The Prosperous Empath® Podcast

On this week's episode of the Prosperous Empath®, we'll explore how to effectively lead as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP), mitigate challenges, and work with your strengths. I'm thrilled to sit down with Nina Khoo, a Sensitive Leadership Coach and a Master NLP Coach who helps HSPs understand and embrace their unique wiring so they can become confident and empathetic leaders. It's common for Highly Sensitive People to believe that they're not capable of effective leadership and struggle with overwhelm, perfectionism, and second-guessing. Nina and I uncover how our greatest strengths can sometimes be the traits we feel most self-conscious about and pose a central question: How does a Highly Sensitive Person protect their gifts as a leader? As an empath and an HSP, your brain is physiologically wired to take more information in and process it more deeply, which can be an incredibly powerful leadership skill. Yet, it can also lead to overwhelm and self-criticism. Through our conversation, you'll learn how to approach leadership in a more sensitive, empathetic, and compassionate way so you can own your gifts and make a bigger difference in the world.

Topics:

• Why HSPs feel that they're not capable of being effective leaders and how the traits you may feel self-conscious about can be your greatest gifts
• Overcoming overwhelm, perfectionism, and the tendency to subordinate your wisdom as an empathetic leader
• Cultivating awareness of how your brain is psychologically wired as a Highly Sensitive Person and learning how to use your unique wiring to your advantage
• Getting out of the procrastination and self-doubt cycle, learning how to own your HSP gifts instead of minimizing them, and coming back to your true why
• The future of business leadership and why the world needs more sensitive, compassionate, and empathetic leaders

Episode Resources:

• Join us on March 11th at 12pm ET for our monthly Non-Networking Power Hour for Empath Entrepreneurs with our UNBOUNDED Mastermind Community for deep connections and meaningful support.
• Learn more about the Emerge Mastermind, doors are now open!
• The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg and John David Mann
• Progress, Not Perfection: Mantra by Marie Forleo
• The NIA Technique
• Wild VoiceTM Writing with Kate Wolf

Connect with Nina:

• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Website

Connect with Catherine:

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• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Sign up to receive my weekly digest on empathic entrepreneurship and hear from voices committed to spreading this message, sent straight to your inbox every Friday since 2016, here.

Work with Catherine:

• Interested in working 1:1 with a certified coach on Catherine's team, or joining her in one of her premium mastermind programs? Schedule a low-pressure call to begin the conversation here.

Visit this episode's full show notes page here.

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The Prosperous Empath® Podcast is produced by Heart Centered Podcasting.

Welcome to the newest episode of The Prosperous Empath® Podcast, I am so delighted to be here with you. At the time of this recording it is a Monday morning and I'm coming off the most magical weekend where I celebrated the Lunar New Year with a group of girlfriends in Boston. We spent time with Louise Hay's book, Colors & Numbers: Your Personal Guide to Positive Vibrations in Daily Life, which in the past, has forecasted some very synchronistic and powerful moments in my life. I tell you this because the time spent this past weekend has allowed me to finally feel confident in choosing my word of the year for 2024, a word that has been calling me but I initially felt resistant to – simplicity. Throughout this episode I'm going to first rewind a bit to share how my word of the year for 2023, leisure, created a lot of amazing shifts in my life. Then, I'll share the four areas where I'm inviting more simplicity in my life and business in 2024. Heads up that this episode also includes details on upcoming changes of how you can work with me. So if you've been thinking of joining our Emerge or Unbounded Masterminds, I invite you to listen all the way through then check out the links provided in the show notes. Enjoy!

Topics:

• A look back on 2023 and how Catherine incorporated her previous word of the year "leisure" and was able to call that experience into her life
• How so many of us struggle with giving ourselves permission to relax, and often forget the time freedom we sought for ourselves when creating our businesses
• The struggles that Catherine faced when choosing her word of the year for 2024 and why she initially resisted the word that was calling her
• The four big areas of Catherine's business where she is seeing a call for simplicity
• The reminder that how you craft your schedule is completely up to you as the CEO of your business and your time
• Why Catherine is leaning into facilitating her two masterminds rather than her 1:1 practice
• The disconnect that Catherine is feeling with social media and why she's decided to take a step back

Episode Resources:

• Join us on March 11th at 12pm ET for our monthly Non-Networking Power Hour for Empath Entrepreneurs with our UNBOUNDED Mastermind Community for deep connections and meaningful support.
• Colors & Numbers: Your Personal Guide to Positive Vibrations in Daily Life
• Past Episode: My Word for 2023
• Past Episode: Choosing A Word of the Year with Rebecca Arnold and Rebecca Eller-Molitas
• Learn more about the Emerge Mastermind by messaging me on Instagram, doors are now open!
• Learn more about the Unbounded Mastermind, doors open in April!

