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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-181/
- Published: 2020-08-02T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-08-03T20:28:40.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Election 2020, Featured, NZ, NZ Politics, Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:00

## NZ First Minister Tracey Martin: ‘I didn’t think I was good enough’

**Minister and NZ First MP Tracey Martin talks to Andrea Vance about working in the shadow of Winston Peters and the future of the party.**

Imposter syndrome – cruel doubts and a persistent anxiety that we are not good enough – cripples women. It almost killed Tracey Martin’s career.

After NZ First signed a [coalition agreement to govern](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/98170259/nz-prime-minister-elect-jacinda-ardern-reveals-cost-of-coalition?ref=goodoil.news) with Labour, Martin had expected to become a backbench MP. Four days after the signing ceremony, her phone rang with an unknown number.

Engrossed in paperwork, she ignored it. “They didn’t leave a message,” so she searched for the number in her email inbox. It was new Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

“She said: ‘I wanted to do this job, but they tell me I can’t do this job. So, I’m asking, will you be the Minister for Children?’ And I don’t know why she did. I’ve never asked her actually.”

[Read the article in full ](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/122259407/nz-first-minister-tracey-martin-i-didnt-think-i-was-good-enough?ref=goodoil.news) then comment on *The BFD.*