114. The Quiet Achiever: How Introverts Can Be Visible Without Pretending to Be Extroverts (Tim Yeo)

In this inspiring episode of The Quiet Warrior Podcast, I sit down with Tim Yeo, author of The Quiet Achiever, coach, and design leader with nearly two decades of experience in the tech industry. Tim has helped hundreds of quiet achievers step into their power—without pretending to be extroverts.

We talk about the challenges introverts face in workplaces dominated by louder personalities, and how separating your identity from your skills can unlock your confidence. Tim shares practical strategies—from mastering public speaking and handling difficult conversations to using short videos as a powerful visibility tool—that allow quiet achievers to be recognized for their work, not overshadowed.

This is a must-listen for anyone who has ever felt overlooked despite working hard, delivering results, and striving to make an impact while staying true to their quiet nature.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why slowing down your speech can boost confidence and clarity.
• How to reframe visibility so it’s about your work, not your ego.
• The fight, flight, or freeze response in meetings—and how to manage it.
  The game-changing habit of recording short videos to amplify your influence.
• Why tiny habits, practiced consistently, are the secret to introvert success.
• How The Quiet Achiever book can help you build skills without losing authenticity.
  
  

About Tim Yeo

Tim Yeo is the author of The Quiet Achiever: Tiny Habits to Have Impact at Work Without Pretending to Be an Extrovert. With 20 years of experience as a designer and leader in the tech industry, he has dedicated his career to empowering quiet achievers to succeed on their own terms. His coaching covers essential professional skills, from networking and small talk to facilitating workshops and succeeding in interviews.

Find Tim online:

LinkedIn @timyeo, YouTube @thequietachievr, Threads @thequietachievr
thequietachievr.com
https://www.thequietachievr.com/book

What next:

• Visit serenalow.com.au for the solution to your visibility struggle.
• Give The Quiet Warrior Podcast a rating and review to help us reach more introverts and quiet achievers around the world.

This episode was edited by Aura House Productions

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:03

Hello and welcome. Today's guest on the Quiet Warrior Podcast is Tim Yo. Tim is dedicated to empowering quiet achievers to make a big impact at work without pretending to be extroverts. With nearly 20 years of experience as a designer and leader in the tech industry, Tim has navigated environments dominated by big personalities with strong opinions and loud voices, gaining deep insight into the unique challenges and strengths of quiet achievers. Since 2020, Tim has successfully coached hundreds of quiet achievers, helping them excel in various professional settings. His expertise includes mastering public speaking, handling difficult conversations, speaking up and performing in meetings, facilitating workshops, increasing your visibility in your organization, saying no politely, engaging in small talk without awkward silences, succeeding in interviews, and networking effectively online and in real life. Welcome Tim to the Quiet Warrior Podcast.

SPEAKER_03 1:07

Serena Lowe, thank you so much for this opportunity. I'm so happy to be here. I'm so sad that it took us so long to actually meet because I've been doing this for doing this around Quiet Achievers and the book for around five, six years. I cannot believe that you've been doing it for so much longer and I have not met you yet. So I'm so happy that I met you last month and that we're doing this podcast now.

SPEAKER_02 1:34

Thank you. Well, to to give you any you know comfort or regarding what you just said, my exploration into the introvert side of things only started in the last couple of years. So maybe maybe I've been in this less than you have. And maybe it's also about being a visible introvert. Maybe I'm not as visible as I would like to be yet, and that's why we didn't discover me earlier. So that's a good one to talk about.

SPEAKER_03 2:00

I'll just blame social media and the algorithm. For some reason, you haven't shown up. I also love the fact that um uh you and I we are both originally from Singapore, and I love the sound of a fellow Singaporean's accent, number one. And I also love that two of us were both in Australia, different parts of Australia, but we have spent the later part of our lives mostly in Australia, and I love that we have these two things in common.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

Yes, you are my first Singaporean guest, too.

SPEAKER_03 2:33

No way, really.

SPEAKER_02 2:34

Yes, yes, so feel free to unleash the Singaporean accent and separate.

