TL;DR: Kristen Van Glise went from battling a chronic autoimmune disease to achieving permanent remission and building a six-figure Creator business. Discover how she has used Stan Store and digital guides to help over 15,000 families live toxin-free lives.
Kristen Van Glise is a ‘crunchy’ mom, wife, and Creator who teaches people how to detox their homes and reclaim their health, whether they’re managing an illness or looking to improve their wellbeing. Her passion for toxin-free living stems from her own remarkable story of overcoming a chronic illness.
After being diagnosed with an incurable disease, Kristen took control of her health—making intentional changes to her diet, home, and daily habits. These shifts not only put her illness into remission but also inspired her to share her journey online.
Today, Kristen has turned her story into a six-figure Creator business—building a platform, digital products, and community that empowers thousands of families to reduce their toxic load and create happier, healthier homes.
Discover how Kristen went from a stay-at-home mom battling chronic symptoms to a healthy online business owner thriving with Stan Store.
The Challenge: Battling an ‘Incurable’ Disease at 21
Kristen’s journey into content creation began when, at just 21 years old, she was diagnosed with interstitial cystitis—a chronic autoimmune disease that left her bedridden. Her doctor told her the condition wasn’t curable, but she refused to accept the prognosis.
Instead, she began researching how lifestyle changes could help reduce her inflammation. She tried everything—eliminating toxins from her home, changing her diet, and adopting healthier habits.
As she healed her body, she documented her journey on Instagram, motivated by positive feedback from friends. But soon, she’d gradually built a following of people she’d never met who were seeking similar health solutions and said her content was helping them.
The more Kristen eliminated toxins, the more her disease disappeared. By 2020, she was in permanent remission and has been symptom-free ever since.
Even after she’d healed, she felt inspired to keep sharing everything she’d learned about toxin-free living. If nothing else, she wanted to provide hope for others battling similar conditions.
She continued to consistently show up and share about her health journey and the toxin-free swaps she was making, despite having a small audience at the time.
The Solution: Turning Healing Into Holistic Health Products
As her audience grew, Kristen realized she could package her knowledge into digital products, helping families create toxin-free homes while freeing up more of her time as a busy mom.
She set up her Stan Store and launched her first guide: Practically Toxin Free. It didn’t sell as well as she’d hoped, bringing in only about 20 sales over the course of one year, but Kristen saw potential.
“It would’ve been very easy for me to just stop creating,” she says. “But I saw other Creators having success with digital products, and I knew I had value to share.”
Instead of giving up, Kristen studied how others marketed their products and applied those lessons to her second guide, OrganiBaby, which teaches parents how to create a toxin-free baby registry. She carefully promoted the guide on Instagram, testing different approaches and formats.
In December 2023, her hard work paid off: three Instagram Reels promoting the guide went viral—adding over 80,000 new followers in just three weeks. With her Stan Store already set up, Kristen was ready to handle the sudden surge in demand seamlessly.
“It was a no-brainer for me from the beginning to use Stan. It’s so simple for someone new to selling digital products,” Kristen says. “You just pay your subscription, upload your product, and keep 100% of your earnings. Stan doesn’t take a cut, which is almost impossible to find.”
The Results: 15,000+ Families Helped and Counting
Today, Kristen runs a meaningful six-figure business that supports her family while her husband attends medical school. She’s able to host all 10 of her digital products in her Stan Store, delivering transformative guidance to over 15,000 families around the world without spending all day on her phone.
She continues to create Instagram content and resources that simplify toxin-free living, and has expanded her offerings to include OrganiHome, OrganiBeauty, OrganiWear, and OrganiMama’s Pregnancy and Holistic Medicine guides.
“Creating guides has been life-changing,” she explains. “I can create them once, get it into people’s hands, and give them all the answers they need in one place. That’s freed up so much time for me as a mom.”
Beyond the financial success, she treasures the community she’s built with fellow Creators and the impact her work is having on others’ health. Every week, she receives messages from people who have experienced remarkable changes after applying her recommendations—from cancer remission to finally conceiving after years of infertility.
“It’s so cool to see how all these people who are walking this lifestyle along with me are seeing a noticeable change in their lives. It motivates me to keep going.”
Kristen’s Advice For Aspiring Creators
Kristen’s advice to aspiring Creator-Entrepreneurs is simple: Just start.
Everyone’s content is imperfect in the beginning, but starting and maintaining consistency is crucial for growth. Rather than waiting until something is perfect, she recommends putting your work out there and improving as you go.
“Anyone who creates content will tell you that when I started, my content was terrible. But the fact that I kept going is what kept me going.”
Her philosophy is that if you’ve learned something valuable from your own experience, sharing it could benefit others—and even if you just positively impact one person’s life, it’s all worth it.
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Follow Kristen’s journey:
Stan Store: Kristen’s Stan Store
Instagram: the.organimama
TikTok: organimama
Spotify: The OrganiMama Podcast
Website: www.organimama.com
