Kim Patten
What If This Isn’t How Your Story Was Supposed to Go?
Kim Patten is the host of the Freedom of Enough podcast, author of Pivot: A Practical Guide for the Transition from Career Woman to Full-Time Mom, and a speaker passionate about helping women navigate life’s unexpected transitions with faith, courage, and purpose.
Kim’s own story has been shaped by a series of profound pivots. After a childhood marked by trauma, she enrolled at Brigham Young University, where she studied business and converted to Christianity, beginning a faith journey that would transform how she understood identity, love, and worth. She later earned an MBA, but after graduate school, she found herself starting her career at just $15 an hour.
From there, Kim built a successful corporate career, eventually serving in leadership at a Fortune 500 company. Her life continued to evolve through divorce, remarriage, motherhood, and one of her most defining pivots: stepping away from the career she had worked so hard to build to become a full-time mother.
That transition challenged her identity, priorities, and definition of success and ultimately inspired her to write Pivot.
Today, Kim draws on her personal, professional, and spiritual journey to encourage women to trust God through life’s changing seasons, release the pressure to prove their worth, and recognize that even the chapters they never planned can hold purpose. Through it all, she has discovered a truth that now anchors her work: we don’t have to earn our worth. We are already enough, already loved, and already worthy in God’s eyes.
About this class
How to Find Faith, Purpose, and Possibility Through Life’s Unexpected Pivots
What happens when the life you imagined looks nothing like the life you’re living? Through childhood wounds, faith, divorce, career setbacks and success, and the unexpected transition from corporate leadership to full-time motherhood, Kim Patten shares what she has learned about moving forward when the plan changes.
She explores how to navigate unexpected transitions without losing yourself, how to anchor your identity beyond roles and achievements, and how faith can help you discover purpose in seasons you never expected.
When life changes the story, you still get to decide who you become in the next chapter.