Founders Future

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Christina McGhee, founder of Divorce and Children and creator of the Co-Parenting Specialist Training Program. Christina shares how her personal experience as a child of divorce and later as a stepmother, combined with her background in social work, led her to dedicate her career to helping families navigate separation in a healthier, child-centered way. What began as teaching court-mandated parenting classes evolved into a lifelong mission to keep children at the center—not in the middle—of divorce.

Christina explains how her work now spans two interconnected paths: coaching parents through high-conflict and emotionally complex divorces, and training divorce professionals worldwide to apply a child-centered framework in their practice. The conversation explores her evolution from one-on-one coaching to large-scale professional training, the role of relationships and word-of-mouth in building trust and credibility, and the challenges of scaling impact while preserving quality. Christina also reflects on leadership, delegation, and the long-term vision of creating a global movement that reshapes how divorce is experienced by families and children.

Connect with Christina McGhee:

🌐 Website – Divorce and Children: https://www.divorceandchildren.com

 🎓 The Co-Parenting Specialist® Training Program (CoPS): https://www.coparentingspecialist.com

 📸 Instagram / Facebook: @divorceandchildren

 🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christinamcghee/

 📰 Media Page (Bio & Headshot): https://divorceandchildren.com/about/media/

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Johann Callaghan, founder of the Sleep Success System. Johann shares her journey from a 17-year corporate career as a single mother into holistic healing, personal development, and ultimately sleep coaching. After experiencing profound personal loss and burnout, she began exploring self-healing, sleep science, and mindset work—discovering sleep as a foundational yet overlooked pillar of performance, resilience, and wellbeing.

Johann explains how she now works with high-performing leaders, entrepreneurs, and business owners who sacrifice sleep in pursuit of productivity, only to face burnout and diminished capacity. She walks through her five-step SLEEP framework—Self, Lifestyle, Environment, Energy, and Prioritization—and how it’s delivered through her 12-week live group program, one-to-one coaching, and self-paced options. The conversation explores sleep as a strategic performance tool, the role of mindset and habits, sustainable business growth, and Johann’s vision to expand the Sleep Success System through speaking, accreditation, and future licensing.

Connect with Johann Callaghan:

🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/johanncallaghan_sleepcoach
🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanncallaghan/
📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johanncallaghan101
🌐 Website: https://johanncallaghan.com/
💛 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/empoweringfamilyhealth

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Sarah Kinlin, founder of Pearl Performance Inc. Sarah shares her journey from spending over 20 years at Johnson & Johnson in research, quality, and operations leadership to stepping away from corporate life after a pivotal career moment during the pandemic. While leading a large essential manufacturing team through COVID, Sarah discovered both her leadership capacity and a deeper desire for purpose—ultimately realizing that climbing the corporate ladder no longer aligned with who she was becoming.

Sarah explains how Pearl Performance now helps individuals and organizations move from overwhelm to clarity through leadership and mindset coaching rooted in the balance of grit and grace. The conversation explores her work across one-on-one coaching, group programs, keynote speaking, and workshops, as well as her vision for scalable impact through writing, community building, and a rapidly growing hockey mindset program for young athletes. Sarah also reflects on energy management, sustainable growth, asking for help before you’re ready, and why meaningful success lives at the intersection of fear, excitement, and intentional action.

Connect with Sarah Kinlin:

🌐 Website: https://www.sarahkinlin.com

🔗 LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/company/pearl-performance/

📸 Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/pearlperformanceinc/ 

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Kathrine Farris, founder and CEO of Marketecs. Kathrine shares her journey from a long career in community banking—rising to vice president before age 30—to discovering digital marketing through technology, teaching, and problem-solving for small business clients. What began as curiosity around email marketing evolved into building and leading a marketing agency focused on blending strategy, automation, and technology for professional service businesses.

Kathrine explains how Markitex now helps consultants, coaches, lawyers, and other service providers turn thought leadership into scalable marketing systems using automation, CRM platforms, and AI-driven workflows. The conversation explores long-term client retention, referrals as a growth engine, the realities of agency scaling, and the strategic shift toward productized systems through the Marketecs Engine built on GoHighLevel. Kathrine also discusses pricing evolution, team structure, training challenges in a fast-changing AI landscape, and her vision for growing predictable revenue while helping clients simplify and modernize their marketing infrastructure.

Connect with Kathrine Farris:

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathrinefarris/

In this episode of Founders, Future, with host Zach Young, Zach sits down with James Westphal, a voice and confidence coach who helps professionals show up, speak with authority, and convert presence into opportunity. James walks us through his journey from doing hands-on client work to thinking bigger about offer structure and scale, explains his current one-to-one pricing and packages, and shares the moments that made him realise he needs an evergreen, course-plus-coaching model to multiply his impact without trading every hour for income.

