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 Milan Kohut, we’re joined by Jacqui Higgins, founder of Self Worth Foundation. Jacqui shares her journey from building a seven-figure commercial design firm to realizing that external success did not equal internal fulfillment. Despite checking every box of traditional entrepreneurial achievement, she found herself exhausted and disconnected, prompting a deep personal exploration into self-worth, identity, and sustainable leadership. That turning point became the foundation for her current work supporting purpose-driven women in business.

Jacqui explains how Self Worth Foundation helps women entrepreneurs align who they are with how they build and scale their businesses by integrating self-worth, identity, and strategy. The conversation explores her blended model of coaching and business consulting, the importance of designing businesses around personal values, and why burnout is often mistaken for ambition. Jacqui also discusses scaling through high-touch partnerships, mastermind-style groups, and collaborative ecosystems—while staying rooted in clarity, integrity, and long-term sustainability.

Connect with Self Worth Foundations:

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

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, 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, 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’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 Zach Young, we’re joined by Alex Lefever, founder of Adaptable Strength. Alex shares his unconventional journey into coaching, beginning with years of experience working with Special Olympics athletes and later as a 911 dispatcher. Witnessing firsthand the long-term health toll faced by first responders inspired him to shift from reacting to emergencies to preventing them—using strength training, mobility, and individualized programming as tools for long-term health and resilience.

The conversation dives deep into Alex’s highly customized coaching approach for two often-overlooked populations: first responders and Special Olympics powerlifters. He explains why traditional fitness models fail for people with unpredictable schedules, disrupted sleep cycles, and high physical demands, and how true personalization requires flexibility, technical precision, and empathy. Alex also discusses his work in adaptive powerlifting, breaking down complex techniques into accessible systems, and the importance of giving underserved athletes the credit, structure, and coaching depth they deserve to reach their full potential.