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Coaching mastery, personal transformation, leadership development, spiritual growth, burnout recovery, and business reinvention start here. Welcome to Season 5 of Coached: The Coaching Masters, where the world’s top teachers, coaches, spiritual guides, and conscious entrepreneurs share the real story behind transformation and leadership. Hosted by master coach Keren Eldad, this season explores the full arc of becoming a teacher and leader. Each episode explores coaching at its core, not as a polished highlight reel, but as a soul-centered journey. We go behind the scenes of coaching businesses, leadership breakthroughs, burnout recovery, and conscious entrepreneurship. You’ll discover how teachers turn personal pain into wisdom, purpose, and coaching mastery.
This season features transformative conversations with master teachers, bestselling authors and podcasters such as Byron Katie, founder of The Work, revealing how to break free from suffering. Dr. Kristin Neff, global authority on self-compassion, shares the truth behind inner kindness. Jessica Zweig opens up on collapse, rebirth, and her platform: The Spiritual Hustler. Danielle LaPorte speaks on softness, strength, and heart-centered leadership. Craig Siegel shares insights on business reinvention, financial success and transformation. Kurtis Lee Thomas dives into breathwork, burnout recovery, and becoming a true vessel for change.
What listeners will walk away with: personal transformation, leadership growth, spiritual insight, business breakthroughs — and all of the above. You’ll gain insight into your own journey through these role models. Reframe coaching leadership as a soulful, grounded path. Receive spiritual wisdom from teachers who embody what they teach. Discover business breakthroughs rooted in alignment, not hustle. And gain permission to evolve, unravel, and rebuild again and again.
In this season of Coached: The Coaching Masters, we explore emotional resilience, energetic alignment, spiritual awakening, business reinvention, leadership development, coaching business growth, and personal transformation. These honest conversations reveal the real work behind building coaching mastery and conscious entrepreneurship with integrity. Whether you're a coach, leader, entrepreneur, or in a season of reinvention, this podcast is your guide. You’ll gain insights from role models who’ve lived it, leadership development rooted in alignment, business reinvention strategies with purpose, spiritual growth grounded in wisdom, and burnout recovery guidance for rebuilding with intention.
Keren Eldad brings mastery, heart, and wisdom to each conversation, helping you evolve personally, spiritually, and professionally. If you are searching for coaching mastery, personal transformation, spiritual growth, leadership development, burnout recovery, business reinvention, coaching business growth, and conscious entrepreneurship, this season will be your essential companion. Join us for earned w...
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Jenna Zoe: Human Design, Self-Trust, and the Courage to Become Who You Are
6d ago00:46:14Tap to summarizeThis 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.https://coached-with-coach-keren.captivate.fm/gilt-free-ditching-your-gilded-cage-for-good 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 paper yet disconnected in practice, why force is often mistaken for discipline, and why true fulfillment begins when we stop trying to fix ourselves and start learning who we actually are.Jenna shares the story of her own journey—from atheist science student to spiritual seeker, from Kabbalah student to Human Design pioneer—and explains why understanding your energetic blueprint can become a practical roadmap for making decisions, navigating uncertainty, and creating a life that feels deeply aligned.Whether Human Design is completely new to you or already part of your vocabulary, this episode offers a powerful reminder that the goal of personal growth may not be becoming more.It may be becoming truer.In This EpisodeJenna's journey from science-minded skeptic to spiritual teacherThe Kabbalah teachings that transformed her understanding of lifeThe Human Design reading that changed everythingWhy obsession is often a clue to purposeThe difference between success and alivenessThe five Human Design energy types and what they revealHow conditioning pulls us away from our authentic natureWhy self-understanding is the foundation of self-loveThe hidden danger of forcing outcomesHow to navigate uncertainty without panicThe paradigm shift Jenna believes humanity is currently experiencingWhy intuition is often more trustworthy than logicThe ultimate manifestation: becoming someone you love beingMemorable Moments"There are things you do because they are successful, and there are things you do because they give you life.""When you really understand yourself, you stop arguing with who you are.""The work isn't about becoming more. It's about becoming truer.""The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."About Jenna ZoeJenna Zoe is the creator of My Human Design, founder of the Align App, bestselling author of Human Design, and host of the Align Podcast. She has helped millions of people better understand themselves through the lens of Human Design and is widely recognized as one of the foremost voices in the field.Learn more:• https://www.jennazoe.com• https://www.myhumandesign.com• https://www.alignapp.com• Instagram: @jennazoeContinue the ConversationContinue the ConversationIf this conversation resonated with you, you may enjoy my books:GILDED: Breaking Free from the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of MoreGILT FREE: Ditching Your Gilded Cage for GoodLearn more about my coaching programs at: www.KerenEldad.comInterested in exploring whether coaching is right for you?Book a complimentary Clarity Call:https://calendly.com/kereneldadEnjoyed This Episode?Please subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who may be tired of forcing their way through life and ready to begin trusting themselves instead.
