Ever feel like a fraud despite great success in your career? In this episode I speak with Dr. Valerie Young, who is an internationally recognized expert on impostor syndrome. She has spoken to hundreds of thousands people at such diverse organizations as Apple, Boeing, Merck, IBM, Intel, Facebook, Microsoft, Chrysler, BP, Blizzard Entertainment, NASA, Society of Women Engineers, and Women in Trucking. She’s also been a guest speaker for students, faculty, and administrators at over 85 colleges and universities including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, Carnegie Mellon, and Oxford. Valerie is also the author of an award-winning book, The Secret Thoughts of Successful Women: Why Capable People Suffer from Impostor Syndrome and How to Thrive in Spite of It (Random House) now available in five languages and her advice has appeared in dozens of major media outlets around the world including BBC radio, CNN Money, Time, Newsweek, Science, O magazine, and the Sydney Morning Herald.
