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AJ Lauer

AJ Lauer

Dr. AJ Lauer (EdD) is a leadership and diversity educator, executive coach, and founder of Thriving Ibis Leadership Solutions, known for her expertise on imposter syndrome and author of "My Monster Mungo."

Oct 19, 2026

21:46
Would you like to share that story with us? I would love to share that
21:49
story.
21:51
So I was having a conversation with my friend Katie.
21:57
It might even be like five years ago at this point.
21:59
And she was telling a story about something that was happening at work.
22:03
And it was a meeting that was not going well.
22:06
And she said, and then my imposter monster showed up and I started to feel really bad about myself.

23 MINS LATER

45:04
How can we set things up so we're not provoking people's monsters quite as much?
23:23
What do you think you can, we can do more of from the practical perspective?
23:28
It, you know, I think we each need to spend some time thinking about where our people are.
23:37
Uh, it...
23:37
So when I started my business, everybody was like, "You have to join your local chamber.
23:41
You have to join your local chamber." And I was like, "Okay, I will join my local chamber." I met some amazing people there, lovely people.
23:49
I learned so much from them, and it wasn't actually that beneficial to my business because my people weren't there.
24:00
The, the people who were showing up to my local chamber were people who had hyper-local businesses.

8 MINS LATER

32:05
We're organizing it, but I would love to start from, from your perspective on how we figured out what to do, what is the goal of the event, what is going to happen, and then I'm going to add some, my thoughts to, to make the whole puzzle complete.

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