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What if the thing standing between you and the life you want isn't a lack of talent, opportunity, or confidence?
What if you've simply become too good at avoiding failure?
As we become more successful, something interesting can happen: we become less willing to be bad at things.
We stay in rooms where we know what we're doing.
We make decisions where the probability of success is high.
We protect our reputation.
We protect the identity we've worked so hard to build.
And without realizing it, we can begin designing our lives around avoiding discomfort instead of pursuing growth.
In this episode of the Life Engineering Podcast, I sit down with Chase Bernier, founder of Sidekick Orchestration, for a fascinating conversation about cultivating an enthusiasm for failure, not because losing is the goal, but because becoming less controlled by the possibility of failure may be essential to creating a bigger life.
Chase shares a deeply personal experience from his twenties
that leads us into one of the most important distinctions in this episode:
A failure does not mean you are a failure.
And confidence?
Chase puts it simply:
"Confidence is the output, not the input. The input is discomfort."
We explore the less-discussed consequences of success: losing your willingness to become a beginner.
When you're the CEO, the founder, the expert, or the person everyone comes to for answers, saying "I don't know" can suddenly feel much riskier.
But what if learning something new doesn't threaten who you've already become?
What if it simply expands who you are capable of becoming?
That conversation naturally brings us to AI.
We explore why successful AI adoption requires more than technology. It requires experimentation, humility, curiosity, good systems, and a culture where people can learn without believing every mistake threatens their value.
In this episode, we explore:
π About the Guest: Chase Bernier
Chase Bernier is the founder of Sidekick Orchestration, where he helps leaders and small and mid-sized businesses move from scattered experimentation with AI to integrating AI meaningfully into the way their organizations operate.
Before launching Sidekick, Chase spent more than a decade working across partnerships and revenue operations with companies including Jobber, DoorDash, and DrugBank.
Connect with Chase Bernier
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: https://sidekickorchestration.ai/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chasebernier/
Gabriela Embon β Speaker β Author β Life Engineering Coach
Website: https://gabrielaembon.com/
Email: [email protected]
Becoming a Power Couple β 4 Pillars to Engineer Legendary Marriages Book: https://gabrielaembon.com/book/
You know those moments...
You walk into a networking event, conference, meeting, or even a social gathering and within seconds, the voice in your head starts:
I don't belong here.
I'm not good at this.
What am I even supposed to say?
I've had those moments too.
And eventually I realized something that completely changed the way I think about networking, opportunity, and success:
I thought success was about what I bring into the room instead of the relationships I build inside the room.
This conversation with Steve Harper, entrepreneur and author of The Ripple Effect, is about so much more than networking.
In this episode, we explore:
One of my favorite reminders from this conversation is incredibly simple:
You don't need to walk into a room wondering how to impress everyone. Walk in curious. Who is here? What can I learn about them?
And perhaps most importantly:
Can I stop focusing on myself long enough to truly see the person in front of me?
Because this lesson doesn't end when the networking event is over.
It follows us home.
The same thing happens in marriage.
Relationships stay alive when curiosity stays alive.
Because ultimately, a life with no regrets isn't created only through what you accomplish.
It is also created through who you connect with, how deeply you show up, and the ripple you leave behind.
π About the Guest: Steve Harper
Steve Harper is a technology entrepreneur, keynote speaker executive coach, relationship strategist the author of The Ripple Effect.
You can learn more about Steve and his work at RippleCentral.com and find The Ripple Effect through his website, Amazon, and Audible.
Connect with Steve Harper
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What if the problem holding back your MSP is not your sales process, your team, or your strategy?
What if the real problem is the pressure, fear, and disconnection you are carrying into every conversation at work & at home?
In this powerful episode of the Life Engineering Podcast, Gabriela Embon sits down with Brian Gillette, founder of Feel Good MSP, for a conversation that challenges everything MSP owners have been taught about sales, leadership, and success.
Brian believes sales should never force you to choose between being a good person & being a great salesperson.
The traditional sales model tells you that you must overcome objections, defeat resistance, and win the deal. Brian calls this the "adversarial sales complex": the belief that for you to win, your prospect must lose.
But your prospect is not your opponent.
Your prospect is the hero. You are the guide.
That one shift changes everything.
Gabriela & Brian explore why authentic connection must come before conversion, why curiosity is more powerful than pressure & why listening to someone's real needs is the foundation of both effective sales & strong relationships.
