IMPOSTER SYNDROME: 10 ways we convince ourselves we’re not enough (and how to stop!)
LATE BLOOMERS
Rich & Rox Pink
5.0 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of LATE BLOOMERS, Rich and Rox talk honestly about imposter syndrome — especially when you’re a late bloomer who never expected life to look like this. From waiting to be “found out,” to secretly believing success is luck, not earned, they break down the sneaky ways self-doubt shows up even when you're thriving.
They explore how childhood experiences wire us to minimise ourselves, why confidence doesn't automatically grow with achievements, and how shame can hitch a ride on success just as easily as failure. And most importantly — they share gentle, practical ways to catch those thoughts, build self-trust, and learn to stand in what you've built without cringing, apologising, or shrinking.
Tender, honest, and funny in the very human way only these two do it — this episode is a reminder that you don’t have to feel like you belong to actually belong. You earned this. Now let’s learn to believe it.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the big imposter syndrome episode. We are going to talk about the 10 ways that we trick |
| 0:06.4 | our brains into feeling unworthy. Imposter syndrome is quite a common thing for neurodivergence. |
| 0:12.3 | Does it resonate with you? Across every single area of life. Common with neurodivergence, |
| 0:20.6 | people that are late diagnosed and are |
| 0:22.4 | wonderful late bloomers feeling that we're frauds fakes out of place well on that note for those |
| 0:29.1 | that don't know what imposter syndrome is do you want to just quickly tell them it's basically |
| 0:34.4 | feeling like you're a fraud in your own life. |
| 0:40.3 | And very often it's in like your passion area. |
| 0:44.1 | Yeah, okay. |
| 0:44.7 | Which is so sad. |
| 0:45.8 | So I know that we're going to have loads of listeners that want to run Etsy businesses, |
| 0:49.8 | be writers, become singers, other things, start businesses, |
| 0:53.1 | be parents for the first time, and they're |
| 0:55.7 | going to be beating themselves up. So we are coming to beat the imposter syndrome back down. |
| 1:03.0 | Welcome to late bloomers where we are getting our lives together. Eventually. |
| 1:08.5 | I think, so although I reckon the majority of these examples are going to be about you |
| 1:13.5 | and there are a divergent world with imposter syndrome, I'd like to share, because I don't |
| 1:18.7 | think that I suffer with it much, but there was a situation where I did. |
| 1:23.9 | I think you should lead us off. |
| 1:25.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.1 | When did you have imposter syndrome? When I was |
| 1:29.0 | recording the audio book for Dirty Laundry, I can't even, right? So bear in mind, I'm an author, |
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