The Courage Coalition

This week on The Courage Coalition, I had to sit with a hard question: Where do I go from here? The truth is, I was wrestling with clarity — not because I don’t have stories or lessons to share, but …

Sales often gets a bad reputation, something “sleazy” or uncomfortable that we’d rather avoid. But as my guest, bestselling author and sales coach Mandi Graziano, reminded me, we are all in sales eve…

When the world gets loud, I’ve learned to choose quiet. Not the kind that avoids life, but the kind that lets me hear it. Lately the static, the shoulds, the strategies, the scroll, has blurred what …

Some conversations leave you nodding, some leave you teary, and some leave you completely rethinking the stories you’ve been carrying. My recent talk with Cristina P. Simmons, bestselling author of E…

Time is the one resource we can’t earn back, yet it’s often the first thing we waste. We fight for our opinions, hold grudges, and defend our “right” to be right, only to realize later those things c…

There are moments in life when the truth is so raw, it offends the soul. That’s what this conversation with Alani Bankhead felt like,  a jolt of reality we can’t look away from. Alani has spent over …

This week’s solo cast is a raw one, friend. I’m peeling back the layers and sharing what it’s been like to reintroduce myself to feel that soul-stirring nudge that something was waking up inside of m…

There are people you meet who feel like a memory like someone you’ve known before in another chapter of your life. That’s how it was with Anniston Blair Riekstins. The first time she looked me in the…

When I first received the whisper of what would become the AwakeIn retreat, it didn’t arrive as a polished plan. It came in stillness on a quiet walk here in Montana wrapped in curiosity and convicti…

There are moments on this podcast that feel less like a conversation and more like sacred space. This was one of them. Jessica Phillips sat down with me for one of the most raw, redemptive, truth-tel…

As I sit with the weight and wonder of this month—finishing the hike, celebrating 30 years of marriage, and standing in the unfolding of a vision that once felt too big to say out loud—I keep circlin…

There are some conversations that crack you wide open—and this one did just that. On this episode of The Courage Coalition, I had the absolute honor of sitting down with Tiffaney Childers, an account…

As we wrap up one of the most physically and emotionally demanding journeys of our lives—hiking the 100-mile Tour du Mont Blanc—I’ve been reflecting on how this all began. Not with certainty, not wit…

This week’s episode of The Courage Coalition was one of those raw, real conversations I’ll be holding onto for a long time. My dear friend Andrea Sullenger joined me to share the winding, holy, and b…

As you read this, we’re likely somewhere along the Tour du Mont Blanc trail—mud on our boots, breath a little short, hearts wide open. This 100-mile hike isn’t just a physical challenge or a dreamy E…

When Erin Pohan and I sat down for this episode of The Courage Coalition, I knew we were going to talk about accounting but what we actually talked about was so much more than that. Erin isn’t just a…

In this final episode of our four-part series on rewriting our money stories, we’re talking about integration—the powerful point where our beliefs, values, and evidence come together to create meanin…

There’s something sacred about a woman who tells the whole truth—especially when that truth includes repossessions, rationed meals, shame, and a slow rebuild from rock bottom. In my recent conversati…

In this episode of The Courage Coalition, we continue our journey through the foundations of financial awareness by talking about something that most people avoid: the evidence. Not the cold, clinica…

In this episode of The Courage Coalition, I sat down with Stacey Porritt—special education advocate and founder of Bridging the Gap Advocacy—to talk about something that hits close to home for so man…