Kim Talks

Kim Klelund
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Kim Talks is the antidote. To loneliness. To performative relationships. To the manosphere. To the idea that knowing yourself has to be heavy or done alone. Real conversations with people brave enough to be honest while they're still figuring it out. Men processing decades of silence, women letting go of who they thought they had to be. I'm Kim Klelund. Alignment Coach & Life Designer. Funny, audacious, and completely uninterested in keeping things surface level. This is were we talk about what it actually means to be alive. The conversations we usually avoid - and probably needed years ago.

Episodes

  1. Jun 4

    EP 02 — Thijmen Claessens: Intuition, The Ego & Why Smart People Stay Stuck

    We all have it. Most of us unlearn it. Intuition - our inner knowing for what is meant for us, is one of the most powerful tools we have for navigating life. And yet somewhere along the way, we're taught to dismiss it. To logic our way past it. To leave it out of the boardroom, the business plan, and the big decisions. This episode is about getting it back. Thijmen Claessens is a coach for sensitive, high-achieving entrepreneurs, people who've hit their financial goals but still feel oddly stuck. Trapped in a racing mind. Stuck in proving energy. Unable to relax, even when they've won. His work is about moving from that constant friction into a relaxed nervous system, clear pattern awareness, and gut-led decisions. And it all starts by breaking the deep-rooted trauma underneath. What we talk about in this episode: In this conversation Thijmen and I get into what it actually means to build from lack versus abundance, and how both of our early businesses were built on a deep-rooted need to prove something. That's more common than most successful people want to admit. We talk about leadership in a way you don't often hear, that being a leader isn't just about strategy or results. It's about being regulated enough in your own emotions that you can provide a container for the people around you. Your team. Your family. Yourself. We go deep on the ego - how it's genuinely trying to help us, and how it also keeps us completely trapped. And we talk about something counterintuitive: the smarter you are, the harder your ego fights. Because a high IQ is just another weapon it uses to stay in control. We also cover how your brain cannot tell the difference between a thought and an actual experience — and what that means for breaking the patterns that keep you stuck. Plus the tools Thijmen uses to catch himself... and his clients, when the overthinking spiral starts. This episode is for you if: You've built something successful but it still doesn't feel like enough. You lead others but feel like you're barely holding it together inside. You know something needs to change but you can't quite put your finger on what. You've always had a sense that there's another way - more intuitive, more aligned, but you've never quite let yourself trust it. A note from Kim: What resonated so much for me in this conversation is how using our body, our emotions, and the signals from within ourselves gives us even greater access to creating life with ease. For so long I had a story that the more spiritual side of me didn't belong in the workplace. Now it's one of the things that most attracts my clients. The irony isn't lost on me. Connect with Kim:📲 Instagram - ⁠https://www.instagram.com/kimtalks__⁠🧠 Secret Saboteur Quiz - find out which of 7 archetypes is quietly running your show: ⁠https://forms.fillout.com/t/5iRh6m42Dpus⁠ 📞 Book a free connection call with Kim here: ⁠https://calendly.com/kim-kimklelund/connection-call⁠ Connect with Thijmen:📲 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/thijmenclaessens/🌐 Book a free clarity call with Thijmen here - https://calendar.google.com/calendar/appointments/schedules/AcZssZ1DHL4DnaavY7Ld1YNDXVyEddB_jHglPKA8YCiGfdSiV-NSUy93W34NR8FL1XfvKBUtQ0LJcaGf

    EP 02 — Thijmen Claessens: Intuition, The Ego & Why Smart People Stay Stuck

  2. May 20

    EP 01 — Matthew Balding: Mental Bears, Pressure, Hidden Trauma & Why Men Don't Talk

    This is the episode that had to come first. Matthew Balding is the creator of Mental Bears — a simple but powerful framework designed to help people understand and manage pressure. After over 20 years in the military, Matt saw firsthand how pressure builds silently — through work, expectations, relationships, and life — often without people having the language to explain what they're carrying or why it feels so heavy. Mental Bears changes that. It makes pressure visible and manageable. It helps people spot it, name it, and carry it better, rather than being slowly crushed by something they can't even describe. Matt's mission is to make pressure conversations normal, practical, and accessible. No jargon. No shame. Just honest conversations that actually help. And that's exactly the kind of authenticity I wanted to create with this podcast. But before the framework, before the twenty years, before he became the person others came to first — Matt was seventeen years old and something happened to him that he wouldn't fully face for nearly two decades. In this conversation Matt shares his experience of sexual assault at seventeen, and the years that followed — alcohol, gambling, gaming, sex addiction — each one a different way of running from something he had no language for and nowhere safe to put. We meet him right here, right now, in the middle of facing it. The nightmares that have followed him for over twenty years. The moment he finally spoke up. And what it feels like to stop running. This is a shame-free, judgement-free conversation. We go to big places and we do it without making it heavy. That's the whole point. Matt also shares something rare — what he actually notices in the men around him who aren't okay but haven't said so yet. What he sees that others miss. And why it seems to be particularly hard for men to put their bears down. If you're carrying something you haven't said out loud yet — this one's for you. ⚠️ Trigger warning: this episode contains open discussion of sexual assault, addiction, and suicide. Connect with Kim:📲 Instagram — ⁠https://www.instagram.com/kimtalks__/⁠ 🧠 Secret Saboteur Quiz — find out what Archetype quietly running your subconscious: https://forms.fillout.com/t/5iRh6m42Dpus ⁠ 💬 Redebedarf / Need to Talk? — One off single session, no therapy, no commitment, just chew the fat: ⁠https://calendly.com/kim-kimklelund/need-to-talk⁠ 🙏 Support the show here: https://buymeacoffee.com/kimklelund Guest links: Matthew Balding🎙 Mental Bears Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/0lSn8qVcwQFzk9juJh5DTD 📲 Mental Bears on Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/mentalbears/ 🌐 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-balding-a5919112?utm_source=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=member_ios

    EP 01 — Matthew Balding: Mental Bears, Pressure, Hidden Trauma & Why Men Don't Talk
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Kim Talks is the antidote. To loneliness. To performative relationships. To the manosphere. To the idea that knowing yourself has to be heavy or done alone. Real conversations with people brave enough to be honest while they're still figuring it out. Men processing decades of silence, women letting go of who they thought they had to be. I'm Kim Klelund. Alignment Coach & Life Designer. Funny, audacious, and completely uninterested in keeping things surface level. This is were we talk about what it actually means to be alive. The conversations we usually avoid - and probably needed years ago.

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  • Creator
    Kim Klelund
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Kim Klelund
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    Kim Talks