Have you ever wondered if people in the public eye feel bouts of not-enoughness? And if so, how they handle it?

Janette Manrara is a former pro dancer on Strictly Come Dancing, a television show watched by 12-18 million people each week. Janette now hosts the TV programme, It Takes Two, and recently published Tiny Dancer, Big World: How to find fulfilment from the inside out.

In this conversation, Janette and I discuss her unusual entry into professional dance (her “wiggly career”), her moments of not-enoughness resulting from the rejections along the way, and how she finally learned to relate to moments of imposter syndrome and self-doubt (because – spoiler alert – they never go away). There’s a secret insight from Janette in the Outro, so listen to the very end.

 

 

Links:
Janette Manrara’s book
Janette on Instagram
Mandy Lehto on Instagram
IG video of Lenny Kravitz discussing his moments of self-doubt
Poet Alix Klingenberg on IG
Episode 64 on Imposter Syndrome