How to simplify your life with Mary Baird-Wilcock

Mary Baird-Wilcock has one goal to help people simplify their lives. With over 16+ years of experience in running her own company, she coaches creative entrepreneurs on how to simplify and optimize the operations side of their small business, including sales mastery, shifting towards a thriving mindset, and how to do less to accomplish more. Ultimately, helping them become a hero.
Mary is the host of The Simplifiers Podcast, where she takes topics in business and in life and SIMPLIFIES them. Her podcast has thousands of devoted listeners in 106 countries around the world and is rapidly growing!
An international public speaker who's been published in Forbes magazine, Huffington Post, MSN, Metro and featured as one of the “Top 25 Young Event Pros to Watch” by Special Events Magazine. Mary is also on a mission to share the gospel of what a Texas breakfast taco is all about.
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Tell me a bit about your shyness... (if you're going to be sharing your story with us)
I was a terribly shy child all the way up to when I was 13 years old. My favorite pastime was playing in my closet with all my toys and closing the accordion doors, shutting out the outside world. It was my safe space and I didn't have to interact with others. However, one day at age 13, I felt like the Universe whispered in to my ear... "if you continue to close out the world, you'll miss out on so much in life. Life is better together." From there, I've cultivated my ability to be bold, courageous and learn how to spark a conversation with anyone at anytime. I've slowly changed from being an introvert to an ambivert, learning how to navigate my shyness and turn it into a superpower of attentive listening and kindness. This has helped me build a multiple six-figure business (The Simplifiers) and opened up doors you couldn't even imagine throughout my career so far.

How has being shy impacted you personally and professionally, would you say?
When my shyness flares up, I start to doubt my innate abilities to do the work I'm here to do, professionally. And when I let the shyness pop up in my personal life, I find I'm not as assertive as I should be, laying down my needs/wants/desires to placate others. Not good. I've been doing the work over the years to reverse this and happy to share what's helped.

What are the biggest challenges you face as a shy person?
Fear of failure
Fear of rejection
Fear of abandonment

In your expert opinion, what do you think we could do better to help shy people be more mighty?
Remember, "shy" doesn't always equal "introvert". Even ambiverts and extroverts can feel shy. Remove the stigma and educate the masses to help people feel more comfortable in big moments in work and life.

What specific tips or advice would you like to share with the Shy and Mighty listeners to help them overcome the aspects of their shyness that are holding them back?
- nurture the people around you to form deeper relationships (clients, colleagues, prospects, friends, neighbors, and beyond)
- cultivate your BOLDness and simply ASK!
- together is better... alone serves no one.
- do less to accomplish more... that is the art of simplifying

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