Heidi Brown Explores The Power of Introversion in “The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy”
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In today’s LIVE episode number 64, we meet author Heidi Brown, who writes for and about lawyers and anyone interested in understanding and tapping into the superpower of introversion, with her book “The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy.”
Her book champions the valuable gifts that introverted, shy, and socially anxious individuals can contribute to the legal profession—including active listening, deep thinking, empathy, careful legal writing, creative problem-solving, and thoughtful communication.
The second half of the book attacks the “Fake it till you make it!” or “Just do it!” or “Get over it!” mentality. Instead, “The Introverted Lawyer” counsels that we should do the opposite: “Just be it.” Let’s be our quiet impactful selves, and transform the legal profession. But it’s good advice for writers, too, as well as anyone who finds that they draw their energy and can recharge best when they retreat to their quiet places, whether it be a library, book store, quite beach or remote mountain stream.
We start first with Heidi reading a short section that explains the differences between introverts and extroverts.
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You can connect with Heidi at her website: www.theintrovertedlawyer.com
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Twitter:@introvertlawyer
Instagram: @introvertedlawyer
Where to find the books:
https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/273855314/
https://www.americanbar.org/products/inv/book/358687385/
https://www.amazon.com/Introverted-Lawyer-Authentically-Empowered-Advocacy/dp/1634257723
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-introverted-lawyer-heidi-k-brown/1125448909?ean=9781634257725
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Introverted Lawyer Book Heidi K Brown
Author Heidi K. Brown is a graduate of The University of Virginia School of Law, a law professor at Brooklyn Law School, and a former litigator in the construction industry. Along the way, she struggled with extreme public speaking anxiety and the perceived pressure to force an extroverted persona throughout law school and nearly two decades of law practice. She finally embraced her introversion and quiet nature as a powerful asset in teaching and practicing law.
Heidi is the author of Untangling Fear in Lawyering: A Four-Step Journey Toward Powerful Advocacy (ABA 2019), The Introverted Lawyer: A Seven-Step Journey Toward Authentically Empowered Advocacy (ABA 2017), and a two-volume legal writing book series entitled The Mindful Legal Writer.
Heidi champions the importance of openly discussing stressors, anxieties, and fears in lawyering, and helping quiet and anxious law students and lawyers become profoundly effective advocates, in their authentic voices.
Heidi Brown’s article on introverted lawyers and networking:
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/navigating-introvert-hell-legal-networker
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