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Natalie Ellis: The Truth About Building a Freedom-Based Business
2w ago00:40:26Tap to summarizeWhat 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.https://coached-with-coach-keren.captivate.fm/gilt-free-ditching-your-gilded-cage-for-goodNatalie built one of the largest communities for female entrepreneurs in the world. From the outside, she had everything: a thriving business, millions of followers, financial success, a beautiful family, and a life many people dream about.Then she found herself sitting on her bathroom floor at 2 a.m., exhausted, anxious, and questioning everything.In this conversation, Natalie shares the moment that changed the trajectory of her life and business, the painful process of stepping away from what she had built, and how she ultimately returned to create something far more aligned.We discuss:Why success without freedom eventually becomes a trapThe hidden cost of building a business around other people's definitions of achievementHow postpartum anxiety and burnout became an unexpected catalyst for transformationWhy defining your personal "enough number" changes everythingThe danger of lifestyle creepFreedom versus financial securityThe role motherhood played in reshaping Natalie's prioritiesHow to stop making decisions from FOMOThe systems every entrepreneur needs to create a freedom-based businessWhy one offer often beats many offersWhat alignment actually looks like in practiceHow to identify the part of your business you should never delegateNatalie offers us a powerful reminder: Freedom isn't something you earn after success. Freedom is something you must build into success from the beginning.Connect with NatalieWebsite: https://www.bossbabe.com/Instagram: @iamnataliehttps://www.instagram.com/bossbabe.inc/?hl=enPodcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bossbabe-podcast/id1453389736Book: The Freedom-Based Business MethodConnect with Coach KerenWebsite: Coach Keren EldadInstagram: @coachkerenBook: Gilt Free = Ditching Your Gilded Cage for GoodBook a Clarity Call with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad
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Derek Gaunt: The Negotiation Secrets That Transform Relationships, Leadership, and Life
3w ago00:50:29Tap to summarize"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.https://coached-with-coach-keren.captivate.fm/gilt-free-ditching-your-gilded-cage-for-goodWhat 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 explore the psychology of communication, negotiation, and human connection.Drawing on nearly three decades in law enforcement and years training leaders around the world alongside Chris Voss and The Black Swan Group, Derek reveals why the best negotiators aren't the most persuasive people in the room—they're the most curious.Together, Keren and Derek discuss:How Derek went from street cop to hostage negotiatorThe lessons he learned negotiating with people in crisisWhy every conversation is a negotiationThe biggest mistake people make in difficult conversationsThe Five Levels of ListeningWhy most people aren't actually listeningThe power of labels and mirrorsHow to use Dynamic Silence to transform communicationThe hidden psychology behind conflictWhat a "Black Swan" is and how it can completely change an outcomeWhy curiosity beats certaintyHow great negotiators build trust without sacrificing resultsThe myth of win-win negotiationWhy empathy is one of the most powerful leadership skills in the worldThis conversation is packed with practical tools you can immediately use in your business, relationships, leadership, parenting, coaching, and everyday life.Connect with Derek GauntWebsite:https://www.blackswanltd.comThe Black Swan Group:https://www.blackswanltd.comBook:Fight Less, Win Morehttps://www.amazon.com/Fight-Less-Win-MoreLinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekgauntOther Resources MentionedNever Split the Difference by Chris VossConnect with Keren EldadWebsite:https://www.coachkeren.comBook:GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of MoreBook:GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For GoodBook a Consultation:https://calendly.com/kereneldadInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/coachkerenEnjoying the Coached Podcast?Subscribe, leave a review, and share this episode with someone who wants to become a better communicator, leader, coach, negotiator, spouse, parent, or human being.
