If Destroyed Still True

The Imposters Club returns for our 5th season, and this time we’re talking WORK. Sinéad’s pivoting her career, Melissa’s returning from maternity leave and the whole world is talking about how we can work better.

The time has come. Nursery is booked, start date at work is confirmed, flexible working is approved - and Melissa is feeling EVERYTHING. Returning to work after having a child comes with a lot of conflicting emotions, pressures, and a sense of being pulled in 100 different directions - is it something we can every truly be ready for? Well, probably not - but there are things you can do to prepare practically and emotionally. We’re joined this week by pregnancy and postpartum therapist Sophie Harris aka @looking_after_mum, to talk about managing expectations, honest conversations and feeling more confident about returning to work.

Follow Sophie Harris on Instagram @looking_after_mum

Learn more about Sophie Harris and Looking After Mum

Resources:

My Bump Pay: mybumppay.com

Mother Pukka & Flex Appeal, ‘Forever Flex’ Report: https://www.motherpukka.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Forever_Flex_report_FINAL-03.11.20.pdf 

National Childbirth Trust, ‘Returning To Work After Maternity Leave’: https://www.nct.org.uk/life-parent/work-and-childcare/returning-work/returning-work-after-maternity-leave 

The Imposters Club is a Morley Radio production. Head to morleyradio.co.uk to listen to The Imposters Club and a whole host of exciting shows.

Credits:

Presenters: Sinéad Kennedy Sklar and Melissa Murdock

Editors: Camilo Salazar and Kody Wilson at Morley Radio 

PR: Georgie Rutherford

We’d love to know about how you’re helping yourself feel good enough and choosing what’s good enough for you. Email us at [email protected], contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub, and visit theimpostersclub.co.uk. Head to wherever you get your podcasts and give us a 5 star rating - it helps other people find us!

The Imposters Club returns for our 5th season, and this time we’re talking WORK. Sinéad’s pivoting her career, Melissa’s returning from maternity leave and the whole world is talking about how we can work better. 

We're in the booked and busy era, but 53% of women say their stress levels are even higher than they were a year ago. It seems that burnout is NOT a conversation to be left in 2020. It’s very real, very relevant and very much something we need to be aware of in order to manage and prevent it, rid ourselves of shame around it and work together to create a working culture that doesn’t make us ill. We’re joined this episode by Dr Sam Akbar, Clinical Psychologist and author of the frankly vital new book, Stressilient: How to Beat Stress and Build Resilience, to talk burnout, self-compassion and banning ‘good vibes only’.

Follow Dr Sam Akbar on Instagram @drsam_akbar

Buy Stressilient: How to Beat Stress and Build Resilience by Dr Sam Akbar

The Imposters Club is a Morley Radio production. Head to morleyradio.co.uk to listen to The Imposters Club and a whole host of exciting shows.

Credits:

Presenters: Sinéad Kennedy Sklar and Melissa Murdock

Editor & Studio Manager: Camilo Salazar at Morley Radio

PR & Brand Partnerships Producer: Georgie Rutherford

We’d love to know about how you’re helping yourself feel good enough and choosing what’s good enough for you. Email us at [email protected], contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub, and visit theimpostersclub.co.uk. Head to wherever you get your podcasts and give us a 5 star rating - it helps other people find us!

The Imposters Club returns for our 5th season, and this time we’re talking WORK. Sinéad’s pivoting her career, Melissa’s returning from maternity leave and the whole world is talking about how we can work better. 

Let us take you on a little trip down memory lane. It’s 2014: we’re trying to get our foot on the professional ladder, tentatively calling ourselves feminists, and holding an Urban Outfitters mug that says ‘you have the same 24 hours as Beyoncé’. It is the era of the #girlboss. How did she shape the professional ambitions of a generation of young women? Has hustle culture burnt us out? And with time of death officially called on the Girlboss in 2020, what do we do with that vision of work now?

In this episode we’re joined by Seyda Karimpour, founder of Seasons of Work, a community platform for multi-passionates who want to push back against hustle culture and find their own rhythm in work and life. 

Follow Seyda Karimpour and Seasons of Work on Instagram @seydakarimpour @seasonsofwork

Learn more about Seasons of Work

The Imposters Club is a Morley Radio production. Head to morleyradio.co.uk to listen to The Imposters Club and a whole host of exciting shows.

Credits:

Presenters: Sinéad Kennedy Krebs and Melissa Murdock
Editor & Studio Manager: Camilo Salazar at Morley Radio
PR & Brand Partnerships Producer: Georgie Rutherford

We’d love to know about how you’re helping yourself feel good enough and choosing what’s good enough for you. Email us at [email protected], contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub, and visit theimpostersclub.co.uk. Head to wherever you get your podcasts and give us a 5 star rating - it helps other people find us!

Articles cited:

‘The death of the girlboss’, Alex Abad-Santos, Vox: https://www.vox.com/22466574/gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss-meaning 

‘The Girlboss Is Dead. Long Live the Girlboss.’, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/2021/08/demise-of-the-girlboss.html 

WE’RE BACK! The Imposters Club returns for our 5th season, and this time we’re talking WORK. Sinéad’s pivoting her career, Melissa’s returning from maternity leave and the whole world is talking about how we can work better. 

