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What if the very experiences that bring you to your knees are also the ones that set you free? This week on COACHED, Coach Keren Eldad sits down in New York City with one of her favorite teachers, Regena Thomashauer, better known as Mama Gena, for an extraordinary conversation about pleasure, power, trauma, surrender, and what it really means to love your life. Mama Gena is the New York Times bestselling author of P***y: A Reclamation, founder of the School of Womanly Arts, and a pioneer in women's empowerment who has spent more than two decades helping hundreds of thousands of women reconnect with their sensuality, desires, and personal power. But before she became the fearless, unapologetic teacher the world knows today, Regena was a painfully shy little girl growing up in a home marked by violence, learning early that visibility could be dangerous. In this deeply personal conversation, Regena shares how she found her way from fear and disconnection to pleasure and empowerment, including the extraordinary moment that changed her life and ultimately inspired her life's work. This episode is an invitation to reclaim your aliveness, reconnect with your power, and discover that you don't have to love everything that's happening to love the life you're living. 🎧 IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN: - From trauma to transformation: How Mama Gena's childhood experiences shaped her extraordinary mission to empower women. - The power of pleasure: Why sensuality and embodiment can be pathways to self-worth, confidence, and personal power. - The mirror exercise that changed everything: How Regena discovered the divine within herself and began a journey that would transform hundreds of thousands of lives. - Why shame keeps women small: How cultural conditioning disconnects women from their bodies, desires, and voices. - Getting out of your head and into your body: Why intellectual understanding alone isn't always enough to create meaningful change. - The power of surrender: How to navigate grief, uncertainty, and disappointment without abandoning yourself. - Loving life when it doesn't go to plan: Why life's most difficult transitions can become powerful opportunities for transformation. - What's next for Mama Gena: Her decision to take a six-month creative sabbatical and what it means to practice what she teaches. About Regena Thomashauer (Mama Gena) Regena Thomashauer, affectionately known as Mama Gena, is a New York Times bestselling author, teacher, and founder of the School of Womanly Arts. A pioneer in women's empowerment and the reclamation of feminine pleasure, she has spent more than two decades teaching women to reconnect with their sensuality, embrace their desires, release shame, and reclaim their personal power. Her groundbreaking bestseller, P***y: A Reclamation, became a defining work in women's empowerment. Her newest book, On Our Knees: Loving Your Life Even When You Hate What's Happening, explores the transformative power of surrender and the possibility of remaining fully alive through grief, loss, and life's most challenging experiences. 🔗 CONNECT WITH MAMA GENA Website: https://mamagenas.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mamagena/ Book (New York Times bestseller): P***y: A Reclamation - https://tinyurl.com/u4xwt54e Book: On Our Knees: Loving Your Life Even When You Hate What's Happening - https://tinyurl.com/3urmzmzy 🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN Website: https://kereneldad.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/ Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/ 📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

What if the life you think you’re “behind” on was never actually the life you were supposed to be living? When journalist Stacey Lindsay turned 40, she found herself confronting a familiar question: Why doesn’t my life look the way I thought it would by now? Career. Marriage. Children. Money. Beauty. Success. Certainty. She felt as if she had fallen behind. And then she did something smart: she questioned whether timelines and rules applied to her, anyway. In other words, instead of assuming something had gone wrong, Stacey did what a great journalist does: she questioned the premise. Those questions—and her conversations with women about what was actually happening in their lives at midlife—became her book, Being 40: The Decade of Letting Go and Embracing Who We Are. In this episode of COACHED, Stacey and I examine the gap between the life we have lived and the life we think we should have lived by now—and what becomes possible when we stop measuring ourselves against inherited expectations. We talk about aging, beauty, changing bodies, marriage, children, ambition, identity and grief; the pressure women feel to keep proving their worth; the Autumn Queen archetype and the creative power of midlife; and why getting older can become an invitation to stop performing your life and finally start inhabiting it. Stacey offers a reminder worth carrying into any decade: You can be late for dinner reservations. You cannot be late for your life. Because the REAL question is not: Am I where I was supposed to be by now? It is: Now that I am here, what do I want to do with the life that is actually mine? 🔗 CONNECT WITH STACEY LINDSAY Website: https://www.staceylindsay.com/ Book: Being 40: The Decade of Letting Go and Embracing Who We Are - https://tinyurl.com/yy7rhtkf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/staceylindsay/ 🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN Website: https://kereneldad.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/ Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/ 📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

