64: What Is Imposter Syndrome?

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Speaker1: [00:00:09] You're listening to the Time to Level Up podcast. I'm your host, business life coach Andrea Libros. I help women in business commit to their own growth personally and professionally. Each week, I'll bring you strategies to help you think clearly gain confidence. Make your time productive. Turn every obstacle into an opportunity. And finally overcome the overwhelm so that you can make money and manage life. Let's create a plan so you have a profitable business, successful career. And best of all. Live with unapologetic ambition. Are you ready to drop the drama and figure out the how in order to reach your goals? You're in the right place. It's time to level up.

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Speaker1: [00:01:08] Hello, my friends, and welcome back to

Speaker2: [00:01:10] The podcast, we are up to episode sixty four and we are talking today about imposter syndrome. Yeah. It's like a syndrome that we acquire. No, it's not. I'll get into that, but before we start, I wanted to share with you a recent review of the podcast that came in through Apple Podcasts. If you have not gone and reviewed it yet. Go do that for me, please, I would like to get to 100 reviews, so until we get to 100 reviews, you're going to just keep hearing from me. So you might as well go to it if you haven't already done it and help me out crazy how these reviews make such a difference in the podcasting world. But they do so whatever I will play along. But this review was recently left, and I thought I'd share it with you. And. Yeah. Ok. Andrea delivers content that is clear, direct and supportive with materials and tools to help you take action. The bonus guest episodes are truly a bonus and an opportunity to listen to other women share their journey to leveling up the library of episodes makes it easy to listen again and again. So that review was left by Sarah, and she titled it amazing content. So I just wanted to share that with you because there is truly kind of now a library of sixty four. Actually, there's 70 episodes in there, some of them before I started numbering them, I call bonuses. There's 70 episodes in there of content.

Speaker2: [00:02:55] It's a library. My gift to you. All right. So today, imposter syndrome. Yes, it's a syndrome you either have it or you don't or. Well, and if you have it, you definitely got it from somewhere. If you if you got it right. Or maybe you were born with it like it's inherited, it's genetic. Kind of reminds me about what we talked about last episode in episode sixty three, about self value and worthiness. Either you have it or you don't. You were born with it. Right, or so we think now Worthing is I'm going to go with. You were born with it, it is inherent. Ok, imposter syndrome, not so much. All right, and you didn't acquire it, either, it's not a syndrome that you acquired. Here is what impostor syndrome really is. It's a collection of thoughts, our thought habits or patterns or beliefs that you have about yourself. It's something, if you're not careful, that can creep in. It certainly still creeps in with me sometimes. So I'm guessing that ninety nine percent of you have had this creep into your thinking, too. So this podcast is definitely worth listen if you are a human being. So to set the stage, I'm going to ask you a few questions, and I want you to be honest with yourself. They are just yes or no questions. We don't need to embellish, as my husband says. This is a yes or no question because I tend to answer things.

Speaker2: [00:04:38] With a lot of extra words, he thinks I like to give back ground and some evidence to support whatever my choice is, but he just wants a simple yes or no, as he says. Ok, so these are simple, yes or no questions. And I have borrowed some of these questions from a fellow coach, Katrina UBO. So kudos to her for thinking of these questions. So here we go. Number one, do you believe that your success or accomplishments in life may possibly have been due to chance or luck or connections you have or due to your physical appearance or really anything else? That's not your own talent or drive or intelligence or work ethic. Do you worry that you'll be found out or maybe exposed as a fraud or somehow inferior to other people that are similar in a similar position as you are? Are you anxious that someone might figure out that you don't really know what you're doing? Or that you actually aren't as smart or aren't good enough. Or that you made a dumb mistake. Do you worry about these things, even though you're really well established and experienced? You still think you might be fine about? Do you have thoughts that all of your colleagues are smarter than you? Have a better fund of knowledge than you. Do you keep up with more learning or continuing, Ed? Because you think you're never going to know enough or enough as the other guy. Do you work harder? Or do you think others work harder than you or do a better job than you? Are you terrified of making a mistake or not knowing the right answer or not knowing the right thing to do or not doing the right thing? Does your brain collect evidence to support these beliefs that you make mistakes and probably will, and you don't know the right things to do? So think about those questions, I see my clients creating these same types of questions and answering them for themselves.

