When the Dream Burns Down: How to Rebuild Trust in Yourself After Loss with Lisa Odenweller
Powerhouse Women
Lindsey Schwartz
4.9 • 912 Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
What remains when the house burns down, the business is lost, and the identity you built no longer exists? My conversation with Lisa Odenweller, Founder & CEO of Kroma Wellness, is a masterclass in navigating seasons of change and how to rebuild trust in yourself after loss. We go deep beyond the strategies and into who she had to become in the process of creating 2 of the hottest wellness brands over the last decade as a single mother, losing her dream home in the Palisades fire, and reconnecting with her creativity and softness as a high-achieving woman. By the end of this episode, you'll discover how to choose compassion, forgiveness, and healing for yourself when life tests you to the breaking point.
HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 Say hello to Lisa Odenweller, serial entrepreneur and mom of three!
03:50 How did you build a business as a single mom?
09:05 How women can make themselves their own priority.
11:25 What lessons did you learn from being pushed out of your business?
16:35 Who did you have to become to start a new venture?
22:25 Why the "fake it 'til you make it" mindset doesn't exist.
25:20 Small actions to build trust in yourself and show up through fear.
28:35 The hidden ways the universe continually tests us.
34:55 How did you find the gifts after losing your house in the Palisades fire?
42:35 How to allow yourself to soften after hard loss + open yourself to love.
50:05 What does the future landscape of women in business look like?
56:40 Ways to double down on human connection in an age of AI.
1:01:45 How to uplevel your healing journey (my Kroma faves + the 5-Day Reset).
1:09:40 Advice for women moving through a season of a loss, change, or pain.
1:11:55 Celebrating Lisa's Powerhouse moment of changing the narrative.
RESOURCES + LINKS
Take the leap and uplevel your health & wellness with Kroma Wellness's 5-Day Whole Body Reset HERE!
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Join the waitlist for the 2026 Powerhouse Women Event HERE!
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| 0:00.0 | So of course everyone thought I was crazy and you have to be crazy to be an entrepreneur. |
| 0:03.9 | But there was just this inner knowing. This is going to work. And within one year, it was the most |
| 0:08.4 | successful concept in the country. So the only way I could have attracted these people was by me |
| 0:13.6 | learning how to believe in me, even if I had to fake it. I don't actually think we're faking it. |
| 0:18.2 | It's casting a future vision that we have to enroll ourselves in. |
| 0:21.8 | Anyone who's doing something big is selling a vision that hasn't happened yet. |
| 0:26.4 | How can we as women show up fully if we're not taking care of ourselves? |
| 0:30.5 | You have big things to do in the world. |
| 0:31.9 | I have big things to do in the world. |
| 0:33.1 | Everyone listening has big things in the world. |
| 0:34.7 | I don't have time to be slowed down. |
| 0:36.8 | You are proof for me of what the aging that I'm living into looks like. |
| 0:42.6 | I am so full of life and so full of vitality and youthfulness and playfulness and sexiness |
| 0:48.9 | and excited. |
| 0:49.9 | At 55, I don't believe one thing can do all things. |
| 0:54.1 | But if there's one, if there's one supplement, |
| 0:57.1 | that I think will change your life, it's if you're one, if you right now, if you right now are |
| 1:07.7 | navigating a season of massive change, maybe massive loss, how do you |
| 1:13.4 | actually start to trust yourself again? |
| 1:15.8 | How do you get back up and pursue that dream, pursue that next relationship? |
| 1:21.5 | We're diving deep into this conversation today with one of my favorite women on the planet. |
| 1:26.9 | I'm sitting down with Lisa Odenweller, |
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