Episodes

  • 227. How to Clear a Money Fog With Mikelann Valterra

    227. How to Clear a Money Fog With Mikelann Valterra
    May 7 2024
    What can I afford? How much is enough? What is now possible? Now, these are big questions you want to be able to answer. Mikelann Valterra’s mission is to help all of us heal our relationship with money and really understand how to use it in today's world. What I hope you listen for today as we talk about her new book, Rise Above the Money Fog, is how we talk about money with our loved ones. (Check out her book here: https://www.riseabovethemoneyfog.com) Mikelann says people feel stress and anxiety over being financially vague. The money fog is this combination of the feelings we feel as a result of not being clear about our money. Fog stands for stands for when we're in fear about our money, when we're in overwhelm, or when we feel guilty around our money. “There's just all of this secrecy around money that we all carry because we have this message from childhood that says, don't talk about money,” says Mikelann. In her book, Mikelann describes three different types of families. (Listen in for their challenges!) As parents, normalize talking about money. For many, the first time they talk about money is college funding – that’s a bit late. Mikelann recommends helping children look at what they need versus what they want. List making with kids – what they want as gifts, or what they need for school – is a good way to talk about money. Then, over time, you bring your kids into family meetings. Some things cost a lot of money, and that's okay. Look at where we want to choose to put our money as a family. Mikelann says she has all her clients create needs and wants lists. “Many of us are suppressed in our needs and wants and our desires,” says Mikelann. “We have been trained to keep our needs small, and this has an impact on our relationship to money. Guilt starts to settle in of like either ‘I'm selfish for wanting it’, or ‘I should feel guilty for wanting it’ as opposed to ‘how could we make this happen?’ ” As people rise out of the money fog, they come to the place in their life where they know the answers to what they can afford, how much is enough and what's possible in their life. The problem is when transition happens, the answers to those three questions tend to change. That can catch us by surprise. And while some transitions are not voluntary (inflation, the pandemic, the economy), we still have to ask the questions. When people aren't clear about their money, it leads some people to overspend or underspend. They don't know how much is enough. They don't know what the goal is around earning. They know something's not quite working, but there's no clarity there. That's why the money fog creates so much anxiety. Mikelann says the answer to knowing how much is enough for you is to create an annual income and spending plan. “What's exciting is it's about vision,” says Mikelann. “What do you want your year to look like? And now let's put numbers in it.” She says most of the fear lies in getting to the number. But a lot of times, the number is different or lower than the what’s in her client’s heads. It’s powerful and empowering. Take the money fog quiz: https://seattle-money-coach.mykajabi.com/money-fog-quiz-ebook Connect with guest Mikelann Valterra: https://www.seattlemoneycoach.com Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: Do You Know Your Financial Personality: https://youtu.be/LCqgmcXJotM?si=ixf9XKkZ-AUuTzE4 What Women Need to Know to Manage Their Money: https://sarahwalton.com/money-management-women/ 3 Money Myths Keeping You Broke: https://youtu.be/za8Lvortnr0?si=qBroGpJDEUUXn506 You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.) #FinancialPsychology #MoneyTalk #FamilyMoney #MoneyManagement #FinancialFreedom #MoneyCoach #SalesCoach #MoneyFog #AskExpert
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    40 mins
  • 226. The 5 Stages of Healing With Anat Peri

    226. The 5 Stages of Healing With Anat Peri
    Apr 30 2024

    The stories that pull at us, that keep us anxious and upset, that we tell ourselves over and over -- I'm not good enough. This isn't going to work. I've already tried this. – they all come from what we haven't healed.

    Anat Peri has dedicated her life to teaching people how to heal, specifically when it comes to generational trauma. In this episode, Anat walks us through the five stages of healing and gives us a timeline for how long it takes to truly heal.

    Anat says self-improvement found her at 25. She did her first self-development program and instantly felt at home. She loved witnessing people having breakthroughs and discovering who they really are.

    But her business wouldn’t come for another 10 years. She says she felt like an imposter at the time. But she has no regrets, she herself, was healing and seeking the tools she needed.

    “It's messy, it's uncomfortable, it's scary, it's painful,” says Anat. “It's all the fields. It's the full spectrum of our feelings and our emotions.”

    Whether you're listening in and you are on your own healing journey, or you're a practitioner and you have clients understanding the five stages is going to show you either what stages you've skipped or what the stages are to guide you.

