Episode 24
Imposter Syndrome in Business: The Impact on Self-Worth and Success
Episode Summary
On this episode of A Whole Lotta Shift, join host Jen Ingram as she continues the Confidence Series in Part 2. This episode focuses on overcoming imposter syndrome and building self-confidence. Jen starts by sharing various strategies to combat imposter syndrome, such as writing down and sharing celebrations to manifest desired outcomes. She encourages listeners to celebrate even the smallest wins, like sharing a side hustle or handing out business cards.
The episode also delves into the speaker's personal experiences with imposter syndrome, including comparisons to others and doubts about their own abilities. Jen emphasizes the importance of recognizing and challenging negative thoughts and feelings, as well as seeking support from others.
Throughout the episode, Jen offers practical advice and resources to help listeners on their journey to building self-confidence. She explores the impact of imposter syndrome on different aspects of business and promises to delve deeper into the topic in future episodes. Listeners are invited to join Jen next week for more strategies and insights on building self-confidence, including exploring affirmations. She encourages questions, utilizing the Facebook group, and reviewing previous content.
So, tune in to A Whole Lotta Shift for an empowering episode on overcoming imposter syndrome and building self-confidence. Let's conquer self-doubt and celebrate our achievements together.
About the Host:
Jen is a Dream Catalyst and Business Mentor saving hustling female solopreneurs from the chains of corporate America. Her passion lies in helping women through their self awakening so they can finally break free, turn their side hustle into the business of their dreams, and live a life full of time, location and financial freedom.
Jen is a California girl at heart, now living out her dream in the Midwest, traveling, coaching female solopreneurs and sharing her own story of triumph and empowerment across speaking platforms. When she's not traveling, she enjoys spending time with her college aged son and her rescued Pit Bull.
After 20 years of various project manager and corporate trainer roles while juggling a wide array of side gigs, she has mastered the ability to help women see what they cannot see, believe they are meant for more and take aligned action to make it happen.
With an MBA in Change Management, and a Health and Life Coach Certification from the Health Coach Institute, Jen is an expert at creating both the business process changes and the personal habit changes needed to finally Break UP with corporate and go all-in on your side hustle or long standing passion project.
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I had somebody trying to tell me with evidence,
Speaker:with external evidence, hey.
Speaker:These are your achievements. These are your accomplishments. These are where you're at. This
Speaker:is where you should be. This is where you should be applying yourself
Speaker:towards. And even with all this external validation, somebody
Speaker:telling me, test scores, whatever else,
Speaker:I wasn't listening. I wasn't listening, and I was
Speaker:still playing small, and I was still staying in this little tiny bubble, and it
Speaker:was like everybody just kept trying to push me
Speaker:until one day, they tried to push me back down. And I
Speaker:was like, oh, now I know this is wrong.
Speaker:Welcome to a whole lot of Shift podcast. The
Speaker:podcast for multi passionate women with an entrepreneurial spirit,
Speaker:where we provide inspiration, motivation, and education to
Speaker:help you shift away from all the shoulds and post twos to
Speaker:what's truly possible for you in your business and your
Speaker:life, all on your own terms. You ready,
Speaker:girl? Let's make Shift happen.
Speaker:Hello, and welcome to another episode of a whole lot of shift.
Speaker:This week, we are talking about empowering
Speaker:confidence, and this is part 2 in our empowering
Speaker:confidence series. And today, we're talking about impostor syndrome and how
Speaker:to tackle that pesky impostor syndrome. So
Speaker:I really wanted to include this as part of our self
Speaker:confidence series because I would be
Speaker:amiss if I didn't include it and speak to it, but I
Speaker:also wanna say, the impostor syndrome goes
Speaker:deep. It goes deep and wide, and
Speaker:it encompasses so many pieces I'm actually planning on
Speaker:doing a completely separate series just on impostor
Speaker:syndrome. We know that statistically speaking, high achieving
Speaker:women, tend to suffer from impostor syndrome the most. So it's
Speaker:definitely something that I wanna cover. Impostor syndrome,
Speaker:oftentimes, as I mentioned, if you caught the Monday mindset, in the
Speaker:Facebook group. One of the things that I mentioned in there is part
Speaker:of impostor syndrome is Feeling
Speaker:like your accomplishments aren't really true or
Speaker:valid that your accomplishments maybe are just
Speaker:luck or they're a fluke, in last week's session
Speaker:on confidence, one of the things that I mentioned was that sometimes
Speaker:our self confidence or lack of self confidence might show up as,
Speaker:oh, I'm only getting what I deserve, and I don't deserve X
Speaker:Y Z. Right? So When we think about
Speaker:that and as it relates to impostor syndrome, a lot of times
Speaker:then impostor syndrome can really play into your self worth
Speaker:and yourself worked and then play into some of your money stories.
