Category: Interview

Highly Sensitive and Successful: Episode 3. A business with the light heart - a highly sensitive entrepreneur

20/6/2017

In the new episode of Highly Sensitive and Successful, I talk to Iren Merdinyan, founder of organic chocolate brand Raw Bon Bon, on how a business run by a highly sensitive person is different from normal business, why intuition matters and the importance of organic relationships, not just products.
Here are some inspirational quotes from the interview:

"It was a conscious choice not to keep it as a mass production, keep it artisan, feminine, intimate"
“Every little thing is making an effort. This little tomato, this sunshine, there was water, nature nurturing it, and there was so much effort and love put into it, and you have to respect this”.
"We need to run business with the light heart".

How important for you are ethical values and "organic relationships" in business? What do you do in order to maintain them? Please, post your answer in the comments below this video!

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Highly Sensitive and Successful: Episode 2. Katerina Barampouti. Sensitivity, art and the importance of setting up boundaries.

1/6/2017

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“I started setting boundaries the moment I accepted my sensitivity, decided to trust it and stopped thinking that there is something wrong with me”, says Katerina Barampouti, the hero of the new episode of “Highly Sensitive and Successful”. Katerina is an artist, actress, musician, trainer and a highly sensitive person. Born in Greece, she lived in many countries and currently resides in London.

In the episode, we talk about how in the world of arts people are trained to be more sensitive, more open to be able to cooperate and interact with fellow actors and musicians without looking at them, how a highly sensitive person can learn to set up psychological and energetic boundaries, and present his or her own sensitivity to other people in the way that is clear to them. We also talk about why mindfulness is the best tool an HSP can learn.

“Highly Sensitive and Successful” is a series of interviews with highly sensitive people, who managed to build their lives on their own terms. They come from different backgrounds and do very different things – work in the arts, business, social services, science etc. My goal is to understand, how they use their sensitivity to their advantage and inspire those sensitive people who might still be struggling to accept their sensitivity.

How do you set up the boundaries? How do you talk about your sensitivity? Post your reply in comments!
Also, watch the first episode of Highly Sensitive and Successful on how we disempower ourselves!

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Sensitive and Successful. Episode 1: A Sensitive Man. Adam Woodhall: "How we disempower ourselves"

20/5/2017

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Way too many highly sensitive people I’ve met struggle to accept their sensitivity and blame it for problems in their careers and relationships. The world around them is too overwhelming, they say, and the corporate world is just too harsh for an HSP, let alone running your own business. This victim mentality certainly doesn’t help improve the situation, as doesn’t denying your sensitivity and trying to be like everyone else.

So having seen so many disempowered people I became curious – are there any highly sensitive people out there who actually made it in their career or business (and maybe not even in spite of, but thanks to their sensitivity)? What is it like to be them? It turns out, there were quite a few among people I knew. This is how “Highly Sensitive and Successful” project was born. It was created with an idea to empower those sensitive people, who feel that sensitivity is an obstacle to their life, financial freedom and ability to make changes in the world.

I talk to HSPs from different backgrounds – British, French, Russian, Kazakh, Greek, who work in different fields – in the corporate world, non-profits, arts, or run their own business. They are lawyers, bankers, coaches, writers, designers, actors, marketers, volunteers, scientists, economists, mums and dads. I ask them the same questions – what is their experience of being a highly sensitive person? How do they turn sensitivity to their advantage?

I define “success” not in terms of money or fame. In fact, most highly sensitive people I talk to belong to middle class. Success for me is that they built their lives and finances on their own terms, honouring and using their sensitivity. I hope these conversations will be an inspiration for those of you who are still looking for your ways.

I decided to make the first interview from "Highly Sensitive and Successful" series with a sensitive man. A rare species, according to some social standards (although sensitivity is even distributed between men and women). What’s even rarer, he is perfectly fine with his sensitivity, while clearly exhibiting some traits of an “alpha-male” behaviour. We talk about sensitivity and masculinity, putting labels on yourself and others, and disempowering stories we tell ourselves that we can turn into empowering ones.

Meet Adam Woodhall, a sustainability consultant and public speaker, who is also well known in London alternative dancing scene.

How do you disempower yourself? And what could you do to stop doing that and start self-empowerment? Post comments under this video!

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Highly Sensitive and Successful: Episode 3. A business with the light heart - a highly sensitive entrepreneur

Highly Sensitive and Successful: Episode 2. Katerina Barampouti. Sensitivity, art and the importance of setting up boundaries.

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