I help your audience build businesses from the inside out - where strategy meets soul, and success feels like home.
My experience on Survivor changed the trajectory of my life. I wanted to learn how it changed my fellow castmates over the years. I hosted 2 seasons of Road to Reality where I interviewed over 20 castaways including Kelley Wentworth, Adam Klein, Domenick Abbate, Wendell Holland, Chrissy Hofbeck and more… Listen here.
Looking for a guest who speaks to the soul of entrepreneurship? Or interested in listening to Kellyn on her evergreen podcast Road to Reality?
Podcasting & Speaking
Wayfinder Certified Life Coach
Business Strategist
Podcast Host
MBA, MPH
Kellyn isn't here to preach hustle culture or regurgitate the same "10 Steps to Six Figures" advice your audience has heard a hundred times.
She's here to challenge the status quo. She’s here to help creative entrepreneurs, coaches, and heart-led business owners stop building from the outside in and start designing work that actually fits their lives.
With 14+ years of corporate strategy experience (including roles advising CEOs and leading operations in tech and PE), an MBA, an MPH, and certification in Martha Beck's Wayfinder Life Coach Training, Kellyn brings both the boardroom and the heart room to every conversation.
Oh, and she's also a Survivor contestant (CBS, Ghost Island) — so she knows a thing or two about resilience, adaptability, and trusting yourself when the stakes are high.
Meet Kellyn Bechtold
Podcast Guest & Creative Entrepreneurship Coach
Pod Friends
Conversations Worth Your While
She's lived the transformation she teaches.
From lying on a bathroom floor mid-acquisition deal, realizing she couldn't continue working out of integrity, to building a coaching practice that honors her multifaceted self, Kellyn walks the walk.
She makes the complex feel simple.
Whether she's breaking down business strategy, living in integrity, or the nervous system's role in decision-making, Kellyn has a gift for clarity. She helps people see what's holding them back and how to move forward without overwhelm.
She creates permission.
In a world that tells entrepreneurs to niche down, scale fast, and never slow down, Kellyn gives people permission to build differently. To trust themselves. To prioritize their lives alongside their businesses.
Your audience doesn't have to choose between being spiritual and strategic, profitable and peaceful, ambitious and aligned. Kellyn shows them how to hold it all.
She speaks the language of both/and, not either/or
Why Kellyn Resonates with Audiences
Unconventional Wisdom
What Survivor taught me about resilience and adaptability, why a “messy” path is a hidden advantage, and how to help clients transform, not just transact.
The Inner Journey of Entrepreneurship
Leaving corporate, trusting yourself through uncertainty, and understanding the nervous system’s role in creativity and growth.
Redefining Success
Moving from self-discipline to self-discovery; designing sustainable work that supports your life instead of consuming it.
Building a Business from the Inside Out
How to grow with integrity: values-based decision-making, aligned offers, and why “niching down for the sake of niching down” often does more harm than good.
Where business meets the inner world
How Kellyn can show up for your audience
Podcast Guest
Kellyn brings warmth, wisdom, and real talk to long-form conversations. She's comfortable going deep and sharing vulnerably while offering actionable insights your listeners can use immediately.
Workshop or Training Facilitator
Whether virtual or in-person, Kellyn designs experiences that blend teaching, reflection, and implementation. Participants leave with clarity, tools, and a plan they can actually follow.
Keynote or Panel Speaker
Kellyn captivates audiences with storytelling, humor, and hard-won wisdom. She's equally comfortable delivering a solo keynote or joining a panel discussion on entrepreneurship, leadership, or personal transformation.
Fireside Chat or Interview
For more intimate settings, Kellyn excels in conversational formats where she can respond to audience questions and tailor her insights to the group's needs.
Listen to Road to Reality
The podcast where Kellyn explores what it means to build a real life and a real business
On Road to Reality, Kellyn Bechtold (Survivor: Ghost Island) sits down with fellow Survivor alumni to talk about life after the game — the reinventions, lessons, and healing that come once the cameras stop rolling. Each episode goes beyond strategy and blindsides to explore the real human stories of resilience, identity, and what it means to return to “reality” after one of the most intense experiences of your life.
- Rebuilding life and purpose after Survivor
- The emotional and psychological impact of the game
- Finding meaning, direction, and joy beyond the spotlight
- How Survivor continues to shape who players become
If you love Survivor, storytelling, and honest conversations about transformation, you’ll feel right at home here.
The Art of Presence
"Kellyn just gets it. She has this rare ability to hold both the strategic and the soulful at the same time. Talking with her feels like coming home to yourself."
Creative Incites
"I thought I needed someone to whip me into shape. What I actually needed was someone to help me see what was already working and let go of what wasn't. Kellyn has a genius for helping people recognize and release what's not necessary."
Wayfinder Life Coach
"Kellyn's years-long experience in both business and coaching made me feel like she could be trusted to hold the space I needed. She picked up on everything, didn't let me get lost in my stories, and offered intuitive bits that were really enlightening."
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What people say about Kellyn's work
Let's Create Something Meaningful together
If you're looking for a speaker or podcast guest who will:
- Challenge your audience to think differently about success
- Offer practical tools wrapped in soulful wisdom
- Create space for real conversation (not surface-level tips)
- Leave people feeling seen, inspired, and ready to take action
Then let's talk.
- Beyond Anxiety — Martha Beck
- The Way of Integrity — Martha Beck
- Any book by Martha Beck (I return to her work again and again)
- Eat, Pray, Love — Elizabeth Gilbert
- Big Magic — Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Artist’s Way — Julia Cameron
- Untamed — Glennon Doyle
- Creativity, Spirituality, and Making a Buck — David Nichtern
These are not “business books” in the usual sense. They are invitations into self discovery, creativity, and the courage to live a life that feels like your own.
