Kristine welcomes opportunities to share her expertise on Modern Caregiving, reducing mental exhaustion, and how to recalibrate when life crashes into your plans.
She’s delivered over 75 talks, interviews, panels, and workshops – always with lively humor, abundant Golden Nuggets of guidance, and stellar feedback from attendees.
Kristine welcomes opportunities to share her expertise on Modern Caregiving, reducing mental exhaustion, and how to recalibrate when life crashes into your plans.
She’s delivered over 75 talks, interviews, panels, and workshops – always with lively humor, abundant Golden Nuggets of guidance, and stellar feedback from attendees.
Kristine welcomes opportunities to share her expertise on Modern Caregiving, reducing mental exhaustion, and how to recalibrate when life crashes into your plans.
She’s delivered over 75 talks, interviews, panels, and workshops – always with lively humor, abundant Golden Nuggets of guidance, and stellar feedback from attendees.
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“You received rave reviews from the participants of your amazing interactive presentation. Your passion for the work along with your ability to meet the clients where they are was so helpful in getting certain points across throughout the morning.”
Joanne Webb, Director of the Career Center, The Entertainment Fund
“Kristine – you were a bona fide hit! Everyone got something out of it and the evaluations were glowing. “
Donna Workman Malcom, City of Glendale Employee Health Services
“It is a rarity in our current Hollywood to have an opportunity to enjoy the presence of such a giving individual. Your time spent with our members was highly effective, well received, and deeply appreciated.”
Kevin E. West, founder, The Actors’ Network
“Great seminar Thursday – thank you so much for doing that for our talent!”
Stacey Stahl, owner, Creative Entertainment Management
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How can you recalibrate when major, unexpected events turn your carefully laid plans upside down and inside out? Kristine thought her forties would be her Great Decade wherein all of her lofty career plans would finally come to fruition. Instead, it turned out to be a decade of caring for her only sibling (her younger sister) who had a debilitating chronic illness. Kristine walks through 5 of the most important – and surprising – things that enabled her to sustain her Self, her marriage, and her business as she and her sister traveled down this very rocky road.
The majority of the guidance offered to caregivers is focused on how we can better help the person we are caring for – how to keep their medical, financial, and legal plates spinning. Caregivers are urged to “make time for yourself” but walks and baths and meditation very often feel like just more tasks hanging on to the bottom of your todo list. This valuable discussion shifts the focus from self-care to how to handle the tough decisions, difficult conversations, and important recalibrations that are required to preserve your bandwidth and your spirit during an intense crisis or throughout a long-haul.
Neither love, altruism, nor even a sense of obligation is enough for most humans to sustain themselves mentally and emotionally though an intense or long-term caregiving situation. After only two years of caregiving, the huge mound of love Kristine had for her sister was proving inadequate at keeping burnout and freak out at bay. Then she had a perspective shift that saved her – and enabled her to keep stumbling through the caregiving tunnel for twelve more years.
Caregivers often get mentally exhausted before they get physically exhausted because, in their minds, the caregiving never stops – even if they live miles away from the person they are caring for. Not only is their “caregiver antennae” on active alert for a sign or a sound that they are needed, but they are also managing details, logistics, and family dynamics while keeping thoughts and feelings in check during times when they can’t be expressed. Kristine guides listeners step-by-step through how to plug three of the most common caregiver mental energy leaks. Plugging these leaks allows caregivers to conserve more energy – which they can then put towards staying connected to their own life and goals and dreams while they give care.
Practical guidance and tools to help caregivers reduce inner tension – how to process heavy emotions, deactivate grievance bombs, identify anticipatory grief, wrestle with regrets, and find compassion for themselves (and for those who are “not cooperating like they should”).
participant feedback
“The way Kristine teaches and the way she goes about what she does clarified everything for me. I can’t put a price on it.”
“It was really heartwarming because I sometimes feel like I’m alone when I have issues and I didn’t feel like that at all in the group.”
“Kristine continually shows me how to engage with the machine that is Hollywood and engage with my dreams in an empowered way.”
“I took something away from absolutely every session.”
“Kristine is an amazing facilitator and knows how to keep everybody focused.”
“Kristine mentioned a lot of things to me that I wouldn’t have thought of – that’s the value of coaching.”
“The workshop went above and beyond… there were a lot of nice life lessons or different ways of looking at things that you just don’t talk about in regular life.”
“I always felt it was very safe and there were no judgements of any sort.”
“This is a process that allows me to live my best life.”
“I’m really excited to have learned there’s actually concrete and simple tools to use to identify your energy leaks, to break them down, and to switch them around.”
participant feedback
“The way Kristine teaches and the way she goes about what she does clarified everything for me. I can’t put a price on it.”
