COACHED with Coach Keren

What if the thing standing between you and the life you want isn’t a lack of effort, discipline or strategy—but a lie you’ve repeated so many times that you now mistake it for the truth?
In this powerful episode of COACHED, Coach Keren sits down with transformational coach, speaker, mentor and bestselling author Dana Grant, author of The Truth Within the Lie: How to Align with Universal Principles to Create the Life You Deserve.
Dana’s work is rooted in helping people break free from the beliefs, patterns and stories that keep them playing small, overworking, overgiving and living out of alignment with who they really are.
And she came to this work honestly.
Dana shares her extraordinary evolution from a high-achieving young professional who broke records while privately battling imposter syndrome and self-sabotage, through illness, addiction, trauma, spiritual awakening and ultimately the decision to stop hiding the parts of herself she feared others would reject.
Together, Keren and Dana explore what happens when the identities that once protected us become the very things preventing us from creating the lives we actually want.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL HEAR:
· Why extraordinary achievement and deep unworthiness can coexist
· How core wounds quietly shape our expectations, choices and self-sabotage
· Why the stories we inherit can eventually become identities we mistake for truth
· The difference between ego-driven protection and heart-centered action
· Why other people’s judgments are often projections—and why they still hurt when part of us believes them
· Dana’s “one-degree” approach to changing unconscious patterns
· Why accountability without compassion simply becomes another form of self-punishment
· The difference between genuine service and overgiving, overserving and martyrdom
· Why boundaries are essential to healthy service
· How self-authority relates to abundance, manifestation and the Law of Attraction
· Why healing isn’t about perfection, arrival or becoming someone new
· What it means to stop performing, stop abandoning yourself and finally come home to who you are
ABOUT DANA GRANT
Dana Grant is an International Master Life & Business Mentor, speaker, bestselling author and entrepreneur whose work centers on helping high achievers, entrepreneurs, executives and purpose-driven leaders break free from the invisible patterns and beliefs keeping them out of alignment with themselves.
Her work is rooted in Universal Principles and explores how our inner relationship with worthiness, identity, abundance, purpose and truth shapes how we live, lead, love, create and experience our lives.
Her book, The Truth Within the Lie, challenges readers to examine the stories they have inherited and internalized—and return to the truth of who they actually are.
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Book: The Truth Within the Lie: How to Align with Universal Principles to Create the Life You Deserve
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📚 COACH KEREN’S BOOKS
GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More
GILT FREE: Breaking Free From the Gilded Cage for Good

What if your life wasn’t over… but just beginning again?
In this deeply moving Coaching Masters conversation, Keren sits down with Leslie Fraley—founder of Fine Folk and now emerging coach and founder of Second Act—to explore the courage it takes to reinvent yourself in real time.
Leslie built a beautiful, successful life: a celebrated retail business, a strong community, a family.
And then—like so many high-functioning, high-achieving women—she hit a moment of quiet unraveling.
Not a breakdown.
A reckoning.
Through coaching, Leslie began to see something she hadn’t allowed herself to fully consider before:
There was more.
Not more to achieve—but more to become.
This conversation traces her journey through resistance, self-doubt, identity shifts, and ultimately—stepping into a new chapter rooted in service, authenticity, and self-trust.
It’s about what it means to let go of who you’ve been…
and gently, bravely, begin again.

What We Cover:
The “void” moment that precedes transformation
Why resistance is the doorway—not the obstacle
Coaching vs. therapy (and why the distinction matters)
Learning to trust intuition over ego
Building self-trust through action
The concept of a “Second Act” in life
Divorce, grief, and shared human experience
The power of community in healing and growth
Identity as something you choose—not inherit
The connection between clothing, self-expression, and truth
Self-doubt and the daily practice of self-love
The difference between understanding the work vs. embodying it
Purpose as a practice—not a destination
Becoming a teacher by living the work

Key Takeaways:
Resistance is not a sign you’re off track—it’s where the work begins.
You don’t find purpose. You practice it.
Identity is something you wear—and you can choose it.
You can wear the identity, or the identity can wear you.
Self-trust is built by stepping into the unknown—and watching the ground appear.
Growth is not about knowing where you’re going. It’s about moving anyway.
The most powerful teachers are those who are living the work in real time.
There is no “there.” Only here—and how you choose to meet it.

About the Guest:
Leslie Fraley is a fashion and lifestyle entrepreneur, founder of Fine Folk—a boutique and style studio recognized by Vogue—and the creator of Second Act, an emerging coaching platform designed to help women reconnect with themselves and step into a new chapter of life with clarity, confidence, and authenticity.
Her work blends aesthetic curation, personal transformation, and deep inner work to help women rediscover who they are—and express it fully.

Connect with Leslie:
Website: lesliefraley.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lesliefraley/
Fine Folk: https://finefolk.com
Leslie’s new coaching platform and website are launching soon—check the show notes for updates and live links as they become available.
🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN
Website: https://kereneldad.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/
Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/

📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w

This week on COACHED, I sit down with Michelle Sorro - former television host and live-commerce powerhouse with more than $222 million in sales, master coach, entrepreneur, speaker, and host of the top 1% Fire & Soul podcast.