Speaker2: [00:07:14] So often these are the kinds of things that come up. But here is the thing your brain will want you to think that this is all very objective. Ok. Like someone's worth or validity. Ok. Is something that's objective, like they follow more of the guidelines than I do. Ok? And there's a list out there of things we should and shouldn't be talking about or doing and these other people out there, they follow those way closer than I do. They do it more than I do. Ok? As if there were a correct number of times you should do something in order to be legit. Oh, look and think of that. If I, I don't have enough experience and when I have more experience, then I'll be legit. But here's the thing. Those types of thoughts are just a way for your brain to confirm more shortcomings than you have and continue to confirm your belief in them, right? It's it's that brain of yours, it loves to gather evidence of your shortcomings by thinking that way.

Speaker2: [00:08:30] All right. Here's another thing that I see often. Especially like I could I could think this all right, I'll give you an example for me, if my clients knew how I parent my kids, they would think I'm a horrible coach and would never take my advice. Well, here's another little part of that. If my clients knew how I ran my business, they would think I'm a horrible business owner and never take my advice. If my clients knew that I too sometimes stay up late thinking about things as it relates to my own life, they would never take my advice. My coaching skills are subpar, and they've always been. I'm just lucky. No one's reported me yet. Ok, so some of you think that. I only maybe or that you only maybe got into X, Y and Z school because you had legacy there or you only got in because you're a really hard worker. Ok, I kind of have that thought to actually way back in the day that maybe the only reason I got in to the college I got into was because I was a really hard worker. It's sneaky because it that thought that hard worker kind of thought it looks like you're giving yourself props for doing all the hard work, but really, you're saying that fundamentally you're inferior and you always will be right. And that's kind of that's kind of what I used to think that I only got in to Dartmouth College because I was a really hard worker.

Speaker2: [00:10:16] And it's sort of like they were doing me a favor. Ok. I know some of you sometimes think you only get into things because you knew someone or you had kind of a back door entrance, so you kind of downplay your success. All right. Here's another thing you only got the job because they had pity for you. Ok. My husband in medical school, there were some couples, couple medical school students, couples, and when it came time to the match where they were doing their residency, they only matched at X, Y and Z Place because they were couples and they were taking my partner or the partner. So they they would just take me to like it was kind of like a package deal. All right. You might make minor mistakes that are irrelevant or not important. Or you may have had an episode of innocently overlooking something harmless. And then all of a sudden, you make it mean that you shouldn't be trusted. Ok, so if you've made a mistake, OK, or you've overlooked something, you all of a sudden turn that into, I shouldn't be trusted. Because most certainly, you're going to make that same mistake again very soon. Ok. You probably if you're listening to this because mostly smart and ambitious women, do you probably put a lot of pressure on yourself to look smart and capable? Because lest anyone discover that you actually aren't.

Speaker2: [00:11:56] So think about it to any of these scenarios I've just talked about over the last, I don't know, five minutes or so. Did any of those resonate with you? Have you thought of something similar? So ultimately, your brain is doing its job, it's looking for anything that is unique in your personal life or your personal story, and it's going to turn it around and use it against you. It thinks it's doing you a favor. It thinks it's protecting you, but it really it's using it against you to show you how different you are than other people and that you don't fit in and then you're not personable in somehow pointing out how you differ from everyone else that you're somehow missing something, something that's super important to have. Or you're that. That's what it turns you into, like a fraud or an imposter. Ok, and some of you might be thinking, well, maybe this doesn't apply to me because I do believe I have accomplished great things and I'm super proud of what I've accomplished. But. I'm here to tell you that imposter syndrome can still be present just in a more subtle way, especially for really very high functioning, ambitious, driven women, which the vast majority of you listening are going to be. So what happens? Is that you can see that you have this, you have this, even though you might have external evidence that you're successful and skilled, that you have degrees that you close the deal or that you have the job and the income to prove it.

