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What if being rational isn't always the smartest thing to do?

We live in a world that prizes logic, evidence, intellect, and certainty. But what happens when our attachment to rationality becomes the very thing preventing us from accessing deeper wisdom, intuition, and meaning?

In this episode of COACHED, Coach Keren Eldad welcomes back one of her favorite teachers and longtime friends, Dr. Ellen Vora, board-certified psychiatrist, functional medicine practitioner, and bestselling author of The Anatomy of Anxiety and Season of the Witch: A Psychiatrist's Case for Magic.

In this deep dive - Ellen shares the deeply personal story of losing her mother while six months pregnant, the extraordinary encounter with an intuitive acupuncturist that challenged everything she believed about death, and how those experiences transformed her understanding of consciousness, spirituality, and the possibility of life beyond what we can see.

Together, Keren and Ellen explore the identities high achievers construct around intelligence and rationality, why cynicism is often a defense against disappointment, and how our conditioning can disconnect us from the very wisdom we need most.

They also discuss the historical suppression of women's intuitive knowledge, the distinction between genuine intuition and magical thinking, and the importance of maintaining healthy skepticism while remaining open to life's mysteries. And in an extraordinary final moment, Ellen shares a discovery about her mother's unfinished work that brings the entire conversation full circle.

This isn't a conversation about rejecting science. It's about recognizing that science may not have all the answers, and that wisdom sometimes begins with the humility to admit how much we still don't know.

🎧 IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL DISCOVER:

- The limits of rationality: Why being highly intelligent doesn't necessarily make us wise, and how identifying with our intellect can become a form of self-betrayal.

- The transformative power of grief: How losing her mother led Ellen to question her materialist worldview and explore the possibility of continued connection after death.

- Intuition versus magical thinking: How to distinguish genuine inner knowing from anxiety, overthinking, wishful thinking, and spiritual bypassing.

- The hidden cost of cynicism: Why skepticism can be healthy, but cynicism often protects us from disappointment at the expense of connection and wonder.

- Reclaiming feminine wisdom: How women's intuition, embodiment, and alternative ways of knowing have historically been dismissed or suppressed.

- Practical ways to reconnect with yourself: How presence, embodiment, and listening to your internal signals can strengthen your relationship with intuition.

- The relationship between achievement and identity: Why the pursuit of external validation can disconnect us from our authentic selves.

- Finding meaning through contribution: Why a fulfilling life may have less to do with accumulating achievements and more to do with what we offer the world.

🔗 CONNECT WITH ELLEN VORA

Website: https://ellenvora.com/

Book: Season of the Witch: A Psychiatrist's Case for Magic - https://tinyurl.com/5n96uu7h

Book: The Anatomy of Anxiety - https://tinyurl.com/mshj5ce2

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ellenvoramd/

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Website: https://kereneldad.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/

Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/

📚 Coach Keren's Books:

GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w

GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

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What if the very experiences that bring you to your knees are also the ones that set you free?

This week on COACHED, Coach Keren Eldad sits down in New York City with one of her favorite teachers, Regena Thomashauer, better known as Mama Gena, for an extraordinary conversation about pleasure, power, trauma, surrender, and what it really means to love your life.

Mama Gena is the New York Times bestselling author of Pussy: A Reclamation, founder of the School of Womanly Arts, and a pioneer in women's empowerment who has spent more than two decades helping hundreds of thousands of women reconnect with their sensuality, desires, and personal power. But before she became the fearless, unapologetic teacher the world knows today, Regena was a painfully shy little girl growing up in a home marked by violence, learning early that visibility could be dangerous.

In this deeply personal conversation, Regena shares how she found her way from fear and disconnection to pleasure and empowerment, including the extraordinary moment that changed her life and ultimately inspired her life's work.

This episode is an invitation to reclaim your aliveness, reconnect with your power, and discover that you don't have to love everything that's happening to love the life you're living.

🎧 IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:

- From trauma to transformation: How Mama Gena's childhood experiences shaped her extraordinary mission to empower women.

- The power of pleasure: Why sensuality and embodiment can be pathways to self-worth, confidence, and personal power.

