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In this rare and deeply honest conversation, we sit down with Jeff Salzenstein — former top-100 tennis player turned executive performance coach — for a soulful exploration of identity, grief, resilience, and the emotional reckoning that comes when success is no longer the point.

Jeff opens up about the moment he knew it was time to leave tennis, the trauma that called him into coaching, and the recent experiences that are humbling him back into his body — and back into his heart. Together, we unpack what it means to be truly seen, the edges of emotional risk that no one talks about, and the surprising places the inner rebel shows up in midlife.

This one’s for the over-functioners, the fixers, the seekers, and the late bloomers. For anyone wondering if it’s too late to change your story — or be truly seen in the one you’re already living.

Topics:

• Redefining courage and navigating fear
• Navigating family illness, grief, and guilt as a high-functioning adult
• Masculinity, vulnerability, and learning to feel
• Healing generational wounds and facing mortality
• The uncomfortable "edges" that call us into expansion
• The shift from “doing” to “being”
• Community, connection, and being truly seen
• Learning to let others in after a lifetime of self-reliance
• What it means to live from presence—not performance

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