The COACHpreneur Journey

Perimenopause can last up to a decade — and almost nobody prepares you for it.

In this episode, I sit down with Utari Syaukat, a holistic wellness coach in Jakarta specializing in perimenopause and menopause, on the hormonal rollercoaster, the sleep-cortisol spiral, and why some workplaces already have policies for hot flashes.

What you'll take away:

→ Why perimenopause is unpredictable, not a straight decline

→ The link between sleep, cortisol, and weight gain

→ What men get wrong when a partner is struggling

→ Why menopause-friendly workplace policies cost almost nothing

"You reap what you sow — if you don't take care of your health in your twenties, you'll feel it in your forties." — Utari Syaukat

🔗 CONNECT WITH UTARI SYAUKAT

Website: wellnesswithtari.com

Resources: stan.store/utarisyaukat

Instagram: @utari_syaukat

LinkedIn: utari-syaukat

🔗 CONNECT WITH JOERG SAUER

Website: joergsauer.coach

LinkedIn: joergsauer-coach

Instagram: @joergsauer_coach

Most coaches build their practice around what they love — without checking if anyone is buying it. Business coach Sanjay Wadhwa says that gap is the real reason so many coaches struggle to sell.

In this episode, I sit down with Sanjay Wadhwa — business coach, trainer of business coaches, and founder of a coaching practice in Mumbai, India, who has worked with over 250 business owners.

What you'll take away:

→ Why being fully booked can be the ceiling on your business, not proof it's working

→ The "aware vs. unaware market" distinction that decides how hard selling will be

→ Why most coaches resist selling because they see themselves as educators, not salespeople

→ How turning sales into a process instead of a personality trait changed everything for him

→ The psychology behind his money-back guarantee

"Most human beings are always investing in solving pains more than boosting themselves. They're looking for painkillers, not vitamins." — Sanjay Wadhwa

Connect with Sanjay Wadhwa:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjaywadhwa/

Connect with Joerg Sauer:

Instagram: @joergsauer_coach

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joergsauer-coach/

What if the real performance gap isn't skill — it's what happens in the three seconds before you use it?

In this episode, I sit down with Richard Ferryanto — a former CEO in the life insurance industry, now a performance coach working with executives, emerging leaders, and professional athletes in Jakarta.

What you'll take away:

→ The three-step reset before any high-stakes moment: physical reset, external anchor, trigger

→ Why turning inward under pressure backfires

→ What "unlearning" looks like for a stuck athlete

→ Why a bad result is a data point, not a failure

→ Why coaching a young athlete means coaching the parents too

"It's not a failure. It's just a data point." — Richard Ferryanto

Connect with Richard Ferryanto:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/richardferryanto

Instagram: @rferryanto

Connect with Joerg Sauer:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joergsauer-coach

Instagram: @joergsauer_coach

What if the leader who looks most successful on paper is quietly struggling the most?

In this episode, I sit down with T.G. Lim — Managing Director at Maccaferri Indonesia, with over 25 years of international leadership experience — who admits that even at the height of his early success, he was struggling as a leader.

What you'll take away:

→ Why "efficient" and "effective" leadership are not the same thing

→ Why a manager is a role, but a leader is an identity

→ Why he made no visible progress in his first two years of coaching

→ Why psychological safety explains why feedback gets vaguer as you rise

→ The three components he believes every organization needs to succeed

"I didn't make any progress for the first two years, despite the time and the money was spent." — T.G. Lim

Connect with T.G. Lim:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/teckguanlim

Connect with Joerg Sauer:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joergsauer-coach

IG / YT: @joergsauer_coach

What if the biggest obstacle to great coaching isn't what you don't know — it's what you do?

In this episode, I sit down with Stefan Bannach, PCC, ESIA — Professional Coach and Coach Supervisor, and ICF board member, who spent years as a professional facilitator before becoming a coach.

What you'll take away:

→ Why forgetting what you know is a coaching skill, not a gap

→ The self-fulfilling prophecy behind how we talk about risk

→ Why coaching should be accessible to everyone

→ How much control you actually have over other people

→ What coaching supervision offers beyond training

"Someone deeply caring — and also telling you truths." — Stefan Bannach

Connect with Stefan Bannach:

LinkedIn

Brand: Coacheedoo

Connect with Joerg Sauer:

LinkedIn

Instagram: @joergsauer_coach

Web: joergsauer.coach

Most coaches market to individual leaders — but 90–95% of the coaching budget sits inside organizations. Ellie Scarf has spent 20 years coaching executives and now helps coaches access that budget instead of competing for table scraps.

What you'll take away:

→ How to stop pitching coaching and start owning the problem

→ What a "pick 'n' mix" organizational coaching offer looks like

→ Why supervision belongs in your proposal as a credibility signal

→ The honest timeline for building a sustainable coaching practice

→ Why procrastination on outreach is almost always about visibility fear

"The five simple steps to a million-dollar business? That's just not true." — Ellie Scarf

Connect with Ellie Scarf:

Website: www.elliescarf.com | Podcast: The Business of Executive Coaching | LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elliescarf

Connect with Joerg Sauer:

Instagram: @joergsauer_coach

What happens when a former CFO and CEO who has lived across four countries decides to become a coach?

