Your nEXt Chapter with Dr. Nicole | Healing From Divorce and Traumatic Transitions
Welcome to the Your nEXt Chapter podcast w/ Dr. Nicole, where we explore the challenges and breakthroughs high-achieving women of faith experience as they reclaim joy, reimagine the future and redefine their identity after divorce and other unexpected life transitions.
Whether you're navigating divorce, a life-altering medical diagnosis, a career transition, an empty nest, middle age, or the loss of a loved one, you deserve support on your healing journey. Through riveting conversations with survivors and experts, Dr. Nicole normalizes vulnerability, transparency, healthy boundaries, and the brave steps we take to create the lives we desire and deserve.
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Your nEXt Chapter with Dr. Nicole | Healing From Divorce and Traumatic Transitions
Alignment Starts at Home (w/ Kim Costa)
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In this week’s conversation, Dr. Nicole sits down with Kim Costa, award-winning realtor, speaker, and CEO of Lifestyle Foundations, to talk about alignment, authenticity, and the powerful connection between your inner life and your physical space. Kim shares her personal journey through misalignment in her career, relationships, and environment and how a series of wake-up calls led her to rebuild her life around what truly fits who she is becoming.
They explore how your home reflects your identity, healing, and next chapter. Kim shares her “stay, go, or renovate” approach and Wheel of Life framework to help assess what’s working and what needs to change across key areas of life.
If life looks fine on the outside but feels misaligned within, this episode invites you to pause, reconnect, and realign your life and space.
Song of the week: Home by Stephanie Mills
Topics Covered:
00:00:00 – Episode snippet
00:02:32 – Introducing our guest, Kim Costa
00:06:21 – Living outside your true identity
00:16:11 – Your home reflects who you are becoming
00:21:50 – The 8 areas of life (Wheel of Life)
00:26:24 – Spiritual alignment shapes the home you need
00:28:40 – Why you shouldn’t rush major decisions
00:37:49 – Connection: Who you allow into your space matters
00:39:39 – Connect with Kim Costa
Key Takeaways:
“Alignment is recognising how you were made, your personality, your values, and what you want to do in your next phase of life.”
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About Our Guest
Kim Costa is a Top 5% Realtor® in Atlanta and creator of The Wheel House Method, helping high-achieving women align their homes with their next chapter. She supports women through transitions such as divorce, career changes, and midlife shifts with intentional, values-based decisions. Kim is the author of Live in Your Wheel House (March 2026) and host of the Live in Your Wheel House podcast.
Connect with Kim Costa:
Web: https://lifestylefoundations.com/lp-supp/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/kim.e.costa/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/kimecostarealtor/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimecosta/
Book (Pre-Order): https://lifestylefoundations.com/lp-supp/#order-book
About Your Host
Dr. Nicole is a pediatrician, the owner of a successful healthcare consulting company, a riveting keynote and TEDx speaker, and the mom of two beautiful young adult daughters. From the outside, she appeared to have it all. But in 2023 she faced the most difficult challenge of her life- ending a 28-year marriage and navigating heartbreak, deception, and loss. Dr. Nicole is committed to creating a safe space where other women who have experienced a “divine disruption” can heal, recover, and THRIVE!
Connect with Dr. Nicole:
Web: https://yournextchapter.co/
IG: https://www.instagram.com/yournextchapter_co
FB:https://www.facebook.com/yournextchapter.co
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