Connect with Catherine:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Sign up to receive my weekly digest on empathic entrepreneurship and hear from voices committed to spreading this message, sent straight to your inbox every Friday since 2016, here.

Work with Catherine:

• Interested in working 1:1 with a certified coach on Catherine's team, or joining her in one of her premium mastermind programs? Schedule a low-pressure call to begin the conversation here.

Visit this episode's full show notes page here.

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I'm thrilled to have my colleague and co-coach in both our Unbounded and Emerge Masterminds, Laura Kline-Taylor, join me again today on The Prosperous Empath® to talk about the idea of selling vs. enrollment. If you've listened to the podcast before, you know that I'm a big fan of enrollment where, as a coach, I am committed to helping my clients cultivate self-belief to become who they want and fully trust themselves in the process (and this includes in trusting themselves to choose the best fit coaches and consultants for them vs. being sold on who and why they need to hire someone). This is often the opposite of some coaches and most consultants who are selling you on your own pain points – it's more transactional than an ongoing co-creation. Laura and I share experiences where we've been sold a service and compare those to times that we've been enrolled in a service. If you're a heart-centered coach who is an empath or HSP, this episode will give you a new way to share the transformation that you can provide and call in aligned clients without any of the ick. Remember, cultivating self-belief is an ongoing process, but it is 100% possible to not only charge competitive rates, but be confident in sharing your services and prices, too.

Topics:

• How Laura and Catherine define sales (transactional exchange) vs. enrollment (an ongoing co-creation)
• The art form of enrollment and how skilled coaches are consistently enrolling their clients in their own self-belief and self-leadership
• Defining a "coach-sultant" and how they're often enrolled more in the problem than the future and how this blocks expansion
• Enrolling in your own possibility to create an aligned business strategy and achieving sustainable success
• How being enrolled in yourself will help you create what you want in an organic way and therefore create more of a transformation for their clients
• The different ways that you can actually grow your own self-belief to feel more in touch with your offerings
• Laura and Catherine's favorite practices when it comes to enrolling others in their work

Episode Resources:

• Past episode with Laura: The Possibilities of Cycle Tracking for Your Business and Life
• Past episode with Laura: The Impact of Your Relationships on Business Success
• Join us on March 11th at 12pm ET for our monthly Non-Networking Power Hour for Empath Entrepreneurs with our UNBOUNDED Mastermind Community for deep connections and meaningful support.

Connect with Laura:

• Website
• Instagram: @outloudlaura
• LinkedIn

Connect with Catherine:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Sign up to receive my weekly digest on empathic entrepreneurship and hear from voices committed to spreading this message, sent straight to your inbox every Friday since 2016, here.

Work with Catherine:

• Interested in working 1:1 with Catherine or a certified coach on her team, or joining one of her premium mastermind programs? Schedule a low-pressure call to begin the conversation here.

Visit this episode's full show notes page here.

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This week's episode of the Prosperous Empath® gets to the heart of how to access your creativity to overcome hardship and build an aligned life. I sit down with Carey Kirkella, an award-winning photographer for purpose-driven brands and the creator of The L.E.N.S. Method™, to have a conversation about mental health, regulating your nervous system, and sparking your creative expression. Carey shares her story of living with bipolar disorder and experiencing postpartum psychosis and how she channeled her lived experience into creative self-expression. What if we go through life experiences - and even hardships - to ultimately use them as means to create, tell stories, and heal? As Wayne Dyer once said, "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change". I hope this conversation helps you shift your perspective, become more creative, and generate more abundance in your life. Enjoy!

