Caryn Meininger on why women entrepreneurs feel like frauds, especially when their skills don't match the room. She learned her precise eyeliner work has real value. The antidote isn't confidence. It's opening your heart anyway.
If I'm an extrovert and I'm terrified walking to a new space for the person, that is an introvert, that has to be crippling us women entrepreneurs, we have imposter syndrome. We really do. When you were introing me today, the thing that was hardest for me to hear about was my actual profession, being a makeup artist, because it has been my life's work, because what I do matters. How eyeliner is perfectly placed, and that matters. The thing that I did not feel an imposter about is how you talked about my heart. Ladies, open your heart. And I don't know how to tell you to do that other than just take a deep breath and just try to open your heart.
