CIP040: What To Do When Introversion Gets In The Way of Creative Success

If you’ve been listening to this podcast a while, you might have heard a bit about my story - how I left my day job as a professional pixel pusher - I mean, web designer - to pursue my childhood dreams of becoming an illustrator and above all - be able to work from HOME. At the time, I thought it was just the youngest child, red headed rebel in me that provoked my decision to leave my stable 9-5 job in exchange for the free range, freelance life. But for this episode in particular I want to highlight the challenges we face when attempting to build a business or pursue a new career or go rogue like I did and work for youself. This entrepreneurial trend is only growing, and whilst we’re encouraged as introverts to pursue these lofty dreams, I want to be clear that there are some very real challenges that can and will crop up - at least they have in my experience - and more importantly - give you some tools and strategies to actually deal with them. Hopefully it will be of more use than another article on Forbes about introverts are naturals at networking - probably written by an extrovert. Links mentioned: 7 tips for networking (written by an introvert, for introverts) Should I go to this networking event? The ultimate tool for online networking Joanna Penn episode Inner Enemies of Creativity Pitching For Introverts The League of Creative Introverts