Together they dig into practical next steps — how to structure a 12–16 week interactive programme, mix pre-recorded training with group calls and timely one-to-ones, and use targeted Meta advertising and clearer messaging to reach busy business people across LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook. James and Zach also talk pricing psychology, client homework that accelerates progress, and the kind of systems that turn a high-skill practice into a scalable business offering.

Connect with James Westphal:

🔗 LinkedIn: James Westphal
📸 Instagram: @jw_creativedevelopment | @jameswestphal_
🐦 X (Twitter): @_james_wilson
🌐 Website: https://www.jameswestphal.co.uk

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Thomas Oben, founder of Oben Incorporated. Thomas shares his 15-year journey in marketing, including years spent working in-house across B2B and B2B SaaS, and how those experiences revealed a recurring challenge for early-stage startups: the pressure to grow without the budget, tooling, or senior expertise to scale internal teams. What began as freelancing during COVID evolved into Oban Incorporated—a growth partner designed to bridge that gap.

Thomas explains how his agency supports pre-seed and seed-stage companies by delivering end-to-end growth systems, from brand and design to paid media, outbound sales, and SDR support. The conversation explores why ads should amplify what already works, how expectations differ across platforms like LinkedIn, Google, and TikTok, and why outbound remains a controllable and reliable growth channel. Thomas also reflects on building his team organically, prioritizing quality over volume, and his goal of removing himself as the bottleneck so the business—and his life—can scale sustainably.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we meet Beste Ozer Tezcan, a talent development and leadership coach who left a successful HR career at Google to start her own practice. Beste shares her journey of feeling "powerless" within the large corporate system, which inspired her to help others avoid a similar fate. Driven by her own experiences with burnout, misalignment, and the "autopilot" nature of corporate life, she now focuses on helping mid-career tech professionals and teams navigate change, uncertainty, and unfulfillment to find greater purpose and intentionality in their careers.

Beste delves into her coaching methodology, which involves creating a safe space for clients to step back, question their path, and make conscious choices aligned with their true goals. She discusses her flexible, experimentative approach to one-on-one coaching and her plans to diversify her offerings in the coming year with online courses and corporate workshops to increase accessibility. With a goal of reaching a sustainable $150K-$200K in annual revenue, Beste is strategically building her business through LinkedIn content and community referrals while staying true to her mission of shortening the journey to fulfillment for her clients.

Connect with Beste Ozer:

🔗 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/besteozer

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Zach Young, we’re joined by Chris Keep, founder of Virtual Personal Training. Chris shares his 15-year journey in the fitness industry, from starting as a personal trainer straight out of college to managing large gym teams in central London and eventually owning his own brick-and-mortar gym. He reflects on the lessons learned from leadership, business ownership, and how the pandemic forced a pivotal reset that reshaped both his priorities and his approach to coaching.

Chris explains how the rise of home gyms during the pandemic led him to build a fully virtual, one-on-one coaching model centered on live video sessions rather than generic programs. The conversation explores why real-time coaching, movement analysis, and human connection remain critical for long-term progress, even in an online environment. Chris also discusses organic growth through referrals, adapting content across platforms like YouTube, LinkedIn, and TikTok, and why sustainable fitness is built through structure, consistency, and intentional training—not convenience alone.

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Jack DePiro, founder of Countrywood Investments and Yata Flavor. Jack shares his unconventional path from working as an automotive technician to becoming a content creator, strategist, and entrepreneur. What began as casually posting videos online quickly turned into brand partnerships, monetization, and a realization that content creation could be transformed into a scalable business skill.

Jack explains how his work now spans both B2B and creator-focused services—helping local businesses strengthen their online presence through Countrywood Investments, while guiding creators through content strategy, consistency, and growth via Yata Flavor. The conversation explores organic client acquisition through value-driven content, balancing cold outreach with inbound leads, the realities of building as a solopreneur, and why speed, accuracy, and being a lifelong student are essential to long-term success. Jack also shares his vision for sustainable growth, client fulfillment, and eventually building a trusted, close-knit team.

🔗 Connect with Jack DePiro

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yataflavor/

In this episode of Founders Future, with host Olivia Sammons, we’re joined by Tanya Naydukh, founder of The Finance Goddess. Tanya shares how her journey into personal finance began through curiosity and self-education, after realizing she was never taught how to manage money in school or university. She reflects on discovering investing later in life, balancing a corporate career while building her business, and how teaching financial literacy to women first inside her workplace became the unexpected launchpad for The Finance Goddess.

Tanya explains how she now supports primarily women through a holistic coaching approach that blends practical financial education with mindset and money-story work. The conversation explores breaking down fear, shame, and limiting beliefs around money, closing the knowledge gap many women experience, and making investing simple and approachable. Tanya also discusses organic growth through trust and visibility, the challenges of pricing and burnout, her plans to expand into group coaching, and why valuing both the work and the client experience is essential for sustainable impact.