Imposter Syndrome & Self-Worth for entrepreneurs

“When our internal sense of self is not aligned with what's going on, usually we have a lot of success on the outside and we just literally need to upgrade what's going on on the inside. So our sense of self hasn't matched the great, great things we've done on the outside.”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 1:22· listen →

“They'll usually almost always will come out, why am I not happy? Or why do I not feel fulfilled when I've done all these things? But they really feel guilty even bringing it up because they know they're fortunate and they know that they have everything that most people want and desire.”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 34:05· listen →

“Some of the people that are the wealthiest, like you take Hollywood and some of these movie stars, and some of these people are just— they have everything you would think you would want in life and they're still unhappy. I mean, think about Robin Williams. Why would he kill himself? He was the happy guy. He was always smiling and he was always cracking jokes. Why would he hang himself? That makes no sense. Well, it makes sense when you understand depression and you understand addiction.”

Dr. Paul Corona: Mind-Body Psychiatry for Entrepreneurs · 21:39· listen →

“some people express like the exhaustion they have for carrying all the damn masks way too fucking long, if I can say it that way, because that's how they feel. They're like, and here I am, I've got my own company, right? It is being successful, and I'm still not free.”

Dr. Jax Black: Redefining Success Through Joy · 28:58· listen →

“Deserving isn't earned, it's remembered, right? And so nobody in that room cares about you. Nobody in that room thinks about you. They're thinking the same thing whoever this person is thinking. They're thinking the same thing. What if they find out?”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 26:32· listen →

“Most of us suffer from imposter syndrome, right? Your skill level's going like this, your confidence level's going like that, and there's this gap.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 19:03· listen →

“I talk to myself sometimes and I would never talk to a friend like that ever. I forgot my flash drive. You piece of shit. Like, how are you not prepared for this? You know? And it's trying to stop yourself from doing that.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 21:50· listen →

“And it was interesting when we started doing classes at Liberate, the curriculum would ask people to write down like 10 things they liked about themselves, and a lot of people couldn't write down a single thing.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 13:53· listen →

“Imagine you want that person to have it be 80% positive or 70% positive. You have to start changing the way you talk to yourself, cuz of course you're gonna have imposter syndrome if everything you say to yourself is like, oh, you're not good enough. Oh, she's smarter than you. Oh, that outfit's better. Oh, you shouldn't be here. Oh, what are you doing? Like, of course you're not gonna feel good.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 20:00· listen →

“I was sitting in my corner thinking I'm the only one with that fear, with those nagging thoughts. Now today I know better. Today, every day I speak to an entrepreneur or to a business owner, we are all dealing with the same things.”

Personal Branding & Fear of Judgment With Ivana Ivanek · 0:59· listen →

“What I see mostly is typically at an early age, some sense of need to seek the validation, sense of where that really served, and the continual path of seeking validation... And when you don't have a sense of, I'm good enough whether I do that or not, eventually you're left with, yeah, but what if I don't do that?”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 15:07· listen →

“We're responding to a present moment situation through the lens of a past experience. So, if growing up, every time I got a B on a report card, my parents punished me or criticized me, or I was only praised when I was perfect and achieved the most, I'm carrying that story from childhood in my body.”

Somatic Therapy for Entrepreneurs with Chelsea Horton · 11:12· listen →

“When I asked this question to someone, they said that the family member that used to watch them when their parents were at work, they used to ask for money for food and they'd get molested.”

Redefining Prosperity: Money Mindset & Spirituality · 18:28· listen →

“And trauma doesn't need to be getting kidnapped and thrown in the back of a car. It could be your parents telling you you're not good enough. It could be a partner taking advantage of you because you're too honest or something. It could be your friends making fun of your dreams and goals.”

Emotional Healing for Entrepreneurs w/ Benjy Sherer · 15:46· listen →

“Big Joy is all about realizing that we're born for joy and not for deficits. Most of the leaders, most of the souls, most of the amazing people we work with have been taught somewhere in their journey that they're going to have to perform some version of perfection that I never figured out.”

Dr. Jax Black: Redefining Success Through Joy · 4:07· listen →

“Our behaviors and our thoughts are actually a response to our nervous system state. So if my nervous system, if my body is going into this state of stress or anxiety, and I'm feeling all that activation... that's going to impact how I'm thinking about a situation and therefore how I'm behaving in a situation.”

