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
174 episodes
The Answer May Not Just Be More Homes with guest Miranda Green
This episode left me thinking about something I have wrestled with for years: the answer to foster care is not simply more homes. The answer is better support, better training, and a system that truly prioritizes the healing and stability of th...
The Freedom of Financial Clarity: How to Transform Your Relationship with Money
In today's fast-paced world, many people find themselves overwhelmed by their finances, often feeling restricted by the idea of budgeting. But what if I told you that budgeting is not about limitations, but rather a pathway to freedom? In this ...
The Puzzle Was Always Being Built
There are moments in life that don't make sense when we're living them. Seasons of pain. Seasons of striving. Seasons where we are desperately trying to prove our worth, earn our place, or understand why our hearts keep pulling us toward someth...
More Than a Foster Child: A Story of Healing and Hope with Solange Carlson
This episode isn't just about foster care. It's about grief. It's about identity. It's about what happens when a child loses not only their home, but their sense of safety, belonging, and sometimes even themselves.Solange Carlson's story...
The Relationships We Stop Choosing with guest Melissa Nanavati
There is something powerful that happens when we stop looking at relationships as something we “have” and begin looking at them as something we actively choose, nurture, and participate in every single day. In this episode of The Courage Coalit...
Foster Care Isn’t a Program — It’s People with Judi Martin
My heart was so full recording this episode of The Courage Coalition with my dear friend Judy Martin and when I say dear friend, I mean lifeline. Judy was our certifier when Chad and I became foster parents, but she was so much more th...
The Courage to See Yourself First with Anne Peshka
We spend so much of our lives chasing the checklist. Performing. Achieving. Becoming who we think we’re supposed to be so we can finally feel accepted. But what if the real question was never “What do you do?” What if the real question has alwa...
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...