What if putting yourself first isn't selfish? What if it's the first step toward becoming more fully yourself?

In this episode of I Can Fit That In, Erin Coupe sits down with Kerry Docherty, cofounder of lifestyle clothing brand Faherty and author of the memoir Selfish: Unlearning, Reclaiming, and Telling the Truth. Kerry opens up about the pressure to be good, adaptable, generous, and available to everyone around you, and what happens when you realize you've lost touch with the person underneath all those roles.

Kerry and Erin explore self-awareness, creativity, leadership, career identity, relationships, and the courage to tell the truth about what you actually want. Kerry shares how creativity helped her reconnect with herself, why the personal and professional parts of our lives can't really be separated, and how asking "Do I want to?" can be more important than proving "Can I?" Her memoir Selfish grew out of that same process of reclaiming her voice and making space for the parts of herself she had pushed aside.

What You'll Take Away:

- Why the roles you take on can slowly overshadow your sense of who you are

- How unresolved personal patterns can affect the way you communicate and show up at work

- Why creativity can be a powerful way to reconnect with yourself

- The difference between asking "Can I do this?" and "Do I actually want to?"

- How telling the truth about your own experience can change the way you approach work, relationships, and your next chapter

Guest Bio:

Kerry Docherty cofounded the lifestyle clothing brand Faherty with her husband and his identical twin. A Yale and Pepperdine Law graduate, she is also the author of Selfish: Unlearning, Reclaiming, and Telling the Truth, a memoir about putting yourself back into your own life.

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Read Kerry's memoir: Selfish: Unlearning, Reclaiming, and Telling the Truth Kerry Docherty's official site

What if pressure isn't the problem? What if the way you carry it is what's holding you back?

In this episode of I Can Fit That In, Erin Coupe sits down with Jeff Salzenstein, former top 100 world-ranked tennis player, Stanford All-American, NCAA Champion, and now a leadership speaker, performance advisor, and coach. Jeff draws on more than a decade competing at the highest levels of professional tennis, as well as deeply personal experiences with his brother's addiction and loss, to explore what high performers can learn about resilience, stress, identity, and leadership.

Jeff introduces his Own Your Zone framework, built around three areas: restoring the body, rewiring the mind, and reconnecting the heart. He and Erin also unpack how to handle pressure, build emotional resilience, reshape limiting beliefs, and create the internal foundation needed to perform well without sacrificing your well-being.

Key Takeaways

- How to build the skill of bouncing back when things don't go your way

- Why your identity is shaped by your repeated thoughts, choices, emotions, and actions

- How the Own Your Zone framework can help leaders strengthen their physical, mental, and emotional foundation

- A simple “up until now” technique for interrupting limiting beliefs and creating new possibilities

- Practical habits that can help you regulate stress and perform better under pressure, including morning sunlight, breathing practices, and intentional transitions between work and home

Guest Bio

Jeff Salzenstein is a former top 100 world-ranked tennis player, two-time Stanford All-American, NCAA Champion, and leadership speaker, performance advisor, and coach who helps leaders and organizations perform at their best under pressure.

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Your biggest career detour might be the very thing that makes you a better leader. Nina Fluck shares why your unique experiences, strengths, and even failures can become your greatest professional assets.

In this episode of I Can Fit That In, Erin Coupe sits down with Nina Fluck, a people and culture leader with more than 15 years of experience helping organizations build high-performing teams and strong workplace cultures. Nina shares how her early career as a professional performer shaped the way she approaches leadership, collaboration, and people strategy, and why the skills you develop in one chapter of life can follow you into the next.

The conversation explores leadership development, workplace culture, team performance, career transitions, and self-awareness, with a central question: What happens when you stop trying to fit a traditional definition of success and start recognizing what makes you different? Nina also shares practical ways leaders can create stronger connections with their teams and help people see the unique qualities they bring to the organization.

Takeaways:

- How experiences from seemingly unrelated careers can become powerful leadership skills

- Why the unique qualities of people on a team can create a genuine competitive advantage

- How leaders can make development conversations more meaningful than a simple performance checklist

- Why staying connected to your own energy, interests, and sense of fulfillment makes you a better leader

- How to stop comparing your current chapter to an earlier version of yourself and embrace what's next

Guest Bio

Nina Fluck is a people and culture leader with more than 15 years of experience helping organizations build high-performing teams and strong workplace cultures. Before moving into HR and people leadership, Nina was a professional performer, an experience that continues to shape her approach to leadership and collaboration.

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Success isn't defined by the title you hold. It's defined by how you grow through every season of your life.