Somatic Therapy for Entrepreneurs with Chelsea Horton · 3:15· listen →

“If emotions are energy in motion, if that feeling could move, how would you want to move with that emotional energy? Now their body's wisdom is kicking in because our bodies know how to metabolize emotion. Our mind gets in the way.”

Somatic Therapy for Entrepreneurs with Chelsea Horton · 0:00· listen →

“The goal is to open up the pipe and let that thing finally move through us. And when it does, it can be a little bit uncomfortable in the moment. But as you start getting used to this feeling of processing your emotions, it can actually feel really good.”

Emotional Healing for Entrepreneurs w/ Benjy Sherer · 26:42· listen →

“It's really hard for judgment and curiosity to coexist, 'cause if we can truly embody curiosity and say, huh, where does that pattern come from? Why do I think that? What am I afraid is going to happen? Then that's where we're really opening a door rather than judging something and closing a door.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 16:19· listen →

“I can have a crappy day and go get a massage and feel good for 24 hours, and the next day, if I did not address that crappy whatever's going on inside of me, it's back. So I can do things to feel good, but they're not solving the internal.”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 45:15· listen →

“Deserving isn't earned, it's remembered, right? And so nobody in that room cares about you. Nobody in that room thinks about you. They're thinking the same thing whoever this person is thinking. They're thinking the same thing. What if they find out?”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 26:32· listen →

“Let me just say one thing, and I'll say it as hard as I can: people really don't care. They don't care about you as much as you think they do. Your friends do, but most people don't give a blank about you until you go into their world and make a difference. Everybody has that gift. It's just they have to believe they have a gift, and most people don't believe they have a gift, but they do.”

Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs with Alan McLaren · 27:02· listen →

“With social media today, we have a free global world stage. If we press public on our profile, you are a public figure, exposed. And so many people fear that, and it is What I noticed, not because they don't think they are good enough if they stay in their own bubble, because we all deep down know that what we bring to the table, what we bring out there can change someone's life.”

Personal Branding & Fear of Judgment With Ivana Ivanek · 20:01· listen →

“Number one question we get from our clients, why would anybody listen to me? You know what the answer is? It's a really simple one. What you know, you might think is normal, somebody else might find fascinating.”

Personal Branding for Entrepreneurs with Alan McLaren · 18:33· listen →

“I'm not going to go into the gym on day 1 and try to lift 100 pounds off the rack. You know, I'm going to go with a 5 or 10-pound weight. And then over time, I'm going to slowly increase the amount of weight that I can lift until I get to that 100-pound weight.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 22:30· listen →

“So the answer then is compartmentalization, and that's the shoeboxes. So the more compartmentalized these problems are, the less overwhelming they become. So I got this problem. That by itself is not overwhelming. And I got this problem. That by itself is not overwhelming. It's only when I let them all merge together that I get into trouble. So what I say to people that are overwhelmed, don't lump, compartmentalize, use your shoeboxes.”

Dr. Gary Sprouse: Realistic Optimism to Beat Stress · 34:04· listen →

“Even a successful entrepreneur has failed 1 billion times and been rejected 1 trillion times. Like, I have been rejected way more times than I have been accepted. I have failed way more times than I've been successful. At this point, I'm like almost immune to it, at least for the smaller ones.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 27:28· listen →

“I think we feel like I'm failing if I'm not doing it every day. I set a goal and I want to be a meditator, but I do it for a month and then I drop off. So I must not be a meditator. And it's like, well, that was for me years of that before it just slowly became that thing. And that's okay.”

Holly Conti: Scaling to 7 Figures with Mindset Work · 22:28· listen →

“I think what's good to know, because I don't think, I certainly would never sign up for something that you're losing control. You don't lose control. You're getting control back because we want to be in control.”

