Leadership coaching for women claiming their authority.
School of Self-Worth blends solo coaching and client conversations about moving from overwork and self-doubt into clearer authority. Its recent episodes focus especially on high-achieving Asian American women navigating promotions, visibility, emotional reactivity, business growth, caregiving, and money anxiety.
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School of Self-Worth is a coaching-forward show about ambition, visibility, and the inner patterns that shape professional momentum. It has a polished self-help cadence. It also gets specific fast. Recent episodes focus on being passed over for promotion, choosing a yearly developmental theme, becoming less emotionally reactive at work, changing financial habits, and making career pivots that feel aligned rather than merely impressive. Nicole Song speaks most sharply to high-achieving women, with repeated attention to Asian American women navigating leadership, cultural conditioning, and the pressure to keep other people comfortable. The show’s central argument is practical: good work is not always enough if authority, voice, and strategic positioning are missing. That gives the episodes their edge. A listener hears less abstract confidence talk and more concrete diagnosis of behaviors like people-pleasing, over-helping, staying privately praised, and not claiming a leadership identity in public. Solo episodes often work like compact coaching sessions. They take one obstacle and press on it from several angles until the listener can see the pattern. Guest and alumni conversations add narrative proof. Laura Saldivar Luna’s episode connects intuitive decision-making with business scaling and making room for family. Kim Moy’s story traces a move from corporate uncertainty into a dream business supporting caregivers, using the language of calling and Ikigai. Shang Saavedra’s financial anxiety conversation grounds the show’s self-worth theme in spending, saving, retirement, family costs, and the emotional side of money. The pacing is energetic and promotional at times, but the core appeal is clear: this is advice for women who have already achieved a lot and still feel under-seen. It respects ambition. It questions overwork. It treats intuition as data, not decoration. It also makes leadership personal, locating career advancement in the daily choices of voice, boundaries, self-perception, and emotional regulation. School of Self-Worth suits listeners who want a supportive coach in their ear, especially when the problem is not talent but visibility, decision fatigue, or fear of being fully seen.
Made for: The show is for ambitious women, especially high-achieving Asian American women, who want more visibility, promotion, emotional steadiness, and alignment in work or business. It also suits people trying to understand what can block Asian American women’s leadership growth.
What sets it apart: School of Self-Worth connects self-trust to concrete workplace outcomes: promotions, public authority, faster decisions, career pivots, and financial calm. Its strongest episodes name the invisible habits behind being overlooked, then translate self-worth into specific leadership behavior.
School of Self-Worth is a purposeful podcast and community for the ambitious woman who knows she is worthy of an astoundingly great life. Join us weekly as we redefine success, set and sustain boundaries, and reclaim your self-worth. Hosted by Nicole Tsong, bestselling author, former journalist, and work/life balance coach, who helps professional women live an aligned life. We will have diverse and meaningful conversations with successful women from all walks of life who share insight about what it takes to be brave, joyful, and yourself every day. Every single episode is thoughtfully designed to leave you feeling empowered, wi...
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A grounded portrait of leaving corporate work for purpose-led caregiving support.
Kim Moy's story is about a sharp turn in work and life: a corporate job, a sense that something else was waiting, then steady help from Nicole Song and Your Clear Calling.
A grounded look at aggressive saving, work optionality, and how family costs reshape the math.
Shang Saavedra and Nicole Song keep the discussion on money as habit, tradeoffs, and self-worth. Shang says she and her husband saved hard, finished retirement savings by 31, and were able to put away about $100,000 a year because they lived very frugally.
Higher consciousness with practical surrender work.
Nicole Song explains why feedback can trigger shame for Asian American women raised with high family expectations and criticism.
Nicole Song interviews Laura Saldivar Luna, founder of a transformational leadership coaching practice, about replacing slow decision-making and overwork with intuitive leadership.
Host Nicole Song introduces her developmental theme for the new year and offers guidance on entering the year with clarity and intention.
Host Nicole Song shares her biggest lessons from 2025, including insights from having a baby, aimed at high-achieving women seeking to reverse cultural conditioning and increase visibility.
Kim Moy tells Nicole Song how a 30-year corporate career, caregiver support work, and a reorg at her Seattle job converged into one major pivot.
Nicole Tsong discusses how Asian American women can overcome feeling unseen in corporate leadership by reversing cultural conditioning and stepping into their power.
Host Nicole Tsong discusses how to be less emotionally reactive at work, especially for Asian American women in leadership.
Nicole Song interviews Shang Saavedra, author of Wealth is a Mindset and CEO of Save My Cents, about financial anxiety, immigrant money habits, and what changed after Shang finished saving for retirement at age 31.
Host Nicole Tsong announces her pregnancy and upcoming maternity leave, adjusting the podcast schedule while continuing to feature interviews with inspiring Asian American leaders.
Host Nicole Tsong interviews John Wang, author of Big Asian Energy, about helping Asian professionals break the bamboo ceiling and achieve leadership recognition.
Host Nicole Tsong interviews client Sydney Powell about her transformation through the YCC program, focusing on career, relationships, and self-worth.
Host Nicole Tsong interviews a past student about how her program helped her transform after a layoff and divorce, enabling fast, powerful decisions.
Host Nicole Song shares her personal approach to coaching Asian American women on reversing cultural conditioning and embracing self-worth.