New instructors often face feeling like an imposter. This article explains an innovative contributioncalled the Music-Coaching-Improv (M-C-I) Framework of 15 skills that includes the top five ways touse music, five key coaching skills, and five core improv skills. The M-C-I Framework was thefoundation for three improv exercises that were selected due to their effectiveness in training theoverlapping skills of active listening, support, letting go of judgment, being in the moment, cocreation,and acceptance that supported instructors overcoming the imposter phenomenon. This articleexamines how music, coaching, and improv training in an instructor development program influencedparticipants (n = 19) to overcome the imposter phenomenon and boosted instructors' overallconfidence in self, as well as their identity as an instructor. Many leaders serve as an instructor, mentor,or part of a command team during their career. Understanding how to overcome the imposterphenomenon benefits oneself and others they lead.