COACHING 101

Aletta Rochat

Helping Capable Professionals be Seen, Heard, and Taken Seriously.

Aletta believes that stagnant careers shouldn't happen to good people. The job market is fiercely competitive! You need to be able to confidently speak up for yourself and sell your ideas. Developing your Executive Presence can be a game-changer to accelerate your career.

Aletta is an Executive Presence Coach who teaches her clients to build executive presence, so they can be promoted and hired. She is the author of' Speak, Connect, Succeed - Build Your Reputation As You Speak". Her clients come from many different countries, all seeking to accelerate their careers by building their influence and credibility.

Aletta is lucky enough to live in Cape Town, South Africa. She is a keen runner, hiker and enjoys tasting the many fine wines that South Africa is famous for. Aletta runs the occasional half marathon and trains with a group of women who have names themselves 'The Wonder Women'.

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Faye Roots

Award-Winning Author, Storyteller, and Christian Creative Sharing a Lifetime of Faith, Imagination, and Inspiration.

I am an Australian author, storyteller, wife, mother, grandmother, and woman of faith whose life journey has been shaped by love, loss, creativity, and an enduring search for truth. My husband David and I lived for 41 years on a rural block of land in the peaceful community of Wolvi near Gympie, Queensland, before moving to a retirement village in the beautiful coastal town of Caloundra, also in Queensland. Together, we have shared more than fifty-six years of marriage, raised three wonderful children, and been blessed with five grandchildren. Looking back, I see a life woven together with both extraordinary joys and difficult challenges, each one teaching me something valuable about faith,

resilience, and the grace of God.

Long before I became a published author, I was simply a little girl with a vivid imagination and a love for stories. At the age of twelve, I won my first essay competition, and from that moment, writing became a lifelong passion. Over the years, I have written short stories, devotionals, novels, memoirs, poetry, inspirational books, and a children's book series that continues to bring joy to young readers. Writing has never been just a creative outlet for me. It has been a journey of discovery. Throughout my life, I have been fascinated by one question: What is truth, and what is imagination? That question has guided much of my writing and ultimately led me to a deeper understanding of faith, purpose, and the God who created us to dream, create, and hope. My first novel, ‘Beyond the Ashes,’ was truly a labor of love. Although the characters were fictional, they became very real to me, and their story simply had to be told. Later, I wrote ‘Marranga Limga’ and its sequel, ‘Legacy of Limga,’ historical fiction novels set in nineteenth-century Queensland that explore faith, courage, and perseverance during the challenges of early settlement. One of the most meaningful books I have written is ‘Shafts of Gold,’ my memoir. It was never intended to shine a light on me, but rather to honor the One who has guided me throughout my life.

Encouraged by family, friends, my Christian mentor, and especially by the memory of my beloved daughter Alison, who went home to God in 2021, I shared my story of faith, discovery, heartbreak, and hope. Through every chapter of my life, I have witnessed God's presence in ways that were often unexpected, profound, and sometimes miraculous.

Now in my eighties, I continue to write because I believe stories have the power to encourage, heal, and connect us. Whether I am writing fiction, memoir, poetry, spiritual reflections, or children's stories, my desire is always the same to leave readers with hope. I love speaking about faith, creativity, the writing journey, family, resilience, grief, aging with purpose, and the lessons learned from a lifetime of following God's leading.

If my experiences can encourage even one person to keep believing, keep creating, or keep moving forward through difficult seasons, then every word I have written has been worthwhile. After all these years, I still believe that every life tells a story, and some of the most meaningful chapters are often written after we think the story is finished.

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Louis Swart

I help business owners free up time to focus on high-value tasks by delegating low-value tasks to AI trained Virtual Assistants (VA’s).Speaker, Delegation Coach, VA & AI expert.

I’m Louis Swart, a seasoned Business Coach for Coaches and the Founder of Ironbrij, a human-AI-powered virtual assistant company that helps coaches avoid burnout and build self-sustaining businesses. With over 35 years of experience building and selling companies, managing more than 450 staff, and training coaches worldwide, I specialize in teaching effective delegation and growth strategies. I’m also a published author and was a top 50 finalist in the Next Top Speaker competition, and I speak internationally to help individuals reclaim their time, profitability, and peace of mind. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Gino Barbaro

Money Coaching & Family Legacy — From $450M in Real Estate to Helping Families Build Wealth.