Speaker:It can play into how you are marketing yourself, how
Speaker:you're selling your services, how you're charging for your
Speaker:services. So there's a whole other beast behind
Speaker:impostor syndrome that I really wanna dig into.
Speaker:But for the purposes of our self confidence
Speaker:series, I just wanna kind of briefly touch on it, and I want you all
Speaker:to be able to walk away with a handful of strategies
Speaker:today on how you can start tackling impostor
Speaker:syndrome as it relates to your self confidence. So that's what we're
Speaker:gonna get to today is I'm gonna be sharing some of my top tips. So
Speaker:kinda stay tuned for that. And so to
Speaker:kinda kick us off, I've already spoken a little bit about impostor syndrome
Speaker:and how it's kind of that feeling like you know, something's
Speaker:just a fluke. Maybe you just got lucky. It could
Speaker:also be that feeling of
Speaker:Not feeling like you're enough. And so
Speaker:you're maybe a fraud. Like, somebody's gonna find out
Speaker:that you don't actually know all the answers or someone's gonna find out that you're
Speaker:not real. That's kind of where the imposter comes from.
Speaker:with the impostor syndrome. It's kind of that
Speaker:internal believing that you're not quite as competent
Speaker:as others think you are.
Speaker:So this can show up in so many ways.
Speaker:Even though oftentimes, There's external evidence
Speaker:to prove that you are confident and worth it,
Speaker:which you all are. But even we'll take that
Speaker:external evidence, that achievement, or accomplishment, or what have
Speaker:you, and we'll even try and turn that around and make it like it's
Speaker:no big deal, etcetera. So that's kind
Speaker:of what we're gonna dig into today. And I'm gonna share a
Speaker:couple of of quick stories because I've seen this play out in a couple
Speaker:different ways. One way that I've seen this play out as it relates
Speaker:to women in their in their business or even just
Speaker:women sharing their accomplishments,
Speaker:have a friend who is in the beauty industry,
Speaker:and she had struggled for a really long time with impostor syndromes
Speaker:and an impostor syndrome. One of the things that she felt like was she was
Speaker:constantly battling that image of I don't even
Speaker:wanna share my you know, my work,
Speaker:my before and after photos of my clients because
Speaker:I don't feel like my work is as good as
Speaker:this other person's that I'm seeing on social media.
Speaker:And so she was constantly feeling like she was
Speaker:in a state of comparison. You know? She
Speaker:felt like when her clients would say, oh my gosh. This looks great. I
Speaker:feel amazing. Like, they were just being nice. Right?
Speaker:Like, that wasn't real. Even though our business continued
Speaker:to grow, And she, you know, continued to grow more
Speaker:clientele based on word-of-mouth and referrals and really
Speaker:grow organically like she wanted to still had
Speaker:those internal thoughts of, wait, this
Speaker:isn't real. My work's not actually that good, right?
Speaker:So, this starts to show up because how
Speaker:let me rephrase that. How it starts to show up and impact you
Speaker:and your business is that You may not be
Speaker:fully showing up and sharing all that you can do and
Speaker:the services that you can provide others because
Speaker:you've got that little voice inside that's telling you, well, it's
Speaker:either it's not as good as someone else or I actually don't know what
Speaker:I'm doing. you know, yes. This is something that I enjoy,
Speaker:and it feels like it comes easy to me, but I I don't
Speaker:have as much experience of somebody else, or I don't have their credentials.
