The Imposter Syndrome Supplementary Materials

A Change of Heart: How I Challenge Impostor Syndrome (Jul 2015)
Made of Sterner Stuff: Let's Talk About Grit, Baby... (Mar 2016)
Modus Operandi: The Path We're On (Nov 2021)
Modus Operandi & Deckible App Release (Sep 2022)

If you’re interested in a workshop for your community or organization, feel free to drop me a line via the Contact form here. They usually run for 45, 60, or 90 minutes and participants are provided supplementary materials for post-workshop reflection. Partner institutions include the Obama Foundation, Google, Harvard, General Assembly, Boston GLOW, and dozens of organizations and academic instituions across the country.

In 2017, I created something that would help more people than I could've ever imagined. I was working at Harvard Business School and my imposter syndrome was raging. I won't rehash everything but all the old standards showed up.

Self-doubt? Present! Depression-induced forgetfulness? Here (not)! Anxiety? Here first! My struggles were an issue.

I needed to find a healthy way to process my anxiety, so I developed my #TheHeartWork framework (Instagram // Twitter) and started having transparent conversations about everything from shame to fear to workplace myths like meritocracy, and all the insecurities, -isms, and -phobias one could imagine with anyone who'd chat with me. Read all about it here.

Fifteen years ago, I gave myself permission to imagine a different kind of life. In 2008, I ran out of money for college and slipped into a season of extreme depression. After a year of this, I secured a job in Cambridge and moved from Chicago with $12 and a one-way ticket.

I didn't want the end of college to be the end of my education, so I started attending lectures all over New England. I also started The Ideologue, a website to chronicle all my experiences. I'd eventually attend 500+ lectures, conduct 100+ interviews with scholars, faith leaders, and entrepreneurs, and volunteer with great organizations - building community and affecting social change along the way.

Learn more on Caroline Aylward's Get a Helmet podcast.