Big Stuff With Danielle Colley
You know who's going through BIG STUFF? Literally everyone. But it's how you handle it that makes the difference.
Award-winning author and life coach Danielle Colley gets real about the relentless expectations we put on ourselves, the comparison trap, and the gap between how life looks and how it actually feels.
For ambitious women who may be crushing their goals but are feeling crushed by them. Conversations that matter. A little advice, a little inspiration, and a lot of humanness. No toxic positivity - just raw honesty about what it really takes to thrive.
If you're burnt out from achieving everything or tired of pretending it's all fine, this is for you. Because life should feel GOOD to live.
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Big Stuff With Danielle Colley
The Truth About Imposter Syndrome; You Haven't Caught Up To Yourself Yet
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Have you ever walked into a room — a meeting, a new job, a boardroom — and felt that quiet, creeping sense that someone is about to find you out? That somehow you've tricked your way in and it's only a matter of time before everyone works that out?
That feeling has a name: imposter syndrome. And in this How Are You Really? episode, Danielle gets into what it actually is, why it hits hardest precisely when you've most earned your place, and — most importantly — what to do about it.
Drawing on her own experience walking into the Women's Weekly newsroom as a blogger among award-winning career journalists, and the stories of women she coaches across high-stakes industries, Danielle unpacks the real reason so many capable, accomplished women still feel like frauds: their self-concept simply hasn't caught up to the person they've already become.
Episode Chapters
0:00 — Welcome
2:30 — The Women's Weekly story: earning your place, and the trap that comes with it
8:00 — What imposter syndrome actually feels like, and why it lives at every new level
13:00 — The software problem: old programs running in the background
19:30 — Three ways to start catching up to yourself
23:00 — Two questions to sit with before you close this app
Three Ways to Manage Imposter Syndrome
- Audit the evidence, not the feeling
- Update the story — retire the old narrative
- Act like the version of you who has already arrived
Find Danielle
Website: daniellecolley.com.au
Instagram: @daniellecolley
Got a question for a How Are You Really? episode? Email: bigstuffpod@gmail.com or DM her on Instagram