COACHED with Coach Keren

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

What happens when your business evolves - but your message does not?
In this episode of COACHED, Coach Keren Eldad sits down with messaging strategist, brand advisor, bestselling author and eight-figure entrepreneur Julie Solomon for a conversation about visibility, identity, reinvention and the messaging mistakes that can quietly keep even highly accomplished entrepreneurs stuck.
Julie shares the deeply personal story behind her own reinvention: leaving the traditional PR world, becoming a new mother, accumulating $30,000 in credit-card debt, confronting the impact it was having on her marriage, and ultimately rebuilding her career and business on very different terms.
But the heart of this conversation is what happened after Julie became successful.
She began to realize that the conventional advice to “serve an earlier version of yourself” had stopped working.
Her expertise had evolved.
Her clients had evolved.
She had evolved.
But parts of her messaging were still speaking to a version of herself she had long since outgrown.
Julie introduces her framework of the Former Self, Working Self and Highest Self and explains why each responds to radically different messaging.
The Former Self responds to pain and struggle.
The Working Self consumes information, tips and endless education - often mistaking learning for actual progress.
The Highest Self is ready to make decisions and move toward transformation.
And therein lies the shift: in knowing that the promise matters more than the pain.
Together, Keren and Julie explore what this means not only for marketing, but for leadership: knowing when you are helping versus rescuing, recognizing when over-teaching is actually keeping prospective clients from making decisions, allowing your message to evolve with your mastery, and becoming willing to release strategies, clients and ways of working that no longer fit who you have become.
IN THIS EPISODE:
Julie’s journey from burned-out publicist to eight-figure entrepreneur
The financial rock bottom that forced her to take stock of her life
Why Julie believes we should not always rescue people from their rock bottoms
Why your ideal client may not be an earlier version of you
The difference between the Former Self, Working Self and Highest Self
Why pain-point marketing can attract clients who are not ready for your work
How over-educating your audience creates consumers instead of decision-makers
Why sophisticated entrepreneurs often have a clarity problem, not a capability problem
How to market toward desire and transformation rather than pain
Why your personal story matters — but your “mess” should not become your message
Authentic alignment versus performing the version of yourself you think will sell
Why your body can tell you when a strategy no longer fits
The power of creating space instead of continually adding more
Julie’s next chapter and the surprising power she is finding in doing less

CONNECT WITH JULIE
Website: juliesolomon.net
Instagram: @julssolomon
Podcast: Woman of Influence
Book: Get What You Want: How to Go From Unseen to Unstoppable