Gino Barbaro built his career as an entrepreneur and investor, growing a real estate portfolio to over 1,900 multifamily units and $450 million in assets under management, alongside his business partner Jake Stenziano through Jake & Gino. Along the way, he and his wife Julia co-founded Barbaro 360, with a mission to empower families to build lasting legacies by restoring traditional values in family life, finance and communication.

Today, Gino's focus has shifted toward that mission directly. As a Certified Money Coach, he works with people to build a healthier relationship with money, helping them move past stress, avoidance, or conflict around finances and toward real clarity and confidence. He's the bestselling author of Happy Money Happy Family Happy Legacy, which explores how money can be used as a tool to create genuine happiness rather than division, and Baby Money Soldiers, which teaches children foundational lessons about building wealth.

For podcast audiences, Gino offers a rare mix: the practical, results-driven mindset of someone who has actually built significant wealth, paired with the emotional and relational insight of a money coach who understands why most people struggle with money — even when they're doing "well" on paper. He's especially valuable for shows focused on:

Gino and his wife Julia parents to six homeschooled children in St. Augustine, Florida also co-host The Julia & Gino Show, where they discuss marriage, communication and working successfully together as a couple. Gino additionally hosts The Happy Money Podcast and continues to be involved with the Jake & Gino platform, whose guest list has included Robert Kiyosaki, T. Harv Eker, Grant Cardone, Brandon Turner, Michael Gerber, and Chris Voss.

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Bart Merrell

Identify your ideal side hustle, create financial security by monetizing what you already know or do.

Are you prepared for what happens when what happens, happens? What if it is Cancer? What if it is Christmas? Either can strain our finances – unless we prepare before it happens!

Bart Merrell is an International Entrepreneur, Author and Monetize Your Mindset Presenter. Helped take the first commercial Bungee Jump to Japan. He is not sure if he is proud of it or not but he jumped off the bungee tower just hanging on to the bungee cord with his hands. He has been a serial entrepreneur since before he could drive. Legally anyway, cause he did crash his parents car when he was eight.

He will get us thinking about creating financial security by monetizing what we already know so we have the resources do deal with what happens, when it happens, because it will happen.

Becoming self-sufficient and financially secure, regardless of the economy, is a global problem with a personal mindset solution.

Bart Merrell is the Author of the book Monetize Your Mindset. He believes that ordinary people can succeed extraordinarily well when they pay attention to opportunities that exist all around them – and act upon them. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Ammarah Ahmed

Founder, CRO Expert, Ex-Operator in Tech.

Ammarah Ahmed spent 10 years inside some of the largest growth platforms in the region. Delivery Hero, Foodpanda, Talabat, and Daraz, across MENA and 15 countries. The kind of roles where you own the outcome, not just the recommendation.

In 2022, she started Precision Consulting on the side while still in those jobs. Earlier in 2025, she went full-time. It is a boutique CRO and UX consultancy, and the thing that drives it is something she kept seeing across every platform she worked in: businesses leaving revenue on the table not because their product was broken, but because nobody had looked hard enough at how people were actually moving through it.

120+ funnels audited. A 4.9 rating and 100+ founder reviews. She brings a behavioural psychology lens to conversion work, and it shows in the results. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Dean Taylor

Unlocking Potential for a Purpose Driven Life.

Dean Taylor is a speaker, coach, and mentor who helps high-achieving people reconnect with purpose, regain clarity, and make meaningful pivots when success no longer feels aligned and confidently make meaningful pivots in life and work. Through his DIAMOND Pivot framework, he helps people move from feeling stuck and misaligned to living with greater clarity and confidence.

Drawing from his own journey of setbacks, growth, gratitude, and renewed vision, Dean brings a grounded and hopeful message to people who know they are meant for more but feel stuck between what has worked and what is next. He speaks on purpose, vision, gratitude, identity, mindset, and the inner shifts that help people move from pressure, burnout, and misalignment to clarity, confidence, and alignment.

