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Wired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for EntrepreneursThe Invisible Forces That Hold Leaders Back with Janet Breitenbach | Episode 247EPISODE SUMMARY What's really holding your team back from having candid conversations, collaborating, and thriving? Today, Janet Breitenbach, executive coach to Fortune 500 leaders and creatives, pulls back the curtain on the invisible forces that prevent high-performing teams from reaching their potential. We talk about - Identifying blind spots to catalyze transformation - How to give & receive feedback that actually works - Creating a compelling vision that guides your choices EPISODE NOTES Janet Breitenbach is a Partner at Novus Global, an Executive Coac...
2025-12-0241 minWired For Success: Success Mindset, High-Performance Habits, and Business Success for EntrepreneursThe Invisible Forces That Hold Leaders Back with Janet Breitenbach | Episode 247EPISODE SUMMARY What's really holding your team back from having candid conversations, collaborating, and thriving? Today, Janet Breitenbach, executive coach to Fortune 500 leaders and creatives, pulls back the curtain on the invisible forces that prevent high-performing teams from reaching their potential. We talk about - Identifying blind spots to catalyze transformation - How to give & receive feedback that actually works - Creating a compelling vision that guides your choices EPISODE NOTES Janet Breitenbach is a Partner at Novus Global, an Executive Coac...
2025-12-0241 min
Beyond High PerformanceGreatest Hits: Breaking Limiting Beliefs to Achieve Scalable Growth, with Chantelle LittleIn this Greatest Hits episode of Beyond High Performance, Dan Leffelaar revisits his conversation with Chantelle Little — Founder and CEO of Tiller Digital — and her coach, Janet Breitenbach. Chantelle shares how coaching not only transformed her personally but also helped her company double in size in just one year.From rewriting limiting beliefs to redefining company culture, Chantelle opens up about the practices that fueled her growth as a leader. Together, she and Janet discuss how intentional hiring, ownership, and culture-building became catalysts for Tiller Digital’s rapid success. Chantelle also reveals the one powerful question Janet asked...
2025-09-0956 min
Beyond High PerformanceCoaching at the Edges: How Master Coaches Create the Highest ImpactIn this episode of On Coaching, host Joseph Thompson—VP of Innovation & Learning Design at The Meta Performance™ Institute and Partner at Novus Global—dives into the art of coaching at the edges. Joined by Janet Breitenbach, Partner at Novus Global and executive coach, and Nathan Neighbour, transformational trainer and founding pastor, they explore how master coaches create the highest impact.Whether you're a coach looking to elevate your practice or someone seeking transformative growth, this conversation will provide valuable insights into the strategies and mindset shifts that drive high-impact coaching.Inside the episode you’ll disco...
2025-07-2947 min
Lights On with Carl LentzThis is Why You are Breaking Promises to YourselfIn this episode, executive coach Janet Breitenbach reveals the integrity framework that's transforming high performers and why most people unknowingly sabotage their success. Discover the shocking difference between moral integrity and workability integrity, and learn why doing what you say you're going to do by when you say you're going to do it is the secret to unlocking your potential. Janet breaks down the survival needs keeping you stuck (look good, feel good, be right, be in control) and introduces the game-changing "Be, Do, Have" framework that flips traditional goal-setting on its head. Carl shares vulnerable stories about his...
2025-07-091h 00
Beyond High PerformanceMeta Performance™ Moment #7: How Honoring Your Word Can PROPEL You to New HeightsON COACHING | In this moment of On Coaching, Novus Global coaches David Gerber, C.J. Martindale, Janet Breitenbach, and Chris North dive into how integrity correlates with quality of life and work, the difference between honoring your word and keeping your word. They discuss training integrity in teams as well as the power and magnitude that is possible when your word is realized.The Beyond High Performance Podcast has officially been downloaded 100,000 times! We couldn’t have done it without you, our listeners… so thank you for continuing to tune in to go be...
2024-10-2905 min
Beyond High PerformanceHow to Create a Community that FUELS Your LifeON COACHING | In today’s episode of On Coaching, we want to create some energy around the topic of community, and we want to do that by offering up a few stories and tools on how to create and sustain a community that gives you life. Janet Breitenbach, Partner at Novus Global, is joined by three fellow Executive Coaches Laura Leffelaar, Andrew Simila and Laura Lyng to discuss how community can act as a catalyst for creating meta performance in your life. To start they take a deep dive into...
