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Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

Coco Duan, Fortune 500 Senior Executive Turned Life & Leadership Coach

98 episodes

5 days ago

Send us a text When I look back, I realize that for so many years, my loudest voice was my inner critic. No matter how much I achieved, it was never enough. I would replay meetings for hours, beat myself up over small mistakes, and carry shame for days after setbacks. Maybe you can relate. In this episode, I open my heart and share not only my own journey of shifting from self-criticism to self-compassion, but also the exact process I now teach to my clients. Together, we’ll explore how to st...

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Send us a text When I look back, I realize that for so many years, my loudest voice was my inner critic. No matter how much I achieved, it was never enough. I would replay meetings for hours, beat myself up over small mistakes, and carry shame for days after setbacks. Maybe you can relate. In this episode, I open my heart and share not only my own journey of shifting from self-criticism to self-compassion, but also the exact process I now teach to my clients. Together, we’ll explore how to st...

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Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

70: MVP: Stop Beating Yourself Up: 3 Steps to Quiet Your Inner Critic and Build Calm Confidence

Send us a text When I look back, I realize that for so many years, my loudest voice was my inner critic. No matter how much I achieved, it was never enough. I would replay meetings for hours, beat myself up over small mistakes, and carry shame for days after setbacks. Maybe you can relate. In this episode, I open my heart and share not only my own journey of shifting from self-criticism to self-compassion, but also the exact process I now teach to my clients. Together, we’ll explore how to st...

5 days ago

58 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

69: The Hidden Reasons Investing in Yourself Feels So Hard—and It’s Not About Money

Send us a text As we close out the year and step toward 2026, I want to talk about something that quietly holds so many high-achieving women back from real change: investing in themselves in a meaningful way. Not a facial. Not a yoga class. Not another vacation. I’m talking about investing in your emotional well-being, your nervous system, and the deeper inner work that actually changes how you live and lead. In this episode, I share a very personal story. Back in 2017, I was deep...

1 week ago

28 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

68: The cost of Waiting: why things don’t change until you do

Send us a text As we approach the end of the year, many high-achieving women find themselves exhausted, overwhelmed, and quietly hoping that next year will be different. Maybe you’re telling yourself: “Things will feel better when work slows down.”“Once the kids are older, I’ll have more time.”“After the promotion, the raise, or the job change, I’ll finally relax.”I hear this all the time—and for years, I told myself the exact same story. In this episode, I share the real cost of waiting. Not...

2 weeks ago

28 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

67: Stuck on the Hamster Wheel? The Real Way Out Isn’t Quitting

Send us a text Do you ever feel like life looks successful on the outside—but inside, you’re exhausted, stuck, and quietly wondering, Is this really it? Like you’re running hard, doing everything “right,” yet somehow your life feels out of your control? I know that feeling intimately. I lived it for years. In this episode, I talk about what’s really happening when you feel trapped on the hamster wheel—and why quitting your job or blowing up your life is not the answer (even if it feels tempt...

3 weeks ago

34 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

66: 5 Signs Your “Independence” As A High-Achieving Woman Is Actually Holding You Back

Send us a text In this episode of Unshakeable Confidence, I’m talking about a pattern so many high-achieving women struggle with—being “too independent.” For years, I was proud of being the strong one who never needed help. But behind the strength, I felt heavy, overwhelmed, and painfully alone. What I didn’t realize was that my independence wasn’t confidence—it was protection. A survival strategy I learned when support didn’t feel safe or available. I share personal stories from my childhood...

1 month ago

41 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

65: The Need to Be Seen: How Being Truly Seen Builds Calm Confidence

Send us a text In this episode, I’m opening up about one of the most essential human needs that most of us never learned to name — the need to be truly seen. Not for what we do. Not for what we achieve. Not for how impressive we look on paper. But for who we are at the deepest, most human level. I share the story of the first time in my life I ever felt genuinely seen — not for my accomplishments, but for my emotions, my struggles, and my inner world. It happened five years ago with my therap...

1 month ago

1 hour

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

64: From Burned-Out Executive to Calm, Confident Leader — with Natalie Lee

Send us a text In today’s episode, I sit down with my dear friend and longtime client, Natalie Lee, who is now a Vice President at Louis Vuitton and one of the calmest, most intentional leaders I know. When we first started working together almost three years ago, Natalie was leading Asia Pacific during the pandemic, pregnant, living in Hong Kong without family support, and running on empty. On paper, she was a high-performing executive. Inside, she was overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and i...

1 month ago

32 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

63: Stop Living From the Chin Up: How to Break Overthinking and Reconnect With Your Body

Send us a text In this episode, I’m inviting you into one of the most important conversations we can have as high-achieving women: how to stop living from the chin up—stuck in our thoughts, analysis, and overthinking—and finally reconnect with the incredible wisdom of our bodies. For years, I lived purely in my mind. I pushed through exhaustion. I made decisions that looked good on paper but felt wrong in my gut. I ignored every signal my body was trying to send me—until burnout, poor decisio...

1 month ago

47 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

62: How to Turn Shame Into Growth: A Real-Life Somatic Parts Healing Breakthrough

Send us a text Have you ever received feedback that shook you to your core? In this deeply personal episode, I share one of the biggest emotional breakthroughs I’ve had in years — how I turned a painful moment of shame into powerful growth through somatic parts work. It started with a piece of honest feedback that hit harder than I expected. What followed was a cascade of emotions — shame, disappointment, and sadness — that revealed old survival patterns I didn’t even realize were still...

