XYBM Clips: There’s a blessing on the other end of what you’re going through
Express Yourself Black Man
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🗓️ 20 April 2026
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In XYBM 154, we sit down with Stevon Lewis, a speaker, author, psychotherapist, and the host of the podcast, "How to Talk to High Achievers About Anything," produced by LWC Studios. He explains imposter syndrome as fear of being exposed as a fraud, often rooted in childhood criticism, conditional affirmation, or being “the only one” in certain spaces, including Black people in majority-white environments.
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| 0:00.0 | I literally started thinking, what's the solution to make sure this doesn't happen again? I came up with the solution, right, implemented the solution. But then I also thought to myself to get myself back, like, yo, there was something that we need to say that we didn't say. Or maybe something we said, we didn't need to say. And God said, yo, we got to shift this to the direction that I want this to be taken. Yep. You feel me? |
| 0:21.2 | And I feel like a lot of times we go through trials in our life and we take it as a negative |
| 0:27.1 | right away. |
| 0:27.9 | Like, why am I going through this thing? |
| 0:29.4 | Why did this thing happen? |
| 0:30.9 | And sometimes that thing has to happen to shift you into the direction that God wants |
| 0:36.2 | you to go. |
| 0:36.9 | And it may be uncomfortable in a moment, |
| 0:39.4 | but what would be way more uncomfortable |
| 0:41.6 | is if you stayed in that direction that you were going |
| 0:44.1 | and God just let that thing happen for you |
| 0:48.4 | in the way that you thought you wanted to happen. |
| 0:50.4 | Because you were out of, |
| 0:51.5 | you were probably out of alignment. |
| 0:53.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:54.1 | The trial is to put you back into alignment. Get you back right. Get you were out of, you were probably out of alignment. Yeah. The trial is to put you back into alignment. |
| 0:56.6 | Get you back right. |
| 0:57.6 | Get you back right because you bug it. Yeah. And you think you're going in the right direction. God, like, yo, listen, you're wild. Let me slap you back. Right now you're going to be a little annoyed. You're going to be upset. but you're going to be way less annoyed and upset |
| 1:09.7 | than what you would be |
| 1:11.2 | if I let you keep going down this pattern. |
| 1:13.5 | Real talk. |
| 1:14.0 | Because it seems like, be upset, but you're going to be way less annoyed and upset than what you would be if I let |
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