They also take the conversation somewhere most business podcasts will not go: home.
Many high-performing MSP owners are responsible, hardworking, and deeply committed to providing for their families. But responsibility does not automatically create connection.
You can pay every bill, solve every problem, and work tirelessly for the people you love and still become emotionally disconnected from them.
In this episode, you will discover:
This conversation is a reminder that you do not have one nervous system for work and another one for home.
When home feels fragmented, you carry that fragmentation into the business.
When home becomes a place where you can reconnect, restore, and recharge, you lead differently everywhere.
You may think you need to fix the business before you can work on your relationship.
But what if you are solving the wrong problem?
Sometimes, strengthening your relationship is not something you do after the business succeeds.
It is the very thing that gives you the clarity, energy, and capacity to create that success.
Because the goal is not simply to build a more profitable MSP.
The goal is to build a business and a life you cannot wait to come home to.
About the Guest: Brian Gillette
Brian Gillette is the founder of Feel Good MSP, where he helps MSP owners rethink sales from the ground up. His approach replaces pressure with trust, scripts with authentic conversations, and adversarial selling with empathy-driven discovery.
His mission is to prove that being a better person and achieving better business results are not competing goals.
Connect with Brian Gillette
Gabriela Embon β Speaker β Author β Life Engineering Coach
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Becoming a Power Couple β 4 Pillars to Engineer Legendary Marriages Book: https://gabrielaembon.com/book/
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Have you ever looked back and thought:
"I knew something needed to change. I just waited too long."
You knew the job no longer fit.
You knew you were shrinking yourself.
You knew the relationship needed attention.
You knew you were staying because change felt frightening.
But instead of listening, you waited until the discomfort became exhaustion, resentment, burnout, or crisis.
In this powerful episode of the Life Engineering Podcast, Gabriela Embon sits down with Tania Chomyk, Life Transition Expert, speaker, educator, and author of Bringing Light to Loss, to explore how we can navigate life's transitions with greater clarity, courage, and purpose.
Tania shares why not every transition arrives without warning. Sometimes, life begins with a whisper: a loss of energy, a feeling of misalignment, a recurring discomfort, or the quiet realization that the life you built no longer reflects the person you have become.
The question is: Will you listen before the whisper becomes a crisis?
Together, Gabriela and Tania explore:
Tania also opens her heart about the loss of her son and the long journey that eventually led her to transform pain into purpose. Her message is a powerful reminder that we do not always get to choose what happens but we can choose how we move forward.
You will also hear about the EmpowerHer Summit, taking place on October 4, 2026, where women will gather to rise, lead, thrive, and gain practical tools for their emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being.
This conversation is an invitation to stop drifting through your life.
Where is life already whispering to you?
In your career?
Your relationship?
Your health?
Your identity?
The dream you keep postponing?
The conversation you keep avoiding?
You may not be able to choose every transition, but you can choose to meet it with awareness, courage, and intention.
Because creating a life of no regrets does not require having every answer.
It requires being willing to listen and course-correct before life makes the decision for you.
π About the Guest: Tania Chomyk
Tania Chomyk is a Life Transition Expert, speaker, author, and educator who helps people navigate chosen and unexpected transitions with greater clarity, courage, and purpose. She is the creator of the Be the CEO of Your Career/Life Framework and the author of Bringing Light to Loss.
Her six-word philosophy says it all:
Always finding light even in shadow.
Connect with Tania Chomyk
- Website: Learn more about the EmpowerHer Summit at EmpowerHerSummit.ca
Gabriela Embon β Speaker β Author β Life Engineering Coach
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Have you ever walked into a room and felt invisible?
Not because you had nothing to say.
Not because you lacked value.
But because the room seemed to reward the loudest voice, the fastest talker, or the person who knew how to "work the room."
This episode is for every introvert who has ever felt overlooked, underestimated, or exhausted from trying to become someone they are not.
In this powerful conversation, I shared the mic with Nick Shelton, U.S. Air Force veteran, TEDx speaker, bestselling author of An Introvert's Guide to World Domination, and founder of Connected Introvert.
Nick shares how he went from feeling invisible in social and professional environments to creating practical systems for confidence, connection, and influence without pretending to be an extrovert.
And this is where the Life Engineering lesson becomes so powerful:
Confidence is not a personality trait you either have or do not have.
