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157 Intuitive Goal Setting Apr 12, 2023

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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 boosts 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 feeling 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

Show Notes:

How to set goals as a highly sensitive entrepreneur
What are highly sensitive strengths
Ways to connect with your big goals
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

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/157

156 Leading with Empathy Mar 29, 2023

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Our highly sensitive strength of empathy helps us relate and connect deeply with others, giving us the ability to inspire and empower their lives.

Yet, it’s common to disconnect from empathy as a strength due to the limiting beliefs we’ve developed from past unconscious training. Just because you can imagine or understand how another person is feeling, doesn’t mean you’re responsible for that feeling.

Join me as I share a hot take on empathy versus sympathy and how you’re actually meant to use it as one of your highly sensitive strengths. Learn to lead with empathy, in service to fulfilling your business and life mission as a highly sensitive entrepreneur and leader.

“We have the ability to be empathetic as a strength without the automatic trigger of the empath mirror neuron response.” – Heather Dominick

Show Notes:

What is the definition of empathy
How to use empathy as a highly sensitive strength
What is the difference between empathy and sympathy
What is the difference between empathy and being an empath
Can empathy be trained
How to cultivate empathy as a strength

“When you are caught in perfectionism you are preoccupied with yourself even when you try to convince yourself that you are focusing on someone else.” – Heather Dominick

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/156

155 Releasing Perfectionism Mar 15, 2023

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The Highly Sensitive Shadow of perfectionism is an inborn trait that influences the way we see and process the world. Perfectionism is linked to anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and a host of other mental health issues that highlight just how unhealthy operating from this shadow is.

So how do you work with your highly sensitive shadow of perfectionism?

Listen in to learn the key to flipping the switch on perfectionism (and the limiting beliefs and overwhelm that come with it). As well as a step-by-step process that you can begin to put into practice to support you with rewiring your nervous system. Get ready to show up in the world from a place of optimal health and well-being – mentally, physically, and financially.

“Perfectionism is often mistakenly seen in our society and western influenced culture as desirable or even necessary for success.” – Heather Dominick

Show Notes:

What is perfectionism
What is the key to releasing perfectionism
How can highly sensitive leaders work with their perfectionism
What are the drawbacks to perfectionism
How to use the AUK Process
What triggers perfectionism
Why is it important for highly sensitive entrepreneurs to access their empathy
How is perfectionism related to judgment

“Perfectionism may be hardwired in the nervous system.” – Heather Dominick

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Listen to The Business Miracles Podcast Episode 154: Expand Your Mindset

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/155

154 Expand Your Mindset Mar 01, 2023

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Today I talk about how to expand your mindset. Growing up as a highly sensitive person, most of us weren’t taught how to effectively work with a nervous system that overstimulates so quickly and easily. As a result, we often default to what I call “either/or thinking”.

“Either it’s perfect OR it’s a disaster.” “Either I do only what I want right now or I’m stuck doing what I don’t want forever.” “Either everything is easy and successful, not challenging, or I’m sad, stuck, stressed, angry, a failure, not having fun, and don’t know my purpose.”

Sound familiar?

Either/Or thinking is a learned behavior as a result of missed attempts to manage anxiety. And a very common experience for those of us who are highly sensitive.

This means – Good News Alert! – it can also be unlearned.

In this podcast episode, I’m sharing how to unravel yourself and expand your mindset from limited either/or thinking to access a both/and mindset instead – opening up a whole new world of possibilities and creative solutions.

“Either/Or thinking is the opposite of the process of re-return and recommitment.” – Heather Dominick

Show Notes:

How to manage perfectionism
Signs that you are struggling with perfectionism
What is the relationship between overthinking and the shadow of overprotection
Examples of either/or thinking
How to move away from either/or thinking
Ways to expand your mindset

“Developing a both/and mindset has been proven via research that it is learnable and possible at any age.” – Heather Dominick

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/154

153 Kara Lee Golota – Hatching the Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution Feb 15, 2023

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Welcome to this special series of the Business Miracles podcast: Hatching The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution – You’ll be hearing from select highly sensitive leader authors who contributed their real stories of creating more impact and more income to my book DIFFERENT as found at www.differentthebook.com

Listen in to be inspired by my conversation with Kara Lee Golota, who inspires and empowers others with financial gardening and deep experiences of connection through horses and nature.

