Imposter Syndrome is different for people of colour. You don’t just feel like an imposter, you are one. You’re the only one in the room. There are no leaders who look like you. The system is broken and has to change. But in this book, Caroline Flanagan challenges you to step up and play your part too.

Caroline has always been an imposter. She knows what it’s like to feel like a fraud and fear being found out. From being the only black girl at an all-white school, through to being the only person of colour in meetings at a top City law firm and beyond. She has faced bias in all its forms — but she’s learned how to win.

After years of battling Imposter Syndrome, Caroline discovered a way to make it her strength. Now she has created a powerful tool to help you do the same so that you, too, can succeed in a white world.

That tool is the Imposter Speech — a powerful personal pep talk to say to yourself when your Imposter Syndrome is triggered and you're questioning whether you're enough.

This book teaches you how to create your own Imposter Speech so you can overcome Imposter Syndrome and build confidence in who you are. Not only will you rise to challenges differently, your whole relationship with yourself will shift. You’ll stop feeling powerless and waiting for an unjust system to change. You’ll no longer think of yourself as the only one in the room. This book, and the Imposter Speech it helps you build, empowers you to be the first.