Coco Duan, Executive Coach and Former Fortune 500 Senior Leader
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 prac...
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Coco Duan, Executive Coach and Former Fortune 500 Senior Leader
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May 27, 2026
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Episodes
10: From ‘I’m Not Successful’ to Confident CEO: The Deep Mindset Shift That Changed Everything 21.10.2024 14:08
Send us Fan Mail Episode 8 - What's Your Gremlin Message? Episode 9 - Transform Your Gremlin In this episode, I share a breakthrough that started with what I thought was a money mindset issue. But through coaching, I realized it was actually my Gremlin—the belief that “I’m not successful”—driving my doubts around money. Shifting to “I’m already successful” created a major change in my confide...
9: Transforming Your Inner Critic: How to Rewrite the Belief That’s Been Holding You Back 14.10.2024 19:11
Send us Fan Mail Please listen to Part 1 of the Gremlin work - 8: What's Your Gremlin Message? In this episode, we’ll continue diving into the Gremlin work— transforming the limiting belief that "I’m not good enough" into an empowering truth that "I am good enough." This method is broken down into five transformative steps: Acknowledging : Identify your Gremlin—the limitin...
8: Silencing the Voice That Says ‘I’m Not Enough’: A Powerful Exercise to Reclaim Your Confidence 07.10.2024 16:43
Send us Fan Mail Do you ever catch yourself thinking, “What will they think?” Whether it’s a work presentation, a networking event, or posting on social media, I used to worry if people thought I wasn’t smart enough, interesting enough, or confident enough. That fear held me back from speaking up, asking for help, and fully expressing myself. I felt small, constrained, and limited, wanting to be m...
7: Your Inner Critic Is Lying: Rewire Your Self-Talk to Build Real Confidence 30.09.2024 11:48
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Grounded Confidence podcast, Coco Duan explores the transformative impact of solitude, stillness, and silence on your inner dialogue. She explains that when you connect with yourself in these quiet moments, you become aware of your thought patterns, a crucial step toward personal growth. Most of our 60,000 daily thoughts are repetitive and negative, undermin...
6: Connect with Yourself: The First Step to Building Real Confidence That Lasts 23.09.2024 15:40
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Grounded Confidence Podcast , where we unlock the secret to building lasting, unshakable confidence from within. I’m Coco Duan, former Fortune 500 senior leader turned life and leadership coach, and I’m here to share how you can feel free, courageous, and unstoppable. Grounded confidence is about knowing yourself, embracing your strengths and limitations, and trusti...
5: What Is Grounded Confidence—and Why It’s the Key to Lasting Success and Inner Peace 20.09.2024 6:41
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the rebranded Grounded Confidence Podcast ! In this episode, Coco Duan, a Fortune 500 senior leader turned Life and Leadership Coach, shares the story behind the podcast’s new name and how it reflects her own personal transformation. Coco takes you through her journey of moving from a life that looked like a "solid success" outside, yet felt like a "shaky...
4: How to Break Free from ‘I Have to Do It All’—The 6-Step REWIRE Method for Real Change 16.09.2024 12:12
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Stress Less for Greater Success , we’re diving into a powerful tool to help you release limiting beliefs and reduce stress—the REWIRE framework. Over the last two episodes, we explored six common cultural expectations that many Asian women leaders face, like high achievement, emotional restraint, and selflessness. These often lead to limiting beliefs like “askin...
3: 6 Cultural Expectations That Quietly Sabotage Your Confidence, Career, and Mental Health 09.09.2024 14:53
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Stress Less For Greater Success , host Coco Duan continues the two-part series on the unique cultural and parental expectations that shape the lives of Asian women leaders. If you missed the last episode , be sure to catch up, as we covered the first two expectations: high academic achievement and high criticism with low recognition. Today, Coco dives into the...
2: When Success Isn’t Enough: How Cultural Expectations Create Hidden Stress and Self-Doubt 02.09.2024 12:33
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Stress Less For Greater Success podcast, host Coco Duan delves into parental, societal, and cultural expectations that shape the lives of many Asian women leaders. This episode focused on the first two expectations: 1. the pressure to achieve high academic success, 2. the tendency to receive more criticism than recognition. Coco shares a personal story that...
1: Why You’re Still Stressed—Even When You’re Doing Everything Right (And How to Break the Cycle) 30.08.2024 16:59
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of "Stress Less for Greater Success," Coco Duan explores the nature of stress and its impact on your life. Discover the difference between good stress that motivates and bad stress that overwhelms, and learn why most of the stress you experience is internal. Coco shares personal insights, including her own struggles with overachieving and people-pleasing,...
0: What's the Stress Less For Greater Success Podcast All About? 26.08.2024 8:32
Send us Fan Mail Stress Less For Greater Success Podcast is hosted by Coco Duan, a Fortune 500 senior leader turned Life and Leadership Coach. She empowers Asian Women leaders to live a life with less stress and more peace and achieve greater success on their own terms. Her weekly show offers eye-opening guidance, support, and inspiration about how to reduce internal stress, stop living life based...
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