In this heart-centered episode, Kristin Svets invites you to move beyond surface-level thankfulness and explore gratitude as an energetic frequency, one that can transform how you think, feel, and live.
As we enter the season of gratitude, Kristin breaks down six layers of next-level gratitude practices that go far beyond writing a quick list. She shares how appreciation can reshape your relationships, your mindset, and even your physical health, helping you tune into abundance right where you are.
This is more than a November ritual, it’s a daily way of being.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
💫 The science behind gratitude and why it literally rewires your brain and body
💫 The difference between gratitude and appreciation and how to move from thought to embodiment
💫 Six practices to deepen your gratitude:
Appreciate the little things — slow down and savor the simple moments
Appreciate loved ones — express gratitude directly and specifically
Show kindness — use gratitude to create ripple effects in your day
Reflect on experiences — find meaning in both the joyful and the hard
Appreciate yourself — honor your body, resilience, and growth
The Golden Thread of Gratitude — trace the moments and choices that led you to now
💫 How gratitude connects to abundance, alignment, and emotional well-being
💫 Why this practice can strengthen relationships, lower stress, and even improve your health
Powerful Takeaway:
When gratitude moves from something you do to something you live, everything changes. Your happiness expands.Your relationships deepen. Your energy rises. Your abundance grows.
Journal Prompts:
🪶 What simple moment from today can I pause to fully appreciate?
🪶 Who in my life can I express gratitude to — and how can I make it specific?
🪶 What challenging experience am I ready to view through the lens of appreciation?
🪶 What’s the “golden thread” that connects the moments that brought me here?
Connect with Kristin:
✨ Book a Soul Purpose Session or Mini Retreat Day to deepen your connection with your purpose and energy.
💻 Visit Kristin’s website or connect via Instagram @kristinsvetscoaching
🎧 Subscribe to the Abundant By Design Podcast for weekly inspiration and energetic alignment tools.
If this episode resonated with you, share it with a friend who’s ready to live in gratitude and abundance and tag Kristin to join the conversation. 💛
After returning from her latest international retreat, Kristin is still glowing and she wants to share how you can bring that same peace, clarity, and magic into your everyday life.
In this episode, she explores how to infuse “retreat energy” into your daily routines, even when you can’t get away for a week-long reset. You’ll learn how the art of creating space opens the door for transformation, clarity, and abundance, and how intentional pauses can become the most powerful part of your personal growth journey.
Because the truth is… the transformation doesn’t just happen on the retreat. It happens in the space you choose to create — right here, right now.
In This Episode, You’ll Learn:
✨ The energetics of removal, why slowing down and creating white space allows divine clarity to flow in
✨ How retreat energy isn’t one-size-fits-all, and how to design your own version of it
✨ The difference between escaping and retreating (and why intention changes everything)
✨ Four powerful ways to bring retreat energy into your life, from micro daily rituals to full transformational getaways
✨ Why the act of pausing is actually one of the most abundant things you can do
Episode Highlights:
“Sometimes the real abundance isn’t in doing more — it’s in allowing space for what wants to find you.”
“Your capacity to receive is directly related to your capacity to pause.”
“Retreat energy is not an escape — it’s an intentional homecoming to yourself.”
“When you design your pauses, you design your life.”
Practical Ways to Start Creating Retreat Energy:
Daily Rituals – Begin your mornings with 5–10 minutes of silence, journaling, breathwork, or meditation.
Half-Day Reset – Block 2–4 hours in your calendar for solitude, creativity, or nature time.
Weekend Mini-Retreat – Take yourself away for a few days — solo or with a friend — to rest, reflect, and reconnect.
Full Retreat Experience – Give yourself permission to take the bigger leap and join a guided retreat for deep renewal and expansion.
Ready to Go Deeper?
Join Kristin’s 2026 Retreat Waitlist to be the first to know about upcoming immersive experiences that blend spiritual practice, adventure, and deep inner transformation.
