Valerie Young: The impostor syndrome, and how to thrive in spite of it
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Valerie is an internationally known confidence expert and Author of The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from the Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It. Valerie has been cited in Wall Street Journal, Inc., Chicago Tribune, and O magazine, among others.
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| 0:00.0 | Entrepreneur on Fire 730 |
| 0:03.5 | John Lee Doomis is here with your daily dose of inspiring entrepreneurs. |
| 0:08.9 | Welcome to Entrepreneur on Fire and prepare to ignite. |
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| 0:39.4 | Like that spark fire nation, John Lee Doomis here, I am fired up to bring you our feature guest today, Valerie Young. |
| 0:49.2 | Valerie, are you prepared to ignite? |
| 0:52.4 | I am absolutely prepared to ignite. |
| 0:55.8 | An internationally known confidence expert, an author of the secret thoughts of successful women. |
| 1:01.8 | White capable people suffer from the imposter syndrome and how to thrive in spite of it. |
| 1:07.4 | Valerie has been cited in the Wall Street Journal Inc. Chicago Tribune O magazine and many others. |
| 1:14.2 | Valerie, have you given Fire Nation just a little insight, but take a minute. |
| 1:18.2 | Give us a little more details about you personally and your biz. |
| 1:22.2 | Sure, absolutely, John. |
| 1:23.5 | I just said I'm a confidence expert among other things and I speak on this thing called the imposter syndrome. |
| 1:30.9 | What that means is I always tell people that it's a sense that the other shoe is going to drop. |
| 1:37.4 | That you're really in over your head and they're going to find out that you're not as bright and capable |
| 1:41.5 | and they're going to be exposed as an imposter, fake or fraud. |
| 1:45.0 | Mike Myers says he's still waiting for the no talent police to come and arrest him. |
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