COACHED with Coach Keren

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 ques...

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 beco...

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 thro...

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 pla...

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...

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 ul...

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 tha...

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...

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...

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 tw...

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 whil...

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 auth...

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...

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...

This episode has become far more meaningful than I could have imagined when we recorded it.

Carolyn Elliott was one of the most original thinkers I have ever had the privilege of knowing. Brilliant, provocative, funny, and relentlessly committed to truth, she challenged thousands of people to question not only what they wanted from life- but why they remained attached to the very patterns they claimed to want to escape.

Tragically, Carolyn passed away shortly after this conversation. I later learned that this was the last podcast interview she ever recorded.

I cannot...

What if the problem isn't that you're doing too little—but that you're trying to succeed in a way that was never designed for you?

In this episode of Coaching Masters, Coach Keren sits down with longtime friend, former journalist, author, and Quantum Human Design Specialist Holly Corbett for an illuminating conversation about one of today's fastest-growing personal development modalities: Human Design.

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Together they explore how understanding your energetic blueprint can help you make better decisions, trust yourself more deeply, and stop forcing a...

What does it actually take to build a company people trust for decades?

In this episode, I sit down with Jody Thelander, Founder & CEO of J. Thelander Consulting, and her daughter and COO, Morgan Thelander, for a conversation about entrepreneurship, legacy, leadership, family business, and the discipline of building something that lasts.

Jody shares how a difficult season of life—including divorce and raising two young children—became the catalyst for creating one of the most trusted compensation intelligence firms in private markets. Morgan discusses joining the company, modernizing the business, embracing media, AI, and tech...

What happens when the life you've built works perfectly—but no longer feels like you?

This week on COACHED, I sit down with entrepreneur, designer, cancer survivor, and founder of Mrs. Momma Bear, Lee Evans, for one of the most inspiring conversations we've had about reinvention, identity, courage, and creating a life that feels as good as it looks.

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Raised on a West Texas ranch, Lee learned resilience before most children learned multiplication. She later built a successful career in...

What does it really take to sustain excellence for decades?

According to Broadway legend Mandy Gonzalez, it isn't talent.

It's devotion.

In this inspiring conversation, Coach Keren Eldad sits down with one of Broadway's most celebrated performers to explore what mastery actually looks like behind the curtain.

From starring in Hamilton, Wicked, In the Heights, and Sunset Boulevard to performing through breast cancer treatment, Mandy shares the mindset that has allowed her to thrive through extraordinary highs and unimaginable challenges.

Together, Keren and Mandy discuss:

What if the biggest obstacle to your next chapter isn't your résumé... but your identity?

As in, who you believe you are?

In this extraordinary conversation, Coach Keren sits down with personal branding strategist, entrepreneur, and Career Cheat Codes author Courtney Johnson to unpack what really creates extraordinary careers and why so many brilliant people stay invisible.

Together, they explore why strategy is rarely the problem, why authenticity has become the greatest competitive advantage in the age of AI, and why the future belongs to people willing to build lives around purpose in...

This week on COACHED, Keren sits down with Jenna Zoe, creator of My Human Design, founder of the Align App, bestselling author, and one of the leading voices responsible for bringing Human Design into the mainstream conversation.

What follows is not simply a discussion about Human Design.

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It is a conversation about authenticity, intuition, self-trust, and the hidden cost of spending years trying to become someone you were never meant to be.

Together, Keren and Jenna explore why so many ambitious people find themselves successful on...

What happens when you achieve everything you thought you wanted - and discover you're still not free?

This week on Coached, I sit down with entrepreneur, speaker, bestselling author, and BossBabe founder Natalie Ellis for one of the most honest conversations I've had about ambition, success, motherhood, and the very, very high cost so many of us pay in pursuit of them all.

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Natalie built one of the largest communities for female entrepreneurs in the world. From the outside, she had everything: a thriving business, millions of followers...

"Everything makes sense when you have enough data." Former FBI hostage negotiator Derek Gaunt explains why the best negotiators aren't persuasive—they're curious. Learn the five levels of listening, the power of dynamic silence, and how to uncover the hidden information that changes everything.

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What if the secret to influence wasn't persuasion?

What if it was understanding?

In this fascinating episode of Coached, Keren sits down with Derek Gaunt—former hostage negotiator, senior coach at The Black Swan Group, and co-author of Fight Less, Win More—to exp...

