Free Scoping Session with Linda "The System Looked Great on Paper" Your new process looked logical, clear, and complete, but your team quietly stopped using it. In this episode, Linda explains why good systems still break and the three questions that help you repair the conditions around them. What You'll Learn: The Hook: Why a well-documented process can fail within weeks of rollout. Reality Check: How one growing company's new system collapsed because the team understood what to do, but not

Back to Her: Coaching Through Perimenopause and Everything Else What happens when your own body keeps throwing you curveballs — burnout, single motherhood, perimenopause symptoms nobody warned you about — and coaching becomes both your business and your survival tool? Megan and Danna sit down with Vanessa Gaitlin, an IIN-trained coach (and one of Megan's earliest connections in the coaching world) who's spent over a decade rebuilding her practice around her own hormone chaos. Vanessa's coaching

Got 10 Minutes? Creatine Is Not Just for Gym Bros Megan's stirring creatine into her morning coffee. Danna's done a few rounds with it herself. And both of them are done letting the gym bro reputation put women off what might genuinely be one of the most useful supplements on the market. This one's a rapid-fire myth-bust — what creatine actually does, why it's suddenly showing up everywhere in the women's health space, and what happens when you jump straight to 20 grams on an empty stomach. (Spo

A YouTuber built a channel documenting American life in Germany, then leveraged it into an actual self-employment visa, and eventually German citizenship, without ever going through a traditional employer sponsor. Donnie Ashburn, a dual American-German citizen and content creator, joins the podcast to walk through his path from dependent visa to self-employment to citizenship, and what he'd tell anyone considering the same route. ────────────────────────────────────────── CHAPTER TIMESTAMPS

Running on Empty: Tina's Health Coaching Journey Begins We're doing it again. Last time, we opened the doors to real health coaching sessions with Joanna, and so many of you told us how much it helped to hear coaching in action — not the polished version, the real one. So we're back for with another awesome woman. Over the next several episodes, you'll hear real coaching conversations between Danna and a client we're calling Tina. Nothing scripted, nothing cleaned up. Meet Tina Tina is a w

Welcome to another coaching series where we do a coaching debrief after a real coaching session. Let's meet Tina - this is her Health History. Chapters: 00:00 Welcome and Goals 00:51 Why Coaching Now 06:58 Mom Guilt and Stress 08:07 Sleep and Gut Deep Dive 16:43 Holistic Plan and Wrap Up Mentioned in this episode: Missed an episode? Don't worry, we have you covered. Check out the link below to the playlist of all the debrief sessions for Tina. Listen to all of Tina's d

A valid, properly signed power of attorney still isn't a guarantee a bank will honor it. Beth Pinsker found that out the hard way while managing her mother's care and finances from several states away, an experience she turned into "My Mother's Money: A Guide to Financial Caregiving." Beth, a CFP and award-winning journalist, joins the podcast to walk through what financial caregiving actually looks like day to day, why one family member usually ends up doing it whether or not they agreed to, a

"Why do founders get stuck researching instead of launching?" Sometimes the work that looks productive is actually protecting you from finding out whether something will work. In this episode, Linda looks at the founder who is not overwhelmed by too many decisions, but stuck because they keep waiting until they feel completely sure. What You'll Learn: The Hook: Why some founders stay busy refining, researching, and aligning instead of making the decision that would move things forward. Reality

Got 10 Minutes? Why Europeans Are Losing It Over American Grocery Stores The World Cup brought a wave of Europeans into US grocery stores — and the internet lost it over package sizes. "We only shop once a month," the Americans said. "Then how is your fresh food still good?" the Europeans replied. Megan went down the comment-section rabbit hole and immediately needed Danna. What follows is a genuinely fascinating look at how shopping behavior, fridge size, and even bread shelf life reveal way mo

France can tax an American's retirement income at zero. It can also be one of the least forgiving countries in the world to die in. Both are true, and most families only learn the second half after they've already moved. Vincent Berthier de Bortoli, a French tax attorney and STEP member whose clients are now almost entirely American, joins the podcast to explain how the US-France tax treaty actually works, why France has no legal concept of an "estate," and why a US trust can quietly turn a 0 p