Keeping Your Shape — Kari Brunson Wright on Reinvention, Boundaries, and Coming Back to Self

"The opposite is always the medicine. You people-please to others — so how do you people-please to you?" — Kari Brunson WrightThere's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from bending yourself into whatever shape a room needs you to be. Kari Brunson Wright knows it well — from a ballet stage, to a restaurant line, to running her own businesses. It took three full reinventions before she learned how to stop.In this episode, Kari shares the honest story of walking away from a decade-long career as a professional ballerina, building and eventually selling a cafe and an ice cream company, and becoming a Psycho-Spiritual Leadership Coach. This is real conversation and authentic storytelling about identity, boundaries, and the whispers that show up long before the big changes do — the kind of personal growth for women that doesn't come with a tidy bow.If you've ever bent yourself into a shape that wasn't really yours, this one's for you. New episodes every Thursday on all major podcast platforms.Connect with Heather: WebsiteFacebookInstagramLinkedInYouTubeTimestamps00:00 — Introduction — Heather welcomes Kari Brunson Wright6:02 — Kari's decade as a professional ballerina and the injury that led her to walk away12:52 — From the ballet stage to the restaurant line — falling into food16:20 — Building a cafe and an ice cream company, and the decision to finally sell her shares19:43 — "I want to be you" — the moment coaching became the next chapter29:48 — Boundaries, energy, and what it means to "keep your shape"About Kari Brunson WrightKari Brunson Wright is a psycho-spiritual leadership coach and regenerative business consultant who works with founders, executives, and leaders navigating the gap between who they've become and how they're actually living. Her work centers on alignment, integrity, and self-trust — helping people make decisions they can actually stand behind. She brings fifteen years of experience working alongside people through growth, pressure, and change, plus her own background as a co-founder of multiple businesses. Kari writes the Substack newsletter The Recipe for Being Well, and lives in Seattle, Washington, with her husband, their two kids, and a Great Pyrenees/Lab mix puppy named Bean.Connect with Kari Brunson WrightInstagram Website LinkedInSubstack Support the show