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Business Miracles

Heather Dominick

As a Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur you are coded to experience a higher level of success and prosperity. Join Business Mentor Heather Dominick as she teaches you how to create a shift in perception, and provide genuine practical assistance that will have you walking away with a business altering and life changing experience, a Business Miracle.

  • 18 minutes 6 seconds
    199 Mastering Reactions to Change as an HSP in Business

    There is just so much that is in motion in the world right now and so much that is unpredictable. Constant change is guaranteed; to try to resist this constant change is only going to make it that much more difficult to navigate. Here’s the good news: managing change as an HSP in business and leadership is a skill that can be learned. When you commit to this process as a core practice, your self esteem strengthens, you’re more easily able to access acceptance and you develop a genuine confidence to manage and master ongoing change as a highly sensitive leader. You can then stop using energy to try to keep change from happening and instead channel that energy into creating the results you want no matter what is transpiring around you.

    In today’s episode, I share how we are currently experiencing constant change and unpredictability and that the times we are in are not going to be over anytime soon. I discuss the importance of managing our reactions to change as highly sensitive entrepreneurs and leaders and how, now more than ever, we need to commit to the path of mastery in order to grow and succeed through these times in our businesses and our relationships. To better understand this path of mastery, I talk about attachment styles with a focus on shifting from the anxious attachment style to the secure attachment style. I explore the ways that resistance to shifting from anxious to secure shows up, sharing examples I often see with members I mentor in the Highly Sensitive Leadership Training Programs and how by leaning in, joining together, and with the power of aligned community we can truly transcend the ongoing, ever-changing times we are collectively living through.

     

    “There is way too much that’s unpredictable, way too many people behaving unpredictably that to try to resist the constant of change is only going to make it that much more difficult for yourself.” – Heather Dominick

    Listen and Learn:

    • 5:13: How to strengthen our reactions to change
    • 5:53: What can crisis look like to highly sensitive people
    • 6:59: What are the highly sensitive attachment styles and how do they respond to change
    • 10:04: Ways that highly sensitives engage in the struggle between choice and action
    • 12.11: How does resistance show up in highly sensitive leadership training
    • 15:35: Final takeaways

     

    “As we give deliberate attention to mastering our reactions to change as highly sensitives, our reaction will shift and change. The more we practice over a longer period of time, the more our self esteem will strengthen and more easily we will be able to access acceptance and a new sense of confidence to be able to manage and master change as a highly sensitive leader, and particularly a highly sensitive leader who embraces their essential self.” – Heather Dominick

     

    Links and Resources:

    Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/199

     

     

    20 November 2024, 9:00 am
  • 20 minutes 56 seconds
    198 HSP Energy Techniques for Difficult Times

    There’s a lot of energy moving right now all around the world, and although your particular flavor of turmoil and chaos may differ depending on where in the world you are, as a highly sensitive your nervous system is feeling it. Whether you’re experiencing political drama, family overcommitments as the holidays approach, challenging business stressors, or even threats to your personal safety all of this can feel especially difficult to manage in the moment.

    Yet we have the opportunity to practice privilege of agency and take personal responsibility to manage your nervous system reactions to your circumstances. You can make a choice to take action and use energy techniques to ground you and energy management to support you in continuing to take steps to create what it is that you desire and in the way that you desire.

    In this podcast episode, I share the difference between energy management and energy techniques. I discuss the Bowan Family Dynamics theory and my subjective connection between being highly sensitive and being the absorber of the family. I talk about how this leads us as HSPs to be especially susceptible to nervous system overwhelm as a reaction to what’s happening in the world at this time. If you are an untrained highly sensitive, then you are likely experiencing this energy as stress and are defaulting to fight, flight, freeze, or fawn – or getting triggered into your default coping mechanisms of pushing, hiding, or combo plattering between the two.

    Yet if you are a trained highly sensitive leader, you can make a choice to take personal responsibility right now and turn to both energy techniques and energy management to ground yourself. Listen in as I share 3 powerful energy techniques to bring calm to your nervous system so you can be of the highest service through business as a highly sensitive leader, especially during times of intensity.

