Welcome to the Black Girl Burnout podcast.

Kelly here.

And today I want to talk about how to opt out of imposter syndrome.

This is an issue that many black women face.

I know it's something that it's something I've struggled with the majority of my professional

life.

Imposter syndrome has a way of eating away at your confidence, stopping you from pursuing goals and dreams, and

even more painful, stopping you from being able to celebrate all of the accomplishments that

you have. Today, let's talk about what causes imposter syndrome, how to address it, and then how to build a life

that combats against imposter syndrome.

Now, imposter syndrome manifests differently across different people, but it is basically the belief

that your accomplishments, who you are, what you've done is either not good enough or by

luck or coincidence, not by hard work and actual talent and accomplishment.

Imposter syndrome shows up as self-doubt.

It can be an almost debilitating fear of failure. A lot of times it shows

up as perfectionism. We've talked about all of these before in the podcast, but really it's when

they all come together, that imposter syndrome really shows up in our lives. This podcast always talks about the context and the historical

legacy that many of us as black women have been lied to about. We have been only shown purely the

negative of the experience of blackness. And as a result, it has caused us to have some unhealthy,

limiting beliefs about ourselves.

An imposter syndrome can be directly connected to the legacy and the racial trauma that many

black women have experienced and the continued racism, sexism, and other isms that black

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