Contagious Confidence Podcast

How to Advocate for Yourself with Christen Yuan, Master Life Coach and Podcast Host

• Katie Hawkes • Season 5 • Episode 12

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Do you find it hard to stand up for yourself? This episode is for YOU!

Christen Yuan is a Master Life Coach certified by the Elementum Coaching Institute. She is the Host of the Modern Day Asians Podcast where she talks about the challenges she faces as an Asian American and offers coaching on how to start overcoming those struggles. 

Her passion is to help Millenial Asians heal from their cultural pain and help them find their fullest expression, self-acceptance, and belonging within. Her goal is to be a resource to help Asians who never found belonging feel fully confident in themselves and their identity in occupying the third space. Christen is known for her ability to hold a safe space to ask powerful questions that you intuitively know the answers to. She is highly adaptive to her clients to ensure they have the right type of guidance for effective results and breakthroughs. 

Christen has worked in various Fortune 500 companies in sales, marketing, and product development. As a millennial, she has been able to successfully navigate one of the most male-dominated industries representing the lack of diversity in the workforce. She is passionate about embracing employee individuality to build effective, productive, creative teams that will drive the next level of innovation. 

In this episode of the Contagious Confidence Podcast, we talk about:

  • What being a self-advocate means
  • How to advocate for yourself to your parent(s) 
  • Why it's difficult for us to advocate for ourselves
  • How to stand up for yourself
  • How to let go of the fear that is holding you back 
  • Why it's important to self-advocate 
  • Tips for standing up for yourself

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