What if productivity isn’t really about getting more done—but getting clear on what matters enough to organize your life around? This week on COACHED, Coach Keren sits down with Jay Papasan, bestselling author, CEO, executive coach, and co-author with Gary Keller of The ONE Thing, the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller that has sold more than 4 million copies and been translated into 40+ languages. And while millions know The ONE Thing as a productivity classic, Jay says its deeper message is about something much bigger: purpose. When you know what matters, your priorities become clearer. When your priorities become clearer, focus gets easier. And when you repeatedly give your attention to the few things that truly matter, extraordinary results begin to compound. In this wide-ranging conversation, Keren and Jay go far beyond productivity hacks to explore calling, identity, mastery, consistency, discipline, entrepreneurship, success, family, and the seasons of life that change what deserves our attention. Jay shares his unlikely journey from a shy, book-obsessed kid to publishing in New York, joining a then-small Keller Williams, raising his hand to work with Gary Keller, and eventually co-authoring some of the most influential business books of the last two decades. They also unpack one of Jay’s central ideas: “Consistency is intensity.” Real success rarely comes from one heroic sprint. It comes from time on task, over time—the willingness to keep doing the right thing long after the excitement has worn off. IN THIS EPISODE: · Why The ONE Thing is ultimately a book about purpose, not productivity · How purpose determines priorities—and priorities determine productivity · Jay’s journey from publishing and ghostwriting to becoming an author himself · Why you don’t need to begin with extraordinary talent to develop mastery · The career-changing power of raising your hand · The “elephant and the rider” metaphor for recognizing your calling · How The ONE Thing became a global phenomenon through relentless consistency · Why the rewards of success can distract you from the work that created the success · Why “consistency is intensity” · The difference between discipline everywhere and selected disciplines · Why multitasking undermines focus—and why we now need “digital bunkers” · Why many of our deepest regrets are really the result of misplaced priorities · How to decide what is genuinely worthy of your time · Why The Millionaire Real Estate Agent contains lessons for almost any service-based entrepreneur · Jay’s newest work and what years of grief, health challenges, business difficulties, and personal “storms” taught him about continuing to lead when life is falling apart ABOUT JAY PAPASAN Jay Papasan is a bestselling author, CEO, and executive coach. He has co-authored 12 books, including The ONE Thing with Gary Keller, and his books have sold nearly 7 million copies worldwide. He is CEO of Produktive, the training and coaching company behind The ONE Thing methodology, and hosts The ONE Thing podcast. His work centers on helping entrepreneurs and high performers simplify their path, identify what matters most, and build the discipline to act on it. 🔗 CONNECT WITH JAY PAPASAN Website: https://www.jaypapasan.com/ Newsletter: The TwentyPercenter - https://www.jaypapasan.com/newsletter/ Podcast: The ONE Thing Podcast - https://the1thing.com/podcast/ Book: The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth About Extraordinary Results - https://tinyurl.com/mujpfemp Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaypapasan/ 🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN Website: https://kereneldad.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/ Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/ 📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

What if your relationship doesn’t actually have a communication problem? What if it has a connection problem? In this episode of the COACHED Coaching Masters series, Coach Keren sits down with John Howard, LMFT, therapist, author, educator and an early pioneer in neuroscience-based couples work, for a fascinating conversation about what actually creates safety, intimacy and lasting connection. John’s path to this work is deeply personal. After a childhood marked by disconnection, loss and instability, he began a lifelong search to understand love: first through spirituality and ancient wisdom, and eventually through psychology, attachment theory, neuroscience and couples therapy. That journey ultimately shaped the integrative approach he now teaches to therapists and brings to individuals and couples. His central premise is deceptively simple: Connection is about much more than words. Our nervous systems are constantly reading the people around us for safety and security—and tone of voice, facial expression, touch, body language, presence and attunement can communicate more than the perfectly constructed sentence ever could. Keren and John explore what this means for marriage, dating, friendship, coaching and virtually every important relationship in our lives. They also unpack mutuality—John’s description of the sweet spot between abandoning yourself to please another person and focusing exclusively on your own needs. Healthy relationships require both people to remain aware of themselves while simultaneously tracking and responding to one another. For singles, that means dating becomes less about performing well enough to be chosen