455. Coaching Hotline: Self-Doubt in Your Career & Battling Procrastination
UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone
Kara Loewentheil
4.6 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 January 2026
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Why is it so easy to doubt ourselves, even when we’ve already proven we’re capable? In this Coaching Hotline episode, I answer a listener's question about feeling unqualified despite a successful career. She’s struggling with thoughts that her associate's degree makes her less than others in her field, even though her work experience speaks for itself.
The second question is about how to manage the flood of self-doubt that comes up when pursuing big goals. A coach is working on expanding her business, but finds herself stuck in a cycle of procrastination and negative thoughts. If you’ve ever felt like your thoughts were holding you back, this episode will help you move through them and take consistent action toward your goals.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to unfuck your brain. I'm your host Kara Lowentile, master-certified coach, and founder of the School of New Feminist Thought. I'm here to help you turn down your anxiety, turn up your confidence, and create a life on your own terms, one that you're truly excited to live. |
| 0:21.3 | Let's go. |
| 0:24.8 | Welcome to this week's coaching hotline episode where I answer real questions from real listeners |
| 0:31.2 | and coach you from afar. |
| 0:33.6 | If you want to submit your question for consideration, go to unfuck your brain.com forward slash |
| 0:39.5 | coaching hotline, all one word, or text your email to plus one 347-997-1784. |
| 0:48.2 | And when you get prompted for the code word, it's coaching hotline, all one word. |
| 0:52.6 | Let's get into this week's questions. |
| 0:55.5 | Our first question is about self-doubt, as are all of our questions, really. All right, so here's the |
| 1:03.3 | question. I've had a very blessed life and a fantastic career. I'm now in a high-level position |
| 1:09.3 | with a new company, and all of a sudden I'm having |
| 1:11.8 | serious self-doubt. I never graduated college with anything more than an associate's. I'm in a field |
| 1:17.5 | filled with advanced degrees, and here I am with my lowly associates. The problem is I have been in |
| 1:22.9 | senior executive leadership before, but I've never experienced a self-doubt that I am now. I never lied on my |
| 1:28.2 | resume, so it's not like they think I have something I don't. But I find myself lying to colleagues |
| 1:32.9 | when they ask over breaks and lunches, not fully lying because I did attend the college I said I did. |
| 1:37.4 | I just didn't graduate. I'm so proud of myself for being where I am, but I can't seem to see |
| 1:41.7 | myself past this. Okay. So I think that the one of the reasons |
| 1:46.5 | this is so confusing to you is that you do feel proud of yourself for what you've accomplished, |
| 1:52.0 | but at the same time, you are still making that college graduation mean something. So you're making it |
| 1:59.6 | mean that you're not what, as qualified, that you're not as |
| 2:04.1 | smart, that you don't have the tools, like you have to figure out what you're making it mean. |
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