Welcome to Your Inner Advocate, a podcast by Kimen Petersen — formerly Conversations with Kimen.
This podcast is a space for inspiration, soulful insights, and meaningful life lessons.
Your host, Kimen Petersen, draws from personal stories and powerful conversations with remarkable people to help illuminate your path.
These episodes reflect his lived experiences and thoughtful perspectives, all aimed at encouraging you to live with greater authenticity, joy, and ease.
Your Inner Advocate is here to help you tune in, trust your inner wisdom, and move through life with more clarity, flow, and fulfillment.
All wisdom shared are Kimen’s personal opinions, not his professional opinions
Episode 223: You Can't Go Back. But, You Can Go Forward Wiser.
Episode 223: You Can't Go Back. But, You Can Go Forward Wiser.
If you could go back — knowing what you know now — what would you do differently? In this episode, Kimen Petersen explores the weight of regret and the difference between wishing you'd made different choices and wishing you'd lived a different life. He argues that every mistake, wrong turn, and painful lesson helped shape the person you are today, and that attacking your younger self is attacking the very person who got you here.
Kimen introduces the "Story, Not the Sentence" framework — a five-step process for reframing your past:
Tell the truth — acknowledge what happened without sugarcoating or spiralling into regret.
Separate the event from your identity — "I made a mistake" is not "I am a mistake."
Ask what it gave you — what strength, boundary, or wisdom came from what you went through?
Turn the lesson forward — don't just understand the past; use it to change your future behaviour.
Release the punishment — stop sentencing yourself for a lesson you've already learned.
The episode closes with a powerful meditation: imagine sitting beside your younger self, not to judge or correct them, but to thank them for getting you here. Kimen paints the image of dropping armour along a cobblestone road — letting go of the protective weight of past pain — and reminds listeners that the next page of their story hasn't been written yet. You are the author now.
21 Oct 2026
Episode 222: The Real Flex: Being Grateful for What Didn't Work Out
Episode 222: The Real Flex: Being Grateful for What Didn't Work Out
Most of us know how to be grateful when life goes our way — the job, the relationship, the diagnosis that comes back negative. But in this episode, Kimen Petersen flips the question: How grateful are you when it doesn't work?
Kimen makes the case that the real measure of growth isn't gratitude for the gifts you received, but gratitude for the doors that closed, the people who left, and the dreams that never happened. He shares a personal story of burning out at a high-stress job, landing in the hospital, and walking away into the unknown — only to discover a career he's genuinely passionate about. He then lays out a practical five-step framework called the "Gratitude for Everything" process: name what happened, feel it fully, ask better questions, find the forward motion, and thank the version of yourself who kept going.
The core message: pain isn't the gift, and gratitude isn't about pretending everything was fine. It's about refusing to let the pain have the final word — and recognizing that the detours, rejections, and failures were shaping you into someone you couldn't have become without them. As Kimen puts it: You don't need every chapter to be beautiful. You need to keep becoming.
15 Oct 2026
Episode 221: Want an Extraordinary Life? Get Comfortable Being Misunderstood.
Episode 221: Want an Extraordinary Life? Get Comfortable Being Misunderstood.
What if the life you're trying to build requires you to be misunderstood — not for a day, but for years? In this episode of Your Inner Advocate, Kimen Petersen unpacks the uncomfortable truth behind pursuing something extraordinary: you cannot build an extraordinary life while requiring ordinary levels of approval.
Kimen explores why our innate need to be understood can become the very thing that holds us back, how the pursuit of validation disguised as goal-chasing keeps people stuck, and why the work that matters most often produces almost no immediate reward. He shares a personal story about going back to school despite a chorus of "reasonable" objections, and breaks down the psychology of applause — how dependence on external reinforcement quietly shifts you from chasing a goal to chasing the feeling of being validated for chasing it.
The episode introduces a practical five-part "Keep Going" framework:
Know your why — your reason carries you when excitement fades
Expect to be misunderstood — build doubt and silence into the journey
Detach from applause — celebrate yourself and track your own progress
Redefine failure — ask what it taught you, not what it says about you
Keep your enthusiasm alive — protect your curiosity and maximize recovery
Throughout, Kimen challenges listeners to stop treating setbacks as verdicts, stop confusing silence with failure, and stop waiting for permission. The core message: you don't need everyone to believe in you — you need to stop abandoning yourself when you don't. Your story continues every time you choose to take another step.
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