Unshakable Confidence: Helping High-Achieving Women Lead with Calm, Clarity, and Confidence—at Work and in Life
Hosted by Coco Duan, a former Fortune 500 executive turned Life & Leadership Coach, the Unshakable Confidence podcast is your weekly guide to building the self-trust and resilience needed to thrive personally and professionally. Coco empowers high-achieving women who secretly struggle with self-doubt to cultivate unshakable confidence, enabling them to lead with calm, clarity and confidence. Each episode offers practical strategies and insightful guidance on topics such as: Rewiring limiting beliefs Regulating your nervous system Setting healthy boundaries Overcoming perfectionism and people-pleasing Aligning with your core values With over 20 years of corporate leadership experience and years of deep personal healing and transformation, Coco has helped numerous women worldwide transform their inner narratives and step into their full potential. Discover more about her "Becoming Unshakable" VIP Coaching Program at: https://www.cocoduancoaching.com/vip-coaching.
Episodes
Think your glass of wine, Netflix binge, or late-night scroll is helping you unwind?
It might be making things worse.
We often reach for comfort when we're stressed—but many common habits are actually numbing, not regulating.
✅ Unhealthy coping disconnects you from your body and buries unprocessed emotions
✅ It disrupts your stress cycle and builds dependency on external relief
If you don’t feel it, you can’t hea...
Ever feel like your body goes into full-on panic mode after one urgent email?
Even when your brain knows you're not in danger… your body doesn’t.
Picture this: You get a surprise email about a high-stakes meeting with the CEO in 48 hours.
Your heart races.
Your chest tightens.
Your mind goes blank.
You’re not just stressed—you’re hijacked by your nervous system.
✅ Your nervous system responds to perceived danger, not...
Have you ever held yourself back from speaking up, showing up, or just being you—because you were afraid of what others might think?
In this episode, I’m getting real about one of the most invisible, exhausting patterns I used to live with: the fear of judgment. From silencing myself in corporate meetings to hiding my coaching practice on social media, I share the personal stories and emotional costs of worrying about ...
If there’s no tiger chasing you…
why does your body still feel like you’re in danger?
That pit in your stomach.
That racing heart.
The urgency.
In today’s Daily Power Lesson, you’ll learn:
✅ Why your nervous system responds to perceived danger from the past—not just what’s happening now
✅ How unprocessed emotional wounds keep your body in fight-or-flight, even when...
You’ve worked on your presence. You’ve sharpened your skills.
But if your nervous system is hijacked—you still can’t lead with clarity, confidence, or calm.
In this 5-minute Daily Power Lesson, I reveal the #1 leadership skill no one ever taught me in my 20 years in corporate:
Nervous system regulation.
You’ll learn what your nervous system actually does, why it holds the key to your thoughts, emotions, and actions—and h...
What if the reason you doubt yourself, overgive, or stay silent…
started when you were just a toddler?
In this 5-minute Daily Power Lesson, I reveal the hidden conflict at the root of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and self-doubt:
💡 The need for attachment (to feel loved and accepted)
💡 The need for authenticity (to express your true self)
When these two needs clash, we choose attachment—every time.
That’s ho...
You can’t lead others powerfully if you’re disconnected from yourself.
In this 5-minute Daily Power Lesson, I walk you through the 3 essential pillars of inner leadership:
✨ Self-Awareness – Know yourself at the core: your strengths, your shadows, your patterns
✨ Self-Acceptance – Make peace with yourself—you can't shame yourself into growth
✨ Self-Trust – Stand by your truth, especially when things...
You’ve taken the trainings. You’ve read the books.
So why do you still freeze up in high-stakes meetings, overthink every word, or struggle to stay calm under pressure?
In this 5-minute Daily Power Lesson, I reveal the missing piece most leadership advice ignores:
👉 If your nervous system is hijacked, you can’t apply the leadership skills you’ve learned.
I’ll share real stories from my 20-year corporate career—and unpack...
Welcome to Daily Power Lesson—your daily dose of leadership, confidence, and authentic empowerment!
In just 5 minutes a day, I’ll help you shift your mindset, regulate your nervous system, and step into the powerful, confident, and authentic leader you’re meant to be.