    Stage 1: Awareness. Everyone comes with some step of awareness, but there is so much depth and exploration, even just in that stage of learning what safety strategies you use that keep you stuck. What limiting beliefs are running the show?

    If you’re on your own healing journey, use a journal to dump everything unfiltered that is showing up and triggering you. Then go back and connect the dots by circling anywhere that you wrote “I feel … I am …” which will connect you back to your inner child. Your inner child is your emotion – it’s the part of you that feels and is holding your limiting beliefs.

    Stage 2: Acceptance. This is the hardest stage for people to get past; it's the stage where people need the most support, says Anat. Acceptance means letting go that there's anything to fix or change, and most of the time there's still this programing in us who judges and wants it to change.

    For some people, it's normal for them to live in chaos and anxiety. But then, being in peace and harmony, suddenly they're hypervigilant and self-sabotage it because it's unfamiliar.

    In this stage, it's learning to observe what is happening at the level of sensation. We label things as “good or bad,” which becomes now I feel this way, how do I fix it? Instead, ask yourself where do you feel it in your body? Describe the sensation. When you speak in sensation, there is no good or bad – there just is.

    “I want you to think about acceptance like you're in the ocean … and there's waves,” says Anat. “Your role in acceptance is you're learning to ride the wave instead of being afraid of it and dunking your head under or just breathing. You're riding it. You're learning to ride the wave of your emotion.”

    Listen in for the last three stages of healing. Remember, healing takes time. It might be 18 months later and then you're good, and you don't even remember what it was like to be that other person.

    Connect with guest Anat Peri: https://www.trainingcampforthesoul.com

    Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

    Committing Until It Takes with Kimberly Spencer
    https://sarahwalton.com/business-commitment/

    Sick of People Pleasing? Childhood Trauma Might Be The Source with Kalpa Gupta
    https://sarahwalton.com/people-pleasing-trauma-response/

    You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton

    Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people!

    (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.)

    #StagesOfHealing #InnerChild #Reparenting #HealYourInnerChild #AskExpert #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #WomenInBusiness #HealingJourney
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    50 mins
  • 225. Recognizing Your Self Worth When Things Feel “Too Hard” With Tiffany Houser

    225. Recognizing Your Self Worth When Things Feel “Too Hard” With Tiffany Houser
    Apr 23 2024
    Only you can compromise your self-worth. No one else can. This isn’t about your compensation or competence; we're talking about your intrinsic belief in yourself that you are worthy and valuable as a human being. Self-worth is often used incorrectly in the entrepreneurial world; we say things like “charge what you're worth.” (I’ve done it, too!) But you are a human being. Your worth is invaluable. As an executive and leadership coach and entrepreneur, Tiffany Houser knows firsthand about the rollercoaster ride of self-worth. As the founder of EVOLVE, Tiffany coaches senior leaders who are ready to experience powerful breakthroughs around their self-worth, authentic leadership style, vision, and purpose. “What gets a lot of us, if not all of us through change, is our worth and our value to know what has us resist change and what has us embrace change,” Tiffany says. “But then when we really looked at the behavior, the habits and all of the research that was going into this, we started to see it was our self-worth. It was how we valued our self, what we thought about ourself, how we treated ourselves.” Tiffany says compassion is rarely talked about in the workplace. It is an advantage to understand your own experience with self-worth. Those feelings of being an imposter, insecure, self-doubt or fear are nuanced for the individual. Her team looks at first is language and how we are speaking, writing, reading and even listening. These words are what is poking holes and having us compromise our own self-worth. What Tiffany tends to hear is, “Oh, I've been treated this way, or I have been passed over for this and no one has hired me for that, or I can't get my team to do XYZ.” That has nothing to do with your self-worth, your value or your impact, your contribution. You're either compromising your self-worth or you're grounded in your self-worth – there is no positive or negative. Tiffany helps to support people with neutralizing their language and their words. The number one word is “hard”. It’s too hard. Hard is a throwaway word. Your subconscious is using that without even really being descriptive about what is going on. The way Tiffany supports leaders or teams is to have them get specific. What exactly is hard? Tell me more. Think about all the teams and all the entrepreneurs that have thrown the baby out with the bathwater because of hard. They walk away from investments. They walk away from people. They walk away from clients. They walk away from opportunities. Because one aspect of that was not easy. Or maybe you just didn't have all the context around what that was. This is a lifelong journey of transformation, leadership and knowing your worth and value because the biggest things that evoke and provoke your imposter feelings and your insecurities are change and new. The world is constantly evolving around us and that's where that compassion piece comes back into play. So rather than beating yourself up, you get compassionate. And when you are compassionate with yourself and other people, that births curiosity rather than judgment or pressure. Mentioned: Self Worth Advantage® Online Course: https://www.selfworthadvantage.com/offers/29LBSesk/checkout Connect with guest Tiffany Houser: https://www.selfworthadvantage.com Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: Coaching the Unconscious Mind: Unlock Your Genius: https://sarahwalton.com/coaching-unconscious-mind/ Why You Shouldn't Under-Price Your Work: https://www.youtube.com/live/Hm0DhT4Lo88?si=5HFXzsMNCCJ616SV You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.) #SelfWorth #SelfConfidence #ImposterSyndrome #AskExpert #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #WomenInBusiness #EntrepreneurLifestyle
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    39 mins
  • 224. Master the Art of Hiring with Jamie Van Cuyk