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Fear Is Not an Option. Neither Is Playing Small: Featuring Monica Berg
4w ago00:50:24Tap to summarizeIn 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:Monica’s introduction to Kabbalah at 17 years oldWhy spirituality is about dissolving the ego, not escaping lifeThe hidden meaning behind pain, process, and adversityCause and effect through the lens of the soul’s journeyWhat “certainty beyond logic” actually meansThe difference between surrender and giving upMonica’s experience raising a son with Down syndromeThe story behind “Fear Is Not an Option”The three categories of fear: healthy, real, and illogicalWhy most fears are completely illogicalDesire as a sacred spiritual forceThe difference between egoic ambition and soul-aligned ambitionHow appreciation transforms relationshipsConscious love and soulmate partnershipPractical tools to shift perspective instantlyKey Quotes“Fear is not an option.”“The process is the purpose.”“You are not here to suppress desire. You are here to refine it.”“The ego creates shells. Spirituality removes them.”“You do not need to find something externally to improve you. You need to remove the parts that cover who you already are.”Resources + LinksMonica BergMonica Berg Official SiteThe Kabbalah Centre InternationalSpiritually Hungry PodcastBooks MentionedFear Is Not an OptionRethink LoveThe Gift of Being DifferentSatan: An AutobiographyListen + SubscribeCoached with Coach Keren on Apple PodcastsCoach Keren Official WebsiteBook a Free Clarity Call with Coach Kerenhttps://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation?back=1Coach Keren Eldad's BooksGildedGilt Free
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Sneak Peek: Gilt Free, Chapter 1 - "Debunking the Great Folly"
May 2100:28:24Tap to summarizeIn 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 feel like yours, this chapter was written for you.In This EpisodeThe Gilded Cage revisited - Keren's first book, GILDED, named the phenomenon: a life that looks good but doesn't feel good – and was about breaking free of that “gilded cage” resulting from a life of Ambition, Perfectionism and a Relentless Pursuit. Gilt Free answers the harder question: how do you actually STAY out?Chapter 1 in full - "Debunking the Great Folly," read by Coach Keren, unedited and unabridgedThe questions at the heart of this work:Why do I stop circling the same patterns, even when I "know better"?How do I begin to identify what is happening – so I can stop rebuilding shinier versions of the same cage?Why should I aim at building a life that not only looks good - but feels genuine? What’s the payoff?About the BookGilt Free: Ditching Your Gilded Cage for Good is Coach Keren Eldad's second book - and a direct answer to the question her highest-performing clients have been asking for years.It's not about insight alone. It's about transformation: releasing the patterns, identities, and attachments that keep you circling — and stepping into a way of operating that is grounded, open, alive, and deeply self-trusting.📖 Available now on Amazon and wherever books are sold. Find it here → Gilt Free: Ditching Your Gilded Cage for Good. Book a Free Consult With Coach KerenReady to take this work even further? Book a complimentary 30-minute consultation — just you, just Keren.📅 Book your session → calendly.com/KerenEldadDon't Miss an EpisodeSubscribe to Coached on your favorite podcast platform and leave a review if today's episode resonated with you.Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coached-with-coach-keren/id1467079024YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kereneldad2960Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/770Q1dwdX3CsTvTEziX3AlCoached is hosted by Coach Keren Eldad. New episodes drop each week.