“It was really heartwarming because I sometimes feel like I’m alone when I have issues and I didn’t feel like that at all in the group.”
“Kristine continually shows me how to engage with the machine that is Hollywood and engage with my dreams in an empowered way.”
“I took something away from absolutely every session.”
“Kristine is an amazing facilitator and knows how to keep everybody focused.”
“Kristine mentioned a lot of things to me that I wouldn’t have thought of – that’s the value of coaching.”
“The workshop went above and beyond… there were a lot of nice life lessons or different ways of looking at things that you just don’t talk about in regular life.”
“I always felt it was very safe and there were no judgements of any sort.”
“This is a process that allows me to live my best life.”
“I’m really excited to have learned there’s actually concrete and simple tools to use to identify your energy leaks, to break them down, and to switch them around.”
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in-a-nutshell bio
Kristine Oller is a seasoned change strategist who founded You First with the mission of cultivating a generation of Modern Caregivers who are able to offer support to family and friends without sacrificing their own vitality and stability. By helping ambitious, big-hearted people learn how to stay connected to their own goals and dreams while giving care, Kristine is ensuring that more of them will exit the caregiving tunnel on their feet rather than on their knees. Guidance galore at KristineOller.com and on YouTube @kristineoller.
full fancy-pants bio
Kristine Oller is a seasoned change strategist in her third decade of helping ambitious humans with full, complex lives move towards their goals with less effort and more ease – guiding them through important decisions, tough conversations, and significant shifts. She spends much of her time thinking, writing, and speaking about ways to lighten the mental load that consumes so much of our precious personal energy.
At the end of her own twelve-year experience caring for her sister, Kristine founded You First to cultivate a generation of Modern Caregivers who are able to offer support to family and friends without sacrificing their own vitality and stability. Her mission is to help more people exit the caregiving tunnel on their feet rather than on their knees.
She is also the developer and coach of Creating Cashflow (part of the Abundance Bound Financial Empowerment Program) and she produced and co-hosted the first season of the Abundance Bound podcast. She has led close to a thousand self-employed, multi-hyphenate creators, freelancers, and artists through advancing their careers, plugging their mental energy leaks, and strengthening their business muscles.
During her seventeen-year career as a professional organizer, Kristine became an award-winning Golden Circle Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and served on the board of the Los Angeles Chapter. She was a regular monthly columnist for Backstage (3+ years) and she has shared her expertise via talks, panels, workshops for a wide range of organizations (75+) including Harvard/ART, Caltech, UCLA, and Women in Film.
This L.A. native is undaunted by complexity and loves the color green, ice cream, and deep conversations with dynamic people.
glamour shots
photo credit: Wyoh Lee
media materials
in-a-nutshell bio
Kristine Oller is a seasoned change strategist who founded You First with the mission of cultivating a generation of Modern Caregivers who are able to offer support to family and friends without sacrificing their own vitality and stability. By helping ambitious, big-hearted people learn how to stay connected to their own goals and dreams while giving care, Kristine is ensuring that more of them will exit the caregiving tunnel on their feet rather than on their knees. Guidance galore at KristineOller.com and on YouTube @kristineoller.
full fancy-pants bio
Kristine Oller is a seasoned change strategist in her third decade of helping ambitious humans with full, complex lives move towards their goals with less effort and more ease – guiding them through important decisions, tough conversations, and significant shifts. She spends much of her time thinking, writing, and speaking about ways to lighten the mental load that consumes so much of our precious personal energy.
At the end of her own twelve-year experience caring for her sister, Kristine founded You First to cultivate a generation of Modern Caregivers who are able to offer support to family and friends without sacrificing their own vitality and stability. Her mission is to help more people exit the caregiving tunnel on their feet rather than on their knees.
She is also the developer and coach of Creating Cashflow (part of the Abundance Bound Financial Empowerment Program) and she produced and co-hosted the first season of the Abundance Bound podcast. She has led close to a thousand self-employed, multi-hyphenate creators, freelancers, and artists through advancing their careers, plugging their mental energy leaks, and strengthening their business muscles.
During her seventeen-year career as a professional organizer, Kristine became an award-winning Golden Circle Member of the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals and served on the board of the Los Angeles Chapter. She was a regular monthly columnist for Backstage (3+ years) and she has shared her expertise via talks, panels, workshops for a wide range of organizations (75+) including Harvard/ART, Caltech, UCLA, and Women in Film.
This L.A. native is undaunted by complexity and loves the color green, ice cream, and deep conversations with dynamic people.
glamour shots
photo credit: Wyoh Lee