and more about learning to receive and observe the person sitting across from you. As Keren puts it: Her dating life changed when she stopped showing up hoping someone would like her and started paying attention to whether she liked them. John also explains why authenticity and honesty are not necessarily the same thing. Reporting every thought in your head may be technically honest, but authentic communication goes deeper: What do I actually want from this relationship? What am I feeling beneath my reaction? And am I willing to communicate that vulnerably enough to create greater connection? Ultimately, John argues that the process of an interaction matters more than its content. When two people trust each other, feel safe and enjoy being together, they can navigate incredibly difficult subjects. When they don’t, even loading the dishwasher can become a battleground. IN THIS EPISODE: · How John’s own childhood experiences of loss and disconnection led him to study love and relationships · Why spirituality helped him heal—and why he eventually realized he also needed psychology · What neuroscience and attachment theory teach us about human connection · Why verbal communication is not always the most direct route to intimacy · How tone, touch, facial expressions and body language communicate with the nervous system · Why your body and gut can provide useful information when dating · The relationship principle of mutuality · Why healthy love is neither self-abandonment nor self-centeredness · How to stop performing on dates and start receiving · What emotional intelligence can look like in early dating · Why secure relationships allow partners to influence one another · What actually produces meaningful change in therapy and coaching · Why feeling safe can make us more open to transformation · The critical distinction between honesty and authenticity · What secure connection really means · Why these principles apply to friendships, families and children—not only romantic partners · The importance of paying attention to the process of an interaction rather than obsessing over its content · Why we should have a very high standard for relationships feeling good ABOUT JOHN HOWARD John Howard, LMFT, is an internationally recognized therapist, educator and relationship expert whose work integrates neuroscience, attachment science, mind-body approaches and couples therapy. He has trained therapists internationally, developed couples and family therapy curriculum for Dell Medical School in Austin, and created Presence Therapy®, an integrative mind-body approach to psychotherapy. He is also the author of More Than Words: The Science of Deepening Love and Connection in Any Relationship, a science-based exploration of how we can create greater safety, intimacy, trust and connection in our most important relationships. RESOURCES 🔗 CONNECT WITH JOHN HOWARD Website: https://johnhowardmft.com/ Book: More Than Words: The Science of Deepening Love and Connection in Any Relationship - https://tinyurl.com/52tvmf4d Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnhoward_atx/ 🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN Website: https://kereneldad.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/ Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/ 📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

What if the thing standing between you and the life you want isn’t a lack of effort, discipline or strategy—but a lie you’ve repeated so many times that you now mistake it for the truth? In this powerful episode of COACHED, Coach Keren sits down with transformational coach, speaker, mentor and bestselling author Dana Grant, author of The Truth Within the Lie: How to Align with Universal Principles to Create the Life You Deserve. Dana’s work is rooted in helping people break free from the beliefs, patterns and stories that keep them playing small, overworking, overgiving and living out of alignment with who they really are. And she came to this work honestly. Dana shares her extraordinary evolution from a high-achieving young professional who broke records while privately battling imposter syndrome and self-sabotage, through illness, addiction, trauma, spiritual awakening and ultimately the decision to stop hiding the parts of herself she feared others would reject. Together, Keren and Dana explore what happens when the identities that once protected us become the very things preventing us from creating the lives we actually want. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR: · Why extraordinary achievement and deep unworthiness can coexist · How core wounds quietly shape our expectations, choices and self-sabotage · Why the stories we inherit can eventually become identities we mistake for truth · The difference between ego-driven protection and heart-centered action · Why other people’s judgments are often projections—and why they still hurt when part of us believes them · Dana’s “one-degree” approach to changing unconscious patterns · Why accountability without compassion simply becomes another form of self-punishment · The difference between genuine service and overgiving, overserving and martyrdom · Why boundaries are essential to healthy service · How self-authority relates to abundance, manifestation and the Law of Attraction · Why healing isn’t about perfection, arrival or becoming someone new · What it means to stop performing, stop abandoning yourself and finally come home to who you are ABOUT DANA GRANT Dana Grant is an International Master Life & Business Mentor, speaker, bestselling author and entrepreneur whose work centers on helping high achievers, entrepreneurs, executives and purpose-driven leaders break free from the invisible patterns and beliefs keeping them out of alignment with themselves. Her work is rooted in Universal Principles and explores how our inner relationship with worthiness, identity, abundance, purpose and truth shapes how we live, lead, love, create and experience our lives. Her book, The Truth Within the Lie, challenges readers to examine the stories they have inherited and internalized—and return to the truth of who they actually are. 