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How to Be a Badass: Navigating Your Road To Self-Mastery

By Nikki Langman

Published 2021

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About this book

IT'S TIME TO BECOME YOUR MOST POWERFUL SELF. For over 30 years, Nikki Langman was ensnared in the forceful grip of drug and alcohol addiction. Despite many attempts to regain control of her life, she secretly believed that her destiny was to become a casualty of the disease; her legacy nothing more than a statistic. Written with candor, humor, and unparalleled authenticity, Nikki gives the reader a powerfully moving and rare insight into the mind of a person struggling with addiction and the destruction that inevitably comes with it. Equally captivating is Nikki's inspiring and transformational journey of how she freed herself from her own prison and soared to unimaginable heights by using her BADASS framework and the fundamentals of self-mastery and emotional intelligence. Brimming with entertaining stories and actionable ideas, this book demonstrates how you can apply the BADASS principles in your personal and professional life every day to: - Get consistent results - Increase your courage and confidence - Deepen your authenticity - Take more purposeful action - Lead more effectively - Manifest love and respect for yourself at all times Engaging and galvanizing, How to be a BADASS is the book you need to remove the obstacles that are blocking your path and give yourself permission to accelerate into your most powerful self. NIKKI LANGMAN is an International Speaker, Author, Thought Leader on Emotional Intelligence and Self-Mastery, Business Consultant and Facilitator, and Endurance Runner. She is passionate about helping people live their most powerful lives by being BADASS every day.

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About Nikki Langman

Nikki Langman, podcast guest

International Keynote Speaker | Psychological Safety and Human Behavior | Co-Creator, Human LOADLINE™ with UNBRICKABLE®

200+ keynotes Delivered across five countries2025 and 2026 Presented at Yale School of MedicineAward-winning author How to Be a BADASSMaster Practitioner Emotional intelligence

Nikki Langman helps leaders recognize hidden human load, reveal the lived experience behind it, and respond before pressure becomes crisis.

Nikki is an international keynote speaker, Emotional Intelligence Master Practitioner, certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitator, award-winning author, and co-creator of Human LOADLINE™ and UNBRICKABLE®.

Her work begins with a direct question: If prevention works, why do organizations keep waiting until people reach crisis before responding?

Together, Human LOADLINE™ and UNBRICKABLE® create an integrated upstream pathway from hidden human experience to earlier organizational action.

Human LOADLINE™ helps leaders recognize the invisible pressures affecting human capacity, reserve, judgment, safety, culture, and performance. UNBRICKABLE® operates at the reveal stage, using metaphor, storytelling, and experiential model-building to help people express what pressure looks and feels like when conventional conversation cannot reach it.

Psychological safety then determines whether that truth is received well enough for someone to speak honestly again. The organizational response determines whether meaningful action happens while there is still time to change the outcome.

This progression allows leaders and teams to RECOGNIZE, REVEAL, AND RESPOND to human pressure as one connected process, rather than treating individual well-being and organizational systems as unrelated problems.

Nikki brings more than 25 years of experience across leadership development, human resources, learning and development, workplace culture, coaching, operations, and facilitation.

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