SPEAKER_03 2:40

Uh it's funny, but uh when I first moved to Australia, I came, and Singapore, uh, for those who have not been is a cosmopolitan city. So we have people from all around the world. Um, but when I first came to Australia, I found many people here didn't understand what I was saying, even though Singapore in Singapore English is our first language. And when I first came here, one of the things that I tried to do was to change my accent to sound more like the people here in Australia. It sounded very weird when I said it, and it didn't really help their comprehension. But what I did find was if all I had to do was to simply speak slower, take a little bit more time and to enocuate and to say the words in a slow way. Don't have to change the way that I sound or the way that I say it, but simply just speaking slower. Uh, it actually helped a lot of people understand me clearer. Um, and it was so much better than trying to fake an accent that wasn't mine. It felt it certainly felt a lot more authentic. So, and the same thing that I do with public speaking these days, when I find that when I do speak slower, it gives my brain time to actually catch up with the speed of the words that are actually leaving my mouth. So, for anyone that's listening, if uh you're in a similar situation where in a foreign country and people don't quite under seem to understand you, even though you you speak their same language, speaking slower just really helps. Is that one simple thing that you can do today?

SPEAKER_02 4:18

That is such a good tip to start off our conversation with. I agree with you. I think when I was in Singapore, I spoke a lot faster. And so I've become very used to speaking at that rapid speed. But then when I slow down, I actually have a chance to think about what I'm saying. And it also gives me more confidence and more conviction. Because there's something about being on the receiving end of when someone speaks very slowly, very deliberately, it feels like it carries more weight.

SPEAKER_03 4:52

Yeah, making sounds about that as well, I think.

SPEAKER_02 4:55

And then allowing those pauses in between. I find that particularly helpful because as an introvert, I process I take a long time to process my thoughts, right? I think slowly and then I speak slowly. So I need that extra time. So if somebody's talking really fast at me, I can't quite keep up. Then I'll go into overwhelm. So in my introvert community as well, I remind us, you know, our my fellow introverts to take the time. It's okay if they don't speak immediately, you know, allow those six seconds or whatever time they need to process, to think about what they really want to say, and then when they're ready, they say it and it has much more impact.

Redefining Leadership For Quiet People

SPEAKER_03 5:38

Yeah, I totally agree. Um, I think somehow, even though you and I have not met, um, we've gone through this journey ourselves of really understanding who we are, understanding that a lot of the things that we need to do are simply skills. And for a long time, when I think back to when I started my career, um, there was always this feeling inside me that I wanted to be a leader. I work in design, I spent 20 years in design as a designer, as a design leader. And over that time, I always had this feeling that I wanted to make the world the way that I see it. And I think it really comes back from the time when I was back in childhood when my happy place is really just in my own head or just playing on my own. I could play make-believe. I remember uh on the floor of my grandmother's home on the carpeted floor, I'll put out this massive map, like this paper map, uh, to play make-believe. Do you remember uh during my childhood they had this little green army man um that you can put around? I used to have a big blue bucket, like a tub full of these army men and toys, and and and I would lay them out in very specific positions, and then I'll start making up stories because this was my happy place. And I think in some ways that transformed to adulthood and my career, where in the work that I did in design, I wanted to craft and make the world and the work that I do the way that I wanted. And uh that worked when I was doing a lot of that work on my own. But as I found as I got higher up the corporate ladder, more and more the work was less and less about pushing pixels and more and more about interacting with people. And I think that's one of the first times when a lot of that friction and tension started to happen, that self-doubt, that imposter syndrome. Am I good enough? Because when I looked around at the people that are around me, they did the leaders around me, they didn't look like me. They were loud, they were extroverted. And those that was a picture of what a leader looked like. And for a long time I thought, you know what, if I needed, if I wanted to be a leader, that's who I needed to be. And so I pretended, and it worked. Uh, but I was exhausted because I was always trying to be somebody that was not. So then I thought maybe I'm not good enough, maybe I should try something else. But that same feeling just carried on sticking there that you know I didn't feel I was maybe some part of me feels stubborn, refusing to give up. But I felt like there has to be a different way. Maybe there's a different path to leadership that didn't need me to pretend to be like other people. And that was really um the point where I realized, you know what, who I am, my identity, whether I'm quieter in nature, that's really separate from all the things that I'm trying to do, which are skills. Whether it's skills like in public speaking, handling difficult conversations, whether it's how to introduce yourself at a networking event in a room full of people that you don't know. All these things are skills. Sure, if you're extroverted in nature and you're louder by nature, these things probably come a lot more naturally to you because these are things that give you energy. So naturally, you do these things more often, which means you've got more practice. So for me, it's not really that I can't do it because I'm an introvert or because I'm quiet in nature. It is simply I do not have as much practice as other people because these activities may take energy away from me. So it's a numbers game, right? And in a numbers game, the more you practice, the better you get. Um, and it was really that point when I separated my identity from the skills that I'm trying to learn and to get better at so that I can do the work that I want to do. It was really when I saw that separation. Then a lot of those limiting beliefs, like I am quiet, therefore I cannot be a leader. That's when a lot of those things disappear. Because then, as you know, a lot of quiet people, they love prepping, they love preparing, they are really good at diligently practicing. If it means it makes showing up and doing difficult things easier. When I started practicing, I realized, no, I don't have to do things everything like how other people do it. I can do it uh my own way. And so then I collected all of these skills and I put it into the book and to my courses, and I do it in my coaching. And that's really how, that's really how the quiet achiever and those tiny habits came about.

