Are you trying to please everyone? Whether you're in the corporate world, an entrepreneur or simply have relationships with other people; managing your energy and your time can be a tricky dance. Does balance in life ever truly exist and how do we actually set (and hold) those boundaries we know we need to set?

In this episode, we sit down with executive coach and organisational development consultant Genevieve Retzlaff, founder of Grow Better Together, to talk about what it really takes to build an intentional life inside a system that was never designed with you in mind. We get into why so many high performers are burning out not from laziness but from saying yes to everything, how the fear of losing your job keeps people stuck in overwork, and why managing your energy really is the shift that changes everything.

Gen shares how she thinks of herself as a recovering people pleaser. Now that she has discovered what it actually takes to hold a boundary when the people around you push back; we talk about why trust and faith are at the foundation of all of it.

Genevieve Retzlaff is the Founder and CEO of Grow Better Together, an Organizational Development consultancy, and a PCC-certified Executive and Team Coach with 15+ years in HR Business Partnering and over 1,000 hours coaching senior leaders. Her mission is simple: help growing small and mid-size companies build healthier workplaces that are actually set up to hit their strategic goals rather than just survive the growth phase. Off the clock, she practices what she preaches, running her own life on the same intentionality and boundaries she coaches her clients toward.

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Every relationship is a negotiation. From where to eat, what you watch, how you manage your money, or who gets the left side of the bed. We are negotiating with the people we love every single day, whether we realize it or not.

In this episode, we sit down with Neil Hamilton, a negotiator with over 40 years of experience in broadcast sales and real estate, who is now applying those skills to something far more personal: couples in crisis asking the big question "Should I stay or should I go?".

We talk about the pressures that modern life is placing on relationships, why so many couples find themselves stuck without knowing what they actually want, and how asking the right questions can change everything. We also get into the crossover between negotiation and NLP, why the meaning of your communication is always the response you get back, and why it's never really about what you said, it's about how you said it.

With over 20 years of national broadcast sales experience dealing with Canada's largest advertisers plus another 20 in both residential and commercial real estate, it can be genuinely said that Neil knows negotiation. Sensing an acute societal need, he has now applied his negotiation skills to couples in crisis. Stay or go? And whatever the decision, what's the most painless way to make that happen?

Contact Neil at jneilhamilton@remax.net

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What if the businesses that look the most successful from the outside were never actually following the plan?

In this episode, we sit down with serial entrepreneur Alex Osan, co-founder of Mi Tierra Latina and co-owner of Multiservices Vancouver and SA Cleaning Group, to talk about what it really takes to build and scale multiple businesses at once. We get into why you can't scale chaos, the mindset shift that comes with learning to delegate, and why the plan changing is not a failure, it is just part of the process. We also dig into burnout prevention, intentional time management, and why a roadblock is never a sign to stop, only a sign to reroute.

If you have ever felt like you needed everything figured out before you could start, this episode is your permission to build it anyway.

Alex Osan is an entrepreneur, business development strategist, and technology enthusiast. She is the Co-founder of Mi Tierra Latina, one of Canada's fastest-growing Latin American grocery chains, and Co-owner of Multiservices Vancouver and SA Cleaning Group. Her passion is helping businesses grow through innovation, technology, and great leadership.

Contact Information:

alex.osan@mitierralatina.ca

IG: @mitierralatinastore / @multiservicesvancleaning

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