Imposter Syndrome with On-Camera Confidence

How acting, sales, and lived experience shaped my unique confidence workshop

Imposter syndrome can feel like a cat hiding under the duvet, an overwhelming urge to stay hidden, even when you know you’re meant to step into the light.

During my moments of self-doubt, I realised that my own experience with imposter syndrome, combined with my background in acting and sales, would eventually lead to the creation of my Public Speaking and On-Camera Confidence Workshop, where creativity meets technology.

When I launched KVDB five years ago, I had a straightforward plan: to create a sales and marketing consultancy aimed at helping technically focused or academically heavy companies strip away jargon and effectively sell their ideas.

Over the years, I witnessed many brilliant concepts fail to resonate because the people behind them struggled to translate their expertise into a message that connected with their audience.

A significant gap existed between what the product, marketing, and sales teams were trying to communicate and what decision-makers and customers truly needed. Vital information often gets lost in jargon and complicated language.

My goal was to help these businesses tell their stories with clarity, warmth, and confidence.

However, when COVID-19 hit, the world changed overnight.

Imposter Syndrome Knocks at the Door

Like many business owners, I felt the creeping doubt of imposter syndrome when lockdown hit. My carefully structured plan suddenly felt irrelevant. Events were cancelled, in-person meetings disappeared, and companies pulled back on marketing.

That little voice in my head asked: Who am I to help others when I’m not even sure how to keep my own business alive?

The truth about imposter syndrome is that it feeds on uncertainty. It convinces you that everyone else knows what they’re doing, and you’re the only one making it up as you go along.

But here’s the thing: sometimes making it up as you go along leads to the most powerful breakthroughs.

Creativity Meets Technology

As the world went online, I realised I had something many others didn’t: experience on both sides of the camera.

For years, I’d been coaching young adults and actors to transition into self-taping. While many performers were suddenly struggling with ring lights, webcams, and editing software, I already knew how to navigate it all.

Why? To support my acting career, I worked for Big Picture and Kreate. I spent years working with companies like Fuji, Sanyo, Sharp, Intel, and Adobe, training and educating them. During this time, I learned how digital cameras worked, how computers processed imagery, and how to use editing software that made most people’s heads spin.

At the time, it felt like a “supporting job” to pay the bills while I chased auditions. But looking back, it was the foundation of something far bigger. I then went on to work for Retail Profiling, D-Link, Samsung Techwin, now Hanwha Vision, before launching KVDB.

A Patchwork Becomes a Pattern

My career has often felt like a patchwork quilt, a piece of acting here, a stint in field marketing there, a sales training contract somewhere else.

I worked in events and experiential marketing, traffic-stopping for Nintendo. I led teams of staff who, like me, were often filling in between other jobs. I moved into field marketing and eventually channel sales.

For a long time, I thought I was floating, and honestly, aimlessly. But what I had really been doing all along was marketing myself, and by extension, other people and products too.

That realisation reframed everything.

Why My Workshops Work

When I now stand in front of a group for my Public Speaking & On-Camera Confidence workshop, I bring all that history with me.

It’s not just about theory. It’s about tried-and-tested techniques that come from three very different worlds:

🎭 Acting and Drama Coaching: I share techniques from my acting training and experience as a director, particularly those developed by Stanislavski, to help individuals connect authentically with their audience. My focus is on walking and moving with purpose. Additionally, I incorporate mindset and presence exercises that have helped me calm my nerves before auditions, job interviews, and various other situations in life.

💼 Sales and Marketing: With years of sales training and experience working with global brands, I have gained insight into the psychology of influence and how to present information effectively. I help individuals rethink their communication strategies so that instead of merely pitching, they focus on building relationships and offering solutions. I understand what makes someone stop, listen, and engage, whether it’s on a shop floor or a LinkedIn feed.

💡 Technology and Creativity: With experience in cameras, editing, and digital tools, I assist people in setting up their home office or studio and launching their YouTube channels. I can also help you choose the right PC based on the level of work you are doing, making the technical aspects of presenting less intimidating and more empowering.

The combination of these three elements is what sets my workshops apart and contributes to their success.

Beating Imposter Syndrome

Here’s the truth: imposter syndrome never fully disappears. Even now, there are moments before I go live on camera or step into a room where the thought creeps in: What if I’m not good enough? What if they see through me?

These doubts are a part of me and remind me that I care about what I do. I take a deep breath from my diaphragm three times, focus on my heartbeat, slowing it down to match my breathing, and then say a mental, “Let’s do this!” It’s the same thing I tell myself every time I walk into a room full of people, because I find it overwhelming. The noise, the conversation, I may look at ease, but that’s my training.

What I’ve learned is that confidence isn’t the absence of doubt. It’s the ability to move forward despite it. And confidence is a skill, one you can learn, practice, and strengthen, just like any other.

That’s what my workshop is about. Yes, it’s about speaking on stage, presenting on camera, and showing up online. But deeper than that, it’s about helping people find a voice that feels authentic and natural, so they no longer feel like an imposter in their own story.

Is This for You?

If you hate selling, if promoting yourself on social media makes you feel awkward, or if public speaking feels like your worst nightmare, this workshop is for you.

It’s for the people who want to step into the spotlight without feeling like they’re putting on a mask.

It’s for the ones who want to embrace technology without fear, knowing they can look and sound like themselves on camera.

And it’s for those who are ready to replace self-doubt with self-trust.

The Sweet Spot: Technology Meets Creativity

What began as a consultancy plan five years ago has evolved into something I couldn’t have predicted. KVDB has become a space where creativity and technology meet, and where people discover that they can show up with confidence, even if imposter syndrome once told them otherwise.

Because here’s what I now know for sure:

You don’t need to be perfect. You need to be present.

👉 To learn more about the Public Speaking & On-Camera Confidence workshop, Click Here.