Speaker2: [00:13:32] But inside, you don't really believe that you are that successful or that skilled. And if other people saw your accomplishments, which I'm sure they do. But you you still, even though they saw them, you still don't believe that you're that skilled or that successful or that you did that good job, you may have some imposter syndrome. If this is you, you may have some imposter syndrome going on. So there is a conflict here between what others think, their opinion of you and your success and what you think of your accomplishments and success or lack thereof. This is what I call cognitive dissonance. And we've talked about this in the past on the podcast, but it's worth thinking about again. Cognitive dissonance is when you have conflicting attitudes or beliefs or behaviors, so in this case, it's conflicting beliefs about yourself. You rationally know one thing, but you're feeling another thing, so you rationally know that you've succeeded and you've done well in your life and you've got lots of evidence of that. But you also believe that your failure or you're never going to be good enough or deep down, you're lazy, lazy. Why do so many of you think you are lazy? So that's a disconnect there, what others see in you and what you actually can rationally see in yourself and how you actually feel inside, there's like multiple parts to that, right? There's what others see in you, what you actually can see in yourself, but what you feel like inside, there's the cognitive dissonance.

Speaker2: [00:15:18] Ok, it's a conflict between all of these different beliefs, behaviors and attitude. So this is really also the place where you intellectually understand something, and a lot of you are so intellectually curious and you would consider yourself smart, so you're able to tap into what intellectually might not make sense, but it's still how we're actually feeling the true, authentic emotions that we have about ourselves. Ok, so this can bleed over also into people pleasing. Because then we have this deep fear that someone's going to reveal our shortcomings, right? Then we're going to be found out as being undeserving somehow or unqualified in some way or that we they may see us as a fraud like we've been duping everybody into thinking that we're smart or good. And we think that we don't deserve to be in the position we're in, right, like if they knew those people out there, they would definitely not keep me in this position. But here is the thing. Ninety nine percent of the time you have told the truth to the people out there. You are not hiding what degrees you have or how much experience you have, or how many deals you've closed. You're only sharing the facts. But then you have thoughts about the very facts that you have shared, or you start to have thoughts about how others might interpret those said facts.

Speaker2: [00:16:53] Ok. The only thing really in reality, that we are not up front with and hide is our own thoughts about ourselves that we're not good enough. So here is the kicker. We then start going down the path of when X happens, then and only then will I feel so deserving. Like, you've finally made it, it's the Golden Ring, the crown jewel. It's only then that I will be legit. But as you know, your brain just follows you to that new job. And you'll just continue to think the same way about yourself, even when you are head of the department. Even when you are top producer, in fact, sometimes what ends up happening is that you end up getting the promotion and then your thoughts about yourself are even worse or you end up having the most amazing year in your business that you've ever had. And your thoughts about yourself get even worse. Right? Because you're thinking, oh my gosh, now look where I am, if they discovered who I really was. It's going to be even more embarrassing. It's going to be even more horrifying. So this happened to me a little bit because I was a guest on Stacey Varmints podcast. All the people who had made $200000 or more that in that kind of round of her coaching program were on the podcast and I was on it. And once I was on it, it was thought, Oh my gosh, they are going to find me out.

Speaker2: [00:18:33] Can I do this again? Yes, I can do it again. I did it again, but I had that little bit of imposter syndrome. So. As you know, if you listen to the last episode, episode sixty three, the feeling of worthy and self value and deserved, they are all feelings or emotions created by your thoughts, not by your job or your title or what anyone else thinks. I have a question on my application to work with me, or at least I used to do that asks How committed are you to engaging and coaching no matter what anyone else thinks? Because what I'm asking you basically is how deserved? Do you think you are of the opportunity to work with a coach? Because really, that's all that matters, it doesn't matter what they think, what do you think? So what I found in my clients is that they're usually the ones who bring up the impostor syndrome to me. Right. They notice it in themselves. They notice that in themselves, they seem to know, at least on some level, that they have imposter syndrome thoughts. Great, right. But here's the problem. It's not leading to any change in their thinking and by being aware but not being able to change it, they are frustrated. And my clients, they want to change this imposter syndrome feeling. Sometimes that's why they even apply for coaching. They're like, this doesn't make sense that I think this about myself or I believe this about myself, my rational brain knows that this isn't true because I have all this evidence, this objective evidence, but I can't stop from living out the belief that I'm not good enough.