Hypnotherapy for Imposter Syndrome With Christina L. Woods · 21:29· listen →

“Burnout isn't about doing too much. It's doing what's not true for you for too long. And so alignment feels different, right? There's still effort, but there's clarity of direction and growth.”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 0:00

“Your soul should be the chief of the energy that your soul's leading from, because most people, have you noticed, lead from the outside and then address strategy, as opposed to the inside and out.”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 5:43

“What's fascinating is we all avoid those discomforting topics because they're not comfortable for us, or they're what we actually came to learn, but we avoid them.”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 9:19

“Anxiety tells me when they show up is that they're either living in the past or the future. They're not present right now.”

Become the CEO of Your Soul: Daune M. Thompson on Burnout · 31:20

“I believe every single human being has the beautiful power within them to transform, to come home to themselves, as I like to say. And so my role is really to provide the safety, the love, the education, and the tools that people need in order to kind of cross that bridge into self-transformation.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 2:25

“Everything is a choice. Truly, everything is a choice to wake up, to say yes, to say no.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 6:12

“I said, okay, well, I see the divorce and I raise you. I'm quitting the job, selling the house. I'm gonna go on this travel sabbatical and just, you know, kind of my own little Eat, Pray, Love adventure because I knew that I could handle whatever came my way.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 14:50

“I also really love the one, worrying is like a rocking chair. It'll pass the time, but it won't get you anywhere.”

Cognitive & Embodied Awareness with Carissa Karban · 34:58

“If you break yourself down just to be successful in business, it's not even about enjoying the benefits of money and those things, it's about enjoying your life. And, I think that gets lost. We learn about the so-called hustle culture, #hustle. Everybody's like, grind, grind, grind. But, that really isn't accurate.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 2:51

“That next big win is a weird thing... it's like doing drugs. And when you're doing things like that, you get this high and you're thinking to replicate it. If you keep chasing it that way, it's only going to destroy you.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 4:34

“First just make something cool and then worry about how you get it in front of people. It does not work the other way. That's where you see like the Hawktua girl... She had a shot and then didn't do anything with it because she wasn't prepared. So first, prepare your ideas and your cool content, and then worry about getting the people to see it.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 14:58

“The valuation is going to always be the most speculative thing you can do in the world... So the 2 tips is find a way to find any way to justify some kind of valuation. But also find investors that are going to believe in what you're doing because creative stuff like might work, it might not.”

Matt Read: Building Spatchcock Funk's Media Business · 47:35

“You know, we move, journal, breathe, meditate to tone mental muscles, which are presence, courage, gratitude, confidence, and resilience. And within each mental muscle, there are different skills that you can cultivate and exercise in order to build that strength.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 11:05

“I think it's even harder too for younger generations with social media. Like, even if you're not being told you're not enough, you're looking at somebody else accomplish something and you're saying, oh, I couldn't have done that. There's like, it's just constant comparison, which really can create negative self-worth and negative self-talk and all of that. So stay off social media.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 16:27

“Or the other one I love is your mind is a garden, your thoughts are the seeds. You can grow flowers or you can grow weeds.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 23:58

“So it's like focusing on the end goal, you know, it's focusing on what matters and why you're doing it is really important for resilience. And then just being flexible, you know, things may not come to fruition in the exact way that you had imagined, but it doesn't mean that whatever you accomplish isn't a success.”

Building Mental Muscles with Olivia Bowser · 28:35

“There absolutely is some added levels of pressure because a lot of the retainer sort of agreements that I look at, people's income can be based off of how many views they're getting. And that's a really kind of difficult position to be put into where a certain amount of money is not guaranteed to you. That can put a lot of strain on you mentally.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 15:49

“The first one that I always say is you really do have to create for yourself. If you can find a way for you to be able to feel comfortable in saying that this is an extension of yourself, this isn't— instead of you posting content, you're sharing content, you're extending yourself to people. That can be a place where you find validation regardless of views, regardless of engagement, regardless of traction.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 19:19

“It's so interesting to be working out of the Center for the Creator Economy because I'm very critical of social media. I'm a creator and I talk about social media every day, but I'm also very critical of it. It is very much an attack on our focus and our time if you allow it to be.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 25:13

“What works right now and has worked all of human history is storytelling. And now more than ever, you have an outlet to tell your story, tell your why or your business's why, and potentially reach millions of people. That is awesome. That is a real, real opportunity.”

Creator Economy Burnout: Staying Sane as a Content Creator · 33:59