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187 Unrooting HSP Resistance Jun 05, 2024

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Being able to shift from resistance to resilience is an important skill to master as a highly sensitive in business and leadership, especially in our current times. Right now, we are all in a collective experience of tension created by seemingly opposing influences that are pushing and pulling and forcing decisions you might not feel ready to make or do anything about. Yet rather than this being a negative experience, this tension can be used as a proactive energy to fuel change and inspire you into action. This is a choice you have – to choose resilience instead of resistance.

In this episode, I share how back in 2017 I created a Business Miracles teaching titled: The Path from Resistance to Resilience. This was long before current world events brought all of us into an accelerated experience of more frequent tension and choice points. I discuss how this teaching is necessary now more than ever in supporting HSPs in business and leadership when it comes to accessing resilience through grace and grit, and how the root of most highly sensitive resistance is not overwhelm, but the fear of even the possibility of overwhelm. I also go over the three key elements that will support you with being able to continue to access resilience rather than being triggered into your highly sensitive shadows and coping mechanism.

“Will you choose to fall prey to the fear that the media feeds on and outside circumstances? Or will you choose to put in place core practices and tools to manage your own relationship with the fear of the possibility of overwhelm, resistance and choice points?” – Heather Dominick

Listen and Learn:

1:49: What is the Business Miracles path from resistance to resilience
3:16: How to cope during a collective turning point
3:59: Which characteristics do we need to access your resilience
7:58: How to cope with the fear of the possibility of overwhelm
13:51: What does auto-writing do for highly sensitive leaders

“At the end of the day, you will be faced with resistance as an opportunity to be called up into the privilege of agency, of owning who you are and learning how to work with who you are.” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

Get your copy of Heather’s book DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: http://www.differentthebook.com
Get your copy of the HSE Training Kit: Survive to Thrive: http://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.com
Get your copy of the HSE Assessment and Success Guide: http://www.myhsetype.com

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/187

186 Power of Aligned HSP Community May 22, 2024

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Consistently engaging in nourishing relationships, especially within an aligned community, is a powerful way to accelerate growth and success for HSPs in business and leadership. Being in aligned community removes the element of feeling “other” and gives you access to what Rupert Sheldrake calls the “morphogenetic field”. Through his theory of morphic resonance, groups with a likeness and alignment create accelerated learning simply by being part of that group, making for each member of the community possible, what alone would have been impossible.

In this episode, I discuss how I came to see that as HSPs we need to approach business and marketing differently than the other 80% and how community is a key component. I share how I developed the 3 pillars of highly sensitive leadership success (community, core, practice, and consistency), and the 4C’s of marketing success (connection, communication, call to action, and consistency). I go in-depth on how the 4C’s not only apply to marketing but to any relationship, and how community is often something we avoid as HSPs but is the true superpower to success in business and leadership.

“What I needed before anything was to be making a connection with those that I was serving.” – Heather Dominick

Listen and Learn:

2:09: What are the three pillars of highly sensitive leadership
3:23: Why did Heather develop the four Cs of marketing success
7:52: Why do some highly sensitive entrepreneurs resist community
11:17: How does morphic resonance apply to the highly sensitive community
14:20: What is an example of morphic resonance
18:56: How can highly sensitive people benefit from morphic resonance
20:08: What are some phrases to ask for support

“If I wasn’t doing it consistently, all the effort that went into the first three Cs didn’t really matter.” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

Get your copy of Heather’s book DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: http://www.differentthebook.com
Get your copy of the HSE Training Kit: Survive to Thrive: http://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.com
Get your copy of the HSE Assessment and Success Guide: http://www.myhsetype.com
Learn more about our HSE Training Program and Community: https://www.businessmiracles.com/training-program/

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/186

185 Setting Business Boundaries as an HSP May 08, 2024

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Setting healthy boundaries is an act of resilience for highly sensitives in business and leadership. When we’re living as untrained highly sensitives, and do not create supportive boundaries for ourselves, we end up operating from shadows such as over-responsibility, overprotection, and people pleasing. The HSP leadership opportunity here instead is to take personal responsibility to get clear about what you need, set boundaries based on your needs and values and then take action to create dividing lines that separate your physical space, feelings, needs, and responsibilities from others. All so that you can be of highest service to both yourself and those around you in your business and life.

In this podcast episode, I discuss how lack of boundaries leads to lack of focus leaving your energy drained and your business bank account suffering. Most importantly, I share how to get clear about your HSP needs and then specifically how to work with time to honor your needs, and effectively communicate your needs to others (a.k.a. set boundaries) all so that you can be your most creative and profitable self in your business.

