Welcome to another edition of Kickin' it with Kristen — your midweek motivation every Wednesday! Don't put off your potential — try coaching and book a complimentary Coaching Session today! #leadership #personaldevelopment #learning 💡Aha! Moment I picked Fearless as my word of the year for 2025, not really knowing what it would demand of me… or what it would give back. Looking back now, I can say this without hesitation: 2025 stretched me, shaped me, tested me, and grew me in ways I didn’t...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to another edition of Kickin’ it with Kristen — where leadership lessons meet real-world hotel sourcing and event strategy. If you’ve got an event on the horizon and want an easy, stress-free way to talk through hotels, dates, or destinations, let’s schedule a Virtual Diet Coke and brainstorm together. #TheHotelWhisperer #eventplanning #hospitality #KIWK 💡Aha! Moment Family Energy Vampires — A Holiday Survival Guide After this year, I’m convinced of one thing: Every family has an...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to another edition of Kickin’ it with Kristen — where leadership lessons meet real-world hotel sourcing and event strategy. If you’ve got an event on the horizon and want an easy, stress-free way to talk through hotels, dates, or destinations, let’s schedule a Virtual Diet Coke and brainstorm together. #TheHotelWhisperer #eventplanning #hospitality #KIWK 💡Aha! Moment Sometimes the Best Goals Are the Ones You Actually Make Space For I finally sat down to create my vision board for the...
2 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to another edition of Kickin' it with Kristen — your midweek motivation every Wednesday! Don't put off your potential — try coaching and book a complimentary Coaching Session today! #leadership #personaldevelopment #learning 💡Aha! Moment It’s the “One More Thing” That Usually Gets You! My sister-in-law was in town last week, and we decided to have a fun night together. One drink became two… One bottle of wine became two… And then — in a moment of questionable brilliance — we ended the...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to another edition of Kickin' it with Kristen — your midweek motivation every Wednesday! Don't put off your potential — try coaching and book a complimentary Coaching Session today! #leadership #personaldevelopment #learning 💡Aha! Moment 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀. 𝗦𝗶𝘅𝘁𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝘀. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗧𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 Six 𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀. It's the smallest habit that created the biggest shift. I'll never forget one Thursday morning in 2021. 8:15 AM. My phone rang with test results, two suspicious spots, one needing immediate...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to another edition of Kickin' it with Kristen — your midweek motivation every Wednesday! Don't put off your potential — try coaching and book a complimentary Coaching Session today! #leadership #personaldevelopment #learning 💡Aha! Moment My niece and I live 1,000 miles apart. But we’re connected by three minutes and thirty-three seconds of music. For me, that song is “I Can Only Imagine.” It was written by Bart Millard, lead singer of MercyMe, after his father’s death — a way to...
3 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to another edition of Kickin' it with Kristen — your midweek motivation every Wednesday! Don't put off your potential — try coaching and book a complimentary Coaching Session today! #leadership #personaldevelopment #learning 💡Aha! Moment 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗨𝗩 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 Two words on the side of a vehicle stopped me cold last week: 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆. I was driving to my niece's cheer competition. Music playing, windows down, one of those drives where you can breathe a little deeper....
4 months ago • 3 min read
Welcome to another edition of Kickin' it with Kristen — your midweek motivation every Wednesday! Don't put off your potential — try coaching and book a complimentary Coaching Session today! #leadership #personaldevelopment #learning 💡Aha! Moment When life throws a curveball, you hope family pulls together. But sometimes, it reveals the cracks that were already there. I’ve been reminded of that lately — and it’s been a painful, powerful lesson in what it means to love without losing yourself....
4 months ago • 4 min read
Welcome to another edition of Kickin' it with Kristen — your midweek motivation every Wednesday! Don't put off your potential — try coaching and book a complimentary Coaching Session today! #leadership #personaldevelopment #learning 💡Aha! Moment Sitting at a café in Paris Las Vegas, watching the Eiffel Tower lights twinkle while sipping overpriced Diet Pepsi (yes, they serve only Pepsi). That's when it hit me. I'd been scrolling LinkedIn between meetings, and every other post mentioned...
4 months ago • 4 min read