Speaker:All of those thoughts, again, comparison
Speaker:is the thief of joy. we've gotta stop
Speaker:the comparison. Right? So that's one
Speaker:way I've seen it play out is just even the fear of
Speaker:sharing your own achievements and your own work for
Speaker:fear that it's not enough and that you don't have what somebody else
Speaker:has Right? Another way that I've seen
Speaker:this show up is just not even
Speaker:believing in your own skills. I can
Speaker:remember this was back several years ago.
Speaker:I had I had applied for a job
Speaker:And, oh, man. Yeah. This was several years ago because I remember I was still
Speaker:doing freelancing as a bookkeeper. And so I I
Speaker:had had a bunch of things happen. I had a couple deaths in
Speaker:the family like back to back. My in laws passed away,
Speaker:like, 6 weeks apart from each other. I just
Speaker:really bad time. And for whatever reason, I think the pressure of family
Speaker:members friends, society,
Speaker:whatever, kinda started getting to me about the fact that, you
Speaker:know, maybe doing freelancing work wasn't seen
Speaker:as stable. I didn't have a 401k.
Speaker:I didn't have benefits the way that others had benefits.
Speaker:Right? but if it's being health insurance, even though
Speaker:I did and I was able to still receive medical care a million other
Speaker:ways, By the way, all these stories at some
Speaker:point, I'll be sharing how all these things are also false. You can
Speaker:still save for retirement without having a w 2 job,
Speaker:or you can also run a business and maintain your w 2 job if
Speaker:that's the purpose that it's serving for you. But, anyways,
Speaker:Circling back, trying not to squirrel. Sorry. And so I
Speaker:had applied for a job as an accountant in a in a
Speaker:company And the recruiter kinda reached out, and she
Speaker:was like, hey. I know you've already gone through a couple rounds
Speaker:for this accountant position, and they definitely wanna move you on to
Speaker:the next round. Like, you don't even need to go for the 3rd interview yet.
Speaker:Like, we just wanna move you on to meet with one of
Speaker:the executives. And she said, but I've been looking over
Speaker:your information, and we happen to have like
Speaker:this director of this accounting department
Speaker:opened, and I think you need to apply. And I was like, you know, I
Speaker:saw that I saw that role posted. I I don't know.
Speaker:But, I mean, if you think that if you feel that I might be qualified
Speaker:and or based on feedback of the interviewed,
Speaker:in the interviews that I've already done, sure. Let's throw my
Speaker:resume in the hat. Right? And so she was like, okay.
Speaker:So Because it is for more of a leadership or
Speaker:executive position, we need you to take all of
Speaker:the skills I need to take, like, a bunch of skills assessments
Speaker:And then it's like some other tests. I don't even remember
Speaker:what all they were. Right? There was there was one that was easy. It was
Speaker:just a personality Right? So, it's just asking you a bunch of personality questions.
Speaker:But then, there was another assessment test where it gave you tons
Speaker:of scenarios that you had to kind of
Speaker:select based on, you know, leadership
Speaker:knowledge, HR knowledge, a bunch of other things. You know?
Speaker:How how you would do in those scenarios, what your answer
Speaker:would be. There was there was a punch. I mean, I went through, like, a
Speaker:battery of tests. Right? And it took several hours, and I
Speaker:was like, this is wild. So, anyways, I made it through all
Speaker:the tests, and then they had me interview with a couple of the
Speaker:executives, blah blah blah. It's a few days
Speaker:later, and and I get a call from I don't
Speaker:wanna say the hiring manager because in this particular case, the hiring manager was
Speaker:really, like, a top executive. and they had called me to let me
Speaker:know that they had decided to choose an internal candidate, which
Speaker:I've mixed feelings about. Because if you already know you're gonna probably choose an
Speaker:internal candidate, like, y waste and external candidates kind of
Speaker:petting me waste. And vice versa, But
Speaker:then I got a call from the head of
Speaker:HR, and she called me. She was hey. I know
Speaker:that such and such has already called and spoken with you, but I wanted to
Speaker:make a separate phone call to you. And I'm like, okay. You know, I don't
Speaker:I don't really get why. She's like, I need you to
Speaker:understand that we reviewed your test
Speaker:scores. She said, I reviewed your test scores.
