Business Miracles

As an HSP in business and leadership, it’s important to develop an expanded mindset, to be mentally prepared to think beyond what everyone else around you thinks so you can then behave differently than everyone else around you behaves, especially in times of intensity. Developing an expanded mindset is the mental form of going to the physical gym. You don’t go to the gym and take one yoga class or lift one set of weights and expect results. You go back every day until it’s 30 days and then 60 days before you begin to see results. The same goes for developing an expanded mindset. It is a continuous process that requires attention and study to prepare for future moments of challenge and difficulty. It is this mindset that fuels purpose and gives you the courage to stay the course and claim a place among the 20%, as an HSP, who influence betterment for others, whether that be family, friends, coworkers or clients. In this episode I read an excerpt from chapter 4 of my book “Different”, which talks about the importance of developing an expanded mindset as an HSP in business and leadership who is committed to change, growth and evolution. I share the key components necessary to be in continuous consistent practice with challenging your mindset so you can shift your thoughts and beliefs to support you in acting differently, and therefore bringing about a different result. All to help you remain resilient and stay on the path of serving through your purpose-driven business by choosing the way of effortlessness. “If you are committed to change growth and evolution, then you will dedicate yourself to developing an expanded mindset.” – Heather Dominick Listen and Learn: “It’s important to go beyond only energy management to all the ways you are intentionally challenging your mindset such as what you are listening to, what you are reading, what you are writing, and what you are creating that’s visual.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.comhttp://www.stoptheoverwhelm.com/http://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/190

As we cross the mid-year point, this is a great opportunity to check in and reflect on the past six months to acknowledge what you’ve accomplished. However, typically for highly sensitives, what also tends to immediate come to mind are all the things you have not yet accomplished. This tendency can so easily overshadow what you have created so far and cause you to want to quit. Yet, to get what you most want, the key is to celebrate how far you’ve come. This is the way we go from feeling hopeless to hopeful and staying the course rather than quitting and giving up. In this episode I talk about the importance of claiming and celebrating success as a mark of highly sensitive leadership and how this essential practice of visibility and vulnerability is crucial to getting what we want in business and life. I discuss the two reasons HSPs are often so resistant to celebrate what has already been created and how we can shift this. I also share the concept of pacing, like when running a marathon, to stay engaged in the process of transformation in order to combat the experience of fatigue that we bump up against in the final stretch, where sabotage, lashing out, and defaulting to coping often occurs. This teaching is a great opportunity to check in, acknowledge how far you’ve come, fill up with some hope so you can keep going in your business and life growth. Which, ultimately, is about fulfilling and living your life purpose. “It’s the final stretch of a marathon that’s most challenging because this is when the delirium of fatigue sets in…There is a sense that things are helpless, there’s a sense that things are hopeless and it’s right at that delirium of fatigue moment in running the marathon when you want to throw up your hands and quit.” – Heather Dominick Listen and Learn: “This place right here, right now is the place to more critically pay attention more than ever.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/189

Most highly sensitives will use the majority of their life force energy for the majority of their life to do whatever they can to avoid tension. They will do anything and everything to protect themselves from even the possibility of overwhelm. Yet, to be a self-empowered highly sensitive leader, we need to be willing to be pioneers and actively seek out opportunities for transformation. So instead of avoiding tension, we can choose to lean into tension and work with it consciously and intentionally. This focus on the intentional use of tension is not so that we can get through it, but instead be stronger, calmer, and more joyful in however it is that we are meant to answer the call of our purpose. In this episode, I discuss how as highly sensitives we can intentionally use tension in order to continue to create and prosper. I share the four key steps to support this intentional use of tension when we choose to lean in and recognize it as a call for transformation versus destruction. This approach can give us a strength to success in business as an HSP no matter what is happening around us – a power to step up and into the royal advisor role we are called to be in business and leadership. “Most highly sensitives will use most of their life force energy for the majority of their life to do whatever they can to avoid tension.” – Heather Dominick Listen and Learn: “You have chosen a path of empowerment through entrepreneurship and leadership.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/188

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: “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: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/187

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: “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: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.comhttp://www.myhsetype.comhttps://www.businessmiracles.com/training-program/ Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/186

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: “Conscious creation of boundaries for HSPs is the opposite of the shadows of people pleasing, over responsibility, overprotection, perfectionism.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/185

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: “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: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/184

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: “It’s time to stop pretending your intuition is less valuable than logic.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.shiftfromsurvivetothrive.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/183

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: “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: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.stoptheoverwhelm.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/182

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: “The concept of privilege of agency is very foreign to us.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.stoptheoverwhelm.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/181

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: “Our life purpose is not something we find, it is something that we choose.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.stoptheoverwhelm.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/180

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: “We are faced in any given moment with potentially having our nervous system hijacked.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.stoptheoverwhelm.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/179

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: “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: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.stoptheoverwhelm.comhttp://www.myhsetype.comhttps://www.businessmiracles.com/177 Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/178

There’s no reward for being over-busy except burnout. That old-century definition of success, “the busier you are the more you’ve gotten done” is over. As we continue to live through exceptional world events, learning to consciously use our nervous system to stay focused is much more effective for us HSPs in business and leadership than a never-ending to-do list. In this episode you’ll learn: As an HSP in business and leadership not only does burnout feel bad – it won’t get you paid. “It is your intentions backed by the power of free will that creates actualization.” – Heather Dominick Listen and Learn: “Your weekly plan is your intention in motion.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.stoptheoverwhelm.comhttp://www.myhsetype.comhttps://www.businessmiracles.com/176 Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/177

