The Audacious 10

I met Mandy Lehto in 2017, through a mutual friend at Rothschild, right as I was stepping into coaching. I was naive. Enthusiastic. Full of hope and completely clueless about what I was doing. 

Mandy didn’t try to protect me from my inexperience. She did something far more generous: she shared what coaching culture considered taboo at the time. Her financials. Her frameworks. Her hard-won wisdom. And then she told me to read one book: The Prosperous Coach by Rich Litvin. 

Then she introduced me to Rich and his community, 4PC. 

I’ll be honest, at the time, I thought it was eccentric. Expensive. I secretly judged Mandy’s investment in that community. I couldn’t understand it. 

A few years later, I joined Rich’s Project Kairos and 4PC programmes. That one introduction changed everything. It taught me what Mandy already knew: surrounding yourself with extraordinary people is what makes you one of them. 

Mandy, a long-standing 4PC member and now on the faculty, inspired me to stay for five years when I was convinced twelve months would be enough. How wrong I was. That community became where I discovered the power of true connection. In 2025, we got to enjoy NASA together as part of the 4PC experience, a highlight neither of us will forget. My other biggest highlight of 2025 was bringing 4PC to my hotel in Transylvania last September. Pure joy. Pure pride. And it started with Mandy’s willingness to open a door she didn’t have to open. 

Mandy has joined me twice on Audacious Conversations, and every time we speak, I walk away with the same reminder: courage begins on the inside. Not in what we achieve, but in how we honour ourselves. 

Her work on self-abandonment, self-trust, and the daily practice of choosing what truly matters has become something I share with clients again and again. Her playfulness is refreshing. Her humour is healing. And her perspective cuts through the noise of hustle culture like nothing else. 

She’s featured in my book The Audacity Spectrum in the final chapter on Appreciation. Because that’s what Mandy embodies: generous, grounded appreciation for what’s already enough. 

At the beginning of 2026, she gifted me a red Ferrari. Yes, a toy one. It sits on my desk now, reminding me of Ferrari energy this year: Powerful. Unique. Bold. That’s Mandy’s generosity in action, always knowing exactly what you need to hear, or see, at exactly the right moment.