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Express Yourself Black Man

Ep. 154: How to Conquer your Impostor Syndrome with Stevon

Express Yourself Black Man

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Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Mental Health

5.0 β€’ 556 Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 115 minutes

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In XYBM 154, we sit down with Stevon Lewis, a speaker, author, psychotherapist, and the host of the podcast, "How to Talk to High Achievers About Anything," produced by LWC Studios. He explains imposter syndrome as fear of being exposed as a fraud, often rooted in childhood criticism, conditional affirmation, or being β€œthe only one” in certain spaces, including Black people in majority-white environments.

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0:00.0

When you did accomplish something, what did you do with it? Do you run away from compliments? Do you shy away from them? You're telling yourself your brain. When people say good stuff about me, don't associate yourself with that. Yeah, reject it, dismiss it. Give it to somebody else. Compliments should serve as confirmation for things you already know to be true about yourself. If you have a hard time of accepting the compliment, then I'm saying maybe you need to do some work on understanding who you are.

0:22.1

We're about to record a great episode. The reason why I know we're about to record a great episode

0:26.6

is because we previously recorded a great episode and the power went out. And the power went out,

0:33.8

so we weren't able to save that recording. So now we are re-recording an episode. With that being

0:40.8

said, if that hooked wasn't enough for you, what I will tell you is we are going to be talking about something that you may be feeling right now.

0:49.5

You may be experiencing right now, but you don't have the name of it. You don't have a word to actually

0:54.7

identify it. And so we have an expert here to help you to name what it is that you're experiencing.

1:00.0

If you feel like you're not doing enough, you're not doing well, you're not where you're

1:05.4

supposed to be, even if you have indications that you are doing those things, you may be

1:10.5

experiencing this thing.

1:11.9

And our guest is going to help you to uncover what that actually is and how you actually

1:16.8

navigate that, whether you're a black man, woman, whoever. So if this is your first time

1:22.2

listening to this podcast, I want to thank you for being here. I want to ask that you stay

1:26.7

because it's going to help you with your healing, with your growth.

1:31.1

And I know that if you're listening to this podcast, that this and those things are important to you.

1:36.9

Your healing is something that you take seriously.

1:39.2

Your growth is something that you take seriously.

1:41.1

So this guest is going to help you to be able to uncover these things to help you with those aspects of your life. And this is something that you've been shared, somebody shared this episode with you. That person cares about you, right? They care about you enough to say like, man, this is something that I listen to. This is a podcast or a platform that I listen to. And I wanna share with this person because I want them to be better. They care about seeing you win, which is a big proponent of what we do. So with that being said, we have Steve-on and Steve-on, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We have Steven-on, who is here to talk with us about a variety of things, but I don't want to get into that right away. I want to ask me how

2:18.2

you're doing. And I know I ask me already. But how are you now? After everything, that's

2:22.8

actually. After all that strats fire, right? I am doing well, sir. I'm happy to be back or

2:29.7

continuing to be here. However you're praising. Now, I'm still doing well. I'm still doing well.

2:34.3

Excited for this conversation this time around. We adjusted and made some, you know, changes to how we operate. So, you know, it's all good. Good. It's supposed to be what's supposed to be. Absolutely. I'm not even tripping. Absolutely. I appreciate. How you doing, man? I'm good. I can't, I cannot complain. Like I told you, man, I feel like God always aligns where we aligns our steps with this platform and just me as a person. I always pray before I do any episode. Before I do any type of podcast, I'm always praying. So the fact that the first episode was deleted and now we're back here and we're re-recording it,

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