“Your boundaries tell other people how they can treat you.” – Heather Dominick

Listen and Learn:

1:44: What do we mean when talking about boundaries
2:08: Why are boundaries important
2:37: What are the consequences of not setting boundaries
3:10: What happens when highly sensitive people operate untrained
6:03: Which tools can help you set boundaries
8:23: What does time off, on, and in look like
9:50: How to set boundaries
13:26: What are tips for productivity rituals

“Conscious creation of boundaries for HSPs is the opposite of the shadows of people pleasing, over responsibility, overprotection, perfectionism.” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

Get your copy of Heather’s book DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: http://www.differentthebook.com
Get your copy of the HSE Training Kit: Survive to Thrive: http://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.com
Get your copy of the HSE Assessment and Success Guide: http://www.myhsetype.com

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/185

184 Fuel Your Magnificence Apr 24, 2024

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In the journey of becoming and being an HSP in business and leadership, it’s important to consistently engage in the process of shifting from an untrained HSP to a trained HSP. All in order to create with more ease. However, as HSPs we often get caught up in the false belief that in order to succeed in business and leadership we need to do it the same way as the other 80% who are not highly sensitive. So we forgo the value of paced process in exchange for “playing a bigger game hustle” which tends to toss us into the HSP Coping Cycle of Fear/Anxiety/Pushing/Hiding/Shame/Recovery, rather than motivating us to create productively.

In this podcast episode, I read an excerpt from my book “Different”, where I share my experience of feeling overwhelmed by the common coaching industry phrase of “play a bigger game” and how it triggered feelings of ‘not enough’ for me rather than motivating me to create more. I discuss how rather than pushing yourself to hustle to play a bigger game, you can access your inner magnitude, the HSP part of you that is connected to inner guidance and the magic of the universe. I share how you can access this part of you through self-inquiry to claim what truly inspires you. To then let this inspiration fuel, motivate, and encourage you to tap into your strengths and create from this space, rather than hustling to try to be someone you’re not and crashing as a result.

“We are the balance to the other 80 percent.” – Heather Dominick

Listen and Learn:

3:38: How do highly sensitive people try to protect themselves
5:08: How does Business Miracles describe the Holy Spirit
8:34: Where should you focus your energy right now
17:27: Which questions to ask to check in with yourself
20:33: How do most highly sensitive people function

“Though being of service is one of our greatest motivators as highly sensitive entrepreneurs and highly sensitive leaders and is thoroughly rewarding…it takes a fierce due diligence commitment. ” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

Get your copy of Heather’s book DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: http://www.differentthebook.com
Get your copy of the HSE Training Kit: Survive to Thrive: http://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.com
Get your copy of the HSE Assessment and Success Guide: http://www.myhsetype.com

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/184

183 Embrace Your HSP Difference Apr 10, 2024

Show notes

Growing up highly sensitive, many of us missed the opportunity of individuation, or differentiation at a young age – what Margaret Mahler refers to as “hatching”. Because of this, we learned to cope and often hide our highly sensitive difference. We developed coping mechanisms of pushing or hiding (or moving back and forth between pushing and hiding) as a way to adapt rather than embrace our uniqueness and differences. Although this an understandable response we developed to keep ourselves safe when we were younger, now it’s time to stop feeling confused and believing you need to deny who you really are in order to be successful in business and life. Everything is now meant to be done differently.

In this podcast episode, I read an excerpt from my book “Different”, where I vulnerably share my struggle to write my book. I came to realize I was guided to write it because I was meant to teach HSPs not just how to market and sell in their business differently, but how to step up and lead as a highly sensitive to create greater impact (and income) with a lot less effort through these extraordinary times. I also discuss Margaret Mahler’s concept of hatching – a process of separation, individuation and differentiation – and the four sub-phases in this process. I go into more detail on the differentiation phase and speak to how this specifically impacts highly sensitives and our unique journey in this world as HSPs in business and leadership.