     

    “We do not buy into the highly sensitive shadow pathway that everything is happening to us. Instead, we take measures to activate privilege of agency and locate where there is empowerment within choice.” – Heather Dominick

    Listen and Learn:

    • 2:25: Why are energy-shifting techniques important
    • 5:14: How does the Bowen Family Dynamic Theory apply to highly sensitive people
    • 9:18: What is the difference between energy management and energy techniques
    • 10:49: Which energy techniques can we use to calm down
    • 18:35: How to use energy management tools

     

    “The absorber of the family is the person in the family who’s designated to hold all of the feelings and specifically anxiety.” – Heather Dominick

     

    Links and Resources:

    Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/198

    6 November 2024, 9:00 am
  • 12 minutes
    197 Make Genuine HSP Business Connections

    Using your HSP strengths to build genuine connections in your business can support you in business networking, leadership, team communications, and any difficult conversations in your business or personal life. Creating a genuine connection requires mutual trust and understanding as well as vulnerability on both sides. It creates a deeper level of understanding and allows us to grow and learn more about ourselves through learning more about others. The untrained HSP waits for others to take the lead and allows their automatic trauma responses to dictate their relationships, but the trained HSP takes the lead and sets the energy, sets the stage and does it differently.

    In this podcast episode, I discuss what assumption of positive intent is NOT as well as what it IS and how it specifically relates to making genuine connections as an HSP in business and leadership. I share how assumption of positive intent gives you access to your HSP strengths and I provide the 3 keys to follow in order to form meaningful genuine connections and how this leads to more income. Be sure to listen until the end for a short exercise where I support you in discovering a current situation where you can begin to use these 3 keys to transform your business relationships starting right away.

     

    “Assumption of positive intent is the opposite of our HSP shadow of judgment of others.” – Heather Dominick

    Listen and Learn:

    • 1:45: What does it mean to assume positive intent
    • 2:46: How to assume positive intent in five steps
    • 4:21: How does the assumption of positive intent apply to making genuine connections
    • 6:07: What does a genuine connection look like

    “Assumption of positive intent is not avoiding conflict.” – Heather Dominick

     

    Links and Resources:

    Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/197

     

    23 October 2024, 12:40 pm
  • 15 minutes 27 seconds
    196 Assumption of Positive Intent in Business Relationships

    Each of us highly sensitives has our own set of beliefs, perspectives, and experiences that shape how we see everything, including interactions with other people. It can be all too common for us to make quick assumptions and react when someone says or does something we perceive to be intentionally mean or hurtful, especially if it triggers an automatic trauma response. This reaction (or maybe even over-reaction) is due to our assumption of poor intent. In situations like this, an untrained HSP will very likely overreact in some way, maybe lashing out or shutting down as a way to protect and attempt to keep safe. However, trained HSPs can choose to master the skill of assuming positive intent and avoid falling into this trap.

    In this episode I discuss the topic of assumption of positive intent, sharing more on what it is and why it is so important for us to be in practice with this skill in all our relationships as HSPs, especially in business. I talk about why we struggle with this skill and what we can do about it, outlining five steps that we can take to assume positive intent. Where this can especially come in handy for us as highly sensitives in business and leadership is networking, sales conversations, team hiring, team delegation, and any difficult conversation.

    Research shows that adopting this positive mindset can can help reduce misunderstandings and conflict with others and overall can also lead to a happier, more harmonious life. And I would add as a result, an experience of less effort, more impact and more income as a highly sensitive leader.

     

    “Assumption of positive intent is the opposite of the HSP shadow of judgment of others.” – Heather Dominick

    Listen and Learn:

    • 2:28: What does it mean to assume positive intent
    • 3:21: Why do people assume positive intent in others
    • 4:56: Why do HSPs struggle with the assumption of positive intent in others
    • 7:55: How to assume positive intent in others
    • 10:41: Why you should question your gut reaction

     

    “Assumption of positive intent is also the opposite of our HSP shadow of judgment of self and tendency to be self-critical.” – Heather Dominick

     

    Links and Resources:

    Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/196

    9 October 2024, 8:00 am
  • 14 minutes 29 seconds
    195 Shift Unhelpful HSP Patterns

    As highly sensitives, we all have unhelpful patterns. It’s part of the process of shifting out of our HSP shadows and stepping into our HSP strengths. For those of us HSPs who choose to be in business and leadership, this shift is necessary in order for us to achieve more peace, productivity and impact.

