It was hard to look at my mother, as she was 95lbs, with a hole in her neck from smoking too much. I was horrified to think of what type of pain she was carrying to do this to herself. I sat quietly and held her hand. All of sudden the room became calm. I remised about our life together. It was the most beautiful experience. She was now with her siblings. She didn't have to suffer anymore.
As I left the hospital that evening, tired from driving, and frozen with grief, I surveyed through my mind, our families lifestyle history through our generations. Smokers, drinkers, fast food. processed-boxed and canned food, hair dye, plastics, and floor to ceiling toxic chemicals, were prominent; the same thing I was witnessing in my clients homes. Not to mention, my family was very talented. Yet, there was a lot of self-sabotage going on. Sadly, many of my family died with their music still in them.
Meeting My Life Purpose
At 38 years old, and already, 11 family members lost to cancer, this was the kick start that became my life-long-purpose. I have never looked back. My mission was to learn all I could about one's life purpose, and how to live a healthy lifestyle, and then marry the two, to not only help myself, but also help my clients live healthy.
I wasted no time in getting rid of all the toxic chemicals in my home, all my sundry items, and the junk food in my fridge. Step by step, as I routinely built my healthy habits towards living a natural lifestyle, wise teachers appeared out of the wood-work, to help me advance my knowledge. All synchronistic encounters.
One example. Attending a health seminar, I was unaware that I had sat myself down beside the editor of Alive Magazine. (Alive Magazine was the first Canadian pioneer, preventative health magazine). This chance meeting, led to writing for Alive magazine and several other health magazines.
I furthered my training and became a Holistic Nutritionist, Feng Shui Interior Designer, and a Numerologist. Years later, I would became a published book author, and founded Easterbrook Publications.
Adversity Hits - Full Throttle
I was feeling on top of the world, and then out of nowhere, life threw another curveball. Adversity hit full throttle, this time.
Over a 7-year span, I lost my husband, my father, my father-in-law, my mother-in-law, my sister-in-law, my brother-in-law, and my bestie, friend, all to cancer.
Although death is one of the hardest adversities, any person can go through, not to mention the effects that it can have on our spirit, health, mind, and body, there are always gifts and blessings that arise out of these, tragic, life circumstances.
Grief doesn't always have to look like death. Grief can take many forms; through the loss of a divorce, the loss of a job, the loss of a friendship, a breakup, even the loss of a pet, or selling one's home.
At some point though, we have to enter back into life, and go after our dreams and happiness, and find a new purpose for living. Our loved ones and friends would want that. Although I stepped away from life for some time, even rented a cottage along the way, so I could grieve and start this book, the hardest part of losing more of my family members and bestie, is, I lost myself in the process. I had to learn to reinvent myself in a brand new way.
A Brand New Start
Strength within myself, I never knew I had, helped me to make a bold decision to move to a new town and reinvent my life, with a fresh new landscape by the ocean. The old me had left the building, and a new me was blossoming. This time around, I had much more wisdom, life experience and compassion to be of greater service to my current, and future clients.
I hope by sharing parts of my story, you can see why I do what I do. This is not just a job for me. This is my passion, and my life purpose to work with you as your personal Lifestyle Designer, Feng Shui Consultant, and Numerology Coach, to help you Design Your Best Life, so you can Live Your Best You!
Whether you are looking for more purpose in your life, or need guidance on life issues, or your stressed and don't know why, or your feeling stuck and the energy feels off in your home or office space, and you are in need of a "Feng Shui Facelift", I would love to help you bring more purpose, energy flow, balance, and harmony back into your life.
Book a strategy call with me below, and lets have a chat about your current needs. I look forward to meeting you!
Warmly, Kim Louise