These bite-sized episodes are designed to spark clarity, courage, and calm—so you can become the CEO of your inner life and lead from the inside out.
Let’s...
If you’re the woman who’s always in motion—holding it all together at work and at home—but secretly running on empty, this episode is for you.
In this masterclass-style episode, I walk you through a radical reframe that changed my life: Rest isn’t a luxury. It’s a leadership strategy. I’ll introduce you to the real reason it’s so hard to slow down (hint: it’s not willpower), and teach you how to work with your nervou...
Have you ever felt calm one moment and anxious the next—without knowing why? Or found yourself snapping at someone you care about… even though your brain was saying “it’s not a big deal”? Have you ever known you’re safe, but your body feels like you’re being chased by a tiger?
That used to be me—all the time.
In this episode, I’m sharing the #1 thing that took my healing, growth, and confidence to the next level: under...
If you’ve ever walked out of a high-stakes meeting and immediately started criticizing yourself. If you’ve ever told yourself, “I should’ve done better,” or “What’s wrong with me?” If your mind spirals with “shoulds” and “not enoughs” after even the smallest misstep.
You are not alone. I used to live there too.
In this deeply personal and practical episode, I walk you through one of the biggest silent confidence killers...
What if the very thing you’re avoiding is the key to everything you want?
In this heartfelt episode, I share the truth most people overlook: embracing discomfort isn’t a punishment—it’s the path to becoming the boldest, most grounded version of yourself. From physical and mental challenges to social and relational growth, I’ll walk you through the exact ways I practice discomfort daily—and how it’s helped me feel more ...
If networking makes you cringe, feels forced or transactional, or just downright awkward—you’re not alone. In this episode, Coco Duan, former Fortune 500 executive turned life coach, shares her personal journey from dreading networking to building a life-changing web of rich, genuine relationships.
Through her 3M Framework—Mindset, Method, and Micro-Bravery—you’ll learn how to redefine networking, overcome limiting bel...
If you've ever asked yourself, “Is therapy or coaching really worth the money?”—this episode is for you.
I open up about the years I spent silently struggling, believing I could out-achieve my pain… until I couldn’t. In this heartfelt episode, I share the true cost of waiting to ask for help—and how investing in therapy and coaching changed everything for me. I’ll also walk you through six common beliefs that keep...
Two years ago, I left my corporate career to follow a dream. What I didn’t expect? Just how much I would be stretched, humbled, and transformed along the way.
In this celebratory solo episode, I share 10 hard-earned lessons from my journey of becoming my own boss—and becoming more me in the process. From battling burnout to rewriting old patterns, embracing failure, and finally building real self-trust, I walk you thro...
Have you ever said “yes” when your whole body wanted to say “no”? Checked your work email at midnight or during vacation, just to “stay on top of things”? Or felt exhausted by constantly putting others’ needs ahead of your own?
You’re not alone. I used to be a chronic people-pleaser—always over giving, overworking, and overwhelmed—and I didn’t even know it. In this episode, I share my story and walk you through a simpl...
In this special episode, I sit down with my former boss turned dear friend Carmela—a woman who deeply shaped my journey as both a leader and a human. We reflect on the moments that made our bond so meaningful and how her heart-centered leadership was the first spark in my own transformation.
We talk about:
- The power of compassionate leadership in a results-driven world
- How coaching helped both of us become more authe...
If you’ve ever spent hours tweaking one email… or rehearsed your presentation a dozen times and still felt “not ready”… or said no to an amazing opportunity because you didn’t feel perfect yet—this episode is for you.
In this deeply personal and practical episode, I share how I broke free from years of perfectionist patterns that kept me stuck in overwork, self-doubt, and stress—even after becoming a successful Fortune...
In this episode, I walk you through 10 common mistakes I see people make when learning how to process emotions. From overthinking instead of feeling, to using toxic positivity or numbing with busyness, these patterns can quietly sabotage your emotional growth.
But here’s the good news: every pitfall is an opportunity to practice something new. I’ll help you recognize these habits with compassion and show you how to gen...
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