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Even though around half of any population identify as introverts, this is one aspect of diversity and inclusion that is often overlooked. Every Thursday join flourishing introvert and TEDx speaker Joanna Rawbone MSc, as she explores the costly challenges that introverts face on a regular basis. With her typically pragmatic approach, Joanna's show includes a mix of 10-minute topics, interviews with inspirational introverts and episodes on how to get the best from introverts. If you are an introvert who is ready to begin or continue flourishing, a manager looking to access the potential of the introverts in your team or the loved one of an introvert wanting to understand how to improve your relationship, this is the podcast you've been waiting for.

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October 29, 2026Episode 34815 min

Ep 348 The Things We Make Ourselves Earn

I have always had a strong work ethic, believing that reward comes from effort and that nobody owes me anything. Yet I have been questioning whether that belief has led me to make myself earn things that perhaps should not be conditional at all, including love, rest and appreciation. The uncomfortable part is recognising who has been doing the assessing. Have I been holding myself to standards of contribution, perfection and compliance, whilst conveniently blaming others for the judgement? As we quieter ones know, becoming braver often means looking at ourselves honestly, without allowing self judgement to have the final word. Perhaps the next adventure is discovering who we are when we stop trying to earn our worth. Key Points 📌 Love without conditions 📌 Rest without guilt 📌 Appreciation without earning #FlourishingIntroverts #Introverts #SelfLove 🎧 Tune-in here for the full episode - https://youtu.be/hFiBtaDgGhs or here: https://sites.libsyn.com/231761/ep-348-the-things-we-make-ourselves-earn 🔗 Resources Visit https://hub.flourishingintroverts.com/resourcesp for tools and resources mentioned during the podcast. CREDITS: Brought to you by - ‪ Flourishing Introverts Produced by - ‪‪ Intntnlty Copyright: Flourishing Introverts

October 22, 2026Episode 34710 min

Ep 347 What You Really Really Want

For those of a certain age, the title of this episode may have a familiar tune running through your head. But how comfortable are we introverts with admitting what we really, really want? Somewhere along the line, many of us learnt that wanting was selfish, so we became rather adept at being reasonable, keeping the peace and hoping others would somehow work out what we needed. I have been reminded recently that this can leave emotions bubbling away until they erupt, usually when we would much rather avoid a difficult conversation. The real work is learning to distinguish needs from wants, notice when something is not sitting right, and find the courage to speak up calmly and clearly. Our personal agency begins when we recognise that we have both the right and the responsibility to ask. Key Points 📌 Distinguishing wants from needs 📌 Speaking before emotions erupt 📌 Taking responsibility through agency #FlourishingIntroverts #Introverts #PersonalAgency 🎧 Tune-in here for the full episode - https://youtu.be/0LfjLfe8I_M or here: https://sites.libsyn.com/231761/ep-347-what-you-really-really-want 🔗 Resources Visit https://hub.flourishingintroverts.com/resourcesp for tools and resources mentioned during the podcast. CREDITS: Brought to you by - ‪ Flourishing Introverts Produced by - ‪‪ Intntnlty Copyright: Flourishing Introverts

October 15, 2026Episode 34611 min

Ep 346 The Rules We Never Agreed To

I was quite the rebel in my younger years, although my good girl tendencies had a habit of keeping that wild child trussed up in her Sunday best. It took me time to recognise how many unwritten rules I had accepted, from believing I had to be entertaining to thinking that challenging authority meant being a fast track to dismissal. Some of those beliefs were mine to question. Others were rules I had helped pass on to others, even when part of me knew better. These days, I see beliefs as working assumptions that need examining against the evidence. We do not have to keep obeying rules simply because someone else decided they were the done thing. Key Points 🔑 The rules we inherit 🔑 Beliefs are tools, not truths 🔑 Choosing which rules to observe #FlourishingIntroverts #Introverts #EthicalRebel #Rulebreaker 🎧 Tune-in here for the full episode - or here: 🔗 Resources Visit https://hub.flourishingintroverts.com/resourcesp for tools and resources mentioned during the podcast. CREDITS: Brought to you by - ‪ Flourishing Introverts Produced by - ‪‪ Intntnlty Copyright: Flourishing Introverts