- The mirror exercise that changed everything: How Regena discovered the divine within herself and began a journey that would transform hundreds of thousands of lives.

- Why shame keeps women small: How cultural conditioning disconnects women from their bodies, desires, and voices.

- Getting out of your head and into your body: Why intellectual understanding alone isn't always enough to create meaningful change.

- The power of surrender: How to navigate grief, uncertainty, and disappointment without abandoning yourself.

- Loving life when it doesn't go to plan: Why life's most difficult transitions can become powerful opportunities for transformation.

- What's next for Mama Gena: Her decision to take a six-month creative sabbatical and what it means to practice what she teaches.

About Regena Thomashauer (Mama Gena)

Regena Thomashauer, affectionately known as Mama Gena, is a New York Times bestselling author, teacher, and founder of the School of Womanly Arts.

A pioneer in women's empowerment and the reclamation of feminine pleasure, she has spent more than two decades teaching women to reconnect with their sensuality, embrace their desires, release shame, and reclaim their personal power.

Her groundbreaking bestseller, Pussy: A Reclamation, became a defining work in women's empowerment. Her newest book, On Our Knees: Loving Your Life Even When You Hate What's Happening, explores the transformative power of surrender and the possibility of remaining fully alive through grief, loss, and life's most challenging experiences.

🔗 CONNECT WITH MAMA GENA

Website: https://mamagenas.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mamagena/

Book (New York Times bestseller): Pussy: A Reclamation - https://tinyurl.com/u4xwt54e

Book: On Our Knees: Loving Your Life Even When You Hate What's Happening - https://tinyurl.com/3urmzmzy

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Website: https://kereneldad.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/

Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/

📚 Coach Keren's Books:

GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w

GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

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What if the life you think you’re “behind” on was never actually the life you were supposed to be living?

When journalist Stacey Lindsay turned 40, she found herself confronting a familiar question: Why doesn’t my life look the way I thought it would by now?

Career. Marriage. Children. Money. Beauty. Success. Certainty. She felt as if she had fallen behind. And then she did something smart: she questioned whether timelines and rules applied to her, anyway. In other words, instead of assuming something had gone wrong, Stacey did what a great journalist does: she questioned the premise.

Those questions—and her conversations with women about what was actually happening in their lives at midlife—became her book, Being 40: The Decade of Letting Go and Embracing Who We Are.

In this episode of COACHED, Stacey and I examine the gap between the life we have lived and the life we think we should have lived by now—and what becomes possible when we stop measuring ourselves against inherited expectations.

We talk about aging, beauty, changing bodies, marriage, children, ambition, identity and grief; the pressure women feel to keep proving their worth; the Autumn Queen archetype and the creative power of midlife; and why getting older can become an invitation to stop performing your life and finally start inhabiting it.

Stacey offers a reminder worth carrying into any decade: You can be late for dinner reservations. You cannot be late for your life.

Because the REAL question is not: Am I where I was supposed to be by now?

It is: Now that I am here, what do I want to do with the life that is actually mine?

🔗 CONNECT WITH STACEY LINDSAY

Website: https://www.staceylindsay.com/

Book: Being 40: The Decade of Letting Go and Embracing Who We Are - https://tinyurl.com/yy7rhtkf

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/staceylindsay/

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/

Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/

📚 Coach Keren's Books:

GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w

GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

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What if productivity isn’t really about getting more done—but getting clear on what matters enough to organize your life around?

This week on COACHED, Coach Keren sits down with Jay Papasan, bestselling author, CEO, executive coach, and co-author with Gary Keller of The ONE Thing, the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller that has sold more than 4 million copies and been translated into 40+ languages.

And while millions know The ONE Thing as a productivity classic, Jay says its deeper message is about something much bigger: purpose.

When you know what matters, your priorities become clearer. When your priorities become clearer, focus gets easier. And when you repeatedly give your attention to the few things that truly matter, extraordinary results begin to compound.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Keren and Jay go far beyond productivity hacks to explore calling, identity, mastery, consistency, discipline, entrepreneurship, success, family, and the seasons of life that change what deserves our attention.

