Feeling Like a Fraud Everyday of your Job: Dealing with Imposter Syndrome

Fingers Crossed

Kristee Vetter & Sierra Green

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.7 • 644 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever feel like a fraud who is about to be exposed any moment for being unqualified or not experienced enough to be where you are? You may be experiencing imposter syndrome, my friend. That is exactly what Kristee and Sierra are dissecting on today's episode: what imposter syndrome is, how they have experienced it in school and work, where it comes from and systemic barriers that contribute to it, and small ways to build your confidence to tackle it! They are also sharing tons of listener stories of how people with a variety of backgrounds have felt imposter syndrome in different ways, so you know you're not alone! ps: you're not a fraud! you deserve everything you've worked for! xoxo

@kristeevetter

@sierramichellegreen

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to another Tuesday here on Fingers Cross podcast. We are so excited to be with you, as always, such an honor. Never gets old, truly. it's my favorite way to start a Tuesday honestly
0:21.6	it makes me so excited every morning when I wake up and realize it's Tuesday and I get to like go
0:26.2	you know post stories from the new episode and like read your responses and stuff and it's just a
0:32.2	good day so it's really exciting yeah we honestly are so grateful to have this podcast and
0:37.0	I was thinking about that the other day I was having a chat with one of my good friends. We hadn't seen each other in a while. And we got lunch or no-died dinner after work. And we were just talking. And I was kind of just like helping her with some stuff she's struggling with and some issues in her own life that she's going through. So you're talking about those and kind of like what's going on with her.
0:56.8	And I realized I felt, and I'm not just trying toot my own horn here.
1:00.7	Like I just felt like I had so much more knowledge under my belt or like, I don't know,
1:08.9	emotional capacity.
1:14.8	Yeah, perspective. Like, just the ability to understand what someone else is going through and like these certain terms of things we've talked
1:20.3	about, like, you know, certain, like we're going to talk about today, imposter syndrome or
1:24.9	things like, you know, toxic positivity or body neutrality or
1:29.0	just like all these random concepts. Yeah. Yeah, you know, what is toxic versus healthy gratitude?
1:35.7	Um, you know, I can just literally throw it a handful of every single episode. Let's just list all 34 of our
1:41.4	episodes now for you. But because I brought up, we've actually in-depth
1:46.2	sat down and talked about these really important issues. I feel like now I have this
1:51.9	library inside of me of insight that I'm able to use in my own life to like hopefully help my
1:58.7	friends if they need help or like talk about issues or even
2:01.6	just understanding myself and what I'm going through. And I just started was thinking about that
2:05.7	as I was leaving that dinner with her. And I was thinking, wow, I am so grateful for this podcast
2:12.3	because not only am I feeling like I hope that we are making a difference and like being able
2:16.6	to reach so many people and talk about these really important topics. But I feel like I am growing as an
2:21.8	individual so much. Yeah, it's definitely an interesting platform to be able to not only like,
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