The Amplified Life Podcast with Carmen Ohling

Carmen Ohling

Hey there, I'm Carmen - a life and leadership coach, founder of the Amplified Life Company, and keynote speaker. Our work is dedicated to training, leading, and supporting individuals and corporate teams to high-performing levels of personal and professional excellence so that they can experience life to the fullest. On the show, we talk about different facets of life and leadership including mindset, health, communication, high-performance habits, relationships, and more- always leaving you with something you can take action on in your life and business right away. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts!

  1. 6d ago

    196: It's Time to Take Your Seat at the Table. Here's How.

    Episode Summary Last month, Carmen sat down at a CEO-only table she visits every month when she's home in Miami. This time, she noticed something: zero women at the table. Not a one-off. She looked back, and the pattern held every month before it. So she went looking for the data. What she found is both encouraging and hard to sit with. In this episode, Carmen walks through where women in leadership actually stand right now, and the three things she's watched women do differently on their way to earning and keeping a seat at the table. What You'll Learn Why a record 55 women now lead Fortune 500 companies, and why that number still means 89 out of 100 of the biggest companies in America are run by men What the newest McKinsey and LeanIn.org research shows about women getting squeezed out at every rung of the corporate ladder, starting from the very first promotion Why women are landing C-suite titles, just not the ones with the real power and the real pay Three things Carmen has watched women do differently on their way to the table, and while they're sitting in the seat A Note for the Men Listening Carmen also speaks directly to the men in the audience about affinity bias, the pull we all feel toward people who remind us of ourselves, and why the fix isn't guilt. It's a pause. Join Carmen Live Carmen is the keynote speaker at the Women's Leadership Breakfast in Miami on September 22nd, where she'll be speaking on "Secure Your Seat at the Table." 👉 Reserve your seat here Connect The Amplified Life Company Website: amplifiedlifecompany.com LinkedIn: the-amplified-life-company Instagram: @theamplifiedlifecompany Carmen Ohling Website: carmenohling.com LinkedIn: carmen-ohling Instagram: @carmenohling Come find Carmen on LinkedIn or Instagram and share your take on this episode. Be The One

  2. Aug 10

    195: What Else Could This Mean? with Lucas Sherraden

    What if the thing keeping you trapped isn't your circumstances; it's your success? In this episode, I sit down with Lucas Sherraden, author of The Uncaged Leader, and the conversation goes deep fast. Lucas spent over two decades as a pastor flying 125,000 miles a year preaching around the world before walking away from the pulpit to build one of the most successful real estate careers in the country, eventually becoming a trusted advisor to Gary Keller, founder of Keller Williams. Today he's a leadership coach, keynote speaker, and host of the Built HOW podcast with over a quarter-million downloads. His debut book, The Uncaged Leader, releases August 2026, and every dollar of profit goes to fight human trafficking. We talk about the invisible cage that high-achieving leaders build around themselves, why performance-based identity is one of the most dangerous traps in business, and the single question that can interrupt your reactive patterns in real time: "What else could this mean?" Lucas also opens up about why curiosity, not strategy, is the real differentiator between leaders who are free and leaders who are just busy, and why most of us are running our businesses on belief systems we formed before the age of ten. In This Episode: What "The Hidden Cage" actually looks like and why it's built from success, not failure The 5 O'Clock Formula: The four-step process to interrupt reactive thinking before it costs you Why curiosity is the antidote to judgment and how most leaders don't realize they're being judgmental The difference between a leader driven by passion and one driven by fear What invisible programming is and where it comes from How to redefine success without abandoning your ambition Lucas's story: from preaching crusades to real estate, and why the canvas just got bigger Connect with Lucas Sherraden: Order The Uncaged Leader Lucas on Instagram Lucas on LinkedIn Connect online Connect with Carmen & The Amplified Life Company: Carmen's Instagram Carmen's LinkedIn The Amplified Life Company's Website

  3. Jun 15 ·  Video

    193: The Roadmap to High Performance: 5 Pillars Every Leader Needs

    High performance is not about doing more. It is not about being the busiest person in the room or the most decorated person on stage. After two decades of personal development work and executive coaching, Carmen Ohling has built a five-pillar roadmap to true high performance, and it starts with something most ambitious leaders skip entirely. In this episode of The Amplified Life Podcast, Carmen shares the framework she uses with CEOs and leadership teams, alongside the deeply personal stories of what it cost her before she learned it, including a corporate ladder she climbed all the way to the top, only to realize it was leaning against the wrong wall. 💡 What you will learn: • Why capacity, not strategy, is the true foundation of high performance leadership • How to build clarity so strong that you can filter out noise and lead with intention • Why character is the leadership competency no one is developing and everyone needs • The role of strategic relationships in accelerating your growth as a leader • How embracing challenge is what separates high performers from high achievers 📥 Download the Leader Guide for the full list of grounding practices, character traits, and reflection tools referenced in this episode: amplifiedlifecompany.myflodesk.com/leaderguide193 🤝 Connect with Carmen & The Amplified Life Company: Carmen's Instagram Carmen's LinkedIn The Amplified Life Company's Website   _

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Hey there, I'm Carmen - a life and leadership coach, founder of the Amplified Life Company, and keynote speaker. Our work is dedicated to training, leading, and supporting individuals and corporate teams to high-performing levels of personal and professional excellence so that they can experience life to the fullest. On the show, we talk about different facets of life and leadership including mindset, health, communication, high-performance habits, relationships, and more- always leaving you with something you can take action on in your life and business right away. Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts!