ABOUT THE BOOK

HER ICONIC SELF

Her Iconic Self: A Becoming Story is a powerful anthology celebrating women who rose, rebuilt, and redefined what it means to lead with purpose.

In this transformational book, each contributor shares a deeply personal chapter that reveals her becoming, the journey that shaped her voice, strengthened her leadership, and clarified her mission. These women don’t just tell success stories; they reveal the identity shifts, pivotal moments, and courageous decisions that turned adversity into influence.

Through stories of building authority, launching movements, and using their voices for impact, the authors offer hard-earned lessons on leadership, visibility, and thought leadership. They speak honestly about breakdowns that led to breakthroughs, pain that became power, and purpose that emerged from perseverance.

At its heart, Her Iconic Self is about legacy. Each chapter reflects on what it truly means to leave an imprint, on industries, communities, families, and future generations of women rising behind them.

This book is for women who feel the call to lead boldly, own their story, and build a legacy that lasts.

Join Hanna Olivas and Adriana Luna along with 11 Inspiring Authors in Her Iconic Self: A Becoming Story

• Christine Phipps Davis
• Dorothe Philippe
• Izabela Kvesic
• Erica Elliott
• Dr. Karen Smith
• Daniela Aneva
• Stella J. Tokar
• Kimberly Smith
• Paula Marie Pantaleo
• Nikki Girard
• Lovely LaGuerre

KIMBERLY’S CONTRIBUTION

HER ICONIC SELF: The Woman I Had to Become

After years of surviving, rebuilding, and searching for the parts of herself she had left behind, Kimberly Smith discovered that becoming her Iconic Self was not about transforming into someone new. It was about returning to the woman who had always been there. Through loss, healing, surrender, and reclamation, her journey reveals the power of choosing yourself, integrating every piece of your story, and leading from a place of wholeness.

Kimberly Smith’s contribution to Her Iconic Self is a powerful exploration of what happens when survival becomes the foundation for purpose, leadership, and legacy.

Through raw honesty and deep reflection, Kimberly shares the journey of releasing old patterns, reclaiming the parts of herself she had abandoned, and integrating every version of who she has been: the survivor, the strategist, the healer, the creator, and the leader.

Her story challenges the idea that transformation means becoming someone different. Instead, she reveals that true transformation happens when we stop searching outside ourselves and begin returning to the wisdom, power, and purpose that have been within us all along.

Blending personal healing, intuitive wisdom, and decades of experience helping others build sustainable lives and businesses, Kimberly’s chapter is an invitation for readers to stop living from survival, remember who they are, and rise into the life they were meant to lead.

Her message is simple but profound: your past is not proof of what broke you. It is the foundation of what you are here to build.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Today, as a five-time bestselling nonfiction author, Kimberly continues that lifelong love of storytelling through transformational works and fictional worlds filled with mystery, magic, and the things that exist just beyond what we can see.

Her writing is drawn to the same thread: the stories we carry, the truths waiting beneath the surface, and the courage it takes to discover who we really are.

Her work explores the questions that follow us through every lifetime: Who are we before the world tells us who to become? What pieces of ourselves have we forgotten? And what happens when everything we thought we knew about ourselves and the world we live in begins to unravel?

After more than three decades of walking beside people through growth, change, leadership, and reinvention, Kimberly discovered that every person carries a story,  the one they have lived, the one they have been told, and the one waiting to be written.

Her work blends emotional depth, curiosity, intuition, imagination, and lived experience to explore the messy, beautiful process of being human.

Kimberly is the creator of The Phoenix Path™, a transformational nonfiction journey of remembering, reclaiming, and returning to who you truly are. She is also currently creating a preternatural and supernatural fiction series where hidden worlds, impossible truths, complicated relationships, and a destiny never asked for collide.

She believes the most powerful stories are not about becoming someone new. They are about remembering the parts of ourselves we forgot, reclaiming what was always ours, and returning to who we were meant to be.

When she is not writing, you will find Kimberly in Southeast Florida with her children at the center of her world, her dog and cats nearby, a book in hand (probably nonfiction, probably one from her huge TBR pile), something witchy on the altar, tending her garden, following the rhythm of the moon cycles, or traveling with her partner in their bus while intentionally building a life filled with freedom, adventure, and meaning.

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