Episode 378: Imposter Complex and Taking Bold Action with Amy Ahlers

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

How To, Education, Self-improvement

4.7 • 517 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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🎉✍ Join Amy Ahlers and I live on Wednesday, March 16th, for a free writing workshop: Top 10 Kick-Ass Tips to Get Your Writing Project Started and Complete. If you want to write a book, self-publish one, go the traditional route of publishing, or are simply curious about what it takes to launch your next writing project, join us. For all the details and to register, go here. We hope to see you on the 16th! ✍ 🎉 Speaking of Amy Ahlers, she returns to the show this week to talk about the imposter complex and the inner-critic. Plus, we share some of the ways our inner-mean girl shows up during the creation of our writing projects and some of the strategies we employ to calm her down. Amy is a Master Women’s Leadership and Life Coach, keynote speaker, and best-selling author. She is on a mission to stop women from self-bullying and being hard on themselves so they can make their greatest possible contribution. Enjoy our conversation! In this episode you’ll hear: How imposter complex shows up for women who want to start something new or complete a big project. (3:56) Some ways in which we handle our own imposter complex, including how we change the narrative. (6:39) Experiencing upper limit problems and how we deal. (10:13) Amy answers the question, “Is writing a book for everyone?” (23:30) What we love and do not love about writing. (27:33) http://yourkickasslife.com/378 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.7	The key I think with imposter complex is when it shows up, the key is to just not let it stop you.
0:36.1	And so as long as we're not letting our imposter
0:37.9	syndrome or our imposter complex stop us from doing what we're here to do, like writing books,
0:43.7	that's all that we can ask for. This is Your Kickass Life podcast, episode number 378,
0:50.7	with guest Amy Ehlers. This is the Your Kickass Life podcast with Andrea Owen.
0:58.7	A no BS guide to self-help and badassery.
1:02.4	Because ladies, let's face it, life's too short for it to not kickass.
1:08.7	And here's your host, the girl who serves it up straight with a side of crazy.
1:13.7	Andrea Owen.
1:16.1	Hey there, ask-higgers.
1:17.2	Welcome to another episode of the podcast.
1:19.0	I am so glad that you're here with me this week.
1:22.3	I have one of my favorite people in the world.
1:24.6	Amy Ehlers is on the show today, and we are talking about
1:27.8	imposter complex. We're talking about inner critic. And we are also sharing some personal
1:34.7	experiences we have in how we get through when imposter complex and inner mean girl, as Amy
1:43.0	likes to call it, gets on us too, because it still
1:46.5	happens. We are only human and we thought it would be helpful to share some experiences with you.
1:52.6	And also, before I forget, we will talk about this at the very end of the show, but Amy and I are
2:00.1	coming at you live on March 16th. We're doing a free
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