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
82: From Self-Doubt to Self-Trust: What Changed in 3 Years
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This episode is a full-circle moment for me.
I’m sitting down with my very first business coach, Jeff, and reflecting on the past three years—what it really took to go from leaving corporate, feeling uncertain and invisible… to building my coaching business and stepping into the woman I am today.
And I’ll be honest with you—this journey wasn’t just about confidence.
It wasn’t about “thinking more positively” or “fixing my mindset.”
It was about learning how to feel safe in my own body.
It was about rebuilding my identity from the inside out.
It was about doing the uncomfortable things… again and again.
In this conversation, we talk about:
- What actually changed in the last three years (and what didn’t)
- Why visibility felt so hard—and how I moved through it
- The real work behind confidence: nervous system, safety, and identity
- The journey of writing my book and what it taught me about self-expression
- How I went from “looking confident” to actually feeling it
If you’ve ever felt like:
Everyone else sees you as capable, confident, even successful…
But inside, you’re still second-guessing, still holding back, still playing small—
This episode is for you.
You’re not broken.
You’re not behind.
And you don’t need more willpower.
You need safety.
You need truth.
You need to come back to yourself.
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