The Imposters Club

The Imposters Club is back for season 6, helmed as always by Sinéad and Mel: two best friends figuring life out, one episode at a time. 

This week we’re doing it: we’re officially backing ourselves at work. We’re reflecting on everything we’ve learnt over the past 6 seasons - how Imposter Syndrome functions, how we can manage it and what our values are, and now we’re putting it into practice. We’re talking about figuring out what yo...

The Imposters Club is back for season 6, helmed as always by Sinéad and Mel: two best friends figuring life out, one episode at a time. 

This week we’re talking about the most underrated life skill: knowing when to quit. Why is it that quitting is always seen as a bad thing, when it often shows that you’re self-aware enough to know when something isn’t working? We’ve been thinking about why simplifying your life feels so good, and s...

The Imposters Club is back for season 6, helmed as always by Sinéad and Mel: two best friends figuring life out, one episode at a time. 

This week we’re getting intimate. Mel’s been thinking about the intimacy of motherhood and we chat about the different types of intimacy, why it’s not just about sex, and the romantic magic of female friendship. Plus, QUEER EYE IS BACK and it’s unsurprisingly got us talking about vulnerability, mas...

The Imposters Club is back for season 6, helmed as always by Sinéad and Mel: two best mates figuring life out, one episode at a time. 

Did you know pine nuts cost £6 now? We’re chatting about the outrageous cost of living – from food, to fuel, to childcare – and why struggling to make ends meet isn’t a moral failing. Is the cost of living why we’re all so invested in Succession, the prestige TV showing us just how miserable the ultr...

The Imposters Club is back for season 6, helmed as always by Sinéad and Mel: two best mates figuring life out, one episode at a time. 

We left you on a cliffhanger: Sinéad was about to start a new job and Mel was heading back to work after maternity leave. In that time we’ve discovered new versions of ourselves at work, struggled with what feels like a never-ending doom cycle in the news, and dived into the hazy, rose-tinted world o...

Well hello there! The Imposters Club is BACK for its sixth season, helmed as always by Sinéad and Mel: two best mates figuring life out, one episode at a time. 

We left you on a cliffhanger: Sinéad was about to start a new job and Mel was heading back to work after maternity leave. Tune in on Wednesday 10 May to find out what we've been up to, what's been on our minds and the gif that is most representative of us...

The Imposters Club returns for our 5th season, and this time we’re talking WORK. Sinéad’s pivoting her career, Melissa’s returning from maternity leave and the whole world is talking about how we can work better.

What’s your dream job? Chances are you thought of a title, a salary - the status symbol that our success is judged by. But is the reality really that dreamy? In the final episode of Season 5, we deep-dive into the concept o...

The Imposters Club returns for our 5th season, and this time we’re talking WORK. Sinéad’s pivoting her career, Melissa’s returning from maternity leave and the whole world is talking about how we can work better.

The job hunt: a time in your life that starts out full of hope and quite quickly becomes a bit soul-destroying. Sinéad’s been there all season - in that big cycle of hope and rejection, where separating your worth from the ...

The Imposters Club returns for our 5th season, and this time we’re talking WORK. Sinéad’s pivoting her career, Melissa’s returning from maternity leave and the whole world is talking about how we can work better.

The time has come. Nursery is booked, start date at work is confirmed, flexible working is approved - and Melissa is feeling EVERYTHING. Returning to work after having a child comes with a lot of conflicting emotions, press...

The Imposters Club returns for our 5th season, and this time we’re talking WORK. Sinéad’s pivoting her career, Melissa’s returning from maternity leave and the whole world is talking about how we can work better. 

We're in the booked and busy era, but 53% of women say their stress levels are even higher than they were a year ago. It seems that burnout is NOT a conversation to be left in 2020. It’s very real, very relevant and v...

The Imposters Club returns for our 5th season, and this time we’re talking WORK. Sinéad’s pivoting her career, Melissa’s returning from maternity leave and the whole world is talking about how we can work better. 

Let us take you on a little trip down memory lane. It’s 2014: we’re trying to get our foot on the professional ladder, tentatively calling ourselves feminists, and holding an Urban Outfitters mug that says ‘you have the sa...

WE’RE BACK! The Imposters Club returns for our 5th season, and this time we’re talking WORK. Sinéad’s pivoting her career, Melissa’s returning from maternity leave and the whole world is talking about how we can work better. 

In our first episode we’re going back to basics by deep-diving into what brought us here, and asking the potentially podcast-ending question: do we need to STOP talking about Imposter Syndrome? Stay tuned for w...

IT’S THE FINAL EPISODE OF THE GOOD ENOUGH GUIDE! A 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you, brought to you by The Imposters Club

In our final episode (before we head off to get married, write a PhD thesis and have a baby- not necessarily at the same time), we’re talking about what nobody seems to want to talk about: money. Sinéad and Melissa discuss how the pandemic has...

The Imposters Club is back with The Good Enough Guide, a 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you.

Content warning: periods, fertility, pregnancy, childbirth, miscarriage

We’re back for part two of our bumper baby special! Mel’s having a baby (yay!) and in this episode she shares her story since finding out she was pregnant after a miscarriage, from getting her head aroun...

The Imposters Club is back with The Good Enough Guide, a 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you.

tw: periods, fertility, description of miscarriage

Mel’s having a baby! In this episode she shares her story so far: the journey to getting pregnant and what it’s been like growing a new human. This topic is far from simple, and true to form we couldn’t stop talking once we’...

The Imposters Club is back with The Good Enough Guide, a 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you.

It’s safe to say we’ve dealt with a LOT of changes over the past 18 months. Some of them have been externally imposed, like the lockdowns and restrictions, redundancies and bereavements. Some have been changes we’ve chosen, like choosing to leave a relationship th...

The Imposters Club is back with The Good Enough Guide, a 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you.

It’s been a really tough 18 months - amidst the difficult lockdowns and anxiety, many of us have been dealing with the deaths of the people we love. The pandemic and necessary restrictions have affected how we grieve- it’s changed our mourning rituals and robbed us of the s...

The Imposters Club is back with The Good Enough Guide, a 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you.

Sinéad is getting married! Well, hopefully. Covid has had a lot to say about milestones like weddings, and a lot of marriage plans have been thrown into the air over the past 18 months. Added to all this uncertainty is the pervading sense of not being good enough- not being...

The Imposters Club is back with The Good Enough Guide, a 10-part post-lockdown survival guide to help you feel good enough and choose what’s good enough for you.

In this episode, Sinéad and Melissa talk about advocating for yourself - asking for what you want, standing up for what you need and upholding your boundaries. We started the season by focusing on what’s important to us and now we’re jumping in with both feet and asking for...