Four Salary Negotiation Tips for High Achievers With Impostor Syndrome
If you're technically excellent, hold yourself to a high standard, and feel a low hum of guilt about wanting more (because a bigger career might disappoint the people you're currently keeping happy) this one's for you.
The High-Performer’s Paradox: Why Non-Striving is the Key to Getting Where You Want to Go
Kabat-Zinn gently pointed me back to the thing I’d temporarily forgotten—despite a decade of preaching the same thing to high-performing anxious people: The healing paradox of non-striving.
The less you try to change your current inner experience, the faster you can actually do something about it.
The more you try to "fix" your emotions and beliefs, the stickier and trickier they get.
Why High-Achieving Women Feel Like Frauds
Feeling like a "fraud" is super normal, even for me. The more I coach subject matter experts and executive women, the more I see that imposter syndrome is never an indicator of actual competency but a hypnotic spell induced by a society steeped in bias against women and minorities. We can break the spell of this terribly boring hypnosis by co-opting its language. So there, I'm a "fraud."
Can an HSP be Assertive (Debunking the Impostor Syndrome Myth)
The world -- and especially the workplace -- is built in favor of non-HSP’s, but your natural talents have profound value.
You’re the real deal with an incredible capacity to empathize, which builds trust and connection, the raw ingredients for great leadership.