Chapter 3 - Understand What Causes You to Sink
Optimising Leader Brilliance · 2025-07-30 · 52 min
Episode notes
Hello there! In this episode, I read Chapter 3: Understand What Causes You to Sink from my bestselling book, Inner Brilliance · Outer Shine: 10 Antidotes to Imposter Syndrome, Workaholism & Stress . I’m sharing all 10 chapters from my book as a way to support your summer growth and personal development. The goal of this chapter is to help you understand the root cause of your stress, workaholism and imposter syndrome. In this episode, we’ll explore: The Nature vs Nurture Model of Personality Whether you grew up in a safe and stable environment or wasit unsafe and unpredictable one Whether you felt loved or rejected Whether you felt like a success or failure What happens when faking it doesn’t help you make it How we can ‘cheat’ change and update outdated beliefs and coping strategies I have permission from my publisher to read most of my book aloud. If you'd like to access the parts I’ve omitted, you can download the accompanying workbook and journal here: Here’s to your shining! Bestselling Author, Coach & Speaker Connect & access free resources here: Disclaimer: This podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be considered professional advice.
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