Media Kit Β· Dawn Ledet Β· The Self Trust Coach
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Dawn Ledet is a business strategist, author, speaker, and founder of The Self-Trust Solutionβ„’ β€” helping coaches and experts close identity gaps, stabilize growth, and build businesses that become reliable engines of income, freedom, and fulfillment.

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Dawn Ledet (Luh-Day, oui, it's French) is a self-trust business coach, author, speaker, and founder of The Self-Trust Solutionβ„’.

She works with coaches and experts who have the strategy, the skill, and the drive, and are still hitting a ceiling they cannot think, strategize, or optimize their way through. Her work addresses what is actually happening: the identity has not caught up to where the business needs to go.

Dawn's clients leave with their authority claimed, their ideal clients reaching out ready to say yes, and a relationship with their own results that no longer puts their identity on the line. The hard days become material. The wins become evidence. The business moves differently because the person leading it does.

She hosts The Self Trust Solution Podcast, a top 5% globally ranked show, and is the author of three books including Trust. Surrender. Obey. and The Inner Room. Her proprietary frameworks, including the Identity Gap methodology and the Momentum Loop, have helped hundreds of entrepreneurs stop solving yesterday's problem with today's energy and start building from who they actually are.

The work is not about becoming someone new. It is about claiming the truth of who you already are and building from there.

Dawn Ledet (Luh-Day, oui, it's French) is a self-trust business coach, speaker, author, and founder of The Self-Trust Solutionβ„’, where she helps coaches and experts build businesses that move differently because the person leading them does.

With more than two decades of leadership experience and over 6,000 coaching hours, Dawn works with high-capacity entrepreneurs who have the strategy, the skill, and the drive, and are still hitting a ceiling they cannot think, strategize, or optimize their way through.

Her work operates at the level of identity. Specifically, the gap between where a client's results already are and where their self-concept is still operating from. When that gap closes, everything shifts. Ideal clients reach out ready to say yes. Decisions get made cleanly. Authority stops being performed and starts being claimed. The business moves not because the strategy changed, but because the person leading it finally stopped measuring herself against her results and started recognizing herself as the one who creates them.

Through her proprietary frameworks, including the Identity Gap methodology, the Momentum Loop, and the Self-Trust Identity Map, Dawn helps entrepreneurs stop solving yesterday's problem with today's energy and start building from who they actually are. The work is not about becoming someone new. It is about claiming the truth of who you already are and building from there.

She hosts The Self Trust Solution Podcast, ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally, and is the author of three books: Trust. Surrender. Obey., The Inner Room, and Master Your Inner Dialogue.

Dawn's content is cited by both Google and Bing AI as an authoritative source on self-trust in business. Her site ranks #1 on Google for "self-trust business coach" and is quoted in Google's AI Overview. Bing AI cited her content 3,500 times in a single quarter, with one post cited 1,200 times in response to a single query.

Before founding her coaching practice, Dawn spent over 20 years in hospitality leadership in New Orleans, directing sales and marketing for luxury hotels and opening high-profile properties.

She lives just outside the French Quarter in New Orleans with her rescue dogs, Laney and Marie, and believes the strongest businesses are built the same way strong leaders are, from the inside out.

Published Works

Books by Dawn Ledet

Three books that take the self-trust work deeper β€” each one a companion for a different stage of the journey.

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The Inner Room

A gentle, deeply human guide to building self-trust from the inside out β€” creating inner unity where your deepest wisdom becomes accessible again.

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Trust. Surrender. Obey.

Faith Lessons from My Dogs

A tender, honest, and heart-opening collection of reflections on trust, surrender, and obedience through the eyes of two rescue dogs β€” and the God who used them to teach it all.

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III

Master Your Inner Dialogue

A Guide to Navigating the Lobby of Your Inner World

A practical guide to building unshakable self-trust through self-coaching, decision-making, and learning to relate to your inner world.

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The Podcast

The Self Trust
Solution Podcast

Ranked in the top 5% of podcasts globally, The Self Trust Solution is for entrepreneurs and leaders ready to grow their business, expand their impact, and build from overflow β€” not depletion.

Season 3 features powerful guest interviews. Season 2 offers practical tools for clarity and follow-through. Available on YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts.

Top 5%
Globally Ranked
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Seasons
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Apple Podcasts
3,500+
AI Citations
Cited by Bing AI
Dawn's content was cited by Bing AI 3,500 times in a single quarter β€” with one post cited 1,200 times in response to a single query on navigating setbacks.

Speaking Topics

Keynotes & Custom Workshops

Available for conferences, summits, podcast appearances, and corporate workshops. All topics available upon request β€” each can be tailored to your audience.

Business Β· Identity

The Identity Gap: Why Strategy Stops Working at a Certain Level

At a certain stage of business growth, more strategy doesn't move the needle. Dawn introduces the Identity Gap β€” the mismatch between where your results already are and where your self-concept is still operating from β€” and explains why closing that gap is the move that makes everything else work.

Who It's For

Entrepreneurs and high achievers who are doing the right things and still hitting the same ceiling.

