How to tell if you’ve got Imposter Syndrome - and what to do about it

If you’re feeling like a fraud, like you aren’t good enough, or you’re going to get found out at work - you’ve got Imposter Syndrome.

This isn’t about not being good at your job. In fact, you know you’re more than competent - you just have this nagging feeling that you’re out of your depth and it’s all going to go horribly wrong any day now.

Those feelings of being out of your depth or inadequate are more common than you think.

In this episode we unpack just how common it is - across both generations. So if you’re feeling you must be the only one who feels this way, listen in and be reassured that your colleagues, young and old, have probably all felt Imposter Syndrome at some point.

You’ll learn:

• The five main types of Imposter Syndrome
• How to tell when these feelings are creeping in
• What you can do about it

We talk about our own experiences of feeling it at school and work and how it shows up now, and the techniques we use to combat it.

We talk about its origins in the 70s in observations of high-achieving women and, unfortunately, how not a lot has changed in the last fifty years.

And, if you’ve recently experienced a layoff, we talk about the impact that can have and how not to let yourself feel your Imposter Syndrome has been proved right.

So if you’re constantly thinking you’re about to be found out, listen in and feel reassured that most people around you are thinking exactly the same thing!

Hit play now.

3.10 Defining Imposter Syndrome

4.05 Some research on Imposter Syndrome

6.24 Five different types of Imposter Syndrome

11.50 What causes it?

17.45 Three ways of reframing Imposter Syndrome

20.36 The impact of a layoff on feeling Imposter Syndrome

21.38 Three things Gen Z can do to deal with it

23.45 How Gen X’s approach is different

24.30 How we can all get better at facing down the imposters in us

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