Jay shares his unlikely journey from a shy, book-obsessed kid to publishing in New York, joining a then-small Keller Williams, raising his hand to work with Gary Keller, and eventually co-authoring some of the most influential business books of the last two decades.

They also unpack one of Jay’s central ideas: “Consistency is intensity.” Real success rarely comes from one heroic sprint. It comes from time on task, over time—the willingness to keep doing the right thing long after the excitement has worn off.

IN THIS EPISODE:

· Why The ONE Thing is ultimately a book about purpose, not productivity

· How purpose determines priorities—and priorities determine productivity

· Jay’s journey from publishing and ghostwriting to becoming an author himself

· Why you don’t need to begin with extraordinary talent to develop mastery

· The career-changing power of raising your hand

· The “elephant and the rider” metaphor for recognizing your calling

· How The ONE Thing became a global phenomenon through relentless consistency

· Why the rewards of success can distract you from the work that created the success

· Why “consistency is intensity”

· The difference between discipline everywhere and selected disciplines

· Why multitasking undermines focus—and why we now need “digital bunkers”

· Why many of our deepest regrets are really the result of misplaced priorities

· How to decide what is genuinely worthy of your time

· Why The Millionaire Real Estate Agent contains lessons for almost any service-based entrepreneur

· Jay’s newest work and what years of grief, health challenges, business difficulties, and personal “storms” taught him about continuing to lead when life is falling apart

ABOUT JAY PAPASAN

Jay Papasan is a bestselling author, CEO, and executive coach. He has co-authored 12 books, including The ONE Thing with Gary Keller, and his books have sold nearly 7 million copies worldwide.

He is CEO of Produktive, the training and coaching company behind The ONE Thing methodology, and hosts The ONE Thing podcast. His work centers on helping entrepreneurs and high performers simplify their path, identify what matters most, and build the discipline to act on it.

🔗 CONNECT WITH JAY PAPASAN

Website: https://www.jaypapasan.com/

Newsletter: The TwentyPercenter - https://www.jaypapasan.com/newsletter/

Podcast: The ONE Thing Podcast - https://the1thing.com/podcast/

Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results - https://tinyurl.com/mujpfemp

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaypapasan/

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Website: https://kereneldad.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/

Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/

📚 Coach Keren's Books:

GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w

GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

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What if your relationship doesn’t actually have a communication problem?

What if it has a connection problem?

In this episode of the COACHED Coaching Masters series, Coach Keren sits down with John Howard, LMFT, therapist, author, educator and an early pioneer in neuroscience-based couples work, for a fascinating conversation about what actually creates safety, intimacy and lasting connection.

John’s path to this work is deeply personal. After a childhood marked by disconnection, loss and instability, he began a lifelong search to understand love: first through spirituality and ancient wisdom, and eventually through psychology, attachment theory, neuroscience and couples therapy. That journey ultimately shaped the integrative approach he now teaches to therapists and brings to individuals and couples.

His central premise is deceptively simple:

Connection is about much more than words.

Our nervous systems are constantly reading the people around us for safety and security—and tone of voice, facial expression, touch, body language, presence and attunement can communicate more than the perfectly constructed sentence ever could.

Keren and John explore what this means for marriage, dating, friendship, coaching and virtually every important relationship in our lives.

They also unpack mutuality—John’s description of the sweet spot between abandoning yourself to please another person and focusing exclusively on your own needs. Healthy relationships require both people to remain aware of themselves while simultaneously tracking and responding to one another.

For singles, that means dating becomes less about performing well enough to be chosen and more about learning to receive and observe the person sitting across from you.

As Keren puts it:

Her dating life changed when she stopped showing up hoping someone would like her and started paying attention to whether she liked them.

John also explains why authenticity and honesty are not necessarily the same thing. Reporting every thought in your head may be technically honest, but authentic communication goes deeper: What do I actually want from this relationship? What am I feeling beneath my reaction? And am I willing to communicate that vulnerably enough to create greater connection?

Ultimately, John argues that the process of an interaction matters more than its content.

