I'm Andrea Leda, a Depth Coach and writer currently on a purposeful pause—a sabbatical extending from the winter solstice through the 2025 summer solstice, where I’ll be deepening my study of depth work, exploring new places, and restoring my nervous system.
Braver Coach manifesto
When you trust that your small corner of the world is enough, you will be brave enough to make a difference in only the way you can.
As a Braver Coach, I…
Actively work to help you create a Ripple Effect through your life’s work that has a positive collective impact.
Use vulnerability as a guidepost for decision making even when the work itself is messy.
Work with the full human experience including personal history and emotions as they arise.
Make space for your intuition and help you to call on it as a force for liberation from cultural conditioning.
Cultivate balanced coach-client relationships built on trust, respect, and holistic decision-making.
Traditional coaches…
Work with an individual's goal(s) regardless of the collective impact.
Give off an impression of perfection in an attempt to maintain their role as an expert.
Don’t make space in their coaching for emotions, personal history, or trauma.
Mistrust their intuition or ignore their gut if it might mean “coaching outside the box.”
Rely on traditional business models which manipulate clients with illusions of scarcity.
About Andrea Leda
When I first started coaching in 2010 I was afraid to bring too much heart into my work. I wanted to be the “good coach” and follow the rules that I believed were there for my own safety. But those rules became the very thing I had to break in order to be the type of coach I had been called to become—a Braver Coach.
By answering this call, I’ve made space in my coaching for radical empathy, deconditioning, emotional resiliency, grief, trauma, stories, spirituality, and more.
In doing this, I didn’t break people as I was warned I would. Instead, clients found internal liberation for maybe the first time in their lives. I’ve learned that only by bringing forth all of who I am can I make the difference I’m meant to make.
Being a Braver Coach means loving my small corner of the world—and reminding women+ that loving their small corner of the world is enough to make a difference.
For my formal education + training, business ethos, and tenets of coaching please read here.