MERIDIEM - THE FOUNDERS
Lisa
& Keather.
They did not build this from theory. They built it from the inside. From having done the work themselves, on both sides of every line this methodology draws.
THE PARTNERSHIP
The work began
between them first.
More than a decade ago, Lisa and Keather were not yet co-facilitators. They were coach and client. Lisa held the room. Keather showed up in it, every morning, without exception, for a year. That relationship, forged the kind of daily honesty that most people never experience and became the proof of concept for everything Meridiem now offers.
What they discovered together is what every graduate of The 40 eventually discovers: that transformation is not an event. It is a practice. It happens daily, in community, in the presence of someone who has done the work themselves and will not let you settle for anything less than the life you are actually capable of living.
Over ten years, they have run The 40 together multiple times. They have done the deep work, releasing old stories, dismantling patterns, moving through the kind of pain that does not resolve in a single session or a single year. They have done it on both sides of the Drama and Empowerment Triangles. They have lived codependency and walked out of it. They have faced the body, the past, and the beliefs that quietly run a life from underneath.
"Our authority is not academic. It is earned. In the exact rooms we now invite you into. Every concept we teach, we have lived. Every pattern we name, we have broken in ourselves first."
What Lisa and Keather bring to every session is not a methodology applied from a distance. It is a methodology lived from the inside by two people who know what it costs to change and what it gives back. That is the difference between a coach who teaches transformation and one who has been through it.
LM
CO-FACILITATOR AND LEAD COACH
Lisa
Margulies
Transformational Coach & Financial Advisor
Lisa has spent decades at the intersection of two worlds most people keep entirely separate: the inner life and the outer one. As a transformational coach and financial advisor, she understands that how a person shows up in their relationships is inseparable from how they show up in their finances, their career, and every other room they walk into.
Her authority in this work is not theoretical. Years ago, Lisa faced a near-death experience and the diagnosis of an incurable illness. She recovered, not in the way the medical system predicted, but in the way transformation works when it goes all the way down: through the body, through the story, through the belief that was running underneath everything. That experience did not make her a coach. It made her the kind of coach who knows the difference between managing a life and actually transforming it.
Lisa is known for a presence that is simultaneously fierce and entirely safe, the rare combination that makes real honesty possible. She does not soften the truth. She delivers it in a way that makes people feel seen rather than exposed. In over a decade of leading The 40, she has guided hundreds of people through the work, including coaches, therapists, executives, and people who had tried everything else and still felt stuck.
KR
CO-FOUNDER AND LEAD COACH
Keather
Roemhildt
Transformational Coach, Entrepreneur, & Tech Executive
Keather arrived at this work the way most people arrive at the things that matter most: through necessity. Depression. Anorexia. The particular weight of childhood experiences that do not leave easily, and do not respond to being managed. She has sat inside the darkness that The 40 now asks its participants to bring into the room, not as a visitor, but as someone who lived there for years before finding her way through.
That journey, and the specific quality of attention it required to complete it, is what Keather brings to every session. She sees things. The pattern beneath the presenting pattern. The story inside the story that the person telling it has not yet noticed. Her gift is not advice. It is the kind of listening that makes people feel, for the first time, that they have actually been heard.
Keather moves through the world with a rare combination of tenderness and clarity. She does not flinch from difficult truths, hers or anyone else's. She views every person who walks into The 40 through a lens of genuine wonder at what they are capable of becoming. And she holds that view even when, especially when, they cannot hold it for themselves.
Soften the truth
They are not here to make you comfortable. The honesty in the room is what makes the change possible and both of them deliver it with the kind of care that makes it bearable.
WHAT THEY WILL ALWAYS DO
Hold the room
No matter what arises; grief, resistance, anger, collapse. Lisa and Keather stay. They have been in every corner of human experience. Nothing that comes up in The 40 is something they have not navigated themselves.
WHAT MAKES THEM DIFFERENT
Lived authority
Their credential is not a certification. It is a decade of daily work on themselves, with each other, and with hundreds of clients who came in ordinary and left knowing, for the first time, that extraordinary was always available to them.
Two people.
One methodology.
The same work.
WHAT THEY SHARE
Lisa and Keather are not interchangeable. Their stories are different. Their gifts are different. The way they hold a room is different. What they share is something rarer than style or technique, they share the knowledge of what it actually takes to change. Not the theory. Not the framework. The lived, daily, sometimes brutal experience of doing the work until the work is done.
They have both recovered from eating disorders. They have both dismantled patterns of codependency that ran deep into their histories. They have both done The 40 not as facilitators, but as coaches and participants, more times than they can count. And they have both arrived, through very different paths, at the same place: a genuine, unshakeable belief that transformation is possible for anyone who is willing to show up for it, daily, without hiding.