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Badass Confidence Coach | Your Personal Trainer for Your Mind

The Badass Confidence Coach is your go-to podcast for high-achieving women and men ready to step into their full potential. Hosted by Anna Marolin, therapist, life coach, and 20-year triathlete, this show is not your average therapy session. Anna is on a mission to empower everyone to overcome their self-doubt, crush their goals, and live their most badass lives.Tune in to discover practical strategies, candid conversations, and actionable advice to conquer the challenges holding you back. From battling loneliness and anxiety to mastering mindset shifts and embracing self-love, Anna dives deep into the struggles we all face, alongside insightful guest interviews and engaging discussions with her husband, Tim.Expect raw honesty, unwavering support, and a hefty dose of inspiration as Anna shares her expertise gained from over two decades of counseling and coaching experience. Whether you're seeking to boost your confidence, redefine

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    299. How To Have The Argument You've Been Avoiding

    Send us Fan MailYou've already had this argument. In the shower, in the car, at 2 am when you can't sleep. You've explained your side perfectly, anticipated every comeback, and won every round. The only problem is the other person was never actually in the room.Join Anna and Tim as they talk about why most people don't avoid hard conversations because of the actual issue. It's because you can't control what happens once you say it out loud. They get into the slow retreat that happens instead: the distance, the sarcasm, the twelve smaller arguments instead of the one real one, and what it actually takes to finally have the conversation you've been avoiding.This Episode Covers:Why the argument you've perfected in your head never goes the way you planned it.The moment avoidance stops being peacekeeping and starts being resentment.What happens in a relationship when one person pushes, and the other shuts down.Why waiting six months to say something changes nothing except how it lands.The difference between wanting someone to understand you and needing them to.What it actually means to own your part without taking the blame for everything.The line between someone needing a minute and someone punishing you for talking.Why confidence has nothing to do with controlling how the other person reacts.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    298. The Hardest Part Isn't Doing It; It's Deciding | Jayne Havens

    Send us Fan MailThere's a gap between knowing what to do and actually doing it, and most people live in that gap far longer than they need to. Jayne Havens doesn't. Diagnosed with ADHD as an adult, she says her brain just doesn't do the "should I, shouldn't I" loop, she treats her business like a video game she's playing against herself, one level beaten so she can get to the next one. The strategy part was never really the hard part for her. The hard part is making the call in the first place.Join Anna as she talks with Jayne, a sleep consultant who built a business, then built a second business teaching other people how to become sleep consultants, about what actually separates people who follow through from people who stay stuck. It's not a better plan or more information. It's deciding, outsourcing what isn't your strength, and trusting yourself enough to keep going before you have it all figured out.This Episode Covers:The advice from her father that made spending money on her business feel easy instead of scary.Why she still gets burnt out carrying the weight of her clients' anxiety, even when she loves the work.The boundaries she puts in place so a trip abroad doesn't put her business at risk.Why she believes hiring people who don't show up the way you would can quietly destroy a business.The moment she felt embarrassed to tell her own family that she wanted more.Her take on the worst advice you can follow: someone else's plan for your life.What she wishes more people understood about why entrepreneurs actually do this work.Connect with Jayne:Website - https://thesnoozefest.com/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/snoozefestbyjaynehavensFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/SnoozeFestbyJayneHavens/ Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    297. The Confidence Lessons I Learned From 20 Years of Triathlon

    Send us Fan MailTwenty feet from the nearest buoy, chop so bad she couldn't see the kayak, panic creeping in fast. That's where Anna found herself mid-swim at a national championship race, the one time in her life she got genuinely scared out there. She got on her back, caught her breath, and kept going. It's not the kind of moment that shows up on a podium.Join Anna and Tim as they trace 20+ years of racing back to what it actually built in them: not medals, not finish times, but the ability to keep moving when the plan falls apart. They get into why feelings are terrible predictors of performance, the real difference between discomfort and danger, and the voice that shows up in your head telling you to slow down right when it matters most.This Episode Covers:Why Anna wasn't born disciplined, and how it took her until 27 to find it.The moment in Lake Erie when the chop got so bad she couldn't see the kayak, and what she did to keep from panicking.Why feelings are terrible predictors of whether a workout or a race is actually going to go well.The real difference between being uncomfortable and being in danger, and why most of us confuse the two.What it sounds like when your brain starts negotiating halfway through something hard.Why even elite athletes deal with self-doubt, and what actually separates them from everyone else.What outlasted every medal Anna ever won.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    296. What 30 Years as a Therapist and Coach Taught Me That No Influencer Can Teach You

