Strobel Education

Kim Strobel, Strobel Education

“Those who know fear can be the most fearless”
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For some people, trouble is a launching pad to greater things. Kim Strobel is one of those individuals. She knows whereof she speaks when she says that conquering fear and achieving greatness is possible. Born in tiny Tell City, Indiana to a

house painter father and a stay at home mother, Kim struggled through her childhood and teen years with panic attacks and crippling fear. By her junior year in high school, she was diagnosed with seizure disorders and, by her early twenties, full panic disorder. It appeared that she would be unable to achieve her dreams without a miracle of some kind. But, she never gave up on the idea of getting better, and a combination of exposure therapy and a sheer act of will produced that miracle that keeps on giving all these years down the road. Once her fears began to subside, Kim laid out an ambitious plan to get her college degree. She would begin working at five AM every day in a clerical job, and then at 1 PM she would leave for the University of Southern Indiana to work on a degree in Elementary Education. The long hours and hard work turned out to be worth it, and she credits her early struggles with helping her see the world in a different way. “In a way, my panic attacks became the teachers in my life,” she says. “I learned that life is a gift and that we are all meant to experience joy, happiness, purpose, and meaning. I also learned what’s possible when you try hard enough. There is always a way.”

After teaching elementary school for seven years and absolutely loving it, she left to become an education consultant, a job that required 80 hour weeks, but would be another intense learning period for her. Within the time, she also attained her administrative degree and went on to become a curriculum director always staying in the trenches with teachers. All these experiences, turned out to be great preparation for the launch of her own company, Strobel Education. The goal of the company and her work is singular: “I feel like teachers, for the most part, are very discouraged and I understand why they feel that way,” she says. Many teachers walk into the classroom and they feel like they’ve lost. I want to help them remember why they were called to this profession in the first place.”

She is uniquely gifted to be a great encourager. Her life has been spent conquering her own fears and challenging the naysaying voices in her life, whether within or without. Along the way, she has become a teacher, a consultant, a speaker, an aspiring author, and a mission minded person who has found her calling. She is grateful, even for the difficult trials and tribulations that have sometimes beset her. The truth is, she never would have gotten here without them. She lives in Tell City with her husband, Scott. They have four children, and one grandbaby.