Mental Health #3: How to Deal with Imposter Syndrome (Classic)

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Careers, Business, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 26 January 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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We’re serving up another miniseries this week all about mental health. In this classic episode, I share my experiences with imposter syndrome and some techniques I use to cope with it. Check out the full transcript at https://foundersjournal.morningbrew.com to learn more, and if you have any ideas for our show, email me at [email protected] or my DMs are open @businessbarista. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, everyone? This is Alex Lieberman, co-founder and executive chairman of Morning Brew.
0:06.0	Welcome back to Founders Journal, my personal audio diary, where I give you the business builder,
0:12.0	the tools you need to think better in order to build better, whether that's building a business,
0:16.9	a team, or a new product. This week on Founders Journal, we're doing things a little differently.
0:23.3	We are dropping a mini-series focused on mental health. I talk about my own battle with anxiety,
0:30.0	the effects social media has on our psyche, and breakdown my own mental health routines.
0:36.3	That means instead of just one episode, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, this week we're giving you
0:41.5	two. A new show that you won't want to miss, plus a classic episode you maybe haven't heard before.
0:47.5	In today's classic episode, originally published on March 1st, 2021, I talk about how I deal
0:54.0	with Imposter Syndrome. So I went back and looked at recent Founders Journal episodes and I've
0:59.0	started to identify three major buckets. The first bucket is what I call the news driven episode.
1:05.6	For example, my episode on The Rise of Clubhouse did well because it connected strategies for
1:11.2	building two trending technologies like consumer social apps. The second bucket is what I call
1:17.6	service content. Service content covers things like my process for productivity, and these episodes
1:24.4	do well because they solve a very clear problem for the listener and they leave my listener with
1:29.2	actionable insights. Now, the third and final type of episode I put in the vulnerability bucket.
1:36.8	Founders Journal listeners love to unlock their vulnerability through my own vulnerability. Basically,
1:42.9	when I share it gives people the feeling of their own permission to share. So, for example,
1:48.0	the episode where I talked about losing my dad when I was in college, it was no surprise that I got
1:53.9	far more emails from that episode than any other Founders Journal episode ever. While I'm going to
1:59.9	continue to focus on all three of these buckets, I want to spend today talking about the third
2:04.8	category, vulnerability, and more specifically, one of my biggest anxieties as an entrepreneur.
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