Stepping Up and Standing Out as an Introvert with Heather Hall
Release Date: 03/30/2022
5 Ways to Find More Comfort and Joy (Season 7 Wrap Up)
Jump Start Your Joy
This week's episode is the finale of season seven where I've been talking all about intentional comfort and how to bring more comfort and ease into your everyday life. If you have not yet listened to the episode where I did the countdown of the top 10 most downloaded episodes, you can tune in here. 1. Choose comfort, and build it into our lives. I think we are looking for a way to wind down and a way to hold space for the things that we've done and to take a breather. It may be that the world feels heavy, and that you need a break. Mirror what you choose to do with what the seasons do....
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Become A Wonder Seeker by Adding More Wonder, Magic, and Joy to Your Life with Andrea Scher
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Andrea Scher has thrilled and inspired others for nearly twenty years through her award-winning blog Superhero Journal, her international workshops, her Creative Superheroes podcast, and her joyful e-courses. In this episode, we discuss Andrea’s new book, Wonder Seeker: 52 Ways to Wake up Your Creativity and Find Your Joy Today, and how and she describes why this is the perfect time to tune into the small things that bring you joy. In this episode, Andrea and I talk about: Why Andrea was inspired to write her book to inspire others to add more wonder and magic to their...
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Three Ways to Reconnect with Intentional Comfort as Inspired by the Art of Gathering
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Intentional Comfort is the theme of this season, and in this episode I'm taking inspiration from Priya Parker's Art of Gathering, and using her 3 rules of gathering to consider new ways to reconnect with what nourishes, fortifies, and supports you. While her Ted Talk is about how to interact in groups and gatherings in new ways, I find that her rules and thoughts offer insights on how to connect with yourself, and how to determine what is meaningful to you when looking for intentional comfort. Here are the basics of what I'm covering: Don't leave it to chance This is the intentional part...
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Empaths and Highly Sensitive People with guest Signe Myers Hovem
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Signe Myers Hovem is a spiritual counselor, an energy worker, and the author of The Space in Between: An Empaths Field Guide. In this interview on Jump Start Your Joy podcast, we are talking about empaths and highly sensitive people (HSPs). If you are a highly sensitive person, or if you have a sense that you may be an empath, then I think you're going to get a lot out of this conversation (which ties so closely to this season's theme of intentional comfort on the podcast). HSPs and empaths notice the energy around people and places and things, and this can be overwhelming to them. The...
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Top 10 Most Beloved Episodes of Season Seven on Jump Start Your Joy (Finale Part One: A Countdown)
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Season 7 was all about "Intentional Comfort." This episode shares the top ten most downloaded and beloved episodes from season 7. They are: 10. Emma Loewe, author of Return to Nature 9. 5 Tips to Bring More Mindfulness to You Everyday 8. Fred LeBlanc of Cowboy Mouth on Finding a Mardi Gras State of Mind 7. Heather Hall, Author of Step Up and Stand Out: 20 Tips for Aspiring Introverted Leaders 6. Jenn Oglesbee: Intentional Comfort and Joy in the Midst of Grief 5. Stasia Savasuk: Wearing Your Word of the Year 4. 10 Things to Inspire More Passion and Joy in Your Life and Work 3....
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10 Things That Will Inspire More Passion and Joy in Your Work and Life (Best of Season 7)
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Are you looking for ways to define what brings you joy, and identify your passions? In this episode I'm sharing 2 exercises to help figure out what you're passionate about and 10 ways to bring more of that passion to your work and your life. Introspection - Using the tools above, or working with a coach, a mentor, or a journal can provide a lot of insight for you. It's also important that you take time to heal any sort of past trauma or issues that might be making it hard for you to define or get in touch with your passions. Just start moving and working on things. Lots of times people think...
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Still on Fire: Joy, Intuition, and Your Soul's Path with author Renee Linnell
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I'm really excited to have author Renee Linnell back on JSYJ!. This is her second time on the podcast, and in this brand new conversation, we're talking about her book that came out on August 16, 2022, which is titled "Still on Fire: A Memoir." Renee first came on the show when her first book, "The Burn Zone," came out. This book was was all about how she found herself in a cult several years ago. Her new book is a delightful continuation of her amazing craft of storytelling. The themes that come through in her new book are all around trusting your intuition, manifesting things in...
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Return to Nature with Emma Loewe
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Emma Loewe is the co-author of The Spirit Almanac, and she is the senior sustainability editor for mindbodygreen, and she has released the amazing book, Return to Nature: The New Science of How Nature Landscapes Restore Us. In it, she shares the different kinds of landscapes, how they effect your mental health, studies about why they improve your mental health, and things you can do to counter-act the effects of climate change on these landscapes. This discussion fits so well into this month’s theme of “finding home,” and I hope you love this conversation about the return to nature...
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Eight Great Ways to Jumpstart Your Creativity and Get Unstuck
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Creativity and joy are closely related. If you're feeling stuck, and need some inspiration on how to tap into creativity - Marion Abrams of Grounded Content and I have 8 ideas for you to jumpstart your creativity and joy. Here they are: 1. Just do the thing. Starting is the hardest part. 2. Double down on what you've been doing. Recommit to it. 3. Take yourself on an "artist's date. " (as inspired by Julia Cameron's book, ) 4. Revisit the source of your inspiration. What started you on your creative journey? Spend time with that, and DO some of it. 5. If you're creating something...
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Finding Joy and Learning to "Give From Your Overflow" During Stressful Times
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The weighty-ness of the past two years means we're all working through difficult things. Joy is as important now as ever before. Joy gives you room for "overflow" which allows you to be more present & available for the things that matter most. In this episode, I'm sharing: 1. a quote that made me rethink the role of joy in the world, and why we must keep choosing it. 2. How the current news cycle, and use of fear by many politicians and mass media keeps us stuck in feeling like we can't do anything but stay plugged in to the fire hose of fear that they create. 3. Why and how joy is important:...
info_outlineIn this episode of Jump Start Your Joy, I’m so excited to welcome Heather Hall, a transformative Leadership Coach, strategic Executive Coach, and evocative Spiritual Director whom I met through CLCC. She’s also the author of Step Up and Stand Out: 20 Tips for Aspiring Introverted Leaders. Heather helps aspiring introverted leaders, and their managers, connect with their voices and values to bring their ideas and vision to life. I hope that you enjoy this episode about stepping up and standing out for introverts with Heather Hall.
In this episode, Heather and I discuss:
- What is an introvert, extrovert, and ambivert? What goes on inside the mind of an introvert?
- How discussions around “following your passions” puts pressure on introverts to prove themselves or go for something seemingly larger than life.
- The corporate world was created by extroverts for extroverts. So, how do you navigate leadership as an introvert?
- Why Heather wrote Step Up and Stand Out and the lessons she’s learned throughout her corporate career.
- How workplace boundaries can improve your quality of life, your relationships with co-workers, and even prevent burnout.
- The power of saying “tell me more” before accepting opportunities or new commitments.
- Tips and advice for transitioning from a specialist role to a leadership-focused management role.
- How introverts give away their power at work and how to fully own your introverted skillset without people-pleasing or perfectionism.
- Networking, collaborating, and creating effective partnerships with extroverts.
- How to cultivate more joy in life.
Resources:
Heather Hall’s website: Discover with Heather
Step Up and Stand Out: 20 Tips for Aspiring Introverted Leaders by Heather Hall
Connect with Heather on LinkedIn
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