Subscribe to How To! “I can’t tell people how to get over it,” Shellye confessed. You just employed a recurring tip that often comes up on this show from a research psychologist, which is interrupting negative self-talk using so-called distanced self-talk where you refer to yourself in the second- or third-person like you just did saying, “Shellye, come on.” It’s …
When Shellye Archambeau walked into her first meeting as a board member of Verizon, she felt a moment of panic. Shellye, one of the first Black women to work as the CEO of a tech company in Silicon Valley, has struggled over the years with what’s commonly known as “impostor syndrome”—the feeling that you are a phony, despite all evidence …