Apr 28, 2022

How do you know when your Imposter Syndrome is being triggered? 

Perhaps you experience the classic Imposter Syndrome feelings - that you are a fraud, that your success is down to luck, or that you might be exposed at any time? 

Or perhaps you get carried away by one of the Four Horseman - overthinking, overworking,...

Apr 14, 2022

Confidence – if only we had been born with it!

But confidence isn’t something you’re born with. It isn’t innate. It’s earned.

Earned confidence is the confidence you get from doing hard things, uncomfortable things, things you are afraid of doing because you don’t know how to do them yet. When you think...

Apr 8, 2022

Do you avoid in-person networking events unless they are compulsory? 

Or attend and only speak to people you know or people more junior than you? 

When you have Imposter Syndrome, walking into a room of people you don’t know is triggering. If you feel like a fraud who is scared of being exposed, networking is the last...

Apr 1, 2022

You are outgoing in your personal life. But put you in a meeting at work and you barely say a word. You’re so quiet, you don’t recognise yourself

Not speaking up in meetings is a secret sign of Imposter Syndrome. It’s one of the ways in which you play small, and playing small is one of the 4 work behaviours that...