Stay Tuned with Troy and Howie
Aug 5, 2026 · 1 hr 23 min · 13 segments
In this episode, Kristen shares her journey of building and selling a successful organization, the lessons learned along the way, and insights into the complexities of healthcare pricing and…
Kristen ClossonGuestHowieHostTroyHost
Opening eight centers in four years is a little... crazy um we're going to start growing again over the next couple of years my philosophy is just like you just have this like panic in yourself where you're like there's children sitting there waiting on you because when we opened our first center a mom came to me and said i've been waiting on you for eight years i didn't know who the hell you were and i didn't know when you would ever show up but you showed up and um so we always say that You think about each child's purpose and where they'll find their place.
And so I had this, this is another tier one, but she was two years old and I'm like, you know, corporate America flying all over the country.
I'm not, I don't really have these types of experiences, but it just, I picked her up and I was really like feeling sorry for myself and thinking this sucks.
I might've had an accident on the beltway or I was living in Baltimore, you know? And later I figured out like, Oh, now I know why you were assigned me.
It was height of COVID and she was very angry because the ABA Center, she wasn't going to it for a few months.
Sure.
So she hits you when she's not able to communicate and she's frustrated and she's not understanding why she can't go to ABA, why she can't go to big rooms, what she called it.
Opening eight centers in four years is a little... crazy um we're going to start growing again over the next couple of years my philosophy is just like you just have this like panic in yourself where you're like there's children sitting there waiting on you because when we opened our first center a mom came to me and said i've been waiting on you for eight years i didn't know who the hell you were and i didn't know when you would ever show up but you showed up and um so we always say that You think about each child's purpose and where they'll find their place.
And so I had this, this is another tier one, but she was two years old and I'm like, you know, corporate America flying all over the country.
I'm not, I don't really have these types of experiences, but it just, I picked her up and I was really like feeling sorry for myself and thinking this sucks.
I might've had an accident on the beltway or I was living in Baltimore, you know? And later I figured out like, Oh, now I know why you were assigned me.
It was height of COVID and she was very angry because the ABA Center, she wasn't going to it for a few months.
Sure.
So she hits you when she's not able to communicate and she's frustrated and she's not understanding why she can't go to ABA, why she can't go to big rooms, what she called it.
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