Ep150 Show Notes: Emilie Wapnick About Emilie Wapnick Emilie Wapnick is a writer, career coach, blogger, and community leader. She is the founder and creative director at Puttylike.com, where she helps multipotentialites (people with many passions and creative pursuits) integrate all of their interests to create dynamic, fulfilling, and fruitful careers and lives. Unable to settle on one path … [Read more...]
It’s Okay to Want a Normal Business (Blogcast, Ep140)
Note: This post is a blogcast, meaning it’s a solo podcast (Episode 140, to be exact) with the full transcript – edited for clarity, minus anything ad libbed – posted here. So it's a hybrid blog post and podcast... a blogcast! The audio is slightly different, so if you listen and read, you'll get the full effect.) I started The Introvert Entrepreneur back in 2010 with two intentions: … [Read more...]
“I’m an Introvert” Isn’t a Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
Sometimes, we just have to suck it up. If you've been part of The Introvert Entrepreneur community for a while, this statement may surprise you. You know that my fundamental message is that there's nothing wrong with being an introvert. We don't need to be fixed, and we don't need to become something we're not in order to fit into society's extrovert expectation. (See "Related Posts" below for … [Read more...]
Knowing When to Zig and When to Zag
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. ~Apple, Inc., 1997 So begins one of the most brilliant advertising campaigns in history, celebrating the person who can "Think Different" and change the world. When the rest of the world was zagging, Apple and Steve Jobs chose to zig. It's a … [Read more...]
5 Habits I’m Changing After My Wonderful Webfree Week
It was one morning in early February, and I was still in that cozy place between being asleep and awake. A little voice inside me said, "Go off the grid. Take a week off from the internet. Clear your head. Get $#!% done." It was so clear, and so random, I knew I had to do it. I told my husband about my plan to go webfree for a week, and while I can't remember his exact reaction, … [Read more...]
Revelations of an (Almost) Egotistical Introvert
I had an interesting awareness yesterday that you might appreciate - I was offered a leadership opportunity in a professional association I'm part of. I was flattered, but also hemmed and hawed about it for a few weeks. Here's why... Two things kept coming up: my business and my energy. My plate feels pretty full. I have some ambitious goals. But when I thought about my colleagues in association … [Read more...]
What To Do If You Have Static Cling
Every coach, counselor, or therapist has heard it from at least one client: I'm stuck. "Stuck" is our go-to word to describe a state where we feel immobilized by life, like we can't move. We can't make a decision. Our feet are stuck in the muddy rut. Life keeps moving around us, but we stay still, unmoving, unchanging. Static. Most of the time, we think it's because we don't know what … [Read more...]
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It
Seventh Grade The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the … [Read more...]
Table for One, Please
A few weeks ago, I had a speaking engagement about an hour away from my office. I made plans to meet a friend at a restaurant afterwards. I arrived on time, requested a "table for two" and waited. And waited. And waited. I was perfectly content passing the time by catching up on news and Facebook on my phone, but I sensed that the server was starting to feel sorry for me. Here I was, alone, … [Read more...]
Confessions of an Indulgent Introvert
In November 2010, I wrote a prescient blog post entitled, "The Dangers of Being Home Alone." My main point was that while I was working from home and technically "alone," I was rarely alone with my thoughts because I was almost never unplugged, never disconnected. Part of me also felt that working from home alone was not the most productive place to be. However, my introvert self LOVED it … [Read more...]