Kristina Marie
Gilbertson

They laughed me out of the boardroom.

Eighteen months later Harvard launched their first entrepreneurial online pilot program.

That moment taught me something I have carried ever since. The room is almost never ready for what is coming. That does not make it less true.

I left. Went into sales, landed in luxury real estate, sold high-end homes through auctioneers. This was the early days of Facebook and LinkedIn, when MySpace was still a thing (remember your top 5?). Most people wanted nothing to do with social media. I saw where it was heading and made the pivot.

That chapter online was spent helping coaches, consultants, and thought leaders build real businesses around what they knew. Podcasts, funnels, premium programs, marketing and sales systems. The goal was always the same: package what you know into a real business, stop trading hours for dollars, build something that lasts.

Since then I've coached and consulted clients in sales, marketing, and operations, partnered with major influencers on joint ventures, and spoken to audiences from 150 to 10,000 people.

What I kept finding was that strategy and process are real problems. They are also solvable ones. What actually matters most is the mindset underneath them, the story the Founder is telling themselves about what is possible, what they deserve, what they are capable of building. Once that shifts we can reverse-engineer the life and business they actually want to create. Then we build it.

Tech and AI just help you scale. Mindset shifts surface the bottlenecks and leaks. Rework the process first. Then build the tech. Then layer in AI. In that order, every time.

That insight has driven everything since.

Along the way I spent years brokering deals for real estate investors and business owners, working with private equity groups and capital partners, helping owners land capital and get their operations and team ready for investment and acquisition. I learned what sophisticated buyers actually look for when they evaluate a business. It is never just the revenue. It is always the people and systems behind it. An owner with documented processes, clean workflows, and predictable margins gets a completely different valuation, a different conversation, and a different set of options than one running on chaos and tribal knowledge.

Over 20 years my team and I have worked inside businesses across professional services, clinics, trades, coaching, consulting, architecture, construction, real estate, and beyond. Every industry has its own core leaks. Most owners already know what they want to plug. Sometimes those leaks are invisible until an audit uncovers exactly where time, revenue, and margins are slipping through the cracks.

PROSPERITYFI exists because that problem is solvable.

And it comes from rolling up the sleeves and building next to those owners, the ones who are open, ready, and done waiting. Not theory. Only what actually works in the real world, for that owner and their team.

The person I build alongside every day built a company to $800M in annual revenue, sold it, and chose to come back. Not because he had to. Because he wanted to be behind the scenes, helping owners grow and scale through systems and AI done right. That's who is in your corner. We know how to help you find the leaks and scale.

I was born and raised in Austin, MN. Spam Town USA. Daughter of a fireman, in a town where being good to people was just how you lived. That hasn't changed. Faith is my foundation, and I believe in working with owners who want to make a real difference, for their families and their communities.

My family moved to Idaho in 2023. I split time between the Treasure Valley and Florida and work with owners across the country.

The businesses we serve are doing real revenue, $1M to $250M, and the stakes are real.

I built ProsperityFi because the owners we respect most, the ones who built something real with their hands and their guts, deserve systems that work as hard as they do.

If you are tired of the friction and not sure where to start, let's talk.