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Own It
Overcoming imposter feelings with CBT
Feeling like a fraud is not evidence of being one — it's an attribution habit: success filed under luck, failure filed under you. Six weeks of ledger work, receiving praise without flinching, putting 'they'll find out' on trial, and experiments that retire the 11 pm over-prep. Guided by your own numbers.
The loop has a shape, too
- A real track record, and a private conviction that it's inflated.
- Success filed under luck or timing; failure filed under you.
- Praise that bounces off, or gets waved away before it lands.
- Hours of over-preparation to protect against being 'found out.'
- A private fear that doesn't match the résumé.
Your wins ledger drives the program
Not a course you watch — a loop you run. Own It reads your logged wins and your rung discomfort ratings, and prescribes your next experiment, the same way attribution-retraining therapy works in a therapist's office.
Measure
A twenty-second evening check-in — today's exposure-fear and your over-prep hours — plus a sixty-second log any time a win lands.
daily + as it happensLearn
Short sessions with Nina teach the method — the imposter loop, the attribution machine, the secrecy amplifier.
10 min · most daysAdjust
The weekly review reads your rung discomfort and prescribes the next experiment — praise, prep, winging it, disclosure.
weekly review↻ the loop runs weekly — six times
A rung on your experiment ladder clears once you complete its exercise with discomfort rated 4 out of 10 or lower, on two separate occasions. Then the review prescribes the next rung — accepting praise, prepping to the plan and not to exhaustion, winging it once, telling one trusted person.
Six weeks, one method
Seventeen sessions and six weekly check-ins. The first week is free — including your baseline imposter check-in.
Week 1Understand the HabitThe loop, and the math against it3 sesiuni
Week 2The LedgerThe competence gets on the books4 sesiuni
Week 3The Exposure Fear'They'll find out' — find out what, exactly?4 sesiuni
Week 4The ExperimentsArmor off, outcome measured4 sesiuni
Week 5CalibrationGaps as training items, not evidence4 sesiuni
Week 6Keep the CreditYour plan, your drill, your books3 sesiuni
Nina
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The steady behavioral coach — patient, methodical, quietly optimistic. Nina is the clinician-scientist who convinces you to spend less time in bed and makes it feel reasonable, talking about your numbers like a friendly scientist, not an accountant.
“Hi, I'm Nina. Over the next six weeks we're not going to convince you that you're not a fraud — we're going to put your actual record on the books and see what it says.”
The attribution-retraining protocol, faithfully built
Own It implements the CBT protocol for imposter feelings — attribution retraining against the success-discounting habit, behavioral experiments on over-preparation and avoidance, direct examination of the exposure fear, secrecy reduction through disclosure, and competence calibration — the components the evidence base for imposter feelings is built on.
- Attribution retraining
- Behavioral experiments on over-preparation and avoidance
- Exposure-fear examination
- Secrecy reduction via disclosure
Not every doubt is a thinking error
Own It addresses imposter feelings in people with a real track record — it never treats being made to feel like an outsider through discrimination as a distortion to correct. If the doubt has real causes outside your head — you're the only person like you in the room, the goalposts genuinely move — the program says so plainly and keeps the ledger work aimed at what it can actually change: keeping your own evidence on your own books.
Anxiety and low-mood overlaps get an honest cross-reference rather than being folded into the ledger work — background worry routes to What If, and flattening low mood routes to Lift, run alongside or before this one.
