The Legal Imposters Podcast with Caroline Flanagan

Weekly tips, guidelines and insights on Imposter Syndrome, career progression, and what it really takes to succeed as a Black lawyer in predominantly white spaces. Practical insight, lived experience, and strategy you can use immediately.

Podcast – Legal Imposters

Episode #88 “I deserve to be here”

What do you say to yourself when you’ve just been promoted or just starting a new role and your brain offers you thoughts like “I shouldn’t be here” and “I’m...

Episode #87 Comparing and Despairing

Do you keep comparing yourself to others and despairing that you come up short? Do you tell yourself everyone else has it easy, but for you it’s always hard? Everyone...

Episode #86 The Confidence Gap

The Confidence Gap is the gap between the confidence you’ve earned and the confidence you feel when it’s time to get to work. How wide is yours and what are...

Episode #85 Redline through your work

When they constantly redline and correct your work, what do you do? What do you make it mean? The mistake I see you making is taking it to mean something...

Episode #84 The Role of Luck

You think your success is down to luck. You fear that any minute now that luck is going to run out and you’ll be exposed. This is a classic sign...

Episode #83 Your Decision-Making Identity

Do you umm and ahh over decisions? Do you spin in confusion about what to do? Does it take you weeks and months to decide? Do you only make decisions...

Episode #82 Stop Working Twice As Hard!

The most common mistake I see black lawyers making is thinking you have to work twice as hard as your white peers to progress. This thought may have got you...

Episode #81 How to Succeed in a White World (without working twice as hard)

How do you succeed in a white world without working twice as hard? Let me show you how. This week I bring you the answer to this million-dollar question in...

Episode #80 The Right Time to Progress

You know you want to progress your career. In fact, you’re planning to join BE THE FIRST so you can learn how to do just that, but you’re telling yourself...

Episode #79 Becoming More Valuable

  One of the best things you can do to progress your career is to become more valuable. The more valuable you are, the more support you’ll get, the more...

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