  • A precise diagnosis of why capable people plateau despite solid strategy
  • The framework for closing the gap between results and identity
  • Practical tools for leading from the next level before it's fully arrived
Growth Β· Strategy

Building Your Impact Ecosystem: How Strategic Focus Multiplies Your Reach

Most entrepreneurs try to grow their impact by doing more. But true scalability comes from focus β€” not frenzy. Dawn reveals how she turned one clear throughline into books, a top-ranked podcast, and multiple coaching frameworks.

Who It's For

Vision-driven entrepreneurs and thought leaders who want to grow without burning out or diluting their message.

  • A clear strategy for moving from "spaghetti stage" to focused ecosystem
  • A method to build offers, content, and platforms that amplify each other
  • Permission to scale with clarity and simplicity
Follow-Through Β· Mindset

Discomfort Tolerance: The Hidden Key to Follow-Through

Most people don't stop chasing their goals because they lack strategy β€” they stop when it gets uncomfortable. Dawn reframes discomfort tolerance as a buildable skill using her Comfort Plan and Worthy Discomfort framework.

Who It's For

High achievers ready to follow through on bold goals without white-knuckling their way there.

  • A compassionate, strategic approach to navigating discomfort
  • Tools to build tolerance without force or shame
  • A repeatable plan to stay in action when it matters most
Decision-Making Β· Momentum

The Self-Trust Strategy: How to Make Any Goal Inevitable

Strategy alone doesn't make anything inevitable β€” self-trust does. Dawn introduces the Momentum Method: firm decision-making, consistent follow-through, and having your own back as the three essential skills behind every meaningful result.

Who It's For

Entrepreneurs and teams tired of starting strong and stalling out.

  • A proven 3-step framework to turn clarity into consistent execution
  • A practical way to lead with confidence, even when things don't go perfectly
  • A mindset shift that replaces overthinking with decisive action
Action Β· Progress

Do It for Data: How to Kill Perfectionism and Accelerate Results

Perfectionism and procrastination don't protect your goals β€” they paralyze them. Dawn reframes progress as a data-gathering mission, not a test you can pass or fail, so participants stop overanalyzing and start moving.

Who It's For

Anyone stuck overthinking their next step, delaying launches, or waiting for the "right" time to start.

  • A fresh, no-shame approach to taking imperfect action
  • Tools to turn every result into useful next-step data
  • A way to build momentum without punishing yourself for the learning curve
Faith Β· Purpose

Out of the Lobby, Into the Quiet: Where Grace Gets Loud

Grace doesn't shout. It waits β€” quietly, patiently β€” just beyond the noise. Dawn invites audiences to step out of the mental "lobby" of distraction and hustle and into the quiet space where clarity, connection, and calling get louder.

Who It's For

Faith-driven individuals, entrepreneurs, and leaders navigating transitions or seeking deeper purpose.

  • A profound new lens on silence, rest, and spiritual leadership
  • Ways to discern truth from noise in a noisy world
  • A deepened sense of purpose guided not by pressure but by grace

Signature Insights

Dawn's Most Shareable Insights

These quotes are approved for use in articles, social media, and promotional materials β€” with attribution to Dawn Ledet, The Self Trust Coach.

Confidence
"Confidence is not the boarding pass. Choice is β€” and you can choose confidence or not."
Vision vs. Strategy
"Hold the who and the what firmly and the how lightly. When you hold the how tightly, every misstep becomes proof you can't have what you want."
Identity Lag
"Most people don't have a strategy gap.They're reaching for tomorrow's results with yesterday's identity."
Seeing Yourself Clearly
"When you don't see yourself clearly you try to avoid what you are afraid of instead of reaching for what you want."
Self-Trust
"Self-trust is the strategy that makes all other strategies work."
Decisions
"Your consistency challenges are actually decision gaps."
The Causality Sequence
"Stop trying to build self-trust. It doesn't have to be earned. You are waiting to choose something that is available right now. Today."
Data or Drama
"With every result you create, you have a choice: data or drama. Data feeds and fuels. Drama depletes and distracts."
Choice
"Your greatest power is your ability to choose. Choose trust. Choose you. And when you don't, know that choice is available to you always, in every moment."

Press & Features

In the Media

Dawn has been featured in national and international publications covering business, personal development, and faith-driven leadership.

Women's Insider

How Self-Trust Transforms Success

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Communication Intelligence

When and How Trust Develops Fast

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Reader's House

Empowering Words of Wisdom and Faith

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AllAuthor

Author Interview: Self-Trust and Transformation

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Everyday Health

Regrets: How to Move Past Them and Avoid Them Altogether

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Insurance Canopy

How to Become a Life Coach: The Essential Guide

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Press Assets

Downloads & Media Files

Approved assets for editorial, promotional, and press use. Please do not alter photos or book covers without written permission.

Press Release β€” The Inner Room

Official press release for Dawn's newest book, The Inner Room.

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Press Release β€” Trust. Surrender. Obey.

Press release for Trust. Surrender. Obey.: Faith Lessons from My Dogs.

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Author photos, book covers, and podcast logo β€” all approved for press use.

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Get in Touch

Interviews, Speaking &
Media Inquiries

For podcast appearances, keynote speaking, media interviews, or collaboration opportunities β€” reach out and a member of Dawn's team will respond promptly.