What happens when your aging parent needs you more and you're already stretched too thin? Michelle Arant knows. For five years, she ran Kris's operation while her mom slowly disappeared into dement...
I keep seeing the same pattern. Successful women running multimillion dollar businesses who don't have assistants. Women trying to figure out their marriages, their family problems, their health......
On September 27th, my mom passed away at 88 years old. I was with her, holding her hand, as she died.
In this deeply personal episode, I'm sharing what that experience was like, the complicated re...
You're researching. You're exploring. You're gathering more information. But what if the real problem isn't that you don't know enough? What if you just don't believe yet?
What you'll learn
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You swallow your feelings to keep the peace. But you're the one paying the price.
Kris has stopped doing it. Something shifted this year. She's unwilling to pretend she isn't feeling what she's fe...
You can't wait to feel happy. You have to practice it.
Kris has been thinking about joy. Real joy, not the performative kind. The kind where you wake up and think, okay, this is good. She's notice...
This episode is different. There's no lesson, no breakdown, no list of takeaways. Just a meditation.
Kris created this for the women who can't stop. The ones who feel guilty the moment they're not...
You say you want it. Then you spend all your energy explaining why you can't have it.
Kris has been working on breaking her own cycles, and she's watching this pattern everywhere. Women tell her t...
You built the dream. Now the ground underneath it is changing.
Kris is experiencing it.
She's talking to women whose businesses are soaring but they don't want to run them anymore.
Women whose b...
Your confusion isn't a problem. It's a tell.
In her years of coaching women, Kris keeps seeing the same pattern. Women say they're confused about what they want, whether to keep an employee, or ...
If you recognize there's a bottleneck between where you are and where you want to be, this is for you.
Kris has closed her business and opened her practice. The difference matters. A practice isn'...
Every business has an ending. The question is whether you're going to plan for it or let it happen to you.
Kris is thinking about something that doesn't get talked about nearly enough. Aging. Exit...
What if the person judging you the most isn't anyone else? It's you.
Kris has noticed something that shows up in almost everything her clients struggle with. They feel judged. They don't fit in. T...
What if the life you're living right now is based on definitions you never questioned?
Kris has been thinking about home. Not just the physical structure, but what it means. She and her husband ar...
What if the anger and resentment you think you're supposed to keep is actually what's keeping you trapped?
Kris is on a walk thinking about grief, anger, loss, and what we do with it. 2026 has han...
What if admitting you want more isn't selfish? What if it's actually the point?
Kris has been thinking about greatness. Not achievement. Not goals. Greatness. And she's noticing that most women do...
The only thing separating you from what you want is belief.
Kris is in the car on her way to pick up her daughter from the airport during peak rush hour traffic on the Bay Area bridge. She hates t...
If the pattern keeps repeating, it's time to turn up the heat.
Kris has spent her entire career helping other people get what they want. And she's watching women do the same thing. Pouring everyth...
You built something incredible. You made a thing that didn't exist. You're running a multi-million-dollar business, and yes, that's magic.
But somewhere along the way, the dream you chased became ...
Here's the thing people get wrong. When you see someone doing well, the instinct is to copy what they do. That job they have, that approach they take, that course they're selling. If it works for t...
If you followed Leadership is Feminine, this is going to feel different. Better, actually. Kris takes a beat to explain why she needed to hit pause on the podcast, why she's back, and why the conve...
What if the bravest act of leadership is knowing when it’s time to pause?
In this deeply personal episode, Kris invites listeners into the raw, honest crossroads she’s currently navigating—one m...
We love the idea of accountability—until it gets uncomfortable. Until it requires us to tell the truth and stop making excuses for what we’ve been tolerating. In this powerful episode, Kris Plac...
In this week’s episode of Leadership is Feminine®, Kris speaks straight to the hearts of high-achieving women who are carrying so much—the businesses they run, the households they manage, the pe...
Here, leadership is feminine, equity is non-negotiable, and every woman’s growth is vital; not optional. We believe love is love—and the more love, the better. Spirituality is personal, and every individual has the right to choose their own path. We respect facts, laws, and systems that create clarity and fairness for all. And above all, we know that the point of being human isn’t to judge or divide, but to expand—through connection, experience, and honoring what makes us different.