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Introducing GILT FREE - The Missing Half of the Story
May 2100:20:14Tap to summarizeIf you’ve ever done all the inner work, read all the books, hired the coaches, and still foundyourself repeating the same old patterns… this episode is for you.In this deeply personal and highly anticipated conversation, I sit down with my Director ofSocial Media, Rain Garcia, to introduce my new book, GILT FREE: Ditching Your Gilded Cagefor 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 fullylanding their lives, I realized that GILDED had told only half the story.Breaking free is one thing. Staying free is another.That is what GILT FREE is about.📖 Available now on Amazon and wherever books are sold. Find it here →https://www.amazon.com/Gilt-Free-Ditching-Your-Gilded/dp/B0GY5ZNHPK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3CMVEU61MMU95&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.O8lznFRgSVPGPq0ECJz4zun5BsfHCEFaTuoRaiyatFpvFU34v0eIFyL_YOOyTXgr.94FqKntWfsk2BMS0w93GQ5b661aq4XT6qPwb5y3-JwQ&dib_tag=se&keywords=gilt+free+keren+eldad&qid=1779317315&sprefix=gilt+free%2Caps%2C222&sr=8-1Book a Free Consult With Coach KerenReady to take this work even further? Book a complimentary 30-minute consultation — just you, just Keren.📅 Book your session → calendly.com/KerenEldadDon't Miss an EpisodeSubscribe to Coached on your favorite podcast platform and leave a review if today's episode resonated with you.Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coached-with-coach-keren/id1467079024YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@kereneldad2960Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/770Q1dwdX3CsTvTEziX3AlCoached is hosted by Coach Keren Eldad. New episodes drop each week.
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Meet your Existential Kink: Carolyn Elliott x The Coached Podcast
May 1400:58:47Tap to summarizeWhat 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 unconsciously derive pleasure from the very situations we consciously reject.Together, Keren and Carolyn explore the relationship between shadow integration and freedom, why high achievers often remain trapped in repetitive cycles, and how true transformation begins when we stop performing healing and start telling the truth.In this episode:What “existential kink” actually meansWhy the unconscious creates recurring life patternsThe hidden pleasure inside suffering, struggle, and martyrdomCarolyn’s journey through addiction, recovery, and depth psychologyWhy many people use spirituality as another achievement identityThe difference between performative healing and true integrationThe role of humility, groundedness, and honesty in real growthThe connection between suffering and awakeningThe danger of bypassing discomfort in coaching and personal growthWhy freedom often begins by embracing the parts of ourselves we fear mostMentioned in the episode:Existential Kink by Carolyn ElliottAwaken Your Genius by Carolyn ElliottAnswer to Job by Carl G JungThe Way of Integrity by Martha BeckKabbalah (Kabbalah.com), individuation, and mystical ChristianityConnect with Carolyn Elliott:ExistentialKink.comImmortal CollegeIf this episode resonated with you, share it with someone who is ready to stop running from themselves — and start becoming whole.Mentioned in this episode:Book a Call
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Find Your Song: Michael Trainor on Resonance, the Muse, and Why Connection Is the Medicine for Our Time
May 700:46:11Tap to summarizeWhat 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 framework for a question that is more urgent than ever: in a world more connected than ever, why do so many of us feel profoundly alone? And what does it actually take to find your song, your band, and the people you're meant to play with?This is one of the most wide-ranging, soul-stirring conversations in the Coaching Masters Series — touching neuroscience, ancient wisdom, the Beatles, the Dalai Lama, Global Citizen, AI, and the revolutionary act of simply being in tune with yourself.KEY TAKEAWAYSResonance, not effort, is the real multiplier. Achievement and fulfillment are not the same thing. Chasing output without alignment to your values is a Faustian bargain — and the universe notices when you refuse to make it. Michael turned down significant money that didn't feel right, volunteered at a gala instead, and met his Global Citizen co-founder that same night.You have a unique song — and it's yours to discover, not manufacture. The "more" is the music that wants to live through you. Like The Beatles, whose individual greatness alchemized into something much larger, your work in the world becomes most powerful when it flows from what is genuinely yours to give.Resistance knows all your weak spots — and that's okay. The bigger the vision, the more formidable the resistance. The question isn't whether you'll fall prey to it, but