The Visibility Dilemma And Reframing

SPEAKER_02 10:34

I just love that title so much because I think all of us as introverts see ourselves as quiet achievers. And that also has a certain connotation. It's that person in the background that's quietly doing their thing, very good at what they do, keep their head down, do the work, you know, don't cause any faster any trouble, but don't don't draw any attention to themselves. But then at the same time, the the flip side of that is that they also don't get noticed, don't get as much recognition as they deserve. And so when it comes to promotion time or you know, big projects time, the opportunity goes to somebody else who is more visible. So talk to us about you know how that's an introvert to become visible because one of the struggles I hear from a lot of fellow introverts is this visibility dilemma. I know I need to put myself out there, but I like my privacy and I don't really want people looking at me, judging me, scrutinizing me. So there is an internal conflict. How do you address that?

Fight, Flight, Freeze And Preparation

SPEAKER_03 11:35

There's this saying if a tree falls in a forest and nobody hears it, does it make a sound? Um if an introvert does good work but nobody knows about it, does that work exist? I think if your job primarily requires only you um to actually produce the work and you're producing it for your own sake, and you don't really have to work with anybody else, then in many ways you're in control of your own destiny and the work that you do. So maybe you don't need to practice some of these people, these people skills as much as other people. In where I work in tech, I don't possess all the skills that I have uh that I need to actually produce the work that I want to do. I have to work with engineers, product managers, people in marketing, sales, everyone else within the company. And it's really in this environment that I have to start actually working with other people to help them understand the value that I bring. And so it's an assumption that you have to be visible to be successful. Maybe you have to have customers, but at the same time, if other people who don't work in your craft need to recognize that the work that you do is good, then it's simply a nature of the work that you do that requires you to be more visible. The reason why I struggled with being a lot more visible was in the beginning of my career, I believed that if you build it, it will come. People will come. As long as you build something good, customers will naturally find you and and and there'll be a great deal. They'll be able to see all the all of your wisdom, all of the love and sweat and tears that you put into your hard work. But that's not true, because the person that knows the most about what you do, your craft is you. It's you. That's why they engage you, the expert in your craft. But everybody else may know a little bit, but they may not know as much. So being able to articulate your ideas clearly, being able to even stand up and show that you're you're there, that you exist, the work that you do exists. In design, there's a saying, sometimes the best designs are actually the ones that are invisible because it requires no effort. It's almost as if this is the way that you should have always been. A good designer's work is almost invisible. And that's such a challenge because if it's so invisible, how do you actually articulate this is what Tim did? This is this amazing work that Tim did. If it's so good that people even don't actually notice it. Um, the challenge I've I hear more often with quiet achievers is that they don't like the spotlight of other people's attention on them. It feels like you're a deer in headlights if you're in the US. In Australia, it feels like you're a kangaroo in headlights, right? Where everyone's staring at you, and what they don't realize is that it actually triggers a flight or flight, uh fight response. And this is biologically coded into our genes. It's whenever people are looking