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Make Life Less Difficult
Lisa Tilstra
247 episodes
2 days ago
Today’s conversation is with Dr. Camille Neyhouser— a leadership coach, storyteller, and systems thinker with a deep curiosity for human transformation. Camille began her career with 15 years in the international nonprofit sector before transitioning into full-time coaching. She’s now spent the last five years guiding individuals, teams, and organizations through meaningful change — helping them navigate complexity with clarity and compassion. But Camille isn’t just a coach. She’s a weaver ...
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Today’s conversation is with Dr. Camille Neyhouser— a leadership coach, storyteller, and systems thinker with a deep curiosity for human transformation. Camille began her career with 15 years in the international nonprofit sector before transitioning into full-time coaching. She’s now spent the last five years guiding individuals, teams, and organizations through meaningful change — helping them navigate complexity with clarity and compassion. But Camille isn’t just a coach. She’s a weaver ...
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Relationships
Education,
Society & Culture,
Self-Improvement
Episodes (20/247)
Make Life Less Difficult
Camille Neyhouser with Russ Watts: Holding Space for Duality
Today’s conversation is with Dr. Camille Neyhouser— a leadership coach, storyteller, and systems thinker with a deep curiosity for human transformation. Camille began her career with 15 years in the international nonprofit sector before transitioning into full-time coaching. She’s now spent the last five years guiding individuals, teams, and organizations through meaningful change — helping them navigate complexity with clarity and compassion. But Camille isn’t just a coach. She’s a weaver ...
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2 days ago
59 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Carla Caturia: Making Life Less Difficult for Teens (and their Families)
My guest today is Carla Caturia. Carla helps high-performing teens cultivate emotional intelligence, perform at their peak performance, and shift their mindset to thrive academically, socially, and in extracurriculars without sacrificing their passions, while encouraging parents to promote independence and reduce stress and anxiety in their relationships with their teens. With over 20 years in academia, Dr. Carla has served as a middle school teacher, high school assistant principal, and coll...
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1 week ago
48 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Laura Baringer: Building a Business that You Love AND that's Financially and Emotionally Sustainable
My guest today is Laura Baringer. Laura is a returning guest, the Founder of Purpose Built by Laura, a Business Strategist, Coach, and so much more. Laura believes anyone can start a business — but you should love the business you build. She helps entrepreneurs and business owners grow businesses that are sustainable, profitable, and deeply aligned with their values. Before founding Purpose Built by Laura, Laura spent 15+ years leading nonprofit initiatives across gender, tech, and publ...
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1 week ago
1 hour

Make Life Less Difficult
Ben & Trudie Larrabee: The Artist and The Muse
My guests today are Ben and Trudie Larabee. Ben and Trudie are husband and wife, artist and muse, friends, lovers, and inspirations to so many! In our conversation we talk about what it means to be artist and muse. We hear stories of how they came to partner in their business, Ben Larabee Photography. And we hear about the journey behind their recently published book, Trudie: A Portrait. In this amazing collection, Ben Larrabee presents portraits of his wife, Trudie, ...
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 6 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Kyle Dietrich: Grounded Idealist - Catalyze the Future of Service
My guest today is Kyle Dietrich. Kyle is the founder of Grounded Idealist and co-organizer of the Coaching Collaborative, a powerful initiative supporting tens of thousands of displaced public servants with coaching, career transition support, and deep innovation work designed to empower changemakers to continue serving. Grounded Idealist has mobilized nearly 3,000 credentialed coaches and offered over 20,000 hours of pro bono coaching to workers in transition since February 2025. Kyle ...
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2 weeks ago
1 hour 9 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Sue Callaghan & Roberta Miceli: Designing Your (Work) Life
My guests today are Sue Callaghan and Roberta Miceli. Sue & Roberta are leadership coaches and facilitators of the program, Designing Your Life. Here's what they say about the Designing Your Life workshops: Do you ever find yourself 'stuck' at work? Feeling overwhelmed? Wanting more meaning from your life?​ This eight week Designing Your (Work) Life* small group helps you reclaim meaning, find joy in your life and "try stuff!" You will gain strategies and design thinking tools to ...
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1 month ago
1 hour 5 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Sharoya Ham: Un-Judging and Understanding Bipolar
My guest today is Sharoya Ham. Sharoya is a mother of three and wife of one! She's also a behavior change specialist and parent coach. She created Embrace Behavior Change to help families strengthen their relationships. Her goal is for parents to spend less time focusing on problems and more time enjoying precious moments with their children. In our conversation today, Sharoya generously shares her journey of learning she has Bipolar Disorder. She shares about the stor...
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1 month ago
1 hour 19 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Owen Marcus: Stronger Connections, Deeper Relationships
My guest today is Owen Marcus. Owen is the Co-Founder of Meld, a platform guiding high-performing men—founders, executives, creatives—through emotional development using somatic-based group work. With 50 years of experience in body-centered therapies and the original IP behind Everyman, Owen has helped thousands of men improve their relationships, emotional health, and overall well-being through community-based transformation. Meld has worked with professionals across industries—from Google X...
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1 month ago
1 hour 5 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Lisa Krim: Finding Clarity About the MOST Important Things
My guest today is Lisa Krim. Lisa is an executive coach who works with organizations and senior leaders to meet the challenges of leadership in complex landscapes across a range of sectors. She serves leaders who are committed to accelerating their own growth and navigating change, to help them meet individual goals and optimize their organization’s effectiveness. Before we jump into our conversation, I wanted to take a minute to let you know that our conversation today is a deep ...
