Podcasts 2025

Share it with your friends and colleagues: In this episode of The Coaching Edge Podcast, Erwin de Grave and Dr. Steve Jeffs sit down with former theatre educator turned executive coach Travia Steward. After 24 years teaching high school theatre—and a life-redefining cancer diagnosis—Travia discovered coaching as the arena where her passions for performance, psychology, […]

Share it with your friends and colleagues: In this episode of The Coaching Edge Podcast, MCC coach Merci Miglino traces her journey from political burnout to coaching mastery—and how teaching Level 1 & 2 coaches in China (via real-time translation!) sharpened her philosophy of radical simplicity. She argues that the leap from PCC to MCC

Share it with your friends and colleagues: In this episode of The Coaching Edge Podcast, co-hosts Dr. Steve Jeffs and Erwin de Grave sit down with prolific author and creativity coach Eric Maisel to explore what really powers a creative life. From his winding path—writer, psychotherapist, and pioneer of creativity coaching—to launching a new international

Share it with your friends and colleagues: In this episode of The Coaching Edge Podcast, hosts Dr. Steve Jeffs and Erwin de Grave welcome Lisa Bloom, founder of Story Coach and author of The Story Advantage. Lisa shares her journey from learning and development into coaching, initially skeptical but later deeply inspired by the transformative

Share it with your friends and colleagues: In this episode of The Coaching Edge Podcast, hosts Erwin de Grave and Dr Steve Jeffs sit down with Dr Nat Green, a clinical and health psychologist turned trauma breakthrough coach, to explore the science and practice of moving from trauma to post-traumatic growth. Drawing on over 35

Share it with your friends and colleagues: In this episode of The Coaching Edge Podcast, hosts Erwin de Grave and Dr. Steve Jeffs sit down with coaching innovator Marcy Nelson-Garrison of Pink Paradigm to explore the intersection of psychology, art, and coaching. Marcy shares her journey from art therapy and call-center counseling to becoming a

Share it with your friends and colleagues: On this episode of The Coaching Edge Podcast, hosts Dr. Steve Jeffs and Erwin de Grave welcome book coach and thought-leadership pioneer Mindy Gibbins-Klein. A native New Yorker turned UK entrepreneur, Mindy has authored and co-authored over 15 books and built a global coaching practice with her signature

Share it with your friends and colleagues: In this episode of The Coaching Edge Podcast, hosts Dr. Steve Jeffs and Erwin de Grave sit down with transformational trainer and coach Lisa Kalmin—whose four-decade career spans corporate finance to pioneering transformational seminars—to explore how mindset, energy, and deep self-awareness reshape our relationship with money. Lisa shares

Share it with your friends and colleagues: In this episode of The Coaching Edge Podcast, co-hosts Erwin de Grave and Dr. Steve Jeffs sit down with certified ADHD and Christian life coach Heidi Fishbein to explore her unique journey from coaching client to coach educator. Heidi shares how a life-changing referral to an ADHD coach

Share it with your friends and colleagues: In this edition of The Coaching Edge Podcast, cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Irena O’Brien unpacks the latest research on how our brains create lasting behavior change. Drawing on Richard Boyatzis’ work, she explains why coaches (and leaders) should spend roughly two-thirds of every conversation in the default-mode network—the space