Speaker:And you scored higher than most
Speaker:of the execs at our company. Like, you have some of the
Speaker:highest scores we've ever seen in
Speaker:these type of skills assessments that are like, Okay. Well,
Speaker:she's blowing smoke or something. And so I lure I I
Speaker:just asked her. I was like, okay. Is there another job that you're wanting me
Speaker:to to put my resume in for, and she was like,
Speaker:no. I she's like, I would give anything if I had another
Speaker:role for you right now. She's like, but I wanted to make a call to
Speaker:you to tell you that you should not be
Speaker:applying for an accounting job.
Speaker:You're way beyond that. Your test scores
Speaker:say you're way beyond that. You you should
Speaker:be. applying for leadership roles.
Speaker:You should not be applying for the first job
Speaker:that you applied for here. And I was like, Okay. Well, I
Speaker:don't know. Maybe maybe your test is flawed.
Speaker:Like, I just I had all these stories in my head. Right? And she was
Speaker:like, This is a personal call. She said,
Speaker:they don't know I'm calling you. Promise me you will
Speaker:never apply for another entry job again. And I was
Speaker:like, are you serious right now? She's like,
Speaker:stop. That just stopped. And I thought, I don't know. It's kinda
Speaker:taken aback, and I wasn't even sure what to think about this whole entire
Speaker:conversation. It was really odd. But, anyways, So fast
Speaker:forward, obviously, I didn't get the job. I I went on. I gained
Speaker:a couple more contracts for my freelancing for a while. And then when
Speaker:those contracts were near coming to an end, I had reached
Speaker:out for another contract, but with a
Speaker:recruiter, And very long story short,
Speaker:that contract ended up being for a former employer. I just didn't know
Speaker:that that was where they were gonna be sending my resume out to. or
Speaker:or my information, whatever. And so I got a call
Speaker:from my former employer that was like, hey. We see that you're
Speaker:applying, but you're applying for this contract role, but
Speaker:we would actually just hire you because you've worked for us before,
Speaker:whatever. And so but they were like, but you do still need to come
Speaker:in blah blah blah. And so I did.
Speaker:And long story short, they got me to
Speaker:and and I just I laugh at this. But I accepted a
Speaker:job entry at not entry level, but
Speaker:not much above an entry level accounting position. But, of
Speaker:course, it was my former employer. I knew the business. I
Speaker:knew the employer. No big deal.
Speaker:So I ended up working in that role, not even
Speaker:for not even 6 months. And they were like,
Speaker:You don't belong in this role, but they had a rule that
Speaker:you had to work in a certain position for a year before they could promote
Speaker:you, or you could even apply for anything whatever. And they were like,
Speaker:we're gonna bypass that rule because you don't belong
Speaker:here. And so they promoted me
Speaker:I was in that next position for 8 months.
Speaker:They promoted me again from there. I sat in that role for
Speaker:a little while. And then, eventually, there was a restructure, and
Speaker:my my role got changed, and if you listen
Speaker:to any of the old episodes of my podcast and, you know, kind of what
Speaker:went from there. And I'm I'm happy to share it, but that was when I
Speaker:decided I definitely needed to put myself on the
Speaker:path towards building something of my
Speaker:own. However, leveraging
Speaker:my career and leveraging what I could learn
Speaker:in a w 2 job and in my career
Speaker:2, getting me what I wanted in a business, and I'll speak on
Speaker:that later. But here's my point in this very long winded story.
Speaker:I had somebody trying to tell me with
Speaker:evidence, with external evidence,
Speaker:hey, these are your achievements, these are your accomplishments, these
Speaker:are where you're at. This is where you should be. This is where you should
Speaker:be flying yourself towards. And even with all this
Speaker:external validation somebody telling me, test scores,
Speaker:whatever else, I wasn't listening.
