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Oct 2022
35m 42s

Leveraging Mentors to Grow Your Confiden...

Kim Meninger
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In this episode of the Impostor Syndrome Files, we talk about how easy it is to experience self-doubt and impostor syndrome when you feel different from those around you. My guest, Amber Barber, a senior director of program management in the high-tech industry, talks about her experience as the only woman studying physics when she went to college. She also t ... Show More
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