Dean’s message is simple: your dreams matter, your setbacks are not the end of your story, and it is never too late to become who you were created to be. When he is not speaking or coaching, Dean enjoys running, hiking, biking, learning, and spending time with his family. He especially enjoys playing with his 4 amazing grandkids and making them laugh. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Robbie Mould

Helping Coaches Turn Interest Into Client Conversations | Creator of the Interest-to-Client Framework

I’m Robbie Mould, Managing Director of Mativus. I work with experienced coaches, particularly ICF-accredited coaches, to help them turn the interest they are already creating into more of the right client conversations.

My background is in websites, digital strategy and technology. Over the years, I started noticing the same problem with many very good coaches. They were doing all the things they had been told to do. They were posting on LinkedIn, speaking at events, appearing on podcasts, writing books, networking and building strong reputations. Yet all that activity was not always turning into the number or quality of clients they expected.

Usually, the problem was not that they needed to work harder or become better at selling. There was simply a gap between someone becoming interested in them and knowing what to do next.

That is what led me to develop what we now call the Interest-to-Client Framework.

The idea is simple. If somebody hears you on a podcast, reads one of your LinkedIn posts or sees you speak at an event, what happens next?

They might visit your website. They might look at your LinkedIn profile. They might read a few pages, disappear for a week and come back later. They may be interested, but nowhere near ready to book a discovery call.

I believe coaches need to make that journey easier.

Not by using aggressive sales tactics, complicated funnels or constant follow-up. In fact, most coaches I meet are uncomfortable with traditional marketing because it often feels at odds with how they want to work with people.

My approach is different. I look at how coaches can create a clear, useful path that helps the right person understand who they help, recognise themselves in the message, build trust and decide when they are ready to have a conversation.

Through Mativus, we help coaches put that thinking into practice using their positioning, website, content, lead capture, follow-up and CRM. But I am much more interested in the thinking behind the system than simply talking about websites.

Some of my favourite conversations are around questions such as why an impressive coaching website can still fail to generate clients, why more LinkedIn activity is not always the answer, how coaches can market themselves without feeling pushy, and what actually happens in the weeks or months between somebody discovering a coach and eventually deciding to contact them.

I also have a growing interest in how AI is changing the way people find experts. More potential clients are now asking tools such as ChatGPT questions they would previously have typed into Google. That creates a completely new challenge for coaches who want to be discoverable and understood online. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Tom Cladis

Helping people invest not only in their future—but in a life worth remembering.

Why Book Simon & Schuster Author Tom Cladis?

Tom Cladis is the kind of guest audiences remember long after the interview ends. An award-winning fantasy author, financial planner, adventurer, and former flight attendant, Tom has wrestled alligators, performed handstands at the Eiffel Tower and atop mountain summits, and traveled the world collecting experiences that shape both his life and his storytelling. His engaging style and unique perspective have led to appearances on Great Day Colorado, Good Day Sacramento, and in print and digital media outlets across the country.

More than promoting a novel, Tom inspires conversations about living boldly, embracing curiosity, finding purpose, overcoming fear, and creating a life worth remembering. Whether discussing the creative process, the lessons hidden in epic fantasy, or the adventures that have shaped him, Tom delivers memorable stories filled with humor, heart, and practical wisdom.

Listeners walk away inspired to think bigger, live more intentionally, embrace new adventures, and become the heroes of their own story.

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James Tsai

Part memoir, part science, part philosophy. What it truly means to understand another soul?

James Tsai is not your typical author or expert. Born in Canada to a father fluent in seventeen languages and a mother with a photographic memory, James carved his own unconventional path — from teaching himself calculus in grade six to dropping out in grade ten to launch his first business. He went on to own a niche footwear brand, acquire a Los Angeles shoe manufacturer, and build JETSAI SuperCar Transport, a high-value enclosed vehicle logistics company.

But it was his work with dangerous, death-row dogs that became his defining purpose. After successfully rehabilitating dogs that had violently attacked people, James founded the Arf Arf Bark Bark Rescue Foundation and developed a groundbreaking behavioral framework now published in The Soul of a Dog. His insights don't stop at animals — they cut to the heart of consciousness, communication, and what it means to truly understand another being.

A survivor of near-drowning as a child and a violent semi-truck accident in northern British Columbia, James brings a rare perspective: one forged Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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