In this profound and deeply personal episode of Coached, Coach Keren sits down with Monica Berg - bestselling author, spiritual teacher, speaker, podcaster, and Chief Communications Officer of The Kabbalah Centre International - for a conversation on emotional mastery, certainty, fear, desire, soul growth, surrender, and the deeper meaning behind life’s greatest challenges.

Together, they unpack how ancient spiritual wisdom can radically transform modern life, relationships, business, ambition, healing, and personal growth.

In this episode, we discuss:

In this very special episode of Coached, host Coach Keren Eldad shares something she's never done before: the complete first chapter of her brand new book, Gilt Free: Ditching Your Gilded Cage for Good.

This isn't a summary. This isn't a teaser clip. This is the real beginning.

Chapter 1, "Debunking the Great Folly," is the moment where everything starts to shift - where we finally tell the truth about what isn't working and begin to understand why. If you've ever felt the quiet friction of a life that looks successful on paper but doesn't quite...

If you’ve ever done all the inner work, read all the books, hired the coaches, and still found

yourself repeating the same old patterns… this episode is for you.

In this deeply personal and highly anticipated conversation, I sit down with my Director of

Social Media, Rain Garcia, to introduce my new book, GILT FREE: Ditching Your Gilded Cage

for Good.

This is the sequel I swore I would never write.

And yet, after watching brilliant, self-aware clients continue to circle the runway without fully

la...

What if the patterns you keep trying to escape are patterns some unconscious part of you is still invested in?

In this provocative and deeply philosophical episode of Coached with Coach Keren, Coach Keren Eldad sits down with Carolyn Elliott for a conversation about shadow work, suffering, individuation, spirituality, power, and the unconscious pleasures hidden beneath human behavior.

Carolyn - bestselling author of Existential Kink and founder of Immortal College - shares the personal experiences that led her to develop one of the most confronting frameworks in modern personal development: the idea that we may...

What if the reason your success hasn't landed isn't a strategy problem — but a resonance problem? In this episode of the Coaching Masters Series, Coach Keren sits down with Michael Trainor, the cultural architect and teacher who co-created Global Citizen, bringing Beyoncé, Jay-Z, Coldplay, and 70,000 change-makers together in Central Park to raise over $40 billion for programs fighting extreme poverty. Then, at the height of his momentum, his father's illness called him toward something deeper — and he walked away from all of it.

What followed was five years in the proverbial cave, emerging with his book Resonance and a fra...

This episode is not going to just inspire you. It is going to initiate you.

Amberly Lago was a professional dancer, fitness instructor, and fitness model living her California dream when a single motorcycle accident in May 2010 shattered everything. What followed was 34 major surgeries, a 1% chance of keeping her leg, a diagnosis of complex regional pain syndrome — an incurable neurological condition of relentless pain — and eventually, a quiet spiral into alcoholism that she hid from her husband, her clients, and herself.

She didn't choose this work. She was dismantled into it. And what she built on t...

What if success wasn’t about more—but about better?

In this episode of Coached, Keren sits down with Erica Kiang, founder of Rooms Showroom, to explore the intersection of taste, identity, and entrepreneurship.

Erica’s work lives in a world of design, curation, and aesthetics—but this conversation goes far deeper than beautiful objects.

It’s about the discipline behind taste.

Raised between cultures and shaped by a deep sensitivity to environment, Erica developed an early awareness of space, energy, and what feels right. But like many high performers, she still had...

What if your money wasn’t just something you earned… but something you directed?

In this episode of Coached, Keren sits down with Eva Yazhari—CEO of Beyond Capital Ventures and author of The Good Your Money Can Do—to explore the true power of capital.

Eva’s work sits at the intersection of investing, purpose, and global impact. Through Beyond Capital, she has helped deploy millions into companies solving real-world problems—proving that profit and purpose are not at odds, but deeply aligned.

But this conversation goes far beyond finance.

It’s about y...

What happens when the business you built… starts to break you?

In this Coaching Masters episode, Keren sits down with Melody Jones, founder and president of VantagePoint MBA, to explore the evolution from hustle-driven entrepreneurship to aligned, sustainable leadership.

Melody didn’t just build a successful company—she built it the hard way.