In our first episode we’re going back to basics by deep-diving into what brought us here, and asking the potentially podcast-ending question: do we need to STOP talking about Imposter Syndrome? Stay tuned for why you can’t ‘fix’ it (and why it’s not your responsibility to) and how Imposter Syndrome might make you a better colleague after all. Hmm…

The Imposters Club is a Morley Radio production. Head to morleyradio.co.uk to listen to The Imposters Club and a whole host of exciting shows.

Credits:

Presenters: Sinéad Kennedy Krebs and Melissa Murdock

Editor & Studio Manager: Camilo Salazar at Morley Radio

PR & Brand Partnerships Producer: Georgie Rutherford

We’d love to know about how you’re helping yourself feel good enough and choosing what’s good enough for you. Email us at [email protected], contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub, and visit theimpostersclub.co.uk. Head to wherever you get your podcasts and give us a 5 star rating - it helps other people find us!

Articles cited:

‘Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome’, Ruchika Tulshyan and Jodi-Ann Burey, Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2021/02/stop-telling-women-they-have-imposter-syndrome

‘Career fear: new research reveals the hidden benefit of imposter syndrome’, Anna Brech, Stylist: https://www.stylist.co.uk/life/careers/imposter-syndrome-benefit

IT’S THE FINAL EPISODE OF THE GOOD ENOUGH GUIDE! A 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you, brought to you by The Imposters Club

In our final episode (before we head off to get married, write a PhD thesis and have a baby- not necessarily at the same time), we’re talking about what nobody seems to want to talk about: money. Sinéad and Melissa discuss how the pandemic has changed their relationships with money, why finances can make us question whether we’re good enough and how we can move forward and prioritise financial wellbeing in the new normal (we know, we know). We’re also joined by the brilliant Ellie Austin-Williams of This Girl Talks Money to chat about overcoming financial fear, having conversations about money with the people we care about and finding balance. 

This episode is sponsored by Daye, period care that’s good for your body and the planet. Enjoy five pounds off a more mellow and planet-friendly period by heading to yourdaye.com and typing the code IMPOSTERS at checkout.

Follow Ellie Austin-Williams on Instagram @thisgirltalksmoney

Learn more about This Girl Talks Money

The Imposters Club is recorded at Morley Radio. Head to morleyradio.co.uk to listen to The Imposters Club and a whole host of exciting shows.

Credits:

Presenters: Sinéad Kennedy Krebs and Melissa Murdock

Editor & Studio Manager: Camilo Salazar at Morley Radio

Editor: Chané Ghuman at Morley Radio

PR & Brand Partnerships Producer: Georgie Rutherford

We’d love to know about how you’re helping yourself feel good enough and choosing what’s good enough for you. Email us at [email protected], contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub, and visit theimpostersclub.co.uk

The Imposters Club is back with The Good Enough Guide, a 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you.

Content warning: periods, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriage

We’re back for part two of our bumper baby special! Mel’s having a baby (yay!) and in this episode she shares her story since finding out she was pregnant after a miscarriage, from getting her head around how her body’s doing this to trying to get dressed in the mornings. We’re also joined for a chat by the brilliant Hollie de Cruz, birth and parenting coach, author of ‘Your Baby, Your Birth’ and ‘Motherhood Your Way’, and co-host of the Making Womb podcast. We talked about trusting yourself, asking for what you need and feeling good enough as you approach becoming a parent. We know this can be a sensitive subject- and we’ll be talking about some difficult moments- so if you need to skip this episode we’re sending love and will catch you another time.

This episode is sponsored by Daye, period care that’s good for your body and the planet. Enjoy five pounds off a more mellow and planet-friendly period by heading to yourdaye.com and typing the code IMPOSTERS at checkout.

Follow Hollie de Cruz on Instagram @theyesmummum

Read Hollie’s books:  Your Baby, Your Birth and Motherhood Your Way

Listen to the Making Womb podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

Find out more about The Yesmum Birth Project

The Imposters Club is recorded at Morley Radio. Head to morleyradio.co.uk to listen to The Imposters Club and a whole host of exciting shows.

Credits:

Presenters: Sinéad Kennedy Krebs and Melissa Murdock

Editor & Studio Manager: Camilo Salazar at Morley Radio

Editor: Chané Ghuman at Morley Radio

PR & Brand Partnerships Producer: Georgie Rutherford

We’d love to know about how you’re helping yourself feel good enough and choosing what’s good enough for you. Email us at [email protected], contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub, and visit theimpostersclub.co.uk

The Imposters Club is back with The Good Enough Guide, a 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you.

tw: periods, fertility, description of miscarriage

Mel’s having a baby! In this episode she shares her story so far: the journey to getting pregnant and what it’s been like growing a new human. This topic is far from simple, and true to form we couldn’t stop talking once we’ve started, so this episode will come to you in two parts. In part one, we talk about getting to know your cycle, feeling out of depth when it comes to approaching fertility and all the imposter syndrome that comes with impending parenthood. We know this can be a sensitive subject, so if you need to skip this episode we’re sending love and will catch you another time.