Speaker2: [00:20:32] I can't change it. And they often feel pretty bad about this because they know what they're doing. That they know they know what they're doing. And on a daily day basis, OK, but they don't know how to believe something differently about themselves and how to get off that sort of imposter syndrome merry go round and it's this cycle of thinking it's a hamster wheel. I'm not good enough in some way, is their story. Ok, I'm not. Smart enough. Then they experience a negative emotion, and then their response is often to do the opposite of what might actually improve or change their thinking. And they will buffer. Now, I'm not going to get into buffering here. I talked a lot about it in episode forty six, but buffering is doing something else or thinking something else in order to avoid doing or thinking what you really want or should or need to think about or do. It's kind of like when you think, Oh, right now is a fabulous time to empty the dishwasher instead of writing the proposal, right? So when you feeling when you're feeling like the imposter you hide instead of learning more about your own thoughts or even improving your own true skills for asking for help. And then this results in more proof that they're not good enough and the cycle continues.

Speaker2: [00:21:57] It's like when people come to me and say, I know I should be doing this. I know I know how to change this, but I just can't. Ok, my friends, you're human. You're human. It's really hard to do this work. Especially by yourself. But I beg you, get off that little hamster wheel. Let's address this. Because thinking you're not good enough does not lead to you doing things that make you better. Pay like being hard on yourself doesn't help. Like, what if you think that your fund of knowledge is really subpar, maybe that's true. Maybe you do need to learn some more things. And if you did, it would make you better and able to offer a more excellent service if you had a better fund of knowledge. Well, constantly thinking about how awful you are tends to not drive you to read and learn more, right? You tend to hide. We tend to eat, we tend to watch Netflix. We tend to avoid doing what you need to do and that kind of interesting. So understand that critical self thinking or self critical thinking can be such a long standing habit that we really simply just take those thoughts. Just like as if they were facts or the truth, like, you are horrible, it's the truth. So an example. Might be when you are one of several children in a family and you think that so and so the other sibling has always been smarter than you.

[00:23:42] That's just optional.

Speaker2: [00:23:44] It's an optional thought. Is that really serving you? The key here is to determine what are the results of the way in which you're thinking about yourself. Ok, if I think about myself is not smart enough, is that useful? Is it serving me? My sister's always been smarter than me. The the results is that you don't do things to advance your own knowledge base, to show up in the way that you want to show up in your life because you keep telling yourself this story and comparing yourself to your sister, and that might not be something you want to continue doing. So from there. When you first you to evaluate those thoughts and the results that they're giving you, and when you're evaluating the thoughts, you can decide. If that way of thinking about yourself serves you moving forward, if it's something you want to do or continue to do, or are you something you want to change? My favorite question is, is this thought useful? So for many of us, high achieving determined, ambitious women, the impostor syndrome thoughts begin early in life. And, you know, often we have these amazing families and they really meant well by encouraging us to do well in school. And many of our parents most likely really thought they were doing something really good and empowering their little young girls by emphasizing academic achievement and intelligence rather than physical looks or who you end up marrying or things like that. But for many of us, this inadvertently set us up for having this ongoing concern that we are not good enough.

Speaker2: [00:25:31] So whatever was being emphasized, maybe it was good looks. Then maybe in that category, you're thinking you're not enough. Ok. So it's kind of like. An inadvertent. Way to set up something not helpful. Ok, so if if in your family intelligence was considered your greatest asset and your measure of worth, it really could feel terrifying to think that others, even other family members, might discover that you're not as intelligent as you thought you were. Kate. Ok, and then remind you, go back to the beginning, impostor syndrome is not an affliction. It is not a syndrome. I want to make that clear. It's not like if you have this. It's just the way you were born, it's genetic. It's not as if all hope is lost, if you have it. It's really what impostor syndrome really is. It's just a description of a collection of your own critical self-talk thoughts. Let me repeat that imposter syndrome is a description of a collection of your own critical self-talk thoughts, and they're often old habit thoughts from way back in the day, from your family, from society, or just from your own negativity bias pointing out your shortcomings. So like any thought, it's worthwhile to examine the impostor syndrome thoughts and decide if they're ones you want to keep. Ok, now first, when you're still believing these thoughts as truths are facts. It can feel really pretty bad to live inside your head.

