Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 252 of YogaLan.

As you can see, this is our very first YouTube podcast together with Jason.

Hi Andrea. How are you?

Are you excited?

Yes, I'm mostly excited because I think that now that people should they choose to watch the

podcast, they can see the beautiful glory that is our dog. Who will be in your life at the end?

They can see the attachment that we've got going here.

So today we are going to talk about imposter syndrome. This is something that comes up a lot

in your teacher trainings with your trainees asking about it, understandable. It's nerve-wracking

being a new teacher. It also came up when you put a call out for questions on Instagram and there

were a few people who responded, so we just thought perfect opportunity to talk about it.

Yeah, and it's always been one of these topics that I look, I have plenty of insecurities,

but I've never had the insecurity that I was an imposter.

And so, or at least not in this context, right? And so it's always been one of these things

that when people brought up, I didn't really have a lived experience of.

So my impulse was to kind of deny it and just not deny that people had imposter syndrome, but

to essentially talk it up as pure insecurity, right? And then the more I got to thinking about it,

and the more people have brought this up over the years, the more I realized like, oh,

now this is something to actually go a little bit more deeply in. So it's something that I have

spent more time trying to understand and kind of see that, oh, well, there's a dynamic world here,

and I think that we can unpack it and talk through and help people have a little bit more understanding

and empathy and maybe see some of the maybe the causal variables about why they experience it

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