I’m excited to bring you this crossover episode with Rose Cox, founder of The HSP Business School and host of The Sensitive CEO Show ****podcast. She is one of the people I have been most excited to connect with across the globe the last few years, even though we have yet to meet IRL!

In this conversation, we dive into the world of highly sensitive people (HSPs), empaths, and introverts in the business world, with plenty of permission slips to stop doing what drains you. We discuss how to build a sustainable, soulful business that aligns with your energy, while embracing the strengths and challenges of being a sensitive CEO. Finally, we touch on Rose’s decision to pause her podcast (at least for now) after a year of releasing weekly episodes.

More About Rose: Rose Cox is an ICF-credentialed and Certified Human Potential Coach, 3 Brains Coach, Business Coach + Strategist, Advanced Rapid Transformational Therapist, Clinical Hypnotherapist and Energy Practitioner. Rose's unique blend of soul, science, systems and strategy combines her 20+ years’ experience in the fields of online business, hypnotherapy, coaching, and psychology to help her clients build a successful and sustainable business that is aligned with their energy and their soul. She works with highly sensitive people, empaths and introverts who have amazing gifts to share with the world but struggle with both the business strategies and mindset to fully step into their own.

🌟 3 Key Takeaways

• Do business in a way that serves you: For example, just one or two days for clients each week, alternating on A and C weeks of each month (so you always have two no-client weeks)
• Work with fellow sensitives, even as an overt niche market for your clients and community: Working together because we understand each other, share the same values, have a similar nervous system.
• Batch activities so that you group similar types of work together: For example, client-facing, podcast interviews, admin, day off.

📝 Permission

Remove email and other social apps from your phone.

✅ Do (or Delegate) This Next

Try a guided meditation to speak with your higher self, or do free writing as if it’s a letter from your higher self to you. For encouragement around this, check out Elizabeth Gilbert’s new Substack, Letters from Love.

🔗 Resources Mentioned

• Rose on the web, IG: @therosecox, Twitter, LinkedIn
• Course: The HSP Business School
• Video: The Human Upgrade—#928 How to Revamp Busy Work, Overcome Boredom and Fix Burnout

📚 Books Mentioned

• The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron
• Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors by Tim Ferriss
• Free Time: Lose the Busywork, Love Your Business
• Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One
• Life After College

🎧 Related Episodes

• Sensitive CEO Show: An HSP’s Guide to Podcasting, and Awakening Intuition: Empowering Sensitive Entrepreneurs through Trusting Your Inner Guidance
• Pivot: 172: Self-Care for Empaths and HSPs with Sarah Santacroce and 257: Gentle Business Revolution with Sarah Santacroce
• Free Time: 203: 🎢 Riding the Emotional Rollercoaster of Launching with Natalie Lue
• 141: Process, Permission Slips, and Business Pivots with Tara McMullin
• 193: Sabbatical Planning with DJ DiDonna
• 200: 🎉 20+ Free Time Permission Slips for Small Business Owners (Part 1)
• 202: 🎉 20+ Permission Slips for Small Business Owners (Part 2)

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