The Traveling Introvert

Hello and welcome to the not so travelling introvert. Today I'm going to talk about dealing with difficult people or more to the point, how to tips for dealing with difficult people. No matter where you go in the world world you will find difficult people and difficult to you might be what's not difficult. For me, difficult can mean various things and while we go out in the world and maybe we soci...

Hello and welcome to the Travelling introvert. So I recently did an episode on why inspiration is so important and I got messages asking, so it's important, how do I go about finding inspiration? So here you go. I'm going to talk about about ways that might help you find inspiration when you need it. And the importance, as I said before, of inspiration cannot be understated. Inspiration spurs crea...

Hello and welcome to the not so travelling Introvert. Today I want to talk about inspiration. Every now and then I get asked about who inspires me, why do I do the things that I do? And to be honest, I don't have a specific, specific person in mind. There's not someone I want to be or someone I admire per se. And maybe it's because I don't really understand the admire part. I don't know. But inspi...

Hello and welcome to the Travelling Introvert. Want to talk about guilt? Guilt comes up a lot in many different ways and one of the things I found is it is a real driving force to what people do and why they do it. And guilt guilt can come up in many ways that can be detrimental but. Also can be helpful. But a lot of it is cultural. And what you've been taught to do. And if you're a people pleaser...

Hello and welcome to the the Travelling introvert going to talk about self understanding and the reason this has come up is because there's a common thread throughout of the questions that you see online or through things that my clients ask me and a lot of it comes down to self understanding. And so I want to talk about why self understanding is important. Self understanding is the ability to und...

Hello and welcome to the Travelling Introvert. Going to talk about quarterly planning. And the reason I'm doing this is because it's come up a lot both on social media plus with clients that I've spoken to. And one thing that I'm hearing resounding against and again is that why is quarterly planning the norm? A lot of people in different organisations find that they do quarterly planning. The quar...

Hello and welcome to the the the travelling introvert want to talk about some habits that a lot of introverts might have. And to be honest, most of the time they are misunderstood. Like most things about introverts, there's a lot of misinformation out there or people make assumptions about things. For example, if you work in an office you might want to have lunch by yourself and your coworkers mig...

Hello and welcome to  The Traveling Introvert want to talk about public Speaking speaking skills, presentation skills. So many times I hear people who are introverts say that they don't like public speaking speaking because they're introverts. And it's really interesting to hear that because then it kind of perpetuates the myth that introverts can't do public speaking, which is not the case....

The word introvert has a lot of myths and misconceptions about it. In this episode I talk about the real meaning of the word "introvert" Hello and welcome to the travelling introvert. Today I want to talk about how about the word introvert? Introvert is a word to explain how you manage your energy levels. However, when you go and look at a dictionary, like dictionary.com says a person who prefers...

Hello and welcome to the travelling introvert. Today I'm going to talk about the fact that you don't need a mentor, you need a champion. And there is a huge difference. Mentors and champions are two important figures in the professional world. Both offer guidance and support, but there are key differences between the two.   And so many times I hear people saying they need a mentor and expecti...

Hello and welcome to the Travelling Introvert. Today I want to talk about being a manager. Whether you've created this role yourself or you're new to being a manager and how you need to craft and create a peer support system. Now, you may have been a manager before, you may know everyone at your workplace, you may have been promoted to be a manager so you know everyone and you know what's going on...

Hello and welcome to the travelling introvert. Today I want to talk about how you can view your business as a creative project. Now, as an introvert, you may or may not see yourself as a creative person. I definitely have struggled with seeing myself as a creative person only to have creatives look at me like I'm got two heads and don't understand why I don't consider myself to be a creative perso...

Hello and welcome to the travelling introvert. Today I'm going to talk about leadership. I was talking with a client the other day and it was a group of managers who were in for some leadership training. And the first question is what makes a leader a leader? And this led to like a 45 minutes discussion and conversation between what makes a leader different from a manager or from an influencer.  ...

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Do you struggle to be heard at work? Many introverts do. Maybe you are compromising your authenticity. Maybe you feel it affecting your health, happiness & family time. I help introverts find their voice while being true to themselves. Visit the latest podcasts (an oldie but goodie - rerun from November 2020, and download the worksheet to explore where you are on the journey to being heard.    

I'm grabbing another one from the archives for you this week, and this is a classic one to talk about how you can make your work visible, as well as doing sort of a mini skills assessment to see your areas of strength and your areas of growth so you can access this free four part mini assessment. And let's start by making you the star you deserve to be seen. Grab the free assessment here Hello and...

This is a great one for the archives and it's currently what I'm doing right now. I would love to know how you prioritize yourself. What things do you put in place to put yourself first? Be it your needs for recharging, be it your needs for creativity, be it your needs for just being able to get 8 hours of sleep. So how do you prioritize yourself first? And please go ahead and let me know in the p...

I said no this month. When's the last time you said what you really wanted to say? No. I said no this month and yes to myself. I'm doing a little bit reworking on my programming and so using this time to bring back some of the most popular episodes from the archive. Now, this particular one is about saying no. You might need to say no to request for your time, to borrow your work, to borrow your m...

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Hello and welcome to the not so the travelling introvert. Today, I want to talk about people or client facing jobs. A lot of the time, the assumption is as introverts, we can't do client facing or public facing or high touch jobs. And that is not the case. I know I've spoken about how I used to work in casinos, and that is very much a people skills job, but I want to just talk about some ways that...

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