Speaker2: [00:27:18] Can feel really sad to live inside your head like that. Ok. They hold you back from achieving what you want or, you know, you're capable of, and you'll always be looking to get that gold star from other people, which is just prioritizing what other people think about you over what you think you think about you. Kind of goes back to the last episode in sixty three where we talk about self value, and I see that so often, right? We're wanting validation from somebody else to determine whether we can feel good about ourselves or not instead of just deciding to feel good about ourselves. You also will tend to possibly avoid change or avoid taking any risks, because that might create the opportunity for someone to find out the truth about you, that you're a fraud, that you're not good enough, that you're actually not as smart. And this insecurity then leads to shying away from negotiating for your salary or putting your hat in the ring for promotion or contributing to group decisions. You just play small. And inside, you desperately want the courage to play big. Right, so this is like goes back to decision making. You're kind of deciding for yourself that you're just going to have to keep playing small. And you're not making decisions from abundance, a place of abundance, which we talked about in episode sixty two. It's amazing how all these episodes are now like tying together. So in your personal life, what this impostor syndrome can look like is you not making an effort to say lose weight or to go out with friends or to get in a meaningful relationship? Or really, it's not showing up as an emotional and emotional adulthood.

Speaker2: [00:29:02] In your relationships, you can listen to episode on Emotional Adulthood Episode six. So ultimately, you undermine your own success and happiness because you don't think you deserve it, and it would be taken away at any moment. If the truth about you was discovered or uncovered, it's like the truth is out there. So what's so interesting here is how these thoughts about ourselves become the results we don't want in life. It becomes a vicious cycle. That's why we think the stories of people who overcame all of these hard times are so amazing, but they really did. It was just examine their thoughts and decide they weren't useful or serving them, and they made the decision to change them. So all of those people, those hard times, stories, they overcame it. Kudos to them because they changed the way they thought about things. So that's why it's important to examine your thoughts and see what you're creating for you in your life. You may think that you're just telling the truth about yourself, but that thought or those thoughts. Are really. Creating facts. Or so you think. And then those thoughts create the results you have right now. So if you aren't happy with your current results, whether it's your job or your weight or your relationship, you have to be willing to think something new about yourself in order to create a different result.

Speaker2: [00:30:32] But here's what's interesting. Nothing external will put the mute button on those internal voices or internal thoughts, even if you got the big client or the promotion or someone told you, you are amazing. Your brain will then latch on to something else that proves you're not good enough. So the first step here is working through these thoughts and recognizing that they are just thoughts, their sentences in your brain. They are not facts. And what you need is some separation or distance from these thought habits. So your work on awareness of what you're thinking. Is so important and just doing a thought download, of course, is perfect for this just emptying out what's in your brain on paper so that you can actually look at it and evaluate it. It's then that you might start noticing some trends in the way you think. Ok, and it's then then you can distance yourself from these thoughts and you can choose new thoughts like I'm noticing my brain is having thoughts that I'm not good enough and other people are smarter than me or my brain is telling me a list of things that are wrong with me. I don't have to believe them if I don't want to. You have thought options, right? This is so much of what we do in coaching, we examine what are our thought options. Sometimes it's hard to think about them by yourself.

Speaker2: [00:31:52] So, but by examining the thought options, you are taking your power back and in coaching, it's helping you take your power back. Not living from within every thought in your brain that just pops out. Taking everything in your brain that it thinks just as gospel. Nope, it's having a little separation. Having being a little discriminatory in terms of which of these thoughts are actually the ones I want. And that alone, having that skill alone, it could help you so much because you're understanding that every thought is optional and every thought is open for evaluation. So then as you experience life, you get to decide how you want to interpret everything. And if you have a lot of imposter thoughts, that interpretation is something that is something that something is wrong with you and that something bad will happen if everybody finds out about you and who you really are. You can realize that that's not serving you, so that's just one filter to interpret your life through. You can also choose another filter like the filters on Instagram. Right. Think about those filters on Instagram, you can look through a whole up to so many options. It's still your life in that picture, but just a different filter, a different way of emphasizing or accepting things. You get to choose which filter you like. So the experiences will still happen. But you're choosing what they mean about you in your life with intention. You're making sure that you're not continuing to build evidence to support the impostor syndrome thoughts.

Speaker2: [00:33:32] We live in a world, my friends, where different people handle things in different ways than we would are, they have different knowledge and we can think about that and compare ourselves, or we can think and decide that you are so glad that they handled it differently because now you got to learn from them. You can decide that everything actually worked out perfectly because now you have the opportunity to approach this same situation. If it happens to you again in a different way, you learn from that person like the way you would have done it and the way they did it. Both are great. One wasn't better than the other. And if something doesn't turn out the way you want it to, you can focus on finding learning where things went wrong and you can do better next time. But all while you're loving and supporting yourself and not making. These actions or what other people are doing are saying mean something bad about you? So I've taught before I'm prior podcast about believing something new and using bridge thoughts to get there. Some people like to call it a bridge of thoughts. It's like you're starting in one place and you're moving to another place by going over the bridge and as you go over the bridge, your thoughts evolve. And you don't have to believe that new thought where you want to be until you get there. So I picture this like a little wooden bridge with planks.

