How to Align Your Home With Your Next Chapter: Kim Costa's Wheel House Method
What we talked about
Kim Costa is a Top 5% Realtor at Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty, the author of Live in Your Wheel House, and the host of a podcast by the same name. After more than two decades as a controller and CFO in residential construction and design, she pivoted into real estate and built the Wheel House Method, a framework for evaluating how well a home supports eight dimensions of life: finance, health, environment, career, romance, fun and leisure, spirituality, and family and friends. Her book, podcast, and workshops through Lifestyle Foundations have grown into a movement for people navigating their own next chapter.
Show notes
Kim Costa spent over two decades as a controller and CFO in residential construction and design before pivoting into real estate and building the Wheel House Method, a framework for aligning a home with the life actually being lived in it. She walks through the eight dimensions of the method, from finance and romance to multi-generational living, and makes the case that a house that hasn’t kept up with who you’ve become quietly produces frustration, resentment, and overwhelm.
What we covered
- Her career pivot from two decades as a controller and CFO in residential construction and design to Top 5% Realtor, author, and podcast host, and the divorce and empty nest that finally gave her the freedom to make the change.
- The Wheel House Method’s structure: a foundation of four Ms (myself, mastery, mission, mates) supporting eight spokes, finance, health, environment, career, romance, fun and leisure, spirituality, and family and friends.
- Why multi-generational living has become a common solution to housing costs and caretaking in the US, and the financial and family dynamics it raises.
- How to set up a home for romance and connection, including the mistakes she sees most often, from mismatched nightstands to family photos in the bedroom.
- Why financial stress is one of the spokes that bleeds into every other one, raising heart rate, disrupting sleep, and straining relationships and career.
- Her practical framework for deciding whether to stay, renovate, or move: rating each dimension and finding the smallest change with the highest impact on happiness.
About Kim
Kim Costa is a Top 5% Realtor at Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby’s International Realty in the Milton, Roswell, and Alpharetta luxury markets, the author of Live in Your Wheel House, and the host of the Live in Your Wheel House podcast. She previously spent over two decades as a controller and CFO in residential construction and design, including 20-plus years at Atlas Pools. She leads workshops through Lifestyle Foundations and holds a BBA in Marketing from the University of Georgia.
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimecosta
- Website: https://lifestylefoundations.com
Episode 166 of the PreVetted Podcast.