Badass Confidence Coach | Your Personal Trainer for Your Mind

Anna Marcolin
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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 success, or simply kick ass in life, The Badass Confidence Coach is your personal guide to unlocking your full potential. Subscribe now and join the community of badass women and men who refuse to settle for anything less than extraordinary. You can also find Anna on Instagram and TikTok @askannamarcolin.

  1. 2d ago

    295. Why Everything Feels Like an Identity Now

    Send us Fan Mail It'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".Mentioned in this episode: Quiet the Noise group coaching cohort: https://www.annamarcolin.com/coaching-packages/p/quiet-the-noise Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth. Mad love! Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coaching The podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYqu Don’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/askannamarcolin Email hello@annamarcolin.com Website https://www.annamarcolin.com

  2. Jul 16

    294. What Control Is Really Costing You

    Send us Fan Mail For 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.Mentioned in this episode: Quiet the Noise group coaching cohort: https://www.annamarcolin.com/coaching-packages/p/quiet-the-noise Until next time, here's to deeper connections and personal growth. Mad love! Book a Discovery Call for Coaching/Therapy: https://calendly.com/badassconfidencecoach/coaching The podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYqu Don’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/askannamarcolin Email hello@annamarcolin.com Website https://www.annamarcolin.com

  3. Jul 9

    293. The Emotional Price of Always Holding It Together

    Send us Fan Mail You 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/coaching The podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYqu Don’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/askannamarcolin Email hello@annamarcolin.com Website https://www.annamarcolin.com

  4. Jul 2

    292. When Your Life Looks Fine But Something Feels Off

    Send us Fan Mail You 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/coaching The podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYqu Don’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/askannamarcolin Email hello@annamarcolin.com Website https://www.annamarcolin.com

  5. Jun 25

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

    Send us Fan Mail You 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/coaching The podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYqu Don’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/askannamarcolin Email hello@annamarcolin.com Website https://www.annamarcolin.com

  6. Jun 18

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

    Send us Fan Mail You 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/coaching The podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYqu Don’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/askannamarcolin Email hello@annamarcolin.com Website https://www.annamarcolin.com

  7. Jun 11

    289. When Self-Improvement Quietly Becomes Self-Rejection

    Send us Fan Mail There 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/coaching The podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYqu Don’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/askannamarcolin Email hello@annamarcolin.com Website https://www.annamarcolin.com

  8. Jun 4

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

    Send us Fan Mail It 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/coaching The podcast is now on YouTube! If you prefer to watch, head over to https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw3CabcJueib20U_L3WeaR-lNG_B3zYqu Don’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/askannamarcolin Email hello@annamarcolin.com Website 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 success, or simply kick ass in life, The Badass Confidence Coach is your personal guide to unlocking your full potential. Subscribe now and join the community of badass women and men who refuse to settle for anything less than extraordinary. You can also find Anna on Instagram and TikTok @askannamarcolin.

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