October 8, 2026Episode 34510 min

Ep 345 The Receipts We Hoard

I know I have a drawer full of mental receipts, and I suspect I am not alone. They are the bits of evidence we keep to remind ourselves of what we did or did not do, particularly when the experience has acquired a meaning involving regret, shame or embarrassment. But memories are reconstructed and embellished, and the meaning we make of what happens to us may not accurately reflect the reality of the situation. So rather than deciding that we need to chuck everything out without so much as a backwards glance, I am exploring what happens when we sort by the value those receipts add. My trusty old friend Transactional Analysis has something useful to offer here, particularly the Adult ego state, where we can sift without comparison, attachment to outcome and quite so much emotion. Asking how many receipts we have in itself is the wrong question because we what need to ask is what they are costing us to keep. Key Points 🔑 Question the meaning 🔑 Sort by value 🔑 Notice what you hoard #FlourishingIntroverts #Introverts #LifeScripts 🎧 Tune-in here for the full episode - or here: 🔗 Resources Read The Flourishing Nudge article The Scripts Behind The Receipts , right here . Read Beyond The Nudge article When Our Script Needs Rewriting , right here. Add this episode to your YouTube list, right here. Listen to this episode on your favorite Podcast app, or right here. Visit https://hub.flourishingintroverts.com/resourcesp for tools and resources mentioned during the podcast. CREDITS: Brought to you by - ‪ Flourishing Introverts Produced by - ‪‪ Intntnlty Copyright: Flourishing Introverts

October 1, 20269 min

Knowing Yourself Is Only the Beginning | Becoming Braver Adventure

Knowing myself has been a lifelong project, and I suspect it will remain one because I'm still discovering things about me that I thought I already knew. But knowing why I do something doesn't automatically mean I am going to do anything differently. Self-awareness is useful information, but it isn't the destination; what I do with that information is where the interesting bit begins. For me, that increasingly means experimentation: trying something, paying attention to what happens and deciding what the evidence is telling me. Because there is a subtle difference between having insight and using insight. So, what do you know about yourself that you have been using to understand your behaviour, and what might happen if you used that same knowledge to experiment with changing one small thing? Key points 📌 Self-awareness isn't the destination 📌 Insight needs experimenting 📌 Small experiments without attachment #FlourishingIntroverts #BecomingBraver #BraverIntroverts Watch or listen to this Bonus Flourishing Byte as you get ready for the Becoming Braver Adventure. And if you haven't signed up yet, the doors close on 3 October. Secure your FREE place now. Sign-up for the 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 here: https://becoming.flourishingintroverts.com/bba2026 . . . #FlourishingIntroverts #BecomingBraver #Introverts --- 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿 and 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 are copyright of Flourishing Introverts 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿 : Entirely human written and designed content without any AI assistance.

October 1, 2026Episode 34413 min

Ep 344 The Permission We Keep Waiting For

This feels like a fitting way to bring season 29 to a close because, when I look back over 344 episodes, I can see that the permission I was waiting for was not always as obvious as I thought. Years ago, I had the idea to start a podcast, but my limiting beliefs had me dawdle and doubt myself until someone who knew about podcasts simply said, "Sounds like a great idea to me!" And there it was, the permission I did not know I had been waiting for. But reflecting on those 29 seasons has helped me realise that my permission seeking had quietly morphed from asking if it was OK for me to do something into needing permission to be something, in my case, to be fully myself. Perhaps the bigger question is what happens when someone else's permission carries more weight than our own, and what it takes to notice that we have been waiting for it. Key points 📌 From doing to being 📌 When permission becomes toxic 📌 My permission comes first #FlourishingIntroverts #Introverts #PermissionToBe 🎧 Tune-in here for the full episode: https://sites.libsyn.com/231761/ep-344-the-permission-we-keep-waiting-for 🔗 Resources Visit https://hub.flourishingintroverts.com/resourcesp for tools and resources mentioned during the podcast. CREDITS: Brought to you by - ‪ Flourishing Introverts Produced by - ‪‪ Intntnlty Copyright: Flourishing Introverts

