The Catholic Coaching Podcast

Welcome back to The Catholic Coaching Podcast with Matt and Erin! 

In this episode, we’re continuing our live demonstration series on integrating temperaments with mindset coaching! Matt takes the coach’s chair to walk Erin through a live, unscripted Causal Temperament & Mindset Coaching session focused on her secondary temperament: the Phlegmatic.

If you’ve ever struggled with sticking to h...

Welcome back to The Catholic Coaching Podcast with Matt and Erin! 

In this episode, we’re continuing our live demonstration series on integrating temperaments with mindset coaching! Erin takes the coach’s chair to walk Matt—our "token Melancholic" for the day—through a live, unscripted Causal Temperament & Mindset Coaching session.

If you’ve ever found yourself paralyzed by perfe...

Welcome back to The Catholic Coaching Podcast with Matt and Erin! 

In this episode, we’re flipping the script! Matt takes the coach’s chair to walk Erin through a live, unscripted Causal Temperament & Mindset Coaching session. 

If you’ve ever struggled with staying consistent with your health goals, giving into late-night indulgence, or feeling like your temperament’s "shadow side...

Welcome back to The Catholic Coaching Podcast with Matt and Erin! 

In this episode, we are pulling back the curtain on an approach to coaching temperaments that we have been refining over the last five years: combining Temperament Insights with Mindset Coaching.

Instead of staying on the "behavioral" line or boxing yourself into a temperament, we dive into Causal Temperament Coaching—uncovering the underlyi...

Welcome back to The Catholic Coaching Podcast with Matt and Erin! In Episode 305, we are continuing our sub-series on how different temperaments navigate healthy, holy conflict resolution. Today, we are putting the "Peaceful Phlegmatic" in the hot seat. 

Have you ever walked away from a difficult conversation feeling relieved that it's over, only to realize later that you never actually said what you needed to say? ...

Welcome back to The Catholic Coaching Podcast with Matt and Erin! In Episode 304, we are continuing our sub-series on how different temperaments navigate healthy, holy conflict resolution using the PACE Framework (Pause, Assume Goodwill, Clarify, Engage).

Today, we are shifting into the introverted temperaments to focus on the Melancholic.

Melancholics have a beautiful, rich interior life, but when it comes to conflic...

Do you rush to "kiss and make up" after a fight just to keep the peace, only to find the same argument exploding a week later? If you hate the emotional heaviness of conflict and prefer to brush past the pain to get back to the good vibes, you might be dealing with the unique wiring of a Sanguine temperament.

Welcome back to The Catholic Coaching Podcast with Matt and Erin! In Episode 303, we are continuing our sub-series on...

Do you step into an argument determined to win, only to leave the other person completely silent while the root problem remains entirely unresolved? If you find yourself winning imaginary arguments in your head before a hard conversation even begins, you might be dealing with the unique wiring of a Choleric temperament.

Welcome back to The Catholic Coaching Podcast with Matt and Erin! In Episode 302, we are kicking off a bra...

Have you ever used the "Ostrich Approach" to a difficult relationship, hid from a hard conversation, and ended up winning 50 different imaginary arguments inside your own head?

Welcome back to The Catholic Coaching Podcast! In Episode 301, Matt and Erin are diving deeper into our conflict resolution series. Last week, we introduced the PACE framework (Pause, Assume Goodwill, Clarify, Engage). But the big question is: What ac...

Have you ever walked away from a heated argument filled with regret, wishing you had handled things differently? Or maybe you’re someone who avoids conflict entirely, hoping it will just magically disappear?

Welcome back to The Catholic Coaching Podcast! In this episode, Matt and Erin kick off an intensive series on healthy, holy conflict resolution. They introduce a powerful 4-part framework called PACE:

Pause:...

Have you ever felt like your fitness goals are walking a tightrope between vanity on one side and neglecting your health on the other?

In this episode of The Catholic Coaching Podcast, Matt sits down with Chase Crouse, co-founder of HiPurO Fit, to uncover a Theology of the Body-inspired approach to fitness and nutrition. Moving past secular fitness culture's obsession with endless "optimization" and look-at-me aesthetics, Ch...

Why are 85% to 90% of Catholic kids walking away from the Church as adults—and what are the rare 15% of successful families doing differently? 

In this episode of The Catholic Coaching Podcast, Matt sits down with Catholic psychologist, author, and EWTN radio host Dr. Greg Popcak to look at the groundbreaking research surrounding the "Liturgy of Domestic Church Life." 

If you've ever felt like your par...

Have you ever found yourself stuck in a loop—doing the exact things you want to stop doing, and failing to start the habits you actually want to build?

In this final episode of our Discernment Series on the Catholic Coaching Podcast, Matt and Erin dive into the practical neuroscience, behavioral psychology, and Catholic theology (hello, St. Thomas Aquinas!) behind how to actually change and redirect your desires.

How do you know if a desire is really from God?

In this episode of the Catholic Coaching Podcast, Matt and Erin continue their discernment series by diving into one of the most important spiritual questions: how to discern your desires.

After exploring the idea that desires themselves are not bad, this episode walks through practical ways to evaluate where your desires are coming from, what emotional tone is fueling t...

Can you actually change your desires?

In this episode of the Catholic Coaching Podcast, Matt and Erin continue their discernment series by exploring the role of desire in the spiritual life.

Many Catholics feel suspicious of desire, as if wanting something automatically means it is selfish, disordered, or opposed to God’s will. But desire itself is not the enemy. Unexplored desire is often what keeps us stuck.

How do you know if something you receive in prayer is actually from God?

In this episode of the Catholic Coaching Podcast, Matt and Erin continue their discernment series by walking through how to test spiritual promptings, private revelations, interior movements, and words received in prayer.

Building on the previous episode about prayer language, they explain how to bring what you receive back into dialogue with God...

Have you ever felt like God speaks to everyone… except you?

In this episode of the Catholic Coaching Podcast, we break down how to actually hear God’s voice in prayer — in a way that’s simple, practical, and grounded in Catholic teaching.

This is Part 1 of our series on discernment:
👉 First, you need to learn how to hear God
👉 Then, you can learn how to discern His voice

We intr...

Are you stuck in the “miserable maybes”?

In this episode of the Catholic Coaching Podcast, we continue our discernment series by making St. Ignatius of Loyola’s discernment process practical for real life decisions.

Whether you’re discerning:
•a career change
•your college major
•a relationship
•vocation
•a big next step in life
this episode will help you move from confusion t...

If you’ve ever asked, “What is God’s will for my life?” or “How do I discern God’s voice from my own?” this episode is for you.

In this episode of the Catholic Coaching Podcast, Matt and Erin begin a new series on Catholic discernment and walk through the foundations of how discernment actually works. Using the wisdom of St. Ignatius of Loyola, they explain the three modes of discern...