Speaker2: [00:34:58] One side is the imposter syndrome side and the other side is the non imposter confident side. In this little bridge, it goes over the river of misery. But to get from one side to the other, you have to go over the bridge plank by plank. Thought by thought. There is no zip line. From one side of the river of misery to the other or one side of the bridge to the other, you have to take the bridge plank by plank. You need to get to the next thought and the next thought and the next thought that get you closer and closer to the other side, the side you want to be on. You can't just jump over. And this is hard work because essentially you need to evolve as your thoughts evolve and you move over the bridge believing that you're good enough to be a doctor or a coach or a lawyer or a teacher or whatever. Is. Amazing, but to get there, you may have to have your thoughts evolve plank by plank. So maybe what might be possible? Is that? From my in my case, I could think I could be good enough to coach. Or it might be a lot of the time I'm not good enough, but then every now and then I am a great coach or my favorite. Is when you really are stuck. I'm not a good enough coach, and that's OK. Like just it's like softening it with a little acceptance.

Speaker2: [00:36:27] Stopping the resistance that somehow something is wrong and then I might move from these kinds of thoughts to I might possibly be good enough someday or sometimes I'm good enough or I was good enough in all of these ways today, and I'm still working on improving in these others or most of the time, 90 percent of the time. I'm great. Other times, I'm just good enough. So those are just examples of thoughts that you can have as you move across this bridge and what you do is you move to the new plank or the new thought and you work on believing that thought and having that be just the way you think about yourself. And this can take a little bit of time because it can take some time to incorporate that new thought into the way you think and believe about yourself. But what's going to happen is your brain is going to want to go back to the old belief that you've been thinking, I'm not good enough belief so that every time your brain offers that up to you, you learn to intentionally think the new thought that I am great and you intentionally think that that new thought and then you intentionally think another new thought. And then eventually that becomes the way you think about it when you're ready for the next thought. You keep moving on. Ok, why is this all worth it doing this work? You might be thinking this sounds like a lot, and here's why it completely changes everything.

Speaker2: [00:37:57] Right? If you're good enough, think about what your experience of your life would be like, your experience of your career would be like. That would be it would be so different. And usually when we think we're not good enough as a professional, we also think we're not good enough as a mother and a wife and a friend and a sister and a daughter. If you could learn to believe that you're good enough, it would change everything. And when you know you're good enough, then you no longer need to use buffers to make you feel better. You just decide, you know what? I'm not going to buffer anymore because I know that I want to live better. I want to live a better life for myself because I'm showing up in a way that's authentic for me, in a way that really gives me what I want in my life and thinking that I'm not good enough is not useful. It's not bringing you to that place in life where you want to be. So this is the work, my friends. It's the work of our lives. And I hope this past 30 minutes or so has shed some light on this kind of work that needs to be done. And has shed some light on what impostor syndrome really is. And like I said, I used to think I didn't really have this. But there definitely were some things that I was like, Oh yeah, the the gods just let me grow this amazing business for this reason or that.

Speaker2: [00:39:28] And it really doesn't. Didn't I didn't really have to get here, I'm not sure how I got here. But that really doesn't serve me. It's like, why do I tell that story about myself? Now I have I have this business. Because I'm amazing. And someone new that I might be a great asset to women in the world, which is also true, right? Those are true statements. That's why I'm here and I want to help you through this work too. I want to help you. Let me know your questions about imposter syndrome. And then don't forget that you can give yourself the gift of working with me, if you find that you have these imposter syndrome beliefs and you're really just done with it and you want to change. I would be more than happy to help you with all of that. While we also get a grip on your life, all aspects. Of life, including your professional life and your personal life, all of it. That's the work we do. Ok, my friends, until next week. Remember, you've got options, options to think things that serve you and that are useful, and I'm here to help you do all of it. Hope you have a great week and give yourself the option of leveling up. See you next week. Thanks for listening to the Time to Level Up podcast with me, your host, Andrea Libros. If you know someone who could benefit from listening to this episode,

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