    224. Master the Art of Hiring with Jamie Van Cuyk
    Apr 16 2024

    If you start a small business, you're the one doing everything and it takes a lot of courage and a lot of trust to start to turn things over to someone else. Today’s guest will share three steps to help you delegate and hire the right people.

    Jamie Van Cuyk, the owner and lead strategist of Growing Your Team, helps women who own small businesses become confident leaders who hire right every single time.

    Drawing from over 15 years of leadership experience, Jamie teaches her clients how to master the art of hiring. By learning the dynamics of each company and their specific needs, she helps them find their perfect-fit, long-lasting team members and avoid the hiring and firing cycle.

    Jamie’s journey to entrepreneurship wasn’t a straight line. She learned everything she could about running a business while still in corporate. She went into management to learn how to manage people and took on special projects to gain insight into other departments.

    When Jamie quit her job, she chose to try to start a software development company on the side while she cared for her young daughter. She did not know how to program, but her husband did.

    She lasted six months learning to program before she realized it wasn’t for her.

    “I realized I loved consulting,” says Jamie. “The main projects that I ended up working on were all around leadership development. One was a big training program for some of their leaders, and another one was helping a first-time manager really come fully into their role.”

    She had a Chamber of Commerce membership, and she started networking with small business owners attending those events.

    “I kept hearing over and over again that hiring was their number one problem,” says Jamie. Her plan was to help corporate clients, but she heard again and again the need for hiring solutions at a small business level.

    Her business now focuses on hiring, education and really focusing on narrowing down to that ideal candidate and making sure the business owner has what they need to find that candidate.

    Even with this service offering, Jamie had to change her mindset and realize that she too could delegate tasks and enhance her offerings.

    Jamie outlines three steps to build trust when hiring a candidate to delegate your tasks to.

    Be clear on who you’re going to hire. How are they going to fit into your organization? What is the expected communication style? Who are you as a manager? What does it mean for someone to be successful in this role?
    Set up a hiring process that brings you directly to your ideal candidate. You need to be specific. It's okay with your job posting to turn people off.
    Onboarding takes time. The onboarding path and timeframe will look different for every position, but you have to train on all your expectations. Keep that in mind is even if someone is an expert at what they do and they're bringing their expertise to your business, you have to teach them how to do it inside your organization.

    It's that constant feedback loop and being able to let them do small things incrementally until they figure out how to do it the way you want it done.
    Connect with Jamie Van Cuyk: https://growingyourteam.com

    Jamie’s hiring checklist: https://growingyourteam.com/hiring-checklist/

    Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

    What Workplace Culture Really Means
    https://sarahwalton.com/workplace-culture/

    Do You Know Who Your Team Is?
    https://youtu.be/9ax9hDZQZ3I?si=iSkNYpmZeXxwA9dB


    You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton

    Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people!

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    #HowToHire #BuildATeam #HRPartyOfOne #HireTheBest
    #HumanResourcesTips #Hiring #AskExpert #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #SalesCoach
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    35 mins
  • 223. Feeling Stressed? Catch Your Breath with Harmony Slater

    223. Feeling Stressed? Catch Your Breath with Harmony Slater
    Apr 9 2024

    With stress management and spiritual wellness techniques, Harmony Slater is focused on supporting spiritually curious entrepreneurs with science backed Wu to eliminate burnout.

