Ep110 Show Notes: Three Little Words About This Episode How much of your energy do you expend rescuing others? Putting out fires? Being the hero? It can feel virtuous and purposeful to be "The Fixer," but it's also draining your valuable introvert energy. There's another way to support and empower others without sacrificing yourself. In this episode, I share my most popular post to-date, along … [Read more...]
Ep100: Debbie Page Whitlock, Laurie Helgoe, Donna Rowe, Susan Cain, Mary Anne Radmacher
Episode 100: The 5 Most Downloaded Podcasts 2010-2015 About This Episode I’m so incredibly pleased to be presenting this 100th episode to you. When the first episode was posted on iTunes on August 13, 2010, I don’t think I imagined that we’d still be going strong – better than ever, actually – 100 episodes later. I didn't think that far ahead. It was a grand experiment, and all I knew was … [Read more...]
Ep96: Sherry Richert Belul on Celebrating the Small Stuff
Ep96 Podcast Show Notes: Celebrating the Small Stuff About Sherry Richert Belul Sherry Richert Belul has spent the last twenty years practicing finding the gifts in everyday life. Using disappointment, depression, and anxiety as her teachers, Sherry has developed products and practices for celebrating ourselves, the people we love, and the shape of our lives. Her company, Simply Celebrate … [Read more...]
Ep92: David Nihill Teaches Us How to Use the Power of Humor
Ep92 Show Notes About David Nihill David is the Founder of FunnyBizz, a community and conference series where business meets humor to abolish boring content. He is also the author of the best-selling book “Do You Talk Funny?” He has been featured in Inc., Lifehacker, The Huffington Post, Fast Company, Entrepreneur, and Forbes. Key Conversation Points Incorporating humor Creating humor … [Read more...]
Ep81: The Power of Perseverance with Pat Willmot of Great Pretenders
It’s not every day I get to talk to the leader of a company that has a growing global presence and is in the midst of lots of organizational change. So when Pat Willmot reached out to me about Great Pretenders, I was immediately interested in her story. We talk about the evolution of her journey with Great Pretenders, what it was like in those early years when they had big dreams and little … [Read more...]
Ep79: Keys to a Successful Product Launch with Betsy Talbot
How does a solitude-loving introvert launch a new product? And what if that product is in a new-to-her category that requires vulnerability and high creativity? That's the place Betsy Talbot found herself when she accepted the challenge to write her first romance novel. She committed to not only writing the first novel, but quickly found that she had a series on her hands! I met Betsy about … [Read more...]
Why Being an Entrepreneur Will Always Take a Back Seat to Being an Introvert
There are times when, as much as we love our business or our work, that we feel like the wind has gone out of our sails. It might be caused by a specific incident, or it could be the result of general feelings of fatigue and stress. Whatever it is, the journey feels like a slog. (Time-out: If reading this feels like a slog, scroll down for the audio version!) I've experienced this at … [Read more...]
Ep69: One Introvert’s Happiness of Pursuit & World Domination – A Conversation with Chris Guillebeau
“In addition to passion, you must develop a skill that provides a solution to a problem.” ~Chris Guillebeau We heard Pamela Slim in episode 68 tell us that "Hating your job is not a business plan. Feeling a passion is not a business plan either.” My conversation with introvert entrepreneur Chris Guillebeau, author of “The $100 Start-Up" and "The Happiness of Pursuit," and founder of … [Read more...]
The One Thing You Need to Succeed
194,622: number of books about success on Amazon.com Clearly, success is a hot topic. Rather than spend thousands of hours - and dollars - on hit-or-miss advice from the gurus, I invite you to consider that the answer may be simpler than you think. Success is fed by pronoia. What is pronoia? It's the belief that the universe is conspiring in your favor. It's the opposite of paranoia; Pronoia is … [Read more...]
Ep68: A Conversation with Pamela Slim, author of “Escape from Cubicle Nation”
When I started down the entrepreneurial path, one of the first books I turned to was Pamela Slim’s “Escape from Cubicle Nation.” I wasn’t necessarily escaping from a cubicle; rather, the book captured the spirit of adventure I was feeling and provided a roadmap for action in those early days. While Pamela is a self-proclaimed extrovert, she has insights and wisdom that will give even the most … [Read more...]
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