“I knew I had been training for the exceptional times of 2020 for my whole life.” – Heather Dominick

Listen and Learn:

7:38: How to embrace your HSP difference
9:45: Can you stop being overwhelmed by others’ emotions
11:40: How to define hatching
12:37: What are the four sub-phases of hatching
14:04: Why was the concept of hatching controversial
15:37: What happens when you are highly sensitive but your parents are not
17:42: What is the more important area for focus and growth right now
18:12: How to connect with what inspires you“Quote.” – Guest Name / Heather Dominick

“It’s time to stop pretending your intuition is less valuable than logic.” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

Get your copy of Heather’s book DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: http://www.differentthebook.com
Get your copy of the HSE Training Kit: Survive to Thrive: http://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.com
Get your copy of the HSE Assessment and Success Guide: http://www.myhsetype.com

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/183

182 Staying Above the Fray Mar 27, 2024

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As a highly sensitive person, our neuro-sensitivity is not going away. So, if you are allowing your business or career and life to be dictated by socialized trends, then you are setting yourself up to be in a constant state of anxiety. The focus we want, in order to avoid the comparison traps and pressures of socialized trends, is on how to be able to not only manage our sensitivity, but utilize it in a way that really allows us to show up in business and leadership in the world from a place of highly sensitive strength.

In this podcast episode, I discuss the importance of staying above the fray of socialized trends, especially as a highly sensitive in business and leadership. I share how our social self is born as a response to pressure from the world around us. And how if we stay stuck in this comparison trap we are privileging anxiety instead of choosing privilege of agency. Most importantly, I share what you can do instead.

“If you are allowing your business to be dictated by socialized trends, if you are allowing your work, your career to be dictated by socialized trends…if you are allowing your life to be dictated by socialized trends as a person who is highly sensitive, you are setting yourself up to be in a constant state of anxiety. You are setting yourself up to be in constant motion with the coping cycle and constant tug of war with resistance.” – Heather Dominick

Listen and Learn:

2:48: How does research on neuro-sensitivity apply to highly sensitive people
4:36: What does it mean to stay above the fray of socialized trends
11:52: How does staying above the fray connect to privilege of agency
16:06: What is required to stay above the fray of socialized trends

“This is not the time in our world to be giving in to the fray of socialized trends, the fear, the anxiety, the divisiveness, and it is not the time to flake out. It is the time to choose to recognize we are in a new world now, my friends, if you’re waiting for it to be over, it’s going to be a long wait.” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

Get your copy of Heather’s book DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: http://www.differentthebook.com
Get your copy of the HSE Training Kit: Stop The Overwhelm: http://www.stoptheoverwhelm.com
Get your copy of the HSE Assessment and Success Guide: http://www.myhsetype.com

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/182

181 Harness the Power of Privilege of Agency Mar 13, 2024

Show notes

When we are untrained as a highly sensitive we can often find ourselves stuck in comparison traps – comparing our lives and businesses to to the other 80% who are not highly sensitive, or even to others who are highly sensitive to see if we “measure up”. But this is a guaranteed recipe for failure that will have you operating from your coping mechanisms of pushing, hiding or combo between the two; as well as being stuck in shadows such as people pleasing, perfectionism, and over-responsibility.

Instead, we have the opportunity to choose privilege of agency as a healthy approach to making decisions, using discernment and setting boundaries based on our highly sensitive strengths. Only when we do this will we truly be able to remove the shackles of comparison and instead embrace and live from our essential self as a highly sensitive in business and life.

In this podcast episode, I go deep into what privilege of agency is, and what it isn’t. I share my own journey of how I developed this concept and how I’ve used it to make massively impactful changes in how I operate. I discuss how it specifically relates to you as a highly sensitive in business and leadership and why this particular teaching is more important now than ever. So you will be able to step out of comparison traps and step up into your purpose and be the change you want to see in the world while also creating the personal success and freedom you desire.

“There has always been this wonky energy around this training.” – Heather Dominick

Listen and Learn:

1:54: What is the privilege of agency
3:24: Why is the concept of privilege of agency difficult for highly sensitive people
5:09: What privilege of agency is NOT
7:44: Where and why did Heather develop the privilege of agency training
13:48: Why is privilege of agency important for highly sensitive people

“The concept of privilege of agency is very foreign to us.” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

Get your copy of Heather’s book DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: http://www.differentthebook.com
Get your copy of the HSE Training Kit: Stop The Overwhelm: http://www.stoptheoverwhelm.com
Get your copy of the HSE Assessment and Success Guide: http://www.myhsetype.com

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/181

180 Heal Business Leadership Turmoil Feb 28, 2024

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As a highly sensitive in business and leadership, living on purpose is the ultimate form of self-care. This requires you to face your overwhelm and learn that, as A Course in Miracles states, “peace is part of you and requires only that you be there to embrace any situation in which you are.” Your life purpose is not what you do, or something you find, but is instead something you choose in every decision, action and interaction. It’s not a legacy we leave, but a legacy we live. Our life purpose takes courage to feel what we naturally don’t want to feel.