2 months ago

36 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

61: The Power of Reflection: How to Turn Experience Into Real Growth

Send us a text After returning from a month in Asia, I spent time reflecting—not just on the trip, but on how reflection itself has shaped my growth. For most of my life, I didn’t reflect—I ruminated. I replayed moments in my head, judged myself harshly, and wondered what was wrong with me. Reflection felt like a waste of time. It wasn’t until I started therapy and coach training that I learned what true reflection is: intentional, productive thinking that integrates our experiences and trans...

2 months ago

35 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

60: You Can’t Stop the Waves—But You Can Learn to Surf Them: How to Stay Calm in Chaos

Send us a text I recorded this episode from Lombok, Indonesia — a small island next to Bali — where I’ve been surfing twice a day for two weeks. Between the salt water, the wipeouts, and the stillness of the ocean, I realized something simple but profound: We can’t stop the waves. But we can learn to surf them. In this episode, I share three “real-life waves” I’ve surfed lately — from unexpected home repairs to an injury on my first day at surf camp — and how nervous system regulation and par...

2 months ago

37 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

59: Stop Asking “What’s Wrong with Me”: Understanding Healthy vs. Unhealthy Shame

Send us a text 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...

2 months ago

28 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

58: Burnout Isn’t a Personal Failure: The Real Reason You’re Always Exhausted

Send us a text If you’ve ever woken up after a full night’s sleep and still felt tired… If you’ve ever found yourself saying, “I just can’t do this anymore,” even when everything looks fine from the outside… This episode is for you. In this deeply personal conversation, I share my own journey through burnout — from corporate success to complete exhaustion — and what I’ve learned about what’s really happening beneath the surface. Burnout isn’t a lack of willpower, discipline, or strength. It’s...

3 months ago

59 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

57: From Overthinking to Calm: Inside My Coaching Process

Send us a text In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain to share what it’s really like to work with me inside my coaching process. For years, I’ve been talking about Calm Confidence, but I realized I’ve never actually walked you through the exact framework I use to help women go from stressed, self-doubting, and overwhelmed to calm, confident, and aligned. Over three months, through my personalized 1:1 coaching program, I guide clients with my signature 4R Framework—Regulate, Rewire, Rec...

3 months ago

58 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

56: Are You Settling? How to Stop Betraying Your Truth and Start Living in Alignment

Send us a text For years, I didn’t even realize I was settling. On the outside, my life looked picture-perfect: senior leader in a Fortune 500 company, making more money than I ever imagined, married, traveling the world, and living by the beach. But inside, I felt disconnected, unfulfilled, and constantly telling myself, “This isn’t that bad. It will get better.” That’s the sneaky thing about settling—it doesn’t always look obvious. It often hides behind success, comfort, or the fear ...

3 months ago

55 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

55: Stop Beating Yourself Up: 3 Steps to Quiet Your Inner Critic and Build Calm Confidence

Send us a text When I look back, I realize that for so many years, my loudest voice was my inner critic. No matter how much I achieved, it was never enough. I would replay meetings for hours, beat myself up over small mistakes, and carry shame for days after setbacks. Maybe you can relate. In this episode, I open my heart and share not only my own journey of shifting from self-criticism to self-compassion, but also the exact process I now teach to my clients. Together, we’ll explore how to st...

3 months ago

55 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

54: Why Joy Is the Secret to Resilience, Confidence, and a Calmer Mind

Send us a text When was the last time you felt pure joy—not achievement, not relief, but that spark of aliveness that lights you up from the inside? In this episode, I share how rediscovering joy became a turning point in my own journey. At one of the lowest moments of my life—burned out, isolated, and stuck in an abusive marriage—I asked myself a simple question: How can I bring just a little joy back into my life? The answer led me back to dancing, and it changed everything. You’ll hear how...

3 months ago

34 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

53: The Hidden Patterns Behind Your Success—And How They’re Secretly Making You Suffer

Send us a text Have you ever wondered why, despite all your achievements, you still don’t feel truly confident, alive, or at peace? I know that feeling deeply—because I lived it for years. What I’ve learned is that the very patterns that helped us succeed are often the ones quietly draining our energy, joy, and freedom. In this episode, I reveal the five hidden success patterns that might actually be making you suffer: the Inner Critic, Perfectionism, Overachieving, People-Pleasing, and the D...

4 months ago

41 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

52: From Performing to Embodying Confidence: How to Truly Feel Your Worth

Send us a text Have you ever thought, “I know I’m capable, but I just don’t feel confident”? Or when people celebrate your success, you secretly wonder if they’re even talking about you? I’ve been there too. For years, I looked confident on the outside—leading teams, sitting in boardrooms, climbing the corporate ladder—while inside I was second-guessing myself, downplaying my strengths, and fearing visibility. In this episode, I open up about my own journey from performing confidence to embod...

4 months ago

40 minutes

Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life

51: Trust Your Body: The Hidden Key to Confidence and Leadership

Send us a text So many of us live from the neck up—pushing through stress, ignoring our gut feelings, and relying on logic while tuning out the signals of our body. I know this all too well. I once hired someone who looked perfect on paper but wasn’t the right fit. My body told me something was off, but I ignored it. That decision cost me deeply—just like the times I pushed through illness, pain, and exhaustion, telling myself I was “tough.” In this episode, I open up about how high achievers...

4 months ago

38 minutes