Two Coaches in a Room

Faith Ngunjiri

Ever wondered how to navigate the twists and turns of midlife? From career pivots to love life, Two Coaches in a Room is your go-to source for practical insights and real talk. Ladies, midlife is your time to shine! Two Coaches in a Room guides and uplifts you through health, wealth, and everything in between. Meet the Podcasters Dr Faith Ngunjiri Dr. Faith is a leadership educator, mentor, author/researcher, speaker, and coach. She has been in the leadership education space for two decades and currently serves as a dissertation coach for doctoral candidates at Abilene Christian University, Troy University, and St. Mary of the Woods University in the United States. She also coaches students from other institutions as an independent advisor for both Master's and Doctoral research. Her last fulltime tenured position was at Concordia College, Minnesota where she served as associate professor of ethics and leadership, and director of the Lorentzsen Center for Faith and Work. The covid-19 pandemic was the pivot point that led her to move into full-time education entrepreneurial (edupreneur) space in the personal and leadership development arena. As a coach, Dr Faith serves leaders in education, nonprofits, business, and the public sector. She is a certified Genos Emotional Intelligence Practitioner and a certified Leadership Circle Profile practitioner, and she includes spiritual direction and trauma-informed coaching in her praxis. Dr Faith is a sought-after global speaker on leadership topics to both academic and practitioner communities. She is often called upon to inform, inspire and empower leaders around the world. As an author, she is widely published with several books and numerous academic articles; she is currently working on an Zeba Siaanoi Ms. Zeba Siaanoi is a passionate health advocate and communicator. She has worked with non-profits for over 15 years. She is skillled in campaigns, health promotion, strategic communications and public relations. This podcast project brings together her storytelling skills, her passion for all things justice, her work in health policy and advocacy and more recently, her certifications in Executive Coaching and Career Coaching. Zeba sees this platform as an opportunity to advocate for necessary changes, as a chance to better women's lives as they navigate health, career, relationships, through connecting them to apt resources. She is the penultimate cheerleader and loves to see her clients thrive , especially in their careers. It's no wonder that the majority of her coaching clients are women in public health who need to that extra nudge, towards their greatness! 

  1. MAY 6

    Becoming The Growth Igniter with Wamaitha Wamz Karanja

    Some guests leave a mark the first time. So you bring them back. Wamaitha Wamz Karanja was in our room at the close of last season, and we knew before this season was even fully formed that she had to return. A year later, she walks back in — and she has lived lifetimes in the interim. When we first met Wamz, she had just been orphaned. Her father had died in April 2024. Her mother, ninety days later, in July. She came to us already in the thick of grief, already doing the hard work of deconstructing everything she had held as true, and sitting with the question of what remained. Right after that first recording, on the 30th of March 2025, she was commissioned as a Care Pastor. A call she had been actively dodging. A call she ultimately said yes to. Oh — and then she published a book. Misunderstood: A 45-Year Journey to Me launched on November 15th, 2025, as part of the largest book launch in African history — 225 Kenyan authors, one extraordinary day. The book is exactly what the title promises: a woman finally meeting herself. Walking through pain, loss, grief, joy, and the long, unglamorous work of understanding that the parts of her that were labeled too much were actually the very things she needed most. The conversation goes everywhere, and all of it matters. We talk about portfolio careers, the freedom, and the terror of being multi-hyphenate in a world that wants one clean title. We talk about the unraveling, that formless, directionless in-between space where you are no longer who you were but not yet who you are becoming. We talk about giving yourself permission, not as a one-time grand gesture, but as a daily, quietly radical act. And somewhere in all of it, a new title emerges, not career igniter, as Wamz had been calling herself, but something truer: Growth Igniter. Whether she is helping someone rebuild their CV, debriefing trauma, shepherding a discipleship group, or sitting with a client who just needs to find the thread, the work is always the same. She is igniting growth. She went through the fire — every kind of it. And she came out smelling like a rose. Whatever you are carrying into your own reinvention today, this conversation will remind you that you have no excuse not to begin. Not because your pain doesn't count. But because it does — and it is trying to take you somewhere. Misunderstood is available through Wamz's socials and at her office along Jakaya Kikwete Road.

