Welcome, the episode 218 of Live Happy Now.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us today.

What do you think would happen if an extremely shy introvert committed to living as an extrovert for one full year?

Well, thanks to Jessica Pan, you're about to find out.

Jessica is a freelance writer and author of the book, Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come,

One introverts Year of Saying Yes.

She sat down with me to talk about how, with the help of extrovert mentors, she took on a year

of non-intervert friendly challenges and learned some important life-changing lessons. Well, Jessica,

welcome to Live Happy Now. Hi, thanks for having me. Well, first off, great title. I love, I mean,

the title of this book immediately makes you want to pick it up. So that was a great way to start

this whole process off, I think. Oh, thank you. Yeah, I love the saying, except I am always a little bit late and now I can't say, sorry, I'm late, because people assume I'll be saying I did really like that. I'm going to mirror that back to you. Oh, yeah, I know. You just didn't want to be here. But I did. I did. Yeah. Well, what I found so interesting, there's a lot of things I loved about this.

First of all, the read on this, it really reminded me of like a nanny diaries or the devil

wears product.

That's how fun of a read this book is.

And I think when you hear, oh, it's an introvert and living as an extrovert, I don't think I was prepared for it to be that fun, actually.

Yeah, I read lots of books about introverts and I felt like they were all very serious and very, yeah, it's a little bit serious.

And I just kind of wanted to write something that was more accessible and more about kind of the ridiculousness of putting yourself out there

and the people you need and the awkwardness. So I kind of wanted to make it more fun and not to

research heavy. Yeah, and that really came through, but it was impressive too at the end. You actually

include the research to show, you know, chapter by chapter where this all came from. So it's like, hey, folks, I didn't just make it up. It's a real thing. I wanted to sort of spoon feed the research, you know, not like shove it down people's throats, but I definitely, everything I do and write about, I wanted it to be based in research and in psychology studies. So yeah. Well, now, you're actually such an introvert that you even coined

the word shintrovert for this. Can you explain that? I just stopped reading and laughed when I read

that. So can you explain what that means? So a shintravert is a shy introvert because I think we

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