You Are Not Your Inner Critic | Organizational Psychologist Explains Why

Описание: Today, I’m sitting down with Meg Mateer, organizational psychologist and leadership coach, to talk about something almost everyone has, but few people openly talk about: the inner critic.

Why does that voice sometimes get louder?
Why does it contradict itself?
And why does pushing it away only make it stronger?

Meg shares a powerful reframe: your inner critic is not you. It’s more like a guard dog, desperately trying to protect you, but with blinders on and a limited view of danger.

From there, we explore what actually helps: creating distance from the voice, listening for the fear underneath it, and rewriting outdated rules through small, low-stakes experiments that build real evidence and real confidence.

What We Discuss:
00:00 Episode trailer: highlights from the conversation
02:49 Introducing Meg Mateer
03:42 What the inner critic is, and why most of us have one
11:54 The guard dog metaphor: Common and new ways to deal with the inner critic
17:58 The benefits of working with the inner critic, instead of against it
26:58 How Meg broke her belief of needing to be serious to be taken seriously
33:09 Meg's first visit of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and how to bring colors back into one's life, even if nobody said it was going to be easy

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