240. Gratitude in the Hard

The Kristen Boss Podcast

Kristen Boss

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, How To

4.9 • 751 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Kristen Boss opens up about the difficult realities of 2025 and how she's navigating grief, loss, and uncertainty with intentional gratitude. As Thanksgiving approaches, Kristen invites listeners into a compassionate, honest conversation about finding meaning in hardship without resorting to toxic positivity.

She shares personal stories from her own challenging year and instead of glossing over the pain, Kristen explores how to extract lessons, build resilience, and reclaim agency even when life feels brutally hard.

If you're feeling weary, stuck, or overwhelmed heading into the holidays, this episode will feel like a deep breath and a warm hug. Kristen reminds us that we don’t have to wait for life to get better—we get to decide how we show up in the midst of it.

Episode Highlights:

Kristen’s deeply personal reflection on a difficult year
Why she rejects toxic positivity and honors emotional honesty
How to find gratitude without bypassing grief or pain
Reframing hardship as a chance to build resilience and self-compassion
Why waiting for external circumstances to change creates powerlessness
Tangible advice for reclaiming agency and creating change in your life
Holiday survival tips for navigating tricky family dynamics with grace

Call to Action:

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Timestamps:

0:00 — Welcome + Thanksgiving reflections

1:20 — A hard year and why this episode had to be different

3:30 — Kristen’s personal stories: grief, health scares, and life transitions

6:40 — Resilience through adversity

9:20 — The myth of January 1st as a magical reset

11:00 — How to be the agent of change in your own life

13:00 — Holiday mindset hacks and boundary tips

14:30 — Final encouragement and sign-off

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Transcript

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0:00.0	You're seeing with brand new eyes.
0:07.1	You're listening to the Kirstimbaugh. I'm your host. I'm your host, Kristen Boss. As a best-selling author and
0:26.4	performance coach, I'm on a mission to share about sustainable and purposeful approaches to both
0:31.0	business and life. Each week, I bring relevant topics that I believe are necessary to create a life
0:37.2	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.
0:58.4	Thank you. entrepreneurship is really just the beginning. Hey friends, welcome to another episode of the podcast. I am so glad you're back. It is
1:03.5	Thanksgiving week as this episode is dropping. That's what we're celebrating here in the
1:10.3	U.S. if you're a U.S. listener.
1:13.2	If you're not, just hoping you're having a lovely fall season or wherever you are.
1:19.7	Hope you're doing good. But over here, I'm about to get ready for prepping. This is when I host at
1:26.5	my house and I become a gourmet cook once a year where I dust off old
1:34.0	Bon Appetit recipes and Martha Stewart recipes and Pioneer Women recipes and I just
1:39.8	becomes the land of butter, sugar, and flour over here.
1:44.7	So we're excited.
1:46.2	We've got some family coming into town.
1:47.7	We've got some other things coming that I'll talk about in future episodes.
1:52.0	But hey, while you're listening, if you have not registered for the three-day success rewire,
1:56.7	I want to encourage you to do that right now.
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