COACHING 101

Christiane Schroeter

The Small Steps Doctor. Confidence and leadership, built one rep at a time.

Dr. Christiane Schroeter helps leaders do the hardest part of change... actually start. Her work closes the gap between knowing what to do and doing it, so professionals lead with clarity and confidence when the stakes are high.

She came to the US from Germany as a Fulbright Scholar, earned her Ph.D. in Health Economics, and built her entire career in her second language. Today she is a Professor of Marketing, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where she has taught and advised more than 10,000 students and professionals over 20+ years. She has spoken on stages across five countries and been featured in Business Insider, SheKnows, and HigherEdJobs.

Her TEDx talk, How Small Steps Create Big Change, introduces her Petite Practice framework... a simple, repeatable system built on small actions that compound into lasting momentum. As a behavioral economist, she can prove it. Her research on how small changes ripple through an entire system includes a Journal of Health Economics paper cited more than 300 times, so small steps are not a slogan she borrowed. The framework anchors her keynotes, her teaching, and her book, Petite Practice: Small, Steady Steps to a Life of Momentum and Real Change (2026). Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Paris Cluff

Turn income into wealth and grow a massive bank account.

Paris has been married to the same woman for over 29 years and is the proud father of five children and two sons-in-law. He has experienced significant financial hardship—including losing everything and relying on food stamps—but rebuilt his life to achieve a six-figure passive income and a six-figure liquid net worth, excluding his home. For more than 25 years, Paris has been dedicated to helping families manage, protect, and grow their money. A committed student of his industry, he has read dozens of books on personal finance and investing. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Liz Crowley

Trusted support for tense, high-stakes leadership conflict, helping CEOs and senior leaders regain focus and move forward with clarity.

What happens when the biggest problem consuming a CEO isn’t the market, the competition, or the product, but a relationship with someone sitting at the leadership table?

Liz Crowley is the founder of HR Collaborative Solutions, and she has spent more than 25 years helping leaders navigate exactly those kinds of situations.

Liz began her leadership career in the high-pressure world of investment banking, where strong personalities, enormous expectations, and difficult workplace relationships came with the territory. That experience ultimately led her into senior HR leadership, where she became the person executives turned to when performance broke down, trust eroded, or a relationship with a key leader became increasingly difficult to manage.

Today, Liz works privately with CEOs and senior leaders facing high-stakes conflict with members of their leadership teams. She gives them a confidential place to think out loud, separate facts from emotion, understand what’s really happening, and decide what needs to happen next.

And importantly, Liz isn’t there to mediate between both sides. She advises the CEO or senior leader through the conflict.

Her work helps leaders prepare for difficult conversations without unnecessarily escalating the conflict, determine whether trust and performance can be restored, and, when they can’t, plan a clear and dignified exit.

Because Liz believes the real cost of leadership conflict often isn’t the disagreement itself. It’s the distraction, second-guessing, delayed decisions, and lost momentum that come with leaving it unresolved.

Her goal is simple: help the CEO or senior leader get their clear thinking back so they can lead the business again. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Pesa Shayo

Author and Co-founder of Live Your Best Marriage.

Pesa Shayo is an author and co-founder of Live Your Best Marriage, where he helps cross-cultural Christian couples build a United Front through in-law pressure, loyalty conflicts, and culture clashes.

Pesa’s work is shaped by his own cross-cultural marriage with Whitney and by years of helping couples understand how outside pressure can quietly divide a home. He speaks to the tension many couples feel when love is strong, but family expectations, cultural differences, communication breakdowns, and loyalty conflicts keep pulling them into the same arguments.

As a podcast guest, Pesa brings a practical, faith-rooted perspective on marriage, communication, boundaries, and unity. He helps listeners name the real issue underneath the conflict and gives couples language they can use immediately at home.

Pesa is especially valuable for shows serving Christian couples, multicultural families, marriage and relationship audiences, men, parents, and faith-based communities. His core message is simple: couples do not have to keep turning aga Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Russell Van Brocklen

Dyslexia Professor: Guiding Parents from Guesswork to Game Plan

Dyslexia touches as many as 15–20 % of all learners , yet most families still hear “wait and see.” I flip that script. As the Dyslexia Professor, I translate structured-literacy methods proven most effective for struggling readers  into bite-size actions parents can use tonight. Your audience leaves knowing exactly why multisensory routines beat generic worksheets and how to start seeing progress before the next report card. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Patrick Williams

Founder/President Satori Innovation

Creativity is one of our collective Superpowers. As children we are effortless in our abilities to tap into this Superpower. Often, as we get older, we feel that we loose connection to our childhood creative capabilities. The good news is that creativity can not be lost, misplaced maybe, but never lost.

Patrick Williams has the expertise, experience and wisdom to describe, teach, and pass forward the processes and practices that are necessary to restore authentic creativity. Patrick teaches the skills and Practices for achieving, maintaining and sustaining our innate creativity. These skills apply to General Creativity; the type of creativity all of us use day to day

and to Specialized Creativity; needed in the Arts, Sciences, Mathematics, Invention, Entrepreneurs, and Business Innovation.