whether you get back up and find your way back into tune. Nature, trusted friends, deliberate practice — these are tuning mechanisms, not luxuries.Show up at 9 AM anyway. The muse is mythological and practical in equal measure. You listen for what wants to move through you — and then you show up with your boots on every single day. Some days it's beautiful. Some days it's crap. But the process compounds, just like the market.Loneliness is a public health crisis — and coherence is the medicine. Loneliness carries the same health risk as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. The Harvard longitudinal study confirms it: the single greatest predictor of long-term health and happiness is the quality of your relationships. Blue zones around the world prove that social cohesion literally outranks biology.Find your band. Internal coherence alone isn't enough. Resonance asks: once you've found your song, who are you meant to play with? The people you surround yourself with regulate your nervous system. Iron sharpens iron — and that is literally, neurobiologically true.Double down on your sphere of influence. The more we fixate on what we can't control, the more we diminish our agency. The more we invest in right relationship — our circle, our band, our song — the more that sphere of influence naturally expands into the world.Childlike wonder is your tuning fork. The Dalai Lama at 80 was still stopping to marvel at a leaf. The real teachers, Michael says, are always quick to laugh. Ask yourself: what lights me up? Where does wonder show up? Follow that song.MOMENTS FROM THE CONVERSATION"What is my unique song? What is mine to give?" — Michael Trainor"The more we double down on our sphere of influence and find the others who can support us, the more that we expand our influence into the areas where we now have agency." — Michael Trainor"Transformation doesn't scale through systems. It scales through souls recognizing other souls." — Coach Keren EldadBOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODEMichael Trainor → Resonance: The Art and Science of Human Connection — available on Amazon & Barnes & NobleSteven Pressfield → The War of ArtElizabeth Gilbert → Big MagicMatthew Lieberman → Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to ConnectLEARN MORE ABOUT MICHAEL TRAINORSocial → @MichaelTrainor on all platformsBook → Resonance — available wherever books are soldNonprofit → Global CitizenCharity → Charity WaterLEARN MORE ABOUT COACH KERENCoaching → KerenEldad.comBook → Buy GILDED / The Gilded Journal on AmazonBook → Order Gilt Free — Amazon link coming soonAudiobook → Get Gilt Free FREE on Audiobook/Spotify — link coming soonIf this episode found you at the right moment — share it with someone who's been asking bigger questions. And if you love what we're building here, a review on Apple or a follow on Spotify helps more souls find their way to this conversation.Subscribe & review on Apple → Coached with Coach KerenFollow on Spotify → Coached with Coach KerenMentioned in this episode:Book a Call
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Joy Through the Journey: Amberly Lago on What You Become When the Thing That Defined You Is Gone
Apr 3000:58:59Tap to summarizeThis 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 the other side — a life, a message, and a body of work centered on joy, resilience, and radical self-acceptance — is the kind of testimony that changes people.This one is for everyone who has lost an identity, a body, a marriage, a belief system, or a version of themselves they thought they were forever — and who is ready to face the realest question life can ask: who do you become when the thing that defines you is gone?KEY TAKEAWAYSAcceptance is not the end — it's the beginning. Amberly spent years in denial, anger, hiding her scars under knee-high boots in 100-degree LA heat. The turning point came when her surgeon held her leg in his lap like a masterpiece. If he could see it that way, maybe she could too. That reframe changed everything. Acceptance is where all transformation starts.Grit without grace is just resistance. High achievers are often experts at powering through — until their bodies stop them. True grit isn't white-knuckling your way forward. It requires the give of grace, the softness of self-compassion, and the wisdom to know when pushing harder is actually the problem.The inner work is harder than the surgeries. Amberly underwent 34 major procedures. She'll tell you that wasn't the hardest part. The hardest part was looking inward — at unprocessed trauma, at shame, at the addiction she'd used to numb a pain that couldn't be outrun. Pain demands to be heard. It will find a way out — through the way we love, the way we lead, the things we can't stop reaching for.Numbing comes in many forms. Alcohol. Workaholism. Scrolling. Overexercise. Sex. You don't have to have your life fall apart to be avoiding yourself. If you can't stop