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How Can Salesforce Admins Overcome Imposter Syndrome and Stress?

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Today on the Salesforce Admins Podcast, guest host Josh Birk talks to Katie Villanueva, Golden Hoodie winner and Salesforce Administrator at 10K Advisors.

Join us as we chat about her work with mental health advocacy and mindfulness principles that you can apply to your work as a Salesforce Admin.

You should subscribe for the full episode, but here are a few takeaways from our conversation with Katie Villanueva.

Mental health advocacy in the Salesforce ecosystem

Katie started out as an accidental admin, getting her degree in radio and television. These days, she works as a Salesforce Administrator for 10K Advisors, where she's hard at work updating legacy code with flows and improving workflow processes.

Katie's also the founder of the Mental Health and Illness Trailblazer Community Group. It's a space in the ecosystem to make meaningful connections, share resources, and share stories. "We're not alone in our struggles," Katie says, and what's important is to build that support network and talk about it.

Mindfulness principles for stress management and personal growth

Recently, Katie gave a talk at Midwest Dreamin' entitled "Appreciate Your #AwesomeAdmin Self," based on Jon Kabat-Zinn's seven principles of mindfulness. The principles are a skill and something you have to practice, but they can help you overcome fear, doubt, imposter syndrome, burnout, stress, and negative self-talk.

The principles are:

1. Non-judgement

2. Patience

3. Beginner's mindset

4. Trust

5. Non-striving

6. Acceptance

7. Letting go

In the talk, Katie gets into how you can apply those principles to your work as a Salesforce Admin.

As seen on the Dreamforce stage

At Dreamforce, Katie presented "Automate with AI: Prompt Builder, Flow, and Slack," about the magic you can make when you get all three working together. If you missed out, she recently covered the same topics on How I Solved It with Jennifer Lee.

Katie has so many great insights to share, so be sure to listen to the full episode to learn more. And don't forget to subscribe to the Salesforce Admins Podcast so you never miss an episode.

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