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EP 404: Break The Stress Loop At Home And Work

• Sophia Yvette

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What Makes Keisha Gaddis with Dual Impact Leadership a Good Neighbor?

Pressure doesn’t end when the workday does, and too many of us are taught to power through instead of learning how to regulate it. In this episode, we sit down with licensed professional counselor and leadership coach Keisha Gaddis to unpack why the “do more” reflex is failing high-achieving women, working moms, and leaders—and how rest can become a strategic lever for clarity, communication, and sustainable performance.

Keisha traces the roots of her mission back to her work in school counseling, where she watched stress ripple from teens to parents and back again. That experience led her to found Dual Impact Leadership, a counseling and consulting practice focused on practical tools that fit real lives and real schedules. She shares simple, repeatable strategies—micro-breaks that reset the nervous system, brief emotional check-ins before high-stakes moments, and recovery rituals that prevent pressure from spilling over into family life. These small shifts, she explains, improve decision-making and help teams navigate high-pressure environments across education, healthcare, and corporate settings.

We also explore a critical distinction: confidence can rise and fall with life’s seasons, but emotional steadiness can be trained. Keisha explains how to build that steadiness through low-lift routines, and why modeling regulation at home quietly reshapes how children learn to manage stress. The result is a double impact healthier families and healthier workplaces where presence, purpose, and performance reinforce one another instead of competing.

If you’re capable but exhausted and ready to feel steady instead of spent, this conversation offers both immediate steps and long-term perspective. Connect with Coach Keisha at coachkeisha.com and on social media Facebook (Coach Keisha), Instagram (@mycoachKeisha), and TikTok (@CoachKeisha).

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SPEAKER_01:

This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Sophia Yvette.

SPEAKER_02:

Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. Are you in need of a professional counselor? Well, one may be closer than you think. Today I have your good neighbor, Keisha Gaddis, with Coach Keisha. Keisha, how are you today?

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, I'm doing well. How are you?

SPEAKER_02:

I am also doing well. Now we are excited today to learn all about you and your business. Please start off by telling our listeners just a little bit about your company and your background.

SPEAKER_00:

Awesome. Well, thank you for having me here today. I'm excited to let everyone know. I'm Keisha Gaddis. I'm a licensed professional counselor here in Frisco, and I'm also a leadership coach. I've been working in this field for about 15 years, and I enjoy helping high-achieving women, working moms, and leaders, professional leaders. I enjoy helping people make mental health a part of their lifestyle.

SPEAKER_02:

Wow, Keisha, now this is such an important topic that we're going to get into today. But go ahead and tell our listeners a little bit more about how you originally got started in this industry.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, so I've been a counselor for the past 15 years. And one of the main places that I've practiced is in schools. And so I've worked with a lot of teens who were facing immense pressure and a lot of their parents who were also working in high-achiev, um, intense environments. And so I've worked with a lot of people and I've seen a pattern. I've seen that the stress loop, it kind of goes from person to person. So I've noticed that kids who have been in my office having uh some type of stressful crisis when I call home, their parents are dealing with the same thing. And so that's the reason I founded Dual Impact Leadership, which is a counseling and consulting firm where I offer trainings, workshops, and presentations on little practical tools you can implement throughout your day to add more emotional steadiness to your life.

SPEAKER_02:

Wow, Keisha. Now, where do you see this business going, let's say five years from now?

SPEAKER_00:

Five years from now. Well, I would love to continue to go into corporations, um, educational institutions, healthcare, and work with the people who are under high stakes, right? Like, so a lot of times in our jobs, we're facing a lot of pressure. But what I've found is that a lot of people haven't been taught how to regulate that pressure. Instead, we've been taught how to just push through, try harder, work harder, be the strong one, right? And so my goal over the next five years is to spread this message. You shouldn't have to push through. You shouldn't have to just survive going to work and survive your daily life. You should feel more steady and more able to cope with the ups and downs of everyday life. And so over the next five years, I plan to go into as many organizations as I can to spread this message and to teach these practical skills that I've learned along my own journey and that I've implemented in the clients that I work with, and they've implemented it in their life. And myself, along with my clients, are seeing so much more improvement just on everyday function. And the reason is because so many people are used to just over-functioning, like overachieving, over-functioning. I gotta do more, more, more, thanks to this hustle culture that we're in. And so my goal is to flip the script on that. We don't have to do more, we need to be more steady as we're doing life, and that way we can enjoy our life more and we can have more purpose and be more present in our life.

SPEAKER_02:

Now, Keisha, zooming in more to your business today. What is the number one myth or misconception you come across that you would like to put to rest today?

