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The Impostor Syndrome Files — 319 episodes

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Why Great People Struggle in the Wrong Culture

2

How to Spot & Manage Burnout

3

Action Before Readiness

4

Building a Life That Feels as Good as It Looks

5

Communicating More Clearly at Work

6

Harnessing Your Inner Strength

7

When Life Interrupts: Leading Through Caregiving

8

Navigating the Tech Industry with Confidence

9

Staying Calm Under Pressure

10

How Perception Shapes Our Confidence

11

How to Shift Your Mindset

12

The Wisdom of Ignorance

13

Healing Through Truth & Nature

14

My Voice Matters Too

15

Re-Wiring the Subconscious for Greater Confidence

16

Progress Over Perfection

17

Creating Better Workplaces

18

Leading with Self-Empathy

19

Don’t Be Yourself

20

Building Self-Sufficient Teams

21

Confidence Via Connection

22

Leading with Courage & Integrity

23

Exploring the Science of Friendship

24

Rethinking High Performance

25

Experiments: Building Self-Trust and Confidence Through Small Shifts

26

Is an MBA the Right Choice for You?

27

Burnout: Recognizing the Signs and Reclaiming Your Energy

28

Cultivating Charisma: Your Path to Authentic Confidence

29

Finding Joy at Work and in Life

30

Claiming Your Own Success

31

Character-Driven Leadership

32

Finding Your Purpose

33

Rethinking Allyship at Work

34

More Than a Doll: Challenging Gender Stereotypes

35

Leading Through Change & Uncertainty

36

Finding Joy and Purpose in Dark Places

37

Fear to Flow: Reclaiming Your Natural State

38

Courage Is a Skill

39

Rewiring Self-Doubt

40

From Believing to Achieving

41

Paint the Canvas Before You Exit: How to Prepare for Life After Work

42

From Validation-Seeking to Value-Creating: How to Step into Your Authority

43

What Do You Really Want? Getting Honest in Mid-Career

44

Keep It Human: Embracing Uncertainty and Sharing Power in Leadership

45

Owning Your Whole Self: Leadership Through Self-Acceptance

46

From Fear to Curiosity: Rewriting the Unknown

47

Leading Like a Human: Dismantling the Myth of Rational Leadership

48

Staying In: What It Really Takes to Thrive as a Working Mom

49

How to Confidently Navigate Digital Overwhelm

50

Maximizing Relationships with Ourselves & Others

51

Learn & Let Go

52

Overcoming Fear

53

Confidently Navigating Menopause at Work

54

Don’t Fear the Moment

55

Driving Creativity Among Teams

56

How to Develop Gravitas & Boost Your Confidence

57

Be BOLD. Choose You

58

Building Confidence Through Behavior-Based Leadership

59

Unhappy Achievers

60

Leading Change with Confidence

61

Raising Confident Communicators

62

Becoming the Best Version of Yourself

63

Neuroscience of Confidence

64

Thriving as an Outsider

65

How to Thrive Instead of Survive at Work

66

You’re Never Ready

67

Setting Boundaries with Confidence

68

When You Feel Too Young

69

The Puzzle of Leadership

70

Exploring New Career Paths with Confidence

71

Replay: Learning to Trust Ourselves

72

Replay: Growth & Comfort Do Not Coexist

73

Build Your Network to Boost Your Confidence

74

Who Is Leading Your Inner Team?

75

Introvert-Powered Leadership

76

Dealing with Drama at Work

77

The Mothering Myth

78

Prioritizing Well-Being at Work

79

Build a Side Hustle with Confidence

80

Focusing on What’s Within Your Control

81

Don’t Give Your Power Away

82

Using Experimentation to Embrace Your Strengths

83

Build a Better Now

84

Overcoming Your Fear of Flourishing

85

Strengthening Your Relationship with Yourself

86

Overcoming Extrovert Envy

87

The Power of Hidden Leaders

88

I’m Here for a Reason

89

Navigating Middle Management with Confidence

90

Applying the 50/50 Method to Advance Your Career

91

How to Be a More Confident People Manager

92

What’s Your Anti-Vision?

93

Doing Your Best Does Not Mean Being Perfect

94

Using Problem Solving Frameworks to Ease Self-Doubt

95

Unhooking Our Identities from Our Jobs

96

What’s Good Enough?

97

Build Confidence Through Social Competence

98

Becoming a More Intentional Leader

99

Walk Through the Doors That Open

100

A Service-Oriented Approach to Executive Presence

101

Humans Have Limits

102

Learn Before You Leap

103

“Be Curious Not Furious”

104

Become a Beginner Again

105

Maintaining Your Confidence in a Job Search

106

Are You Managing Up? If Not, Start Now

107

Patriarchy Comes with a Price for Men Too

108

Don’t Let Self-Doubt Hold You Back

109

Letting Go of Your Scripts

110

What Do You Need to Thrive?

