Make Life Less Difficult

Send us a message! My guest today is Max Palomeque. Max is an executive coach and educator for the FBI, Department of Defense, U.S. Air Force, Georgetown University, and many other clients.  His company, Infourge Leadership brings his philosophy of coaching and leadership development to executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders in both the private and governmental sectors. Max is a proud and distingu...

Send us a message! My guest today is Sophie Cerella. Sophie is a student at the International School in Como, Italy, where she lives with her family.  Originally from the US, Sophie has lived in a number of places around the world because of her father’s military career. It is a distinct honor to have Sophie on as a guest, and in fact, my youngest guest up until now!  Sophie and I connected after...

Send us a message! My guest today is Patrick Murphy. Patrick Murphy is a leadership coach and facilitator based in Brooklyn, NY, and owner of Project Murphy, LLC.  He is committed to bringing passion, joy, and contagious enthusiasm to leadership development. I had the pleasure of meeting Patrick through a mutual work engagement and immediately wanted to learn more about his story!  Fortunately, he...

Send us a message! My guest today is Ravi Ram. Ravi is the Vice-President of Enterprise and Executive Education at Springboard, an online learning platform that prepares students for the tech industry’s most in-demand careers.  Ravi also works as an independent leadership coach and trainer.  Earlier in his career he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. Ravi and I met through mutual...

Send us a message! My guest today is Cathy Carroll. Cathy is the Founder and President of Legacy Onward, Inc., where she serves as a leadership coach for family business leaders. She is the author of the book, Hug of War: How to Lead a Family Business With both Love and Logic . Though Cathy grew up surrounded by her grandfather’s business, she initially carved out her career path as an actuary at...

Send us a message! My guests today are Mikah Meyer and Larry Edwards. Mikah is an avid outdoorsman who set a record of being the first person to visit all 419 National Park sites in the US in a single 3-year journey.  He also made history by being the first openly gay man to be in an outdoor recreation campaign by REI. Larry, is Dr. Lawrence Edwards, the Artistic Director of the Memphis Symphony C...

Send us a message! My guest today is Dr. Alex Korb, author of the book Upward Spiral: Using Neuroscience to Reverse the Course of Depression, One Small Change at a Time . Dr. Korb is a neuroscientist, writer, and coach. He has studied the brain for over 20 years, having earned his undergraduate degree in neuroscience at Brown University and then later completed his Ph. D. in neuroscience at UCLA....

Send us a message! My guest today is Tom Finn. Tom is a performance improvement consultant and coach for leaders and teams.  He’s also the author of the newly published book, The Shift Effect: How Small Shifts Improve Leader Performance , and a previous book titled, Are You Clueless 7 Clues to Profit, Productivity, and Partnership for Leaders in a Multicultural World Tom has over 30 years of exper...

Send us a message! My guest today is Claire Uncapher. Claire is an intuitive and transformational life coach, energy healer, and speaker.  She is on a mission to help people understand their symptoms don’t always mean there’s something wrong with them and the traditional model of medicine isn’t the only tool at their disposal for emotional healing. Claire’s first career was as a nurse and during t...

Send us a message! My guest today is Kim Brundage. Kim is an award-winning headshot and branding photographer on a mission to deliver a truly transformative experience that assures her clients feel nothing short of beautiful and confident, both on and off camera! Kim was a guest on episode 159 and if you haven’t heard that conversation, please check it out! In that first conversation, Kim mentione...

Send us a message! My guests today are Jaylee Kordosky and Jessica Cotton. I was introduced to Jaylee and Jessica through the thoughtfulness of Shannon Yzquiero-Cochran.  Thank you, Shannon!  I’m delighted to have this connection! Jessica is a co-founder of Shenanigans Comedy Theatre, a non-profit comedy club in Huntsville, Alabama.  Jessica and her wife, Kimberly, opened Shenanigans in 2019 to pr...

Send us a message! My guest today is Caitlin Avery. Caitlin is an award-winning author, a triathlete, mountain biker, backpacker, black-diamond skier, and yoga enthusiast. I was honored to meet Caitlin through the kind introduction from Andrea Barton from episode 165.  Thank you, Andrea! One of the books Caitlin has written tells the fictional story of a woman who outed her high school rapist thro...

