The Quiet Warrior Podcast with Serena Low

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160. Preacher To Breacher: An Introvert's Path To Quiet Leadership Under Fire (Eric Robinson)

2026-11-0849:41

For 12 years, Eric Robinson had a headache every single day. As a pastor, he carried his congregation's pain as if it were his own to fix, with no one around him who understood the weight of it. The day he was accepted into the FBI, the headaches stopped. Serena talks with Eric Robinson — a former senior pastor who left the pulpit in 2002 for 24 years as an FBI Special Agent, 15 on SWAT — about the throughline between preaching and breaching. Eric shares how the introverted strengths that sha...

159. How To Stop Ruminating, And Why Overthinking Isn’t A Personality Trait (Shang Olsen)

2026-11-0131:08

Most of us have been told that if we could just think a little harder, we would finally solve the problem that keeps looping through our minds at 2am. Clinical psychologist Shang Olsen has spent her career watching that strategy fail. In this episode, Shang, a Danish psychologist authorised by the Danish Supervisory Board of Psychological Practice and chairwoman of the MCT Institute Denmark, explains why overthinking is not a personality trait but a habit the brain has learned, and why meta...

158. Reading The Signal: Broken Workplace Cultures and Strategic Career Pivots | Natalie Holder

2026-10-2538:12

Picture the moment discomfort becomes undeniable: the commute that used to be fine suddenly feels unbearable, the office that once felt like home starts to feel outgrown. That is the signal employment lawyer and culture strategist Natalie Holder returns to throughout this conversation about broken workplace culture, unconscious bias in mentoring and promotion, and how introverted women can recognize when it is time to make a career pivot. Natalie and Serena unpack the indicators of a br...

157. From Academic Probation to NASA: Introverts, Belonging, and STEM Careers (Irene Chan)

2026-10-1845:25

Irene Chan spent her childhood not quite fitting in — too different for the kids in LA's Chinatown, too different for the church her single mother relied on, too different for the unpredictable neighbourhood her mother worked so hard to protect her within. She carried that feeling of being "othered" into an aerospace engineering degree she nearly didn't achieve, and into NASA meeting rooms where she assumed the loudest voice always won. In this episode, Irene — a flight planning enginee...

156. The Tiny Brave Steps Method: How to Take Action When You're Still Afraid | Bernice McDonald

2026-10-1132:03

After 24 years of marriage, Bernice McDonald left with no template for who she was outside the roles she'd been performing since childhood. She grew up in a rules-based home where being "good" felt impossible to achieve, and where that constant falling-short curdled into a lifelong sense of not being enough. In this episode of The Quiet Warrior Podcast, Bernice shares how she moved from that place into what she now calls the Tiny Brave Steps method — a way of taking action on fear witho...

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The Quiet Warrior Podcast with Serena Low