The Imposters Club is recorded at Morley Radio. Head to morleyradio.co.uk to listen to The Imposters Club and a whole host of exciting shows.

Credits:

Presenters: Sinéad Kennedy Krebs and Melissa Murdock

Editor & Studio Manager: Camilo Salazar at Morley Radio

Editor: Chané Ghuman at Morley Radio

PR & Brand Partnerships Producer: Georgie Rutherford

We’d love to know about how you’re helping yourself feel good enough and choosing what’s good enough for you. Email us at [email protected], contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub, and visit theimpostersclub.co.uk

The Imposters Club is back with The Good Enough Guide, a 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you.

It’s safe to say we’ve dealt with a LOT of changes over the past 18 months. Some of them have been externally imposed, like the lockdowns and restrictions, redundancies and bereavements. Some have been changes we’ve chosen, like choosing to leave a relationship that’s not working or a career change. Whether they’re joyful choices or devastating changes, change can feel really destabilizing and scary- and that can make us question our own worth. So we chatted to certified life coach and founder of the Curiosity Club, Catri Barrett, about how to cope with change, lean into the fear and adopt a growth mindset, whatever changes you’ve experienced.

This episode is sponsored by Wild, the natural, zero-plastic deodorant. You can go wild and get 20% off your order by visiting wearewild.com and using the code IMPOSTERS at checkout.

Follow Catri Barrett on Instagram @catribarrett

Follow The Curiosity Club on Instagram @thecuriosityclub_

Listen to The Curiosity Club Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

Marisa Bate, ‘I’ve left London because I will never be the same person I was before the pandemic’, inews: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/leaving-london-change-covid-19-cities-988491

The Imposters Club is recorded at Morley Radio. Head to morleyradio.co.uk to listen to The Imposters Club and a whole host of exciting shows.

Credits:

Presenters: Sinead Kennedy Krebs and Melissa Murdock
Editor & Studio Manager: Camilo Salazar at Morley Radio
Editor: Chane Ghuman (Morley Radio Volunteer)
PR & Brand Partnerships Producer: Georgie Rutherford

We’d love to know about how you’re helping yourself feel good enough and choosing what’s good enough for you. Email us at [email protected], contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub, and visit theimpostersclub.co.uk

The Imposters Club is back with The Good Enough Guide, a 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you.

It’s been a really tough 18 months - amidst the difficult lockdowns and anxiety, many of us have been dealing with the deaths of the people we love. The pandemic and necessary restrictions have affected how we grieve- it’s changed our mourning rituals and robbed us of the support systems we lean on. And while talking about death and grief is hard, it’s so important- so we asked Amber Jeffrey, founder of The Grief Gang podcast to chat to us about normalising grief, getting comfortable with being uncomfortable and how we can support each other.

Follow The Grief Gang on Instagram @thegriefgangpodcast

Listen to The Grief Gang Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

This episode is sponsored by Wild, the natural, zero-plastic deodorant. You can go wild and get 20% off your order by visiting wearewild.com and using the code IMPOSTERS at checkout.

The Imposters Club is recorded at Morley Radio. Head to morleyradio.co.uk to listen to The Imposters Club and a whole host of exciting shows.

Credits:

Presenters: Sinead Kennedy Krebs and Melissa Murdock

Editor & Studio Manager: Camilo Salazar at Morley Radio

Editor: Ruby Illing (Morley Radio Volunteer)

PR & Brand Partnerships Producer: Georgie Rutherford

We’d love to know about how you’re helping yourself feel good enough and choosing what’s good enough for you. Email us at [email protected], contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub, and visit theimpostersclub.co.uk

The Imposters Club is back with The Good Enough Guide, a 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you.

Sinéad is getting married! Well, hopefully. Covid has had a lot to say about milestones like weddings, and a lot of marriage plans have been thrown into the air over the past 18 months. Added to all this uncertainty is the pervading sense of not being good enough- not being the Pinterest-perfect couple, struggling to keep every relative happy or not being enough of a grown up. We caught up with some of the lovely brides and grooms in our community who told us about their plans, how they’re feeling and the lessons they’ve learnt about getting married in a pandemic.

This episode is sponsored by Wild, the natural, zero-plastic deodorant. You can go wild and get 20% off your order by visiting wearewild.com and using the code IMPOSTERS at checkout.

The Imposters Club is recorded at Morley Radio. Head to morleyradio.co.uk to listen to The Imposters Club and a whole host of exciting shows.

Credits:

Presenters: Sinead Kennedy Krebs and Melissa Murdock

Editor & Studio Manager: Camilo Salazar at Morley Radio

Editor: Paul Skinner

PR & Brand Partnerships Producer: Georgie Rutherford

We’d love to know about how you’re helping yourself feel good enough and choosing what’s good enough for you. Email us at [email protected], contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub, and visit theimpostersclub.co.uk