Or, if you’re craving a more intimate experience, book a 1:1 mini retreat session with Kristin, a personalized hour of breathwork, energy guidance, and space to receive whatever your soul needs most.
📧 Email Kristin (hello@kristinsvets.com) or visit kristinsvets.com to connect.
Takeaway:
When you bring retreat energy into your everyday life, you begin to live from intention instead of autopilot. You slow down enough to hear your heart’s whispers, and that’s where abundance truly begins.
Because when you create space… you create clarity. you create connection. you create magic.
You become Abundant By Design.
In this heart-opening episode, Kristin invites you to reconnect with your big dreams, the ones that make your heart race and your soul light up. Through personal stories, cosmic wisdom, and grounded guidance, she explores how to balance dreaming big with being deeply present and grateful for where you are now.
Drawing inspiration from the Libra New Moon and the energy of new beginnings, Kristin shares how to use this time to plant intentional seeds, trust divine timing, and embody the vibration of your next chapter, even before it arrives.
🌙 Key Points:
Why dreaming big is a spiritual practice of trust and expansion.
The Libra New Moon’s energy and how it helps you balance your vision with your reality.
How Kristin’s dream of hosting retreats became a living example of co-creating with the universe.
The importance of gratitude and presence as you grow toward your goals.
Understanding that your dreams are not just destinations, they’re invitations to become who you’re meant to be.
Practical Rituals & Tools:
1. New Moon Dream Ritual
2. Write It Down
3. Create Balance
4. Set an Intention
5. Surrender
6. Embody the Dream Daily
Journal Prompts:
What is my big dream — the one that makes my heart skip a beat?
How can I balance gratitude for where I am with excitement for where I’m going?
Who am I becoming as I grow toward this dream?
Your dream isn’t too big, too far away, or too unrealistic, it’s a seed already planted in your soul. Tend to it with gratitude, trust, and aligned action.
If you’re ready to go deeper, book a Soul Purpose Session with Kristin to receive intuitive guidance and energy alignment around your next chapter at kristinsvets.com.
What if your purpose isn’t something you have to find… but something you’re already living? In this heart-centered episode, Kristin Svets explores the deeper meaning of purpose, beyond titles, careers, or achievements, and invites you to see your life itself as sacred. Through her own journey of transitions, motherhood, and rediscovery, Kristin shares how aligning with your soul purpose brings more peace, clarity, and fulfillment into every season of life.
Key Points:
🌿 Your purpose isn’t a single destination — it’s the journey itself.
🌿 Life purpose evolves with each stage of your life; soul purpose is your true north, the essence that flows through it all.
🌿 Transitions like motherhood or empty nesting often awaken the question, “Who am I now?” and that question can be sacred.
🌿 Defining your core values, mission, and vision creates your spiritual navigation system.
🌿 You can’t “miss” your purpose, it lives in your energy, your presence, and the choices you make every day.
Practical Tips:
✨ Morning Reflection: Ask yourself, What lights me up right now? and let that guide your day.
✨ Revisit Joy: Look back at past seasons, what activities made you feel most alive? Can you bring them forward again?
✨ Define Your Values: Write a list of what truly matters to you today. Let those values become your compass.
✨ Create a Mission & Vision Statement: Treat your life like your most meaningful project, what’s your mission, and how do you want to feel living it?
✨ Listen Inward: Through meditation, breathwork, or journaling, quiet the noise so your inner wisdom can speak.
Journal Prompt:
What moments in my life have made me feel most alive, and what do they reveal about my soul’s purpose?
Your journey is your purpose. 💫Trust the whispers of your heart and follow what lights you up. If this episode resonated, share it with someone who needs a reminder that they’re already on their path and don’t forget to subscribe to the Abundant By Design Podcast for more inspiration.
What does it really mean to lead yourself when no one is watching? In this episode, Kristin Svets dives deep into the practice of self-leadership, not just in big, visible moments, but in the everyday choices, thoughts, and reactions that shape your life. Learn how to take responsibility for your mindset, energy, and actions so you can build trust with yourself, regulate your nervous system, and create a ripple effect of calm, clarity, and alignment in every area of your life.