When two people trust each other, feel safe and enjoy being together, they can navigate incredibly difficult subjects.

When they don’t, even loading the dishwasher can become a battleground.

IN THIS EPISODE:

· How John’s own childhood experiences of loss and disconnection led him to study love and relationships

· Why spirituality helped him heal—and why he eventually realized he also needed psychology

· What neuroscience and attachment theory teach us about human connection

· Why verbal communication is not always the most direct route to intimacy

· How tone, touch, facial expressions and body language communicate with the nervous system

· Why your body and gut can provide useful information when dating

· The relationship principle of mutuality

· Why healthy love is neither self-abandonment nor self-centeredness

· How to stop performing on dates and start receiving

· What emotional intelligence can look like in early dating

· Why secure relationships allow partners to influence one another

· What actually produces meaningful change in therapy and coaching

· Why feeling safe can make us more open to transformation

· The critical distinction between honesty and authenticity

· What secure connection really means

· Why these principles apply to friendships, families and children—not only romantic partners

· The importance of paying attention to the process of an interaction rather than obsessing over its content

· Why we should have a very high standard for relationships feeling good

ABOUT JOHN HOWARD

John Howard, LMFT, is an internationally recognized therapist, educator and relationship expert whose work integrates neuroscience, attachment science, mind-body approaches and couples therapy.

He has trained therapists internationally, developed couples and family therapy curriculum for Dell Medical School in Austin, and created Presence Therapy®, an integrative mind-body approach to psychotherapy.

He is also the author of More Than Words: The Science of Deepening Love and Connection in Any Relationship, a science-based exploration of how we can create greater safety, intimacy, trust and connection in our most important relationships.

RESOURCES

🔗 CONNECT WITH JOHN HOWARD

Website: https://johnhowardmft.com/

Book: More Than Words: The Science of Deepening Love and Connection in Any Relationship - https://tinyurl.com/52tvmf4d

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnhoward_atx/

🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN

Website: https://kereneldad.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/

Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/

📚 Coach Keren's Books:

GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w

GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

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What if the thing standing between you and the life you want isn’t a lack of effort, discipline or strategy—but a lie you’ve repeated so many times that you now mistake it for the truth?

In this powerful episode of COACHED, Coach Keren sits down with transformational coach, speaker, mentor and bestselling author Dana Grant, author of The Truth Within the Lie: How to Align with Universal Principles to Create the Life You Deserve.

Dana’s work is rooted in helping people break free from the beliefs, patterns and stories that keep them playing small, overworking, overgiving and living out of alignment with who they really are.

And she came to this work honestly.

Dana shares her extraordinary evolution from a high-achieving young professional who broke records while privately battling imposter syndrome and self-sabotage, through illness, addiction, trauma, spiritual awakening and ultimately the decision to stop hiding the parts of herself she feared others would reject.

Together, Keren and Dana explore what happens when the identities that once protected us become the very things preventing us from creating the lives we actually want.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR:

· Why extraordinary achievement and deep unworthiness can coexist

· How core wounds quietly shape our expectations, choices and self-sabotage

· Why the stories we inherit can eventually become identities we mistake for truth

· The difference between ego-driven protection and heart-centered action

· Why other people’s judgments are often projections—and why they still hurt when part of us believes them

· Dana’s “one-degree” approach to changing unconscious patterns

· Why accountability without compassion simply becomes another form of self-punishment

· The difference between genuine service and overgiving, overserving and martyrdom

· Why boundaries are essential to healthy service

· How self-authority relates to abundance, manifestation and the Law of Attraction

· Why healing isn’t about perfection, arrival or becoming someone new

· What it means to stop performing, stop abandoning yourself and finally come home to who you are

ABOUT DANA GRANT

Dana Grant is an International Master Life & Business Mentor, speaker, bestselling author and entrepreneur whose work centers on helping high achievers, entrepreneurs, executives and purpose-driven leaders break free from the invisible patterns and beliefs keeping them out of alignment with themselves.

Her work is rooted in Universal Principles and explores how our inner relationship with worthiness, identity, abundance, purpose and truth shapes how we live, lead, love, create and experience our lives.

