Modern Leadership Coaching
Modern Leadership Coaching is where Marc and Teresa Hildebrand, a 20-year LAPD Sergeant and a former UCLA Health executive, help driven people get out of their own way and reach their next level.
Real conversations about what actually holds people back, how to get your own thinking working for you instead of against you, and how to show up as who you know you can be in your business, your family, and your life.
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Recent Episodes
July 6, 2026
What If This Is the Thing That Changes Everything
Send us Fan Mail The most dangerous mindset traps are not the loud, dark thoughts. They are the ones that sound like wisdom. Marc and Teresa unpack how a “reasonable” definition of success can quietly poison your energy, distort your decisions, and make you hold back from the very people you want to serve, even when your intentions are good. If you care about self-coaching, modern leadership, and building a business without losing your integrity, this conversation hits the nerve in the best w...
July 3, 2026
Leading Yourself When you Really Want to Grow
Send us Fan Mail If you keep chasing the perfect plan but still feel stuck, the issue might not be your strategy at all. We pull together the biggest lessons from our recent run of conversations and get brutally clear on what we see again and again in coaching: people come to us asking for tactics, but the real problem is the mindset and identity running underneath the behaviour. When your internal operating system is outdated, you can work hard, stay busy, and still get the same results.&nbs...
July 1, 2026
Leading Yourself Through the Hard Seasons
Send us Fan Mail Hard seasons don’t just hurt, they rewrite your story if you let them. When life throws a diagnosis, a job loss, family stress, or any curveball that feels out of your control, it’s easy to decide it “ruined everything” and shut down the parts of life you care about most: your relationships, your health, your goals, your business. We get real about the mental habits that keep people stuck, especially the sneaky “I can’t because…” thoughts that sound responsible but actually ...
June 29, 2026
Leading Yourself to Stronger Relationships
Send us Fan Mail The fastest way to feel distant from your partner is to quietly accept the story that distance is “normal.” We go straight at that belief and the subtle habits it creates: keeping an internal scoreboard, waiting for the other person to change first, and avoiding the conversations that could actually bring you closer. We unpack what we call the “and life” mindset, where you stop treating family as the thing you get to after business, and start building a life where ambition a...
June 26, 2026
Leading Yourself Through Money and Business
Send us Fan Mail You can have the perfect offer, the perfect niche, and a perfectly fine strategy and still stay stuck at the same income level. The real issue is rarely tactics. It’s the thought you carry into the moment where you have to ask, invite, pitch, and name a price. If selling secretly feels like taking, your brain will protect you by avoiding the very conversations that grow your business. We get honest about the money shame we hear from heart-centred coaches all the time: “I wan...
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June 24, 2026
Leading Yourself to Lasting Health
Send us Fan Mail You can know exactly what to do for your health and still feel stuck when life gets loud. We open this bonus series by getting brutally honest about why goals like weight loss, more energy, healthier eating, and better longevity plans break down in the real world, not because you are lazy, but because the story in your head keeps pulling you back to the starting line. We talk about the hidden belief that derails more progress than any diet mistake: the idea that there’s a “r...
June 22, 2026
How to Change a Habit That Every Program and Book Has Missed
Send us Fan Mail Your phone rings during family time and suddenly the room changes. The conversation stops, your attention splits, and you can feel the distance grow in real time. We start with a client story that lands like a punch to the chest: his kid goes quiet because they assume he will take the call. That single moment reveals what most “break the habit” plans miss, and why putting your phone away is not a technical problem you solve with an app, a timer, or sheer discipline. We dig i...
June 15, 2026
How to Show Up as Your Best Self When the Pressure Is On
Send us Fan Mail There’s a calm, grounded version of you that you trust and then there’s the version that shows up when pressure hits and you don’t even feel like you chose it. We’re Marc and Teresa, and we’re digging into why that happens, how your brain grabs familiar stories under stress, and how to close the gap between who you are in comfort and who you want to be when it counts. We talk about how identity labels trap us (“I’m just an angry person”), why reactions are often a perspectiv...
June 8, 2026
How to Break the Pattern You've Been Trying to Fix for Years
Send us Fan Mail You can be the kind of person who runs toward the work and still feel trapped in the same loop. That tension is what we unpack here: why smart, driven leaders and coaches can read the books, hire the mentors, try the strategies, and still hit the same wall. When effort doesn’t produce change, it usually isn’t a willpower problem. It’s a “wrong level” problem. We dig into the difference between technical problems (what to do) and adaptive problems (how you think, what you bel...
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June 1, 2026
How to Stop the Spiral Before It Takes Over
Send us Fan Mail You can feel it starting: a comment lands wrong, your chest tightens, your mind races, and even while you’re watching it happen you still can’t stop the explosion. Marc unpacks why that experience isn’t a character flaw and isn’t a lack of self-awareness. It’s your brain doing what it was trained to do over years: follow the strongest, most familiar pathway to keep you safe, even when it costs you connection, confidence, and leadership presence. We walk through what th...
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