Key Takeaways
🌟 Self-leadership isn’t about perfection or productivity, it’s about presence and intention.
🌟 Real leadership happens in the “in between” moments: how you talk to yourself, how you react under stress, how you show up daily.
🌟 Self-leadership means taking responsibility for your mindset, your energy, and your actions/reactions.
🌟 Nervous system regulation is key: when you pause, breathe, and reset, you shift from survival mode into empowered choice.
🌟 Leading yourself well builds trust with yourself, and makes you magnetic to others.
Practical Tips:
✨ Daily Check-In – Each morning, ask: What energy am I bringing into today? Choose one word intention (calm, curious, courageous, etc.).
✨ Three-Breath Pause – Before reacting to stress, take three slow breaths to reset.
✨ Notice Self-Sabotage – Gently redirect fear, old habits, or inner critic voices back toward your intention.
✨ Body Awareness – Pay attention to signs of contraction (tight shoulders, shallow breath) and use breath or movement to regulate.
✨ Lead With Compassion – Remember: self-leadership is not about control, it’s about guiding yourself with awareness and gentleness.
Lead yourself with intention this week and notice how everything around you begins to shift. If this episode resonates, share it with a friend who could use a reminder of their own inner leadership. Subscribe to the Abundant By Design Podcast for more insights, and tag @kristensvets on Instagram with how you’re practicing self-leadership in your daily and let her know your favorite practice for shifting your vibration!
What if the secret to success wasn’t about hustling harder… but about your energy? In this episode, Kristin Svets breaks down the law of vibration, the idea that everything in the universe is energy, constantly moving and vibrating. When you shift your frequency, you shift your life.
Key Takeaways
Why the law of vibration is the foundation of true success.
How your energy attracts more of what you are, not just what you want.
Practical ways to raise your vibration daily, from breathwork to gratitude to movement.
The power of sound healing to release stuck energy + restore balance.
Try This
Check in with your frequency, how do you feel right now?
Take a few deep breaths to calm your nervous system
Write down three things you’re grateful for
Put on your favorite song and dance it out
Visualize your abundant future self and tune into that energy
If this episode resonates, share it with a friend who could use a reminder about their energy. And don’t forget to subscribe for more soul-aligned conversations. Tag @kristensvets on Instagram and let her know your favorite practice for shifting your vibration!
What if success wasn’t measured by how much you accomplish, but by how aligned you feel? In this episode, Kristin Svets invites you to look at success through a new lens, one that’s rooted in energy, vibration, and soul alignment. She shares how intentional living, meditation, and breathwork can shift not just your state of being, but the way abundance flows into your life.
What You’ll Hear:
Journal Prompt: “If I measured my success today, this week, or this month by my energy instead of my achievements, how would that change the way I show up?”
Tune in, subscribe, and share this episode with someone who’s ready to redefine what success means to them. And don’t forget to tag Kristin on Instagram to join the conversation!
Join Kristin Svets as she relaunches the Abundant By Design podcast after a three-year hiatus. In this episode, Kristin shares life updates, and how embracing change and growth has been her focus for the past few years. She also discusses the journey of writing her book, "Design to Shine," and the personal growth she experienced during her time away.
Discover how she navigated the transition to an empty nester, explored sound healing, and embraced new spiritual practices. Kristin also discusses her passion for helping others align with their soul's purpose and her work in financial coaching for small businesses, hoping to inspire and empower you to embrace your many passions and interests in your next chapter to cultivate more fulfillment and happiness.
Key Takeaways
Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. Today, as we wrap up season 1, we discuss how forgiveness and gratitude truly are the keys to inner peace. See you next season!
