My Anxiety Thinks It’s My Boss; I Gave It A Pink Slip

Unleash Her: The Next Chapter Begins

What if the voice telling you you’re not ready is just noise—and you could learn to turn the volume down? We open the pages of Unleash Her and read an excerpt that cuts straight to the heart of imposter syndrome, the late-night spiral that convinces capable women to shrink. From becoming a homeowner to leading at work, I share how doubt tried to rewrite my story and the simple, repeatable steps I use to reclaim it.

We talk about the gap between facts and feelings—the daylight evidence of competence versus the midnight reel of “I’m a fraud.” I walk through my nightly reset: naming the pattern, checking the proof, and deciding whether the fear is a signal that calls for new skills or just noise that needs to pass. You’ll hear practical strategies for building confidence on purpose, including micro-prep routines, evidence lists, and a shift from perfection to precision that makes progress sustainable at home and at work.

This is a short, focused conversation that blends a personal origin story with tools you can use tonight. If responsibility has landed on your desk, that’s not an accident—it’s a vote of confidence you can grow into. Let these pages remind you who you already are, and let the next chapter begin on your terms: with clarity, courage, and a steady voice. If the excerpt resonates, grab the book, share this episode with a friend who needs it, and leave a quick review so others can find it. Your story is worth the page—ready to turn it?

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome And Book Reveal
• 0:18 Why Unleash Her Matters
• 1:59 My Chapter And Origin Story
• 2:28 Naming Imposter Syndrome
• 3:31 Nighttime Doubt And Reframing
• 4:46 Action Steps To Build Confidence
• 6:09 Short Format Update And Next Read
• 6:28 Book Giveaway And Where To Buy
• 6:46 Closing Wishes

Transcript

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Hello everyone. This is Still Roses Podcast. This podcast was created for women by women to elevate women's voices. I hope you all are having a wonderful week. Continuing on with our theme here, I'm gonna read another expert excerpt from my anthology book that was just recently published this year, um, or earlier this year. The book is called Unleash Her. The next chapter begins. It's book number two in the series. I'm featured in this book with 21 other authors, everyone sharing their story, all women empowering. And really, the premise of the book was for people to be able to break away from the chains and from everything that is holding them down. The introduction of the book reads, There comes a moment in every woman's life when she feels the quiet nudge or the loud roar that it's time for something more, more truth, more freedom, and more courage, more her. Unleash her. The next chapter begins, was born from that moment. It's for the women who it's for the woman who's tired of dimming her light, second guessing her instincts, and living by someone else's script. It's for the woman who knows deep down that she was made for more and is finally ready to claim it. This book is not here to tell you who to be. It's here to remind you who you already are. Within these pages, you'll find real stories from women who chose to rise, sometimes trembling, often uncertain, but always determined. You'll discover powerful insights and practical tools to help you silence the noise, break through barriers, and reconnect with the fierce strength that's always been within you. But most importantly, you'll begin to write your next chapter, not out of fear or pressure, but from power, clarity, and truth. You don't need to be perfect, you don't need permission, you just need to begin. So let this be your moment, let this be your declaration, turn the page and unleash her. Then you are launched into a chapter. Every chapter has a different author, and every author shares their story, and it is the most beautiful thing I've ever been able to be a part of. So I'm gonna read an excerpt from my chapter, and then I'll discuss a little bit about it myself. Um current day, Jenny. Um, this my chapters and my story um begins back in 2021, and it basically brings you through how I got to Still Roses podcast. Now, there's been a lot since the launch of the podcast, um, but that's what this beginning story is, is really how the launch happened. So I'm just gonna read a small excerpt from a little further into my chapter. Imposter syndrome is incredibly common for women to experience across all aspects of our lives. And becoming a homeowner was for me a hot zone of doubt. I knew that the anxiety I was experiencing wasn't real, and thus every night I would engage in the dance of talking myself down from the ledge. By the light of day, my confidence would be somewhat restored, and my anxiety would refocus its attention to my daytime job. I held a position where I had the opportunity to lead by example and could put to use all of the lessons, good and bad, learned by my previous managers. The part of this excerpt that I wanted to highlight is the imposter syndrome part. I wanted to highlight this because I experience imposter syndrome every single day. And it has to be the most frustrating thing I've experienced because it's completely self-inflicted. It is not really doesn't have anything to do with anything real. And it's truly just my mind running away with itself. Every and I I am not exaggerating. Every single night there is a different area for me to obsess about and feel like I'm a failure or that I'm quite literally an imposter and people are gonna figure me out. This is not limited to my job. It's not limited to me as a mother or a wife. It's literally every topic is up for game and it's whatever my anxiety is deciding to focus on for the moment. Now I've gotten quite good at identifying that it's nonsense. And each night, but each night it happens and it's like raging out of control, but I have some sense of this isn't real. Just stop thinking about it. And so I've trained my mind in a way to yes, acknowledge I am freaked out. I am scared, I feel a little in over my head, but I'm not quite over my head. I do know what I'm doing. And then I just let it go. I know that sounds a little simple. And I think imposter syndrome, I do want to talk a little bit more. It's really just self-doubt. So if you're in the evening trying to fall asleep and you're tossing and turning because you're rehashing a scenario over and over again in your head, that is essentially like you beating yourself up and trying to tell yourself whatever you did was not good enough. Well, one that's stealing your piece for the evening. What's done is done. Hindsight is not, you know, you can't do anything from what happened today, 10 years. You cannot do anything to change that. All you can do is look ahead. Now, if you're in the evenings having situations where mentally in your head, you start to go down a path of, I don't know what I'm doing. I need an adult, like I need a, I need an expert to come in and talk to me about this. I need someone else to help me. I need someone else to step in and do these things for me. And the reality of it is you don't. If you have been gifted with the responsibility, then that means that you have shown and proven yourself and worked to get that responsibility. And that means that people who are experts have said, you know what, you actually can take on this responsibility. And you know what? Even if you are a little unprepared for it, you can become prepared for that responsibility. So it's not anything that's completely unfathomable out of reach. And that's really the key message that I want to deliver for you. If you are feeling uneasy about a situation, if you are feeling like, you know what, I don't think I can handle this or I'm not really sure what I'm doing, that's okay. All of us feel like that. But the secret is to continue moving forward. And if you do truly feel like insecure or unbalanced about something that you're working on, if it's a professional thing, even if it's a personal thing, then do some legwork, do research, fortify yourself so that you do have that confidence to stand up and say, I know what I'm talking about, and to be able to have that confident voice. Um, I hope you'll enjoy this episode. I'm doing little quickies, as you can tell. No more long forum episodes because I think these are a little bit more digestible. And I got some great feedback on the shorter episodes. So we're gonna continue on here. Um another episode this week. I'm gonna read another excerpt of the book. I'm just gonna remind everybody again if you're interested in receiving a copy of the book, the first five of you that message me via LinkedIn or Instagram requesting a copy and you send me your address, I'll be happy to send it out to you. Otherwise, I will put a copy of the link in the episode description. You're welcome to purchase it on Amazon. I hope you guys are having a great week and I will catch you on the next one. Take care.