In this episode, we’re dismantling the old “New Year, New Me” philosophy that discounts where you’ve come from, how you’ve grown, and what you’ve accomplished up until now. Listen in as I share how to counteract old patterns of setting New Year resolutions that leave you feeling unmotivated and unaccomplished and instead use the power of Intention to: Let the Power of Intention lead you forward into new levels of success with strength and resilience as an HSP in business and leadership. “There is such a cavernous difference between aim and plan, so I love that intentions include both.” – Heather Dominick Listen and Learn: “How appropriate to begin the year setting intentions for the healing process of a wound to make the conscious decision to use what has worked against us in the past to work for us in the now.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.stoptheoverwhelm.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/176

When we are trained as empowered HSPs in business and life we have consistent access to our strengths such as intuition, creativity, and our ability to be spiritual by nature. And the gateway to so many aspects of our strengths is hope. In this episode you’ll learn how to use hope to accelerate your ability to take action in your business by: “Time is different now.” – Heather Dominick Listen and Learn: “Hope secured by the power of faith expedites the creative process and provides the energy to call forth what is desired.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.survivetothrive.comhttp://www.myhsetype.comhttps://www.businessmiracles.com/how-to-use-hope-to-fuel-your-hsp-visionary-strength/ Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/175

In this episode, special guest Jill Wade, DDS – award-winning dentist, pioneering the profession in dental wellness and cosmetic dentistry – and I are busting the myth you can’t be highly sensitive AND highly successful. Jill and I are longtime colleagues and friends, and she is also an accomplished member of the Business Miracles community who has optimized the highly sensitive leadership training programs to create systems to scale her business, grow her team, add three new doctors to her practice, move her successful business from 1.5 million revenue to now being on track this year for 5 million, all while shifting from working full-time four days a week to two days a week. I invite you to listen in as we share: All with way less effort – by doing things differently, in a way that’s meant to work for you by tapping into the strengths of your uniquely designed nervous system to create sustainable success in your business. “Do you know what ended up being my number one referral base? My patients and my doctor relationships because I help them take better care of their patients.” – Jill Wade Listen and Learn: “We each realized that we have redefined the metrics of success for ourselves. That just struck me as such an indicator of highly sensitive leadership.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: Special Podcast Series: Building Your Business Part-Time as a Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and LeaderSpecial Podcast Series: Highly Sensitive Leadership as a Professional Connect with Jill Wade: http://stonebriarsmiledesign.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@stonebriarsmiledesignhttps://www.instagram.com/stonebriarsmiledesignhttps://www.facebook.com/stonebriarsmiledesign Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/174

Typically the end of the year is fraught with excitement, anticipation and maybe even a little bit of dread thrown into the mix. It’s all too common to feel overstimulated and overwhelmed with so many places to be, things to do, people to connect with, and obligations to fulfill. Add in all of the other aspects of these never-ending exceptional times that we have been managing ourselves through and it’s no surprise that so many HSPs turn into massive balls of walking anxiety. “Just coping” through the overstimulation that your nervous system experiences will leave you disconnected, disassociated from yourself, your feelings, and your experiences. Yet, these exceptional times are not for us to bury our heads in the sand and try to simply get through. These times are an opportunity to rise up and this time of year heightens that opportunity more than ever. This episode will teach you: “These exceptional times are not for us to bury our head in the sand and try to get it to get through; these times are an opportunity to rise up and this time of year heightens that opportunity more than ever.” – Heather Dominick Listen and Learn: “That uncertainty of feeling often comes from the experience of typically only coping through the overstimulation that our nervous system experiences and coping only or being in the shadow state of being highly sensitive typically will have you disconnected, disassociated from yourself, then therefore your feelings, and then therefore your experience.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.stoptheoverwhelm.comhttp://www.myHSEtype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/173

The HSE shadow of comparison has a tricky way of sneaking up on you and catching you unaware. One minute you’re scrolling through social media and the next, seemingly out of nowhere, you find yourself feeling less than, not enough, and like you just don’t measure up. If you’re not careful, it will suck you dry of happiness before you even realize what’s happening. For us Highly Sensitive Entrepreneurs and Leaders, the path of consciously rewiring our nervous system to be able to function optimally in all parts of our business and lives includes actively working to change our relationship with comparison. In this episode you’ll learn: “Comparison is all about how you choose to use it.” – Heather Dominick Listen and Learn: “There’s been a habitual pattern created over time, often enforced by our family of origin to register the difference between yourself and someone who’s not highly sensitive as less than or not enough.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: http://www.differentthebook.comhttp://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/172

No one likes having a difficult conversation – especially if you’re an HSP whose default tendency is to do whatever can be done to AVOID any type of difficult conversation. However, as a Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader, avoiding difficult conversations is not only disempowering, it could also be costing you money. Listen now to learn how to begin the process of mastering challenging conversations so you can express yourself clearly and confidently when it comes to: “By avoiding difficult conversations, we are then living the limiting belief that unbearable emotions are your burden.” – Heather Dominick Listen and Learn: “For us as highly sensitive entrepreneurs and leaders to avoid difficult conversations is actually disempowering.” – Heather Dominick Links and Resources: https://www.businessmiracles.com/how-to-shift-a-difficult-conversation-into-an-empowered-conversation/http://www.myhsetype.com Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/171