125, Do You Compare Yourself With Others? How This Holds You Back + What Is Imposter Syndrome

Bront'e Singleton 0:00

Hey, this is Bront'e Singleton, current client and student of the Incubator, the most amazing program that I've ever been in in my entire life. I just wanted to take a moment to share how amazing this program has been for me, my mindset, my business, my progress, and the wins that I've had since joining the program. So since joining the incubator, I've grown more confident in myself as a business woman as a person. And in my expertise and my ability to run my business, I was recently able to launch my course for language learners, which is amazing. And it was a huge undertaking. And because of this, I was able to make two sales on my first launch of my course, within my business as a whole, I've been able to create a system for content creation, and streamlining that process in a way that works for me and my business. So I'm less stressed out about what to post when and how. And the biggest thing which I never thought I'd be doing in my first year of business is that I created and turned on my evergreen funnel. The Incubator has given me the tools to be able to focus my time and attention on the things that really move my business and help my business grow, but also take time to take care of myself because if I'm not well, I don't have what I need, then I can't serve the people that I want to serve. So I 1,000% love the incubator program and I'm so glad so glad that I joined.

Kate Kordsmeier 1:18

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Indira 2:46

Welcome back to the Success with Soul podcast. I'm your guest host Indira and I'm so excited for what we have in store for you. So over the next three weeks, we are going to be sharing a three part mini training series, we are going to take you behind the scenes inside of our incubator coaching calls, and we are going to give you actionable tips on how you can start making money, how to get unstuck, and what to do when you feel behind. So you are going to be seeing a sneak peek into the strategies, the tools, the tips, all of the tactics that we share with our clients inside of the incubator. So if you are a coach or consultant on entrepreneur, and you know that you could use more help making money or want to learn what to do when you get stuck, and what to do when you feel behind, then you'll definitely want to tune in for the next three weeks in this three part mini series. I am so excited. Let's dive in.

Kate Kordsmeier 4:11

So we have been very diligently going through all of the survey responses. So thank you to everybody who has filled that out. And if you haven't already, there's still time and we would love to hear from you. And it is so interesting to hear like to see the common themes and trends and things that are happening in those surveys. So one of the things that Rachel and I noticed is that like almost 40% of the survey responders said something to the effect of like, sometimes I feel so far behind because everyone else is so much further ahead than me. But it's like if everybody is saying that, then first of all, you're actually not behind anybody because other people are saying the exact same thing. And second of all, just wanting to kind of talk about comparison and getting into that, you know, that headspace and what mindset work we could do around feeling like people are in a better or different place than you and like making some kind of personal judgment or making that mean something about it about you or about your business or something? And also just recognizing again that like, is that even true? And what we have found is that it is not true that well, of course, there are people in different stages that there are plenty of people who are still in the very beginning, who are just doing a founding members launch, who are, you know, just getting started, so you're not alone. And I thought Rachel had a good point, if you want to jump in here, kind of just about comparison is the thief of joy, as we all know, and Rachel had some thoughts to share in this too.

Rachel Silves 5:46

Yeah, I think the only thing that that was gonna add to what Kate had said, is when you think about, I'm like, really practical person. So when you think about like the effectiveness of comparing yourself to others, It either makes you feel like shit if people are further ahead than you, or it makes you feel boastful and prideful if you're super far ahead of other people. And so just sometimes for me thinking about, like, what is my end goal with comparison? Or how can comparison ever make me feel better about myself, which is, pretty much the answer is never. It either makes you feel like worthless and less worthy, or prideful and boastful. So I just that that was just a useful thing to me when I was stuck in that impostor syndrome and doing a lot of comparison to others. And I really liked the quote that Kate just shared, which is like literally the thief of joy, it, like I said, either makes you feel like really bad about yourself, or it takes you to this place where there's like this fake pride, which is also not super effective and helping you move forward. So that was what I was going to share. Yeah.

Kate Kordsmeier 6:49

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Does anybody want to come off mute and just talk about this? If this resonates with you at all, I really wanted to share it mostly to just show you that you're not alone. If you feel like everyone else is ahead of you. There's a handful of other people on here that also feel the same way. And so hopefully just even seeing that, like there's not truth to that feeling would would help. And some of the comparison. I'll share, go ahead.

Unknown Speaker 8:29

I mean, I don't I don't think that put that in my thing. But anyway, I don't feel that way now, but it definitely did when I first started. But I think it's just that realization of like, comparison, just, it's like futile, there's always going to be somebody that's ahead of you. And there's always gonna be somebody behind you. Where you could look at, oh, well, I'm not where Oprah is. But I mean, I'm ahead of whoever just kind of thought about starting a business, you know, hasn't done anything. So it's like, I don't know, just kind of reminding yourself that, you know, what's the point?

Kate Kordsmeier 9:03

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And like you said, no matter what stage you're at, there will always be somebody ahead and behind you. And the goal to like, be ahead. That's not you're gonna probably anybody's goal. It's like, I want to be the furthest along in the group. Right. And so, I think, yeah, coming back to, is this serving me? What is the purpose of this thought? And, you know, how do I act like, what do I do when I'm thinking the thought? Everyone else is ahead of me? Like, does it make you not speak up on calls or ask questions that you really need support on because you feel self conscious, you know, like, you're really only hurting yourself when you have those thoughts or like, does it make you want to give up and feel defeated? And the other question that I asked myself, if I get into comparison, itis is like, what's the lesson for me here? And so yeah, let's say five people in this group are ahead of you. Okay, what's the lesson here? Or what can you learn from them? Or let's say five people are behind you. And I think to Rachel's point, like, even when you're the one that's maybe further ahead, if you get into a mindset that's like, Oh, I'm so much further ahead than everybody, then there's nothing for you to learn either. And there's, in reality, there's so much to learn from people who are at earlier stages in you, there's so much that you can help other people with and that generally we really have found after doing the incubator for almost two years that having people at different levels is so much more effective for clients and having people at one specific level only. And that when you can open yourselves up to the learning that's available to you, you know, that that really can help help you feel better, and to help you get what you need.

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