    If you're running a business and you're feeling the day-to-day stress Harmony gives us tangible, workable tips in this episode that you can start using right away for free.

    Harmony is a National Board-Certified Health Coach, trained in Quantum Coaching and in the Mastery Method. She's also Certified Ashtanga Yoga Teacher, one of less than 20 women in the world to hold this honor, after training in India for 15 years.
    Harmony says she has always felt a deep spiritual connection. She recalls her mother taking her to various churches, teaching her how to meditate and about yoga.

    “It felt like for me that this idea of God, a higher power, was very much just normal and something that was real. … But also there was a keen understanding that that doesn’t always show up in one way,” says Harmony.

    Her journey took her to China to study Buddhism and India where she learned about Indian philosophy, culture and practicing yoga.

    “I think that you can connect to something that really feels like it's from your heart, and it doesn't have to be the same as someone else, but that the principles are the same, right?” says Harmony.

    There are heart-centered emotions and values such as love, peace, goodwill, generosity, courage and compassion that every religion talks about.

    Harmony says the idea of going it alone – that you have to do everything yourself and work hard feeds into the myth that the harder you work, the more you’re going to get and the more successful you will be.

    But this creates a disconnect. It keeps us in a constant state of fight or flight. You start to see division and sides and it creates all kinds of chaos, physically in our bodies and mentally and emotionally in our experience of the world and with each other.

    For example, if you’re in a fight or flight state because you’re stressed out at work and then you get cut off in traffic, your response might be over the top.

    Overstimulation, hypervigilance, fear of the future and the desire to change the past can have a direct effect on our nervous system. It can reinforce the idea that you’re not safe and affect your trust in yourself, your decisions and can ramp up stress.

    Breathwork is powerful. It's in control of our heart rate, our digestion, reproduction activities, and hormones.

    Our breath is the one function we have control over, explains Harmony. Our inhale is connected more to a sympathetic state. It's leading, it's expansive, it's energizing. The exhale is connected to that surrender, that resting, that relaxation, the parasympathetic state.

    People reflect and mirror each other because we have this awareness of what someone else's energy is like, says Harmony. We co-regulate. If you're someone who is in that beautiful state feeling relaxed and calm -- you're automatically more attractive to everyone around you. They want to be near you because they just feel better by being in your presence.

    Download Harmony’s guided audio for a two-minute breathwork exercise and check our her course on Ancient Breathing: https://harmonyslater.com/ancient-breathing-2-0
    Connect with Harmony Slater: https://harmonyslater.com/

    Other GoG episodes you might want to check out:

    Curious About the World of Spiritual Energy?
    https://sarahwalton.com/karen-foote/

    World Events, Stress & Your Ambition — How They Go Together
    https://sarahwalton.com/stress-ambition/

    You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton

    Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people!

    (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.)

    #breathwork #BreathingExercises #pranayama #TakeADeepBreath #ParasympatheticNervousSystem #StressRelief #AskExpert #IntuitiveBusinessCoach
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    48 mins
  • 222. Does Networking Freak You Out? Cara Steinmann Makes It Fun

