Stop Coping with Imposter Syndrome.
Every article, every podcast, every well-meaning piece of advice about impostor syndrome eventually settles on the same advice.
Breathe through it. Reframe it. Write your accomplishments on a sticky note and read them when the doubt creeps in.
And maybe it works. But if you’ve been managing impostor syndrome for years and it keeps coming back, there’s a reason. Coping, using these tools, doesn’t close the gap. It just makes the gap more bearable. Here’s the distinction nobody talks about.
Coping says: I feel like a fraud, but I’ll push through anyway.
Closing says: I understand why the fraud feeling exists, and I’m going to remove the conditions that keep creating it.
The impostor phenomenon, and it is a phenomenon, NOT a syndrome, lives specifically in women who are qualified enough to see their own gaps. You’re not struggling because you’re incompetent. You’re struggling because you’re self-aware enough to measure the distance between where you are, and where you THINK you should be.
That gap is where the impostor lives.
The goal isn’t to feel more confident before you act. The goal is to close the gap so the impostor has nowhere to live.
This is the foundation of my keynote, Phenomenon to Phenomenal — the framework to help successful women stop managing the feeling and start closing the distance between how they see themselves and how the world already sees them.
If you’ve spent years coping, and talking yourself down from the ledge this video is for you.
You don’t need another tool to survive it. The first step is to understand why it keeps coming back.
After you watch the video, let me know: have you been coping or closing?
