Ep. 141 - Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Reclaim Your Confidence
Barb Knows Best
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 October 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week on Barb Knows Best, Barb and Michelle dive into the topic of imposter syndrome and share their personal experiences of how they've learned to reclaim their confidence — and hopefully inspire you to do the same. They explore what imposter syndrome looks like, how it manifests, and the impact it can have on our lives. Through the insights and strategies they discuss, they hope to help quiet your inner critic and loosen the hold imposter syndrome may have on your life.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of Barb knows best, the podcast. |
| 0:04.3 | It's a monumental workload, I think that happens inside of a person that suffers from |
| 0:11.9 | imposter syndrome or fraud or being this kind of an |
| 0:15.3 | over prepared perfectionist that is detrimental massively to the mental health. Hello everyone. Hi friends welcome back to Barb knows best the |
| 0:38.3 | podcast it is me your co-host Michelle and I am sitting here with my mom Barb and we are so |
| 0:46.7 | excited to be chatting with you all again this week and every week about life and |
| 0:51.0 | the topics and things that happen along the journey. |
| 0:54.4 | Hi mom, hi Michelle. You've got a huge smile on your face you look pretty |
| 0:59.2 | happy today so I don't even know if I need to ask you how's it going being you? |
| 1:03.0 | I feel really good today. I'm well rested and I'm as always excited to talk about all of the things that we talk about on the podcast, but especially this one today because it doesn't feel quite as heavy |
| 1:14.7 | we've had a couple heavy topics the past few weeks we have and I think you said |
| 1:19.2 | it best before we actually hit record you said maybe we won't end up on the floor |
| 1:24.6 | feeling our feeling so deeply after this episode. Yeah you said maybe we can |
| 1:28.3 | end this episode without like crying or you know feeling worn out and wiped out or just emotionally depleted but one |
| 1:36.6 | never knows how these conversations will unfold so well we're |
| 1:40.9 | sure all up yeah we're sharing our experiences and our life's thoughts and experiences obviously, but |
| 1:48.5 | also our deepest feelings I think come up. |
| 1:51.1 | I know for me, I feel very safe and love this |
| 1:54.7 | Love this community and I love doing our podcast together. I love being with you |
| 1:58.6 | So I feel really safe. So a lot of feelings come up for us during the podcast and we hope that it's helpful for all of you. |
| 2:05.0 | And today is a little bit more, I don't know if I'm going to use the word light-hearted though, I'm not sure, but it's a little bit more. |
| 2:10.0 | I don't know. |
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