If Destroyed Still True

Sinéad and Melissa are at home with their mics to talk through managing imposter syndrome and living life on our own terms. Stay safe, everyone!

In this episode, we’re joined by stylist and founder of Mums That Slay, Yvadney Davis, to talk through celebrating your identity, the need for more diverse depictions of parenting and why 2020 was the year she said ‘sod it’.

We’d love to hear what you've been up to and your stories of feeling like an imposter. Email us at [email protected] or contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub.

Resources:

Yvadney Davis: http://yvadney.com/ @yvadney

Mums That Slay: http://www.mumsthatslay.com/ @mumsthatslay

Make Motherhood Diverse: https://www.makemotherhooddiverse.com/

Sinéad and Melissa are at home with their mics to talk through managing imposter syndrome and living life on our own terms as the UK faces further restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic. Stay safe, everyone!

In this episode, we’re joined by tech entrepreneur and host of the Hyper Curious podcast Beta Lucca, to talk through choosing adventures, changing the gaming industry and the weird and wonderful freedom of improvisational theatre- yes, really. 

We’d love to hear what you've been up to and your stories of feeling like an imposter. Email us at [email protected] or contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub.

Articles and resources:

Beta Lucca: https://betalucca.com 

Hyper Curious: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/hyper-curious/id1523198278

The Five Love Languages quiz: https://www.5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/

Unlocking Us with Brené Brown: Tarana Burke and Brené on Being Heard and Seen: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/unlocking-us-with-bren%C3%A9-brown/id1494350511?i=1000469205706 

Sinéad and Melissa are back with a new season, ready to talk our way through managing imposter syndrome, boosting our self worth and living life on our own terms.

In this episode, we chat to illustrator and author of How to Have Feminist Sex, Flo Perry, about redefining beauty standards and measures of success, having regular conversations about what you like and the mysterious disappearance of a farmer Mel dated.

Head over to our Instagram @theimpostersclub for the chance to win a copy of Flo’s book for you and a pal!

We’d love to hear what you've been up to and your stories of feeling like an imposter. Email us at [email protected] or contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub.

Articles:
Vicky Spratt, ‘These Women Paid An Instagram Influencer To Help Them Manifest Money. Now They’re Not Happy’, Refinery29: https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/money-manifesting-life-coaching-instagram
This article was published after we recorded the episode, but is an interesting exploration of issues we discussed at the beginning.

You can buy Flo Perry’s book, How to have Feminist Sex: A Fairly Graphic Guide, here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-to-have-feminist-sex/flo-perry/9780141990408

Sinéad and Melissa are back with a new season, ready to talk through managing imposter syndrome, boosting our self worth and living life on our own terms. 

In this episode, we chat about what we’ve learnt about over the past few months, how imposter syndrome has changed in 2020 and looking after your mental health this winter. 

We’d love to hear what you've been up to and your stories of feeling like an imposter. Email us at [email protected], contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub, and visit theimpostersclub.co.uk

This podcast was recorded at Morley Radio- you can listen to The Imposters Club and other shows at morleyradio.co.uk

Resources mentioned:

Vicky, Spratt, Refinery29: How Coronavirus Taught Us There Are Alternative Ways To Live: https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2020/10/10028789/kate-soper-alternative-hedonism

The Imposters Club is back on Monday 19 October 2020!

Hosts Sinéad Kennedy Krebs and Melissa Murdock are back with a new season, ready to talk our way through managing imposter syndrome, boosting our self worth and living life on our own terms. 

To do that we’ve invited some really exciting guests to chat about all the weird and wonderful ways they’ve experienced imposter syndrome and self doubt- and how they're thriving in spite of it.

So join us in The Imposters Club, where we’re hushing the voice in your head telling you that you aren’t good enough.

In the meantime, let us know how you’re doing! We’d love to hear what you've been up to and your stories of feeling like an imposter. Email us at  [email protected] or contact us on instagram @theimpostersclub or on twitter @impostersclub.

In the final episode of season 2, Sinéad and Melissa reflect on everything they’ve learnt over 15 weeks of lockdown, and chat about building resilience, refocusing your goals and redefining what success means to you. 

Whatever your new normal looks like, we hope you’re safe, taking care of yourself and tackling imposter syndrome wherever you find it.

