Helping Introverted, Servant Leaders Have Influence, Impact, and Work/Life Balance

Hey, I'd like to welcome you to another episode of mission matters. My name is Adam Torres. And if you'd like to apply to be a guest in the show, just head on over to mission matters. com and click on, be our guest to apply. All right. So today's guest is Sharissa Sebastian Deppin and she's founder of leadership mastery Alliance. Sharissa, welcome to the show. Thank you so much for having me, Adam. I'm excited to get started. Alright, so I mean, what a great topic today. So, helping introverted servant leaders have influence, impact, and the elusive for some work life balance. So, excited to get into this. And just to get us kicked off, we'll start this episode. With our Mission Matters Minute. So Charissa at Mission Matters, our aim and our goal is to amplify stories for entrepreneurs, executives, and experts. That's our mission. Charissa, what mission matters to you? I think you did already a phenomenal job of touching on the key elements of my mission, and that is helping introverted servant leaders really thrive in the world, not just in the workplace, but having the ability to do work that matters, but also connecting that with that work life balance and being able to just. Yeah, enjoy life and get the most out of it while making a difference in doing the work that really counts. So, Sharissa, where, like, when did this concept of being introverted and, like, making a difference, and especially because, you know, some works, places can be skewed towards and more extroverted, the more you speak up, the more you're out there, maybe the more rewards you get. When did that concept kind of come to you? Like, how did that come to you? Well, it came actually from my own journey, which was at times very painful as an introvert because this was many, many years ago at a time where we didn't talk about being introverted in the workplace or being extroverted or having different ways of approaching work and so when I was in that space, especially as a leader, so I, my background is in software engineering and so I started off as a developer. And they moved into leadership, so technology leadership primarily. And so in that journey I really had to quickly learn how to function in that space. And unfortunately for, you know, for me at that time, the way I kind of view the world was like you said extraversion was celebrated, right? I was always told, okay, you need to be more visible. You need to speak up more and do all these things, which nothing wrong with that. And then it was always good. I think you kind of took some of the advice, whether you needed to or not, you're on a show right now. And from what I could tell, like you're all over the place. So you took some of the advice again, not so much. Say one way versus the other is right or wrong, but go ahead. Please just add that up though. No, but I love that you bring that up because that is a really good point that I'm for sure going to address that. And actually, I'm going to tell you the reason why I believe I found the sense of and it's so relevant to what you talk about all the time, right? That mission matters because when you're on mission, when you're on purpose, when you feel like you're doing work that matters. Nothing can stop you because the focus is not on you anymore. It's on how do I serve? And even if I'm just serving one person on the other side of the screen in an audience, whatever it is, you're going to be able to push past that fear or insecurity or whatever it is to be able to then say, okay, you know what? I am going to function in what I call that leadership zone of genius, which is basically just function at your highest capacity based on both strengths. How you, you know, made up so that you can then bring your unique value into the world. So that's a big part of it, is knowing that, right? And, and being aligned with that, whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, that, that matters. So knowing yourself well enough to know, okay, this is who I am. This is how I can show up in the world in a way that makes sense for me and the way I'm wired, rather than trying to compare yourself. And what I call the comparison trap, which can really just take away our confidence and things like that. I mean, we're constantly comparing to others. And trying to be maybe somebody that we're not or we're not not naturally inclined to be. So, yeah, I love that you brought that up. Thank you. Yeah, and so looking at yourself and I'll say, you know, you've been, you've been doing this for a while now and you've coached a lot of different people. What, where do you find that people are getting, like, when does someone, Somebody come to the thought process of, you know what, I, I need to work on this. Or like, and not saying them as a person, but like if they want to match maybe some of their goals. 'cause it's, it's sometimes easier to ch make some changes in yourself than it is to try to change a Fortune 500 company if that's their culture. Right. Like t

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