EP490: Jennifer Kahnweiler - How To Thrive As An Introverted Leader

Michael Palmer: Successful introverts take that next step and they have what's called a focused conversation. So it can be back and forth. And your conversation with the salesperson, once you have a good sense of what some of the issues are, you might throw out a solution or say, well, you know, bring in something you did with another client if it's appropriate, if it's going to keep the focus on that person, not to be bragging. But it is a way, and you may agree with this, Michael, I don't know, to show your expertise. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com. The proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be a fantastic one. Our guest is a globally recognized speaker, executive coach, and author whose pioneering work in introverted leadership featured in top media and trusted by organizations like GE, NASA, and Boeing. She has helped introverts thrive in leadership roles across industries and continents. Jennifer Conweiler, welcome to the show. Michael, thank you for editing my bio. I like what you did. Yes. Summarized it well. Well, we tried to get a lot into a very little, and that's sometimes difficult to do. But we had our friends from the— we had our Aether friends in the AI world help us. Oh, thank you, Mr. and Mrs. ChatGPT or whoever. Yes, ChatGPT is amazing for taking quick things like that and or massive things and bringing them down into something very succinct. And honestly, the one-sentence paragraph doesn't do justice for the work that you've done. Thank you.

All over the place. And that's what we're going to talk a little bit about. And it's such a great topic for our audience, because often we've had guests on to talk about the difference between being introverted and— am I introverted? Am I extroverted? Am I ambivert? All that. But it's a conversation that happens a lot. And you've spent a lifetime here kind of getting to this point and building your expertise around it. So let's jump into it. And the first question I always like to ask is, how did you end up doing what you're doing? Well, that could probably take up the whole time. Yeah, we could do