Social Change Roles and the Imposter Complex with Deepa Iyer
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Amidst the complex emotions that of course I’m experiencing and certainly bearing witness to while navigating the realities of the current uncertainty precipitated by COVID 19, one of the most common threads I can discern is a well-intended but despair-filled sense of, “but what can I DO?” “I’m not DOING enough.” And this DOING, and this enoughness, that need for identity has been one that has caused a lot of struggle and confusion and inefficiency. Comparison too. So when my friend and former Ready Enough Podcast guest, Staci Jordan, shared a Medium post on Facebook called...
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Neurodivergence and Creating a Culture of Belonging with Eli Trier
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Eli Trier joins me on the Ready Enough Podcast in this episode, and she knows a thing or two about when people come up against the Imposter Complex. Eli coaches community leaders in building their communities through Online Community Projects. And when it comes to finding a sense of belonging in community, the Imposter Complex loves to show up — both for community members, but also for community hosts. As Eli so beautifully reminds us at the beginning of our conversation, “We all feel like we don’t belong.” So we get into it. We talk about the Imposter Complex and creating a Culture of...
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The Problem of 'Fake it to make it' with Janelle Allen
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Janelle Allen helps folx get their brilliance out into the world through courses and course creation. With a background in academia, she uses her skills in understanding how adults learn to create online courses that deliver results — which is of course exactly where the Imposter Complex loves to hang out. We talk about how Janelle hasn’t necessarily identified with the Imposter Complex, how Janelle’s program Finish Your Damn Course! (brilliant name, no?) was basically a response to her clients that kept getting tripped up by the Imposter Complex and how the Imposter Complex shows...
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Trauma and the Imposter Complex with Nicole Lewis-Keeber
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I’m so happy to get to share Nicole Lewis-Keeber with you all today. Her work is deep and has that resonance of popcorning ahas. Nicole is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker turned business therapist and mindset coach who helps entrepreneurs identify the patterns that cause friction and dysfunction in their businesses. She helps them identify trauma of all kinds, rework habits, and redefine relationships—with themselves, their team members, and their businesses. Nicole and I have known each other for several years now, so we are intimately familiar with each other’s work. Nicole shares...
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Self-Doubt is Proof of Your Humanity with McKensie Mack
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The deeply wise, deeply generous McKensie Mack joins me on Ready Enough today to share a rich interview that digs deep into boundaries, healing from systemic injustice and inequity, and will give you plenty of food for thought and room to grow if you let it in. McKensie is an anti-oppression consultant, coach, and facilitator, working with organizations to develop cultures of accountability that dismantle racism and gender inequity at the individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels. Together we talk about determining whether we’re deserving or worthy (spoiler: the answer is always...
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Accepting Your Worthiness and Investing in Your Support with Lena West
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Today the incomparable Lena West joins me on the Ready Enough podcast. Lena is a unique blend of coach, techie, marketing whiz, cheerleader, and intuitive guide. She helps women-identified entrepreneurs get real about business growth and what it truly means to show up for yourself and your business. Over the years, I’ve come to count on her honesty, directness, brilliance, depth, hilarity, power, and profound generosity. Lena has done my Imposter Complex work, and in this conversation, we talk about worthiness and mistrust of ease. I’ve witnessed Lena’s ability to SEE a...
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Arc of Power with Elizabeth DiAlto
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Today I am thrilled to have the brilliant light that is Elizabeth DiAlto on the show with me. Elizabeth’s energy is infectious and pretty much NOTHING is off the table. We talked about her Queen status, and how you can embrace yours, how perfectionism is extremely isolating, and how we tend to romanticize, dramatize or minimize in all our relationships. We talked about her relationship with shame, and why transparency is a huge part of WHY she doesn’t struggle with the Imposter Complex as much as many of the folx I meet. And Elizabeth breaks down the four parts of her curriculum, Arc of...
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The Imposter Complex and Parenting Against the Grain with Nic Strack
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In this episode of Ready Enough, you will hear how fond I am of my guest, Nic Strack. Nic was in my Starring Role Academy in 2018 and watching them do the brave work of deepening into who they were becoming was a profound privilege and joy. Nic is a parenting coach and so in this episode, we talk some about what Nic calls “against the grain parenting” which they know a lot about as a non-binary parent. We talk about how exhausting this can be and as such why self-care matters and what self-care really is (hint: it’s not just about sheet masks and massages...though it can be that...
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The Complexity of Uncertainty with Meg Lightheart
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Today on the Ready Enough Podcast, I have the joy of speaking with the deeply wise and powerful Meg Lightheart. Meg is a presentation coach for people with a vision and a leadership coach for people facing uncertainty, complexity, and mess. She particularly likes supporting people who feel in over their heads and who sense that what's got them to where they are isn't going to get them through this next set of challenges. So together, we’re talking about where the Imposter Complex show up for folx doing presentations and other types of performance. We talk about where the Imposter Complex...
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Unraveling the Imposter Complex with Staci Jordan Shelton
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Staci Jordan Shelton is one of my absolute favorite teachers. She is a performance consultant and coach working with leaders, creatives, and entrepreneurs to uncover—to unravel—the things that influence and impact their performance, processes, and overall results. Staci is all about releasing Humans from captivity and the tyranny of limited beliefs, behaviors, and binaries—self-imposed or otherwise. By helping humans get free of the lies that hold them hostage, she is helping in cultivating a lifestyle of powerful self-love, self-acceptance, agency, freedom, and abundance. And those lies...
info_outlineWhile my Imposter Complex work is confronting at the best of times, resistance and obstacles present themselves, to be certain, and I wanted Vanessa Mentor here to shine a light on her unique lived experience as a woman living and working in Haiti.
Vanessa is a freedom catalyst/ Life Coach and she helps women take better care of themselves and live a life that feels right for them. She specializes in working with ambitious professional women, free-spirited creatives, and feminists entrepreneurs, who want to engage in their career, take care of their family, have relationships they want, without complying to niceness and the feminine code of conduct and getting diverted by the Happiness Trap.
But living in Haiti, a place where many basic needs are being unmet by most around her and self-actualization seems beyond frivolous, Vanessa has a unique perspective to share about the tension of belonging, impact, and privilege. We also talk about how challenging is it to run an online business when internet connectivity is contingent upon weather and political climate, how the Imposter Complex then plays into THAT space of belonging, and being the only woman from Haiti in a space of North Americans and Europeans and Australians.
Find full show notes for this episode here.
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