111

Transforming Power Dynamics for Greater Equity and Business Outcomes

112

Our Stories Are Collectively Created

113

Be Wildly in Love with Your Life

114

Redefining Confidence

115

What Are Your Guardrails?

116

There Is Only One Me

117

We Are in Charge

118

Don’t Believe Your Feelings

119

Who Decides What Is Enough?

120

Changing Your Story

121

Be Kind to Yourself

122

Shifting from Anger to Love

123

Closing the Gap between Confidence & Competence

124

Harvesting Uplifts

125

Connecting to Our Purpose in Times of Change

126

Finding Sparks of Inspiration

127

Awareness Is the Doorway to Change

128

Gaining Control of Our Attention

129

Setting High Standards without Perfectionism

130

Making Our Work More Effortless

131

What Our DEI Conversations Are Missing

132

What the U.S. Military Can Teach Us about Leadership

133

Am I Honoring the Calling of My Life?

134

Revising Our Scripts

135

Put On Your Victory Glasses

136

Pushing Past the Upper Limit

137

Growth & Comfort Do Not Coexist

138

What’s the Monster Under Your Bed?

139

Reframing Our Mindsets

140

Shifting from Reacting to Responding

141

The Power of Optimism

142

Slaying Your Dragon of Self-Doubt

143

Become a More Confident Relationship Builder

144

Standing in the Fear

145

Learning to Trust Ourselves

146

Developing a Confident Voice

147

Recognizing & Addressing Trauma in the Workplace

148

What Am I Doing & Why?

149

Embrace Your Authentic Self

150

If Not Me, Then Who?

151

Making the Workplace Better for Everyone

152

Reframing Power

153

You Are in Your Role for a Reason

154

Maximizing Your Resume

155

Failure is Where the Growth Happens

156

How to Finish What We Start

157

What’s Your Relationship with Time?

158

Navigating Inappropriate Behavior at Work

159

Bet On Yourself

160

Being vs. Doing in the Workplace

161

Become a More Confident Negotiator

162

Leadership Is an Inside Job

163

Finding & Leveraging Our Personal Power

164

How Is This Moving Me Forward?

165

Putting Ourselves First

166

Rethinking Leadership

167

What Does Success Mean to You?

168

Stop Making It Bigger than It Is

169

Career Lessons from a Corporate Spy

170

Set Yourself Up for Success in Interviews

171

Exploring the First-Generation Experience

172

Bringing Humanity to the Workplace

173

It’s Okay to Not Know

174

The Power of Vulnerability

175

Asking for Help Is a Sign of Strength

176

Writing with Confidence in the Workplace

177

It’s All Smoke & Mirrors

178

Give Yourself Permission to Be a Beginner

179

Be a Micro-Disruptor to Change the Workplace

180

Breaking Down Gender Barriers in the Workplace

181

Be an LGBTQ Ally at Work

182

Don’t Be Afraid to Look Like a Fool

183

Coming Back to Your True Self

184

Leveraging Mentors to Grow Your Confidence

185

Put Yourself First

186

Talking About Race in the Workplace

187

Aligning Your Life & Career

188

Understanding the Unspoken Rules at Work

189

This Is Not a Dress Rehearsal

190

Bravery vs. Perfection

191

Boys Get Sad Too

192

Coping with Childhood Trauma

193

How We Make Inclusion a Reality

194

Grow Your Confidence with Better Time Management

195

Managing Conflict with Confidence

196

Whose Expectations Are You Prioritizing?

197

Making a Career Transition with Confidence

198

Let's Get Visible

199

Why Not Me?

200

Let’s Talk about Neurodiversity at Work

201

What’s the Risk of Not Speaking Up?

202

What Are You Blowing Up?

203

Why Are You Speaking?

204

Where Is the Evidence?

205

Be Your Own Biggest Fan

206

Exploring the Mind-Body Connection

207

What Does It Mean to Be an Expert?

208

Be a More Confident Mom

209

How to Be a Confident Introvert in an Extroverted Workplace

210

Show Up More Confidently on LinkedIn

211

If It's Meant For Me, It Will Be

212

Identify Where It Hurts and Why

213

Marriage, Inc.

214

We Are All on the Same Team

215

My Story

216

Mastering Spontaneous Communication

217

It's Not About Me

218

What if Trauma is a Gift?