    Send us Fan MailIt takes about fifteen seconds for a TikTok video to convince you that your mother is a narcissist, your ex is a borderline, or you finally have the ADHD diagnosis you always suspected.Join Anna and Tim as they break down what gets lost when a real clinical process gets compressed into a fifteen-second hook. Anna draws on thirty years as a therapist and a coach, including two client stories where a label someone brought in from the internet turned out to be nowhere close to the full picture. She digs into the research behind why so much popular mental health content on social media gets it wrong, and makes the case that the problem was never the information itself; it's what happens when nobody checks whether it actually fits you.This Episode Covers:Why a shortage of licensed mental health providers helped create the wellness influencer boom in the first place.The actual numbers behind how much popular ADHD and autism content on TikTok gets wrong.Why people are five to eleven times more likely to inaccurately self-diagnose than to get it right from content like this.Two real client stories, one convinced his wife was a narcissist, another told by another therapist that a partner was a borderline.What actually separates a working diagnosis from a label picked up in under a minute.Why Anna says the friction in real therapy is the system protecting you, not failing you.The difference between someone moving through a narcissistic season and someone with an actual personality disorder.Mentioned in this episode:Quiet the Noise group coaching cohort: https://www.annamarcolin.com/coaching-packages/p/quiet-the-noiseUntil next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    295. Why Everything Feels Like an Identity Now

    Send us Fan MailIt's gotten almost impossible to disagree with someone anymore without it turning into a referendum on who they are. Anna's been noticing it everywhere: in politics, in parenting, in that strange shift where a difference of opinion starts to feel like a personal attack. Somewhere along the way, people stopped just having opinions and started becoming their opinions. Now criticism doesn't register as information, it registers as danger.Join Anna and Tim as they break down why this is happening, from the neuroscience of social rejection to what Anna calls identity fusion, the blurred line between what you believe and who you are. They talk about what changes when you stop confusing what you do with who you are, and the four things emotionally intelligent people learn to keep apart: who they are, what they think, what they feel, and what they do.This Episode Covers:Why politics, wellness, motherhood, and even anxiety have quietly become identities instead of just parts of life.Why criticism can feel like it's about who you are, not just what you did.What elite athletes know about separating a bad performance from their worth.Why insight alone rarely changes behavior, even when you understand exactly why you do something.The difference between "I'm anxious" and "I have anxiety," and why it matters.Tim's real-time realization that this conversation describes someone he knows.Why rest, boundaries, and being wrong can start to feel dangerous when they clash with your identity.The one question Anna wants you asking before you say "that's just who I am".Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    294. What Control Is Really Costing You

    Send us Fan MailFor years, Anna thought her ability to control everything was a strength. Organized. Reliable. Prepared. Turns out it was anxiety, dressed up as competence, and it took a rug-pulling moment in her own life to show her the difference.Join Anna and Tim as they dig into what control is actually costing you, your presence, your intimacy with the people you love, your creativity, your ability to bounce back when things don't go the way you planned. They talk about the difference between influencing a situation and controlling it, why chasing certainty is not the same thing as chasing excellence, and the coaching question Anna asks her clients the moment they catch themselves gripping too tight. What am I actually afraid would happen if I let this go? This isn't about eliminating uncertainty from your life. It's about becoming someone who can be okay without it.This Episode Covers:Why being organized, reliable, and always prepared can actually be anxiety in disguise.How control turns into emotional insurance, and why that insurance quietly becomes a prison.The real difference between pursuing excellence and pursuing certainty.What the research on intolerance of uncertainty actually says about who struggles with chronic anxiety.The coaching question to ask yourself before you white-knuckle your way through something hard.Why influence and control are not the same thing, and why that distinction matters.Anna's five power moves for loosening your grip, including trusting yourself more than your plan.The family of origin patterns that make feeling controlled hit so personally.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    293. The Emotional Price of Always Holding It Together