Michelle’s first major awakening came after achieving the career she thought she wanted - only to realize she was being called toward something entirely different. What followed was not one reinvention, but many: leaving television, building a transformation business, moving through a profound spiritual awakening, confronting addiction and old nervous-system patterns, discovering the Gene Keys and somatic work, and ultimately rebuilding her life around truth, spaciousness, embodiment and inner authority.

That makes this conversation particularly important for the high achiever.

So many of us unconsciously assume that becoming more powerful will require becoming more exhausted. Michelle makes the opposite case: the case for slowing down enough to hear what is actually true for you.

To this end, talk about the difference between force and inspired action, why achievement can disconnect us from our bodies, how to distinguish genuine inner knowing from anxiety and conditioning, and why the very patterns we are desperate to eliminate may contain the gifts we are here to express.

We also explore her methodology, traversing the Gene Keys, somatics, nervous-system regulation, inner-child work, addiction, our increasingly compulsive relationship with technology, and why human-to-human connection may be becoming one of our most precious commodities.

Michelle even gives us an extraordinarily simple somatic practice for the moments when you notice yourself controlling, proving, pleasing or forcing.

In this episode, we discuss:
Michelle’s journey from television and $222M+ in live sales to transformational work
The moment she realized the career she had fought for was no longer her destiny
Why reinvention requires the courage to release identities that once worked
How to distinguish a true inner directive from fear, ego, conditioning or noise
Why high achievers become disconnected from their bodies
The Gene Keys and Michelle’s approach to turning our deepest patterns into gifts
Why insight alone rarely changes behavior — and where somatics enters the picture
The radical power of honoring your own energetic seasons
Michelle’s six-to-eight-hour workweek and why sacred rest became non-negotiable
Wu Wei and the principle of effortless action
Why working harder and earning more are not inherently correlated
Michelle’s private struggle with cigarettes and the moment she finally stopped bargaining with herself
The hidden function underneath addiction and compulsive behavior
Why our devices may be one of the great threats to presence, agency and real connection
How to notice whether you are operating from control or people-pleasing
A simple inner-child practice for creating safety
Michelle’s 30-second somatic check-in for returning to the present moment
Why vulnerability can make a leader more compelling, not less
The shift from fighting our patterns to learning how to work with them
Why in-person connection and sacred space matter more than ever

CONNECT WITH MICHELLE
Website: Michelle Sorro
Instagram: @michellesorro
Podcast: Fire & Soul

CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN
Apply for Coaching: www.KerenEldad.com

What if the thing you’ve been working so hard to fix… isn’t actually the problem?

This week on COACHED, I sit down with Kevin St. Clergy, author, business coach, and creator of the Beyond Blind Blaming™ Framework, to explore why smart, capable people can spend years solving the wrong problem - and wondering why nothing changes.

Spoiler alert -it’s because they are asking the wrong questions.

In this epic conversation. we talk about the personal experiences that led Kevin to this work, the cognitive biases that keep us attached to the wrong diagnosis, why business owners so often assume they have a marketing problem when something else is broken, and Kevin’s simple RCD Method: Reflect. Connect. Decide.

We also get into sales, coachability, the importance of outside perspective, and why insight means very little unless you are willing to make a decision and do something differently.

If you’re working ever harder and still not getting the result, this episode offers one powerful possibility:

Maybe you’re not stuck. Maybe you’re solving the wrong problem.

IN THIS EPISODE:
What Blind Blaming™ is - and how to recognize it
Availability bias and confirmation bias
Kevin’s Reflect. Connect. Decide. framework
Why outside perspective matters
Sales, listening, and the power of silence
Coachability and humility
MFD: Make Fucking Decisions
Why different results require different action

🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN
Website: https://kereneldad.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/
Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/

📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w
GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb

Have you noticed that you can understand your wounds, know your patterns, talk beautifully about healing - and still keep living exactly the same life?

In this episode, we are about to change that, as Coach Keren sits down with Stefanos Sifandos, whose work lives at the intersection of healing, intimacy, relationships and embodiment, for an extraordinarily honest conversation about what it actually takes to change.

Stefanos shares his journey through childhood pain, addiction, destructive relationships and relentless overachievement - and why so much of our striving is really an attempt to earn the love, safety and validation we once lacked.

We talk about why high achievers often keep intimacy at a distance, the difference between insight and embodiment, why real transformation happens relationally, and how compassion, consistency and action can finally make us whole.

Because awareness is not the finish line.

The way you live is.

IN THIS EPISODE:
Why overachievement can become an addiction to validation
The childhood wounds underneath adult patterns
Why intimacy can feel unsafe for high performers
Awareness vs. actual embodiment
The power of compassion and non-judgment
Why transformation requires consistency and action
What it really means to become whole

🔗 CONNECT WITH STEFANOS SIFANDOS
Website: https://stefanossifandos.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stefanossifandos/
Book: Tuned In And Turned On - https://stefanossifandos.com/single-book-order/
🔗 CONNECT WITH COACH KEREN Website: https://kereneldad.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coachkeren/
Schedule a Free Consultation with Coach Keren: https://calendly.com/kereneldad/consultation/

📚 Coach Keren's Books: GILDED: Break Free From the Cage of Ambition, Perfectionism, and the Relentless Pursuit of More → https://tinyurl.com/ykf4z95w
GILT FREE: Breaking Free From The Gilded Cage For Good → https://tinyurl.com/2burcnjb