In this episode of I Can Fit That In, Erin Coupe sits down with former professional basketball player and financial services executive Ryan Robertson to talk about reinvention, leadership, and building a meaningful career after sports. From playing at the University of Kansas, competing professionally with the Sacramento Kings and across Europe, to becoming Managing Director and Co-Head of U.S. Distribution at Future Standard, Ryan shares how discipline, resilience, and self-awareness shaped every chapter of his journey.

Key Points:

- Why your identity should grow beyond your career or title

- Leadership lessons Ryan carried from elite athletics into the business world

- How feedback and self-awareness help great leaders continue improving

- Why managing your energy matters more than trying to manage every minute

- How to redefine ambition as your priorities evolve through different seasons of life

About the guest:

Ryan Robertson is Managing Director and Co-Head of U.S. Distribution at Future Standard. A former University of Kansas standout and professional basketball player, he now helps lead one of the industry's respected investment firms while mentoring teams through intentional leadership.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-robertson-77aaa4aa

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💫Instagram: ⁠@authenticallyec⁠

💼 LinkedIn: ⁠Erin Coupe⁠

🌐 Website: ⁠ErinCoupe.com

Connect with Ryan Robertson:

https://www.futurestandard.com/fs-people/ryan-robertson

Confidence isn't something you're born with. It's built one conversation, one courageous ask, and one uncomfortable moment at a time.

In this episode of I Can Fit That In, Erin Coupe sits down with leadership sales trainer, speaker, and communication strategist Klyn Elsbury to explore how persuasion, self-advocacy, and authentic communication shape every area of our lives. Drawing from her experience living with cystic fibrosis and building a career around helping leaders communicate with confidence, Klyn shares why sales isn't about convincing people—it's about creating genuine connection and having the courage to ask for what matters.

What You'll Take Away

- Why confidence is built through action, not by waiting until you feel ready

- How "rejection therapy" can help you become more comfortable asking for what you want

- Why authentic conversations outperform traditional sales tactics every time

- How avoiding difficult conversations creates resentment and holds back personal and professional growth

- Practical ways to strengthen your communication, negotiation, and leadership skills every day

Guest Bio

Klyn Elsbury is a leadership sales trainer, speaker, and communication strategist who helps organizations build trust, strengthen influence, and communicate with confidence. Her work combines real-world sales experience with powerful lessons on courage, resilience, and authentic leadership.

Connect with Klyn:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/klynelsbury

www.leadershipsalestraining.com

Revenue Growth Roadmap https://sales.leadershipsalestraining.com/sos-714503

https://www.youtube.com/@realklynelsbury

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Chapters

00:43 Meet Klyn Elsbury

01:25 The Story That Shaped Her Life

03:22 From Corporate Sales to Fighting for Survival

05:23 Courage Starts With Asking

07:04 Why People Struggle to Ask for What They Want

11:30 Rejection Therapy and Building Confidence

13:29 Why Selling Feels So Uncomfortable

17:31 Difficult Conversations and Resentment

19:23 Building a Business Through Authenticity

21:14 Confidence Is Built by Winning

23:03 Rituals for Intentional Leadership

25:17 What to Do When You Feel Stuck

26:58 Narrate Your Life Like the Hero

27:56 Where to Connect with Kyln

29:13 Outro

Brad Hargreaves helped build two companies worth over half a billion dollars combined. His biggest regrets aren't the risks he took. They're the quarters he spent grinding on a path he already knew was wrong.

In this episode, Erin sits down with Brad Hargreaves, co-founder of General Assembly and Common and founder of Thesis Driven, a publication exploring innovation across the built world. Brad shares how a pandemic moment at home with his one-year-old changed his entire relationship with ambition, and why he built his current business around the life he wants instead of the other way around. It's a candid conversation about entrepreneurship, reinvention, and what real success looks like when you stop following someone else's playbook.

What You'll Take Away

- Why constraints fuel creativity, and how Brad used a single non-negotiable (being home to put his kids to bed) to shape his entire next business

- How General Assembly went from one New York classroom to training Fortune 500 companies in three years, and why timing mattered more than getting everything right

- Brad's honest answer to anyone who feels stuck on a fixed path, and the one question that tells you whether it's time to reinvent

- The real cost of staying the course when you know it's wrong, and the regret Brad still carries from his venture-backed years

- The mantra Brad has repeated to himself 200 times over 20 years of building companies

More About Brad

Brad Hargreaves is the founder and editor of Thesis Driven, a publication covering innovation in the built world. He previously co-founded General Assembly, a pioneer in skills-based education, and Common, a company reimagining urban housing.

