Why Successful Women Lose Confidence at Work: The Hidden Cost of Managing How You’re Perceived
Are you a successful woman who still second-guesses herself at work, even though you know you’re capable? You’ve worked hard, built experience and reached a level of professional success, yet still find yourself rewriting emails, replaying meetings, softening ideas or worrying about how you came across. This article explores why that happens, and how the hidden pressure of managing perception can start to chip away at confidence and ambition.
Imposter Syndrome: Rethinking the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Have you ever looked at an opportunity and thought, “I'm probably not ready for that”? Or explained away something you've achieved as luck, timing or being in the right place at the right time?
Imposter syndrome is often talked about as though it's just a confidence problem. But I've become increasingly interested in something underneath it: the stories we tell ourselves about what our experiences mean.