reaching for something when things get hard, ask what you're not letting yourself feel. All craving comes from a self that is incomplete. Wholeness is the antidote.Connection is the opposite of addiction. Asking for help saved Amberly's life. So did showing up — to meetings she didn't feel like attending, to communities that held her when she couldn't hold herself. Grit with connection is resilience. Grit without connection is just more suffering.Resilience is not bouncing back. It's embracing the change. The old version of you is gone. Resilience doesn't mean returning to it — it means asking: what brings me joy now? What do I love? And building from that place, even if you have no idea how.Three things for anyone whose old life no longer fits: give yourself grace, drop the comparison (it is the thief of joy), and guard your company fiercely. Stick with the puppy uppers. Let go of the doggy downers — even if it's uncomfortable, even if they're upset. The integrity of your inner circle is everything.You are a walking permission slip. When you show your scars — literally or metaphorically — you give everyone around you permission to do the same. That is not a small thing. That is the whole thing.MOMENTS FROM THE CONVERSATION"Grit without connection is resistance. Grit with connection is where you find resilience — and asking for help saved my life." — Amberly Lago"Pain pushed me until purpose pulled me." — Amberly Lago"Acceptance is the beginning of any transformation." — Amberly Lago"God takes away what we're wrapping our identity around so that we can learn how to really, truly walk." — Coach Keren EldadLEARN MORE ABOUT AMBERLY LAGO📖 Joy Through the Journey → https://www.amazon.com/Joy-Through-Journey-Amberly-Lago/dp/1394265549 📖 True Grit and True Grace → https://www.amazon.com/True-Grit-Grace-Turning-Tragedy/dp/1683506235 🤝 Work with Amberly → https://amberlylago.com/ 📸 Follow Amberly → @AmberlyLago https://www.instagram.com/amberlylagomotivationLEARN MORE ABOUT COACH KERENCoaching → KerenEldad.comBook → Buy GILDED / The Gilded Journal on AmazonBook → Order Gilt Free — Amazon link coming soonAudiobook → Get Gilt Free FREE on Audiobook/Spotify — link coming soonIf this conversation moved you — and we suspect it did — please share it with someone who needs it. And if you're not yet subscribed, now is the moment. A review on Apple takes sixty seconds and helps more people find their way to conversations like this one.Subscribe & review on Apple → Coached with Coach KerenFollow on Spotify → Coached with Coach KerenMentioned in this episode:Book a Call
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The Discipline of Taste: How Erica Kiang Built a Life and Business Around What Truly Matters
Apr 2300:37:54Tap to summarizeWhat 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 to unlearn the pressure to do more, be more, and prove more.Instead, she chose something far more difficult:Discernment.Through her work with Rooms Showroom, Erica has built a business rooted in curation, restraint, and clarity—helping designers and brands elevate not just what they create, but how they see.This conversation explores what it means to trust your eye, refine your standards, and build a life—and business—that reflects who you truly are.What We Cover:Growing up between cultures and developing an eye for nuance The difference between taste and trend Why discernment is more powerful than hustle The role of environment in shaping identity and energy Editing your life the way you edit a space The courage to do less—but do it exceptionally well Building Rooms Showroom and defining a point of view Trusting your instincts in business and design Why not everything beautiful is right for you The intersection of aesthetics, clarity, and self-trust Letting go of external validation in creative work Creating a business that reflects your inner world Key Takeaways:Taste is not talent—it’s developed through attention and restraint.More is not better. Better is better.Discernment is a leadership skill. It requires saying no more often than yes.Your environment is not neutral—it shapes how you think, feel, and show up.Editing your life is just as important as building it.If it’s not a full yes, it’s a no.Clarity comes from removing, not adding.The most powerful brands—and lives—have a clear point of view.About the Guest:Erica Kiang is the founder of Rooms Showroom, a design-forward platform representing a curated collection of furniture, lighting, and objects for architects and interior designers.Known for her refined eye and distinct point of view, Erica has built a business rooted in taste, restraint, and intentionality—helping creatives elevate both their work and their standards.Connect with Erica:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/erica.kiang/Rooms Showroom: https://www.instagram.com/roomsshowroom/Mentioned in this episode:Book a Call
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