The Badass Leader: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Deep Self-Trust
Hosted by executive coach and former Fortune 500 leader Coco Duan, this podcast explores what it truly takes to become a badass leader—someone who leads with calm, clarity, courage, and deep self-trust.
Many high-achieving women are already badass.
They just don’t feel like one.
Because the Good Girl conditioning that helped them succeed is still running the show—driving overwork, people-pleasing, perfectionism, and constant pressure to prove.
Through this podcast, Coco helps you unlearn those patterns so you can stop performing and start leading from your real power.
Each episode offers practical tools and insights on topics such as:
• Regulate your nervous system to create internal safety and expand your capacity to handle pressure
• Unlearn Good Girl conditioning (play safe, please, and prove)
• Reclaim your voice, boundaries, and sense of self
• Realign how you lead—so you can show up calm, clear, and deeply self-trusting
With 20+ years of corporate leadership experience and deep personal transformation, Coco has helped women around the world step into the leaders they already are.
A Badass Leader.
Learn more about her 1:1 Badass Leader Program:
https://www.cocoduancoaching.com/vip-coaching
The Badass Leader: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Deep Self-Trust
59: Stop Asking “What’s Wrong with Me”: Understanding Healthy vs. Unhealthy Shame
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
For years, I carried an invisible weight — one that whispered, “What’s wrong with me?”
When I froze in meetings, when I couldn’t leave a painful marriage, when I burned out and couldn’t make myself care anymore… I thought I was broken.
What I didn’t realize was that what I was experiencing wasn’t weakness — it was shame. And shame is one of the biggest barriers to healing and growth.
In this episode, I share how unhealthy shame quietly drives perfectionism, people-pleasing, and burnout — and how you can begin releasing it through awareness, nervous system regulation, and safe connection.
You’ll learn:
- The key difference between healthy and unhealthy shame
- Why shame lives in the body, not the mind
- A four-step process to release shame and reconnect with your worth
- How to move from self-attack to self-compassion
If you’ve ever asked, “What’s wrong with me?” — this episode will remind you: nothing is wrong with you. You are not broken. You are enough.
💬 If this resonates, share it with a friend who’s been carrying shame silently — and let’s start healing together.
Want to go from Good Girl to Badass Leader—calm, clear, and deeply self-trusting?
I offer a free 60-minute consultation to help you get clear on where you are, where you want to go, and what’s holding you back.
From there, we’ll explore what working together could look like.
Book your call:
https://calendly.com/cocoduancoaching/1-hr-consultation