166 Building Your Business Part-Time, Part 2 Featuring Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader Laura Smith
08/16/23 • 25 min
Welcome to Part 2 of this special three-part episode series of the Business Miracles podcast: Building Your Business Part-Time As A Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader – You’ll be hearing more about my own story of first starting my business part-time to now having been self-employed full-time for 20 years! As well as also hearing from select highly sensitive entrepreneurs who are currently creating business success while working their business on a part-time basis – all with more impact, more income, and less effort.
Listen in to hear how Laura Smith, Business Miracles Member, Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur, Leader, and Owner of Children’s Mindset LLC, shifted out of her insecurity, fear, and her HSE Coping Mechanism of Hiding by not only embracing but unleashing her Highly Sensitive Strengths of Creativity and Intuition to create a part-time business that allows her to enjoy spending more time with her recently retired husband while still following her heart guidance and passion for helping children – from a place of excitement and fun rather than pressure and stress.
“I’m a perfectionist as a highly sensitive and I had a lot of shame and guilt wrapped around not working, not hustling as the trendy term is, believing that if I wasn’t hustling or working hard constantly, I would never be successful.” – Laura Smith
Show Notes:
- What is the Quantum Leap Retreat
- How to transform insecurity
- What is the Coping Mechanism of Hiding
- Does part-time work make sense
- What are the pros of working on your passion part-time
“It’s okay for me to create a schedule that works with my highly sensitive nervous system in a way that is not going to push me back or my business back, but actually accelerate me forward.” – Laura Smith
Links and Resources:
- Connect with Laura Smith:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/childrensmindset
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/childrensmindset
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/childrensmindset
- Listen to the Business Miracles Podcast Episode 165: Building Your Business Part-Time, Part 1 Featuring Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader, Nancy Smith: https://www.businessmiracles.com/165
Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/166
Welcome to Part 2 of this special three-part episode series of the Business Miracles podcast: Building Your Business Part-Time As A Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader – You’ll be hearing more about my own story of first starting my business part-time to now having been self-employed full-time for 20 years! As well as also hearing from select highly sensitive entrepreneurs who are currently creating business success while working their business on a part-time basis – all with more impact, more income, and less effort.
Listen in to hear how Laura Smith, Business Miracles Member, Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur, Leader, and Owner of Children’s Mindset LLC, shifted out of her insecurity, fear, and her HSE Coping Mechanism of Hiding by not only embracing but unleashing her Highly Sensitive Strengths of Creativity and Intuition to create a part-time business that allows her to enjoy spending more time with her recently retired husband while still following her heart guidance and passion for helping children – from a place of excitement and fun rather than pressure and stress.
“I’m a perfectionist as a highly sensitive and I had a lot of shame and guilt wrapped around not working, not hustling as the trendy term is, believing that if I wasn’t hustling or working hard constantly, I would never be successful.” – Laura Smith
Show Notes:
- What is the Quantum Leap Retreat
- How to transform insecurity
- What is the Coping Mechanism of Hiding
- Does part-time work make sense
- What are the pros of working on your passion part-time
“It’s okay for me to create a schedule that works with my highly sensitive nervous system in a way that is not going to push me back or my business back, but actually accelerate me forward.” – Laura Smith
Links and Resources:
- Connect with Laura Smith:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/childrensmindset
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/childrensmindset
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/childrensmindset
- Listen to the Business Miracles Podcast Episode 165: Building Your Business Part-Time, Part 1 Featuring Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader, Nancy Smith: https://www.businessmiracles.com/165
Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/166
Previous Episode
165 Building Your Business Part-Time, Part 1 Featuring Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader, Nancy Smith
Welcome to Part 1 of this special three-part episode series of the Business Miracles podcast: Building Your Business Part-Time As A Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader – You’ll be hearing more about my own story of first starting my business part-time to now having been self-employed full-time for 20 years! As well as also hearing from select highly sensitive entrepreneurs who are currently creating business success while working their business on a part-time basis – all with more impact, more income, and less effort.
Join me and special guest Nancy Smith, Business Miracles Member, Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur, leader, and owner of Vibrant You Coaching. Nancy’s story is inspiring! She made the shift from viewing her part-time job as a crutch and feeling the challenge of her focus being divided between what she felt she needed and what she loved – to embracing her part-time job as a support beam for her dreams and allowing it to become a launch pad into the space that she truly wants to be in.
“As highly sensitives we do really well taking a step by step incrementalization process approach to anything that we’re creating.” – Heather Dominick
Show Notes:
- How did Heather start her business part-time
- What are some common struggles with part-time work
- How to make part-time work more meaningful
- What can you accomplish using energy management tools
“It feels like the journey has been so long, and in, in some ways it feels like I’ve been starting my business over and over and over again.” – Nancy Smith
Links and Resources:
- Connect with Nancy Smith:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lorraine.smith.3154284
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-smith-349b7630/
Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/165
Next Episode
167 Building Your Business Part-Time, Part 3 featuring Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader Monica Keena
Welcome to Part 3 of this special three-part episode series of the Business Miracles podcast: Building Your Business Part-Time As A Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader – You’ll be hearing more about my own story of first starting my business part-time to now having been self-employed full-time for 20 years! As well as also hearing from select highly sensitive entrepreneurs who are currently creating business success while working their business on a part-time basis – all with more impact, more income and less effort.
Listen now to hear how Monica Keena, Business Miracles Member, Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur and Leader and Owner and Founder of Get It Done Fitness, exquisitely balances her part-time business with a very demanding full-time career as a Paralegal Gaming Administrator for one of the top 100 law firms in the United States, and how she realized that what she once believed was a curse or weakness was actually her greatest asset. I know you’ll be inspired by the Business Miracles Monica has created for herself (and others) as she learned to embrace her highly sensitive strengths and really begin to do things differently.
“The most important thing you need to do at work and the most important thing you need to do with fitness is number one, you have to show up, you have to be there.” – Monica Keena
Show Notes:
- Which business miracles has Monica created for herself
- How does Monica Keena balance two jobs
- What aspects of highly sensitive leadership training help you to thrive
- How do highly sensitive skills benefit your employees
“There is something inside of human beings that we think it’s all or nothing or that either-or in life, you’re either working for the law firm or I either have a business on the side...but I’ve learned that due to my highly sensitive nature, I am actually thriving with the both.” – Monica Keena
Links and Resources:
- Connect with Monica Keena
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/monicavkeena
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/monica.keena.1
Learn more about this episode of Business Miracles at https://www.businessmiracles.com/167
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