# Imposter Syndrome, Flow State, and Why You Better Just Show Up at Your Desk: A Conversation With Ammi Midstokke

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Podcast: [Stronger Together with Sandpoint Strength](https://stenobird.com/podcast/stronger-together-with-sandpoint-strength-7043786)
Published: 2026-02-11T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://sandpoint-strength.captivate.fm
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## Resource

Ammi Midstokke has been on this podcast more than anyone else, and this episode is probably the most honest one yet. It starts with a conversation about why Kenny can't get people to come on his podcast — nobody thinks they have anything worth saying — and spirals out into why that's wrong, what imposter syndrome actually is versus what it isn't, what writing for a living actually looks like, how she left her nutrition clinic to go full-time creative, and the Selkirk Mountain Writing Retreat she's building in Sandpoint for October. There's also a detour through her childhood on a typewriter, her dad asking if she actually gets paid for this, and a very good observation about why a real imposter never asks whether they're an imposter. This one runs long. It earns it.

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