Hi and welcome to the first of our 10-part series on overcoming your confidence gremlins.

We're Helen and Sarah, the founders of Amazing If, a business which is all about helping people have happy careers.

In our first episode today, we're going to be tackling one of the most common confidence gremlins of fear of being found out, or fobfo, as we sometimes like to call it.

I'm not even sure it's a good acronym, but a fear of being found out or imposter syndrome.

So something that I think a lot of people will recognise this whole idea of, you know, fake it till you make it.

And how does that feel

quite a nerve-wracking thing to feel that you might be found out at any moment.

So just before we dive into a fear of being found out, a quick reminder of what a confidence

gremlin is and why they matter. So confidence gremlins are the things that hold us back

at work. They're different to weaknesses in that confidence gremlins are things that do stop us from doing the things that will make us better in our job.

They are things that are really important to us that mean that sometimes we might not reach our potential

and means that if we don't do something about them, we won't necessarily be as happy as we could be in our role every day. And everybody has confidence gremlins. I know that always feels really easy

to say, but maybe harder to believe, but genuinely when we chat to our guests, the people we

talk to on all of our courses, everybody has their own confidence gremlins. They're unique to you

and how you experience them. But there are some really kind of common themes that come up and hopefully what we'll aim to do through these podcasts has give you some really helpful hints and tips as to how you can just start to take some action to really do something about these gremlins.

So that's the trick, knowing what yours are and then knowing kind of what you're going to do and starting to take some action.

So let's get into a fear of being found out.

So Helen, perhaps you could just start by telling us a bit about what is this confidence gremlin all about?

Yeah, this is an interesting one.

So this one is all about a fear that somebody is going to, and I've had this one so I can talk about from personal experience,

but I think it's a fear that somebody is going to ask you a question or just stumble on the fact that you are,

you shouldn't be here, you shouldn't be in this job, you don't know enough, you're not capable

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