Is AI the beginning of the end for coaching or the key to transforming it?

In this eye-opening episode of Your Ultimate Life, Kellan Fluckiger sits down with marketing expert Misty Kortes and nurse-coach Bina Bendale for one of the most powerful conversations ever recorded on this show.

They break down how AI is disrupting creativity, coaching, emotional development, and human connection…
and reveal the truth about what will matter MOST for future coaches.
This unscripted exchange goes deep into lived experience, emotional truth, and what separates real transformation from robotic imitation.

If you’re a coach, creator, healer, entrepreneur, or human being trying to navigate the rise of AI, this episode is for you.
You’ll Discover
✅ The 5 phases people go through when adopting AI
✅ Why many coaches may lose their jobs (and how to avoid it)
✅ The real danger of AI: losing the ability to think for ourselves
✅ Why human experience is the ONLY thing AI can never replace
✅ How AI can lift your creativity but destroy it if you misuse it
✅ Why the next generation is at risk of losing real human connection
✅ The rising “robotic coaching” and the MASSIVE gap only humans can fill
✅ What separates the top 5% of coaches from everyone else
✅ How to use AI as a resource, not a replacement
✅ Why your lived story matters more today than ever before
✅ What coaches MUST evolve into to continue thriving in the AI era

Chapters
00:00 - Welcome to Your Ultimate Life
00:43 - Meet Misty & Bina
01:18 - How each guest uses AI
02:20 - Misty’s 5 phases of AI adoption
05:41 - Kellan’s own experience with AI resistance
06:26 - Bina’s early curiosity and tech journey
09:48 - Custom GPTs and new coaching tools
12:32 - Where AI helps… and where it can’t
13:19 - The real danger: losing our ability to think
16:19 - AI asking better questions than most coaches
17:15 - Why many coaches will disappear
19:58 - Emotional connection: what AI can’t replicate
23:05 - Mental health risks of AI “agreeability”
25:37 - Suicidal ideation & AI’s dangerous feedback loops
27:18 - Why most coaches don’t embody what they teach
29:14 - The “casino analogy”—the ante just went up
30:03 - The great filtering of the coaching industry
32:47 - AI as tool vs replacement
36:02 - Can new coaches still succeed?
38:03 - Human experience: the one thing AI cannot copy
40:19 - Real conversations create real results
41:51 - A 23-year-old whose story changed everything
43:21 - Using AI to articulate your lived experience
45:40 - AI as resource, not first line of defense
46:44 - Kellan’s “I can’t bleed” revelation
48:36 - Final reflections from Misty & Bina
50:42 - Why this conversation could NEVER be replicated by AI
52:23 - Closing thoughts: Creating Your Ultimate Life

Resources
Learn more: KellanFluckigerMedia.com
Free tools & training: YourUltimateLife.ca

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Guest:
Bina Bendale: https://www.binanursecoach.com/
Misty Kortes: https://mistykortes.com/