219

Overcoming Self-Doubt Caused by Learning Disabilities

220

Be a Walking Buddha

221

How Our Body Image Influences Our Confidence

222

You Have the Power to Choose

223

Rising from the Bathroom Floor

224

Give Impostor Syndrome Its Proper Space

225

How Our Parents Influence Impostor Syndrome

226

How to Ask for What We Need

227

It's Okay to Not Have the Answers

228

Stop Climbing Someone Else's Ladder

229

Are You Making It Harder than It Needs to Be?

230

What Would a Successful Guy Do?

231

ABCs of Managing Fear

232

Finding the Right Mountaintop for You

233

The DEI Imperative

234

From Dread to Delight

235

You Are As Unique As Your Thumbprint

236

Lifting the Mask on Introversion

237

It Just Takes One Person to Believe in Your Idea

238

Continue to Fight for Yourself & Others

239

How to Be Respected & Respectful

240

It Will Be Worth It in the End

241

Face Your Finances

242

Just Take One Step

243

What Will My Future Self Thank Me for?

244

"Everyone Loses When Bright People Play Small"

245

Emotions Are There for a Reason

246

What Does Your Face Say about Impostor Syndrome?

247

Take Your Cello Out of the Closet

248

If I Really Loved Myself, I Would...

249

Confidence Is a Muscle

250

From False Front to 3-D

251

It's Time to Ask for Help

252

We Are All Impostors

253

You Will Never Outperform Your Mindset

254

Is Fear Worth More than Regret?

255

Recognize the Weak Link

256

What Part of Me Needs to Heal?

257

Sorting vs. Settling

258

How Much of This Is Real?

259

It's Okay to Have a Difficult Past

260

"I'm Not Brené Brown" and That's Okay

261

What Do YOU Want Your Life to Be?

262

Trust Yourself

263

Experiencing an "In-Between" Identity

264

Name It, You Tame It

265

The Consequences of Being a "Good Girl"

266

Don't Be Afraid to Take Chances

267

Introversion and Impostor Syndrome

268

Kicking Impostor Syndrome to the Curb

269

If There Were No Change, There Would Be No Butterflies

270

You've Done This Before

271

Objectively Look at the Data

272

What Really Matters

273

Be Brave. Make the Connection.

274

No One Has a Perfect Life

275

Building Confidence in Girls

276

I'm the Boss - You Do What I Say

277

Formality Weighs a Ton

278

Taking a "Non-Traditional" Path

279

Don't Be Afraid to Leave

280

Confidence Is a Choice

281

Be Real About How You Feel

282

Don't Give Your Power Away

283

You Have to Talk About It to Solve It

284

The Link Between Impostor Syndrome and Burnout

285

The Relationship Between Confidence and Mentoring

286

When Comparison and Self-Doubt Intersect

287

Leadership Is Not About You

288

Ep. 32 - Negative Thoughts Are Contagious

289

Ep. 31 - Slow Down and Engage Your Rational Mind

290

Ep. 30 - Sometimes You Just Have to Take Action

291

Ep. 29 - The Seat of the Wound

292

Ep. 28 - Ask, "Do I Want to Do This?"

293

Ep. 27 - What Evidence Do You Have?

294

Ep. 26 - How Does Impostor Syndrome Affect Our Communication?

295

Ep. 25 - There Is Room for Me at this Table

296

Ep. 24 - Comparison Is the Thief of Joy

297

Ep. 23 - What Can You Control?

298

Ep. 22 - Museum for Old Limiting Beliefs

299

Ep. 21 - What Sets You on Fire?

300

Ep. 20 - Time Is Not a Renewable Resource

301

Ep. 19 - What Did You Mean by That?

302

Ep. 18 - What's Your Motivation for Doing It?

303

Ep. 17 - Impostor Syndrome Feels Like Gaslighting

304

Ep. 16 - There's Always One More Goal

305

Ep. 15 - The Powerful Forces of Silence and Bravery

306

Ep. 14 - How Your Environment Impacts Your Confidence

307

Ep. 13 - The Story I'm Telling Myself Is...

308

Ep. 12 - Who Am I to…?

309

Ep. 11 - Step into Action to Ease Self-Doubt

310

Ep. 10 - Adjusting the Balance Between Expertise and Intuition

311

Ep. 9 - How Collaboration Can Conquer Impostor Syndrome

312

Ep. 8 - You Are the Designer of Your Life

313

Ep. 7 - I'm Ready to Get Uncomfortable

314

Ep. 6 - The Power of Humility in Leadership

315

Ep. 5 - What If It's Others Who Doubt Me?

316

Ep. 4 - The Need for Greater Belonging and Connection

317

Ep. 3 - The Gift of Impostor Syndrome

318

Ep. 2 - The Importance of Safe Work Cultures

319

Ep. 1 - What Will You Regret More?