You are listening to a Clarks World magazine podcast with your host and narrator Kate Baker.

Greetings Clarks World Citizens. I hope this podcast finds you extraordinarily well and welcome to August 2016.

In this issue of Clark's World, there's a pretty monumentous event.

Our editor, Neil, is turning 50 years old.

And I'd like to read you an excerpt of the editorial that he placed in this particular issue.

Neil writes,

I recently blogged about having imposter syndrome. It's that

terrible little voice in your head that tells you that success was just luck, a

fluke, and it will all evaporate when people figure out the truth.

If you aren't careful, the little losses in your life can be magnified by this beast.

Far too many of us in this field seem to feel like imposters. by this

beest. Far too many of us in this field seem to feel like imposters, and I've been at war

with my personal monster for too long now. Lately, I think I might be winning.

I'm a big advocate of magazines starting small and growing.

In my eagerness to see the magazine expand, I've allowed imposter syndrome to convince me

that the value of my work was the enjoyment I received from it, so I took a smaller financial reward.

Oddly enough, this is counter to the advice I give authors.

Make sure you get paid.

I also told myself that reinvesting in the magazine would pay out in the long run.

My vision demanded the magazine, be complete before I could be justified drawing a proper wage.

There was a lot of theory in my madness. before I could be justified drawing a proper wage.

There was a lot of theory in my madness.

...