228. A Good Funeral

The Kristen Boss Podcast

Kristen Boss

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, How To

4.9 • 751 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Kristen knows the weight of closing a chapter. It’s not just an end, but a moment to honor everything that chapter held: the growth, the connections, and the work that shaped not only her journey but the lives of those who shared it.

This is a bittersweet space to stand in, filled with gratitude for what was and the ache of saying goodbye. Kristen believes in giving each chapter a good funeral, not as a sign of loss but as a celebration of the story it tells. Too often, people shy away from endings, afraid of the uncertainty they bring. They talk themselves out of dreaming bigger or reaching for more, fearing the disappointment of things not going as planned. But Kristen sees it differently.

This chapter isn’t closing because it failed or faltered. It’s closing to make space for the next one to unfold—a bittersweet goodbye, filled with deep reflection and forward hope.

Kristen reminds us that goodbyes are part of the process, and each one shapes what comes next. This is not the end of the story, just a shift, a moment to pause, celebrate, and step into what’s waiting on the other side.

To every listener who tuned in, shared an episode, or found a piece of themselves in these stories—thank you. Your presence has made this chapter unforgettable.

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0:00.0	You are listening to brand new eyes.
0:07.0	You are listening to the Christenboss podcast. I'm your host, Kristen Boss. As a best-selling author and performance coach, I'm on a mission to share about sustainable and purposeful approaches to both business and life. Each week, I bring relevant topics that I believe are necessary to create a life of purpose, significance,
0:38.7	and meaning.
0:40.4	Entrepreneurship is about so much more than growing your bottom line.
0:43.7	It's about who you are becoming in the process and building a life that is truly extraordinary.
0:50.6	Entrepreneurship is really just the beginning.
0:56.4	Hey friends, welcome to another episode, an episode where I am wrapping up a chapter,
1:04.6	a chapter of a story I've been writing for quite some time. So by now, if you haven't listened to the prior
1:12.5	two episodes called The Pivot, Part 1 and Part 2, I would encourage you to go back and listen
1:16.5	to give you a little bit of context to what this episode is about. But I'm going to be doing a little
1:21.2	bit of retrospective, kind of looking back on the episodes we've created here, what the journey has been,
1:30.2	and kind of talk a little bit about the next. It's not super clear yet, but here's a couple
1:34.9	things I want to cover. So one, you've probably heard by now that we are doing our final
1:41.4	enrollment of the Social Selling Academy that ends January 2nd,
1:45.9	2025. So this is your opportunity to get access to all the content I have created for you
1:54.1	over the last five years where you can learn the sales, the marketing, the Instagram,
2:00.0	the Facebook, the email marketing,
2:02.2	the recruiting, all of those things packaged nicely for you in an online course that comes
2:08.8	with the Facebook community and literally over 300 videos where I have coached students.
2:15.1	And you can look it up to the minute based on the topic.
2:17.7	You can write any question and it'll take you literally to the minute and the second of a coaching
2:22.6	call that I have done where you can get my response, my answers.
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