Transition Mastermind May

How to Manage Anxiety and Imposter Syndrome During a Job Transition

Anxiety and imposter syndrome impact many people, but they can be especially challenging during a job loss or transition. Thanks to advances in neuroscience and recent understandings of evolutionary biology, trauma, neuroplasticity, and the autonomic nervous system, we now have a better understanding of WHY anxiety and imposter syndrome occur – as well as the solutions to manage them.

During this program, Dr. Castellanos Hansley will explain the biology of stress, how it is supposed to operate, and how human beings get stuck in fight, flight, and freeze – thereby creating chronic anxiety, imposter syndrome, and eventually burnout. She will offer clear, simple, and practical solutions for how to interrupt these stress patterns and how to create surroundings needed to thrive and succeed. By understanding the biology of stress, attendees will be better equipped to develop effective solutions to reduce anxiety and imposter syndrome so they can focus and thrive during their job transitions and job search journeys.

You will:

• Understand the biology of stress and imposter syndrome during job transition.
• Gain clear and simple practical exercises to interrupt stress patterns that create anxiety.
• Learn to create environments to thrive and succeed in.

Please join us on May 1st. Registration is required to attend (it’s free!) and space is limited so sign up today!

About Susie Castellanos Hansley, PhD:

Susie is a Master Certified Life Coach who helps people get unstuck and get from where they are to where they want to be. She specializes in working with people who experience anxiety, procrastination, overwork, imposter syndrome, and overwhelm and helps in areas including relationships, career satisfaction, work-life balance, and life fulfillment. Her clients come from all professions, including law, IT, healthcare, government, education, consulting, academia, corporate, and business owners.

A first generation Mexican American and the first in her family to go to college, Susie earned a PhD in English from Brown University and taught at Duke University and at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. After leaving academia, she earned an MS in Technical Communication at NCSU and used her writing and people skills as a contracts and proposals writer for a certification and licensure company. She decided to become a life coach after discovering life coaching while going through a challenging life period and was certified by The Life Coach School in 2021 and became a full-time coach that same year. In that same year, she discovered that many of her challenging life and work experiences were caused by undiagnosed childhood trauma, and learned she had chronic anxiety and had been experiencing imposter syndrome. She has completed both personal and professional development in trauma work, somatic experiencing, and self-directed neuroplasticity. She continues to develop her coaching and knowledge of how to best help individuals, completing her Master Coach Certification with the Life Coach School in 2022 and her Integrative Life Coaching Certification in 2023. She lives in Durham, North Carolina with her husband of 18 years and two cats and is a proud stepmama of her now-adult stepdaughter.

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