Hey there, it's Jonathan Van Ness. And if you're looking for a podcast that actually helps you feel grounded, centered, and a little bit more like yourself, then add mantra with Gemma Spag to your weekly rotation.

Every Monday, Jemma shares a new empowering phrase, a mantra, and you know I love a good mantra, honey, to help you reframe your mindset and find balance, no matter what life throws at you. So far this

season, she's been exploring some really impactful themes, like releasing the need for external

validation, ooh, that's hitting, and honoring your emotions as they guide you through grief. Ah! Plus, each

episode includes thoughtful journal prompts and a weekly challenge to help you turn that mantra into action.

One of my absolute favorite episodes is for the mantra, I let my work speak louder than my doubt.

I feel like we all struggle with imposter syndrome in some way, some more than others,

but in some way I think we've all been there.

And this episode came at a time when I really needed that reminder. And in case this is a reminder you needed, well, great news,

because I have a preview of that episode for you. Check it out.

Okay, let's get into it. It's time for this week's mantra. I let my work speak louder than my doubt. I love this mantra,

because doubt is a really funny thing. There is not a human alive who lives without it. And if there was,

I don't think I'd really want to be around them. And yet the experience is wholly individual and

personal. It's also self-directed.

We have this innate blindness towards other people's self-doubt. We think that we must be the only ones.

Everyone else is deserving of their success. Everyone else has actually worked hard for it.

Everyone else is confident, self-assured. We are the imposter.

We are the fraud. We are the one who doesn't deserve to be here. I really want to begin this

week's mantra by coming out and saying, there is not a soul alive, not a single person who you admire,

who is not at some stage questioned themselves so intensely

they almost didn't act. They almost didn't put out that album you adore or create that

thing that everyone uses these days, the book or the podcast that changed your life.

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