Highly Sensitive Entrepreneurs – Featured Interview with Heather Dominick

Founder of A Course In Business Miracles®

Bill Ringle and Heather Dominick discuss the nuances of being a highly sensitive entrepreneur and how to use your abilities to thrive in business as other relationships.

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Top Takeaways from this Interview

How to identify highly sensitive entrepreneurs

What to do when struggling with emotional overwhelm as a highly sensitive person

The roles of Royal Advisors and what they do for the world

The 3 HSE Coping Mechanisms

How a Highly Sensitive Dentist was able to overcome her tendency towards combo plattering and unify the office.

Interview Insights

Read the Show Notes from this Episode

2:00 Heather recalls how her teachers in school influenced her when she was young, particularly Mrs. Rugg, who inspired Heather’s love of theater.

3:51 How Heather transitioned from being a high school drama teacher to starting her own, and how the experience of 9/11 gave her the courage she needed to strike out on her own.

4:43 “I always had a passion for nutrition and overall wellness.”

6:19 “I believe so deeply in the power of teaching, right alongside coaching.”

8:12 About her journey into entrepreneurship: “I started sharing and that was really the first transition into supporting others in their business.”

8:53 How a “dark night of the soul” led to Heather coming into contact with Dr. Elaine Aron and her research on what it means to be a highly sensitive person.

9:18 “It didn’t surprise me that I was highly sensitive, but it did surprise me how highly sensitive I was.”

9:35 “A person who is highly sensitive is someone who is born into the world with a nervous system that is wired differently than someone who is not highly sensitive, and through that different wiring, you interpret stimulation at a much higher level or degree than someone who is not highly sensitive.”

10:09 “One of the aspects of being highly sensitive is that you can become overwhelmed quite easily.”

10:53 About assessing a group of woman with Dr. Aron’s study “Not one woman in that room wanted to be highly sensitive.”

11:32 “We have to learn how to embrace this and how to really use it to our benefit and our advantage than having it work against us.”

11:12 The Royal Advisors: “We are here, we are brought here to this planet to do well, to be able to create balance to those who are not highly sensitive.”

14:01 “There are 20% of us who are born into the world highly sensitive.”

14:12 The HSE Coping Mechanism - “I’m a recovering pusher.”

15:01 “The coping mechanisms are really about how those of use who are highly sensitive respond to anxiety.”

16:13 HSE coping mechanisms: pushing vs. hiding.

17:40 How a HSE dentist overcome her tendency towards combo plattering, and what Heather did to help her.

20:51 My Quest for the Best Lightning “Flash” Round

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Expert Bio

Can you be highly successful in business and highly spiritual at the same time. Let’s take this question a step further. Is there a direct relationship between your spirituality and great success?

Heather Dominick is a woman who is impressively successful, and highly spiritual. A former high school drama teacher who collaborated with none other than Bette Midler. A graduate of NYU where she received her first coach training. Heather is the winner of the 2015 Best of Manha...