Business Miracles

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167 Building Your Business Part-Time, Part 3 featuring Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader Monica Keena Aug 30, 2023

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Welcome to Part 3 of this special three-part episode series of the Business Miracles podcast: Building Your Business Part-Time As A Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader – You’ll be hearing more about my own story of first starting my business part-time to now having been self-employed full-time for 20 years! As well as also hearing from select highly sensitive entrepreneurs who are currently creating business success while working their business on a part-time basis – all with more impact, more income and less effort.

Listen now to hear how Monica Keena, Business Miracles Member, Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader and Owner and Founder of Get It Done Fitness, exquisitely balances her part-time business with a very demanding full-time career as a Paralegal Gaming Administrator for one of the top 100 law firms in the United States, and how she realized that what she once believed was a curse or weakness was actually her greatest asset. I know you’ll be inspired by the Business Miracles Monica has created for herself (and others) as she learned to embrace her highly sensitive strengths and really begin to do things differently.

“The most important thing you need to do at work and the most important thing you need to do with fitness is number one, you have to show up, you have to be there.” – Monica Keena

Show Notes:

Which business miracles has Monica created for herself
How does Monica Keena balance two jobs
What aspects of highly sensitive leadership training help you to thrive
How do highly sensitive skills benefit your employees

“There is something inside of human beings that we think it’s all or nothing or that either-or in life, you’re either working for the law firm or I either have a business on the side…but I’ve learned that due to my highly sensitive nature, I am actually thriving with the both.” – Monica Keena

Links and Resources:

Connect with Monica Keena
Instagram: https://instagram.com/monicavkeena
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/monica.keena.1

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/167

166 Building Your Business Part-Time, Part 2 Featuring Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader Laura Smith Aug 16, 2023

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Welcome to Part 2 of this special three-part episode series of the Business Miracles podcast: Building Your Business Part-Time As A Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader – You’ll be hearing more about my own story of first starting my business part-time to now having been self-employed full-time for 20 years! As well as also hearing from select highly sensitive entrepreneurs who are currently creating business success while working their business on a part-time basis – all with more impact, more income, and less effort.

Listen in to hear how Laura Smith, Business Miracles Member, Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur, Leader, and Owner of Children’s Mindset LLC, shifted out of her insecurity, fear, and her HSE Coping Mechanism of Hiding by not only embracing but unleashing her Highly Sensitive Strengths of Creativity and Intuition to create a part-time business that allows her to enjoy spending more time with her recently retired husband while still following her heart guidance and passion for helping children – from a place of excitement and fun rather than pressure and stress.

“I’m a perfectionist as a highly sensitive and I had a lot of shame and guilt wrapped around not working, not hustling as the trendy term is, believing that if I wasn’t hustling or working hard constantly, I would never be successful.” – Laura Smith

Show Notes:

What is the Quantum Leap Retreat
How to transform insecurity
What is the Coping Mechanism of Hiding
Does part-time work make sense
What are the pros of working on your passion part-time

“It’s okay for me to create a schedule that works with my highly sensitive nervous system in a way that is not going to push me back or my business back, but actually accelerate me forward.” – Laura Smith

Links and Resources:

Connect with Laura Smith:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/childrensmindset
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/childrensmindset
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/childrensmindset
Listen to the Business Miracles Podcast Episode 165: Building Your Business Part-Time, Part 1 Featuring Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader, Nancy Smith: https://www.businessmiracles.com/165

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/166

165 Building Your Business Part-Time, Part 1 Featuring Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader, Nancy Smith Aug 02, 2023

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Welcome to Part 1 of this special three-part episode series of the Business Miracles podcast: Building Your Business Part-Time As A Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader – You’ll be hearing more about my own story of first starting my business part-time to now having been self-employed full-time for 20 years! As well as also hearing from select highly sensitive entrepreneurs who are currently creating business success while working their business on a part-time basis – all with more impact, more income, and less effort.

Join me and special guest Nancy Smith, Business Miracles Member, Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur, leader, and owner of Vibrant You Coaching. Nancy’s story is inspiring! She made the shift from viewing her part-time job as a crutch and feeling the challenge of her focus being divided between what she felt she needed and what she loved – to embracing her part-time job as a support beam for her dreams and allowing it to become a launch pad into the space that she truly wants to be in.