After launching VantagePoint and scaling it into a nationally recognized MBA admissions consulting firm, she found herself doing everything: CEO, operator, marketer, coach, problem-solver. And like so many founders, she believed the answer was simple:

Work harder.

Unti...

What happens when the life that looks right stops feeling right?

In this powerful Coaching Masters conversation, Keren sits down with Dr. Bethany Weinheimer—veterinarian, coach, and founder of Evolved Vets—to explore the journey from perfectionism and burnout to alignment, love, and purpose.

Raised on a Texas farm and shaped by a culture of service, discipline, and achievement, Bethany followed the “right” path all the way to veterinary leadership—only to find herself exhausted, disconnected, and quietly unfulfilled.

What followed was not a pivot—but a profound unraveling.

Through inner work, coachi...

What happens when a high-achieving man who has “done everything right” realizes that success isn’t the same as purpose?

In this Coaching Masters episode, Coach Keren Eldad sits down with private client Dr. Taq Freeman to explore how coaching helped him transition from external achievement to internal awakening — and how that shift transformed not only his career trajectory, but his marriage, fatherhood, and sense of masculine agency.

Taq’s wife worked with Coach Keren years before they met. His coaching journey did not just change his business direction — it deepened his relationship, accelerated his emotional ma...

In an industry flooded with big promises and bigger personalities, how do you tell the difference between a serious teacher and a charismatic charlatan?

In this special episode of The Coached Podcast, Coach Keren Eldad sits down with journalist Ryan Krogh — who also happens to be her husband — to explore the standards behind the spotlight.

From years of interviewing scientists, executives, public figures, and thought leaders, Ryan shares the simplest litmus test for depth versus performance:

Watch what happens in the Q&A.

Can they think in real time?

Can...

What happens when a high-performing architect stops leading from pressure and starts leading from her creative genius?

In this Coaching Masters episode, Coach Keren Eldad sits down with her private coaching client, architect Allison Bryan, to trace the real source behind Allison’s recent expansion: not hustle, not “more designers,” not higher intensity — but inner work that changed the way she leads, hires, sells, and holds boundaries.

Allison shares how coaching helped her move from scarcity and hypervigilance to worthiness, clarity, and strategic growth — and how that internal shift translated into tangible outcomes: doubling revenue, raising st...

In this Coaching Masters conversation, Coach Keren Eldad sits down with longtime private client Billy Goldberg to explore a central question:

Where do real leadership insights come from?

Billy now advises middle-market CEOs and leads through a framework he calls People Powered Profitability. But in this episode, we trace the source of those insights — back to his years inside coaching.

This is not a conversation about business tactics.

It is a conversation about how identity work, agency, ego death, and internal authorship shaped the way Billy now thinks, leads, and builds.

Series: Coaching Masters (Student Side)

Guest: Courtney Key Dalberg — Coach Keren Eldad Client, real estate leader, mother of four, and emerging voice in coaching and podcasting

Tune in for a deeply personal conversation with Coach Keren Eldad client Courtney Key Dalberg about what happens when the life that looks “right” stops fitting — and you choose truth anyway.

In this Coaching Masters (Student Side) episode, Courtney shares her journey through private coaching with Coach Keren: the perfectionism, productivity-as-numbing, identity deaths, grief stages, “The Opposite” principle, and the moment desire became non-negotiable.

This is...

In today’s Coaching Masters episode, Coach Keren sits down with author, teacher, and sober-curious pioneer Amanda Kuda — a woman whose work is helping high achievers renegotiate their relationship with alcohol so they can step into their fullest potential, creativity, and spiritual clarity.

Amanda is the author of Bottled Potential, a guide to living alcohol-free, manifesting success, and stepping into the extraordinary. Her story isn’t one of clinical addiction — it’s the story of a woman who looked successful on the outside, yet felt misaligned within. Her journey takes us from Rainy Street to Reiki masters, from manif...

In this powerful Coaching Masters conversation, Coach Keren sits down with Vasavi Kumar, a licensed therapist, coach, speaker, voiceover artist, and bestselling author of Say It Out Loud, a book and methodology that have become a movement for those who are tired of hiding, tired of performing, and ready to live and speak from the core of who they really are.

Vasavi’s voice is unmistakable: bold, resonant, grounded, but it was forged in fire.

As a first-generation Indian American woman living with bipolar disorder, raised between cultures and expectations, and shaped by the emotional la...