    222. Does Networking Freak You Out? Cara Steinmann Makes It Fun
    Apr 2 2024
    It’s time to take back the word networking so it doesn't freak us out. Connecting with other entrepreneurs should be something you enjoy doing because you care about people -- that is what’s at the heart of networking. Cara Steinmann is the founder of the Ravel Collective. She helps purpose driven women who are service providers build strategic networks that lead to referrals, collaboration, visibility and fun. If you've ever thought, I don't like this part of my life, or I'd like to pivot around this area, and yet you felt guilty about it, this conversation is going to be really helpful for you. It was very honest. It was very gentle. But it was also kind of unusual in its vulnerability. Cara was working in marketing for 15 years, and when Covid hit she realized she hated her business and she was miserable. She was scared because she knew she didn’t want to work someone else, but she also couldn’t picture what she wanted to do. It was like her imagination went out the window. She acknowledged that feeling miserable in her business was a hard thing to admit to herself. Otherwise, she has a great family and loves her life; she didn’t want to seem ungrateful. Cara fired her clients and blew through her savings trying to figure out who she was. She earned a coaching certification, and while it wasn’t her next step, Cara says she learned so much about self-limiting beliefs. “It really kind of set me on this path of, ‘well, I must not believe that I can have it all, that I can be happy,’” says Cara. “There's something here that's preventing me from making the changes that I want, or having the kind of happiness that I want. I have to figure out what it is. But we have this idea that we're supposed to just figure out what we're supposed to do.” Cara used personality tests, StrengthsFinder and Kolbe to help her find where she was most consistent. She also figured out her core values, which she found to be most valuable of all including when it came to networking. Money comes into your business through people, so be intentional about who you decide to network with. Cara says you can have friends who are in a position to refer you that might be all you need. It's really easy to find those people if you look at how they act and what they say. “When you like people, you want them to win and you send them business, and you buy things from them,” says Cara. “It’s not that complicated; just work with people you like.” The level of confidence it takes to just put content out there and not be a perfectionist about it is a challenge. There is a big deficit in women especially when it comes to creative confidence. There is an opportunity there to build reciprocity by sending the person a message saying how it resonated with you, or telling them they did a great job. People want to be praised for the content they create. Eventually you might get to a deeper level with someone who is in a position to refer you or help you get visibility. Mentioned in this episode: Dare to Lead by Brené Brown: https://amzn.to/3Vt49jq WOLFPACK by Abby Wambach: https://amzn.to/3TryiwS Connect with Cara Steinmann: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carasteinmann and https://www.ravelcollective.com/ Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: Never Ask, “So What Do You Do?” Again https://sarahwalton.com/colleen/ How Values Make You Money https://sarahwalton.com/jennifer-kem/ Building Community Online with Elizabeth Henson https://sarahwalton.com/building-community-online/ You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.) #Reciprocity #BusinessNetworking #BusinessReferrals #ReferralNetworking #NetworkingTips #BusinessConnections #AskExpert #SalesCoach #IntuitiveBusinessCoach
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    33 mins
  • 221. Sharing Women’s Success – Who is a Torchbearer? with Wamite Muthura

    221. Sharing Women’s Success – Who is a Torchbearer? with Wamite Muthura
    Mar 26 2024
    There are women that stand beside us and there are women that go before us, and there are women that are coming behind us. If you feel alone, know that you are surrounded, whether you believe it or not, by torchbearers or mini torches behind you, trying to make the path better. Wamite Muthura is the founder and chief storyteller of Career Safari, a platform that spotlights and celebrates the diverse career journeys of women. It offers authentic advice and resources to help women more boldly navigate the challenges of career life and redefine their own definition of success. If you've been looking for permission to expand where you are right now, or to maybe break some of the molds that you're seeing in front of you, the Career Safari and this conversation with Wamite might make a difference in how you're viewing your next career moves. When Wamite started Career Safari, she was lost and trying to define what success looked like for her. She had found passion very early on working at an NGO, but was at a point where she knew she didn’t want to do that anymore. “So much of my identity was tied into what I was doing,” says Wamite. “It took a lot of unwinding, and there was several little things that happened to kind of help me understand who I am.” Ultimately, it was the stories from women she was working with who gave her hope and light. These torchbearers were vulnerable about their career stories and lives – facing divorce, leaving countries, and changing careers. “I want to give diverse stories a platform … and I want them to have evidence and proof that there are people that look like you, that are probably doing things that you're already doing, or something similar to what you want to do,” says Wamite. “And we're not alone in this journey.” She notes that no matter what industry, most of the women she’s meeting are still facing gender barriers. Even in fields that tend to be women-dominated such as teaching and nursing, when you reach the leadership levels where decisions are being made, they’re facing those barriers. “If there are millions of us that are out there starting podcasts, starting businesses, whatever it may be, starting media channels that are focused solely on women's empowerment, that's still not enough,” says Wamite. “We are dealing with generations of toxic images that we are trying to counteract and change.” One torchbearer story that really resonates with Wamite was of a doctor attending a global health conference, who realized there were no women on stage. She started a hashtag that became a global movement and eventually founded Women in Global Health. Wamite says the doctor originally went to another woman leader asking, what are we going to do about this? And the woman’s wise response was, why don’t you do something about it? It was that nudge inside her that fueled her passion to make the change. Those little nudges can guide us. For Wamite, she doesn’t like how women are treated in the workplace, which is why she built her platform to share the community that helps empower women. Let’s get to it! Connect with Wamite Muthura: https://www.thecareersafari.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/careersafari/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CareerSafari/ Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: How to Ask Your Way to Success https://sarahwalton.com/melanie/ 3 Things Every Successful Woman Must Have https://sarahwalton.com/3-things-for-success/ What Workplace Culture Really Means https://sarahwalton.com/workplace-culture/ You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.) #WomenEntrepreneursSuccessStories #EmpoweringWomen #AskExpert #SuccessStories #WomenEntrepreneurs #WomenSupportingWomen #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #WomenInBusiness #CareerAdvancement
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    25 mins
  • 220. Top 3 Strengths of the Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur With Heather Dominick