We’d love to hear your stories of feeling like an imposter, so email us at  [email protected] and each episode we’ll be sharing some on the podcast. 

Vote for us in the British Podcast Awards!

IG: @theimpostersclub
T: @impostersclub

Show Notes 

The 5 Love Languages Quiz

Whizy Kim, ‘How to Create a Budget for Anti-Racist Activism’, Refinery29

Cait Munro, ‘Coronavirus Has Changed Office Life Forever — & That Might Be A Good Thing’, Refinery29

Lauren Geall, ‘Financial anxiety: how to take care of your mental health when you’re having money worries’, Stylist

In this episode, Sinéad and Melissa discuss what it means to have white privilege, and the anti-racism work we need to do to create a truly equitable society. Following the murder of George Floyd, there has been a huge surge in support for the Black Lives Matter movement around the world. This episode helps our white listeners to harness that energy,  understand how we have (sometimes unwittingly) benefited from systemic racism, and helps you get started on your journey of allyship. 

We’d love to hear your stories of feeling like an imposter, so email us at  [email protected] and each episode we’ll be sharing some on the podcast. 

IG: @theimpostersclub
T: @impostersclub

Sign:
Justice for Belly Mujinga
Suspend future sales of tear gas and other crowd control equipment to the USA
Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum
Introduce Mandatory Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting

Read:
Cheryl I. Harris, ‘Whiteness as Property’ Harvard Law Review, 1993
Kimberlé Crenshaw, ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics, University of Chicago Legal Forum’, 1989
Koro Koram, ‘Systemic racism and police brutality are British problems too’, Guardian, 2020
Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot
Nolan Feeney ‘Roxane Gay's Bad Feminist Is a "Manual on How to Be a Human’, Time Magazine, 2014
Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Keep checking @theimpostersclub on Instagram for recommendations

Follow:
@ogorchukwuu 
@vean_ima
@janayathefuture
@rachelcargle

Listen:
Kelechi Okafor’s Say Your Mind

In this episode Sinéad and Melissa are joined by two brilliant guests: actor, writer and activist Rose Wardle, and actor, writer and star of Casualty Gabriella Leon. Rose and Gabriella join The Imposters Club to chat about the imposter syndrome and weird privileges that come with hidden disability and invisible illness, media representation and how to be a better ally.

This episode is available to watch with closed captioning here: https://youtu.be/L9Xgdu5gQlY 

We’d love to hear your stories of feeling like an imposter- as well as how you’re doing at the moment- so email us at  [email protected] and each episode we’ll be sharing some on the podcast. 

IG: @theimpostersclub
T: @impostersclub

SHOW NOTES

Follow:
Rose Wardle IG: @rosesusanlily
Gabriella Leon IG & TW: @gabriellaleon_
@versusarthritis
@cantgoout_imsick
@DANC_MANC (Disabled Artists Networking Community)
@triplecmanchest (https://tripleczone.org/)

Amal Abdi, Supporting people with Invisible Illnesses, Roundhouse blog: https://www.roundhouse.org.uk/blog/2020/04/supporting-people-with-invisible-disabilities-in-the-arts/

‘10 ways to be a Good Ally to Diabled People’, She Might Be Magazine: https://shemightbe.co.uk/10-ways-good-ally-disabled-people/

‘Illness Often Shows Up in Media – but Depictions of Chronic Illness Continue to Lack’, Franca Bergunde, The Mighty: https://themighty.com/2018/11/chronic-illness-lack-of-representation-media/

‘How To Get Disability Representation In TV & Movies Right, According To The People Doing It’, Mary Kate McGrath, Bustle: https://www.bustle.com/p/how-to-get-disability-representation-in-tv-movies-right-according-to-the-people-doing-it-17129242

‘Chronic Illness’ Mainstream Moment’, Larry Dobrow, MM&M: https://www.mmm-online.com/home/channel/media-news/chronic-illness-mainstream-moment/

‘Chronic Illness and Its (Lack of) Portrayal in Society’, Taylor Phillips, Vocal: https://vocal.media/longevity/chronic-illness-and-its-lack-of-portrayal-in-society