🔗 CONNECT WITH DANA GRANT Website Instagram Book: The Truth Within the Lie: How to Align with Universal Principles to Create the Life You Deserve 🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN Website Instagram Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren 📚 COACH KEREN’S BOOKS GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More GILT FREE: Breaking Free From the Gilded Cage for Good

What if your life wasn’t over… but just beginning again? In this deeply moving Coaching Masters conversation, Keren sits down with Leslie Fraley—founder of Fine Folk and now emerging coach and founder of Second Act—to explore the courage it takes to reinvent yourself in real time. Leslie built a beautiful, successful life: a celebrated retail business, a strong community, a family. And then—like so many high-functioning, high-achieving women—she hit a moment of quiet unraveling. Not a breakdown. A reckoning. Through coaching, Leslie began to see something she hadn’t allowed herself to fully consider before: There was more. Not more to achieve—but more to become. This conversation traces her journey through resistance, self-doubt, identity shifts, and ultimately—stepping into a new chapter rooted in service, authenticity, and self-trust. It’s about what it means to let go of who you’ve been… and gently, bravely, begin again. What We Cover: The “void” moment that precedes transformationWhy resistance is the doorway—not the obstacleCoaching vs. therapy (and why the distinction matters)Learning to trust intuition over egoBuilding self-trust through actionThe concept of a “Second Act” in lifeDivorce, grief, and shared human experienceThe power of community in healing and growthIdentity as something you choose—not inheritThe connection between clothing, self-expression, and truthSelf-doubt and the daily practice of self-loveThe difference between understanding the work vs. embodying itPurpose as a practice—not a destinationBecoming a teacher by living the work Key Takeaways: Resistance is not a sign you’re off track—it’s where the work begins. You don’t find purpose. You practice it. Identity is something you wear—and you can choose it. You can wear the identity, or the identity can wear you. Self-trust is built by stepping into the unknown—and watching the ground appear. Growth is not about knowing where you’re going. It’s about moving anyway. The most powerful teachers are those who are living the work in real time. There is no “there.” Only here—and how you choose to meet it. About the Guest: Leslie Fraley is a fashion and lifestyle entrepreneur, founder of Fine Folk—a boutique and style studio recognized by Vogue—and the creator of Second Act, an emerging coaching platform designed to help women reconnect with themselves and step into a new chapter of life with clarity, confidence, and authenticity. Her work blends aesthetic curation, personal transformation, and deep inner work to help women rediscover who they are—and express it fully. Connect with Leslie: Website: lesliefraley.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesliefraley/ Fine Folk: https://finefolk.com Leslie’s new coaching platform and website are launching soon—check the show notes for updates and live links as they become available. 🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN Website: https://kereneldad.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/ Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/ 📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w

This week on COACHED, I sit down with Michelle Sorro - former television host and live-commerce powerhouse with more than $222 million in sales, master coach, entrepreneur, speaker, and host of the top 1% Fire & Soul podcast. Michelle’s first major awakening came after achieving the career she thought she wanted - only to realize she was being called toward something entirely different. What followed was not one reinvention, but many: leaving television, building a transformation business, moving through a profound spiritual awakening, confronting addiction and old nervous-system patterns, discovering the Gene Keys and somatic work, and ultimately rebuilding her life around truth, spaciousness, embodiment and inner authority. That makes this conversation particularly important for the high achiever. So many of us unconsciously assume that becoming more powerful will require becoming more exhausted. Michelle makes the opposite case: the case for slowing down enough to hear what is actually true for you. To this end, talk about the difference between force and inspired action, why achievement can disconnect us from our bodies, how to distinguish genuine inner knowing from anxiety and conditioning, and why the very patterns we are desperate to eliminate may contain the gifts we are here to express. We also explore her methodology, traversing the Gene Keys, somatics, nervous-system regulation, inner-child work, addiction, our increasingly compulsive relationship with technology, and why human-to-human connection may be becoming one of our most precious commodities. Michelle even gives us an extraordinarily simple