    49 min
  2. APR 29

    A Journey of Becoming with Kanyi Ohawa

    What does a 51-year-old creative, watercolor artist, fractional creative director, cancer kids advocate, and self-described human perceiver of joy have to teach us about reinvention? As it turns out, quite a lot. In our first guest conversation of the season, we sit down with Kanyi Ohawa, and the room comes alive. Kanyi is the kind of woman who walks in knowing exactly who she is and somehow makes you feel more like yourself in the process. She is a founder, a mentor, a mother of four (three of them now adults, which, she will tell you, is its own reinvention), and a woman in full possession of a voice she spent decades learning to use. We cover a lot of ground together. Menopause, not as an ending, but as the moment the filters fell away and a more unfiltered, authentic self stepped forward. Career reinvention, from graphic designer to fractional creative director, trading the execution for the thinking, the tools for the wisdom. Spiritual reinvention, the honest, sometimes unsettling work of moving from inherited religion to a faith that is truly your own. And parenting adult children, a terrain nobody prepares you for, and one that has quietly demanded its own transformation. Kanyi also works with children living with cancer through Hope for Cancer Kids, running an art therapy program that has taught her more about joy than almost anything else. Joy, she reminds us, is not something that happens to you when conditions are right. It is something you pursue, deliberately, daily, even in the liquefying. Yes, the liquefying. Kanyi brings us the image we didn't know we needed: that before a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, it does not simply transform — it dissolves. It becomes a formless, mushy thing. And that is what midlife reinvention often feels like from the inside. Messy. Ugly. Unglamorous. And completely necessary. Whether you are at the edge of your own becoming, deep in the dissolving, or just beginning to sense the wings, this conversation is for you. Stay curious. Be creative. Pursue joy.

    37 min
  3. APR 22

    Reinvention Reloaded - Looking Back, Looking Ahead

    A two-month break became a year. And as it turns out, that year had a great deal to say. In this season opener, we sit back down in the room — and the first order of business is honesty. Life was lifing. For both of us. And rather than gloss over the gap, we open it up and walk through it together. Faith spent the year deepening her professional practice — completing Impostor Syndrome-Informed Coach training and earning her Certified Leadership and Team Coach credential — while continuing to ask the questions that have defined her work for decades: What holds capable women back, and what does it take to break through? Zeba's year looked different but carried its own quiet weight. She leaned into her social impact work with her non-profit Tito Tikul, showed up for the sacred and demanding work of elder care, and supported one of the most moving milestones a daughter can witness — the launch of her father's autobiography, written by the man himself at the age of 86. Two coaches. One year. Many lessons. From there, we turn the conversation forward. Season 3 is called Reinvention Reloaded for a reason. Whether you are standing at the edge of a major life shift, in the unglamorous and disorienting middle of one, or just emerging on the other side wondering what comes next, this season was made with you in mind. We unpack what the season will explore: the themes, the types of guests coming to the room, and the kinds of stories and strategies we hope will serve women who are doing the courageous work of finding or reclaiming their place in this season of life. Pull up a chair. The room is open again.

    47 min

About

Ever wondered how to navigate the twists and turns of midlife? From career pivots to love life, Two Coaches in a Room is your go-to source for practical insights and real talk. Ladies, midlife is your time to shine! Two Coaches in a Room guides and uplifts you through health, wealth, and everything in between. Meet the Podcasters Dr Faith Ngunjiri Dr. Faith is a leadership educator, mentor, author/researcher, speaker, and coach. She has been in the leadership education space for two decades and currently serves as a dissertation coach for doctoral candidates at Abilene Christian University, Troy University, and St. Mary of the Woods University in the United States. She also coaches students from other institutions as an independent advisor for both Master's and Doctoral research. Her last fulltime tenured position was at Concordia College, Minnesota where she served as associate professor of ethics and leadership, and director of the Lorentzsen Center for Faith and Work. The covid-19 pandemic was the pivot point that led her to move into full-time education entrepreneurial (edupreneur) space in the personal and leadership development arena. As a coach, Dr Faith serves leaders in education, nonprofits, business, and the public sector. She is a certified Genos Emotional Intelligence Practitioner and a certified Leadership Circle Profile practitioner, and she includes spiritual direction and trauma-informed coaching in her praxis. Dr Faith is a sought-after global speaker on leadership topics to both academic and practitioner communities. She is often called upon to inform, inspire and empower leaders around the world. As an author, she is widely published with several books and numerous academic articles; she is currently working on an Zeba Siaanoi Ms. Zeba Siaanoi is a passionate health advocate and communicator. She has worked with non-profits for over 15 years. She is skillled in campaigns, health promotion, strategic communications and public relations. This podcast project brings together her storytelling skills, her passion for all things justice, her work in health policy and advocacy and more recently, her certifications in Executive Coaching and Career Coaching. Zeba sees this platform as an opportunity to advocate for necessary changes, as a chance to better women's lives as they navigate health, career, relationships, through connecting them to apt resources. She is the penultimate cheerleader and loves to see her clients thrive , especially in their careers. It's no wonder that the majority of her coaching clients are women in public health who need to that extra nudge, towards their greatness!