Episode 76

Imposter Syndrome: Wildly Successful and Still That 12-Year-Old Girl

Published on: 7th October, 2026

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I've been doing this podcast for 18 months, and I am still mortified that I have a podcast.

Newsflash: that has not changed.

What has changed is everything else. Last month our tiny show — me, in my office, running my mouth into a microphone — showed up on the US mental health chart one row above Sanjay Gupta's podcast. We passed 400,000 downloads. We became a network. A sponsored network.

And every single time, my brain said that's probably not gonna last. Or somebody made a mistake.

Here's the thing.

I have three exits. I run a consulting company. And at my core, I am still that 12-year-old girl who is very concerned that you're not gonna come to my birthday party.

We can be wildly successful and also that little kid. That's kinda gotta be okay.

Also in this one: You're Not In Charge of the Scale, the new show on our network from pediatrician Dr. Stephanie Walsh. Five more shows in production. Why sponsors won't change a single thing about my mouth.

And on Ask L2, a listener bought 14 project management apps and still runs the whole business off sticky notes. Is that a system?

Yes. Is it a good system? No. Does it have to be?

Chapters

00:00:00 Cold open

00:00:47 Welcome to You're Not Too Much

00:01:01 18 months in and still mortified

00:02:45 Why my brain won't let me enjoy a win

00:03:46 My producer told me not to look at the charts

00:05:33 One row above Sanjay Gupta

00:07:34 Before my brain undoes it

00:08:29 400,000 downloads

00:08:56 Wildly successful and still that 12-year-old girl

00:10:01 Big news: we're a network

00:10:36 Meet You're Not In Charge of the Scale

00:11:07 Five more shows in production

00:11:53 We're a sponsored network

00:12:43 A year ago, this was a pipe dream

00:14:16 Will sponsors change what I say?

00:16:02 Ask L2: 14 apps and a business run on sticky notes

00:19:06 Is it a system? Is it a good one?

00:20:10 It's 12:12

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You're Not Too Much
 Welcome to You're Not Too Much from the Different Not Broken Network, a podcast about how you're not too much - they're not enough. Space expands, so let's fill it.

You’ve spent your whole life feeling like something’s wrong with you. Here’s a radical thought: what if you’re not too much.

This is your no-filter, emotionally intelligent, occasionally sweary podcast that challenges the idea that we all have to fit inside neat little boxes to be acceptable. Hosted by L2 (aka Lauren Howard), this show dives into the real, raw and ridiculous sides of being neurodivergent, introverted, chronically underestimated - and still completely worthy.

Expect deeply honest conversations about identity, neurodivergence, gender, work, grief, anxiety and everything in between.

There’ll be tears, dead dad jokes, side quests, and a whole lot of swearing.

If you are tired of pretending to be someone you’re not, this space is for you.

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