Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Six Steps to Reclaiming Your Confidence and Empowering Other Women to Do the Same

Imposter Syndrome is what happens when girls and women believe what society has to say about them.

Messages like these begin in childhood:

-boys are good at math, girls are better at reading and crafts

-being pretty is more important than being smart

-being different is dangerous

-people prefer girls who are quiet, helpful, thin, etc.

-women should be caregivers

-girls are too emotional to be leaders

-let someone smarter/stronger do that for you

Even if we KNOW intellectually that these messages are...