Erin and Matt Ingold
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Catholic discernment with practical coaching tools.
The Catholic Coaching Podcast treats spiritual growth as something that can be named, examined, and practiced. Matt and Erin connect Ignatian discernment, Catholic life coaching, and coaching tools to decisions, self-sabotage, influence, media narratives, and spiritual growth.
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The Catholic Coaching Podcast is a teaching-forward Catholic coaching show about the inner work behind decisions, freedom, influence, and mission. Matt and Erin bring a conversational rhythm to topics that could otherwise stay abstract. They talk through Ignatian discernment, peace, relief, distorted thinking, spiritual warfare, and virtuous influence with an eye toward what a person can actually do next. The show is not simply devotional. It is pastoral and practical, often turning a Catholic idea into a set of questions about time, money, motives, responsibility, and giving resources back to God. A series on discernment uses St. Ignatius of Loyola as a guide for moving out of indecision. The point is not speed for its own sake. The point is choosing with greater freedom, clearer facts, and a deeper sense of giving resources back to God. Other episodes examine how relief can imitate peace without lasting in the same way. That distinction becomes a tool for listeners who want to avoid making major choices from avoidance, fear, or short-term emotional pressure. The show is also willing to name mental habits bluntly. Cognitive distortions are treated as thinking errors that can feel protective while quietly reinforcing self-sabotage. Therapy language gets similar care, especially when words like trauma, abuse, anxiety, depression, and narcissism enter everyday conversation without enough precision. The tone stays warm, but it does not avoid correction. Episodes on media narratives and PSYOPs push further into spiritual warfare, attention, and the danger of simply parroting what a culture repeats. Those conversations can sound urgent, especially when politics, entertainment, mass media, and current events become part of the example set. Still, the central concern remains spiritual agency rather than outrage. Guest episodes add narrative and outside perspective, including Lisa Bernickmeyer on Walking with Purpose and Dr. Jerry Crete on clinical language. Matt and Erin leave room for those stories, then bring them back to Catholic coaching categories. The show fits listeners who want faith formation with tools, not vague encouragement. It is most compelling when it slows a tangled interior problem down enough to make responsibility and freedom feel possible.
Made for: For Catholics who want concrete help with discernment, mindset, influence, and spiritual growth. It especially suits listeners comfortable with coaching language framed by freedom and Catholic life coaching.
What sets it apart: The show translates Catholic formation into practical questions without flattening it into generic self-help. Its distinctive strength is moving between Ignatian discernment, coaching frameworks, psychology-adjacent language, and ordinary decisions.
When we encountered New Age philosophies in Life Coaching that ran counter to our Christian beliefs, we decided to take the best practices of Life Coaching and infuse them with the rich traditions of our Catholic Faith. We're Matt and Erin Ingold, Catholic coaches and the founders of Metanoia Catholic, our Catholic Life Coaching Company. Join us as we share practical coaching tips to being transformed by the renewing of your mind so that you can be free to discover and choose your greatest calling in life.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Matt and Erin turn Catholic discernment and mindset coaching into practical questions about marriage, parish life, attention and consequential decisions.
Matt and Erin make Catholic discernment sound like work that can be done at the kitchen table. Their conversational teaching connects mindset coaching with marriage, parish life, spiritual warfare and difficult decisions, always returning belief to the choices people make with…
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A grounded Catholic take on discernment that moves from hesitation to choice.
Matt and Erin keep the focus on the small pressures that shape a hard choice: facts, money, time, and what the decision asks of the person making it. That keeps the talk grounded. The Ignatian frame gives it a clear center without drifting into abstraction.
A practical Catholic take on protecting the mind when narratives get loud.
It frames freedom as something to guard, not merely praise. Matt and Erin define psyop in plain terms, keep circling back to the mind of Christ, and focus the discussion on what is shaping attention.
A practical look at coaching as parish support, not a quick fix.
Fr. Chris Schaffner comes across as a priest and pastor facing a practical question: how mindset coaching can fit into priestly life and parish care. Matt and Erin keep the conversation grounded, and Fr.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
MJ Dorian's solo deep dives trace genius through Blake, McQueen, da Vinci, and Jung's Red Book.
Two Methodist pastors and guests work through forgiveness, control, and grief in scripture.
Matt and Aaron of Metanoia Catholic frame indecision as a cost to growth in holiness, virtue, and relationship with the Lord.
The Catholic Coaching Podcast has Aaron coach Matt through his long-running resistance to creating a family and business budget.
Erin asks Matt "who do you need to be?" and he answers with the "childlike entrepreneur" identity, anchored in remembering God's provision.
Discernment gets practical, fast.
Matt and Erin Ingold discuss how to recognize and escape psychological operations (psyops) from a Catholic perspective, encouraging listeners to reclaim their God-given authority.
Matt and Erin open by naming freedom as the core theme.
This episode helps listeners discern between peace and relief in the context of Catholic discernment and God's will.
The hosts introduce a guest, Lisa Bernickmeyer, founder of Walking with Purpose, and discuss integrating Catholic faith with practical coaching.
Matt and Erin Ingold discuss cognitive distortions and self-sabotage from a Catholic perspective, offering practical coaching tips to renew the mind.
Matt and Erin Ingold discuss the distinction between clinical terms like abuse and trauma and their everyday use, with therapist Dr.
Matt and Erin Ingold continue their series on virtuous influencing, discussing how to help others change for good while honoring their freedom.
Matt and Erin Ingold discuss how active listening can combat loneliness from a Catholic perspective.
Catholic coaches discuss handling intrusive thoughts from a faith-based mindset coaching perspective.
Matt Ingold interviews Amanda and Jonathan Texera about managing money and wealth from a Catholic perspective, avoiding idolization of money.
Matt and Erin welcome Fr.
Catholic coaches Matt and Erin Ingold discuss how to overcome worry using Catholic teachings and practical coaching strategies.