S1E8: Imposter Syndrome and the Doubt Directory

One of the key items when starting a business that you need to take a look at early on is not only your support system but also your own strength and your own systems for maintaining your self-care.

That's why season one goes hand in hand.

Business ownership, leadership, starting off, self-care.

And it's also why if you attended our self-care CE episode, episode six, I believe, we bring in a lot of research, and the research keeps going back to values-based care, plans that align with your values.

And now, that could mean that there are people who are in different professions.

There are people who have different family structures.

There are people who have different hours or different priorities, but that research is going to apply to them.

It's not a values-based system for BCBAs only.

It's not a values-based system for mothers only.

It's your values, taking the research and applying it, and it's one of the biggest reasons why I even pursued my PhD in the first place.

I love research.

I love to see what we can find out from the information we have, what we can continue to elaborate on and grow and edit and change as our times are changing.

And I think that the self-care unit is really key for many people because they realized in listening, in attending the CE workshops, that it's not just about maintaining a calendar that shows balance.

It's about feeling the balance within yourself.

That can be a really tough statement, and that was actually some feedback that I received from somebody quite close to me, where it was this idea or this initial feeling of defense of, "Well, you're not in my shoes.

You don't know." And my response took a bit of time, and by that I mean a solid 30 seconds of me pulling together my thoughts and feelings and saying, "I never said that I was in your shoes.

I never said that I know what it's like to have multiple children or to run multiple businesses or to balance working a full-time job and then also building a career for somebody else.

I never said that.

I'm not in your shoes." And for everyone listening, the shoes that I'm in are my own.

However, what our self-care series does is it lets you apply the research and the takeaways to your own situation.

And you'll notice that with research.

If research findings are very specific to a group of people or an area or location, it will note that.

And that's one of the biggest reasons they do that, because we want the research to apply to people, and we want the takeaways to apply and mean something.

But it's not a direct guide, a step-by-step of what every single person should be doing.

And what a values-based plan allows you to do is individualize it for your own circumstance and your own situation.

One of the key items when starting a business that you need to take a look at early on is not only your support system but also your own strength and your own systems for maintaining your self-care.

That's why season one goes hand in hand.

Business ownership, leadership, starting off, self-care.

And it's also why if you attended our self-care CE episode, episode six, I believe, we bring in a lot of research, and the research keeps going back to values-based care, plans that align with your values.

And now, that could mean that there are people who are in different professions.

There are people who have different family structures.

There are people who have different hours or different priorities, but that research is going to apply to them.

It's not a values-based system for BCBAs only.

It's not a values-based system for mothers only.

It's your values, taking the research and applying it, and it's one of the biggest reasons why I even pursued my PhD in the first place.

I love research.

I love to see what we can find out from the information we have, what we can continue to elaborate on and grow and edit and change as our times are changing.

And I think that the self-care unit is really key for many people because they realized in listening, in attending the CE workshops, that it's not just about maintaining a calendar that shows balance.

It's about feeling the balance within yourself.

That can be a really tough statement, and that was actually some feedback that I received from somebody quite close to me, where it was this idea or this initial feeling of defense of, "Well, you're not in my shoes.

You don't know." And my response took a bit of time, and by that I mean a solid 30 seconds of me pulling together my thoughts and feelings and saying, "I never said that I was in your shoes.

I never said that I know what it's like to have multiple children or to run multiple businesses or to balance working a full-time job and then also building a career for somebody else.

I never said that.

I'm not in your shoes." And for everyone listening, the shoes that I'm in are my own.

However, what our self-care series does is it lets you apply the research and the takeaways to your own situation.

And you'll notice that with research.

If research findings are very specific to a group of people or an area or location, it will note that.

And that's one of the biggest reasons they do that, because we want the research to apply to people, and we want the takeaways to apply and mean something.

But it's not a direct guide, a step-by-step of what every single person should be doing.

And what a values-based plan allows you to do is individualize it for your own circumstance and your own situation.