Whether you’re an internal processor, an overthinker, or a little indecisive, it can be difficult to decide your next step. It might be a business decision, quitting your job, or a myriad of other micro decisions during the day, if you’re a more introverted type, there’s a good chance that you spend a lot of your energy just trying to work out what comes next.

**Updated episode - there was an issue with the original upload, please find the new version uploaded now! *** In this episode, I talk about 10 tips for finding motivation and energy for your business in the midst of lots of other things happening. Come and join us in the League of Extraordinary Introverts FB group to take part in the conversation!

In this episode, I'm sharing 3 easy, introvert-friendly steps to finding and connecting with your people to grow your business and find like minded friends!

In this week's episode, Katherine talks about how introverts, empaths, and highly sensitive people in business can use social media to share their work with the world, connect with new people, and do it in a way that is both energising and joyful.

As you may know by now, energy is at the foundation of just about everything I do an talk about. Being in flow is, I guess, another way of being in alignment with our own truth and our soul's desires.

But in a world that has conditioned us against listening to that innate inner knowing, finding our flow isn't always easy.

In this episode, I'm talking about

✨ What most keeps us OUT of alignment (and why that feels safe);

✨ One simple thing we can do to come back to our flow state;

✨ What happens when we commit to this every day - even when it feels hard.

Katie Vaz wrote the book The Escape Manual for Introverts and has so many insights and thoughts about going against the grain as a creative person and graphic designer to carve out her own quiet life and business in Upstate New York.

It's so refreshing to hear her talk about trusting her intuition and doing what felt good, even though she wasn't sure about it at the start.

In this episode, we also talk about:

// Following your inner voice to make decisions in your career or business that might look different from others;

// Not following the crowd or what everyone in your industry is doing - even if that feels scary;

// Creating a business that's quiet and in alignment with more introverted traits, whilst balancing the more outgoing parts of business, making a deeper one on one connection instead of going to networking meetups;

// Doing your work and putting it out into the world, so that people find you;

// Being committed to the long term game in your business, it takes time for your work to get known;

// Creating art that helps people express themselves;

// Where the idea of The Escape Manual For Introverts came from - making being an introvert playful and funny;

// Creating a book that gives funny and useful excuses for getting out of situations when people still don't really understand introverted types;

// How to promote work or be part of bigger project and managing your energy as an introvert.

When she moved back to Queensland, I thought our friendship would be one like so many others in Sydney  - for a short time, not a long time. But when I moved back to my home town of Brisbane, Claire and I got to reconnect and journey together in a whole new way. 

In this episode, we also talk about:

// Introverted types being drawn to deeply immersive 1 on 1 work;

// How there are many things - including mental and emotional pain - that contribute to our physical health and wellbeing;

// The stories we have adopted from social conditioning and past experiences and how that boxes us into what we can and cannot do;

// How we cut off from our own magnificence;

// Questions to ask to better understand the stories we're telling ourselves and how they're affecting us;

// Claire's personal embodiment practises;

// What happens when you find your own true self.

Jo ChunYan and I have been connected for many years in the little coaching community we are in - but have never had a chance to properly connect. Her work caught my attention when I saw she did the most beautiful rebrand for my old coach and podcast guest Megan Dalla-Camina and the beautiful design and packaging for my favourite jewellery brand, Love Is Your Compass.

And that was before I even knew about her work as an intuitive coach and creator of the Intuition Journal. We had so much to talk about, we could have chatted for hours (in fact we did, but we kept the good stuff for the episode!)

In this episode, we also talk about:

// Following the breadcrumbs to finding a business that is aligned instead of rushing out of the gates;

// Learning to trust and develop your intuition by discovering what feels right;

// The importance of stillness and silence as a daily practice to cultivate intuition;

// Some great tips to getting grounded and back into your body to really earth the higher energies into real life;

// Making decisions based on your intuition and how to bring intuitive work into your day-to-day life;

// The difference between following your heart and your survival system (and the chemicals in your body) and your intuition so you can make decisions from a higher place;

// Cultivating intention and intuition as a daily practice, instead of an end goal focus;

// Using intention and rituals in day-to-day business life, especially when holding space for clients;

// How to use intention and intuition as a creative person to go against the traditional ideals of 'bleeding for your art' and the tortured artist;

// The layers of uplevelling even in new business branding;

Che Johnson is a soulful Copywriter who supports big hearted female entrepreneurs to spread their message and make an impact. 

We've crossed paths over the years in the online business world and it's been amazing to watch Che's journey to discovering her true alignment and creating a business that supports her to shine as a quiet soul.

In this episode, we also talk about:

// Finding pockets of time in the day to create space and quiet;

// The strengths of being an introvert and having an online business and being able to create your own life around it;

// Learning to honour the ebbs and flows of your energy as an introvert, to tune in and feel what's going on;

// The joy of the online business world to be able to create flexibility in alignment with our strengths and what we need;

// The quiet strengths of introverts to create businesses that support others and contribute meaningfully and find success on our own terms;

// Turning away from replicating formulas and methods others have had success with because it's not aligned;

// Switching between creating content for clients and creativity in your own business;

// Constantly checking in with what we're doing and how we're doing it, to change and evolve in ourselves and our businesses;

// Needing to control what's going on in our business and energy as a way of predicting or controlling the outcome;

// The importance of creating stillness through meditation to calm your mind and your energy.

In this episode, we talk about:

//Walking the line between the 'side hustle' and deciding to go full time in business;

//Acknowledging that there's no such thing as overnight success and the work that has gone into the opportunities that she has now in her business;

//Creating a business that's aligned with your experience and expertise to make the transition from 'day job' to 'solo business' so much more natural;

//Checking in with the offerings that no longer feel aligned, and changing services to be more suitable for our needs - instead of doing something just for the money;

// Taking a leap that feels uncomfortable but feels right, and being supported by that;

// Starting out in a new business, starting with what you know;

// The unspoken of struggle (even for introverts) of working from home and feeling quite isolating;

//Finding the energy to have a full or part time job AND a side business and not to add an extra burden or more to do when current commitments can feel too much already;

// Finding your Motivated Skills Zone and spending as much time as possible in that area (not just the things we're good at but don't enjoy)

// Being super honest about having work or someone who can financially support us while we build and invest in our businesses;