Send us a message! My guest today is Natasha Smith. I met Natasha through the kindness of Shannon Cochran-Yzquierdo.  Thank you, Shannon!  You are connected with so many amazing people and I’m honored to get to meet some of them! Natasha is a firm believer that we can all create positive change.  Regardless of the industry in which she works or the title behind her name, her passion is to inspire...

Send us a message! My guest today is Diana Buikel. Diana is a world traveler, photography enthusiast, and a person with deep compassion, profound resilience, and a remarkable inner fortitude and faith. I was introduced to Diana by Shannon Cochran-Yzquierdo – thank you so much, Shannon!! Diana works in the Intel, Physical, and Personnel Security fields within Deloitte and the Industrial Security In...

Send us a message! My guest today is Neta Ein-Gil Glassberg. Neta is a certified leadership coach and leverages her background as an experienced business development manager to help leaders and teams foster creative thinking, develop interpersonal communication strategies, and embrace diverse perspectives. Neta was born in Thailand to an Israeli diplomat.  She’s lived in Singapore, the Philippines...

Send us a message! My guest today is Alorah Bliese. I met Alorah through Shannon Cochran-Yzquierdo, a well-known guest on the podcast, and I’m so grateful for the connection! Thank you, Shannon! Alorah is a queer, neurodivergent scientist.   They work as an interdisciplinary researcher, specializing in molecular marine biology. As a bisexual+ and non-binary person that is cisgender and heterosexua...

Send us a message! My guest today is Andrea Barton. Andrea is the author of The Godfather of Dance , A Jade Riley Mystery . The second book in the series will be out in late 2024. I met Andrea through Nicole Webb who has been on my podcast and am so grateful for the connection! An electrical engineer turned career consultant, Andrea spent 12 years enjoying the exhilaration and dislocation of life...

Send us a message! My guest today is Joan Fletcher. Joan is the founder of Winning Ways and as an executive leadership coach, she’s dedicated more than 30 years of her life to empowering high performing leaders and their teams to achieve remarkable personal and professional outcomes. I met Joan through a kind introduction made by Shannon Cochran-Yzquierdo, who’s been on my podcast several times, s...

Send us a message! My guest today is Bethany Cerella. Bethany is a stay-at-home mother, Pilates instructor and lifelong learner. Growing up in a Navy family and later a military spouse, Bethany has spent half of her life outside the United States, living in South Korea, Australia, Germany, England and now in Italy. Bethany homeschooled her twins until they were ten, teaching her kids to read and t...

Send us a message! Today’s conversation is a delight to share with you. It’s a conversation with four of us talking about health, fitness, nutrition, and the challenge of figuring out what makes it all a little less difficult. One of the things that makes this conversation unique is that my friend Hillery Midkiff is hosting and asking the questions.  This entire conversation was originally Hillery...

Send us a message! My guests today are Kris Burbank and Dr. Linda Hoopes. Kris and Linda are the authors of the book, Embracing Another Normal: Resilience Stories and Strategies for Raising Children with Disabilities . Kris is a returning guest on my podcast.  You can hear more of her story on episode 39.  She is a Leadership Coach, who among many other things, works with parents of children with...

Send us a message! My guest today is David Lapin. David is the founder of Lapin International.  He’s one of the world’s leading thinkers in the fields of leadership and business transformation. I was honored to meet David through Susan Sjolund, a dear friend and colleague who has also been a guest on the podcast (episode 122).  David is a scholar, speaker, columnist, and author of the book Lead by...

Send us a message! My guest today is Kim Brundage. Kim is an award-winning headshot and branding photographer on a mission to deliver a truly transformative experience that assures her clients feel nothing short of beautiful and confident, both on and off camera! I first saw Kim’s work when my friend (and amazing podcast guest) Shannon Cochran-Yzquierdo told me she was getting new headshots taken....

Send us a message! My guest today is Vandana Allman. Vandana is an experienced chief executive with a demonstrated history of working in professional services industry.  She’s a gifted leadership development coach and practitioner, and a powerful advisor to her clients. I was honored to meet Vandana through the kind introduction from Noel Bulger, who has been a guest on my podcast.  I am so gratef...

Send us a message! My guest today is Shannon Cochran-Yzquierdo.  Shannon is returning to the podcast and I’m so grateful to welcome her again. If you haven’t listened to episodes 13 and 79, you’ll find amazing pieces of Shannon’s story there. Shannon is the founder of Coaching Courage, a coaching firm working with leaders, teams, and organizations to reframe the way they see themselves.  Shannon i...