I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Victoria Brouhard - and I'm excited to share that pleasure with YOU!
The full interview is here -- and I'm going to share some excerpts with you - but there's more!
There's a give-away connected to the interview!
Victoria Brouhard has generously offered to give away one free coaching session, which she normally charges $150. for! (See details below*)
Excerpts from the Interview with Victoria Brouhard:
from How Do You Maintain Your Square-Pegness (in a round-hole world)?
When I'm not connected to myself everything gets so much harder. It becomes this pull: I am one way, I am who I am - but when I'm not connected to myself that's when the outside influence starts.
from What Is Your Favorite Square-Peg Trait?
I think that it's...it's this thing where I can't tolerate bullshit!
In some ways it's a blessing and a curse - at the same time - which I'm sure a lot of people's favorite traits are.
It's like this: if there's something I don't like or I don't want to do, if it's something where I'm wondering: "What is the value of this?" - I can't - I just can't do it.
If I do it then I am kicking and screaming the whole way - and I can't hide that either!
Even when I was in 2nd grade (I don't remember this, but my mom pulls this story out) my teacher wrote something on my report card like: "There's never any question how Victoria feels about what we're working on."
I've never been good at hiding, and I can get in trouble with that. Especially when I was trying to work in corporate.
It's not always helpful to make it obvious how I feel about something. It's not the best trait to not being able to hide: "This is so lame!" or "Why are we wasting our time on this?".
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But I think that trait is what kept me from being able to just make do with a job that didn't make me miserable, but wasn't enough.
...in some ways this was my beacon...it almost pointed the way to how and where I needed to be.
And finally, there's this little Square-Peg nugget that I couldn't find a place for in the interview, but I so wanted to share:
On Myers Briggs I'm a feeling person - I'm very emotional. I'm probably an HSP {Highly Sensitive Person}.
And there's not a lot of room for that in conventional business or conventional school. Nobody talks about that. We're not really taught in ways that encourage {Square-Peg-ishness}...for better or for worse it's more about conforming.
So, come on over to read the full Victoria Brouhard Interview (she's SO worth the time!!) - and don't forget the give-away -- details below.
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*To enter the coaching-session give-away, please follow these instructions: Victoria invites folks to ...comment, in 5 sentences or less, about a project that you really want to finish but are having trouble with for whatever reason. And maybe you can mention what finishing the project will do for you and/or why you're stuck (if you know).
If it's a secret project, and therefore you don't really want to say much about it, you can maybe describe it in terms of the category of project, like "secret book project" or "secret art project" or "secret business project".
Entries are being taken until 5PM (Eastern) on Thursday, July 1. Victoria will choose the give-away winner and we will announce the lucky recipient on July 5th.
