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Honored to join host Natalie Luke PhD on UnCeiling You to talk about Quiet Power—reframing introversion, showing up without faking extroversion, and growing into a Quiet Warrior. Listen here:https://lnkd.in/gGJb_3XZ for the strategies I use to speak up: while staying true to my quiet self, and without having to be loud.

This is a guest podcast I did with the amazing Emma Bellamy-Dodd, host of Kintsugi Heroes / From There To Here Podcast. Having been on many podcast interviews now, this one stands out because of Emma’s incisive and thoughtful questions, which opened up new angles for exploration and enabled me

In this interview with Stephana Johnson on her Lead Stronger Longer Podcast, we discussed some of the familiar themes affecting introverts navigating professional transitions and an extrovert-biased culture. Watch the interview HERE. For weekly stories and wisdom on the world of introverts, make sure you’re on The Visible Introvert mailing

Have you noticed how people can be in the same family, yet have very different experiences of each other? One person sees their mum as controlling and micromanaging. Their sibling is similarly exasperated but somehow manages to get along with mum just fine. One person remembers every good deed they

19 years ago, I touched down in Melbourne as a new migrant on a September day. It was 5 degrees outside, and having just come from hot and humid Singapore where it’s always at least 30 degrees, you could call it my first taste of winter. In the years that followed,

I used to get so anxious whenever there was a lull in the conversation at management meetings. What if I was called on to speak next, but I didn’t know what to say? It reminded me of all those times the teacher suddenly said, “Serena?” I KNEW the answer before

My younger daughter turned 18 this week. Asked what she wanted for her birthday dinner, she requested “lobster mac and cheese”. Our first response: Google to find out which restaurant near us had this on their menu. It turned out there were hardly any, and the one restaurant that did

We were about an hour into our hike when we came to a standstill on a slope in the middle of … nothing. All around us was bush, but the trail we had been following had mysteriously vanished. Should we toil uphill the way we had just come (What! Again??),

Wandering around the courtyard of the Independence Palace in Ho Chi Minh City, this bougainvillea bush caught my eye. Its joyous profusion of colour stood out from the drab greyness of its surroundings. Much like how introverts — with our quiet wisdom, calm presence and inner radiance — offer a

“The girl would assume whatever manner was expected of her as though it was what she herself wanted to do, not only with her family but with anyone she wanted to please. When they wanted her to laugh, she would laugh. When they wanted her to remain silent, she remained