Hi, I’m Kimberly Sheridan, the Founder of Fueled By Soul, LLC.

I coach passion-motivated, purpose-fueled women to embrace their true nature as the path to happiness, fulfillment and meaning. I’m passionate about helping women reclaim their authentic self & express their unique voice in the world.

There is one truth I believe more than anything else and that is that the path to happiness is being true to yourself.

When you fully embrace who you truly are and follow your heart, you will be happier & make your most meaningful contributions to the world.

I discovered this truth when I was 22, but it took me more than 25 more years to fully embrace it in my own life. Since then, I’ve dedicated my life to empowering others to reclaim their most beautifully authentic self.

I was raised in a lower middle-class home without a lot of exposure to new thoughts, ideas, or experiences which made me into a late bloomer.

When I moved away to college, I discovered the book “Creative Visualization” by Shakti Gawain at the local health food store which started me on the path of personal growth that I’m still on today.

There is nothing I’ve been more driven by in my life than the search for meaning. Why am I here? What I meant to be doing?

These thoughts started chasing me at 22 when I’d been working in the corporate world for less than a year. Since then, the search for understanding what gives us meaning has been my greatest quest and fuels my passion for teaching.

The first New Thought book I read was by Florence Scovel Shinn. Since then, I’ve read countless more. That book, “The Game of Life & How to Play It” was given to me by Kay, a woman I’d become friends with when we both volunteered at the St. Louis Art Fair in 1994.

Most of the books from the New Thought era are based in Christianity. However, I derive my understanding and faith from many different sources including Buddhism, Taoism, philosophy, and psychology.

I’ll seek truth wherever I find it. I practice the religion of compassion, understanding, and kindness.

Growing up in a family with squelched dreams, I didn’t even know I was a Creative until someone called me one when I was 42. He was a 78-year old tenant in the office rental business I owned with my then-husband.

Even though I’d been writing in journals since my teens, adored the bookmobile when I was a child, sought out bookstores & libraries every time I moved to a new city & had joined and started writing groups, I didn’t see myself as a Creative.

Since then, I’ve grown to define a Creative as anyone who has dreams & ideas for things that have not yet come into form. You have as much potential today as you had on the day you were born & will have on the day you die. I’m passionate about helping women bring their ideas, stories & dreams to life.

But here’s the great news. It’s never too late to claim your Calling. The pure joy you feel when you finally embrace the work you were put here to do is worth all the years you’ve needed to become the person who is ready to do it.

In all of my courses and programs, I focus both on the process of getting what you want as well as dissolving the blocks that are keeping you from getting it. I have dedicated my life to helping people get to their why. However, you don’t know what is in another person’s heart unless they are willing to show you. So, my number one priority is always to provide my students & clients with a safe place to do that.

I was 22 and only one year into my corporate Human Resources career when someone told me I should “hang your own shingle.” I had no idea what he was talking about.

He was an outside contractor I was hiring to teach a professional development course at the corporate headquarters. To this day, I have no idea what I could have said that would have prompted his comment. But it always reminds me that the drive to run my own show was in me for many years before I recognized it myself.

Back when Oprah Winfrey had a television talk show that aired five days a week, I heard the parenting advice that became the North Star by which I have navigated my journey as a mother. Author Toni Morrison told Oprah that all children want is to see your face light up when they enter the room.

As I look back on my role as a mother, I know that I have succeeded in giving my children the one thing that gives you the foundation for a happy life … a sense of self-worth. You can only give your children the lessons you yourself have learned.

This was affirmed recently when my now 20-year old son sent me a 2:20am message from college saying “I am happy.” From a child on the autism spectrum who hasn’t experienced happiness since he was a blissfully ignorant 6-year old, there is no better gift in the world.

2008 hit me like a freight train. Within a 7-month period, I got divorced, the recession decimated my only source of income, and my mother was diagnosed with an extremely rare and chronic lung bacteria that I was in charge of researching and managing for the rest of her life … all while parenting a 3 & 6 year old.

Up until that time, most of my life’s obstacles, both internal and external, had been within my power to change. Since then, I’ve learned some extremely valuable lessons about external obstacles that are fully out of our control and how to navigate them.

Everyone’s journey will include obstacles. It’s a natural part of the human experience. But in recent years, everyone has been thrust into the reality of uncontrollable global conditions which is a brand-new experience for most. There are obstacles that we are powerless to change either through a total lack of control or our own speed of personal growth in relation to the speed of the events & circumstances we’re being forced to experience.

Yet, there’s something to be learned from every trial, including this one. I use my own life experiences to help others learn to ride the waves of life.

Overlapping the last 4 of those years, one of my children was also struggling with rare, difficult-to-diagnose health conditions that began with major spinal fusion surgery for rapidly-progressing scoliosis triggering health conditions that will stay with them for the rest of their life. It took 3 1/2 years to get proper diagnoses & an additional 9 months to get treatments that actually made a difference in their quality of life. Up until then, all day, every single day was a constant struggle. Even now, at 17, their bedside table looks like that of a 75-year old, stacked with pill bottles.

To call these experiences traumatic is an understatement. They changed every cell of my being and submerged me into a constant state of loss, suffering & powerlessness for 7 long years. I was running full-speed 24/7 just to not slide further down the mountain.

But they also opened my eyes to the experiences of others that create this same sense of isolation or otherworldness that I had been blind to before. It showed me that even as an empath, your compassion and understanding can grow much deeper than you ever imagined possible. I now see the world through new eyes.

One of the reasons I work exclusively with women at this stage in my business is that we are far more likely to be responsible for the people in our lives & that creates unique challenges we need to design our lives around.

I now see that every person who creates a transformation in their life has hit the wall … often multiple times. It prepares you for becoming the person you are meant to be & doing the work you’re here to do. So, I think I’m in good company. And the same is true for everyone. Your life is your teacher, but it’s also your path.

As part of the Fueled by Soul mission, I incorporate giving back to others as a practice of gratitude. Giving to others in any form is an acknowledgement of the gifts you’ve been given in your own life. Being raised in a working-class family by parents who grew up in poverty, I focus mostly on volunteering and charitable contributions with organizations that provide for the basic necessities of food, shelter & clothing.