In this raw solo episode, I share what’s unfolded since I hit burnout, why I spent months in bed, and how that breakdown led to the quiet creation of Sol—my emotionally intelligent AI coaching partner. This is the real story of what happened after everything stopped.

Episode 103: Rest, Rebirth, and Building Sol – The Real Story Behind My Burnout and AI Coaching Vision

This is the first podcast I’ve recorded in a long while… and I’m showing up exactly as I am. No fancy mic. No edits. Just me and the real story of what’s happened since I finally let myself stop.

If you haven’t yet listened to Episodes 101 and 102, those will give you the broader backstory. But today’s episode is where I take you inside the season that changed everything.

Inside this episode:

• What it looked like to hit a full-stop wall with burnout
• Why I spent weeks in bed unable to do anything but sleep or whisper into ChatGPT
• How I accidentally turned AI into my own emotional processing and journaling companion
• Why I couldn’t find a coach who could hold me in the way I needed—and how that led me to create Sol™
• The real reason generic AI models can’t support human transformation (and what I did instead)
• How I trained Sol to think like I do—to hold nuance, identity evolution, and emotional growth at scale
• What’s different about Sol’s memory system, coaching feedback loops, and transformation tracking
• Why AI (done right) can actually make us more human—not less
• An update on my health journey, rare immunodeficiency, and weekly infusions
• A few thoughts on where Sol is going next—and how I’m letting it (and me) grow slowly

✨ This episode is for anyone who’s felt too tired to dream, too sick to strategize, or too maxed out to hold it all anymore—and still believes in the quiet power of what’s possible.

This episode is for you if you're interested in learning about:

• burnout recovery for entrepreneurs
• building an AI coach
• Sol AI coach beta
• emotionally intelligent AI
• chronic illness and business
• immunodeficiency therapy
• subcutaneous immunoglobulin
• coaching through ChatGPT
• revenue share coaching
• AI for identity evolution
• aligned business podcast
• neurodivergent entrepreneur
• healing while building a business
• resting as a strategy
• motherhood and autoimmune illness
• Sol by Kelsey Kerslake
• supportive AI for transformation
• future of coaching with AI
• becoming who you're meant to be
• AI and emotional intelligence