A Deep Dive in to Imposter Syndrome

It’s been a bit of a bumpy ride, but we’ve made it to the end of another season of the poggie. As is tradition by now, Ben and I round out the season with a hostful episode where we take a look at what’s happening in our lives right now, and then answer some listener questions.

We received some cracking questions this time around, and kick off with a juicy one from my mate Hannah, who wanted to know if Ben or I experience imposter syndrome, and if so, what do we do about it.

This is a juicy place to start because I have a very long and complicated relationship with imposter syndrome, low self-esteem and destructively poor self-confidence, whereas Ben…doesn’t. So we dig deep in to the topic of never feeling good enough, as well as the reasons I’ve been reframing imposter syndrome as less of a personal failing and more of a symptom of social/career gaslighting.

To offer some balance to the episode, we then jump in to some lighter topics, including:

• What a regular dinner looks like for us

• Cleaning rhythms that we’ve adopted recently

• An introduction to our two doggos, Joey and Cash

• What we’re currently listening to

• Favourite cookbooks

• My recommendations for the best non-alcoholic IPAs.

I also just want to thank you all for listening to this season. It’s been a tough few months for so many of us, for so many reasons, and to have this wonderful, supportive community has given me so much strength and joy.

We will be back with another season later this year, but in the meantime, take care of your good selves and enjoy today’s show.

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Things to check out after today’s episode:

• Check out Hannah’s incredible weaving work at Sunday Woven

• And on Instagram

Cooking

• Planning with Kids Satay recipe (Replace protein with chicken thigh or tempeh. I cube my tempeh, marinate it in tamari sauce and toss it in nutritional yeast flakes, bake for 30 mins in some coconut oil, then use as per above recipe)

• Jamie Oliver’s basic risotto recipe

• BOOK: Franklin BBQ

• BOOK: Franklin Steak

• BOOK: Use It All

• Pizza dough recipe - An Italian in my Kitchen

• David Chang’s Instagram 

Music 

• Band of Horses playlist on Spotify

• Canadiana bands playlist on Spotify

Podcasts

• Comedy Bang Bang

• Threedom

• Stay F Homekins

• How did this get played?

• Doughboys

• Shattered Glass

Audiobooks

• Highly Sensitive Person by Dr Elaine N Aron

• Highly Sensitive Parent by Dr Elaine N Aron

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessell van der Kolk

Non-Alcoholic Beers

• Sobah Beers

• Heaps Normal

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