‘The Catch 22 of Illness and Disability Portrayals in Media: All Representation is Good Representation vs. Accuracy Only, Please’, InvisiYouth: http://www.invisiyouthcharity.com/blog/catch-22-illness-disability-portrayals-media-representation-good-representation-vs-accuracy-please/

Recommended reading: "Year of Yes! How to dance in the sun and be your own person" by Shonda Rhimes https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Shonda-Rhimes/Year-of-Yes--How-to-Dance-It-Out-Stand-In-the-Sun-and-Be-Your-Own-Person/18297536

In this episode Sinéad and Melissa are joined by the woman behind @myfrugalyear, Clare Seal, to discuss financial shame, emotional spending during lockdown, and why debt is something you have, not who you are.

Clare’s book, Real Life Money: An Honest Guide to Taking Control of Your Finances, is out now.

We’d love to hear your stories of feeling like an imposter- as well as how you’re doing at the moment- so email us at  [email protected] and each episode we’ll be sharing some on the podcast. 

IG: @theimpostersclub
T: @impostersclub

Show Notes:

THE IMPOSTERS CLUB S1, E3: 'Notes on financial imposter syndrome, avocado toast and budgeting'

Clare Seal, ‘Real Life Money: An Honest Guide to Taking Control of Your Finances’, Headline Home: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Real-Life-Money-Control-Finances/dp/1472272293

Annabelle Spranklen, ‘How to save money during coronavirus’, Glamour Magazine: https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/how-to-save-money-during-coronavirus

Holly Richardson, Coronavirus money questions, Stylist: https://www.stylist.co.uk/money/coronavirus-money-questions-savings-emergency-cash-mortages-wages-credit-cards-overdrafts/371588

Anna Silverman, ‘My Frugal Year Reveals Her Identity’, Grazia: https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/in-the-news/my-frugal-year-debt-revealed/

People to follow: 
@myfrugalyear
@thefinancialdiet
@bola_sol
@richgirlchronicles
@thisgirltalksmoney
@the.brokegeneration
@vestpod

In this episode Sinéad and Melissa are joined by Claire Richards, the self taught hand embroidery artist and one-woman-band behind Delicious Monster Tea to discuss taking the leap and starting your own business.

Have you ever thought ‘I could start my own business’? Maybe you’ve found a solution to a problem, a gap in the market or you just want to be your own boss. But as soon as you start dreaming it, you get that voice in your head that says you’re not good enough. 

Join us as we discuss why now is the time for diverse entrepreneurship, share some inspiring innovations from history and talk fighting that imposter feeling. 

We’d love to hear your stories of feeling like an imposter- as well as how you’re doing at the moment- so email us at  [email protected] and each episode we’ll be sharing some on the podcast. 

IG: @theimpostersclub
T: @impostersclub

Show Notes:

Castaway with Laura Whitmore: Nicola Roberts (Mags Creative): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/nicola-roberts/id1481997309?i=1000470254317

Delicious Monster Tea, Personalised hand embroidered t-shirts, sweatshirts and baby grows: https://deliciousmonstertea.com/

Gal-dem magazine membership: https://gal-dem.com/memberships/

Yomi Adegoke, ‘Impostor syndrome is a response to a world that doesn’t believe in women’, Guardian: ‘https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jul/17/impostor-syndrome-is-a-response-to-a-world-that-doesnt-believe-in-women’

‘Facts about women in business’, Prowess: https://www.prowess.org.uk/facts/

Melina Glusac, ‘14 world-changing innovations by women that were originally credited to men’, Insider: ‘https://www.insider.com/inventions-by-women-credited-to-men-2018-9#hollywood-legend-hedy-lamarr-invented-wireless-communication-but-the-us-government-refused-to-take-her-seriously-8’

Jessica Samakow, ‘11 Women Who Did Groundbreaking Things That Men Got The Credit For’, Huffpost: “https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/11-women-who-did-groundbreaking-things-that-men-got-the-credit-for_n_58ca9e67e4b00705db4ca2f5?ri18n=true”

Video dancing to movie intros:: https://twitter.com/princess0_69/status/1253084674559217671?s=20 

People to follow:

@vestpod
@deliciousmonstertea
@galdemzine
@gracebeverley
@leaninorg
@allbrightacademy
@fequalshq
@globalfundwomen