Confidence can be engineered.
Nick breaks down simple, practical tools introverts can use immediately, including:
This conversation is not only about networking.
It is about career. It is about relationships.
It is about marriage.
Because whether you are walking into a conference, a boardroom, a first date, a difficult conversation, or your own home after a long day the question is the same:
Am I showing up as myself, or am I disappearing?
Listen to this episode if you are ready to stop hiding, stop performing, and start engineering a life where you can be seen, heard, and connected β on your own terms.
π About the Guest: Nick Shelton
My guest, Nick Shelton, is a U.S. Air Force veteran, TEDx speaker, bestselling author of An Introvertβs Guide to World Domination, and founder of Connected Introvert.
Connect with Nick Shelton
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholasleonshelton/
- Website: https://connectedintrovert.com
- Book - An Introvertβs Guide to World Domination
Gabriela Embon β Speaker β Author β Life Engineering Coach
Website: https://gabrielaembon.com/
Email: [email protected]
Becoming a Power Couple β 4 Pillars to Engineer Legendary Marriages Book: https://gabrielaembon.com/book/
Have you ever looked at your career, your leadership, or even your marriage and thought, "On paper, this should be working... so why does it feel off?"
In this episode of the Life Engineering Podcast, I get to sit down with Radhika Dutt, author of Radical Product Thinking, entrepreneur, product leader, and advisor, for a powerful conversation about vision, alignment, and the quiet patterns that cause good things to slowly lose their way.
Radhika introduces the concept of product diseases - the silent patterns that cause good products, built by smart people, to go off track. But as the conversation unfolds, it becomes clear that these "diseases" don't only happen in products. They happen in careers. They happen in leadership. They happen in families. And yes, they happen in marriages.
Together, we explore what happens when we measure the wrong things, when we chase external success, when we over-give, when we try to be the hero for everyone, and when we keep iterating without ever returning to the original vision.
This episode is an invitation to stop asking only, "How do I fix this?" and start asking, "What are we actually building?"
Because a life of no regrets is not built by moving faster.
It is built by moving together and with direction.
In This Episode, We Explore
This episode reminds us that alignment requires courage. It requires slowing down long enough to ask the deeper questions
π About the Guest: Radhika Dutt
Radhika Dutt is the author of Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. She is an entrepreneur, product leader, speaker, consultant, and MIT-trained engineer whose work helps leaders and organizations move from chasing metrics and endless iteration to building with vision, clarity, and purpose.
Connect with Radhika Dutt
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/radhika-dutt/
- Website: https://rdutt.com/
- X / Twitter: @radhikadutt
- Book - Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter: https://a.co/d/04HDMJTx
Gabriela Embon β Speaker β Author β Life Engineering Coach
Website: https://gabrielaembon.com/
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Becoming a Power Couple β 4 Pillars to Engineer Legendary Marriages Book: https://gabrielaembon.com/book/
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Leadership isn't about carrying more.
It's about creating systems that allow people to thrive without everything depending on you.
In this episode of the Life Engineering Podcast, Gabriela Embon sits down with executive decision advisor Chris March to explore a challenge that affects founders, executives, and even families: what Chris calls "Founder Gravity."
Founder Gravity happens when every decision, approval, and problem flows back to one person. While it often appears to be a leadership issue, Chris explains that it's actually a design issue. The result is slower growth, overwhelmed leaders, disengaged teams, and increased stress that often spills into life at home.
Drawing from over 20 years of leadership experience across Australia, Canada, and the UK, Chris shares practical insights on how leaders can redesign decision-making systems, build trust, create accountability, and free themselves from becoming the bottleneck.
Gabriela also draws fascinating parallels between business leadership and relationship leadership, showing how the same patterns that create dysfunction in organizations often create frustration in marriages and families.
In this episode, you'll discover:
One of the most powerful takeaways from this conversation is that leadership isn't about caring more-it's about designing better systems.
When decisions flow, leaders regain capacity.
When ownership is shared, relationships breathe.
When structure supports life, work and home stop competing.
If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a leader, founder, or partner who could benefit from redesigning the way decisions flow.
π About the Guest: Chris March
Chris March is an Executive Decision Advisor who helps founders and leadership teams eliminate decision bottlenecks, improve execution, and scale sustainably. With more than two decades of experience as a GM, COO, executive coach, and advisor across Australia, the UK, and Canada, Chris specializes in helping seven- and eight-figure businesses move beyond Founder Gravity and create scalable leadership systems.
