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Ep 019: Imposter Syndrome After 40 (Why You’re Still Waiting to Be Found Out)

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Ep 019: Imposter Syndrome After 40 (Why You’re Still Waiting to Be Found Out)

You’re not a fraud. You’ve been running on old proof.

You’ve managed teams, budgets, crises and at least one renovation that should have ended a marriage. So why does a new meeting, course or launch still leave you waiting to be found out? This week, I dig into why imposter feelings hang on in midlife, even with decades of evidence on your side, and why sometimes it isn’t you at all. Then we get practical about how to stop handing that voice the keys.

In This Episode:

  • Why imposter syndrome was never actually a syndrome, and what the original 1978 research found
  • The research showing it turns up in late-career professionals too (so no, you’re not supposed to be “past it” by now)
  • How old verdicts about yourself quietly harden into “personality traits”
  • Why midlife keeps putting you in new rooms, and what happened when I went from 30+ years of live TV to podcasting solo
  • The perimenopause brain “renovation” that can feed the fraud feeling
  • How to tell when it’s not you, it’s the room
  • Four ways to stop imposter feelings running the show

Your Prime Power Move:

Write down one “I’m not a ___ person” belief you carry about yourself. Next to it, write how old you were when you decided it, then three things you’ve done since that prove otherwise. Ask yourself: is this belief still true, or just still familiar?

Your Next Step:

Curious if you’re mid-fade or mid-comeback? Take my free Thriving, Striving or Surviving Quiz. Three minutes, three moves, no more guessing. Take the quiz.

Coming Up Next:

Ep 020 – Body Confidence Beyond the Mirror: Your Body Changed the Rules, So Change Yours

For most of our lives, we’ve been taught to treat our bodies like ornaments: something to be looked at. Next week, we’re rewriting the rules.

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