Author: Kimberly Spencer

Kimberly Spencer is an award-winning screenwriter, actress, pageant princess, former body-basher turned five time WEGO Health Activist Award nominee, and Miss Congeniality titleholder. A true renaissance juggernaut, Kimberly's first feature film as a screenwriter, BRO', starring Danny Trejo, was distributed by Lionsgate and is available on Netflix. She is a former executive for a national online company that launched a back rehabilitation device, a Pilates instructor and owner of Fitness with Kim in Los Angeles, and a Spark LA mentor. As the trailblazing CEO of Crown Yourself Enterprises, Kimberly combines her passion for storytelling, exploration, and healthy living, invigorating thousands of women to sparkle in their lives and bodies, through her personal training, writing, and as an inspirational speaker. Her trailblazing work has been featured on The CW, Good Morning San Diego, NPR, Heavy.com, and in ESPN, Pilates Style, Oxygen Magazine, and Girls Life Magazine. Kimberly's premiere book, "Mindful Meals: How to Eat Like a Queen and Still Look Like a Princess" debuts in Spring 2016.

Most people are shocked to learn that I, a former Miss Congeniality pageant princess, sparkly unicorn of a woman, wrote a hardcore, gritty drug-infused motocross movie. (Surprise!) “Who’s this girl and what the hell does she know about dirt bikes?” This was a constant criticism I got from “bro’s” and the motocross culture. And they were right. I didn’t know a thing about motocross before I started writing BRO’. What I did know, what I understood in my basic nature, was the desire to be accepted. The basic human need for significance. Everyone, at one point in their lives has…

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We’ve all been there. Standing alone, half drunk drink in hand, with a tangled mess of other people’s business cards in our purse rubbing against our depleting supply at some rooftop networking party somewhere in Tinseltown. The next day when sorting (or tossing) a majority of the “hi-lets-collaborate-or-stay-in-touch-or-something” cards, while cross-checking them with IMDB, you wonder, “Why?” You know half the people across town, whom you gave your business cards to, are probably doing the same thing too. Did you truly gain anything other than a stack of recycling material and a hefty bar bill for your overpriced drinks? What…

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I believe that the desire to create is innately rooted in each and every single one of us. Yet, why is it that some of us live creativity fulfilled, and others negate this basic instinct? The answer: fear. Creating anything, a film, a novel, a painting, even a character, is freaking scary. When you create, you enter into a new realm, the unknown, which sets off your fear synapses. (Don’t worry, this is a totally healthy, human built-in back up machine that warns us of impending danger.) These same synapses fire when you have that gut instinct to not be…

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Starry eyed actors come to LA to serve their dream to the Hollywood gods (a.k.a. Harvey Weinstein). Unless you’re rollin’ in dough or your last name is Kardashian, what’s required is usually the sacrifice of having to get a second job to support yourself financially. Many take on the supplemental roles of bartender, waitress, or barista. Others try part time work, nannying or personal training. After a while these additional roles begin to wear on you. You feel pigeonholed in your part as waitress or personal trainer. Most often this results in boredom, which quickly turns into laziness. You start…

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In Hollywood, when in the throws of a passion project, the greatest thrill of all Hollywood hopefuls is getting the green light. This means either a committee of high-up execs or the CEO or COO from the Big Six (the major studios in Hollywood like Fox, Warner Brothers, Disney) or the mini- majors (like Lionsgate or The Weinstein Company) give the go-ahead for your project to be financed and proceed to production. When this happens, pop open the bubbly because you’re in the Big Leagues now!! In life, though, all too often, we wait for others to give us permission…

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We all know the feeling. That evil cursor blinking on a blank page, mocking you. It dares you to be brilliant, to let those creative juices flow. The more you stare at the abyss of the white screen, the more your mind hears the subtle ringing of writer’s block between your ears. When deadlines are looming and the pressure is mounting, descriptive sentences, alliterative phrases, even basic words can seem trapped in a far off land. When the ideas just ain’t flowin,’ here are three easy ways to get those creative juices goin’. Write About Anything Else Google “writer prompts”…

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Recently, my hubby and I were being considered for a reality show (because we’re freaking adorable together). The producers called us in for a meeting. Having been in Hollywood for several years, we knew better than to go in with overly optimistic expectations. In my experience, seventy to eighty percent of “meetings” are a lot of hot air, big dreams and no action or more importantly, funding, behind them. But, we figured, “Why not?” We gave it a shot. As we sat across the table from producers, the meeting quickly turned into a scene from its own reality show. While…

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When I first entered into the Hollywood arena, I was a brooding, angst-ridden teenager, with a perfectionist chip on her shoulder and a three-steps-forward-two-steps-back drive that was unable to mow down my insecurities. I had no idea who I was. I had dreams of being a serious, dramatic actress, portraying my fellow brooding, angst-ridden characters, perfectly, like a serious teenage vampire…minus the sparkles. The problem was, no one saw me as that. Sure, I had some bubbling repressed anger on the inside, but I kept that hidden, buried in the pages of my journal. In the world, people saw me…

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“Hi, my name is {Insert Name Here}. I’m an actor/writer/producer, and I’m working on/performing in/in-so-and-so’s class {Insert Name of Short Film/Play/Casting Assistant’s Name or Name of Workshop Here}. I love your work and would love to work with you someday,” said the desperate Hollywood player, handing the “big-wig” a business card, with her face printed above the title “Actor-Producer-Writer-Poet-Human,” and some obscure quote on the back about going for your dreams. For the love of all things Thalberg, stop approaching “higher up” people in Hollywood like this! When I first started pounding the pavement of Hollywood, traipsing around film festivals…

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The buzz of the press was as palpable as my heart pounding. I stood in front of the big screen like a proud momma watching her baby graduate high school. My first feature as a screenwriter, BRO’ starring Danny Trejo and some major motocross players, premiered at the AMC Orange with a five week run at AMC theaters in Southern California, and would later be digitally distributed by Lionsgate (You can find it on Netflix). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWaY4Vw9eyE The film ended, the credits flashed to the thump-thump of the film’s hard rock soundtrack. There was my (maiden) name, solo, second card: “Written…

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Beauty Pageants. These two words cause most feminists to cringe! Brainless Barbies bouncing around in bikinis, waxing poetic at best (and fumbling for words at worst) about “World Peace,” as they brandish their beauty for a crown that represents the “total package.” We know the stereotype. Yet, I am a beauty queen. I am not brainless. I used to play with Barbies. I was a size two for about a minute, until I saw a piece of chocolate. I actually do love fitness and all things that glitter. I still occasionally wear my tiara around the house. (It’s a sign…

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