BRX Pro Tip: Thriving as an Introvert Entrepreneur
Stone Payton: Welcome back to Business RadioX Pro Tips. Lee Kantor and Stone Payton here with you. Lee, this topic is definitely for you in your wheelhouse, a product of your life experience, but talk a little bit about thriving as an introverted entrepreneur.
Lee Kantor: Yeah, this is one of those things where you’re an introvert and then you’re thrust upon, hey, I got my own business here. Maybe I was just laid off, and all of a sudden now I’m in the mix here, and I got to, you know, find my own clients. I have to go out into the world and do a lot of the things that I’m not comfortable doing. I don’t like to do public speaking. I don’t like to schmooze and network. So, I was forced to kind of go out into the world and lean on my strengths as an introvert and drum up business that way.
Lee Kantor: So, here are some of the things that I’ve done to leverage my introvert strengths. So, some of my introverted people strengths are my listening skills, and my ability to connect dots in unique ways, and engage and build relationships with people who don’t know each other and be that kind of person who helps other people find hidden gems and things like that.
Lee Kantor: So, those were my superpowers, and the way that I kind of leveraged them at the beginning is I would join networking groups and do things like that, which I did not like and did not look forward to. So, I said, how can I use these active listening skills, the ability to ask good questions, the ability to find hidden gems in the business world, how can I leverage that and grow my business?
Lee Kantor: So, that’s where, obviously, Business RadioX came along. I figured out a way to lean on those superpowers. And that’s what I found that helps a lot of introverts, if they want to go to market in their local community as an introvert and don’t like doing those traditional networking things, being a Business RadioX Studio partner can be a good fit for introverts because we spend our time looking for interesting guests. That’s how we go to networking meetings. We’re not trying to sell anybody anything. We’re just saying, “Hey, do you know anybody that’s doing interesting work? We’d love to interview them.”
Lee Kantor: Then, the activity that we’re doing on an ongoing basis is interviewing people, which is active listening and asking good questions. And when we do that, we find those people who are doing unique work, and then we can help connect them with other people who are doing unique work. And we can explore ways to work together down the road.
Lee Kantor: So, all the things that introverts are good at, Business RadioX requires you to be good at that as well. And for introverts, that means they can go about their day doing all the things that they’re good at and not really have to do a lot of the things that give them stress or give them anxiety. So, that’s why introverts really thrive in the Business RadioX ecosystem.