“The journey of having an outer purpose is actually more about the inner journey of how we’re showing up as a leader.” – Kara Lee Golota

Show Notes:

What are some tools to mitigate highly sensitive fears
Tips for tweaking your work habits
How Kara finds purpose with horses
What can we learn from horses
How to set professional boundaries
How does the highly sensitive leadership training program help
What we lose when we follow other people’s rules
Kara’s final advice

“It’s by slowing things down, by doing the smallest little thing: looking at the resistance.” – Kara Lee Golota

Links and Resources:

Connect with Kara at Love Through Nature: http://www.lovethroughnature.com

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/153

152 Jessica Procini – Hatching the Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution Feb 08, 2023

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Listen in to be inspired by my conversation with Jessica, founder and leader of Escape From Emotional Eating, helping women on a mission to heal the roots of their emotional eating so they can embody their full potential.

“I was running my life from place of adrenaline and cortisol.” – Jessica Procini

Show Notes:

What do healthy work boundaries look like
Why did Jessica contribute to the book Different
What does a day in the life of a highly sensitive entrepreneur look like
When is it okay to cry at work
How life changes when you accept that you are highly sensitive

“I really found my voice and feel really supported in my marriage for my essential self.” – Jessica Procini

Links and Resources:

Connect with Jessica at Escape From Emotional Eating: https://escapefromemotionaleating.com/

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/152

150 Melissa Anders – Hatching the Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution Jan 25, 2023

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Listen in to be inspired by my conversation with Melissa Anders who uses her highly sensitive strengths that make her a natural writing and life coach to serve and support academics and academic professionals who have the desire to take personal responsibility and do academia differently by moving away from old “sink or swim” approaches of academic culture to innovative approaches of being supported and transforming through their work together.

“I was able to use my intuition to stay in process with sharing the gifts that I was given through that clearing and bringing in the inspiration that was meant to be shared.” – Melissa Anders

Show Notes:

What called Melissa to be a contributing author to Different
How do highly sensitive people work differently
How has Melissa’s work outlook changed
What is the process of intuitive planning
Why is the Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution important

“The more that I learn, the more that others learn.” – Melissa Anders

Links and Resources:

Connect with Melissa Anders:
Website: https://melissaeanders.com/
LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/melissaeanders

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/150

149 Macy Robinson – Hatching the Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution Jan 18, 2023

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Listen in to be inspired by my conversation with Macy Robinson, who is following her intuition to fulfill her purpose as an energy and mindfulness coach.

“The business became my path to personal growth.” – Macy Robinson

Show Notes:

How to face your next steps in the face of the unknown
What is Macy’s favorite part of her business
How Business Miracles changed Macy’s work outlook
What does it mean to train your intuition
What is the value of community for highly sensitive entrepreneurs
Why is it important to Macy that she is a highly sensitive leader

“You can lie to others. You can’t lie to yourself.” – Macy Robinson

Links and Resources:

Connect with Macy’s business page on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/macysmindartistry/
Connect with Macy’s personal page on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/macy_askari_robinson/

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/149

148 Stephanie Bonte Lebair – Hatching the Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution Jan 11, 2023

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Listen in to be inspired by my conversation with Stephanie, a professional singer-turned-voice, presentation, and sales coach who helps singers, speakers, and business professionals leverage their voices for more influence.

“I have always been able to read people’s emotions…and I always maybe falsely attributed it to the fact that I was so outgoing.” – Stephanie Bonte Lebair

Show Notes:

Why Stephanie got involved with the book Different
How to find success by highlighting your highly sensitive qualities
What has shifted for Stephanie since working with Heather
Can extroverts be highly sensitive
What is Stephanie’s advice for skeptics
How to figure out if you are highly sensitive
What is the value of process

“As a highly sensitive leader, the choice points are so key in being able to up level how you are showing up in your leadership role and being willing to actively pursue creativity. – Stephanie Bonte Lebair

Links and Resources:

Get your copy of Different by Heather Dominick: http://www.differentthebook.com
Connect with Stephanie Bonte Lebair: https://empoweryourvoice.com/

Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/148

147 Hatching The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution Jan 04, 2023

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Most of us who are highly sensitive didn’t have parents, teachers, or mentors in our lives who understood that our nervous system processes the world differently. Because we were misunderstood, we didn’t receive the support we needed to learn how to use our highly sensitive nature to work for us. Instead, we learned to pretend we are someone we’re not; to disallow our needs, to devalue our worth, and to hide our difference.

In this episode, I’m sharing how to shift the highly sensitive shadow of people pleasing so you can show up authentically in the world to fulfill your destiny, your vocation, and your life purpose. It’s time to embrace your differences and accept the challenge of learning to lead and live your life from a place of your unique, highly sensitive strengths.

“Most of us were not taught how to use our nervous system to work for us.” – Heather Dominick