Own It, alături de restul pieței
| Own ItResiliens | Imposter Syndrome Hacks (Clare Josa)ditchingimpostersyndrome.com | Defeating Imposter Syndrome (Lumian)lumian.com.au | Quit Your Imposter Syndrome (Ama La Vida)alvcoaching.com | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preț | 149 $ plată unică (ciornă) — programul îți aparține | £20/month, or £99 one-time 'Breakthroughs: Unlimited Access' | $297 introductory ($397 regular) | $59 course-only (1-year access) |
| Structură | 6 săptămâni · 17 sesiuni + evaluări săptămânale | Micro-learning, not fixed weeks — 5-minute daily 'hacks,' a 3-minute 'Microwins' process, monthly themed trainings; no fixed multi-week curriculum | 13 downloadable worksheets, video lessons ~10–20 min each, recommended 60–90 min/week; no fixed week count or session count | 4 phases (Explore Your Gifts, Do Your Shadow Work, Build Your Toolbox, Put It All Together) with reading/video/journal exercises, self-paced over a year |
| Personalizare | Wins ledger → discomfort rating → next rung | Onboarding quiz generates a personalized action plan | None described — a linear self-paced video course | Guided reflection prompts; no adaptive personalization described |
| Suport uman | Auto-ghidat · praguri de recomandare către clinician incluse | Hybrid — self-guided core content plus a private community forum, monthly Q&A calls with Clare Josa and certified coaches, and quarterly group coaching sessions | None — fully self-guided, no coaching component, the closest structural match to Own It on this dimension | Base tier is genuinely self-guided; the $379/mo upgrade tier adds 1:1 coaching — a real structural difference from Own It, which has no coach tier at any price |
| Acces | Auto-servire, începe azi | Direct-to-consumer, freemium subscription or one-time lifetime-unlock | One-time purchase, 12-month access window (not perpetual) | US and Canada residents only |
| Amploare | Catalog de peste 24 de programe · combină 2-3 programe conexe și economisește | Dedicated to imposter syndrome (also touches burnout/resilience as adjacent topics) | Dedicated to imposter syndrome, marketed to individual professional purchasers though Lumian's broader business is corporate L&D | Dedicated to imposter syndrome specifically |
| Platforme | Web · iOS · Android | iOS · Android | Web | Web |
Surse: prețurile concurenței și paginile programelor — fiecare valoare din producție are un URL sursă și o dată de acces, iar faptele nepublicate sunt etichetate „nepublicat”, niciodată ghicite.
De ce l-am construit diferit
- A protocol, not a hacks library. Own It runs the specific CBT components the evidence base for imposter feelings is built on — attribution retraining, over-prep experiments, exposure-fear work, disclosure — not a rotating library of 5-minute tips or a linear leadership video course.
- Your own numbers, not a worksheet pile. The wins ledger and rung discomfort ratings drive what happens next automatically; competitors hand you 13 worksheets or a quiz-generated plan with no adaptive loop behind it.
- One price, everywhere. $149 once, self-serve from day one, no geographic restriction — unlike Ama La Vida's US/Canada-only course or Clare Josa's recurring £20/month default.
Începe gratuit. Continuă dacă funcționează.
Prima săptămână
- Onboarding + two full sessions
- Daily check-in + wins ledger
- Your baseline imposter check-in
Programul complet
- All six weeks of Own It, yours to keep
- Every session, review, and exercise
- Web + Untangle app access
Lucrezi la mai multe lucruri? Programele conexe se combină — două sau trei cu reducere. Pachetele vor fi anunțate la lansare.
Înainte să începi
Do I need to have failed at something for this to apply?
No — the opposite. Own It is built for people with a real track record and a private conviction it's inflated. The program works from your actual results, not from proof you need to go find.
What if the doubt is coming from real discrimination, not just my head?
The program checks for that directly and won't treat it as a thinking error. Being made to feel like an outsider has real causes outside your head, and no worksheet re-attributes those away — what the ledger can still do is keep your own evidence on your own books.
Will this make me overconfident?
No — Own It calibrates, it doesn't inflate. Competence gaps become training items to close, not evidence to bury; the goal is an accurate record, not an inflated one.
How much time does it take?
A twenty-second check-in each evening, a sixty-second log whenever a win lands, and about ten minutes most days for the session. The real work happens in the experiments — a few minutes of doing the rung.
Be first to own it
Own It is launching soon on the web and in the Untangle app. Join the early-access list and we'll let you know the moment it opens.
Un singur email când programul tău se deschide. Fără campanii repetate.