    Send us Fan MailYou tell everyone you're fine before anyone even asks. You're the one who fixes things before anyone notices there's a problem, the one who never falls apart, the one everybody calls. And it's not because life is easier for you. It's because you never put any of it down.Join Anna and Tim as they dig into what it actually costs to hold it together this well: the toll of expressive suppression, the moment competence starts running on empty, and why being the strong one so often means crying in the shower instead of in front of the people who love you. They talk through allostatic load, the fixer identity, and what real recovery looks like once powering through stops working.This Episode Covers:Why looking like you have it together doesn't mean life is easier, it means you never put any of it down.The research on expressive suppression and what chronically pushing down emotion actually costs your nervous system.What allostatic load feels like once the bill finally comes due.Why competence and capacity aren't the same thing, and why almost nobody gets told that.The reflex to say "I'm fine" before anyone even asks, and what it's actually covering.Why receiving help is often harder than giving it, especially for high performers.The shift from "I need to power through" to "what would actually restore me".Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    292. When Your Life Looks Fine But Something Feels Off

    Send us Fan MailYou did everything right. Built the career, married the person, raised the kids, checked every box on the list you didn't even remember writing. So why does it still feel like something's missing?Join Anna and Tim as they dig into the quiet unease that shows up when life looks good on paper but feels flat underneath it. They talk about the blueprint most of us inherited, the one that promised happiness would show up once we hit the next milestone, and what happens when we hit it and the feeling doesn't change. This isn't about crisis or catastrophe. It's about the discomfort that shows up when you've been managing your life so well you've stopped living it.This Episode Covers:Why the thought "I shouldn't feel this way" keeps people stuck instead of helping them understand what's actually going on.The blueprint most of us grew up with, and why following it perfectly still isn't delivering the payoff it promised.What it means to become the project manager of your own existence instead of an active participant in it.The real difference between managing your life well and actually being present enough to live it.Why that sense of disconnection isn't proof you're failing, but evidence that you're evolving into something new.Four honest questions to sit with when something feels off but you can't quite name why.Why rest, play, and creativity aren't indulgences you earn later, but information about what you actually need now.What it looks like, in practice, to come back to yourself after years of just getting through the day.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    291. I Did the Work, So Why Am I Struggling Again?

    Send us Fan MailYou think you've graduated. You did the therapy, you learned the skills, you got to a good place, and you stayed there for a while. Then one week knocks you flat, and you're spiraling again, and the first thing you think isn't "this is hard," it's "what is wrong with me that I'm back here?"Join Anna and Tim as they pull apart the fantasy of having arrived, the one where doing the work is supposed to mean you never struggle again. They get into the two clients who came back last week, embarrassed they'd backslid, why the skills sometimes vanish the second you actually need them, and why a rough week is not proof you're back at square one. Real growth was never about feeling nothing. It's messy, and most people are way further along than they let themselves see.This Episode Covers:The fantasy of having arrived and why it leaves you feeling like you failed.Perceived backsliding versus actually backsliding.Why you can know all the skills and still go right back to the spiral five seconds later.What real growth actually looks like when it's messy instead of perfect.How we laser beam onto the one screw up and forget the rest of the bucket.The compare and despair that social media keeps feeding.Asking what if nothing has gone wrong, and life is just happening.The shift from "why am I still dealing with this" to "how am I dealing with this differently".Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    290. You Have the Insight and Still Can't Change

    Send us Fan MailYou can explain your patterns better than anyone. You know your attachment style, you know your triggers, you know where it all started, and why you keep picking the same kind of person. And then a week later, you're doing the exact same thing.Join Anna and Tim as they get into why insight feels like progress when it isn't. There's a real difference between understanding a pattern and actually interrupting one, and most of us get stuck living in the first part. We collect the aha moments, the books, the podcasts, the breakthroughs, and somewhere in there the knowing starts to feel like the work itself. They talk about why that happens, why the behavior wins at 10 pm even when the insight is sitting right there, and what it actually takes to move from knowing something about yourself to becoming someone different.This Episode Covers:Why insight feels powerful and gives you relief while changing nothing.Knowledge, insight, and action, and why people mistake one for the others.How some people become professional insight collectors.The intention-behavior gap and why genuinely wanting to change isn't enough.Why your nervous system keeps choosing what's familiar over what's healthy.What actually creates change, including repetition and emotional exposure.Why you learn boundaries by disappointing someone, not by reading about them.How changing your environment can matter more than chasing the next breakthrough.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    289. When Self-Improvement Quietly Becomes Self-Rejection

