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What does it take to build a coaching business that fits your life instead of consuming it? Ben Hill shares his journey from corporate burnout to values-driven entrepreneurship with Michi Lantz, revealing why sustainable growth beats hustle culture every time.

Guest Bio:

Ben Hill is a certified performance coach and former SaaS sales leader who spent 20 years chasing success on paper before realising it was costing him time, health, and peace of mind.

After walking away from a six-figure corporate career to invest in himself, and build Ask More coaching, he now helps high performers in seasons of transition - create a clear direction, build stronger habits that become self mastery, and set healthier boundaries - so they can design a life that feels successful beyond work.

Connect with Ben Hill

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benhill1/
Website: https://askmorecoaching.co.uk/

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Host & Producer: Michi Lantz
Editor: Marvin Del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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What happens when a marketing expert finally practices what she preaches? Erin Mitchell shares her journey from CVS layoff to fractional CMO with Michi Lantz, revealing why she spent years at 0.1% marketing spend while telling clients to invest 5%.

Guest Bio:

Erin Mitchell, MBA, is the Founder and CEO of BE Total Solutions, a strategic advisory firm that helps organizations align business strategy, marketing, and execution to drive measurable growth. With nearly 20 years of experience-including leading marketing teams at CVS Health-Erin specializes in turning strategy into action across complex organizations. As a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, Erin is a published author on Forbes.com, where she shares insights on strategic growth-known for helping organizations move from fragmented marketing to aligned, growth-driven execution.

Connect with Erin Mitchell

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erinnicolemitchell/
Website: https://betotalsolutions.com

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
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Credits:

Host: Michi Lantz
Editor: Marvin Del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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What if your worst fear became your greatest catalyst? Monica Smith shares with Michi Lantz how divorce and a pandemic sparked her emotional strength training business. Learn how brilliant overachievers can build resilience without losing themselves.

Guest Bio:

Monica Smith knows what it costs a person to lose connection with themselves, not from the outside, but from the inside.

In her thirties, she founded a nonprofit serving children of divorce, creating curriculum to help young people feel seen, safe, and strong amid family disruption. That organization was later acquired by a larger nonprofit in Dallas, where her programs continue today. She also authored two children's books, helping young readers move from feeling defined by circumstance to reclaiming their own voice. She built all of that because she understood early what happens when someone spends years overriding themselves. She understands it now from a different angle, too.

Today, Monica works with entrepreneurs, executives, and high-capacity individuals - intelligent, compassionate people doing meaningful work in the world who have also spent years absorbing criticism that wasn't theirs to keep, staying in rooms and relationships that cost them more than anyone around them could see. They know their patterns. They've done the work. And something still hasn't closed. That gap between understanding yourself and actually living differently is exactly where she works.

Her framework, The Path of Empowerment Therapy, moves through four phases: See Yourself, Be Yourself, See Others, and Be With Others - building the kind of self-awareness, regulation, and relational courage that makes lasting change possible.

Monica holds a Master's degree in Counseling and is a Certified Professional Life Coach. She serves as an adjunct professor of Emotional Intelligence at the Chesapeake School of Business, where she developed and teaches the university's EI curriculum. She works with individuals, organizations, and broader audiences through coaching, her workbook, keynotes, and her culture development program, Empower Leaders.

Her message hasn't changed in twenty years: success is not empowerment if it costs you yourself. Learn more at empowermecc.com.

Connect with Monica Smith

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/monicamichaelsmith
Website: https://EmpowerMeCC.com

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Credits:

Host: Michi Lantz
Editor: Marvin Del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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What happens when you discover you don't truly love yourself? Lisa Andria shares with Michi Lantz how unconditional self-love became her mission after breast cancer and 41 years in corporate. Learn how emotional transformation helps women over 40 rebuild confidence and purpose.

Guest Bio:

Lisa Andria is an Emotional Transformation Coach, founder of Ladies Who Leap Coaching and podcast host of the popular Ladies Who Leap podcast. She helps women over 40 build -for the first time - the identity they never embraced.

Using The Identity Bloom Method- a four-stage identity construction system - Lisa produces a transformation so complete that clients' lives restructure around who they've become.

A signature part of her program goes into the unconscious mind to a level where the Identity Void actually lives and clears old programming, constructs the client's genuine self and then, through their new reality, grounds this leap on a permanent basis so they can move ahead confidently.

Connect with Lisa Andria

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-andria/
Website: https://ladieswholeap.com

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
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Credits:

Host: Michi Lantz
Editor: Marvin Del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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What does it take to transform personal tragedy into a global mission? Atif Rashid lost his leg to cancer and built a resilience coaching empire. He shares his Five R Framework and Transilient Leadership approach with Michi Lantz on building a values-driven business.

Guest Bio:

Atif Rashid, CPA, MBA: Atif Rashid is a globally recognized leadership and resilience coach, inspirational speaker, and stand-up comedian whose life story exemplifies overcoming adversity through the power of mindset. As a cancer survivor and right-leg amputee, Atif has transformed profound personal challenges into a mission to help individuals and organizations lead with resilience, authenticity and courage. Holding an MBA and CPA and having shared his message on global stages including TEDx, he blends strategic insight with humor to create deeply human, impactful learning experiences. Through his global movement, Inspire1 - Impact Billions, Atif is fighting emotional poverty by empowering people to take one intentional action at a time to create meaningful, lasting change.

