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
142 episodes
2025 Reflections
As this year comes to a close, I’m reminded once again that I don’t do resolutions I do reflections. Not the kind that measure accomplishments or accolades, but the kind that ask, Who did I become this year? What did I learn? What quiet truths ...
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25:42
Doing Social Media Your Way (Without Burning Your Life Down) with Jordan Reynolds
There’s a whole lot of noise around social media, isn’t there? Post three times a day. Niche down to one tiny topic. Be on every platform. Dance, point, lip sync, perform. No wonder so many of us would rather hide than hit “publish.” In my conv...
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Season 2
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Episode 93
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47:38
The Courage to Be First: Why Human-Centered Change Begins With Us with Brittany Stokes
What is your definition of courage? "Courage is the quiet defiance of the impossible the choice to move forward when logic, fear, and every onlooker say you should not. It is standing exposed at the edge o...
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Season 2
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Episode 91
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47:57
The Currency of Connection: Why Numbers Alone Don’t Build Legacy
We measure so much by numbers profit margins, client counts, turnover rates—but the truth is, numbers only tell part of the story. As a financial coach and bookkeeper, I see it every day: business owners chasing growth, retention, and loyalty, ...
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Season 2
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Episode 90
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17:48
"I Carry You”: When Grief Becomes Courage and Presence with Christina Stiverson
Some stories don’t thunder in with triumph they arrive quietly, hand to heart, and ask us to breathe. In my conversation with Christina Stevenson certified grief coach, retired U.S. Air Force officer, and author of I Carry You we talke...
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Episode 89
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55:56
Release the Grip
We all have it, the grip. That quiet, relentless need for things to look a certain way before we believe they’re “right” or “working.” I’ve gripped dreams, businesses, parenting, even the way joy should unfold. But the truth is, that g...
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Season 2
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Episode 88
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25:25
Choosing Faith When Fear Feels Easier with Kristy Barkley
There are moments in life when courage doesn’t look like the roar of a lion it looks like a whisper that says, not yet. In this week’s episode of The Courage Coalition, I sat down with Kristy Barkley, a woman whose story remin...
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Season 2
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Episode 87
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54:08
The Quiet Truth of Intuition
So often, we search outside ourselves for answers that were never meant to come from anywhere but within. Intuition is that sacred knowing the whisper that speaks before logic catches up. I’ve learned that it’s not about trusting so...
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Episode 86
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11:25
When Courage Looks Like Communication (and Remote-Control Cars) with Angelina Rivera
We all say we’ll never repeat the patterns we grew up in, until our body tells the truth. Collapse is clarity. The story we explored today isn’t about hustle or heroics; it’s about a woman who finally chose communication over coping. That’s the...
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Season 2
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Episode 87
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47:25
The Power of Intuitive Faith: Speaking Your Future Into Being
There was a time in my life when control was my safety net. If I could plan it, predict it, or manage it, then I believed I could protect myself and the people I loved. Faith felt intangible something I couldn’t measure or touch. But over time,...
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Episode 86
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24:07
Dharma, Midlife, and the Second Adolescence We Don’t Talk About with Katie Farinas
Some moments on the podcast feel less like an interview and more like a remembering—and my conversation with Katie Farinas was exactly that. Katie is a yoga teacher, podcast host, and Dharma coach who helps midlife women come home to who they’v...
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Season 2
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Episode 85
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54:05
The Noise vs. The Voice: When Stillness Becomes Strategy
The world is loud so loud that sometimes it feels like we’re living in a constant hum of urgency. “Hurry up.” “Do more.” “Don’t fall behind.” It shows up everywhere our businesses, our homes, our volunteer roles, even our dreams. For a long tim...
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Season 2
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Episode 84
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11:25
Building a Life You’re Excited to Wake Up For with Nancy Moore
Some of the most life-changing people show up when we step into new rooms. That’s how I met Nancy Moore an entrepreneur, podcaster, and community builder helping women design businesses and lives rooted in passion and purpose. <...