2024-08-131h 07
Beyond High PerformanceEnhancing LIFE and LEADERSHIP Through Coaching with Karen NabaviYOUR FINEST HOUR | On this episode of Your Finest Hour, Novus Global Partner and Executive Coach Janet Breitenbach is joined by Karen Nabavi and her coach, Lauren Goldasich, who happened to be a client of Janet's before becoming a coach herself. Karen is a Head Coach at an OrangeTheory Fitness Franchise in Madison, Mississippi. So what does it look like to have a coach, when you already are one? In today’s episode, we discuss both Lauren and Karen’s personal journeys with executive coaching, their belief that hiring a coach meant that someone was g...
2024-06-1841 min
Dr. Patty Ann PodcastWhy You Need A Coach In Business To Succeed with Jason Jaggard and Janet BreitenbachToday I'm joined by Jason Jaggard and Janet Breitenbach. This is a deep dive into the pivotal role of coaching in business leadership. Whether you're a seasoned executive or an aspiring entrepreneur, this episode unveils the transformative power of coaching, not just for your teams but, critically, for yourself. Powerful Takeaways: 🔥 Investment in Personal Development - One of the greatest oversights of senior leaders is neglecting their own leadership development. Janet and Jason share their insights into how leaders who prioritize their growth become exemplars, significantly easing the path for others to follow suit. 🔥...
2024-03-2858 min
Beyond High PerformanceTurn FEAR into a FUEL for GREATNESSON COACHING | On this episode of On Coaching, Joseph King Barkley, President of the Meta Performance Institute for Coaching and Director of Development at Novus Global is joined by fellow Novus Coaches Lee Tracie-Stockburger, Janet Breitenbach and Jon Roberts to discuss the big boogeyman, fear itself. The team explores their early relationships with the term, how it’s held them back in the past, and how they’ve learned to harness that fear into energy that can be used to connect to your vision, and propel you past those same barriers we’ve let it crea...
2024-01-3049 min
Beyond High PerformanceAgreements vs. Expectations: Why People Don't Do What You Want and What To Do About ItON COACHING | In this episode of On Coaching, Novus Global Partner and Executive Coach Janet Breitenbach is joined by her colleagues; Associate Partner Kristin Frade, Senior Partner and Executive Coach Jon Roberts, and Associate Partner Jean-Marie Jobs. Have you ever found yourself frustrated by something you wanted to happen not coming to fruition? When you step back from that frustration, have you ever become aware that you have expectations that haven’t been clearly communicated? If you’re curious to get out of that cycle, this will be a great episode for you. In today...
2023-09-2647 min
The Creative Entrepreneur BlueprintLearn how to create more by leveraging your natural abilities w -Novus Global - Part 1 of 2Bestselling book author, Jason Jaggard, and two of his colleagues/elite coaches (Janet Breitenbach and David Gerber) from Novus Global joined me in this first of a two episodes!
The overall message, going BEYOND high performance. Which for me was actually a phrase that trigged my overwhelmed and overworked soul.
But, what the team shared with me was different. If fact in order to work at that level, you have to learn how to soften into your innate abilities first. Not doing more for the hell of it, but from a place...
2023-08-1034 min
Most Compatible?The Four Archetypes of Dating - Most Compatible? with Janet BreitenbachEpisode 10!!! Today, relationship guru Janet Breitenbach stopped by Most Compatible? to discuss and breakdown the four animal tropes of dating - Hawk, Zebra, Crocodile, and Gazelle. She analyzes each's qualities and habits and the "medicine" to overcome their "instincts." Do you identify with any particular archetype, and how will you breakthrough its traits?Janet Breitenbach is a Partner at Novus Global, an Executive Coach & keynote speaker for teams and leaders. Her clients consist of leaders at Nike, C-suite executives at Fortune 500 companies, CEOs at rapidly growing startups, and award winning producers and writers in the entertainment industry.
2023-07-041h 01
Beyond High PerformanceUnleash your Potential through Increasing your OwnershipON COACHING | In this episode, Novus Global Partner and Executive Coach David Gerber is joined by Novus Global Partners and Executive Coaches Janet Breitenbach and Jon Roberts, as well as Novus Global Executive Coach Laura Groen. We ask the question, what’s the secret to achieving your goals faster?Let us introduce you to one of our most important core values - Ownership. Ownership is about taking control of your entire world, creating agency around your goals, and identifying and changing behaviors that are preventing you from reaching them. Don’t let yourself off the...
