In this episode of Founders Future, with host Milan Kohut, we are joined by Cledra Gross, a seasoned life and business strategist. Cledra shares her powerful journey from a successful yet unfulfilling career in chemical engineering and pharmaceuticals to founding Next Level Life and Business. She opens up about the series of profound personal tragedies—a dissolved marriage, a tragic pregnancy loss, and job relocation—that became the catalyst for her discovery of life coaching. This pivotal moment revealed her true calling: to help high-achieving women navigate the often-overlooked emptiness that can follow after checking all the traditional boxes of success, guiding them to build fulfilling next chapters without sacrificing their well-being.

Cledra details her unique "concierge" coaching model, a one-on-one service designed to provide a safe, private space for prominent female leaders, executives, and physicians. She discusses the critical importance of this trusted partnership for women who, due to their positions, often lack a confidential outlet to be vulnerable. The conversation explores her organic lead generation strategies on LinkedIn and through podcast appearances, her premium pricing structure reflecting the deep, transformative nature of her work, and her ambitious yet balanced vision for the future: scaling her revenue significantly while intentionally maintaining a 20-hour work week to model the very fulfillment and balance she teaches.