    What will support you with stepping into your strengths and identifying current unhelpful HSP patterns is exploring HSP types. This will allow you to further know yourself as a highly sensitive leader more deeply as well as enhance your dominant HSP strengths.

    In this episode I identify the four different HSP types for you. I also share in detail the strengths and the unhelpful shadow energy drain for each type. Through listening to the different characteristics that make up each type, you will be able to identify which type, or likely a combination of more than one type, most resonates with you.

    Armed with this knowledge you can use it to uncover your own unhelpful HSP patterns and explore alternatives to enhance your dominant HSP strengths in order to be more creative and productive and then therefore more profitable and impactful in business and leadership.

     

    “We all have unhelpful HSP patterns. It is part of the process of going from being an untrained HSP to a trained HSP. It’s part of the process of shifting from HSP shadows to HSP strengths and it is a constant process.” – Heather Dominick

    Listen and Learn:

    • 1:54: How to shift unhelpful highly sensitive patterns
    • 2:50: Why is it important to shift unhelpful highly sensitive patterns
    • 3:44: how to identify unhelpful highly sensitive patterns
    • 5:55: What are the different HSP types

     

    “We want to shift our unhelpful HSP patterns all so that we can have more peace in our minds…so that we can be more creative and more productive, make more of a difference for others – more impact – and experience more of what we want – more income – and what that brings to each of us and our own individual life experiences.” – Heather Dominick

     

    Links and Resources:

    Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/195

    25 September 2024, 8:00 am
  • 20 minutes 35 seconds
    194 The HSP Business Power of Both/And

    A common cognitive distortion that HSPs fall prey to is all or nothing thinking, which causes you to see the world more negatively than it really is, and is linked to anxiety, depression, and even PTSD. As highly sensitives in business and leadership, it is important to engage in the retraining of your nervous system and develop high functioning skills based on your HSP strengths so you can grow resilience, alleviate anxiety and move forward towards your desires and dreams in spite of any chaos or disruption that is happening around you. All so you are able to walk through and lead the way for yourself, your family and friends, your team, and your clients.

    In this episode, I talk about the common tendency for highly sensitives to fall into either/or thinking, and how this is often the result of our lifelong experience of feeling othered and misunderstood. I explain that this pattern of thought, that most often is not based on facts, is an opportunity for us to develop high-functioning HSP skills based on our HSP strengths so we can shift into the both/and approach. I share three steps to support you in making this shift and empowering yourself and others to operate from this approach. All so that you can be of highest service not only to yourself, but to others and for the overall betterment of the world.

     

    “It’s very fascinating that the belief transformation tool tends to be kind of like the black sheep of the energy management tools.” – Heather Dominick

    Listen and Learn:

    • 1:51: What is all-or-nothing thinking
    • 2:20: What is cognitive distortion
    • 3:21: Why is either-or thinking common for HSPs
    • 5:55: How to move from either-or to both-and thinking
    • 7:09: How does the process of metacognition begin
    • 15:19: Tips for using the both-and approach
    • 18:01: What happens when anxiety alleviates

     

    “We tend to favor the Order Form to the Universe, Autowriting and Scripting, and then it’s like, ugh, yeah, that BTT. The BTT sitting over in the corner, sad.” – Heather Dominick

     

    Links and Resources:

    Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/194

    11 September 2024, 8:00 am
  • 11 minutes 8 seconds
    193 Turn HSP Empathy Into Compassionate Action

    As an HSP in business and leadership, it is important to learn how to first shift from sympathy to empathy, and then from empathy to compassion. To do this we need to actively engage in identifying and experiencing our full range of emotions, and then manage our response to those feelings using nervous system management tools in order to access lightheartedness and flow into hopeful action in spite of. All so we can be of highest service to ourselves, those we serve, and everyone around us.

    In this episode, I go into depth about the difference between sympathy, empathy, and compassion. I discuss how compassion is where we as highly sensitives in business and leadership are able to make the greatest difference and impact because compassion is the willingness to take action in service to positive change, which is often why we’ve chosen to be in business in the first place. I also share how lightheartedness supports us in being able to make the shift from empathy into compassion and what you can do to access hope and lightheartedness to stay out of the trap of limiting beliefs and HSP shadow behaviors.