Patrick is completing two manuscripts based on restoring creativity. Where he discusses his specific terminology, such as; Creative Colonization, Creative Collapse, The Creative Void, Creative tension, Creative Metamorphosis, General Creativity, Specialized Creativity, etc…

Patrick is a master teacher who enjoys great conversations and assisting folks reconnecting with their core creative selves. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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John Englehart

HR leader and author helping Christians find peace and purpose in everyday work

John Englehart Jr. spent more than fifteen years in human resources — across federal service, higher education, government, and private industry — learning what it really takes for people to stay steady and find meaning in their work. A SHRM Certified Professional and creator of the award-winning EXCELL coaching model, he knows the workplace from the inside out.

But John's message goes deeper than career advice. Most Christians won't spend their working lives on a church staff — they'll spend them in offices, job sites, classrooms, and homes, often in jobs that aren't their dream, trying to keep Jesus at the center in places that don't always make it easy. That tension shows up as the "Sunday Scaries": the quiet dread that creeps in Sunday evening as Monday looms.

In his book The Sunday Scaries, John offers an honest, hope-filled guide to finding real peace and purpose by following God faithfully in the work He's placed in front of you. With humor, real stories, and a Scripture-rooted framework, he helps listeners name what they're feeling and walk into Monday with steadiness instead of dread.

On a show, John is warm, story-driven, and practical — equally at home talking workplace culture, faith and calling, or simply encouraging the believer who feels stuck. He leaves audiences with something they can use the very next morning. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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Kirana Sidin

Amazon Best Selling Author & Strategic Life Coach | Helping People Build a Good Life Through Timeless Wisdom & Intentional Living

My guest today is Kirana Sidin, an Indonesian author, certified life coach, and lifelong student of what it means to live a good life. Her debut book, Cheers for a Good Life, became an Amazon #1 New Release in Philosophy of Ethics & Morality and an Amazon #1 Best Seller in Interpersonal Relations.

She writes and speaks about intentional living, self-respect, meaningful relationships, and building a good life, one conscious choice at a time.

She lives in Jakarta, the busiest city in Indonesia, where she spends much of my time exploring one question that has quietly shaped everything she does: What does it really mean to build a good life?

Through writing, coaching, and speaking, she draws from philosophy, psychology, and everyday life to translate timeless wisdom into practical ideas for modern living.

Because she believes a good life isn't something we find.

It's something we build, one ordinary choice at a time. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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David Vanbeenen

Survived a 2-year federal investigation that threatened his family — now an author and performance coach teaching how pressure reveals who you really are.

My guest today is David VanBeenen — known as Coach Dave. He's an All-American athlete, trained by Hall of Fame coaches, who's spent the last 20-plus years as a performance coach working with athletes, entrepreneurs, and leaders on how to perform under real pressure.

But here's what makes his story different: David spent two years inside a federal investigation that could have taken him away from his kids for good — and the decision he made when it mattered most became the foundation of his book, Still Here.

Today we're talking about pressure, presence, and what it actually takes to stay who you are when everything is on the line. Please welcome David VanBeenen to the show.

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Kathy Eastwood

CEO and leadership strategist enabling leaders to drive consistent performance through human-first leadership behaviors.

Kathy Eastwood is the CEO and creator of the human-first E3 Leadership Code and a leadership strategist who believes high performance should not require burnout, fear, or command-and-control leadership.

With more than thirty years as an operator inside complex organizations, Kathy has served in senior executive roles including Chief of Staff, Chief People Officer, and Chief Operating Officer across EY, Hewlett-Packard, high-growth startups, and private equity-backed companies. She has led large-scale transformations, broken down functional silos, navigated acquisitions, and rebuilt trust at the executive table — always with one question in mind: Why do some leaders create alignment and momentum while others create friction and fatigue?

Her answer became the E3 Leadership Code: Express, Engage, Execute — powered by emotional qualities.

After witnessing firsthand how misaligned leadership behavior erodes trust and stalls execution, Kathy built the E3 framework to democratize the behaviors that drive sustainable performance. She challenges the idea that leadership excellence is reserved for a rare few. Instead, her work shows that clarity, stakeholder alignment, disciplined execution, and emotional intelligence can be intentionally developed — and that when they are, organizations deliver consistent results with measurable ROI.

Her upcoming book, The E3 Leadership Code: A Human Approach to High Performance, blends real-world executive stories with practical guidance for leaders who want predictable results without sacrificing culture. Kathy’s work centers on one core truth: trust cannot be hired, it must be built — and leadership behavior determines whether purpose becomes performance.

She is on a mission to elevate leadership standards so fewer people spend their careers working in toxic environments and more teams experience what aligned, human-first leadership can actually achieve. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com

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