2023-06-2039 min
Beyond High PerformanceThe Art of Feedback: A Gift for GrowthON COACHING | In this episode, Chief People & Product Officer David Miller joins Coaches and Partners Janet Breitenbach and David Gerber, as well as Joseph Thompson - the Director of the Meta Performance Institute for Coaching to discuss our thoughts around feedback. Spoiler - they love it! Here’s the thing about feedback - it’s not as scary as it sounds. With a little bit of a mindset shift, the group explains why it is a necessary tool to achieve any kind of goal. We believe that the art of giving and receiving feedback is ab...
2023-03-0739 min
Beyond High PerformanceHow Coaching Helped a Creator + Influencer Grow his BBQ Channel on YouTube with Steve GowYOUR FINEST HOUR | In this episode of Your Finest Hour, Novus Global executive coaches Janet Breitenbach and Dr. Randy Poon interview Steve Gow and explore what coaching has taught him. Steve is a full-time influencer, creator, and host of his own YouTube channel, Smoke Trails BBQ. Over five months of coaching, Steve went from 30k viewers and an output of 1 video/month to 50k viewers and growing with a streamlined process that allows for 1 video/week, a Patreon account, as well as his founding of a YouTube mastermind group with other creators. His channel now has over 75K...
2022-12-2731 min
Beyond High PerformanceThe Power of LanguageON COACHING | Language has immense power and shapes the way people see the world and construct their reality. In this episode, David Gerber, Amanda Jaggard, and Janet Breitenbach discuss shifting internal and external negative talk in the context of dating, career, parenting, and life. They explore how using descriptive versus generative language can lead to self-sabotage and invite listeners to consider what language/narrative will be more resourceful for where they want to go.Connect with Amanda, David, and Janet:Instagram@Janet.Breitenbach @AmandaJaggard_ @DavidGerberNovus Global is a tribe of...
2022-11-1542 min
The Morey Myles ShowPower Of Language Patterns With Performance Coach Janet BreitenbachPower Of Language Patterns With Performance Coach Janet Breitenbach: Another great episode here for young athletes to be able to learn and improve off the field. One of the best things I did early on in my business is invest into myself and getting coaches. This has helped immensely in being able to stay consistent and continue to build a better and better business. I always say it is something that I truly wish I would have started doing earlier. Here is a great interview with my Coach and some ways to contact her below.Email: janet...
2022-06-2750 min
A Talk in the AtticNOVUS GLOBAL: Going Beyond High PerformanceKirk is joined by high-performance coaches Jason Jaggard (Founding Partner, CEO), Janet Breitenbach (Partner, Director, Coach), and Dan Leffelaar (Partner, Sr. Director, Coach), who school the host in all things related to reaching his full potential. Learn about your intuitive fence, asking for permission, showing up as you're needed, and holding the tension between empathy and improvement. This talk is an illuminating conversation that will make even the most passive listener reconsider their life goals. Original song "Spaced Out" by Kirk Ross (under the Manabu music project). NOVUS GLOBALATTIC LINKSSupport...
2022-06-101h 17
Beyond High PerformanceHonoring Your Word, Recognizing Blindspots + the Financial Costs of Lacking IntegrityON COACHING | High integrity is doing what you say you're going to. It is the greatest form of self-care. Listen to Novus Global coaches David Gerber, C.J. Martindale, Janet Breitenbach and Chris North discuss how integrity correlates with quality of life and work, the difference between honoring your word and keeping your word, training integrity in teams, and the power and magnitude that is possible when your word is realized. They offer specific tips for increasing integrity, including implementing regular integrity checks, identifying shame and the blindspots that come with it, and evaluating the concrete financial costs you...
2022-03-0842 min
This Moved MeJanet Breitenbach: How to Think Like a MillionaireDo you know what is holding you back from making a million dollars from becoming all that you possibly can be? Today, what is moving me is this conversation that I got to have with Janet Breitenbach. Janet is an executive coach and the director of the Meta Performance Institute for Coaching at Novus Global. It is her drive for mastery that has her working with fortune 500 executives, founders, creatives of all types - she's living it. She has an incredible story herself about moving beyond what we think is possible and what we think we are ca...
2021-10-2741 min
Values & VinoSo I got an Executive Coach with Janet Breitenbach of Novus GlobalJanet Breitenbach is a Partner, Executive Coach and Director of The Meta Performance Institute for Coaching at Novus Global. She’s also a firebrand for limitless growth. It’s her drive for mastery that draws in Fortune 500 executives, founders and creatives. And it’s her ability to disrupt assumptions that keeps them coming back.Follow Janet on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janet.breitenbach/Listen to Novus Global’s Latest Podcast Episode: https://beyondhighperformance.transistor.fm/subscribeThis episode’s featured wine is a 2017 Cabernet Sauvignon from Provenance Vineyards out of Napa Valle...
