The speaker (Kyle Balmer) reports results from a poll of his ~60,000 newsletter subscribers: the top reason people don’t start businesses is personal blocks—chiefly imposter syndrome—rather than time, money, or skills. He announces a week-long newsletter series using AI coaching prompts to help tackle imposter syndrome and invites listeners to subscribe.
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What's actually stopping you from starting a business? I asked my 60,000 newsletter subscribers this last week, and by far, personal blocks were the biggest issue. And the answer kind of surprised me. It's not lack of time, not lack of money, not lack of skills, but instead, people have personal blocks. So lack of confidence, not thinking they're good enough. So I followed this up by asking what personal blocks are the problem? And number one above all of them was imposter syndrome. Basically the feeling that everybody else knows what they're doing and you don't and you're an imposter. Because of this, all of this week in the newsletter, I'm going to be talking about how we can tackle imposter syndrome using AI. The first issue came out on Monday and I got this lovely message. This is the reason why I do this kind of stuff, she's saying. It's been more helpful than you'll ever realize, so I'm hoping this is going to help a lot of people. If you want to get it, subscribe to the newsletter and you'll be receiving it all this week. Specifically, I'll be talking about imposter syndrome all of this week in the newsletter and giving you a series of AI prompts that you can work through, which are going to coach you through your imposter syndrome.