Connect with Chris March
- LinkedIn: Chris March
- Website: https://chrismarchcoaching.com/
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What if the reason you feel exhausted, disconnected, or stuck... isn't because you need a better strategy-but because something deeper is out of alignment?
In this powerful conversation, Gabriela sits down with leadership expert Greg DeKoker to challenge one of the biggest myths in high performance:
π That success is built on pressure, sacrifice, and discipline alone.
Instead, Greg introduces a radically different perspective:
Joy is not a reward. It's the fuel.
This episode will shift how you think about leadership, relationships, and what it truly takes to build a life-and career-without regrets.
π₯ What You'll Learn:
How to create environments where people feel:
Greg DeKoker is a Brand and Culture Transformation Expert, executive advisor, leadership retreat facilitator, best-selling author, and podcast host.
Greg has spent over three decades helping organizations unlock the true power of their brand and culture - not through surface-level messaging, but by aligning people, purpose, and performance from the inside out.
He's the co-author of Brand: It Ain't the Logo. It's What People Think of Youβ’ and the upcoming book JOYΒ² β The Hidden Power of JOY in Leadership, where he challenges leaders to rethink success, culture, and what actually sustains high performance over time.
Connect with Greg DeKoker
- Social: @joysquaredofficial
- Website: https://www.joy2.ca/
- Email: [email protected]
- Podcast: https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/joy-squared-podcast/
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Do you feel like you're almost there in your life or relationships... but not quite?
What if the reason your life and especially your relationships still feel misaligned...is not because you haven't done enough work... but because you're still operating from an outdated identity?
In this powerful conversation, I get to chat with integrative neuro-somatic practitioner Riana Malia to unpack one of the most misunderstood concepts in personal growth:
Course correction doesn't start with changing your life.
It starts with changing your internal architecture.
Even high-achieving, self-aware individuals, those who have done therapy, read the books, and committed to growth, often find themselves asking:
"Why does love still feel like the one place that isn't aligned?"
This episode reveals why.
In This Episode, You'll Discover:
π Riana Malia
Riana Malia is a Board-Certified Neuro-somatic
Practitioner and the creator of the Clear to Create
Methodβ’, a transformational process that helps high-achieving women clear emotional patterns, reclaim their identity, and finally create love that matches the life they've built.
She's the founder of The Brilliance Brunchβ’ in the Bay Area, and the creator of Magnet for Miraclesβ’, a 72-hour breakthrough experience for women ready to release the emotional weight they've carried for decades. Through intimate intensives, live events, and media appearances, Riana helps women rise into their brilliance, not by doing more, but by becoming more of who they truly are.
Connect with Riana Malia
Gabriela Embon β Speaker β Author β Life Engineering Coach
Website: https://gabrielaembon.com/
Email: [email protected]
Becoming a Power Couple β 4 Pillars to Engineer Legendary Marriages Book: https://gabrielaembon.com/book/
What does it take to lead when there is no escape, no room for ego, and no margin for error?
In this powerful episode, Gabriela sits down with Jon Rennie, former U.S. Navy nuclear submarine officer turned CEO, leadership expert, and author, to explore what real leadership looks like under pressure and how those lessons apply to business, relationships, and life.
From earning trust in life-or-death environments to building unity in organizations and families, this conversation reveals what it truly means to lead with accountability, presence, and integrity.
What You'll Learn in This Episode:
π About Jon Rennie
Jon is the Co-Founder, President & CEO of Peak Demand Inc., a premier manufacturer of critical components for electrical utilities. He is a former U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer who made seven deployments during the end of the Cold War.
Prior to starting Peak Demand, he led eight manufacturing businesses for three global companies.
He is the author of the best-selling leadership books:
He is also, the host of the Deep Leadership podcast (https://jonsrennie.com/podcast-page/)
Connect with Jon Rennie
- Website: https://jonsrennie.com/
- Website: https://peakdemand.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonscottrennie/
Gabriela Embon β Speaker β Author β Life Engineering Coach
Website: https://gabrielaembon.com/
Email: [email protected]
Becoming a Power Couple β 4 Pillars to Engineer Legendary Marriages Book: https://gabrielaembon.com/book/
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