In this podcast episode, I discuss how accessing the power of your heart as a gateway to your HSP Intuition is what will allow you to heal business and leadership turmoil and overwhelm. As well as support you with standing strong in the midst of the fire of our times, and have the passion to pursue your life purpose. I share how the mastery of discomfort resilience takes compassion plus courage, which equals the opening of the heart, and how this process of the opening of the heart requires two very important components. This is a trainable process and a valuable opportunity for growth in order for you to achieve HSP business and leadership success.

“Life purpose is not achieved in the midst of comfort.” – Heather Dominick

Listen and Learn:

3:02: What is our life purpose
4:19 How to apply courage to our lives
5:54: Can you train compassion
8:02: What is the fourth component of emotional containment

“Our life purpose is not something we find, it is something that we choose.” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

Get your copy of Heather’s book DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: http://www.differentthebook.com
Get your copy of the HSE Training Kit: Stop The Overwhelm: http://www.stoptheoverwhelm.com
Get your copy of the HSE Assessment and Success Guide: http://www.myhsetype.com

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/180

179 Reduce Overwhelm with the Science of Containment Feb 14, 2024

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The key to reducing overwhelm, especially as a highly sensitive in business and leadership, is to build discomfort resilience through containment as an act of self-care. Containment is NOT about suppressing, ignoring, or soothing your emotions. It is instead about allowing the experience of your uncomfortable emotions without staying stuck in them, and then turning to HSP energy management tools I’ve created like the Order Form to the Universe (OFTU) to support you with accessing your highly sensitive strengths.

In this podcast episode, I go deep into what containment is NOT, what containment IS, and how we can shift from overwhelm and overprotection into focus and flow. I discuss how the act of developing discomfort resilience is the opposite of overprotection, and is instead about taking personal responsibility for your emotions, recognizing that they don’t have to control you. It is not the automatic HSP response, but it is a doable, teachable, and important skill to master in spite of what’s happening around you and in the world at large, especially as a highly sensitive in business and leadership.

“Our energy, our emotions tend to be felt more deeply by those of us who are highly sensitive.” – Heather Dominick

Listen and Learn:

5:04: How to grow from personal interactions
5:14: What is discomfort resilience
9:07: Things that discomfort resilience is not
12:21: What are the three elements of containment

“We are faced in any given moment with potentially having our nervous system hijacked.” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

Get your copy of Heather’s book DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: http://www.differentthebook.com
Get your copy of the HSE Training Kit: Stop The Overwhelm: http://www.stoptheoverwhelm.com
Get your copy of the HSE Assessment and Success Guide: http://www.myhsetype.com

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/179

178 Replay: Intuitive Goal Setting Jan 31, 2024

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Did you know research shows that a person who sets (and achieves) goals tends to have higher motivation, higher self-esteem and a greater sense of self-confidence and autonomy?

Setting an achievable goal also gives a boost to your systolic blood pressure (SBP).

However, it wouldn’t surprise me if, as a highly sensitive, your experience with goal setting has been quite different.

Here’s why: setting goals rooted in comparison or based on what you think you “should be” doing actually lowers your blood pressure. Which slows you down, and has you feel like you’re trudging through mud – with no motivation to actually take the actions needed to accomplish the goal.

In this podcast episode, I’m sharing how to use your highly sensitive strength of intuition to consistently set – and reach – doable goals that will give you an ongoing boost to your systolic blood pressure and keep you motivated and ready to take action.

“Intellect alone can only get us so far.” – Heather Dominick

Listen and Learn:

1:14: How to set goals as a highly sensitive entrepreneur
5:39: What are highly sensitive strengths
8:32: Ways to connect with your big goals
11:27: What does recent research say about goal-setting

“We always have a choice between the smaller socialized version of ourselves and the more magnanimous essential version of ourselves.” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

Get your copy of Heather’s book DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: http://www.differentthebook.com
Get your copy of the HSE Training Kit: Stop The Overwhelm: http://www.stoptheoverwhelm.com
Get your copy of the HSE Assessment and Success Guide: http://www.myhsetype.com
Listen to The Business Miracles Podcast Episode 177: Burnout Doesn’t Get You Paid: https://www.businessmiracles.com/177

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/178