at you, you have two choices. You either run away, and that is why you either run away or you actually stand up and actually protect yourself. And that is a reason why, for a lot of people, when they're put on the spot, there's that feeling as if you have blood draining from your face, and that's you're not imagining that that's actually happening because in your flight or fight response, your blood is actually prioritized to go into your limbs to either run away or to fight and protect yourself, and that's why you have that blood draining feeling from your face. And then in those moments, then you have a choice to make. It's like, what do I do? The thing is, that feeling never really goes away for me because this is how I am. The only difference is over time in doing the work that I do, I know that this feeling will come. It's not a surprise anymore. I know it's gonna come, right? And I can prepare for it. I know it's coming, I'm not gonna feel this way, and then you can prepare. You can prepare about talking about your work, you can prepare about the things that you want to say, you can understand who's what people's interests are when you're talking about your work. And all these things you can do beforehand, and you can even practice talking about your work and the value that you bring. So just because you feel this way, they don't like the attention of the other people on you, doesn't mean that you shouldn't talk about your work because your work that you do and the visibility that you get is not about you. A way to shift that spotlight away from you is to put the spotlight on the work. Your work that you do is an inanimate object, it is not alive. If you don't put a voice to your work, it can't speak up for itself. And I find this small little reframing that you are speaking up on behalf of your work, it's not about you and how great you are, it's but how great the work is and the improvement it's gonna have on people's lives. If you can do that, you can make that shift. Now, oftentimes it feels a lot easier. It feels as if you are standing up on behalf of your work. And through that process, people get to see you, they get to see the labels of your effort, and they get to hear about all the wonderful things of how you do what you do that they may not have known about.

SPEAKER_02 17:26

I picked up a few things there. When you said the biological response, fight and flight, I'm thinking there's one additional one that some of us face, and that's the freeze response. When we stand there and we freeze, the mind goes blank, you know, prepared words that just go, they just disappear. You stand there for what you know feels like a very long time, but maybe it was just five seconds. And I think that's a perfectly valid response. When we perceive something that seems like a threat, right? And that's because we have a certain assumption about the audience or about what what our role is there. Maybe we have a fit of imposter syndrome that we doubt ourselves in that moment. But I love what you said about reframing that to not about me, it's about the message, not about me, it's about the work. Not about me, it's about the potential impact and benefit to these people who are listening because they can take something away from today, you know, even one little thing, and they go away and do something with it, that could change their lives. And so it becomes exciting. And in that case, when I look at it, when I feel I immediately feel different because it's no longer the pressure is no longer on me. I think it's the performance anxiety that makes us freeze and have all these other, you know, responses as well that sort of undermine actually what's happening in the moment. So there are many different ways the system, the body can respond. And perhaps these are just indications of they're symptoms of aliveness. This is what it feels to be alive, to be able to experience this whole range of emotions, including the performance anxiety. But then being able to make it mean a different thing.