Topics:

• Living with mental illness and how you can transform your hardship into creative expression to find a deeper purpose
• How to connect with your art and self-expression to tell your story as an empath and a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)
• Shifting your perspective to experience life through a lens of deep gratitude, love, and creativity
• How to regulate your nervous system and look for creative responses instead of reacting to your circumstances
• How to start seeing your sensitivity as a superpower instead of a weakness

Episode Resources:

• Join us on February 12th at 12pm ET for our monthly Non-Networking Power Hour for Empath Entrepreneurs with our UNBOUNDED Mastermind Community for deep connections and meaningful support.
• The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck
• How to Create Your Visual Gratitude Journal Using the L.E.N.S. Method (Smartphone Camera-Friendly)
• Wayne Dyer Quote: If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change
• L.E.N.S. Method Foundation Workshop
• Virginia Woolf Quote: I am rooted but I flow

Connect with Carey:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Instagram: @careykirkella
• Facebook

Connect with Catherine:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Sign up to receive my weekly digest on empathic entrepreneurship and hear from voices committed to spreading this message, sent straight to your inbox every Friday since 2016, here.

Work with Catherine:

• Interested in working 1:1 with Catherine or a certified coach on her team, or joining one of her premium mastermind programs? Schedule a low-pressure call to begin the conversation here.

Visit this episode's full show notes page here.

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The Prosperous Empath® Podcast is produced by Heart Centered Podcasting.

Choosing a word of the year is a tradition that so many of us practice at the start of each new year, but how often do we really think about the impact it could have beyond it being a name for our hopes? Today on the Prosperous Empath®, I sit down with two wonderful women and members of our UNBOUNDED Mastermind Community, Rebecca Arnold, executive & leadership coach; and Rebecca Eller-Molitas, adult education consultant, to discuss the practice of choosing your word of the year. Throughout our conversation, we share how you can use your word of the year as a touchstone to make better decisions, generate clarity, and hold yourself accountable. You'll take away bite-sized pieces of wisdom that will help you elevate your goal-setting and experience of life. Do you always wait until January to set new goals? Can you modify your word of the year throughout the year? Is it possible for words to carry feminine and masculine energies? These are just some of the questions that we untangle during the episode. Whether you're already set on your word of the year or are still in the process of choosing one (like me), I know you'll enjoy this conversation!

Topics:

• What having a word of the year means and how it can help you claim a new way of being in the next 12 months
• How to choose your word of the year and the process of landing on the right one for you
• How to attract more of what you want in 2024 for joy, confidence, and prosperity
• Reflections on our past words of the year and how they've impacted the course of our lives
• Navigating feminine and masculine energies that are rooted in words and language

Episode Resources:

• Join us on February 12th at 12pm ET for our monthly Non-Networking Power Hour for Empath Entrepreneurs with our UNBOUNDED Mastermind Community for deep connections and meaningful support.
• The Unbounded Mastermind
• The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story for Work and Life by Paul Millerd
• Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis
• Accomplishment Coaching
• Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
• Colors & Numbers: Your Personal Guide to Positive Vibrations in Daily Life by Louise Hay

Connect with Rebecca Arnold:

• Website
• Facebook
• Instagram: @rootcoach
• LinkedIn

Connect with Rebecca Eller-Molitas

• LinkedIn

Connect with Catherine:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Sign up to receive my weekly digest on empathic entrepreneurship and hear from voices committed to spreading this message, sent straight to your inbox every Friday since 2016, here.

Work with Catherine:

• Interested in working 1:1 with Catherine or a certified coach on her team, or joining one of her premium mastermind programs? Schedule a low-pressure call to begin the conversation here

Visit this episode's full show notes page here.

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I'm excited to have Liz Rohr back on the Prosperous Empath® today, where I'll be sharing an episode that we originally recorded for their show, the Real World NP Podcast. If you listened to their past episode, you know that Liz is committed to embracing their zone of genius as an empath and avoiding burnout while staying committed to their values. Our past conversation was chock full of insights, and I am excited to expand on them and more today. We're unpacking caretaking, boundaries, codependency and how to stop neglecting your own needs – something that is all too common for empaths. We get vulnerable as we both talk about recognizing how sometimes we take care of other people to feel good about ourselves and ways to shift this behavior pattern. You may take care of other people because you feel capable and ambitious, just because you can do something, doesn't mean that you should do it. This is especially true as a coach, where you can only take care of others to the degree that you take care of yourself. If you're practiced in stepping over your needs, it's normal to feel like you don't know what your needs and desires are, but we give you a practical framework to start developing your authentic voice and boundaries with yourself and others. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as we did!