“As highly sensitives we do really well taking a step by step incrementalization process approach to anything that we’re creating.” – Heather Dominick

Show Notes:

How did Heather start her business part-time
What are some common struggles with part-time work
How to make part-time work more meaningful
What can you accomplish using energy management tools

“It feels like the journey has been so long, and in, in some ways it feels like I’ve been starting my business over and over and over again.” – Nancy Smith

Links and Resources:

Connect with Nancy Smith:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lorraine.smith.3154284
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-smith-349b7630/

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/165

164 HSE Prioritization Jul 19, 2023

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Rather than automatically being triggered by intense experiences you can actually learn how to use triggers as “touches” or “awakenings” to propel you towards a higher level of emotional maturity and management – highly sensitive leadership.

Listen in to learn a powerful method for prioritizing tasks, staying focused, and embracing your visionary strengths while avoiding analysis paralysis so you can more confidently navigate the challenges that come your way, more easily tap into your inner strength, and more effortlessly rise up as the highly sensitive entrepreneur and leader you are meant to be.

“Analysis paralysis is the shadow side of our visionary strength.” – Heather Dominick

Show Notes:

What are alternatives to being triggered
How to prioritize tasks
What is the long-term list
How to stay focused
What is a sleeper wave
Where did the long-term list come from

“The long-term list is a tool that serves the area that so many highly sensitive entrepreneurs and leaders find the most challenging and that area is the ability to prioritize.” – Heather Dominick

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/164

163 Creating Abundance Jul 05, 2023

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When we, as Highly Sensitive Entrepreneurs and Leaders, embrace our true worth, we are choosing self-empowerment. When we’re empowered and operating from our highly sensitive strengths, we are more easily able to generate wealth – true wealth – which is about abundance in ALL areas.

Today, I’m sharing how embracing your true worth is the key to creating true wealth, with insights and practical tools that will help you navigate challenges specifically how to move out of your highly sensitive shadows of over-responsibility, overprotective, and overwhelm.

Join me to discover how to shift from feeling disempowered because of your nervous system to empowered BY your nervous system.

Be prepared to experience a business miracle.

“People who have a higher level of resilience and a lower tolerance for personal drama experience more success in business and in life.” – Heather Dominick

Show Notes:

What is the key to trusting yourself
How highly sensitive people can earn true wealth
What is Heather’s personal story
How are the characteristics of Challengers
How do highly sensitive entrepreneurs cultivate worth

“In order to be able to experience true wealth, there must be a sense of true worth.” – Heather Dominick

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

162 Cultivating Happiness Post Pandemic, Part 3 Jun 21, 2023

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Learning how to use your highly sensitive strength of Being Deeply Spiritual by Nature in order to accelerate positive change for yourself and others, rather than using it as a way to isolate and soothe, is massively important as we continue to navigate through these exceptional times.

In Part 3 of this three-part episode series, I’m talking about what’s really needed to rise above the fray of frenetic post-pandemic disconnect, including valuable tools and techniques that will help you remain grounded and fiercely focused so you can operate optimally as a highly sensitive entrepreneur and leader – financially, relationally and spiritually.

Will you accept the challenge of what it means to be highly sensitive and lead through these continuing exceptional times?

“A challenger consciously builds others up, encoring them to also learn and grow despite difficult situations.” – Heather Dominick

Show Notes:

How to stay grounded during frenetic times
What is cognitive diffusion and why down need it
How can highly sensitive people thrive post-pandemic
What are the qualities of a challenger

“Challengers are catalysts for learning and are willing to stand for the vision even when others do not.” – Heather Dominick

Links and Resources:

Listen to Business Miracles Episode 160: Cultivating Happiness Post Pandemic, Part 1: https://www.businessmiracles.com/160
Listen to Business Miracles Episode 161: Cultivating Happiness Post Pandemic, Part 2: https://www.businessmiracles.com/161

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/162

161 Cultivating Happiness Post Pandemic, Part 2 Jun 07, 2023

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Within the midst of the disruptive times that we are living through it can feel weird to be talking about happiness. But it’s actually not, and here’s why: Shawn Achor, author and researcher of The Happiness Advantage, says that, “Happiness is not about lying to ourselves or turning a blind eye to the negative, but about adjusting our brain so that we see the ways to rise above our circumstances.