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Episode 83
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44:13
Learning to Hum Through the Unknown and Releasing the Story of Not Enough
This past week reminded me that courage doesn’t always roar it sometimes sits in an airport crying, whispering, “I don’t understand, but I’ll keep going.” Missing my flight felt like failure in motion. I had everything planned flights booked, c...
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Season 2
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Episode 82
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14:23
When Strength Looks Like Showing Up with Sadie Eversole
If you’ve ever wondered what courage looks like in real life, it isn’t a headline; it’s the rhythm of chores at dusk, tiny hands that miss their dad after a video call, and a mom who keeps choosing the next best step. Sadie reminds us that hope...
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Episode 81
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24:57
Where is Fear Holding the Pen in Your Story?
Fear is one of those companions we all carry sometimes quietly, sometimes loudly. What struck me in reflecting on my own journey is how often I’ve mistaken comfort for courage. People look at the big moves 13 years of foster care, selling every...
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Season 2
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Episode 80
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11:17
Closing the Front Door: Parenting, Protection, and the Power of Hope with Lowell Hochhalter
Some truths don’t land softly: life doesn’t always get easier, but it can get better. Better happens when we practice hope like a verb. In my conversation with Lowell Hochhalter of The Lifeguard Group, we sat with this tension. Hope isn’t naïve...
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Season 2
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Episode 79
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48:17
Turn Down the Noise
Whose story are you living the one the world handed you, or the one you’re here to write? Lately we’ve been unpacking how early beliefs become “truth,” and how easily we outsource our next step to noise: the perfect niche, the perfect avatar, t...
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Episode 78
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11:44
Side Hustles, Mindset, and the Power of Intentionality with Malik Mack
On this week’s episode of The Courage Coalition, I had the privilege of sitting down with Malik Mack serial entrepreneur, speaker, and now author of 101 Side Hustles, Small Businesses, and Income Streams A Guide to Your Financial Freedom
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Season 2
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Episode 77
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44:37
The Beliefs We Outgrow: Choosing Growth Over Old Truths
Our beliefs shape the lens we see life through but many of them aren’t actually ours. They were placed on us when we were five, six, seven years old, as our little brains were still wiring. Words spoken, experiences endured, and cultural messag...
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Season 2
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Episode 76
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14:19
Facing the Hardship with Broad Shoulders Head High with guest Amara Strong
Some stories punch the air out of the room. Amara’s did. She aged out of foster care, and for years the only people who truly knew her her siblings were scattered. The day she volunteered at a park serving breakfast to the homeless, she saw a f...
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Season 2
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Episode 75
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30:12
Mindset: Redefining Abundance on Your Terms
This week on The Courage Coalition, we close out the BEAM process with the letter M—Mindset. Mindset is a circle it always brings us back to our beliefs and our values. Too often we attach our worth to numbers in the bank or ben...
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Season 2
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Episode 74
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13:34
The Magic Mirror: How Style Helped Me See Myself with guest Jessica Papineau
There’s a quiet kind of courage in the way Jessica tells her story: a little girl in a house without electricity, pulling Salvation Army pieces from a closet and stepping into a “magic mirror.” Clothing wasn’t status—it was sanctuary. It was im...
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Season 2
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Episode 73
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49:14
A is for Action: Creating Change One Step at a Time
This week on The Courage Coalition, we arrive at the “A” in the BEAM Blueprint: Action. After uncovering our beliefs and values and gathering the evidence of where we’ve been and where we are, it’s time to do the brave thing tak...
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Season 2
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Episode 72
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8:56
More Than A Case File with guest Gena Flora
This week on The Courage Coalition, I sat with Gena Floro—a former foster youth whose story cracked my heart open and stitched it back together with hope. Between ages eight and eighteen, Gena was placed in 32 homes and attended...
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Season 2
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Episode 71
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45:40