The Courage Coalition
Solocasts and Guest Interviews for inspiring, educating and empowering listeners to embrace courage in all aspects of their lives. Fostering a coalition of individuals who are committed to living authentically and fearlessly in their dreams!
This is not a polished highlight reel it’s real stories, raw truth, and the kind of courage that changes lives. Each week, host Corree Roofener brings you unfiltered conversations and heartfelt solocasts that remind you you’re not alone in the climb.
From navigating money and mental health to breaking cycles in foster care and redefining success, every episode is about choosing faith over fear and taking your next brave step. The Courage Coalition is more than a podcast it’s a community of dreamers and doers who are ready to live authentically, even when it’s hard.
Episodes
167 episodes
Healing, Hope and The Power of Being Held with Heather Gibson
Some conversations do more than inform us, they remind us that healing rarely looks the way we expect it to. My conversation with Heather Gibson was one of those. What struck me most was not just that we share the foster and adoptive journey, b...
The Invisible Children We Have Learned Not To See
There are over 400,000 children in foster care in the United States right nowand if we’re honest, most of us don’t feel that number… because we’ve learned not to. We’ve learned how to look past it, how to believe it’s too big, too broken, too f...
Emotional Money Chapter 10 11 and 12
There’s a moment, if you’re willing to sit in it, where you realize this was never just about money. It was never just about the numbers, the accounts, or the strategy. It was about safety. It was about what you were taught, what you witnessed,...
What You Can Build, When You Stop Waiting with Diana Gleason
There are some conversations that remind you why courage matters so much, and this one with Diana Gleason was exactly that. What struck me most was not just the success she has built a thriving remote bookkeeping firm with a powerful team and s...
Emotional Money Chapter 8
The word budget has been misunderstood for far too long. For most people, it immediately brings up feelings of restriction what do I have to give up, what do I have to go without, what does this say about me? But what if we flipped tha...
Emotional Money: Chapter 6 & 7
We spend so much time judging how we spend money that we rarely stop to ask a deeper, more honest question: what is my money actually trying to tell me? Because spending isn’t failure—it’s evidence. Every purchase holds a mirror up to ...
Chapter 5 of Emotional Money
What if the version of wealth you’ve been chasing was never actually yours to begin with? Most of us were handed a definition early on success looks like achievement, accumulation, recognition. We were shown the path and t...
Permission to Do It Differently with Erica Goode
This episode was one of those reminders that you don’t have to be the loudest voice in the room to make an impact you just have to keep showing up as yourself. I invited Erica Goode on after reading a newsletter that stopped me in my tracks, be...
Chapter 3 and 4 of Emotional Money
Most of us are living inside beliefs we never consciously chose. We inherited them. We absorbed them. We repeated them so many times they started to feel like truth. And when it comes to money, those beliefs don’t just sit quietly in the backgr...
Emotional Money - Chapter 2
There’s something I want you to really sit with: you don’t have a money problem—you have a money story. And that story didn’t start when you opened your first bank account or got your first paycheck. It started much earlier, in the quiet moment...
Emotional Money - Introduction & Chapter 1
People don’t avoid their money because they don’t care. They avoid it because it hurts. Somewhere along the way, money stopped being just numbers and started becoming identity. It became tied to your worth, your belonging, your safety, your eno...
Dancing with Grief with Mary Fields
This conversation with Mary Fields stirred something deep in me because grief is not a side story in our lives — it is woven into almost every chapter. We have been taught that grief looks like death, like tragedy, like something obvious and dr...
The Hardest Relationship You Will Ever Build
We talk a lot about relationships in life marriage, friendships, business partnerships, family. But the relationship we most often undermine is the one we have with ourselves. Recently, something unlocked in me in real time. It forced me to loo...
Not for Power—For People: The Kind of Leadership We Need with Alani Bankhead
On this episode of The Courage Coalition, I sat back down with one of those humans who makes you feel it in your chest the minute she starts talking, Alani Bankhead. She’s spent over 20 years in human intelligence operations, hunting t...
The Question We Don’t Ask Enough: What Does Success Actually Look Like for You?
One of the questions I’ve been sitting with lately is this: where did you actually learn how to be a business owner? For many of us, the honest answer is we didn’t. We inherited beliefs, borrowed strategies, followed formulas, and trie...
Why Are We Still Whispering About Perimenopause? with Dr. Mariza Snyder
Why is perimenopause still treated like a quiet inconvenience instead of the profound transition it actually is? In this episode of The Courage Coalition, I sat down with Dr. Marisa Snyder to talk about the thing so many women are expe...
Coming Home To Your Own Rhythm with Anniston Riekstins
So much of what we call alignment today is actually just another version of pressure. New year, new energy, new goals go, go, go. But what if that pace doesn’t feel right in your body? In this conversation with Aniston Riekstins, we ex...
Money, Masks, and the Courage to Tell the Truth with Kendra Cooke
Some conversations don’t just inspire you they expose you. That’s what happened for me sitting with Kendra Cooke. Yes, she’s a powerhouse in real estate (since 1988, starting as a receptionist and rising all the way to ownership), but what rock...
We Were Never Taught to Feel Safe With Money
Money has never been just numbers. It’s never been black and white. From the moment we are old enough to notice it, money becomes tangled with safety, love, belonging, approval, fear, and shame. We learn often without words that what we earn, s...
The PG-13 Conversations We Need to Have with Erika Rothenberger
There are some conversations we don’t avoid because they aren’t important—we avoid them because they’re too important. Too personal. Too revealing. Too likely to crack the “I’m fine” mask right off our face. In this episode of The C...
Emotional Money: Why Your “Why” Matters More Than the Number
Every January we make promises to ourselves about money, habits, change and by February many of us are already sitting in the quiet shame of why didn’t I keep it this time? What I’ve learned, both personally and through years of financ...
When It Doesn’t Work: The Foster Care Conversation We Avoid
There’s a conversation we don’t have enough in foster care and adoption because it’s loaded with fear, judgment, and that quiet ache of “What will people think?” Today on The Courage Coalition, Trisha Collins (Director of Missional Imp...
When Fear Holds Your Hand
Fear is one of the most misunderstood forces we live with. We’re taught that fear is the signal to stop, to turn around, to stay safe. But what if fear isn’t the enemy at all? What if it’s simply a messenger an ancient survival system that was ...
Single Parenthood Isn’t a Choice Most of the Time with Cindy Witteman
There are conversations we avoid because they hit too close to home money, domestic violence, poverty, and the quiet realities of single parenthood. In our first guest episode of 2026, I sat down with Cindy Wittemann, and let me just say it: th...
Beyond the Surface: Why 2026 Is About Deeper Conversations
As we open Season Three of The Courage Coalition, I found myself reflecting deeply on what this podcast was always meant to be and what it’s now being called to become. From the beginning, the heart of this space has been real people l...