Epi 138: Do You Feel Like A Fraud? Diving into Imposter Syndrome
Have you ever found yourself in a room of highly successful people and thought to yourself, “How did I get here?” Or perhaps look at your partner and wonder why they choose you? Have you ever felt that you were faking it and wondered when the bottom would drop out of the fake façade? Have you ever pretended to be someone you aren’t to fit in? Lastly, do you think of the wins in your life as “dumb luck?”
If so, you may be experiencing imposter syndrome. That’s the bad news. The good news is everyone experiences this from time to time. But, unfortunately, our mental and emotional health are impacted when we live this way 24-7.
So, today, you and I are taking a one-on-one deep dive into what imposter syndrome is, its characteristics, how it impacts us, and then we’re talking about flipping the internal conversation to get us out of untrue patterns that easily own us.
So, let’s dive right in.
00:00 Introduction
02:09 Imposter Syndrome hits all of us at one point or another
04:29 Questions to know if you are engaging in Imposter Syndrome
05:18 Breaking Imposter Syndrome down and defining
07:32 How Imposter Syndrome shows up
09:02 The five types of imposters
13:33 Thoughts that are fairly commonly connected to this syndrome
17:01 Using imposter syndrome as motivation only works if you don’t fall into the trap of negativity
20:10 The impact of this behavior
23:22 Why does imposter syndrome happen?
28:01 How we cope and round 2 of difficult questions
30:54 Tools to help you change the pattern
32:18 Focus on others
33:25 Access your abilities
34:03 Take baby steps
32:18 Question your thoughts
35:48 How to change the thought through the behavior
41:27 Go back to the four questions I always ask to know how you want to show up
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