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Connect with Brad:

💼 LinkedIn: Brad Hargreaves

🌐 Website: thesisdriven.com

📧 Email: brad@thesisdriven.com

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💼 LinkedIn: Erin Coupe

🌐 Website: ErinCoupe.com

Your brain doesn't care whether it's incoming emails or incoming artillery fire. It's the same brain under pressure either way, and most of us were never taught how to fly it.

Sarah Furness spent 21 years in the military as a combat helicopter pilot before becoming an international keynote speaker and mindfulness coach. In this conversation with Erin, she shares how the tools that kept her steady in a war zone translate directly to boardrooms, inboxes, and everyday stress. From her Practice Scared philosophy to her HABITS method for focus, Sarah makes the case that courage isn't the absence of fear. It's what you build every time you act before you feel ready.

What You'll Take Away

- Why your brain responds to everyday stress the same way it responds to combat, and how to work with that instead of against it

- What Practice Scared means and how treating every day as a rehearsal builds real confidence without waiting to feel ready

- The "fly the aircraft" technique pilots use to pull their attention back to the one thing that matters when everything goes wrong

- Why multitasking is a myth, and how unitasking helps you do more by doing less

- The military debrief habit that turns every experience into self-trust, so your instincts get sharper with every rep

Chapters

0:00 Welcome and meet Sarah Furness

1:40 Incoming emails vs. incoming artillery fire: how the brain handles pressure

3:02 21 years in the military as a combat helicopter pilot

4:01 What deploying to a war zone is really like

6:18 The Practice Scared philosophy: train hard, fight easy

9:43 Distraction, mindfulness, and learning to "fly the aircraft"

12:07 Why we're addicted to busyness and what we're avoiding

14:57 Unitasking and the HABITS method

17:48 Control vs. composure: staying grounded when things go sideways

19:22 How courage and fear work together

22:03 Building self-trust through the debrief habit

24:23 Confidence is built, not born

27:02 Where to find Sarah

More About Sarah Furness

Sarah Furness is a former combat helicopter pilot turned international keynote speaker and mindfulness coach. She is the creator of the HABITS method and the Practice Scared philosophy, helping leaders perform with courage and composure in high-pressure environments.

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Connect with Sarah:

💫 Instagram: @wellbeitcoach

💼 LinkedIn: Sarah Furness

🌐 Website: SarahFurness.com

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💫 Instagram: @authenticallyec

💼 LinkedIn: Erin Coupe

🌐 Website: ErinCoupe.com

Andy Schoonover's daughter needed a simple ear procedure. He had insurance and did everything right. But the insurer called it "not medically necessary" and sent him a bill for $8,000 anyway. That was the last check he ever wrote them. So he built an alternative for 30,000 families instead.

Andy Schoonover is the founder and CEO of CrowdHealth, a community-based alternative to traditional health insurance that has helped over 30,000 families pay for healthcare directly, without deductibles, without networks, and without handing their money to a company with every incentive to deny their claims. Erin is a CrowdHealth member herself, and this conversation goes well beyond the pitch. She and Andy dig into why the traditional insurance model is broken beyond repair, what it actually takes to disrupt a $6 trillion industry, and why true agency over your health and your finances starts with being willing to do things differently than everyone around you.

What You'll Take Away

- How CrowdHealth works and why 30,000 families are paying a fraction of what traditional insurance costs them each month

- What actually happens if you go to the ER without traditional insurance, and why it's far less scary than you think

- Why the best doctors in the country are quietly moving to cash pay only, and what that means for how you access care

- How Andy navigated death threats, online attacks, and self-doubt while taking on one of the most entrenched industries in America

- Why Andy believes health insurance is in a death spiral, and what a post-insurance healthcare landscape could actually look like

More About Andy

Andy Schoonover is the founder and CEO of CrowdHealth, a community-funded alternative to traditional health insurance serving over 30,000 members across the country. He is a second-time healthcare entrepreneur whose mission is to give families the tools, the community, and the agency to take real ownership of their health.

Ready to Make the Switch?

Try CrowdHealth and stop outsourcing your healthcare decisions to a system that wasn't built for you. Subscribe to I Can Fit That In so you never miss a conversation like this one.

Listeners and viewers can try CrowdHealth for just $99 per member per month for their first three months. Use promo code COUPE at joincrowdhealth.com to get started.

Connect with Andy:

💼LinkedIn: Andy Schoonover

🌐Website: joincrowdhealth.com (Promo Code: COUPE)

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💫 Instagram: @authenticallyec

💼 LinkedIn: Erin Coupe

🌐 Website: ErinCoupe.com

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