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1 month ago
1 hour 8 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Jim Brulé: Transformational Storyteller and Death Doula
My guest today is Jim Brulé. Jim is a transformational storyteller, a death doula, a trauma chaplain, and so much more. This is the 4-year anniversary of the Make Life Less Difficult podcast, so I'm especially delighted to share this conversation since it's all about storytelling, which is the heart of this podcast. Jim defines transformational storytelling as the art of telling the right story in the right way, with an open heart, to heal the wounds within and between us. Learn more a...
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1 month ago
1 hour 10 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Dr. Sudha L. Kumar, MD: Caring Deeply for Women and their Health
My guest today is Dr. Sudha Kumar. I was honored to meet Dr. Kumar through the kind introduction of her husband, Vinay, who has also been a guest here on the podcast. Dr. Kumar is a Board-Certified Physician with over 30 years of experience managing acute and chronic conditions. At this point in her career, she focuses on helping her patients live healthier lives by making changes in their diet, balancing hormones, exercise, and adding natural supplements while minimizing the use ...
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2 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Chris Lebrun: Making Productivity More Enjoyable & Less Difficult
My guest today is Chris Lebrun. Chris is a productivity coach and the creator of the Wholistic Productivity podcast, and he has one goal: to empower you to be happier and more fulfilled by achieving your professional, personal, and purpose-driven goals. Chris's work around productivity came out of his personal experience, which is why he’s so passionate about helping others. He’s spent more than 25 years helping nonprofits expand their mission through philanthropy, marketing, and commun...
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2 months ago
57 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
John Schuhart: Making Supervision & Leadership Less Difficult
My guest today is John Schuhart. John is an executive leadership coach. He spent 17 years as an Intelligence Community Senior Executive, including: Chief Financial Officer of the National Geospatial-Intelligence AgencyDeputy Chief Financial Officer, Office of the Director of National IntelligenceDeputy Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Community Management StaffJohn is also the author of, New Supervisor Survival Guide, a book that explores the challenges of becomin...
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2 months ago
1 hour 2 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Doug Tilstra: Making Retirement & Other Transitions Less Difficult
My guest today is Doug Tilstra. As I introduce Doug, I’ve debated which title to share first and I think I’ll share that he’s my father-in-law! And I’m honored to share another podcast with a family member! Doug has more than 44 years of experience as a pastor, professor, mentor, coach, and university administrator. In the six years leading up to his retirement in 2023, Doug served as the vice president for Student Life at Walla Walla University. He managed the challe...
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2 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Jessica Vogt: Leading a Life that Feels Like Home
My guest today is Jessica Vogt. Jessica is a holistic leadership development coach who supports people with a foot in many worlds - culturally, professionally, or personally. She works with those who often feel like they belong everywhere and nowhere all at once. With warmth, empathy, curiosity, and a good measure of humour, Jess helps them reconnect with their voice, their worth, and their right to live life on their own terms. Drawing from her own experience as a Child of Deaf Adults (CODA)...
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3 months ago
1 hour 6 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Sava Riaskoff: The Inner Battle between Safety and Vulnerability
My guest today is Sava Riaskoff. Sava is a Performance & Wellbeing Coach, TEDxSpeaker, and Associate Professor at the ESADE MBA in Barcelona. Over the past seven years, he’s worked with leaders and next-gen talent through 1:1 coaching, in-company trainings, and immersive retreats in Europe and Patagonia. His work is deeply shaped by his own journey — from following a path that looked right on paper but left him quietly burning out, to being forced to face some of the hard questions we ten...
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3 months ago
1 hour 26 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Nicole Anderson: Seeking Freedom & Defining Success
My guest today is Nicole Anderson. Nicole is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in driving organizational success through human-centered change management. As a Partner at The Kaler Group, her unique ability to integrate people, processes, and technology has made her a pivotal force in enhancing organizational effectiveness and fostering positive culture and employee experiences. She is known for her strategic vision, innovative problem-solving skills, and a deep u...
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3 months ago
1 hour 3 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Linda Hoopes: Prosilience - Building Your Resilience for a Turbulent World
My guest today is Linda Hoopes. Linda helps organizations, teams, and individuals thrive in turbulence. She’s a writer and speaker on the topics of resilience, change, and employee well-being. Linda is a returning guest, having been on the podcast a couple of years ago with Kris Burbank, where they talked about their co-authored book, Embracing Another Normal: Resilience Stories and Strategies for Raising Children with Disabilities. Linda is back with me today to dig a littl...
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3 months ago
1 hour 12 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Elif Malmqvist: Understanding Neuroplasticity to Create more Happiness in Life
My guest today is Elif Malmqvist. Elif is an executive coach who is currently studying cognitive neuroscience so she can better understand the why behind human emotions and connections. Elif is passionate about helping people understand neuroplasticity, specifically around understanding negative thoughts or baggage from the past and how to create more positivity and happiness through better understanding of our brains. Elif and I met many years ago through Margareta Sjolund, who has al...
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3 months ago
57 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Jules Kuroda: The N8 Self... You are more than your Mind, Body, and Emotions
My guest today is Jules Kuroda. Jules’s life passion is helping people get past the ideas they have of themselves to unlock more fulfillment. Our minds are wonderful and dangerous tools, she says, depending on how we wield them. Jules loves complexity and strives for simplicity and believes the world is more interesting with our paradoxes explored. Her aim is to bring more joy and understanding into the world, and I believe our conversation today will bring you both joy and new understanding ...
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3 months ago
53 minutes

Make Life Less Difficult
Today’s conversation is with Dr. Camille Neyhouser— a leadership coach, storyteller, and systems thinker with a deep curiosity for human transformation. Camille began her career with 15 years in the international nonprofit sector before transitioning into full-time coaching. She’s now spent the last five years guiding individuals, teams, and organizations through meaningful change — helping them navigate complexity with clarity and compassion. But Camille isn’t just a coach. She’s a weaver ...