Born and raised in Bardstown, Kentucky, young Kimberly knew she was destined for television. “I wanted to be America’s next Diane Sawyer, like a lot of girls from Kentucky. I even took classes to lose my accent,” Kimberly says. She went to Eastern Kentucky University and majored in broadcasting. It was there, however, that her advisor raised the question, “Do you want to be in the blizzard or inside where you are safe and warm? If you’re Diane Sawyer, you’re in the blizzard.” This question led Kimberly into the niche of media sales, where she could still be engaged in the world of television without the risks of reporting in the field.

When we sat down for an interview, Kimberly was soon headed to Nashville where she would begin filming the Nashville edition of her show, the third city in the show’s repertoire. Running your own show is an exhausting enterprise: she tapes for four weeks straight and then launches into selling advertisement spots before the shows air. This leaves little time for Kimberly to design her own home. Although she tends to gravitate toward a transitional aesthetic that pairs modern tile and clean lines with antiques, a marriage of old and new, she lives in the same one-bedroom condo that she bought when she was 26.

Kimberly’s favorite segments cover legacy properties, such as the home of Eddie Arnold, who had a “tree survey” of his entire property, and Lauren Just from Persimmon Ridge Golf Club, who was pregnant with their fifth child when she walked the expansive acreage of their new land. “These stories just give me chills thinking about them,” Kimberly says with a hint of that Bardstown accent bubbling up when she speaks from the heart. “I hate shows that make fun of other people’s style. A person’s style is personal; it is a reflection of their personality. How can that ever be wrong?”