Topics:

• What caretaking is, how it manifests itself in relationships, and why you can't fill someone else's cup before you fill your own
• Learning how to protect and hold sacred your gifts as an empath so you don't end up using them against yourself
• Why you should recognize your caretaking and codependency traits and stop always jumping in to be a hero
• Normalizing that you may not know what your needs and desires are (yet!) after neglecting them for a long time
• How to start enforcing your needs and boundaries in your relationships with yourself and others and start feeling well-resourced and cherished

Episode Resources:

• To Weep for a Stranger: Compassion Fatigue in Caregiving by Patricia Smith
• Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenberg

Connect with Liz:

• Website
• Instagram: @lizrohr.co
• Instagram: @realworldnp

Connect with Catherine:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Sign up to receive my weekly digest on empathic entrepreneurship and hear from voices committed to spreading this message, sent straight to your inbox every Friday since 2016, here.

Work with Catherine:

• Interested in working 1:1 with Catherine or a certified coach on her team, or joining one of her premium mastermind programs? Schedule a low-pressure call to begin the conversation here

Visit this episode's full show notes page here.

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The Prosperous Empath® Podcast is produced by Heart Centered Podcasting.

How do you fulfill your desire to seek new experiences without being overwhelmed as a highly sensitive person (HSP)? In this episode of The Prosperous Empath, I sit down with Philippa Robinson, a coach who helps HSPs embrace their sensitive strength and craft the life they're here for. From reinventing your relationship with the beginning of the year to figuring out how to balance your dual need for the novel and the routine, we dive deep into a discussion on life and business as high sensation-seeking individuals and HSPs. Tune in for nuggets of wisdom on following your intuition, building new habits that work for you, and creating a more fulfilling life.

Topics:

• Understanding how family patterns influence your relationship with the holidays and the New Year
• Navigating the push and pull of both wanting to hibernate and going after big goals at the start of the year
• Exploring what high sensation-seeking is and how it can manifest itself in your life and business
• Incorporating high sensation-seeking into your life in a healthy way, creating supportive habits, and finding the balance between new experiences and your routine
• Structuring your daily practices and habits in a way that truly nurtures you and allows you to meet your excitement need

Episode resources:

• The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
• High Sensation Seeking Test by Dr. Elaine Aron
• HSP Summit
• Join us on Monday, January 22 at 12pm ET for our monthly Non-Networking Power Hour for Empath Entrepreneurs with our UNBOUNDED Mastermind Community for deep connections and meaningful support

Connect with Catherine:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Sign up to receive my weekly digest on empathic entrepreneurship and hear from voices committed to spreading this message, sent straight to your inbox every Friday since 2016, here.

Work with Catherine:

• Interested in working 1:1 with Catherine or a certified coach on her team, or joining one of her premium mastermind programs? Schedule a low-pressure call to begin the conversation here.

Visit this episode's full show notes page here.

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The Prosperous Empath® Podcast is produced by Heart Centered Podcasting.

In today's episode, I'm excited to share my recent experience as a speaker at the HSP Awakening Virtual Summit co-hosted by my friend and past guest of the podcast, Josh Speraneo. During my talk, I share what it means to be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) for me and how embracing my empathic nature has reshaped my understanding of strength and vulnerability. I dig into the topic of internalized capitalism, what it means, how it plays into our life and how we can start to break up with this systemic challenge that so many of us, especially highly sensitive intuitive empaths are living and operating inside of. This discussion is a heartfelt exploration of how HSPs like us can turn our sensitivity into our greatest asset. If you've ever felt overwhelmed by the world's expectations or struggled to honor your inner sensitivity, this episode is a gentle reminder that you're not alone.

Topics:

• How rest can be a form of resistance in today's hustle culture, especially for HSPs
• Addressing the issue of workaholism and exploring strategies for HSPs to consciously choose a healthier, more balanced approach to work and life
• How discovering her introverted and empathic nature helped transform Catherine's life
• Why sensitive empaths often are underestimated in business, and what unique strengths they offer
• The importance of creating rituals and normalizing leisure for empathic entrepreneurs
• The significance of creating supportive and inspiring communities for HSPs and empaths, emphasizing the role of masterminds and group support

Episode resources:

• Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
• Belonging: Overcome Your Inner Critic and Reclaim Your Joy by Catherine Wood
• Do Nothing: How to Break Away from Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving by Celeste Headlee
• Coming Home to Yourself as a Highly Sensitive Man with Josh Speraneo
• Internalized Capitalism and Four Conscious Ways to Combat it
• Join us on Monday, January 22 at 12pm ET for our monthly Non-Networking Power Hour for Empath Entrepreneurs with our UNBOUNDED Mastermind Community for deep connections and meaningful support.

