Hello! I'm Kristen.I have a deep passion for entrepreneurship, advocacy, and using my lived experience to help other women heal and thrive. For 20 years, I have been passionate about combining social impact and entrepreneurship. Emotional health and resilience are the unseen foundation of business and personal success. My Built to Last Toolkit is available for download. Check it out! I have been involved in various real estate roles since 2006 and became licensed again in 2022. In 2019, I started a wellness company called GoodHeart Collaborative to support the emotional health and well-being of helping professionals. I designed and launched a mobile app called the GoodHeart App in 2021 (no longer available). I am also the host of The Good Heart Podcast. Awards - Best Overall Pitch Women on the Rise Pitch Event- SoCap Accelerate Graduate 2022- Institute for Health Innovation Idea Challenge Grand Prize WinnerIn 2013, I opened Denver's first licensed safe home for minors after hearing that Colorado did not have any suitable safe homes for these young girls to find healing and safety. I am a Former Nonprofit Founder of Extended Hands of Hope. Our mission was to offer safe housing and supportive services to survivors of minor sex trafficking. Over 7 years, it grew from nothing to several programs including running a Colorado Licensed Safe Home, operating a Licensed School on-site, developing our trauma-informed mental health programming, as well as a community mentoring program and raising outside funding to start a social enterprise bakery called Simply Good Cakery.