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
187 episodes
The Courage to Let a Chapter End..
Most of us are waiting for permission. Permission to dream. Permission to rest. Permission to say no, to speak the truth to the people we love most, or to walk away from something that once fit beautifully but doesn't anymore. We keep waiting f...
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...
Saying Yes to a New Way: Education, Courage, and the Power of Saying Yes with Jennifer Lazarus
Two years ago, I met Jennifer Lazarus without knowing the dream that was quietly forming in her heart. Today, she is the founder of Heart Expressions Micro School, a holistic, passion-based learning environment designed to integrate mind...
Until Every Child is Known and Loved with Beth Guckenberger, Back2Back Ministries
Beth Guckenberger’s journey is a powerful example of courage—courage to trust in a greater plan, to heal from personal wounds, and to step into stories that are hard yet transformative. Her life’s work with Back2Back Ministries, an organization...
Simply Find A Way! with Ashley Schneider
Turning pain into purpose is a journey that requires courage, curiosity, and a willingness to embrace the unknown. Ashley Snyder’s story is a testament to this truth. At just 24 years old, Ashley transformed the anger and pain of watching her m...
I Created This Retreat for ME....
We rarely give ourselves permission to pivot. Not because we don't know we need to, but because pivoting means admitting the plan we built, the identity we've worn so well, might not be the whole truth anymore. In this week's solo cast, I found...
What if One Was Always Enough?
Somewhere along the way, most of us were taught that impact has to be measured in numbers. That unless you change hundreds, thousands, maybe millions of lives, it doesn't really count. So we take the thing that sits heavy on our hearts the chil...
Remembering
Courage isn't born curiosity is. Every one of us came here with it: that small whisper that says huh… what would that be like? And most of us have gotten very good at pushing it back down, because somewhere we learned you don't move un...
The Anger Was Really Just Sadness with Trinity Riffle
We are quick to label a child's anger. The fifteen year old throwing a tantrum, the panic attack in the hallway, the screaming at someone who barely brushed past. We call it a behavior and we try to correct it, when what we almost never do is g...
Everything We Do Is a Choice
Here is the thread that runs through all of it. Everything we do, from the first blessing of breath each morning, is a choice, and our life is a reflection of those choices. They are not easy choices. Sometimes they feel overwhelming. But they ...
Handed Over to the Bear's Den
This morning we are seven days deep into the backcountry of Glacier, carrying everything we need on our own two shoulders, tired in a way that reaches the bone. Before we left, I posted a poll asking how many bears we would see, and people worr...
The Question That Changes the Answer
For years I have been quietly playing small in my own story. I have brought you experts and foster parents and former foster children, and I have let their voices carry the weight, because it felt safer than standing all the way up in my own. B...
Hope Was Guaranteed Pain with Ashana Kaiulani
We tell ourselves a comforting story about children. We believe that if a little one is ever left alone in this world, surely someone would step in. Surely a neighbor, a teacher, a stranger with a soft heart would look at a seven year old, a te...
What if We Changed the Way We See with Guest Danielle Lemottee
One of the greatest misconceptions about foster care is that healing is simply a matter of making better choices. If someone truly wanted to change, we tell ourselves, they would. But what if the very systems designed to help have also become p...
Would You Do It For One? with guest Debbie Caruso
The foster care conversation often feels overwhelming. The numbers are staggering. The stories are heartbreaking. It's easy to believe the problem is simply too big for any one person to make a difference. But what if we've been asking the wron...
The Promise That Changes Everything
There is one relationship that shapes every other relationship in your life the one you have with yourself. We spend so much time talking about what we want to change, what we hope to become, and the dreams we carry in our hearts. But those dre...
Awaken 2026: The Courage to Remember Who You Are
There comes a moment in life when the whisper becomes too loud to ignore. It isn't always a crisis. Sometimes your life is beautiful. The marriage is good. The business is thriving. The kids are growing. And yet, somewhere beneath the titles, r...
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...