somatic practice for the moments when you notice yourself controlling, proving, pleasing or forcing. In this episode, we discuss: Michelle’s journey from television and $222M+ in live sales to transformational work The moment she realized the career she had fought for was no longer her destiny Why reinvention requires the courage to release identities that once worked How to distinguish a true inner directive from fear, ego, conditioning or noise Why high achievers become disconnected from their bodies The Gene Keys and Michelle’s approach to turning our deepest patterns into gifts Why insight alone rarely changes behavior — and where somatics enters the picture The radical power of honoring your own energetic seasons Michelle’s six-to-eight-hour workweek and why sacred rest became non-negotiable Wu Wei and the principle of effortless action Why working harder and earning more are not inherently correlated Michelle’s private struggle with cigarettes and the moment she finally stopped bargaining with herself The hidden function underneath addiction and compulsive behavior Why our devices may be one of the great threats to presence, agency and real connection How to notice whether you are operating from control or people-pleasing A simple inner-child practice for creating safety Michelle’s 30-second somatic check-in for returning to the present moment Why vulnerability can make a leader more compelling, not less The shift from fighting our patterns to learning how to work with them Why in-person connection and sacred space matter more than ever CONNECT WITH MICHELLE Website: Michelle Sorro Instagram: @michellesorro Podcast: Fire & Soul CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN Apply for Coaching: www.KerenEldad.com

What if the thing you’ve been working so hard to fix… isn’t actually the problem? This week on COACHED, I sit down with Kevin St. Clergy, author, business coach, and creator of the Beyond Blind Blaming™ Framework, to explore why smart, capable people can spend years solving the wrong problem - and wondering why nothing changes. Spoiler alert -it’s because they are asking the wrong questions. In this epic conversation. we talk about the personal experiences that led Kevin to this work, the cognitive biases that keep us attached to the wrong diagnosis, why business owners so often assume they have a marketing problem when something else is broken, and Kevin’s simple RCD Method: Reflect. Connect. Decide. We also get into sales, coachability, the importance of outside perspective, and why insight means very little unless you are willing to make a decision and do something differently. If you’re working ever harder and still not getting the result, this episode offers one powerful possibility: Maybe you’re not stuck. Maybe you’re solving the wrong problem. IN THIS EPISODE: What Blind Blaming™ is - and how to recognize itAvailability bias and confirmation biasKevin’s Reflect. Connect. Decide. frameworkWhy outside perspective mattersSales, listening, and the power of silenceCoachability and humilityMFD: Make F*****g DecisionsWhy different results require different action 🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN Website: https://kereneldad.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/ Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/ 📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

Have you noticed that you can understand your wounds, know your patterns, talk beautifully about healing - and still keep living exactly the same life? In this episode, we are about to change that, as Coach Keren sits down with Stefanos Sifandos, whose work lives at the intersection of healing, intimacy, relationships and embodiment, for an extraordinarily honest conversation about what it actually takes to change. Stefanos shares his journey through childhood pain, addiction, destructive relationships and relentless overachievement - and why so much of our striving is really an attempt to earn the love, safety and validation we once lacked. We talk about why high achievers often keep intimacy at a distance, the difference between insight and embodiment, why real transformation happens relationally, and how compassion, consistency and action can finally make us whole. Because awareness is not the finish line. The way you live is. IN THIS EPISODE: Why overachievement can become an addiction to validationThe childhood wounds underneath adult patternsWhy intimacy can feel unsafe for high performersAwareness vs. actual embodimentThe power of compassion and non-judgmentWhy transformation requires consistency and actionWhat it really means to become whole 🔗 CONNECT WITH STEFANOS SIFANDOS Website: https://stefanossifandos.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stefanossifandos/ Book: Tuned In And Turned On - https://stefanossifandos.com/single-book-order/ 🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN Website: https://kereneldad.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/ Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/ 📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

