6 Tricks to Be More Confident (Even If You Struggle With Impostor Syndrome Like Me)

Last week, I was invited to do a lightning talk at the Women in Tech Breakfast held by General Assembly. There were 5 speakers and each speaker received a question to guide their talk. Mine was:

You work with a lot of female founders and are yourself an incredibly successful entrepreneur, what is the most common challenge faced and what solutions do you recommend to combat those?

It took me a few days to really think this through as several things came to mind: not having access to resources, finding investors, choosing technology platforms, building relationships with mentors and the list could go on. But I couldn’t really pick one and I kept feeling that none of those were quite the answer that I wanted to tackle. So I went to one of my good friends for help and she asked, “Well what do you think the biggest challenge is?”

I told her, “I think a lot of it is mindset.” ← It’s easier sometimes to answer a direct question in Facebook messenger.