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Derek Gaunt: The Negotiation Secrets That Transform Relationships, Leadership, and Life
06/04/2026 | 49 mins.
"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.

What 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 negotiator
The lessons he learned negotiating with people in crisis
Why every conversation is a negotiation
The biggest mistake people make in difficult conversations
The Five Levels of Listening
Why most people aren't actually listening
The power of labels and mirrors
How to use Dynamic Silence to transform communication
The hidden psychology behind conflict
What a "Black Swan" is and how it can completely change an outcome
Why curiosity beats certainty
How great negotiators build trust without sacrificing results
The myth of win-win negotiation
Why empathy is one of the most powerful leadership skills in the world

This conversation is packed with practical tools you can immediately use in your business, relationships, leadership, parenting, coaching, and everyday life.
Connect with Derek Gaunt
Website:
https://www.blackswanltd.com
The Black Swan Group:
https://www.blackswanltd.com
Book:
Fight Less, Win More
https://www.amazon.com/Fight-Less-Win-More
LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekgaunt
Other Resources Mentioned
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Connect with Keren Eldad
Website:
https://www.coachkeren.com
Book:
GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More
Book:
GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good
Book a Consultation:
https://calendly.com/kereneldad
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren
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Fear Is Not an Option. Neither Is Playing Small: Featuring Monica Berg
05/28/2026 | 50 mins.
In 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 old
Why spirituality is about dissolving the ego, not escaping life
The hidden meaning behind pain, process, and adversity
Cause and effect through the lens of the soul’s journey
What “certainty beyond logic” actually means
The difference between surrender and giving up
Monica’s experience raising a son with Down syndrome
The story behind “Fear Is Not an Option”
The three categories of fear: healthy, real, and illogical
Why most fears are completely illogical
Desire as a sacred spiritual force
The difference between egoic ambition and soul-aligned ambition
How appreciation transforms relationships
Conscious love and soulmate partnership
Practical tools to shift perspective instantly

Key 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 + Links
Monica Berg
Monica Berg Official Site
The Kabbalah Centre International
Spiritually Hungry Podcast

Books Mentioned
Fear Is Not an Option
Rethink Love
The Gift of Being Different
Satan: An Autobiography

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Gilded
Gilt Free
Sneak Peek: Gilt Free, Chapter 1 - "Debunking the Great Folly"
05/21/2026 | 28 mins.
In 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 Episode
The 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 unabridged
The 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 Book
Gilt 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.

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Introducing GILT FREE - The Missing Half of the Story
05/21/2026 | 20 mins.
If you’ve ever done all the inner work, read all the books, hired the coaches, and still found
yourself repeating the same old patterns… this episode is for you.
In this deeply personal and highly anticipated conversation, I sit down with my Director of
Social Media, Rain Garcia, to introduce my new book, GILT FREE: Ditching Your Gilded Cage
for 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 fully
landing 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=8-1

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Coached is hosted by Coach Keren Eldad. New episodes drop each week.
Meet your Existential Kink: Carolyn Elliott x The Coached Podcast
05/14/2026 | 58 mins.
What 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 means
Why the unconscious creates recurring life patterns
The hidden pleasure inside suffering, struggle, and martyrdom
Carolyn’s journey through addiction, recovery, and depth psychology
Why many people use spirituality as another achievement identity
The difference between performative healing and true integration
The role of humility, groundedness, and honesty in real growth
The connection between suffering and awakening
The danger of bypassing discomfort in coaching and personal growth
Why freedom often begins by embracing the parts of ourselves we fear most

Mentioned in the episode:
Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott
Awaken Your Genius by Carolyn Elliott
Answer to Job by Carl G Jung
The Way of Integrity by Martha Beck
Kabbalah (Kabbalah.com), individuation, and mystical Christianity

Connect with Carolyn Elliott:
ExistentialKink.com
Immortal College

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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 wisdom, deep transformation, and coaching that changes lives. Subscribe now to Coached: The Coaching Masters and begin your journey of conscious leadership, soulful business reinvention, and personal mastery. About the Host: Keren Eldad (“Coach Keren”) is a top executive coach helping Founders, Olympic athletes and Fortune 500 leaders reach success. As the bestselling author of GILDED, she empowers individuals to redefine success and unlock their full potential. Recognized as a Top Ten Executive Coach by the ICF, Real Leaders, and Goop, Keren holds advanced degrees from The London School of Economics and the University of Jerusalem. With 500,000+ TEDx views and a global presence, her insights inspire leaders worldwide. Resources Website: https://www.kereneldad.com Email: [email protected] Instagram: www.instagram.com/coachkeren Facebook: www.facebook.com/livewithenthusiasm

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