Connect with Catherine:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Sign up to receive my weekly digest on empathic entrepreneurship and hear from voices committed to spreading this message, sent straight to your inbox every Friday since 2016, here.

Work with Catherine:

• Interested in working 1:1 with Catherine or a certified coach on her team, or joining one of her premium mastermind programs? Schedule a low-pressure call to begin the conversation here.

Visit this episode's full show notes page here.

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The Prosperous Empath® Podcast is produced by Heart Centered Podcasting.

In this final episode of our three part series on habits, I want to take you back to the beginning of my own journey with habits and becoming consistent in daily habits because it wasn't always like this for me. I have been practicing intentional habits for the past decade, but when I first started out in my coaching journey, I was wildly inconsistent with habits – they were something I longed for, it was a problem in my life that I wanted to change but I felt like I did not have the knowledge or the skill set or the willpower to follow through. I think often on our journey as ambitious empaths, we're often so focused on what we're producing, what we're creating, our goals, our drive, our ambition, that we forget how we can set ourselves up for success so that we can continue to grow and evolve and maintain healthy relationships and scalable success without being at the expense of ourselves, our own well being and our burnout. I cannot tell you how many empaths I have spoken with over the years who have all experienced burnout, who have all learned how to take better care of themselves at or on the brink of being burned out, or some essentially even just feeling a need to walk away from their relationships, their business, or their career because they haven't learned how to have it all they haven't learned how to show up and operate in a sustainable scalable way. Tune in today to hear some other options to this all too common problem!

Topics:

• Setting yourself up to win with your habits
• How building consistency with a routine or healthy habits in the morning is the catalyst for prioritizing your own needs and wellbeing
• Why Catherine believes that developing habits is one of the most invaluable skill sets that a Prosperous Empath can commit to
• The four characteristics or attributes that can really set you up for success when you're just beginning to develop a new habit
• What setting a S.M.A.R.T goal can look like for the Prosperous Empath and the other key components that Cat likes to consider
• An excerpt from Catherine's book, Belonging, and how her morning routine has shifted over the years

Episode Resources:

• Eve Rodsky, "Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World"
• Buy my book, Belonging
• Join us on Monday, January 22 at 12pm ET for our monthly Non-Networking Power Hour for Empath Entrepreneurs with our UNBOUNDED Mastermind Community for deep connections and meaningful support.

Connect with Catherine:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Sign up to receive my weekly digest on empathic entrepreneurship and hear from voices committed to spreading this message, sent straight to your inbox every Friday since 2016, here.

Work with Catherine:

• Interested in working 1:1 with Catherine or a certified coach on her team, or joining one of her premium mastermind programs? Schedule a low-pressure call to begin the conversation here.

Visit this episode's full show notes page here.

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The Prosperous Empath® Podcast is produced by Heart Centered Podcasting.

Welcome to the second part of my series on building habits. In this episode, I want to talk about how my relationship with habits has changed over the last decade as well as share three daily habits that I've been practicing over the past year. As you already know, I'm incredibly passionate about creating new habits, but it used to be something that I had to exert a whole lot of mind power over to follow through. In this episode, I'm going to cover how I built more muscle memory around habits and share some tips. I'm also excited to get a little vulnerable and share the three habits that I've been practicing over the past year and discuss the changes I've noticed in myself and my relationships with others. This episode is quite personal and I talk about my relationship with my husband, my decision to practice sobriety, and how I truly feel about meditation (it's not what you expect!). I can't wait to share these insights with you.

Topics:

• How to transform your relationship with habits and become more consistent
• The benefits of becoming consistent with habits (personally and in business)
• How to find your bigger purpose for committing to a habit and use it to overcome circumstances
• The three personal habits that Catherine practiced over the past year
• How Catherine's habits impacted her relationship with her husband and social circle
• How choosing the right habits can help you become more intentional about your time

Episode Resources:

• Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield
• Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield
• Unbounded Mastermind Retreat

Connect with Catherine:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Sign up to receive my weekly digest on empathic entrepreneurship and hear from voices committed to spreading this message, sent straight to your inbox every Friday since 2016, here.

Work with Catherine:

• Interested in working 1:1 with Catherine or a certified coach on her team, or joining one of her premium mastermind programs? Schedule a low-pressure call to begin the conversation here.

Visit this episode's full show notes page here.

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The Prosperous Empath® Podcast is produced by Heart Centered Podcasting.