What happens when your business evolves - but your message does not? In this episode of COACHED, Coach Keren Eldad sits down with messaging strategist, brand advisor, bestselling author and eight-figure entrepreneur Julie Solomon for a conversation about visibility, identity, reinvention and the messaging mistakes that can quietly keep even highly accomplished entrepreneurs stuck. Julie shares the deeply personal story behind her own reinvention: leaving the traditional PR world, becoming a new mother, accumulating $30,000 in credit-card debt, confronting the impact it was having on her marriage, and ultimately rebuilding her career and business on very different terms. But the heart of this conversation is what happened after Julie became successful. She began to realize that the conventional advice to “serve an earlier version of yourself” had stopped working. Her expertise had evolved. Her clients had evolved. She had evolved. But parts of her messaging were still speaking to a version of herself she had long since outgrown. Julie introduces her framework of the Former Self, Working Self and Highest Self and explains why each responds to radically different messaging. The Former Self responds to pain and struggle. The Working Self consumes information, tips and endless education - often mistaking learning for actual progress. The Highest Self is ready to make decisions and move toward transformation. And therein lies the shift: in knowing that the promise matters more than the pain. Together, Keren and Julie explore what this means not only for marketing, but for leadership: knowing when you are helping versus rescuing, recognizing when over-teaching is actually keeping prospective clients from making decisions, allowing your message to evolve with your mastery, and becoming willing to release strategies, clients and ways of working that no longer fit who you have become. IN THIS EPISODE: Julie’s journey from burned-out publicist to eight-figure entrepreneurThe financial rock bottom that forced her to take stock of her lifeWhy Julie believes we should not always rescue people from their rock bottomsWhy your ideal client may not be an earlier version of youThe difference between the Former Self, Working Self and Highest SelfWhy pain-point marketing can attract clients who are not ready for your workHow over-educating your audience creates consumers instead of decision-makersWhy sophisticated entrepreneurs often have a clarity problem, not a capability problemHow to market toward desire and transformation rather than painWhy your personal story matters — but your “mess” should not become your messageAuthentic alignment versus performing the version of yourself you think will sellWhy your body can tell you when a strategy no longer fitsThe power of creating space instead of continually adding moreJulie’s next chapter and the surprising power she is finding in doing less CONNECT WITH JULIE Website: juliesolomon.net Instagram: @julssolomon Podcast: Woman of Influence Book: Get What You Want: How to Go From Unseen to Unstoppable

What if the pressure you believe is responsible for your success… isn't? In this episode of COACHED, Coach Keren sits down with bestselling author and entrepreneur Kate Northrup, whose groundbreaking books Money: A Love Story and Do Less have challenged conventional thinking about money, productivity, ambition and what it actually means to prosper. At the center of the conversation is a deceptively simple question: Who are you without the pressure? Kate shares the intensely personal season that forced her to answer it. While supporting her husband through serious health challenges, raising two young daughters, carrying enormous financial responsibility and running a multi-seven-figure business, Kate discovered that stress wasn't merely something she was experiencing. It had become her fuel. When a therapist asked her to imagine that all of her financial pressure suddenly disappeared, Kate expected relief. Instead, she felt flat — almost dead inside. The realization was startling: she had become so accustomed to pressure, productivity and hypervigilance that ease itself felt unsafe. What followed was a radical 90-day experiment in doing less. No new offers. No unnecessary campaigns. No compulsive over-delivering. Kate simply fulfilled the commitments she had already made while learning not to turn every moment of fear into more activity. The result? She hit her financial goals anyway. Together, Kate and Keren explore what happens when high achievement becomes a socially celebrated stress response — and what becomes possible when we learn to create from safety, inspiration and genuine desire instead. In This Episode, We Explore:Why money is not only a mindset conversation — it's a body and nervous-system conversationHow financial, productivity and achievement pressure can masquerade as ambitionKate's realization that she had become addicted to stress and pressureWhy over-functioning can be a socially rewarded fight-or-flight responseThe 90-day experiment that taught Kate that pressure was not required for financial successWhy periods of rest and reduced output can function like allowing soil to lie fallowThe difference between doing less and doing nothingWhy high achievers can become frightened by ease, stability and "cruising altitude"How to distinguish healthy ambition from hypervigilanceThe difference between creating for approval and creating because something genuinely wants to be expressedProductivity versus worthinessHow scarcity and comparison affect the nervous systemWhy another person's success does not have to register as a threatWhat it means to cultivate an internal experience of safety, support and enoughness Connect With KateWebsite: katenorthrup.com Social: @KateNorthrup Podcast: Plenty Books: Money: A Love Story and Do Less Kate also recommends beginning with her free Money Reset - https://katenorthrup.com/reset/, an audio journey exploring financial pressure and nervous-system regulation. Connect With Coach KerenWebsite: KerenEldad.com Social: @coachKeren Consultation: Calendly.com/KerenEldad Books: Gilded, Gilt Free

