232. Part 3: Healing and Moving Forward

The Kristen Boss Podcast

Kristen Boss

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, How To

4.9 • 751 Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Episode Overview

In the final installment of her vulnerable three-part series, Kristen continues to unpack the emotional, spiritual, and professional journey she’s been on over the past year. Picking up where she left off—at rock bottom—Kristen shares what happened after taking radical responsibility for her actions and stepping away from the business that made her a household name in social selling.

She explores the deep healing work she’s done through therapy, a transformational retreat, and a season of radical stillness...before realizing that healing often intensifies when we start building again. Kristen discusses the creation of Sondera, her new company focused on nervous system regulation, and how the entrepreneurial process is offering her the most humbling and redemptive growth of all.

This is not a polished comeback. This is the messy middle—where ego dies, faith grows, and identity is rebuilt.

What You'll Learn in This Episode

Why healing often accelerates in the process of building something new
How nervous system dysregulation can sabotage success
The dangers of attaching self-worth to productivity and platform
Why Kristen walked away from a wildly successful business
The origin story of Sondera and what it’s really about
Why your internal safety matters more than external security

Key Takeaways

Healing is not linear. Kristen thought peace would come from stillness. But it came through risk, exposure, and being seen in a new way.
Burnout is more than overwork. Chronic nervous system dysregulation—not just hours worked—was what broke Kristen down.
Success doesn’t mean alignment. Kristen shares how she knew she was out of alignment even though her business was thriving on the surface.
Redemption is found in transparency. Instead of disappearing and re-emerging perfectly polished, Kristen invites her audience into the real-time journey.
Your body tells the truth. Learning how her stress response (flight) controlled her behavior helped her take back agency and make healthier decisions.

Timestamps

00:00 – Intro: “I see you with brand new eyes.”

01:20 – Recapping Part 2: Hitting bottom and coming home

03:00 – The power of bringing your story into the light

05:00 – Deep therapy and emotional healing at Onsite

06:15 – Feeling disillusioned with her former business model

07:10 – Launching “Beyond the Business” coaching calls

08:00 – The agonizing decision to shut down her signature programs

09:45 – Stewarding success well in seasons of plenty

11:00 – Letting go of external validation and facing public perception

12:30 – The fantasy of a “quiet, offline life” vs. the call to rebuild

15:00 – Discovering nervous system regulation as the missing link

17:00 – Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn: how they show up in your business

20:00 – Why she mistook her chronic stress for ambition

23:30 – Understanding burnout through the lens of dysregulation

25:10 – Building Sondera: from idea to messy execution

26:30 – Why healing happened through building, not before it

29:00 – Learning to express vulnerability to her husband

31:00 – Letting go of ego, hustle, and performance-driven identity

33:00 – Creating Sondera as a redemptive act

34:30 – Reconnecting with her story and reclaiming her voice

36:00 – An invitation to listeners: look for the growth in your own build

39:00 – Next up: nervous system regulation and what it means in daily life

Resources & Mentions

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to brand new eyes.
0:07.1	You're 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,
0:38.8	and meaning.
0:40.4	Entrepreneurship is about so much more than growing your bottom line.
0:43.9	It's about who you are becoming in the process and building a life that is truly extraordinary.
0:50.7	Entrepreneurship is really just the beginning.
0:58.3	Thank you. entrepreneurship is really just the beginning. Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of the podcast.
1:02.3	I'm so glad you're here.
1:03.5	Thanks for tuning in for another episode, especially after the last one.
1:07.4	That one, when the day aired, I was under a blanket. Most of the day, I had to do a
1:14.6	webinar earlier in the day. And then I just told my husband, I was like, I'm done. I think I need to
1:20.0	have a nap and be under a blanket. I will say your outreach, your kind messages, your reviews.
1:30.0	Thank you. Thank you for every single one of them. Your kindness, your kind messages, your reviews, thank you. Thank you for every single one of them.
1:37.2	Your kindness, your grace, your empathy. I'm truly humbled by it. So if you're just catching this episode, this is part three of a three-part story of my story of kind of, I would say, the last year, but I feel like the last year is
1:48.8	really kind of part two, three. It's really kind of a shortened summary of my life
1:58.3	2019 up until present day. And so we're going to continue the conversation.
2:03.4	We left off in a pretty hard spot last, last episode where I shared that I was, quote, found out that I came home to own the mess I made, to take full responsibility and accountability to
2:23.7	understand how did I get here, what repairs need to be made.
2:29.2	And I think down the road someday, I think there will be maybe a joint podcast or Scott
2:34.1	and I will talk about
2:35.0	our healing together, but this is still just sharing my story, my part. I don't think it's a
2:43.0	coincidence that this is also the week that I don't know if you follow Jen Hatmaker, but she
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