Permission To Speak Up In Meetings

The Silver Bullet: Short Async Videos

SPEAKER_03 19:09

If you experience this, this freezing uh behavior, like all of a sudden, you know, that last thought that you had in the head, poof, that's gone. Um, you don't know what to say. Um, firstly, it's more common than you think. It's sometimes in a lot of conversations I have, it happens in high-stakes meetings, very important meetings. That could be a meeting with your boss, your boss's boss's boss. It could be at an interview for a job they really want. It could be on a stage. Recently, I started coaching a person who was giving a conference talk for the first time, and they were so worried that they would freeze in the moment and be on stage where everyone's looking at them and they don't know what to say. So there are a couple of things here you can try. Uh, number one, if let's say you're in a meeting, you can repeat that question out loud again. Um, the the key strategy here is to buy yourself time. Uh, a couple of tactics you can try is to ask a person to repeat the question again. If you heard the question, you can repeat the question again out loud in your own voice. Like, for example, hmm, where what do you think we should eat for lunch? Should we have fried rice or should we have noodles? So when you ask the question out loud again, it sounds as if you are asking the question to yourself again in your own head, and then you can answer the question after. But then both these tactics, for example, they buy yourself time so that you can in the moment uh give you a bit more time to process your thinking. Like you said earlier, we process information a little bit differently from other people, and that's all it is. On a work context, longer term, something that you can try is to actually build a deeper relationship with the people that you work with. Chances are within the work that you do, the people that you interact with the most, that you're in meetings with the most, are probably the same set of people. 60, 70, 80% of the time, most of the time, it's with the same group of people. One of the reasons why people freeze is because they feel like they don't want to say something that is not true, that might make a fool of themselves. But at the same time, when you think about it, when in your personal life, if you're with the people that you're closest with, people who you can tell your deepest, darkest secrets. In those scenarios, I found in my own experience, in the experience of coaching other people, they tend to freeze less because these are people that they are comfortable with, that they know well enough to be able to open up. And even if they make a mistake, that's okay because they know. Them. And I find that if you do that with your work colleagues and you closely examine the people that you tend to freeze in front of. And sometimes it is people who are much more senior than you in the organization. If you can make small efforts to almost make them feel, maybe not necessarily as friends, but to get to know them better, to know what their interests are. I find it will allow you to reach a place where you can speak more freely, where you feel like it's a lot safer for you to say something, even if you're not completely sure if it's the right thing or not. One of the most powerful tactics I can offer you, and I talk about it in the book as well, is to give yourself permission and license to speak up. So the scenario is somebody asks you a question, you need a bit more time. Your ideas are not fully thought out yet. But this is your moment to speak up. Otherwise, you lose that chance to speak in a meeting. So, in those scenarios, a lot of times what choir achievers do is they don't say anything, they write down what they are thinking about because they need a bit more time. After the meeting, they will send an email, they will send a message. But the problem is that the decision has already been made. The bus has already left the depot. And that moment has passed and they can't change and influence that decision anymore. If you find yourself in this moment, you can always try and do this. You give yourself permission and license to speak up. And it might sound something like this. You know, what I have so far is not fully formed yet, but this is what I have right now. Tell me what you think. You can also say, look, you probably know this already, but I'll just say what I'm thinking so that we're all on the same page. You know, this little preamble, this thing that you say before you say the thing, it's what I mean by giving yourself permission, giving yourself license to speak up. When you say that, you kind of already tell people, look, what I'm about to say is not perfect. It's not, hopefully, it's going to be useful. Uh, it's important for me to contribute so that I can be valuable to the people that are here with me in that meeting. And you've made it okay to say that, you know, what's you're about to say is not perfect. I find that if you just say this thing, this preamble, this permission, this license to speak up, and then you say the thing, it lowers the stakes, it makes it feel a lot more okay to not have all the answers. And you are being a team player because people invited you to the meeting for a reason. And if you don't speak up, up until today, people still can't read other people's minds yet. So if you don't speak up, you know, maybe one day they might stop inviting you to the meetings because maybe they don't think you have anything to contribute, or maybe they think you are disengaged, which are all not true. Because while you may appear very quiet on the outside, a lot of the people who are like us, they tend to have very loud minds. And uh the trick here is to learn some of these tiny habits to help you speak up and to be heard.

SPEAKER_02 25:19

Beautiful. I like that you mentioned safety a couple of times. I think that's one of the key factors that affects whether the quiet achiever chooses to speak up or not. And that's how safe they feel. So I see that in two ways. One is that it's a systemic safety, you know, whether the environment itself is safe for them to speak up. And that depends very much on you know the group dynamics, you know, who's in charge of the conversation, how sensitive the facilitator is to catering for all kinds of different communication preferences. But also there's the other element of self-leadership for the quiet achiever, and that is to create their own sense of safety. So what you've just suggested, that preamble, that way of framing, that way of saying this is just the first draft, you know, this is what I have, this is what I'm thinking. That permission works both ways. It gives yourself permission to speak up, it gives other people who are listening permission to be okay with first drafts, with you know, the thing that is not yet edited, the thing that's not that polished, but this is how I'm thinking. I'm giving you a window into my world, um, some insight. And maybe that insight could land much more impactfully than we think because we're usually overthinking and we think, oh, you know, if it's not good enough, it's not perfect yet, I shouldn't say it. I should wait till I've done all my research, I should go interview a few more people, I should write this up properly into a proper proposal, and then I will submit it. But as you pointed out, it's important to start interjecting, contributing, saying, articulating the thing that you're thinking about, even if it's still raw format.

