Let's Get Real

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Jun 2026

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Hi, I'm Nina Simonds, a leadership and relationship coach, and Let's Get Real is about having REAL (relevant, engaging and authentic leadership) conversations with people who inspire me. My guests are business leaders, learning professionals, and social impact entrepreneurs who are creating positive change in individuals and organizations. We explore personal experiences that have been catalysts for their growth and share some of the key concepts and tools that support effective leading and relating.

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June 12, 2026Episode 20143 min

Feminine Rising with Tina Meyers

Tina Meyers is a former environmental and social justice attorney turned coach and spiritual warrior. She coaches high-performing women advocates and leaders, designs and leads feminine leadership programs for nonprofits, and is the founder of Women Advocates Rising and Warrior School. Tina and Nina explored what feminism means to each of them. They also spoke candidly about what it would be like to live in a world where women were fully empowered to bring their full selves and where leadership was more balanced between the masculine and the feminine. Nina even learned a new term, spiritual bypassing! Leading through Complexity Peer GroupWarrior School Tina's IGLet's Get Real on Instagram Nina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

April 27, 2026Episode 71243 min

The Centered Leader

Anna is a leadership and embodied presence coach, facilitator, and coach educator. She has trained around 1,000 coaches globally and serves as a Faculty at the Co-Active Training Institute. She is the founder of Wholeness in You, where she works with leaders in transformation to develop an embodied leadership presence, so they can lead with clarity, creativity, and power without shutting down. In this conversation, Nina and Anna explored how: To Move from a Reactive to a Centered State — We all have a default "reactive" mode driven by old subconscious programming. Anna explains how to recognize when you're in it and how to shift back to your centered state, where your real leadership presence lives.Your Body Knows Before Your Mind Does — The vagus nerve and nervous system are constantly processing information your conscious mind hasn't registered yet. Anna breaks down why embodiment isn't a wellness trend — it's actually a better way to increase your self-awareness.Presence Can't Be Performed — Executive presence isn't about posture or polish. We make the case that authentic presence is energy, and people feel it whether you're trying to project it or not — which means the real work is internal.To learn more about Anna’s work, visit: www.wholenessinu.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annasumara/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@wholenessinuNina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

April 5, 2026Episode 71043 min

Mindful Self-Compassion

Mark Rovner and Rebecca Scott are Washington DC-based coaches with specialities that include mindful self compassion, adult development and immunity to change. Mark is the founder and principal at Sea Change Strategies and a trained facilitator in Dr. Kristin Neff’s Mindful Self-compassion program. Rebecca focuses on making work suck less with humor and compassion, one coaching conversation at a time.Mindful Self-Compassion Course Lisa Feldman Barrett Sea Change StrategiesRebecca Scott on LinkedInhttps://substack.com/@stumblrNina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

January 4, 2026Episode 70951 min

Coaching with Kindness

Jeff is an executive coach and leadership facilitator with 30+ years of experience in the coaching world. He works with clients to manage change, discover cutting-edge solutions, bring humanity to work, and create sustainable workplaces.Additionally, he leads the Co-Active Training Institute’s (CTI) Leadership Program, working with executives and other professionals to ignite their inherent strengths and create mutual, powerful alliances.In this conversation, Nina and Jeff explored the myths of kindness and the five pathways for being truly kind when you are coaching and developing others. They also talk about their own superpowers when it comes to kind coaching and where they see coaches get tripped up. The Kind LabThe Five Pathways of Kindness Jeff Jacobson World Jeff's LinkedIn Nina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

December 3, 2025Episode 70838 min

Innovations in Coaching

Over the past two decades Julie Davidson has served thousands of leaders throughout the United States, as well as Latin America, Europe, and Asia. As President and CEO of The JD Group, she built customized and sustainable leadership development programs for organizations. Julie shared how she is using AI to serve clients better. Nina and Julie explored how coaching platforms are shaping the coaching profession. They also explored what Gen X leaders have to learn from Gen Z's approach to career and life. Julie’s background includes reproductive justice advocacy and policymaking, progressive grantmaking, conflict resolution skills, improvisational theater, storytelling, and direct feedback. Her breadth of professional experience creates a unique toolkit that unleashes clients’ strengths and supports them to get big results. She also delights in collaborating with colleagues who are making good trouble in nonprofit, small business, education, policy, and fitness/wellness spaces.a) plan StrawberrySavor PNWNina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

November 17, 2025Episode 70746 min

How Identity Shapes Us

Nina sat down with Rick Rodriquez, Ed.d., co-founder of The Rooted Life. Nina and Rick explored how to create spaces of healing, why sharing our stories of identity matters in developing leaders and building culture, and ways to create workplaces where everyone feels safe and can do meaningful work. Nina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

November 2, 2025Episode 70638 min

The Essence of Dialogue

Wiebke Renner is a leadership coach and Systemic Dialogue faciliatator. In addition to working with private clients, she is a supervisor and trainer for the nni (no-name-initiative), a South African born NPO and social enterprise. nni started out as a big vision with a big heart for greater inclusion and real dialogue, a call to service and engagement, and a commitment to action and accountability. To this end, nni has been hosting free public transformational dialogues since 2012, as well as training citizens as powerful dialogue facilitators across the globe. NNI Dialogue InstituteRenner ResonanzNina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

October 20, 2025Episode 70535 min

Scaling Coaching

Deina M King is a sales leader turned executive coach dedicated to transformation and impact. As a sales executive over the last 10+ years, she lead teams through hyper-growth and massive change curves while maintaining high levels of performance. Her executive coaching practice focuses on growth and performance for senior executives and those looking to advance their career and transform their leadership.Deina shared about her motivation to add coaching to her leadership toolkit. Nina also asked her about her work scaling coaching training inside her org at LinkedIn. Finally, the two talked about what drew them to building community in Seattle for Co-Active coaches. The Coaching HabitDMK Coaching & AdvisoryNina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

September 21, 2025Episode 70349 min

Trauma-informed Coaching

Nick Kettles is an ICF Master Certified Coach and leadership development trainer with 18+ years of experience. He founded Phoenix Consulting to meet the bespoke training needs of organisations in a changing world. Over many years, regardless of the challenge, whether technological disruption, geopolitical changes, or a failed re-org, Nick noticed one variable remained the same, true sustainable organisational change is not possible unless leaders learn to lead from a foundation of deep self-acceptance and authenticity. Narm Training Thomas Hubl BooksCoaching Grief and LossCoaching Fear and Resistance: https://phoenixconsulting.eu.com/coaching-fear-and-resistance/Nina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In

September 8, 2025Episode 70442 min

Values-driven Leadership

Anita Barnick is a career coach with a deep understanding of human potential. She makes use of her successful career as a patient-focused engineering executive in Research & Development and Quality Engineering in the Medical Device industry. Anita helps clients achieve their purpose within a meaningful career. Anita shared her early years in the United States after moving here from India, what she learned about courage and advocacy from her parents, and how she was successful in collaborating across the business by focusing on shared purpose. https://www.stem2d.org/https://www.howwomenlead.com/Nina Simonds Coaching YouTube Channel InstagramLinked In