What happens when the thing you worked so hard to build… works — but you no longer want the life that comes with it? Lacey Newman knows. A former top 1% real estate team leader and host of an Emmy-nominated television show, Lacey built the kind of career most people would be terrified to walk away from. But behind the success was a business that required her to be constantly available, constantly reactive, and increasingly disconnected from the way she actually wanted to live. So she did something most people struggle to do: she left while it was still working. In this episode of COACHED, Lacey and I talk about what it really takes to outgrow a successful identity, why major pivots are rarely clean or comfortable, and how she learned to stop putting clients above herself and start building a business around her actual life. We also get into the particular reckoning that often happens in midlife, when the question changes from Can I succeed? to: Do I actually want the life my success has created? And perhaps most importantly, we talk about why the next level for highly capable women often requires subtraction, not addition. Because if you have spent your life being the woman who can handle everything, the answer may not be becoming even more capable. It may be finally deciding what you are no longer willing to carry. IN THIS EPISODE, WE DISCUSS:Why walking away from something successful can be harder than walking away from failureThe hidden personal cost of being available to clients 24/7Why boundaries can actually make you better at what you doThe difference between serving your clients and putting yourself beneath themWhy you do not have to burn your old life to the ground in order to build a new oneWhat Lacey calls “the ick” — and why your body may recognize misalignment before your mind is ready to admit itThe messy reality of changing identities and careersWhy midlife is such a powerful period of individuation and reinventionWhy authenticity matters more, not less, in the age of AIThe danger of becoming addicted to being “the most capable woman in the room”Why overwhelmed women often need to remove responsibilities rather than add another strategyThe difference between changing your strategy and raising your standardsWhy Lacey believes creativity cannot be outsourcedThe deeper purpose behind the book she hopes to write next Connect with Lacey Newman: https://laceynewman.com/ Lacey’s free workshop, AI for Ambitious Women, is on August 25th. Registration link: https://go.laceynewman.com/ai-for-ambitio us-women-workshop Learn more about Coach Keren Eldad: www.kereneldad.com Book a consultation: https://calendly.com/kereneldad

Ever heard someone say, “You give such good advice. You should be a coach”? Not so fast. Because coaching — real coaching — isn't about dispensing good advice. It is a discipline requiring training, practice, listening, discernment, and the ability to ask the right question rather than simply offer your opinion. And excellent coaching requires something considerably harder to put on a website: You have to do your own work. In this episode of The COACHED Podcast: Coaching Masters, Coach Keren sits down with executive and leadership coach Carrie Fabris, founder of CareerFrame and author of ALL IN: A Working Mom’s Unapologetic Quest for a Juicy Life, to examine what actually makes a great coach. Carrie and Keren share analogous paths into the profession: substantial corporate careers, rigorous training and accreditation, and the eventual realization that credentials and experience alone are not enough. Carrie candidly shares why her first attempt at building CareerFrame failed, how ego, fear, imposter syndrome, inherited beliefs, and her own unexamined material followed her into her work, and why she ultimately had to go inward before she could successfully go outward again. Today, Carrie describes excellent coaching as learning how to “read the human” in front of you: listening carefully, noticing what changes in their face, hearing what they are saying and what they are avoiding, and asking the right question rather than the impressive-sounding one. Because you cannot take another human being somewhere you are unwilling to go yourself. In this conversation: Why giving great advice does not make someone a great coachWhy coaching is a discipline — not simply a personality traitWhat real corporate experience brings to executive coachingWhy Carrie's first attempt at CareerFrame didn't workThe difference between ego-driven ambition and genuine alignmentWhy Carrie returned to corporate — and eventually realized she couldn't stay there eitherFear, imposter syndrome, inherited beliefs, and the inner work that changed her trajectoryWhy credentials, frameworks, and assessments matter — but aren't enoughWhat it means to truly “read the human” you're coachingWhy great coaches listen instead of rushing to adviseThe difference between asking a question and asking the right questionWhy a coach's own unexamined material inevitably enters the roomThe essential truth at the heart of great coaching: you have to do your own work CONNECT WITH CARRIE Learn more about Carrie and CareerFrame: CareerFrame Read ALL IN: A Working Mom’s Unapologetic Quest for a Juicy Life: Get ALL IN Follow Carrie on Instagram: @cdfabris ABOUT COACHING MASTERS Coaching Masters is a series from The COACHED Podcast devoted to positioning coaching as the serious profession it is by examining what excellent coaching actually looks like, what qualifies someone to do this work, and what those entrusted with another person's growth owe to the human being sitting across from them. Listen to the full episode of The COACHED Podcast with Coach Keren Eldad.