Connect with Atif Rashid

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/inspire1iv/
Website: https://inspire1ivconsulting.com/

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
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Host: Michi Lantz
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Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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What happens when childhood shadow becomes your greatest leadership gift? Purpose coach Robert Hopkins shares with Michi Lantz how five stepdads and a father he never met shaped his coaching philosophy. Discover why successful entrepreneurs often arrive unhappy and disconnected from their why.

Guest Bio:

Robert Hopkins is an executive and transformational coach with more than 30 years of experience spanning hospitality, entrepreneurship, consulting, and human development. As the owner of STRIVE Coaching Inc. in Salt Lake City since 2006, he has built a reputation for integrating business strategy with deep internal work, combining operational excellence with mindset development and emotional intelligence. His approach emphasizes innovation, resilience, and the ability to align personal growth with professional performance.

Beginning his career in the hospitality industry at the age of 15, Hopkins played a key role in opening and scaling restaurants across the United States while simultaneously developing a range of entrepreneurial ventures. His business experience includes wine importation and distribution, retail operations, and clinical nutrition facilities serving niche markets. These ventures helped shape his ability to launch, grow, and redefine organizations, establishing a foundation of disciplined execution and adaptability that continues to inform his coaching work today.

Significant life challenges, including the financial crisis of 2008-2010 and major personal transitions, became pivotal turning points that reshaped his perspective and purpose. These experiences led to a deep focus on self-development, emotional intelligence, and the study of human behavior. In 2017, after rebuilding both personally and professionally, he revitalized his coaching practice with a renewed mission centered on transformation through adversity. symbolized by the phoenix concept of rising stronger from hardship.

Through STRIVE Coaching, Hopkins works with executives, entrepreneurs, and teams across multiple industries, delivering tailored guidance on business operations, internal processes, and mindset recalibration. His methodology incorporates principles of neuroplasticity to help clients shift thinking patterns, build resilience, and achieve sustainable clarity and effectiveness. In addition to coaching, he develops and shares content through books, podcasts, and speaking engagements, extending his reach to a broader global audience.

He is the author of The Alchemist Lighthouse: The Daily Journey to Creating Your Beacon of Light (2025), a transformational guide that blends neuroscience, emotional intelligence, and reflective practices to help individuals rewire thought patterns and unlock personal and professional potential. The work reflects a broader mission to foster connection, awareness, and growth, while reinforcing the belief that resilience and clarity can be cultivated from within.

Beyond his professional work, Hopkins actively supports philanthropic initiatives, including efforts focused on suicide awareness, providing meals to families in need, and supporting underserved communities. A portion of his book proceeds contributes to these causes, reflecting a commitment to impact beyond business. He holds a bachelor's degree in health care administration, earned with high honors in 2015, and continues to focus on expanding his influence through writing, speaking, and coaching, with a long-term vision of inspiring connection, growth, and meaningful change at scale.

Connect with Robert Hopkins

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/robert-hopkins-71726aa
Website: https://alchemistlighthouse.com

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
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Credits:

Host: Michi Lantz
Editor: Marvin Del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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What happens when depression almost ends your business? Donna May Abadiano shares her business pivot story with Michi Lantz—from nearly quitting IELTS coaching to discovering a dual-market model serving Filipino breadwinners and the agencies hiring them. A raw journey of adaptation.

Guest Bio:

Donna May Abadiano is the founder of SJDCS Online Educational Consultancy Services in the Philippines. Through her coaching brand VIP IELTS Academy, she helps breadwinner professionals - nurses, doctors, engineers, and accountants - prepare for international English proficiency exams and workplace communication, so they can qualify for the global careers their families are counting on.

Her work serves both the individuals pursuing opportunities abroad and the organizations that hire them. What started as onsite coaching in Roxas City has grown into a cross-border consultancy with clients now working in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Ireland, and Australia.

Connect with Donna May Abadiano
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donna-may-abadiano/

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:
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Host: Michi Lantz
Editor: Marvin Del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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What if your biggest business block isn't marketing but positioning rooted in limiting beliefs? Jean-Philippe Vezina shares with Michi Lantz how Black entrepreneurs can rewire generational trauma, reclaim cultural identity, and build wealth without losing their roots.

Guest Bio:

Jean-Philippe Vézina is a strategic advisor and ecosystem builder working at the intersection of Afro-descendant entrepreneurship, agri-food systems, and market positioning. His work focuses on a key challenge: helping entrepreneurs move beyond visibility to build structured, scalable, and culturally rooted business models. As a Board Member of the Canada-Africa Chamber of Commerce (CACC), he contributes to strengthening economic corridors between Canada and African markets, with a focus on agri-food value chains, transformation, and long-term partnerships.

Through Movez Coaching, he supports founders, brands, and organizations-particularly within Afro-descendant communities-in clarifying their positioning, structuring their growth, and accessing new markets without diluting their identity. He is known for challenging the idea that marketing alone drives growth, arguing instead that identity and positioning are the real leverage points for sustainable success.

Connect with Jean-Philippe Vézina

LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/movezaction/
Podcast: Soul Leader Podcast

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Host: Michi Lantz
Editor: Marvin Del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny

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