Connect with me:
https://www.kristinsvets.com
hello@kristinsvets.com
Join me for The Pathway to Inner Peace Workshop: A Forgiveness and Gratitude Breathwork Experience. Held on zoom on Nov 16th at 11 am CT. Sign up here:
https://kristinsvets.samcart.com/products/pathway-to-inner-peace
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Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. Today we're discussing how to peacefully let go in the changes of seasons. Not only the changes with this cooler weather but also in our lives. And how letting go can open up beautiful spaces!
Connect with me:
https://www.kristinsvets.com
hello@kristinsvets.com
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Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. Want to know how to actually rest and rise even stronger? Let's discuss the importance of pauses in our everyday life!
Connect with me:
https://www.kristinsvets.com
hello@kristinsvets.com
Music credit to Chris Collins: indiemusicbox.com
Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. In today's episode, I'm sharing simple steps to find harmony within our body, mind, and spirit!
Journal prompts:
What would it mean to be in a state of harmony?
What would that feel like?
What is most important to me?
How do I want to show up?
Listen for more!
Connect with me:
https://www.kristinsvets.com
hello@kristinsvets.com
Music credit to Chris Collins: indiemusicbox.com
Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. Today's episode is about how to feel good and actively find joy EVERY DAY!
Connect with me:
https://www.kristinsvets.com
hello@kristinsvets.com
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Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. Today's episode is about the SCIENTIFIC benefits of breathwork and meditation.
Connect with me: https://www.kristinsvets.com
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Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. Today's episode is about how to DESIGN your extraordinary life. A lot of people say they want a powerful, magical life but sit back and let it drift by. So how do we step into a role of co-creation? Let's talk about it...
Connect with me: https://www.kristinsvets.com
Music credit to Chris Collins: indiemusicbox.com
Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. Today's episode is about happiness and harmony, which have been on my top of mind lately. I love this quote: "there's no path to happiness; happiness is the path." It speaks to how we all affect one another, separate waves in the same ocean. So, how CAN we embrace happiness and create more harmony in our lives through interconnection? Let's talk about it...
Connect with me: https://www.kristinsvets.com
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Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. Today's episode is about why we lose our power, how we lose our power, and how to change the ways we're operating day-to-day to set up some practical strategies and mindset awareness to reclaim and expand our power!
Workshop info: Thursday, September 15th, 2022, at 11 am CT
Register for the workshop here:
https://kristinsvets.samcart.com/products/expanding-fulfillment-secrets-to-awaken-your-purpose-peace-and-power
Connect with me at https://www.kristinsvets.com
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Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. Today's episode is about the fascinating conundrum of the infinite potential that we have within us, paired with how we seem to always get in our own way. So what can we do to step into our power, craft our purpose, and ultimately bring peace to our lives? Let's talk about it!
Workshop info: Thursday, September 15th, 2022, at 11 am CT
Register for the workshop here:
https://kristinsvets.samcart.com/products/expanding-fulfillment-secrets-to-awaken-your-purpose-peace-and-power
Connect with me at https://www.kristinsvets.com
Music credit to Chris Collins at indiemusicbox.com
Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. Today's episode is all about how to EASILY add more fun into our lives. We can be happy and still realize that the fun and playfulness have slipped away from us, so I'm sharing how to live a more playful life so that it brings in more joy and fulfillment.
Journal prompts:
1. What brings you joy? And beyond the easy ones, what else brings you joy?
2. Reflect on your dreams. What did you desire to be as a kid? A young adult? Now?
3. What parts of those dreams can you incorporate more into your daily life right now?
4. Tap into your imagination and create a picture of people having fun. What are they doing? How many people are they with? Where are they? How could you get creative and add more of these to your life?
5. Where could you celebrate yourself and your life more?
6. How could you move through the world as if it were your playground?
7. How could you find more delight in the everyday?
Find me at https://www.kristinsvets.com for more free guided meditations, the link to book a free 15-minute coffee chat with me, and to learn about the ways I can support you.
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Welcome again to the Abundant By Design podcast! I'm so grateful that you're here with me. Today's episode is about that tricky dance between boundaries and forgiveness and how to become the peacekeeper of your soul!
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