Practice Past The Awkward Stage

SPEAKER_03 26:57

Yeah. Even in this day and age, with uh so many advances in technology, the weird thing is that a lot of the ways that work gets done is still in a very old-fashioned um thing that people use, which is called meetings, right? Meetings is where work gets done. And it's unfortunate, but it's still a reality of how I see a lot of how work actually gets done and how ideas get hurt. Um people used to ask me, Tim, do you have, is that like one magic skill, one magic skill that I just have to do this one skill and like a silver bullet, and it will miraculously change and help me have all the impact that I want to have. So and before, I used to say, no, I don't have my work is all about small, tiny habits done well, accumulated over time. But what I've come to realize is that I do have a silver bullet, I do have one magic skill that if you do it, it has a disproportionate amount of impact. Like you do this one out of all the tiny habits, if you do this just one, you have a lot of impact. And it has to do with visibility. And this habit is this. If you want to be more visible, to be more heard, to be more seen in the work that you do, all you have to do is to start recording short videos of yourself. That's it. In the work that we do, so much of the work we do happens in meetings, but then people don't realize meetings have a lot of teen dynamics that you have to deal with. Sometimes people are naturally, they think out loud, they actually speak in order to think, and they somehow dominate the floor and they hog the microphone. That people who are quieter in nature like you, they don't have as much chance to speak up. There's so many things that you have to deal with in group dynamics. That's got nothing less to do with the work itself and the things that you want to say. What I found is that if you start working asynchronously, for example, in design, if you have created a piece of work, if you record a short video, you could record a short video of yourself talking about the work and helping people understand your thinking process and everything that went into the details of your work. If you do that and then you can send it to people, whether it's over an email or whether it's a Slack message or an instant message, then other people can actually watch it in their own time. A lot of people work in multinationals where people are in different parts of the world in different time zones by doing this one tiny habit, recording short videos of itself. You actually have, you actually let people watch and understand and consume your work when they are at their best. They don't have to wake up at 2 a.m. to dial into a Zoom call to have that synchronous meeting. They can simply watch your video at 9 a.m. after they drop the kids off at school and having their morning coffee, and they are in the best state to actually consume your work and to listen. I found this one skill, being able to do that, has a disproportionate amount of effect on the impact that you can have in your organization. The challenge is, even though this is such a powerful habit that I found in my experience as also in coaching other quiet achievers, a lot of people still don't do it. They're like, uh, yeah, okay, yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I'll go do it one day. But they never do it. Because they find watching back those videos of themselves saying, um, uh, or you know, their voices sound a lot more high-pitched than they thought it would. It's just very awkward. And then they try it once or twice and they stop. But I reassure you, at some point, if you do this long enough and you practice, you are going to get better. It's also a very good way to practice public speaking because you do watch uh playback of yourself. Um, you see this a lot in sports when people watch replays of their games to understand how to improve their own performance. And it's the very same idea here: re-watching short videos of yourself can help you up your game in public speaking. And if you do this and your job videos are short enough and you send to people, you no one has no one actually interrupts you. It's a monologue. You get all the time to produce your very best take before you send it, and nobody will ever see your bad takes. And people get to hear your voice and see your work at a time that suits them, and you don't have to be in a meeting to make any of this happen.

