I'm a female CEO of an early-stage SaaS. On paper I'm accomplished, but I struggle with imposter syndrome and high sensitivity. I do strong strategic work but need entire weekends in bed to recover, sometimes several days where I can't function.
I'm doing product dev, BD, and growth work. This week I have zero motivation despite progress. I love startups and can't imagine another path, but these downtimes make me wonder if I need to restructure my role.
Has anyone experienced this? What worked?

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Similar position but at a much smaller scale. It isn’t easy. I love the work, I love how much I can do, but I also really struggle with those times of burnout. Imposter syndrome is just as hard, I *know* I’ve done some amazing things, but still struggle with it’s not enough or it’s not actually that good. Still working through all of that. The best thing I recently started to do was write down all the good things and remind myself constantly of them.

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It sounds less like imposter syndrome and more like societal bias syndrome. I made that up, but you know. As a woman society has built us up to have loads of self doubt, which makes us susceptible to imposter syndrome, don’t doubt yourself you got this.

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