Quiet Riot: True Tales of Softly Spoken Superheroes Who Changed the World

Your shyness is your superpower!

Why is it, when we see people achieving incredible things, they all seem so outgoing? Where are all the softly spoken leaders, artists and champions? Discover 40 stories of shy and mighty power that show quiet people can be trailblazers, too.

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ATHLETES like Naomi Osaka and Lionel Messi,
SINGERS like Taylor Swift and Billie Eilish,
ACTORS like Zendaya and James Earl Jones,
ACTIVISTS like Marcus Rashford and Greta Thunberg,
LEADERS like Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln and
WRITERS like Beatrix Potter and Emily Brontë.

You don’t have to change who you are to be a shy and mighty superhero.

Nadia Finer is on a softly spoken mission to help shy people be mightier. She is the UK’s leading shyness expert, author of two books about shyness, the host of the Shy and Mighty podcast and a coach specializing in shyness. She is a regular speaker in organisations and in schools around the country, an ambassador for Girl Guiding UK, and also runs the Mighty Mob, an online program to help shy kids feel braver, more able to join in and more comfortable to be themselves. She has appeared on Radio 4 Saturday Live, Woman’s Hour and the ITV News. She has been in the Times, Guardian, the Telegraph, The Independent and Good Housekeeping.