Series 1 Trail
Trail for series 1 of The Imposter Club, a podcast for people working in TV and the creative industries to come together and admit that we're all just winging it.
Welcome to The Imposter Club, a place for people working in TV and the creative industries to finally admit that we're all just winging it.
Host, TV Director turned talent company founder, Kimberly Godbolt talks to senior figures in the media industry about how they handle their imposter syndrome moments, along with their career mistakes and outtakes to find out what we can glean to lead our own happy, creative careers.
Website coming soon - www.theimposterclub.com
Sponsored by Talented People, the specialist Executive search and project staffing company in TV and digital - www.talentedpeople.tv
Kimberly:
I dunno what I'm doing.
Does anyone know... all right.
Let's go for this trail.
Kimberly:
Hi, you found the imposter club.
A safe place for people working in TV and the creative industries.
To finally admit.
That we're all just winging it.
Kimberly:
Phil Edgar Jones, Congratulations on the O B E.
Phil Edgar-Jones:
I was thinking should I put it on my email signature?
And then I thought, no, you just look like a bit of a dick if you do that.
I'm Kimberly Godbolt.
And what I've learned from my career, directing TV series and staffing teams
behind the screens is that spoiler alert.
More successful people than you ever realize.
Still feel like a fraud.
Olly Lambert:
You just fake it till you make it until you die.
I think that's my motto.
Kimberly:
but you don't get to hear their stories.
That changes right here in this podcast
Stu Richards:
Don't say anything libelous.
No, don't say anything Libelous.
Kimberly:
I'm talking to senior TV types about their own moments of self doubt and failure.
Faraz Osman:
. it was a very difficult part of my career I'm never gonna be able to convince these people that I'm part of their club.
That's why I might as well just hand in my membership card and get out of here
Kimberly:
How deeply it's affected them.
Olly Lambert:
I would wake up between five and five 30 in the morning with a sense of enor,
like literal terror, , I would sob
this is too much, this is too big
Kimberly:
And ultimately what they've learnt in their pursuit of a successful,
but also fulfilling creative career.
Stu Richards:
The more out of place I felt, the more I've enjoyed it, to be perfectly honest.
Kimberly:
Maybe we can file a thing or two away for future ref.
Phil Edgar-Jones:
You're gonna make mistakes in your career.
You're gonna make mistakes in life.
But I don't regret anything because, uh, it, it taught me quite a lot about myself
Kimberly:
So come and get comfortable being uncomfortable.
Kari Lia: 00:01:44
They want this to be Netflix's.
Biggest documentary series of the year Of course.
I mean, God, talk about the fear.
Kimberly:
I can't wait to let you in to the imposter club
Stu Richards:
Nobody in this industry is worthy of that much respect.
Apart from Alison Hammond
Kimberly:
coming soon.
Phil Edgar-Jones:
I'm already having imposter syndrome, thinking I'll be the
worst guest you've ever had, and it'll be a massive disappointment.