Born to Coach®️

After welcoming my daughter Evelyn, I took five weeks off from my business for the first time in 10 years! While this postpartum season has been beautiful and blissful, it’s also challenged me to slow down, surrender control, and let go of the constant need to be productive. In this raw, unfiltered episode, I’m sharing: ​🌸 The highs and lows of maternity leave and postpartum life ​🌸 Navigating m...

Four weeks postpartum, I’m back behind the mic and we’re getting very personal. I’m joined by Ksandra Roehr of Hear Me Roehr, an intuitive life coach, medicine woman, and the woman I asked to be my shamanic doula during the home birth of my daughter, Evelyn. We’re sharing the raw, messy, beautiful story of Evelyn’s birth and the lessons about intuition, surrender, support, and trusting yourself wh...

At 39 weeks pregnant, I’m learning one of the biggest lessons of this season: how to surrender in life and business. In what may be my final podcast episode before giving birth, I’m sharing some raw reflections on what pregnancy and preparing for birth are teaching me about self-trust, boundaries, business, coaching, and letting go of the invisible rules about how we’re “supposed” to do things. I...

In this episode, I sit down with Dan Vincent, ACC , a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and leadership development professional, to explore how coaching skills can completely change the way we lead, communicate, manage people, and navigate the workplace. Dan shares what he learned coaching financial advisors despite never being a financial advisor himself, why great coaches don't need to be the...

What does becoming a life coach actually look like? Not the polished Instagram version. The real version...the fear, awkward first coaching sessions, self-doubt, life changes, practice, and moments when you wonder, “What the hell am I doing?” In this episode, I sit down with Born to Coach® Training Academy graduate Sharon to reflect on the transformation that happened during her year of coach trai...

What If You Didn’t Have to Push So Hard? What if slowing down doesn’t mean you’re falling behind in your business or any area of life? At almost 36 weeks pregnant, I’m finding myself in a season where my body, my life, and even my business are asking me to operate differently. In this episode, I’m reflecting on my lifelong tendency to push, achieve, and measure my worth through productivity and wh...

What if growing your coaching business didn’t require constantly posting, creating Reels, checking Instagram, or feeding the social media machine? At 35 weeks pregnant, preparing for maternity leave, and navigating a lot behind the scenes in my personal life, I’ve been taking a serious look at what is and isn’t working in my life and business. And I realized something: social media was starting to...

What happens when the business you built for freedom starts depending on you for everything? Krista and leadership and operational efficiency expert Adrienne Dorison unpack how to build a business that supports your life instead of slowly taking it over. As Krista prepares for maternity leave, she and Adrienne get real about what it takes to step away without your income, clients, or business grin...

Krista sits down with coach and mentor Faisal Ensaun for an honest conversation about what it really takes to build a sustainable coaching business. From leaving a successful engineering career to embracing years of uncertainty, growing through collaboration instead of competition, and creating a referral-based business built on trust. Faisal shares the lessons that only come from doing the work....

What does it take to stop coaching for free and start getting paid? Born to Coach graduate Madison Doherty shares how she overcame self-doubt, people-pleasing, and learned to set boundaries, leading to her first paying coaching client. She opens up about the mindset shifts, courageous steps, and imperfect action that helped her build an authentic coaching business instead of waiting for everything...

Krista sits down with Ben Pages, trainer and ICF assessor at Born to Coach and coach in his own private practice, to explore what it really takes to achieve a goal that feels impossible. Through the story of coaching an ultramarathon runner who completed a 37 hour race, they unpack the mindset, identity shifts, and coaching conversations that help people keep going long after motivation disappears...

Krista dives into one of the biggest challenges she sees aspiring coaches and business owners face: charging for their work. After ten years of running her own coaching business and working with hundreds of coaches, she's learned that money fears aren't a sign that something is wrong. They're often a sign that you're growing. From guilt around charging and fears of being seen as gr...

Krista pulls back the curtain on something that has quietly shaped every major decision in her business for the last decade: spirituality. After a conversation with a prospective student who asked how spirituality fits into the Born to Coach Training Academy, Krista realized that what feels normal to her now is actually a completely different way of approaching business than most entrepreneurs hav...

