Post Cards From the YES Life: Your launchpad for reinvention, empowerment, adventurous living, and purpose-driven entrepreneurship
What if your boldest, most joyful life is just one YES away?
Welcome to The YES Life—the podcast that invites you to stop waiting and start living. Hosted by author, coach, wonder-seeker, and digital creator Kim Peek, this show is your permission slip to embrace reinvention, chase adventure, and live with wild-hearted intention—especially in midlife and beyond.
Whether you’re navigating a big life transition, dreaming of a freedom-filled business, craving deeper connection, or just want to feel more alive in your everyday moments—this podcast is for you. We explore mindset shifts, movement, travel, storytelling, and the magic of saying yes to what truly lights you up.
Each episode offers honest conversations, empowering insights, and real-life strategies to help you create a life that feels like yours—on your terms, in your timing, and with joy as your compass.
Because the YES Life isn’t about doing more. It’s about choosing what matters—and going all in.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 31 minutes
- Episodes
- 205
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2024
Can You Protect Your Brain? The Link Between Alzheimer's and Menopause
Welcome to Free Thinking Friday, a brief episode where discuss some of the things I’ve been pondering throughout the week. I was alarmed when I woke up and read an article one of my friends posted on…
55. Are You Slipping? Checking in with Your Habits
As I started looking more critically at my own habits, I noticed something: I've been slipping. When we gain weight, or lose fitness, it's easy to blame middle age, or a medication or an unfortunate…
FTF7: The Weight of Tears- a Crash Course in Habits
It broke my heart when one of my daughters spilled all the feelings that had been bottled up for months and months. Over the course of three years, she’s gained about 40 pounds. She would get on a r…
54. Kathrine Switzer: The Marathon Woman Empowering Millions
An iconic athlete, author, Emmy-award winning broadcaster and advocate for sports and social causes, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially register for and run the Boston Marathon in 196…
FTF6: Are You Living a Groundhog Day Existence?
Welcome to Free Thinking Friday, a brief episode about some of the random things I've been pondering each week. This weekend, Power Up Your Performance turns ONE YEAR OLD!! That got me thinking about…
53. Thinking Her Way to Victory with Deena Kastor
This week, I'm interviewing Deena Kastor, the 2004 Olympic Marathon Bronze Medalist and the American record holder in the marathon. She is also the author of, "Let Your Mind Run. A Memoir of Thinking…
FTF#5: It's NOT About the Sandwiches
It's the end of the school year, and I've been asked about fifty times, "What will you do now that you only have one kid at home?" So, I've been thinking about it, and decided my response would be th…
52. Get More Results, More Confidence, More Life with Scott Schlesinger
I talked with Regional Trainer for Orange Theory Fitness, Scott Schlesinger, about what makes an Orange Theory workout unique, why people get results, and the multitude of ways that the workouts can …
FTF4- Knock Your Racing Down a Notch for Better Performance
I think it’s important for each of us to remember that we have different seasons in life and it’s not practical, and probably not healthy, to be all-in and super competitive all the time. For this …
51. Finding Your Sweet Spot in Sport with Rebecca McConville
How do you balance your energy as a runner? We live in a numbers-driven society, making it easy to compare training data with those around us. In sports such as running, there can be pressure to fall…
FTF3: Two Traits You Need to Rise Above the Trophy Generation
Welcome to Free Thinking Friday, a brief episode where I share thoughts I've been pondering throughout the week. We recently had an academic situation that left me livid. As of the publication of th…
50. Nick Symmonds: What it Takes to Crush Your Goals
For this episode, I spoke with two time Olympian, Nick Symmonds. Nick competed for the U.S. in the 2008 and 2012 Olympics. He focused on the 800 meters for the majority of his career, and now in reti…
FTF2. What I've Learned from Justin Baldoni on Dreams, Perseverance and Giving Back
Welcome to Free Thinking Friday – a brief episode where I share some of the things I’ve been pondering throughout the week.
I totally love it when I find a great story about a performer, director…
49. Becoming CORE STRONG with Mark Campbell
You need a strong core to excel in running… but it’s also what is going to keep you moving under your own power and keep you chasing adventure in your 80s and 90s. I talked with Mark Campbell, of Cor…
Yes, And! Free Thinking Friday #1
Join me for this brief episode where I talk about the value of YES, AND... thinking. Yep! My worlds of theater and running are colliding, and I'm talking about incorporating a technique from improv, …
48: Running with Hope: Deliece Hofen of Braden's Hope for Childhood Cancer
Deliece Hofen is the mother of two sons. Her youngest son, Braden, battled childhood cancer three times. During his second battle with cancer, he faced the words "no known cure" and his odds for surv…
BONUS: Boston Marathon Celebration of Champions
The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon, and it's a marathon almost everyone has heard of, even if they don't follow running. Running Boston represents dedication, commitment, grit …
47: Meredith Atwood, Swim Bike Mom on Triathlon, Addiction, Life and a Year of No Nonsense
I am so excited to share this week’s interview. I talked to Meredith Atwood, who some of you might know better as Swim Bike Mom. She is a recovering attorney, motivational speaker and author of the …
BONUS Episode: Golden Rules of Race Day - Do Unto Others On the Course
Race season is heating up across most of the U.S., so I wanted to do a special race week edition of the podcast to share the "Golden Rules of Race Day."
A few years ago, I was in amazing shape and wa…
Episode 46: Laura Schmidt with Notes to Self Socks on Affirmations and Optimism
Today I am talking with Laura Schmidt, who is the Chief Positive Person at notes to self. Laura started notes to self to put her belief in the power of positive thinking into action -- (and on peopl…