Her book, The Truth Within the Lie, challenges readers to examine the stories they have inherited and internalized—and return to the truth of who they actually are.

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Book: The Truth Within the Lie: How to Align with Universal Principles to Create the Life You Deserve

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📚 COACH KEREN’S BOOKS

GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More

GILT FREE: Breaking Free From the Gilded Cage for Good

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What if your life wasn’t over… but just beginning again?

In this deeply moving Coaching Masters conversation, Keren sits down with Leslie Fraley—founder of Fine Folk and now emerging coach and founder of Second Act—to explore the courage it takes to reinvent yourself in real time.

Leslie built a beautiful, successful life: a celebrated retail business, a strong community, a family.

And then—like so many high-functioning, high-achieving women—she hit a moment of quiet unraveling.

Not a breakdown.

A reckoning.

Through coaching, Leslie began to see something she hadn’t allowed herself to fully consider before:

There was more.

Not more to achieve—but more to become.

This conversation traces her journey through resistance, self-doubt, identity shifts, and ultimately—stepping into a new chapter rooted in service, authenticity, and self-trust.

It’s about what it means to let go of who you’ve been…

and gently, bravely, begin again.

What We Cover:

• The “void” moment that precedes transformation
• Why resistance is the doorway—not the obstacle
• Coaching vs. therapy (and why the distinction matters)
• Learning to trust intuition over ego
• Building self-trust through action
• The concept of a “Second Act” in life
• Divorce, grief, and shared human experience
• The power of community in healing and growth
• Identity as something you choose—not inherit
• The connection between clothing, self-expression, and truth
• Self-doubt and the daily practice of self-love
• The difference between understanding the work vs. embodying it
• Purpose as a practice—not a destination
• Becoming a teacher by living the work

Key Takeaways:

Resistance is not a sign you’re off track—it’s where the work begins.

You don’t find purpose. You practice it.

Identity is something you wear—and you can choose it.

You can wear the identity, or the identity can wear you.

Self-trust is built by stepping into the unknown—and watching the ground appear.

Growth is not about knowing where you’re going. It’s about moving anyway.

The most powerful teachers are those who are living the work in real time.

There is no “there.” Only here—and how you choose to meet it.

About the Guest:

Leslie Fraley is a fashion and lifestyle entrepreneur, founder of Fine Folk—a boutique and style studio recognized by Vogue—and the creator of Second Act, an emerging coaching platform designed to help women reconnect with themselves and step into a new chapter of life with clarity, confidence, and authenticity.

Her work blends aesthetic curation, personal transformation, and deep inner work to help women rediscover who they are—and express it fully.

Connect with Leslie:

Website: lesliefraley.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesliefraley/

Fine Folk: https://finefolk.com

Leslie’s new coaching platform and website are launching soon—check the show notes for updates and live links as they become available.

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Website: https://kereneldad.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/

Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/

📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w

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This week on COACHED, I sit down with Michelle Sorro - former television host and live-commerce powerhouse with more than $222 million in sales, master coach, entrepreneur, speaker, and host of the top 1% Fire & Soul podcast.

Michelle’s first major awakening came after achieving the career she thought she wanted - only to realize she was being called toward something entirely different. What followed was not one reinvention, but many: leaving television, building a transformation business, moving through a profound spiritual awakening, confronting addiction and old nervous-system patterns, discovering the Gene Keys and somatic work, and ultimately rebuilding her life around truth, spaciousness, embodiment and inner authority.

That makes this conversation particularly important for the high achiever.

So many of us unconsciously assume that becoming more powerful will require becoming more exhausted. Michelle makes the opposite case: the case for slowing down enough to hear what is actually true for you.

To this end, talk about the difference between force and inspired action, why achievement can disconnect us from our bodies, how to distinguish genuine inner knowing from anxiety and conditioning, and why the very patterns we are desperate to eliminate may contain the gifts we are here to express.

We also explore her methodology, traversing the Gene Keys, somatics, nervous-system regulation, inner-child work, addiction, our increasingly compulsive relationship with technology, and why human-to-human connection may be becoming one of our most precious commodities.

