Beating Imposter Syndrome: How to overcome feeling like a fraud

12/23/22 • 27 min

Ever felt like you don’t belong? Or that you don’t deserve that promotion? You could be facing Imposter Syndrome!

Imposter Syndrome is a psychological occurrence where an individual doubts their skills, talents or accomplishments. It is often accompanied by a persistent internal fear of being exposed as a fraud.

Imposter Syndrome can affect anyone, even those at the height of their career. Sheryl Sandberg, Arianna Huffington, Tom Hanks, Emma Watson and Michelle Obama have all questioned whether they were good enough. But according to research, women, especially women of colour, are most at risk of experiencing Imposter Syndrome.

In this episode, we speak to Emely Patra, Regional VP and Head of EMEA Customer Success Strategy and Architecture at Mulesoft. Emely is a pioneer for improving diversity and equality and knows a thing or two about tackling imposter syndrome and navigating a male-dominated industry.

Before moving into the MuleSoft business unit she has worked as a Strategic Advisor in Salesforce.

Emely has 18 plus years of industry experience of working with SAAS, CRM , ERP, Platform and Integration technologies. She holds a MBA in Business Systems and IT and is currently leading a team of highly experience thought leaders and architects in the digital transformation and API Led space.

She’s a Salesforce CTA and an active coach for aspiring CTAs in their journey.

Emely lives in Newbury, England with her husband and son and enjoys being a foodie, reading and biking with the family.

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Ever felt like you don’t belong? Or that you don’t deserve that promotion? You could be facing Imposter Syndrome!

Imposter Syndrome is a psychological occurrence where an individual doubts their skills, talents or accomplishments. It is often accompanied by a persistent internal fear of being exposed as a fraud.

Before moving into the MuleSoft business unit she has worked as a Strategic Advisor in Salesforce.

She’s a Salesforce CTA and an active coach for aspiring CTAs in their journey.

Emely lives in Newbury, England with her husband and son and enjoys being a foodie, reading and biking with the family.

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Diversity in Space: How we can ensure equality within future space settlements

Since the 60’s Space Race, strides have been made within the space industry.
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic was the world’s first commercial spaceline, while Elon Musk’s SpaceX hopes to enable the colonisation of Mars. Jeff Bezos, who owns sub-orbital spaceflight service, Blue Origin, has said he foresees a trillion people living in millions of space colonies.

While advancements in space tech have moved, one area where the dial has stalled is diversity. The figure of women in the international space industry is just 20% - a figure that hasn’t changed much since 1990. Within that figure, only 11% of astronauts have been women. And just four Black women in history have been to space, including Nasa astronaut Jessica Watkins, who made history in 2021 after becoming the first black woman to lead the International Space Station (ISS).

The fight for equality is still raging on Earth, so how can we be expected to create equality in space?

We speak to Jesse Shanahan is Chief Technology Officer at Another Round, Astrophysicist and Disability Activist, to examine exactly what human settlements in space will look like, how we can achieve equality in space and what more the space industry can do to increase representation.

Passionate about AI Ethics, Jesse is a machine learning dev at heart. Day to day she heads up the technical innovation at Another Round, leading and growing the technical team and strengthening their training methodology. Prior to joining Another Round, Jesse was Technical Lead of Applied AI at Peltarion, an AI software company which in June 2022 was acquired by the video game developer King, where she focused on democratising AI.

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Shareholder activism and how we can use our money to push for change

The working world has seen an increased focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives in recent years.

But what happens when companies are resistant to more ethical and sustainable practices? This is where shareholder activism comes in.

Shareholder activism is all about those who hold stocks in publicly-held companies influencing corporate behaviour by exercising their shareholder rights. Shareholder activism comes in many forms including seeking to change a company’s board members or publicly calling or a company to change.

We delve into shareholder activism with Jenna Armitage, Chief Marketing Officer of TulipShare. Jenna tells us what exactly shareholder activism is, why it’s important for sustainability, and how it can bring about change.

Jenna is CMO of Tulipshare, an organisation on a mission to give a voice to the retail investor and encourage them to rethink their investment strategies.