SPEAKER_00:

Hmm. I'm glad you used that word rest because that's the number one misconception that I see with a lot of people that I work with is that I will rest once I'm finished XYZ. I will rest when this happens or when I achieve this goal or whatnot. Everybody has their own interpretation of when they are allowed to rest. But I'm here to spread the message that you don't need permission to rest. Your rest can be used as a strategy because when you're not rested, it clogs your clarity, your judgment, your decision making, your communication, your in the way that you show up, in the way that you treat others. Whenever you're constantly just pushing through and not taking the time to rest and not taking the time to check in with yourself emotionally, all sorts of things pay the cost at home and at work. So the I've seen a lot is that rest is a reward. No, it's not. Rest is required, and it's a part of it's a way that you can level up. If you're trying to level up in any area of your life, you're gonna need to figure out how you can implement rest so that you can show up better.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, Keisha, I definitely have more questions for us to get into today, but let's switch gears for a second. Now, we know marketing is the heart of every business. So getting into more detail here, tell us who is your target demographic age ranges that you focus on, and in terms of marketing, how you stay front and center in front of them.

SPEAKER_00:

So I work really, really well with high-achiev women and working moms because I'm living it right and I understand the pressures that we're facing. I'm right there with them. And so that's who my main target is. But oftentimes, as I'm working with those women and those moms one-on-one, they will want me to come and implement our practices at their job because the things that I teach are practical skills that everyone can implement every day to make their um just to make their life better, to make going to work more enjoyable, to make uh coming home after work, even though you're exhausted. There's ways that you can implement where you can still feel energized whenever you walk in the door after a long day. So my ideal client is a high-achieving woman, a working mom, and the places where they work. That's who I work best with. And how do I stay front and center? I'm working on that. I'm trying to do more on social media. I am trying to spread my message more. Um, so that part is a work in progress. And I'm doing that today by being on the Good Neighbor podcast. So hopefully, if you're listening and if you are someone who is exhausted yet amazing, and you know that if you were able to implement some simple skills in your life, you know that you could show up better at work, you know you could show up better as a better mom, then please reach out to me. I'm happy to support you.

SPEAKER_02:

Wow, Keisha, you sound so passionate about what you do. Have you ever thought about having your own podcast for the business before?

SPEAKER_00:

Uh my husband has encouraged me to do that. So it's on my list of things that I'd like to do one day, maybe sooner than later. We'll see. I'm I'm currently working on a book that will be finished uh very soon. And so perhaps I will start a podcast along with my book.

SPEAKER_02:

Now, Keisha, for our listeners today who may be high-achieving women or mothers, what do you want them to take away from today's interview?

SPEAKER_00:

That's a tough question because I have so many things that I want that I want to share. But I would say the one thing as a mother and as a woman who is high achieving, one of my main goals every day is to model emotional stability for my children. And what that looks like is emotional stability is your ability to remain steady even with the ups and downs. So a lot of people confuse emotional steadiness with confidence. For a long time in my life, I talked about confidence. You got to be confident, got to believe in yourself, which you do. However, confidence can come and go, right, with your different stages of life through divorce, through pregnancy, through your body changes, through being demoted at work, through um being bypassed for promotion. Like your confidence can come and go, but your emotional steadiness is what allows you to remain stable and steady through those ups and downs. So, my message to everyone out there, we are modeling our emotion regulation for our children. And that is my main message. What are you modeling for them? Are you modeling that when you have a rough day, you yell, you snap at everybody, you throw things, you you cuss everybody out. You, you know, what are you modeling? Or are you modeling that? Are you modeling out loud? You know, mom had a rough day today, and I'm I'm actually really tired right now. So I'm gonna go take a break, five minutes, 10 minutes, and take care of myself, and then I'll be back and I'll be able to play with you. Because it's really important. I've seen both sides, right? Like I've been a school counselor, so I've had the kids in my office who have been crying and who have been upset because their parents are emotionally dysregulated and they took it out on their kid. And then when I call home to tell them, hey, so-and-so had an issue today, and I just wanted to let you know the parents are dysregulated with me on the phone. So I've seen both sides. So my main message is let's work together so that we can number one, level you up at home and at work, but we can also level up your kids and we can instill some strong emotion regulation and coping skills in them so that they can remain steady.

SPEAKER_02:

Now, final question for you today, Keisha. Where can our listeners go to learn more about Coach Keisha?

SPEAKER_00:

So thank you. And um, they can go to my website, coachkeisha.com. So www.coa c e s h a dot com. I'm also on social media. So my Facebook page is Coach Keisha. My Instagram is mycoachKeisha, and my TikTok is CoachKisha.

SPEAKER_02:

Well, Keisha, I really appreciate you being on the show today. We wish you and your business the best moving forward.

SPEAKER_00:

Thank you, Sophia. This was fun. Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_01:

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