     

    “Our nervous system is wired to take in stimulation at a much higher degree, which means we are able to really intuit what another person is thinking, what they’re feeling, what they’re experiencing, and when we’re in a strength perspective, that allows us the ability to understand and share the feelings of that other person.” – Heather Dominick

    Listen and Learn:

    • 1:45: What is empathy
    • 3:40: What is the difference between sympathy and empathy
    • 4:25: What is compassion
    • 7:53: How to flow into hopeful action

    “Compassion is more engaged than simple empathy because it involves the willingness to take action.” – Heather Dominick

     

    Links and Resources:

    Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/193

    28 August 2024, 8:00 am
  • 22 minutes 14 seconds
    192 Achieve HSP Financial Peace

    In a time when so many people are operating from fear when it comes to investments and income, it is more important than ever to step forward and show up as leaders in our families, communities, businesses, and organizations. Not through coping, but from empathetic compassion to demonstrate to others how a different way is possible. That you can hold things lightly, care deeply, and act with clarity, even (and especially) with investments and income generation, in order to achieve the financial peace that you desire.

    In this episode, I discuss the importance of lightheartedness when it comes to your investments and to generating income in your business as a highly sensitive. I share how your nervous system responds to what you feed it, and since we have a higher nervous system response than the other 80%, the non-highly sensitives of the world, the key to our success lies in using both inner and outer core practices to keep our vibe up and access hope over worry. This is our role as a Royal Advisor in these tumultuous times.

     

    “We have control over what we feed our nervous system.” – Heather Dominick

    Listen and Learn:

    • 2:35: Why people worry
    • 7:22: How to find financial peace
    • 10:50: What to ask yourself when you want to make change in your life
    • 17:26: How to make use of the royal advisor role

    “The limbic part of the nervous system responds to what we feed it, worry or otherwise. HSPs have higher nervous system response.” – Heather Dominick

     

    Links and Resources:

    Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/192

    14 August 2024, 8:00 am
  • 17 minutes 29 seconds
    191 Business Cost vs. Investment

    In order to truly experience abundance as a highly sensitive leader in business, it’s necessary to heal your money story. Starting first by understanding the difference between cost and investment informed by what you define as valuable to you. From there, considering cost as an amount paid or spent to obtain something and investment as an act of devoting time, effort, or energy to a particular undertaking with the expectation of a worthwhile return.

    Training yourself to see things through the lens of investment, and most importantly challenge socialized concepts of both cost and investment, is what will bring about an experience of financial ease and fulfillment. When you operate your business from this perspective, it will bring about business miracles for you and those you serve that you cannot even begin to perceive.

    In this episode, I share how my own shift in perception of cost versus investment was the key to changing my relationship with money and my experience with abundance. I go in-depth about the difference between cost and investment and how taking personal responsibility to release negative beliefs about money and to define what you value – not society, your family, friends, or even your religious values – is crucial in bringing about your own shift in perception and therefore change with your story about money.

     

    “Making the mindset shift from cost to investment was key in changing my relationship with money, my money story, and then therefore my experience with abundance.” – Heather Dominick

    Listen and Learn:

    • 4:56: How to shift your perception
    • 6:25: What does the concept of cost do to highly sensitive people
    • 10:45: How to define investment for highly sensitive people

    “I choose to define what is a worthwhile result for me.” – Heather Dominick

     

    Links and Resources:

    Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/191

    31 July 2024, 8:00 am
  • 14 minutes 46 seconds
    190 Expanded Business Mindset

    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:

    • 2:02: How to intentionally move toward lightheartedness at work
    • 2:13: Why is community important for highly sensitive leaders
    • 7:26: How to achieve an expanded mindset
    • 9:30: Should you challenge your mindset
    • 11:20: How to lead in your business as a highly sensitive person

     

    “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:

    Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/190

    17 July 2024, 11:00 am
  • 19 minutes 49 seconds
    189 Claim and Celebrate HSP Business Success

    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:

    • 2:12: What is V&V
    • 4:33: How to use a marathon as a metaphor
    • 5:51: Why is pacing important
    • 7:07: What happens when you are tired
    • 13:37: How to ensure that you get what you want

    “This place right here, right now is the place to more critically pay attention more than ever.” – Heather Dominick

     

    Links and Resources:

    Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/189

    3 July 2024, 8:00 am
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