Michelle even gives us an extraordinarily simple somatic practice for the moments when you notice yourself controlling, proving, pleasing or forcing.

In this episode, we discuss:

• Michelle’s journey from television and $222M+ in live sales to transformational work
• The moment she realized the career she had fought for was no longer her destiny
• Why reinvention requires the courage to release identities that once worked
• How to distinguish a true inner directive from fear, ego, conditioning or noise
• Why high achievers become disconnected from their bodies
• The Gene Keys and Michelle’s approach to turning our deepest patterns into gifts
• Why insight alone rarely changes behavior — and where somatics enters the picture
• The radical power of honoring your own energetic seasons
• Michelle’s six-to-eight-hour workweek and why sacred rest became non-negotiable
• Wu Wei and the principle of effortless action
• Why working harder and earning more are not inherently correlated
• Michelle’s private struggle with cigarettes and the moment she finally stopped bargaining with herself
• The hidden function underneath addiction and compulsive behavior
• Why our devices may be one of the great threats to presence, agency and real connection
• How to notice whether you are operating from control or people-pleasing
• A simple inner-child practice for creating safety
• Michelle’s 30-second somatic check-in for returning to the present moment
• Why vulnerability can make a leader more compelling, not less
• The shift from fighting our patterns to learning how to work with them
• Why in-person connection and sacred space matter more than ever

CONNECT WITH MICHELLE

Website: Michelle Sorro

Instagram: @michellesorro

Podcast: Fire & Soul

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What if the thing you’ve been working so hard to fix… isn’t actually the problem?

This week on COACHED, I sit down with Kevin St. Clergy, author, business coach, and creator of the Beyond Blind Blaming™ Framework, to explore why smart, capable people can spend years solving the wrong problem - and wondering why nothing changes.

Spoiler alert -it’s because they are asking the wrong questions.

In this epic conversation. we talk about the personal experiences that led Kevin to this work, the cognitive biases that keep us attached to the wrong diagnosis, why business owners so often assume they have a marketing problem when something else is broken, and Kevin’s simple RCD Method: Reflect. Connect. Decide.

We also get into sales, coachability, the importance of outside perspective, and why insight means very little unless you are willing to make a decision and do something differently.

If you’re working ever harder and still not getting the result, this episode offers one powerful possibility:

Maybe you’re not stuck. Maybe you’re solving the wrong problem.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• What Blind Blaming™ is - and how to recognize it
• Availability bias and confirmation bias
• Kevin’s Reflect. Connect. Decide. framework
• Why outside perspective matters
• Sales, listening, and the power of silence
• Coachability and humility
• MFD: Make Fucking Decisions
• Why different results require different action

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Website: https://kereneldad.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/

Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/

📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w

GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

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Have you noticed that you can understand your wounds, know your patterns, talk beautifully about healing - and still keep living exactly the same life?

In this episode, we are about to change that, as Coach Keren sits down with Stefanos Sifandos, whose work lives at the intersection of healing, intimacy, relationships and embodiment, for an extraordinarily honest conversation about what it actually takes to change.

Stefanos shares his journey through childhood pain, addiction, destructive relationships and relentless overachievement - and why so much of our striving is really an attempt to earn the love, safety and validation we once lacked.

We talk about why high achievers often keep intimacy at a distance, the difference between insight and embodiment, why real transformation happens relationally, and how compassion, consistency and action can finally make us whole.

Because awareness is not the finish line.

The way you live is.

IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why overachievement can become an addiction to validation
• The childhood wounds underneath adult patterns
• Why intimacy can feel unsafe for high performers
• Awareness vs. actual embodiment
• The power of compassion and non-judgment
• Why transformation requires consistency and action
• What it really means to become whole

🔗 CONNECT WITH STEFANOS SIFANDOS

Website: https://stefanossifandos.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stefanossifandos/

Book: Tuned In And Turned On - https://stefanossifandos.com/single-book-order/

🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN Website: https://kereneldad.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/

Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/

📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w

GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

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