SPEAKER_02 32:03

I think that's a genius idea too. Let's all start making those videos. I know that when I started this podcast as well, it took me six whole months of overthinking because I too was thinking, oh, it's so awkward to listen to my own voice. Am I sure I can do this, you know? But you do get past it. And I think that's the that's the essence of what you're saying, that we have to persist past the awkward stage to where it starts to become to feel more like a flow. And that's where it becomes, you know, that unconscious is uncompetence. But that takes time. And we have to be patient, we have to be persistent, and you know, keep mastering that skill, keep practicing until it gets to that day where, oh, this is easier than I thought. I didn't even have to think about it. I just said whatever I said and I played back and I didn't cringe too much, and um, the feedback was generally positive, I can keep going. So I think we we do ourselves a disservice when we are too impatient or we give up too soon.

A Success Story And Culture Shift

SPEAKER_03 33:01

And to for those that are on the fence of our recording short videos, recently I had a great success story where this quieter person for a long time felt like all of their ideas to improve the company's uh service and product was was not being heard. He joined a new company recently and he started doing this thing. It's hard, it's not easy for him to do them. And then he posted it on Messenger. And then instantly, everyone, first of all, in that organization, nobody else was doing this. Second of all, even the CEO started watching these videos and saying, I want that feature on the roadmap. He's having the kind of influence that he only imagined he could have ever before. It didn't take a meeting, it just took him recording short videos of himself. So much so that even in that new company, other people, uh their bosses actually saying, Why don't you do what this person is doing? Recording a short video. We don't need a meeting for that. Just record a short video and send it to me. So he's in some ways also influencing the teams that he's working in, which is a much better way of working.

Book Details And Where To Find It

SPEAKER_02 34:08

Yes, yes. You're doing it on your terms, you're doing it in your timing, you're giving other people autonomy to receive that information at their own timing. And at the same time, the ultimate purpose is that the information still gets out there, your message is still getting out there. People are seeing you and they don't have to compete with all the other voices in the room in order to hear your quiet voice. So you are not competing either. Because one challenge I think a lot of quiet achievers have is also projecting their voice and making sure their voice carries in a vo in a in a room where it's got all these chaotic, you know, asynchronous maybe voices going on at different times and saying different things, and then the speed at which the agenda then moves on and sweeps away any good intentions that you had of trying to time it perfectly to, you know, when should I speak up and when's the right time for me to say something? Takes away all that. So that's genius. If there's nothing else you remember from today's conversation, listener, make sure you start making these videos for yourself and let us know how that goes. Now, tell us about your book and where we can get it.

SPEAKER_03 35:14

Uh, so the book, for those um that well, we're not recording this on video, but the book is called The Quiet Achiever. Um, it's all about tiny habits to have impact at work without pretending to be an extrovert. Um, you can Google for the Quiet Achiever Time Yo. You'll find my website. You can buy a digital download direct from me. Uh, if you have Amazon where you are, you can always get it on Amazon. Um, it's also available as an audiobook that I recorded, available on Spotify, Audible, and then generally in uh good bookshops everywhere. If you're in Singapore and you don't want to buy it from Amazon, there's a website called Open Trolley. You can try that. But if you just Google for the Quiet Achiever Tim Yo, it should be available in good bookshops everywhere.

SPEAKER_02 36:06

Well, I tried it yesterday. I just Googled the quiet achiever and definitely it came up in the first page, even with a unique spelling of Achiever. So that's brilliant.

SPEAKER_03 36:16

It's very good quality. Uh one day I asked um AI, uh, one of the chat AIs um uh to uh recommend uh who are the top coaches in uh who are coaching introverts. And I'll search after as you see that I was in the top 10 list, which is pretty cool.

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SPEAKER_02 36:38

Very cool indeed. Well, thank you so much, Tim Yu, for sharing your time and your wisdom with us today. So all the links to Tim's work are in the show notes. Make sure to check out his book, check out his website, and find out more about how he can help you as a quiet achiever to speak, be visible without having to be extroverted. And if you are an introvert, quiet achiever who wants to be more visible, make sure to join the visible introvert community at my website, serenaloe.com.au. See you on the next episode. I'm so grateful that you're here today. If you found this content valuable, please share it on your social media channels and subscribe to the show on your favorite listening platform. Together we can help more introverts thrive. To receive more uplifting content like this, connect with me on Instagram at Serenalo Quiet Warrior Coach. Thank you for sharing your time and your energy with me. See you on the next episode.