Kim Lloyd
Coach and Speaker, Strength, Stress and Sustainable Habit Change at Kim Lloyd Fitness
Health, Wellness and Fitness
Education: BA in Communications, Gannon University - Masters in Sports Leadership, Northeastern University
Topsham, ME, USA
Biography
Kim Lloyd is a certified fitness, nutrition, and stress management coach with over a decade of experience helping busy professionals build sustainable health habits. A survivor of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she brings humor, heart, and real-world wisdom to her engaging talks on resilience, behavior change, and well-being. Whether speaking to corporate teams or community groups, she empowers audiences to “start where they are” and take practical steps toward better health.
Passion
Helping people find real, doable strategies to achieve their goals, especially health and fitness goals. Watching women connect with the strength they already have, both physically and emotionally, lights me on fire.
Best Story
Once, I worked with a client for over a year. Her primary goal was weight loss, and she came to the gym religiously, rarely missing a session during those 365 days.
Finally, she decided to quit. It just wasn’t working for her. She felt better, sure, but she hadn’t lost any weight.
Fast forward a few months, and the gym where I worked held a challenge to drop two jean sizes in 12 weeks. That same client walked through the door and put a pair of black jeans down on the counter and looked at me.
“These,” she said. “I want to fit into these jeans again.”
I asked why.
“Because my daughter is graduating high school soon, and I want to date again. These were the pants I wore last time I was dating.”
Wouldn’t you know it, but she hit her goal in 12 weeks, and kept on training.
Because she was so viscerally connected to her why. She didn’t just want to lose weight.
She didn’t want to feel lonely anymore. An emotional connection to your "why" is one of the most powerful motivators out there.
Origin Story
When I graduated from college, I celebrated for about 30 seconds before the reality of what lay ahead set in.
Now what? The invisible playbook for my life ended with getting the degree. I knew I needed a job, but doing what?
What followed over the next decade was something akin to speed dating, but with jobs, and less speed. Along the way, I worked 29 different positions; as a newspaper reporter, in retail, as a salad bar attendant; eventually I ended up working in higher education, and thought that was where I would stay.
Not because I was happy; but because this is where life had taken me.
I wasn’t miserable, but I still didn’t feel like I’d found my place in this world. Then one day, out of the blue, I got laid off.
I panicked. I also leaned hard into strength training and taking care of my body. Then one day, when a friend asked to work out with me, and I was showing her exercises, it hit me.
This. Strength training and working out were my outlets, to manage stress and to build confidence. What if I could help others do the same?
That’s when it clicked: the thing I’d been doing on the side for all of these years; working on my health and helping friends and family members do the same, was actually the thing I was meant to do all along.
Kim Lloyd Fitness was born, not out of indecision; but out of all of those years of seeking; how to heal, how to serve; how to show up for myself and for others. My experience as a sort of renaissance woman has given me a very textured background that informs the work that I am privileged to do, in workshops, in speaking, and in 1:1 coaching.
I am willing to travel
More than 100 miles
When it comes to payments
Everything is negotiable
Topics
Best Story
Once, I worked with a client for over a year. Her primary goal was weight loss, and she came to the gym religiously, rarely missing a session during those 365 days.
Finally, she decided to quit. It just wasn’t working for her. She felt better, sure, but she hadn’t lost any weight.
Fast forward a few months, and the gym where I worked held a challenge to drop two jean sizes in 12 weeks. That same client walked through the door and put a pair of black jeans down on the counter and looked at me.
“These,” she said. “I want to fit into these jeans again.”
I asked why.
“Because my daughter is graduating high school soon, and I want to date again. These were the pants I wore last time I was dating.”
Wouldn’t you know it, but she hit her goal in 12 weeks, and kept on training.
Because she was so viscerally connected to her why. She didn’t just want to lose weight.
She didn’t want to feel lonely anymore. An emotional connection to your "why" is one of the most powerful motivators out there.
Origin Story
When I graduated from college, I celebrated for about 30 seconds before the reality of what lay ahead set in.
Now what? The invisible playbook for my life ended with getting the degree. I knew I needed a job, but doing what?
What followed over the next decade was something akin to speed dating, but with jobs, and less speed. Along the way, I worked 29 different positions; as a newspaper reporter, in retail, as a salad bar attendant; eventually I ended up working in higher education, and thought that was where I would stay.
Not because I was happy; but because this is where life had taken me.
I wasn’t miserable, but I still didn’t feel like I’d found my place in this world. Then one day, out of the blue, I got laid off.
I panicked. I also leaned hard into strength training and taking care of my body. Then one day, when a friend asked to work out with me, and I was showing her exercises, it hit me.
This. Strength training and working out were my outlets, to manage stress and to build confidence. What if I could help others do the same?
That’s when it clicked: the thing I’d been doing on the side for all of these years; working on my health and helping friends and family members do the same, was actually the thing I was meant to do all along.
Kim Lloyd Fitness was born, not out of indecision; but out of all of those years of seeking; how to heal, how to serve; how to show up for myself and for others. My experience as a sort of renaissance woman has given me a very textured background that informs the work that I am privileged to do, in workshops, in speaking, and in 1:1 coaching.