Clare Josa is an author of 8 books, a speaker, an NLP trainer and a leadership mentor. She started out as an engineer and uses a lot of that discipline in her soul-engineered leadership work.

She says that "changing the world isn't so much about what you do, as about who you allow yourself to become. "

We talk about:

• How Clare moved from engineering to doing what she does now
• Sexism in engineering when she started out
• Moving into market research at Dyson
• Wanting to work with people instead of machines and make a difference
• Bringing the woo into engineering and personal development
• How men are often more open to the woo and energy work than women
• Teaching energy work experientially so that everyone can get it
• Women leaders can sometimes be wearing too much armour to embrace the more feminine aspects of leadership
• The importance of being accepted for all of who we are
• How work still doesn't work for women who have responsibilities outside work
• How Covid has helped many working women by forcing meetings and training to be online
• Getting used to working and connecting on Zoom
• The law profession as a hotbed for imposter syndrome
• The difference between self-doubt and imposter syndrome
• The 4 Ps of imposter syndrome
• How people-pleasing can be a big issue for women
• Midlife women and imposter syndrome
• Menopause is the peak of imposter syndrome for women
• Being hyper-vigilant to threat when under stress
• Changing the ageist bias against older women
• Why stress impacts hormones and makes menopausal brain fog and hot flushes even worse
• Understanding negative self-talk and learning to stop it
• The midlife identity shift
• The dangers of judging ourselves
• It's never too late to get started on anything – take action today

And more!

Find out more about Clare:

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Access Clare's Ditching Imposter Syndrome Training here: http://www.clarejosa.com/magnificentmidlife/

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