September 27, 20267 min

Successful And Still Frustrated? | Becoming Braver

Have you ever caught yourself saying, "Well, I can't grumble, I'm doing alright really", whilst another part of you is quietly thinking, "Are you sure?" Sometimes everything on the outside suggests we are doing just fine. We have the career, the position, the experience. We have worked hard and perhaps become rather good at coping, adapting and getting on with it. But what if that niggling frustration is trying to tell us something? What have you achieved that genuinely matters to you? Where have you become so good at getting on with it that you have stopped asking whether this is still how you want to live and work? Perhaps frustration is worth listening to rather than telling ourselves to be grateful and carry on. Key points 📌 Success means different things to different people 📌 Frustration may be telling us something 📌 What matters to you now? Watch or listen to this Bonus Flourishing Byte as you get ready for the Becoming Braver Adventure . And if you haven't signed up yet, the doors close on 3 October . Secure your FREE place now. Sign-up for the 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 here: https://becoming.flourishingintroverts.com/bba2026 . . . #FlourishingIntroverts #BecomingBraver #Introverts --- 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿 and 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 are copyright of Flourishing Introverts 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗿 : Entirely human written and designed content without any AI assistance.

September 24, 2026Episode 34312 min

Ep 343 What Is Mine to Change

We introverts do not need fixing, but that does not mean there is no room for growth, development and becoming braver. I have been thinking about what actually needs to change, what I want to change, and what is within my control or influence to change, because those are not necessarily the same thing. There is also a line of sight from our own behaviour through culture and into wider systems, and we have more influence than we may realise. The trick is knowing when something really is ours to change, and when we have simply decided it is our job to sort it out. And yes, there is a difference. Key points 🔑 Know what is yours 🔑 Notice your influence 🔑 Choose your changes #FlourishingIntroverts #Introverts #PersonalAgency 🎧 Tune-in here for the full episode: https://sites.libsyn.com/231761/ep-343-what-is-mine-to-change 🔗 Resources Visit https://hub.flourishingintroverts.com/resourcesp for tools and resources mentioned during the podcast. CREDITS: Brought to you by - ‪ Flourishing Introverts Produced by - ‪‪ Intntnlty Copyright: Flourishing Introverts

September 22, 202614 min

Becoming Braver is Messy - But Worth It

What if becoming braver isn't about finally reaching a point where we can say, "Right, that's bravery sorted"? I'm still becoming braver myself, still getting the collywobbles, and still having to choose bravery when fear would make staying put so much easier. My messy journey has made me curious about the complexity of the bravery continuum, and about what sits between recklessness and cowardice. Perhaps becoming braver is about getting curious enough to notice what is holding us back, then deciding what matters enough to inspire us to take the next step. And perhaps that is why it is an adventure rather than a challenge. Key points Becoming braver is messy Get brave curious Take the next step For more info visit: https://becoming.flourishingintroverts.com/bba2026 #FlourishingIntroverts #BecomingBraver #BraverIntroverts

September 21, 20266 min

What Is Frustration Telling You? | Becoming Braver Bonus

Have you ever caught yourself sighing with frustration, accompanied by an eye-roll, and wondered what on earth that was about? Sometimes there is no single catastrophe to point at. Just years of adapting, being reasonable, giving someone else the benefit of the doubt, pushing through and thinking probably not worth making a fuss about . But what if our frustrations are worth exploring rather than guiltily fixing on the quiet? What have you been putting up with, where have you been holding yourself back, and what have you become so accustomed to that you no longer question it? Perhaps that little sigh contains rather more information than we give it credit for. Key points Frustration contains information What are you putting up with? Small beginnings matter Visit https://becoming.flourishingintroverts.com/bba2026/ to find out more about the Becoming Braver Adventure #FlourishingIntroverts #BecomingBraver #BraverIntroverts

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