Ever feel like you’re a fraud at work? This episode tackles impostor syndrome—the peculiar, universal feeling that everyone else knows what they’re doing while you’re just winging it. Because when leaders doubt themselves, the team’s morale and productivity get a polite knock on the door.

This episode is for managers, leaders and ambitious professionals who notice their confidence evaporate at the sight of a promotion email or a meeting agenda. If you find yourself rereading emails five times, downplaying compliments, or assuming your promotion was a clerical error, this episode will be your guide to surviving that existential dread.

In this episode, we cover:

• Impostor syndrome symptoms
• Leadership and impostor feeling escalation
• Reframing self-doubt in leadership
• Keeping a Done file and sharing wins
• Scientific reframe of negative thoughts (CBT)
• Normalizing feedback loops for psychological safety
• Practice productive exposure: early drafts & peer input
• Normalizing impostor feelings within teams
• Making expectations explicit to reduce ambiguity
• Praising completion and learning over charisma
• Pairing new leaders with short‑term safety‑check mentors

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"Werq" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License,

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