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What if the imposter syndrome you can't shake was actually a shared secret across every room you've ever walked into?

When Miriam Sheril was a Federal Reserve intern in January 2009, her job was to read the meeting agenda out loud. She spent three days a week nauseous leading up to it. Instead of asking am I in the wrong career?, she found herself asking who else in this room is faking it? a question that would carry her through fifteen years at the Fed, the launch of FedNow, and the leap to running US strategy at a UK-based fintech called Form3.

In this episode Miriam shares what fifteen years inside the Federal Reserve taught her about power, politics, and the imposter syndrome nobody escapes, and how being openly Orthodox in fintech turned out to be the strategy, not the risk. Deep on the five-item checklist she used to pivot in her career, the colleague who told her to stop saying "this might be a stupid question," and the American Bankers piece she calls her proudest work.

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