Sensitive. Ep 6: Create a Business That Prevents Burnout with Alana Jade
In this episode of the Sensitive. Podcast with Alana Jade we discuss:
-how she's carefully and intentionally crafted a life and business that fit her as a HSP after burnout
-how she came up with a business model that honors her highly sensitive nervous system
-how she got the courage to do things her own way and not force herself to work, do online business, travel, or live in the same way as others who are not HSP/neurodivergent
-how you actually may be understimulated as a HSP, and how she gets more stimulus via travel and living abroad
-tangible, practical ways that she has created a life and business that supports who she actually is that others may not think of
I hope anyone who is a highly sensitive or neurocomplex person will find hope in this podcast that you can build a life and business that fits you rather than feeling trapped in a neurotypical box that doesn't work for you!
Alana is an Australian Squarespace website designer specialising in creating websites, branding kits, and design solutions that are gentle on the nervous system, good for people and considerate of our beautiful planet.
Outside of website design, Alana likes to explore simple, slow, minimal, alternative ways of doing business (that don't burn us out... because she's been there and done that… and it wasn't fun!).
When she's not making websites, you can find Alana sauntering along southern-Thailand coastlines, on her yoga mat, dreaming up a wild new creation or way to live and playing old-timey jazz and swing numbers on the clarinet in her band, Latootz.
Alana currently lives and works between Brisbane, Australia and a little island called Koh Lanta in Thailand.
To support this digital nomad lifestyle, she’s deliberately cultivated a business approach that is calm and flexible enough to travel with her wherever she goes.
She also teaches other web designers how to do the same through her one-week website design process and template bundle.
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