A week in the Costa Rican jungle cracked something open in Krista and she’s not putting herself back together the same way! What began as a retreat experience turned into a deep unraveling of old identities, people-pleasing patterns, the need for male validation, and the lifelong habit of abandoning herself to be loved. Through sacred conversations, plant medicine, ecstatic dance, emotional breakt...

Krista opens up about a breakthrough that hit her at exactly the right time: the Drama Triangle. And once she saw it, she couldn’t unsee it. From relationships and family dynamics to coaching clients and codependency, this episode is a raw, honest look at how easily we fall into the roles of victim, rescuer, and persecutor and why those patterns keep us exhausted, stuck, and emotionally drained. K...

Krista gets real. Like… full moon, life-is-lifing, nothing-is-filtered real. From navigating motherhood, pregnancy, and a relationship shift to making a bold CEO decision in her business, this is a behind-the-scenes look at what it actually takes to lead when things feel messy. The big shift? No more bending over backwards to make everything work for everyone. This is about cleaner boundaries, sim...

Krista records post-gym in her “mobile podcast studio” and dives into a mindset block almost every coach faces: “Is what I’m doing actually valuable?” After a coaching student hesitated to charge $50 for a session that focused on something as simple as a grocery list, Krista unpacks why coaches often undervalue their work—and how that thinking keeps them stuck, underpaid, and second-guessing thems...

Recorded mid-hike, this episode is a real-time reminder that your business doesn’t need more strategy, it needs stronger boundaries. Krista breaks down how unclear boundaries are the root of burnout, resentment, and inconsistent income and how clean, well-communicated standards actually create more respect, better client results, and more money. With real client scenarios and a $92 no-show lesson...

In this episode, Krista shares a simple but powerful strategy she fully implemented at her recent Sedona retreat—and it worked. After years of hearing clients ask “what’s next?”, she realized she was missing a key opportunity to continue supporting them and growing her business. She breaks down how she created a natural next step for her clients and how you can do the same in your own offers. In t...

In this episode, Krista shares a real-time reflection on life initiations — those intense seasons that crack you open, humble you, and change you (whether you asked for it or not). She talks about how initiations can show up through money, business, pregnancy, identity shifts, and relationships—and how learning to meet them with awareness (instead of panic) makes you stronger, wiser, and more reso...

Krista records from the bathtub (rose petal + honey face mask included) and shares a real, rapid-fire life update: a pregnancy scare that led to the OBED, relief after clear test results, finally finding out baby is a girl, and the big personal and business shifts she’s navigating as she prepares for motherhood again. Pregnancy update: bleeding scare → OBED check-in + reassurance NIPT results: low...

Krista shares a real-time pregnancy update—fresh off a family weekend in Colorado—about what the first trimester has felt like after two previous miscarriages, the moments that have helped her breathe a little easier, and what she’s focusing on next as she approaches 10 weeks. In this episode: A quick life update from the car after a family trip (plus why she skipped skiing this time) What’s felt...

Nico Perez (Born to Coach student) shares how he landed his first $1,000 in paid coaching clients just a few months into training—plus the mindset shift that helped him stop feeling weird about charging and start getting paid. In this episode: The “charging feels weird” hurdle (and how to move through it) Nico’s simple strategy: outreach + intro rate + limited spots Why charging something creates...

In this episode, Krista shares a simple, no-fluff way to define your ideal client —without getting lost in avatar exercises or overthinking demographics. You’ll learn the three core signals that make someone a great fit (and the red flags that usually create stress later), plus how to handle money objections without abandoning your boundaries. Krista also talks about why it’s important not to judg...

In this episode, Krista talks about turning 40 in St. Barts, setting clear intentions for how she wants to feel, and rewriting old money stories while traveling with family. She shares what working-from-anywhere looks like (and what she’s not willing to sacrifice), how she stays grounded with meditation and Reiki, and why choosing your thoughts, feelings, and actions is the real control we have. I...