    Send us Fan MailThere is a version of self-improvement that stops being about growth and quietly turns into a way to never feel okay as you are. You track the sleep, you take the supplements, you do the work, and somewhere in there, it stops being "I want to get better" and becomes "I'm one habit away from finally being acceptable." That is the line Anna has been feeling lately, and she is done pretending she is above it.Join Anna and Tim as they get honest about where optimization culture has gone too far. Anna is a high-performance coach and a therapist who promotes a lot of this stuff, and she still says the part most people will not say out loud: that all this self-monitoring can become ego dressed up in wellness language, a quiet moral superiority that slides into comparison, exhaustion, and loneliness. She gets into her own athlete years too, the ego she carried, and the cocky triathlete sitting at the finish line who became a mirror for everything she did not want to become.This Episode Covers:When self-improvement quietly turns into self-rejection, and you stop feeling okay as you are.How optimization becomes ego dressed up in wellness language, and the moral superiority hiding underneath it.Why there is no finish line to enoughness, and how the goalposts keep moving until you burn out.The smoke and mirrors of the highlight reel and what is really happening on the other side of the camera.Moving from self-care into self-surveillance, and how comparison starts to feel virtuous.The loneliness of always working on yourself, and what Anna lost when she turned her whole life into a project.Becoming better humans versus becoming more anxious managers of yourselves.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    288. Why We Stay Too Long in Relationships That Drain Us

    Send us Fan MailIt rarely looks like a blowup. It looks like lying awake at 2 am, replaying a conversation you can't let go of, or standing in the same kitchen as someone and barely talking to them. Emotional depletion is usually quiet. It builds slowly, what Anna calls death by a thousand cuts, until one day you realize you've lost the connection to your own self inside your own life.Join Anna and Tim as they sit in the gray area of relationships that drain us, the ones we don't just walk out of. This is not an episode about cutting people off or protecting your peace by leaving. It's the harder, more honest conversation most people aren't having. Why we stay when we're loyal, hopeful, afraid of regret, or just convinced things will get better. They talk about the difference between a relationship that's struggling and one where you're slowly disappearing, and they get personal about their own first marriages and the parts they each had to own. Anna keeps circling back to the same thing. The goal isn't to leave. It's to stop abandoning yourself inside the thing you're staying in.This Episode Covers:Why emotional depletion is usually subtle, not dramatic.The difference between a relationship that's struggling and one where you're disappearing.Why "I've had enough" is never really about a few fights.The reasons we stay even when we're drained, and why it isn't weakness.What your body is telling you long before your mind admits it.The questions worth asking yourself before deciding to stay or go.Owning your own part instead of keeping score.The power moves for when something has been draining you too long.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    287. What Emotional Avoidance Looks Like in Everyday Life

    Send us Fan MailMost people picture emotional avoidance as someone who shuts down, refuses to talk, or is clearly in denial. But after 30 years of working with clients, Anna knows that's not usually how it shows up. The people she sits across from are often smart, self-aware, and totally capable of talking about their lives. They can explain their patterns in detail. They just can't actually feel them.Join Anna and Tim as they get into what emotional avoidance really looks like in everyday life, and why it's so easy to miss. Chronic busyness, overthinking, saying "I'm fine," going straight to irritation instead of the hurt underneath it. These don't look like avoidance; they look like personality. And that's exactly what makes this so hard to catch in yourself.This Episode Covers:Why emotional avoidance is a nervous system strategy, not a character flaw.The difference between being able to explain your feelings and actually feeling them.How chronic busyness and constant noise function as avoidance of stillness.Why anger and irritation are easier to access than what's actually underneath.Numbing behaviors that feel normal until they don't.What "I'm fine" is really doing and why it builds resentment over time.The real cost of avoidance when it starts running your life from underground.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    286. Why Smart People Still Self-Sabotage

    Send us Fan MailYou've read the books. You know your patterns. You can probably explain exactly why you do the things you do. And yet here you are, still doing them.Join Anna and Tim as they get into what's actually happening when intelligent, capable people keep getting in their own way. Anna breaks down why being smart doesn't protect you from self-sabotage; it often makes it worse. Because the smarter you are, the better you are at building a case for staying exactly where you are.This Episode Covers:Why highly intelligent people are often the best at rationalizing their own avoidance.The difference between insight and transformation, and why awareness alone doesn't move you.How perfectionism functions as ego protection, not a path to excellence.The way "I need more clarity" or "I need more knowledge" becomes a hiding place.Why overthinking is frequently anxiety in disguise.How childhood identity around being "the smart one" quietly drives fear of failure.What it actually takes to move from intellectually aware to behaviorally different.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    285. The Hidden Loneliness of Competent Adults