To take it one step further, as highly sensitive entrepreneurs and leaders who are called to serve as the royal advisors of the world, prioritizing our own happiness actually directly, positively impacts others.

By cultivating your own happiness, you’re actually making it easier for others to experience happiness as well.

In Part 2 of this three-part episode series, I’m teaching you two significant tools you can use to move out of the highly sensitive shadows of overprotection, judgment of self and others, or the need for drama. All to support your own happiness and self-created success as well as the happiness of others. You start by using your highly sensitive strengths of deep thinking and deep feeling. Come and listen in…

“You can deepen your levels of happiness when happiness doesn’t seem like a choice anymore.” – Heather Dominick

Show Notes:

How to cultivate post-pandemic happiness
Does success lead to happiness
Is happiness a choice
What is the Tetris Effect
How to use the energy management tool of scripting to increase happiness
What are two significant happiness tools
How is gratitude related to happiness
What is the happiness advantage

“Tracking journaling over time to see a progressive change increases the ability for accessing resilience to then actually be able to make the change.” – Heather Dominick

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/161

160 Cultivating Happiness Post Pandemic, Part 1 May 24, 2023

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As highly sensitives, we tend to have a propensity towards doom and gloom when it comes to change. Yet if there’s one thing we can be certain of it’s that change will always keep happening.

In Part 1 of this three-part episode series, I’m sharing what’s needed for you to operate optimally as a Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and leader in order to be flexible and fluid within the changing world we are living through.

Listen in to learn how to navigate change and reach your business and career goals as part of being on the path to cultivating happiness.

“As a community of highly sensitive entrepreneurs and leaders, there was more of a propensity, meaning an intense natural inclination or preference, towards doom and gloom.” – Heather Dominick

Show Notes:

What is the happiness advantage
How does happiness affect performance
What is the relationship between productivity and positivity
What has changed since Heather first taught the happiness advantage
How do we define the path to success
What are the five yays

“The path to success for us as highly sensitive entrepreneurs and leaders is the Shadow to Strengths Pathway.” – Heather Dominick

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/160

159 The Path to Empowerment May 10, 2023

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Today’s topic is the path to empowerment. When a life situation happens (as they continually do) do you feel like the burden of taking care of everyone always falls to you?

Maybe you feel like you’re consistently being wronged by others?

Or perhaps you feel as if, no matter what you do, all of the bad things just keep happening to you?

If any of these experiences sound familiar, you might be caught in “The Drama Triangle”, unconsciously acting out a pattern that has you taking on the shadow roles of Rescuer, Persecutor, or Victim – and essentially giving away your power.

Join me as I share how to move out of the dreaded drama triangle and onto the path of empowerment instead. Learn to shift out of the shadow roles of Rescuer, Persecutor, and Victim and into the empowering roles of Coach, Challenger, and Creator, powered by your Highly Sensitive Strengths of Empathy, Intuition, and Creativity.

“Each of us has a tendency towards a dominant drama, yet we all experience elements of each of the three dramas.” – Heather Dominick

Show Notes:

How to move out of the drama triangle
Ways to shift out of shadow roles
What is the NFD Theory
How to employ the Karpman Drama Triangle
What are tips for letting go of the desire for drama
What does the shadows-to-strengths pathway do

“Each of the three dramas ultimately is triggered by a sense of fear.” – Heather Dominick

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/159

158 Mastering Change Apr 26, 2023

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If there’s one thing I know about highly sensitives, it’s that change tends to shake us up. And if there’s one thing I know about change right now, it’s that collectively and personally, change – big and small – is happening for all of us more quickly and more frequently than ever before.

Here’s the real jiggy when it comes to change: it’s not really about what the change brings, but how you handle what the change brings.

You can choose to instinctually REACT from a place of anger, sadness, and resentfulness, as though something is happening to you. Or, even though you may still feel all of those things, you can choose to pause, manage your energy, access your highly sensitive strengths, and RESPOND from a place of calm and grace.

Listen in to learn what’s really needed to master your highly sensitive nervous system so you use the choice points of change as opportunities to create betterment in your business, your life, and in the world.

“Resistance is having your back to the ocean. Resilience is the willingness to face the waves.” – Heather Dominick