Speaker:I wasn't listening, and I was still playing small, and I was still staying in
Speaker:this little tiny bubble, and it was like everybody just trying to
Speaker:kept trying to push me until one day, They
Speaker:tried to push me back down. And I was like, oh,
Speaker:now I know this is wrong. Now this doesn't feel
Speaker:right. Right? It was like a whole other situation.
Speaker:But I'm sharing this with you because this
Speaker:is where I feel like Imposter syndrome really comes
Speaker:into play with your self confidence, right? Like, I didn't
Speaker:believe within self when we think about self
Speaker:confidence, and what I shared last week and what is the foundation of
Speaker:self self confidence, the self awareness,
Speaker:self acceptance, and that belief in trust and
Speaker:self and your abilities. And we bring into play
Speaker:impostor syndrome that says,
Speaker:hey. Even though there's all this external evidence, I still don't
Speaker:even believe it, and I'm afraid that someone is gonna find out,
Speaker:and they're gonna figure out I'm a fraud. Right?
Speaker:Those are some of the examples of some serious impostor syndrome
Speaker:playing out. And so while I'm sharing a story about
Speaker:career, for many of you, you are still in your 9 to 5 job,
Speaker:and or you even maybe want to maintain that job as you
Speaker:do build a business on the side I want you to be thinking about
Speaker:that because it wasn't until I decided
Speaker:that, okay, I'm done I'm done with this story. and
Speaker:done with the story that none of the external evidence is true,
Speaker:and and I'm ready to start leveraging what I
Speaker:do know and what I am absolutely certain of to
Speaker:get me the next steps so that I can create
Speaker:for me what I really want.
Speaker:So now what I wanna do now that I just
Speaker:kinda shared a little bit of a background, a little bit of a story. I
Speaker:I like sharing stories, I feel like they make a bigger impact because
Speaker:sometimes you can maybe see some of yourself through some of these
Speaker:stories I think as women, we all share so
Speaker:many similarities and similar stories. I think it's
Speaker:important for us to share some of those which is why I love bringing
Speaker:guests onto my podcast for all of you to hear. So here are
Speaker:some tips. This is I wanna dive into the strategies
Speaker:now that you can use to truly combat some of
Speaker:that impostor syndrome. So, get ready. There are a couple of these that are some
Speaker:right or downers. Right? First of all, acknowledge your
Speaker:feelings. k? Recognize when you're
Speaker:feeling like an imposter. This goes back to the self awareness that we talked
Speaker:about last week because that's really the first
Speaker:step in you recognizing that you're telling yourself a story. and
Speaker:that there's that little voice inside you that you want to shut
Speaker:up. And you wanna start getting that voice instead
Speaker:of being something that kind of holds you back and keeps you
Speaker:down to be more of a coach. I talked about that in the
Speaker:Monday mindset. If you weren't able to catch that, I strongly recommend you go
Speaker:back and and check out that Monday mindset. I had a great tip in
Speaker:there. Okay? So, the first one is acknowledging your feelings, when you're
Speaker:feeling like an imposter and really becoming aware of
Speaker:when that's happening for you. The other thing
Speaker:is to talk about it. Oftentimes, again, just like I'm
Speaker:sharing this story, when you share, hey,
Speaker:man, I am experiencing some serious freaking impostor syndrome right
Speaker:now When you share that with others,
Speaker:it also offers you the opportunity to gain support
Speaker:and gain help. Right? And you never know if by
Speaker:sharing that you may be talking to somebody else who's had some of those same
Speaker:feelings, and maybe they could help you and how they were able
Speaker:to push through it or overcome it, and or maybe there's something in
Speaker:you that they can see that you can't.
Speaker:because sometimes we are our own worst critic. Right?
