Dr. Valerie Young is an internationally recognized expert on impostor syndrome, award-winning author, and speaker at such diverse organizations as Boeing, Facebook, Procter & Gamble, BP, Intel, Chrysler, Apple, McDonald’s (Europe), IBM, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and many more.

Her career-related advice has been cited by BBC radio, Yahoo Financial News, CNN Money, NBCNew.com, The Wall Street Journal, USA Weekend, O magazine, Inc., Entrepreneur, Science, Psychology Today, The Chicago Tribune, The Globe & Mail, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and dozens of other popular and business outlets around the world.

Impostor syndrome impacts individuals and organizations. Valerie’s highly solution-oriented approach to impostor syndrome is simple: If you want to stop feeling like an impostor, you have to stop thinking like impostor.

Ep 33: Don’t Get Derailed by the Impostor Syndrome with Valerie Young

Valerie Young, an internationally recognized expert on the impostor syndrome, 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, talks with me about how to recognize when the impostor syndrome is getting in your way and how to overcome it when it does.

In this episode, you’ll hear about:

  • The negative impact that the impostor syndrome can have on your career
  • The surprising ways in which the impostor syndrome shows up at work
  • How expecting to feel confident all the time is getting in your way

 

Watch Dr. Valerie Young’s 2017 TED Talk

Learn why the only way to stop feeling like an impostor… is to stop thinking like one.

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