From Cake Diva To PK Elixir: Porsha Kimble Talks The Power of Pivoting and More.

About this episode

Porsha Kimble shares her transformative journey from the Cake Diva to a new life after a health crisis.

She went to urgent care for breathing trouble and ended up in the ICU with an A1C of 11.7 and blood sugar at 671 and still tried to negotiate her way back to work. That jolt turned into a real-life reset for Porsha Kimble, the artist many of you first met as the Cake Diva, and the story behind her most powerful reinvention yet. We talk with Porsha about the night she woke up in the hospital asking, “God, what am I doing in here?” and the uncomfortable lifestyle truths that followed. Sh...

People in this episode

Host: Altreisha Foster

Guest: Porsha Kimble

Topics covered

• health
• reinvention
• personal story
• lifestyle change
• pivoting

Keywords

• health crisis
• A1C
• blood sugar
• reinvention
• lifestyle change

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ICU, urgent care, God

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