In this episode, I sit down with Farhaz Farouk — Life & Business Coach based in Sri Lanka, former CFO and CEO, and a fellow alumnus of our very first coaching cohort — to talk about how a career spanning Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, and Bahrain shaped the way he sees people, why titles and appearances tell you nothing about who someone really is, and why coaching skills belong in every leader's toolkit — not just something you pick up after retirement.

What you'll learn:

→ Why growing up across cultures makes it easier to coach without judgment

→ The real story behind "never judge a person by how they look"

→ How Toastmasters training transfers directly into coaching presence

→ Why your past career — whatever it was — is never wasted when you become a coach

→ What separates a coach from a mentor, and why that distinction matters for leaders

→ Why coaching skills should be learned in your 20s, not after decades of leading

One line from this conversation that stayed with me:

"A coach is not an expert. He's just a facilitator."

🕒 CHAPTERS

00:00 – Introduction and podcast overview

00:51 – Who is Farhaz Farouk?

02:48 – Growing up across cultures: Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Bahrain

05:49 – Seeing the human, not the label

07:43 – Never judge a person by how they look

11:09 – Bias, the ICF Code of Ethics, and our common humanity

14:46 – Toastmasters: building confidence and communication

20:38 – Why your past experience is never wasted in coaching

22:25 – The defining moment that led to coaching

26:56 – How a master's in professional coaching changed his practice

30:25 – The reflective practice that surfaced a hidden pattern

35:11 – Who are Farhaz's clients?

38:40 – What companies are really looking for

41:13 – Conflict, communication, and the marathon analogy

43:37 – What individual clients struggle with

45:41 – A corporate coaching success story

47:19 – Why every leader needs coaching skills

53:03 – Where to find Farhaz

🔗 CONNECT WITH FARHAZ FAROUK

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/farhazfarouk/

🔗 CONNECT WITH JOERG SAUER

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joergsauer-coach/

Instagram: @joergsauer_coach

Web: https://joergsauer.coach

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Doing more won't fix what doing more created.

I work with leaders ready to become more.

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Most leaders are excellent firefighters. The problem is when constant firefighting becomes the culture — and nobody goes up to the balcony to see why the same fires keep appearing in different locations.

Dr. Emmanuel G. Zara, Jr. is an Executive Coach and Leadership & Organizational Development Consultant based in Manila, Philippines. With a PhD in Leadership Studies and 20 years working with senior leaders across sectors, his research focuses on what it takes to flourish — not just survive — in a complex world. He serves as adjunct faculty at Golden Gate University.

In this conversation: the difference between thriving and flourishing, why firefighting is physiologically addictive, the square wheels most organizations never see, why the leader you are today mirrors the leader you once reported to, and how mindfulness research is changing the tools available to leaders in crisis.

Connect with Emmanuel Zara, Jr.:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmanuel-zara-jr-phd-984515a/

Instagram: @emmanueljr.zara

About Joerg Sauer (host):

Transformational coach, ICF ACC, MSc Professional Coaching & Entrepreneurship. Country Leader, Morphosis Coaching Indonesia. Jakarta, Indonesia.

Instagram: @joergsauer_coach | LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joergsauer-coach/

About The COACHpreneur Journey: Conversations with coaches, coach entrepreneurs, clients, and service providers in the coaching ecosystem. Hosted by Joerg Sauer, Jakarta.

Most leaders are hired to have the answers. Ryan Charland — CEO of Manulife Japan — learned that speaking last is a more powerful leadership tool than speaking first.

In this episode, Ryan shares how coaching shaped his approach to leadership across three cultures — Canada, Indonesia, and Japan — and why alignment, listening, and psychological safety aren't soft skills. They're the hard work of leadership.

What you'll take away:

→ Why leaders who speak first quietly bias every decision their team makes

→ The 30 priorities trap and how to escape it

→ How to choose between internal and external coaching

→ How to build a values-driven team that holds itself accountable

→ What coaching across cultures taught a CEO about directness, face, and respect

"I tried to be the last one to speak. If I spoke first, it would just naturally — human nature — bias the conversation in that direction." — Ryan Charland

Connect with Ryan Charland:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/ryan-charland-b884b741

Connect with Joerg Sauer:

Instagram: @joergsauer_coach

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/joergsauer-coach

What if coaching skills could make you a better leader — even if you never become a full-time coach?

In this episode, I sit down with Pascale Feldmann — biologist, project leader, and internal coach at a multinational in Ghent, Belgium — who came to coaching by chance and never looked back.

What you'll take away:

→ How the shift from telling to listening transforms leadership impact

→ Why slowing down counterintuitively makes you more productive

→ The real difference between a coaching leader and a professional coach

→ Why internal coaching reaches people that external programmes never can

→ How to give every voice in a team a genuine chance to be heard

"I do more if I slow down." — Pascale Feldmann

Connect with Pascale Feldmann:

LinkedIn: see show notes

Connect with Joerg Sauer:

@joergsauer_coach