The Courage is Built Here Podcast

In this episode of Courage is Built Here, Justine sits down with Liz Haberberger to explore what it looks like to take action before you feel ready. Through the lens of Pathway Five, Do the Work, Liz shares how owning a business during the onset of COVID, embracing uncertainty, changing her mind, and beginning before she felt prepared shaped her courage, leadership, and definition of success.

Justine sits down with Melissa Jones to explore Pathway Four, Love Others Well. Melissa shares how learning to show compassion for herself in the middle of healing transformed the way she loves, leads, and sets boundaries. Together, they talk about empathy and accountability, generational patterns, faith, and why loving others well always begins with how we care for ourselves.

Justine sits down with her friend Sarah Guldalian to explore Pathway Three, Be Fully You. Sarah shares how seasons of loneliness, rejection, success, and loss shaped her understanding of authenticity, vulnerability, and courage. Together, they talk about healing, belonging, community, and what it looks like to live openly and honestly without letting fear or comparison steal who you were created t...

Ryan McCrea joins Justine to explore Pathway Two, Embody Again, and what it truly means to take care of yourself as a leader. They talk about courageous conversations, managing energy instead of just time, setting boundaries around work, and why self care is foundational to showing up well for others. This episode dives into leadership, embodiment, and caring for the whole human at work and at hom...

COO and mom of four boys, Meg Brown, joins Justine to explore Pathway One: Feel It All. They talk about values as deep roots, getting hooked in big emotions, and the courage it takes to circle back, repair, and respond instead of react. Meg also shares how living her values of unconditional love and courage shapes her parenting, leadership, and the culture at Cambridge Air Solutions.

Derek Weber joins Justine for Pathway Five, Do the Work, to explore what it truly means to rewrite old narratives, challenge the stories that shape us, and walk courageously toward healing. Derek shares how a three and a half month sabbatical shifted his beliefs about success, health, presence, and identity. Together they discuss belief systems, the mind body connection, triggers, and why self car...

Lisa Nichols joins Justine to explore Pathway Four: Love Others Well. They talk about courageous conversations, accountability, forgiveness, emotional regulation, and why real love requires truth, empathy, and brave leadership. Lisa also shares how stillness, faith, and surrender shaped her courage through her daughter’s long health journey.

Chel’Lee Whitten joins Justine to explore what it really means to Be Fully You. She shares how letting go of playing small, keeping promises to herself, and rooting into her values of love and knowledge helped her step into authentic leadership. Together they talk about trust, presence, imposter syndrome, and why showing up as your full self creates space for others to grow too.

In this episode of Courage is Built Here, Justine and her friend and online business manager, Kristen Hanff, talk about what it looks like to learn self care as an adult when you did not have a healthy model growing up. Kristen shares how leaving corporate, homeschooling, a life changing DNA discovery, and starting her own business became a season of learning to love herself, build non negotiables...

In this first full episode of Courage is Built Here, Justine and her longtime friend, author and micro school founder Rebecca Pierce, talk about what it means to feel it all without being ruled by our emotions. Rebecca shares how she went from growing up in a family that boxed up feelings to becoming a “big feeler” who helps kids, staff, and her own family name, honor, and move emotions through th...

Courage is not something you magically have. It is something you build. In this introductory episode, Justine Froelker shares why courageous leadership matters more than ever and what listeners can expect from the Courage Is Built Here Podcast. She introduces the five pathways that guide her leadership development framework and explains how courage shows up in everyday life and work.

Welcome to The Courage is Built Here Podcast. I am Justine Froelker, and I am grateful you are here. This space is for anyone who is choosing to grow, to lead, and to live with more self-awareness, authenticity, courage, and resilience. In this podcast, we talk honestly about what courage looks like in real life. Courage is not something you magically have or do not have. It is something you build...