Speaker:Okay. Challenge yourself and ask
Speaker:yourself Is this true? Is this
Speaker:true? Is this a fact? Is this a fact or is
Speaker:this just a feeling? And I talked a little bit about this
Speaker:before as well. So more often than not, that self doubt
Speaker:is not based on any facts. If we think about
Speaker:impostor syndrome, it's saying all the external evidence in the
Speaker:world doesn't matter because somehow you've got this little voice inside that's
Speaker:saying, oh, that that was luck. That was me telling that
Speaker:that HR person, I think your tests are flawed. and
Speaker:her tests weren't flawed. Right? Okay. So
Speaker:recognizing, is this is this true? Is this a
Speaker:fact or a feeling? Right? When you're saying, oh, I'm not as good
Speaker:as this other person or I don't know that I can do that, somebody's gonna
Speaker:figure out that I'm actually not that great. k?
Speaker:By the way, that was number 3, to challenge yourself
Speaker:and ask the question. So first we have acknowledge those feelings that self
Speaker:awareness, Number 2 was to talk about it and share
Speaker:it with somebody who may be able to help you.
Speaker:Number 3 is to challenge yourself and ask Is this
Speaker:true? Is this a fact or a feeling? Number
Speaker:4, I also talked about this for the last 2 weeks
Speaker:now. and celebrating your achievements and start
Speaker:journaling or writing down when you have those successes so
Speaker:that you can recognize, hey, wait a minute. I've accomplished
Speaker:all these things. I haven't talked about it a lot in this
Speaker:group, I had I had another group a couple years ago in which I
Speaker:really dive took a deep dive for a while into journaling
Speaker:and the importance of journaling and how But one of the things that I shared
Speaker:in that group Here. I
Speaker:really like getting notebooks that have, like, these tabs, and I use these in
Speaker:my journal. because what I'll do is I'll take, like, one
Speaker:of these tabs or one of these little sections, and that becomes my
Speaker:celebration section of my journal. Right? That becomes the section
Speaker:where I write down I write down some of those
Speaker:wins. I write down some of those celebrations. sometimes I'll even write
Speaker:out the celebration that I want to have
Speaker:happen so that I can start manifesting it. So
Speaker:sometimes I'll even write out, and I'll before I
Speaker:go off on a tangent, I'll share this later on in some tips
Speaker:on on manifesting things. But I'll ride out what I wanna be
Speaker:experiencing and and what I wanna be celebrating so that
Speaker:I can start manifesting that and making that come true. But also,
Speaker:I write out any kind of little celebrations. Yesterday,
Speaker:I was celebrating one of the things that I did. I wrote it down. and
Speaker:I shared it with others. I was celebrating because yesterday, I
Speaker:yesterday's or not yesterday, Wednesday's
Speaker:podcast episode release was completely on my
Speaker:own. I did it without the help of a podcast
Speaker:management company, or anything else, and it was something that I completely taught
Speaker:myself. I edited all the audio, I created all the cover
Speaker:art, etcetera, and I was pretty proud of that moment, honestly. He'll take a little
Speaker:bit climb. I wrote that shit down. Right? Okay.
Speaker:So celebrate your achievements. That's number 4. and write
Speaker:those down if you can keep a celebration journal or a Success
Speaker:journal, I strongly recommend doing that. In those
Speaker:times of self doubt, you're gonna want that because you're gonna wanna be able to
Speaker:go back through that journal and say, oh, yeah. I forgot I did
Speaker:that. Oh my god. That was a really hard thing, and I did that. You're
Speaker:gonna want that. And last but not least, number 5.
Speaker:Be kind to yourself. Just be kind
Speaker:to yourself. We all make mistakes. I think
Speaker:I even said in Monday in the Monday mindset, I think I said something
Speaker:like we're all just winging it. Like, literally, we're all
Speaker:just out here winging it. It's so true. Just be kind to
Speaker:yourself. We can be our worst self
Speaker:critics. And giving yourself some grace, some self
Speaker:compassion, means so much. You're a human
Speaker:being. You're going to make mistakes. We all make mistakes. Lord
Speaker:knows, I I make them all the time. I
Speaker:laugh at most of my mistakes anymore because I'm
Speaker:just like, what else am I gonna do? Like, I can sit here and cry
Speaker:about it, or I can laugh about it, learn
Speaker:from it, and move on. That's it. That's all I can
Speaker:do. So be kind to yourself
Speaker:practice some self compassion. Alright.
