One of the keys to a happy life is understanding and accepting who you are, and learning to create the life you love based on that understanding. My guest today is a perfect example of what can manifest when an introverted heart and mind is driven by courage, love and creativity.
Dr. Susan Biali is an award-winning medical doctor, media wellness expert, author, speaker, life coach and professional flamenco dancer. She lives to help you discover yourself, create vibrant health, and design a life that you absolutely love. We talk about being an HSP (Highly Sensitive Person), an introvert, and inviting in a life you’ll love.
All entrepreneurs know how important it is to get off to a good start in their business. Today I’m talking with a visionary who wants your start to not just be good, but wicked good.
Bryan Janeczko is the mastermind behind Wicked Start, an online platform designed to help small business owners and early-stage entrepreneurs realize their dreams of starting a business. His goal is simple: to increase the rate of business success. Our conversation in this podcast covers a variety of ways you can do that, as wide ranging as the importance of bringing heart and compassion into your work, to allowing yourself space to be down in the dumps, all while honoring your introvert energy.
A few weeks ago, NPR ran a story about the “slow internet movement,” describing internet cafes that charged 99¢ an hour for you to plug your laptop into an old-fashioned modem and experience the World Wide Wait from the 90s all over again. And I’d forgotten about the story until yesterday, when someone at a training I was facilitating offered up an interesting metaphor. He said that introverts process information more slowly, like a dial-up modem. I thought that was a brilliant comparison, and shared it on Facebook – that’s when the fun really began…
Nothing about this blog post is what it “should” be. Today is the five-month anniversary of saying goodbye to my precious feline Fiona, whom I wrote about back in October of last year. And this morning, I was an accidental witness to someone else saying goodbye to their beloved feline. This post is in honor of our (introverted?) feline friends.
On the front porch of our house, there’s a welcome mat that I cross every time I come and go. It’s a great spot to wipe the wet Pacific Northwest weather off the bottom of my shoes before coming back inside. Other than that, I rarely notice it.
A client session yesterday – and the memory of a great article written by creative self-development coach Jamie Ridler – brought up the idea of a welcome mat as more than a place to get the gunk off.