What if everything you've worked so hard to build isn't freedom...but a beautifully decorated cage? In this special episode, Coach Keren Eldad shares the full introduction to her bestselling new book, Gilt Free: Ditching Your Gilded Cage for Good. If you've ever felt successful on paper yet strangely disconnected from yourself... If you've checked every box but still wondered, "Is this really it?" If you've built an impressive life while quietly sacrificing peace, joy, authenticity, or freedom... this episode was written for you. Inside this exclusive preview you'll discover: • Why success without freedom is still a cage • The hidden psychological trap high achievers rarely recognize • The fascinating story of Consuelo Vanderbilt and the original "gilded cage" • Carl Jung's concept of individuation—and why becoming yourself is the privilege (and fight) of a lifetime • The moment that changed Keren's own life forever • Why Gilt Free isn't about becoming more successful—it's about becoming more free Whether you're an entrepreneur, executive, leader, creator, parent, or simply someone who's tired of performing your life instead of living it, this conversation will challenge the way you think about achievement. In This Episode ✔ Why modern achievement often leaves us feeling empty ✔ The surprising psychology behind overachievement ✔ The invisible "performance" so many successful people are living ✔ Why insight alone never creates transformation ✔ Introducing the Anti-Rules—the counterintuitive principles that create genuine freedom ✔ The difference between guilt and gilt Ready to Go Deeper? 📖 Get your copy of Gilt Free https://www.amazon.com/Gilt-Free-Ditching-Your-Gilded/dp/B0GY5ZNHPK/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Uq_7tgTOv9fIqe_tOXuQJx5GHH9sJpou5R2e9abTCyvGjHj071QN20LucGBJIEps.y5mfuMw55-XTNGNP0CaUexzwFG-bTjyqp7uHgmvSNiw&dib_tag=se&keywords=gilt+free+keren+eldad&qid=1784581218&sr=8-1 🌐 Learn more about private coaching and events https://www.kereneldad.com 🎥 Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kereneldad2960 📅 Book a Coaching Consultation with Coach Keren Eldad: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation?back=1 If this episode resonated with you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share it with someone who's ready to stop performing success and start living it.

What if the exhaustion, perfectionism, people-pleasing, burnout, and imposter syndrome you have spent years trying to fix are not actually the problem? What if they are symptoms of something deeper? In this deeply moving conversation, Coach Keren sits down with coach, speaker, and author Annalie Howling to explore the hidden force that drives so many high achievers: shame. Annalie shares her extraordinary personal journey from a violent childhood, chronic self-doubt, and self-harm to becoming one of the leading voices on shame, trauma, and healing. Together, they unpack why achievement can never heal unworthiness, why burnout is often a wake-up call rather than a failure, and how self-compassion becomes the antidote to the belief that we are somehow not enough. This episode is a powerful reminder that healing is not about becoming someone else. It is about finally coming home to yourself. In This Episode Why high achievement often becomes a strategy for outrunning shameThe critical difference between guilt and shameHow childhood experiences shape adult identity and self-worthBurnout as a symptom of living out of alignmentWhy perfectionism and people-pleasing are survival mechanismsUnderstanding imposter syndrome through the lens of shameHow Annalie transformed her relationship with her inner criticThe role of EMDR and trauma healing in lasting transformationWhy receiving compliments feels uncomfortable for so many peopleThe connection between self-compassion and true freedomHow to begin healing shame one small act of self-kindness at a time Memorable Quotes "I wasn't intolerant to gluten. I was intolerant to my life." "Shame is always an 'I am' statement." "The imposter's job is to police our shame from ever being discovered." "There is a cure for shame, and it is self-compassion." "Start by learning about yourself. Then liking yourself. Then loving yourself." Connect with Annalie 📖 Book: Unapologetic: Unshackle Your Shame, Reclaim Your Power 🌐 Website: Annalie Howling 📸 Instagram: @annaliehowling Listener Invitation If this conversation resonated with you, please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who needs it. You never know who may be carrying shame in silence.