Speaker:So if any of those kind of resonated with you or if
Speaker:you feel like sharing in the comments, something that you
Speaker:either currently are experiencing some impostor syndrome from
Speaker:or you have in the past Please feel free to share that
Speaker:in the comments. You never know if just by sharing
Speaker:might help someone else Or like I said, you never know if by
Speaker:sharing you may be able to get some help to work
Speaker:through that as well. So Sharing is
Speaker:caring. Okay. I know that was really cheesy, but you're welcome. It's
Speaker:Friday. Okay. The last thing that I
Speaker:wanna say before we wrap this up for today, I
Speaker:really hope that you guys kind of think about some of these strategies. I
Speaker:would say try to put some of them into practice.
Speaker:I would say, actually just
Speaker:gave a really good opportunity. Share in the comments. Right? That's
Speaker:one of the that's one of the strategies is to share. So that's one of
Speaker:the ways, get out your journal. celebrate something that
Speaker:happened recently. Maybe something happened this week. Maybe you had a really
Speaker:big way, and it doesn't here's the other thing. This doesn't need to be a
Speaker:big wing. I would encourage you to
Speaker:think about even the small wins. You know,
Speaker:maybe maybe a win this week was that
Speaker:you shared with somebody else what your side hustle was. You
Speaker:just shared. Maybe you handed out a couple business cards today that you wouldn't have
Speaker:normally. Right? It can be it can be small. It doesn't need to be big.
Speaker:yeah, I think I think those are those are some
Speaker:of my tips and something I'd like for you guys to to kinda try
Speaker:you know, obviously listen. The reason I'm breaking this out into
Speaker:four parts is because building your self confidence, working through
Speaker:things like impostor syndrome, self doubt, negative self
Speaker:talk, these aren't easy things, right? It's a process, it's a
Speaker:journey. It's something that you have to consistently
Speaker:be working on So that's what this is all
Speaker:about. Right? Doesn't necessarily just go away overnight, and I'm here
Speaker:to tell you we all experience it. I
Speaker:don't know that I don't know that
Speaker:impostor syndrome or self doubt ever 1000%
Speaker:goes away. But I can say you
Speaker:reach a point to where you can take a moment to stop and
Speaker:go, oh, oh, and doing that thing.
Speaker:And doing that thing where I doubt myself where I
Speaker:shouldn't or something that I I had started recognizing a
Speaker:couple years ago in my in my career is I had
Speaker:started saying to myself, oh, oh, I'm doing that
Speaker:thing. I'm doing that thing where the man would have acted
Speaker:like he knew it all, and I'm over here doubting
Speaker:myself when, actually, I probably know more than
Speaker:him. Okay? Like, I started reminding
Speaker:myself. Right? Like, hey. If you were a man, you would have already showed up
Speaker:and acted like you knew it even though you didn't. So why
Speaker:are you sitting here and saying nothing because you're full of self
Speaker:doubt? Stop bash it.
Speaker:over it. Done. Alright. I think that's
Speaker:it. I think that's all. I hope you guys enjoyed this little section. Like I
Speaker:said, impostor syndrome goes deep and wide, and it covers so
Speaker:many things. It's definitely something that I'm gonna build out a
Speaker:bit more because it can really build into self worth,
Speaker:which can then impact how you are marketing yourself, how you're
Speaker:presenting yourself, how you're asking for sales. what you're
Speaker:charging. It can go into so many facets of your business. It's definitely
Speaker:something that I'll take a deeper dive into, but I wanted to touch on it
Speaker:for the purposes of building your self confidence. I hope that you're
Speaker:gonna join us next week. Next week is when I
Speaker:truly start getting into the strategies for
Speaker:the mindset of confidence and getting you to be thinking
Speaker:about I am a confident person, I am a confident
Speaker:woman We're gonna kinda dig into that a little bit more and maybe think about
Speaker:some affirmations. So remember that if you have
Speaker:any questions, please feel free to reach out Check out some of the
Speaker:resources in the Facebook group. Go back. Check out the Monday mindset if
Speaker:you didn't already. And Yeah. Until next
Speaker:time, keep making shift happen.
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