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What if the introvert in the room is the one who ends up running the company?

Lisa Cork spent years quietly fighting a voice that told her she wasn't confident enough, assertive enough, extroverted enough.

She did great work and never let herself believe it. Then she stopped trying to be someone else and built a career around exactly who she is.

In this episode of the Happy Healthy Hustle Podcast, Lisa and I get into the story behind her nickname, the broccoli lady: the protest press release she wrote as a brand-new marketing manager that went viral before viral existed, generated an estimated 150 million dollars in free publicity, and ended with her presenting cases of broccoli to Barbara Bush on the White House lawn.

But the real story isn't the broccoli. It's what happens when you do the work to understand how you're actually wired, and stop apologizing for it. Lisa turned down a prestigious New York job, immigrated to New Zealand, and built a 35-year run as a CEO, one small honest decision at a time.

If you've been waiting to feel confident before you act, this conversation flips the order.

What you'll learn:

➡️ Why doing great work means nothing until you let yourself believe it

➡️ How being an introvert became Lisa's advantage, not her ceiling

➡️ The story behind 150 million dollars in free publicity

➡️ Why understanding yourself is the work that makes everything else possible

➡️ How to say yes to the opportunity that scares you

➡️ Why you're allowed to change who you were five years ago

Quote to note: "You are amazing. Be confident in being yourself, because you are enough."

This idea, that small brave steps compound into a completely different life, is the heart of my new book, Petite Practice®: Small, Steady Steps to a Life of Momentum and Real Change.

It lands August 16.

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Question for you: Where are you masking who you are instead of using it?