    220. Top 3 Strengths of the Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur With Heather Dominick
    Mar 19 2024
    As entrepreneurs, we’re living in a time when we get flooded, overwhelmed, and hit new heights of frustration or even fear. There is so much change, so much intensity and as humans we’re seeing a collapse of faith and institutions and movements for social change. It's enough to send highly sensitive people running for the hills. Heather Dominick is both highly sensitive and highly successful. For more than a decade, she’s trained and mentored highly sensitive entrepreneurs (HSEs) and leaders so they are able to work less while making more impact and income. Highly sensitive people have a nervous system wired to take in stimulation at a much higher degree; they feel it more deeply. “For those of us who are highly sensitive entrepreneurs and leaders, we're going to take that feeling of a deep sense of challenge and rather than running from it or getting flooded and overwhelmed, we're going to rise to meet it,” says Heather. Heather outlines the top three strengths of an HSE. The first is intuition, which she describes as thinking of the nervous system like an antenna. When you’re trained, that access to stimulation isn’t only negative. Heather trains leaders to intentionally use intuition, which knows three to six seconds ahead of your head what to do. When you can flex that muscle, you’ll be able to use it to support you in decision making and understanding what those you serve need. The second main strength is empathy. Empathy is really being able to utilize a nervous system to have a clear, keen understanding of what another person is needing, when another person is feeling what another person is thinking. And lastly, Heather groups three together – though they are each their own separate strength: deep thinker, deep feeler and deep listener. These are all systems that will support you when you it comes to setting up systems for operations, marketing, selling, and leadership. One thing HSEs usually need to readdress is time. Heather refers to working with time as a relationship. Most of us are taught to manage time. But the 20% born into the world as highly sensitive, this strategy might not be effective. It tends to be too constrictive. When you make that shift from “time is something that I have to manage”, to “time is something that I can relate with”, then it's about how you want to engage. For HSEs, the essence of successful relationships in any regard, time included, is what do you need to be at your best? Discover if you need to, and then understand what your natural circadian rhythm is. Because if you take in stimulation at a much higher degree, and you take a time management system and kind of slap it on, and it doesn't work -- that's going to be massively overstimulating. You're going to have to work extra hard to try to get something that's supposed to help you, to work for you. Versus if you understand your circadian rhythm, you’ll know when you work best. You can design your schedule and productivity around your circadian rhythm and take less time to actually create more. And this will look different for every highly sensitive person. Heather has written a book, DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution, about how to understand your own rhythm and apply it to your day-to-day productivity. “When there is that opening, there is an access to creativity, inspired insights, and you can literally quote unquote get things done,” says Heather. #HighlySensitiveEntrepreneur #HighlySensitivePerson #HSP #AskExpert #IntuitiveBusinessCoach #EntrepreneurLife #SalesCoach Read Heather’s book, DIFFERENT: The Highly Sensitive Leadership Revolution: https://amzn.to/3QycnUQ Free Gift: Are you a highly sensitive entrepreneur: https://www.hsesuccessguide.com Connect with Heather Dominick: https://www.businessmiracles.com/ Other GoG episodes you might want to check out: What You REALLY NEED from an Intuitive Business Coach https://sarahwalton.com/need-a-business-coach/ The Art of Self-Control https://sarahwalton.com/take-back-self-control/ You can check out our podcast interviews on YouTube, too! http://bit.ly/YouTubeSWalton Thank you so much for listening. I’m so honored that you’re here and would be so grateful if you could leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts by clicking here, scrolling to the bottom, and clicking “Write a review.” Then we’ll get to inspire even more people! (If you’re not sure how to leave a review, you can watch this quick tutorial.)
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