    Send us Fan MailYou look like you have it together. You probably do have it together. And somehow, that's exactly the problem.Join Anna and Tim as they get into something Anna sees constantly in her sessions but rarely gets talked about out loud: the quiet, invisible loneliness that lives underneath high-functioning, capable people. The ones who are holding everything together at work and at home, who everyone leans on, and who nobody thinks to check in on. Because from the outside, they always seem fine.This Episode Covers:Why competent people stop sharing their struggles and slowly disappear inside their own lives.The difference between being surrounded by people and actually being known by them.How false connections, texting, and parasocial relationships are replacing real ones without us noticing.Why midlife adults are among the most affected by loneliness, even with full lives and full calendars.The "trap of competence" and how performing achievement replaces emotional expression.How to share something real without oversharing, including the name it, contain it, redirect it framework.Why loneliness isn't just emotional, it's neurological, and how it connects to anxiety, depression, and burnout.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    284. The Slow Burn of Resentment and What's Really Driving It

    Send us Fan MailResentment doesn't arrive all at once. It builds slowly, quietly, through a thousand small moments where you said yes when you meant no, where you kept going when you needed to stop, where you waited for someone to notice something you never actually said out loud.Join Anna and Tim as they dig into one of the most common and least talked about emotions in relationships, families, and workplaces. They get into where resentment really comes from, why high-functioning women are especially prone to it, and what's actually happening when the anger finally surfaces.This Episode Covers:Why resentment builds in silence and what keeps it growing under the surface.The difference between direct anger and the colder, score-keeping kind.How overgiving can come from anxiety and approval-seeking, not just generosity.Unspoken expectations and why you're grading people on a rubric they never saw.The gap between capability and capacity, and why being able to carry it all doesn't mean you should.What self-abandonment actually looks like and why no one is coming to rescue you from a dynamic you keep participating in.How resentment leaks out sideways when it never gets said directly.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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    283. Breaking Patterns Feels Worse Before It Feels Better (Part II)

    Send us Fan MailA lot of people expect change to feel empowering right away. It doesn't always. Sometimes it feels awkward, boring, exposing. Sometimes it feels like grief. And that part doesn't get talked about enough.Join Anna and Tim as they get into the real texture of what breaking a pattern actually requires. Not the inspiration, the resistance. The moment when the new thing feels unfamiliar and wrong, and the old thing is right there pulling at you. Anna gets honest about her own patterns, including the anger she learned from watching her dad shut down every room he walked into, and what it actually took to start doing something different. This Episode Covers:Why we repeat what is unresolved, not just what hurts us.Attaching to someone's potential instead of the reality right in front of you.The shame spiral that kicks in when you realize how long you've known better.Why the new pattern feels wrong even when it's right.The difference between insight and behavior change, and where most people stop.Catching the pattern earlier, before it's already played out.What it means to grieve the familiar version of yourself.Anna's own story of burning out by being everyone's fixer, and what was actually driving it.Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth.Mad love!Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coachingThe podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYquDon’t forget to subscribe to the Badass Confidence Coach podcast on your favorite podcast platform!CONNECT WITH ANNA:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/askannamarcolin/TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/tag/askannamarcolinEmail [email protected] https://www.annamarcolin.com

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The Badass Confidence Coach is your go-to podcast for high-achieving women and men ready to step into their full potential. Hosted by Anna Marolin, therapist, life coach, and 20-year triathlete, this show is not your average therapy session. Anna is on a mission to empower everyone to overcome their self-doubt, crush their goals, and live their most badass lives.Tune in to discover practical strategies, candid conversations, and actionable advice to conquer the challenges holding you back. From battling loneliness and anxiety to mastering mindset shifts and embracing self-love, Anna dives deep into the struggles we all face, alongside insightful guest interviews and engaging discussions with her husband, Tim.Expect raw honesty, unwavering support, and a hefty dose of inspiration as Anna shares her expertise gained from over two decades of counseling and coaching experience. Whether you're seeking to boost your confidence, redefine

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