2021-09-301h 08
Beyond High PerformanceIdentifying What Motivates You the Most with the 5i AssessmentON COACHING | The 5i Motivation Assessment was designed to help individuals discover their most salient source of motivation: Income, Impact, Integrity, Intimacy, Independence. Novus Global coaches Jason Jaggard, Janet Breitenbach, Dan Leffelaar, and Rosanna Tomiuk discuss how the assessment was created, how to apply its results to your life, and the ways the five key motivators interact with each other. The coaches share advice for people who don’t quite know what they’re motivated by and discuss how to create synergy among as many motivators as possible to create optimal fulfillment in life.REFERENCED IN THIS EPIS...
2021-09-071h 02
Beyond High PerformanceNaming Your Limiting Beliefs to Create Scalable Results, with Chantelle LittleYOUR FINEST HOUR | Tiller Digital Founder and CEO, Chantelle Little, shares the salient impact being coached had on both her and her company, not the least of which was doubling her company’s size in one year. Dan Leffelaar interviews Chantelle and her coach, Janet Breitenbach, and discuss the power that writing out her limiting beliefs, focusing on company culture, and testing specifically for growth and ownership in the hiring process had on Chantelle’s business. Chantelle shares the one question that Janet asked her often that had the greatest impact on her growth.Novus Global is a tr...
2021-08-1756 min
Beyond High PerformanceChoosing Growth Over ComfortON COACHING | David Gerber, Dan Leffelaar, Janet Breitenbach and Johan Martinez-Khalilian lead a powerful conversation on growth. Drawing from personal examples, they share the impact of their own radical commitment to growth as coaches, and illustrate the fortitude, courage, and discipline required to avoid the allure of complacency. Each coach discusses their hypothesis for why it’s rare to find communities truly committed to growth over comfort. Spoken in the same tone of love and fierce advocacy with which they color their life and serve their clients, you will hear how growth is the best—and possibly only—way to cre...
2021-06-211h 02
Beyond High PerformanceCoaches Coaching CoachesON COACHING | Laura Leffelaar, Emily Dickinson, Janet Breitenbach, and Amanda Jaggard discuss how important it is for coaches to have their own coach. In the same way you wouldn’t want to go to a doctor who doesn’t have a doctor, the coaches illustrate how instrumental it is for coaches to be coached. Drawing from specific examples of what they’re learning right now, these elite coaches discuss coaching fatigue, what it means to be “slippery”, and the importance of building your muscles not only as a coach, but particularly as a client. Novus Global is a tribe of...
2021-06-1755 min
Beyond High PerformanceGetting More Done in Less Time with Greater SatisfactionON COACHING | How do you get more done in less time, with more enjoyment and satisfaction? David Gerber, Dan Leffelaar, Janet Breitenbach, and Amanda Jaggard each share examples of clients who used coaching to do just that, despite inordinate limitations on time, resources, clarity, or imagination for what’s possible. They discuss our addiction to productivity, the glamorization of busyness, and how to upgrade the questions we ask ourselves. With unflinching honesty and a desire for leaders to expand their lives in powerful ways, we learn how coaching is a space to clarify what matters most to you....
2021-06-1650 min
Beyond High PerformanceGrowth, Personal Trainers + Asking the Right Questions (ON COACHING Pt. 2)ON COACHING | In part two of the inaugural episode of On Coaching, Jason Jaggard, Janet Breitenbach, David Gerber, and Amanda Jaggard discuss the impact coaching has had on their lives—at the very beginning and in their lives today. They detail the importance of having a beginner’s mindset to grow, and how as coaches, they’re not magicians, but rather, personal trainers. They discuss and share some terms and frameworks that have been helpful in creating fruitful client-coach relationships. We learn the potency of the question: In what ways are you conning me? And the traction that comes with c...
2021-06-1647 min
Beyond High PerformanceHow To Be An Executive Coach + Gritty Beginnings (ON COACHING Pt. 1)ON COACHING | Welcome to the inaugural episode of On Coaching! In Pt. 1 of this episode, Jason Jaggard, Janet Breitenbach, David Gerber, and Amanda Jaggard discuss the unique paths that led each of them to coaching, describing their gritty beginnings with the levity and clarity of hindsight. They discuss which attributes make for a good coach (and a bad one), the common misconceptions associated with a career in coaching, and their relentless pursuit of mastery in their craft.Novus Global is a tribe of elite executive coaches who work with Fortune 500 Companies, Professional Athletes, World Renowned Artists and...
2021-06-1634 min