Episode #12: Healing Burnout and Finding Purpose as a Highly Sensitive Leader
The HSP journey from burnout to balance, and how embracing sensitivity and building resilience can transform your leadership style.
Welcome back to The Happy HSP Podcast. I’m your host Kimberly Marshall, and today, I’m joined by NLP Master and Sensitive Leadership Coach Nina Khoo. In this episode, Nina shares how she discovered she was highly sensitive person after first recognizing the trait in her daughters. She’s since gone on to champion high sensitivity in both her personal life and profession helping HSP women pursue leadership roles and build resilience along the way.
If you’ve ever wondered how to create a life full of balance and purpose as a highly sensitive leader, then this episode is for you. We chat about holistic healing, building strength from the inside out, and the powerful role that high sensitivity can play in the world’s current leadership landscape.
I hope you enjoy it!
Kim: Hi, Nina. Welcome. Thank you so much for joining me today.
Nina: Thank you for inviting me. I’m delighted to be here.
Kim: So, I always love to start about finding out more about your journey. So, my first question for you is how did you find out you were highly sensitive and what did that journey look like for you?
Nina: Oh, wow. So, I am now in my fifties, and I only found out that I’m a highly sensitive person about 10 years ago. So, I’ve had a long time not knowing that I’m an HSP, and the way I found out was purely by, well, nothing is by chance, but it felt like coincidence. But I have two daughters, and we were really struggling with my oldest daughter to get her to school on time. She must’ve been about seven or eight years old. We lived literally a minute away from the school, but there were some mornings where we just couldn’t get her to school on time. It was really stressful. I felt like the worst possible mother in the world. I was really questioning, is there something wrong with me that I can’t get my daughter to school? Is there something wrong with my daughter? Because she would be writhing on the floor complaining about scenes in her socks and scratchy labels and ripping her uniform off.
And it wouldn’t happen every day, but it happened often enough that it was getting to be too stressful. And I remember I turned up on my friend’s doorstep. So, I live a minute away from school. My friend lives across the road from the school, and I turned up on her doorstep after a particularly stressful morning after I’d managed to finally get my daughter through the school gates, and I just burst into tears. It was all just too much. And she said, come in, have a cup of tea because we live in the UK, so tea solves, everything. And she handed me Dr. Elaine Aron’s book on The Highly Sensitive Child, and she said, I think you need to read this. And it turns out she had a highly sensitive son, or she has a highly sensitive son, and it turns out I have two highly sensitive daughters.
So, I read the book and I was like, oh my God, that’s my daughter. There’s nothing wrong with her. She’s not a monster. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong. She’s just a highly sensitive child and overwhelmed. And I read more of the book and I thought, that’s me as well. It’s not just my daughter and Kimberly. When I found the book, it was finally being given the right user manual for me, or the right blueprint or the missing jigsaw piece puzzle to my life. Everything made sense for me. So, it was a hugely profound realization that I’m highly sensitive and my daughters are, and I’m so grateful that to my friend, for putting me in touch with the book and with the whole concept because it’s changed my life since I discovered
Kim: It’s so funny. A lot of the highly sensitive people talk to when they find out just changes so many things. What did change for you, and did that change your relationship with yourself? Did that change the relationship with your kids? How did that play out?
Nina: Yes is the short answer to that. Yes, it changed everything. So, I finally understood. So bizarrely, I studied psychology like 30 years ago. I have a degree in psychology. I’ve done about 20 odd years of personal development work. I’ve been a coach for a long time, and it was just amazing to me that I’d never come across the term in a way that it really landed for me until that point. So yes, it did. It explained so much. It kind of explained as most highly sensitive people have heard throughout their lives, we’ve probably been told “You’re too sensitive.” “Stop being too sensitive.” “Why are you still thinking about that? That happened ages ago,” and you don’t know to say it’s because I’m wired this way. So it really helped me understand how I was as a child, how I was in my work scenario. I always felt, what’s wrong with me?
Why can everybody else do these things? And I can’t? Why can my work colleagues work hard all day and then go and drink all night or whatever and stay up late and then get up early the next day and do it every day, day after day after day, when actually I was on my knees and ended up burnt out after doing that for a while. And it’s always that feeling less than everybody else. There’s something wrong with me. I can’t do things like everybody else. So, finding out that there was an actual physiological reason for this was so validating for me. It took off all pressures. Like, oh, there is nothing wrong with me. I’m just a highly sensitive person and I’m wired differently from everybody else. And that was just incredible to know.
Kim: Yes, kind of takes away that limitation that we think, to your point, when you’re at work and you see everybody else doing the thing and you’re like, why am I so tired? Why can’t I do that? Why am I, you mentioned the ruminating and thinking about things days after it happens…
Nina: And weeks sometimes. Yes, yes. And you also asked how it made a difference with my daughters. So, for me as a highly sensitive mother, knowing that my daughters are highly sensitive, I know now how to advocate for them. So, with people especially who are not highly sensitive or who aren’t familiar with the traits, and I’m thinking sometimes of the older generation where they’re probably not familiar with the highly sensitive trait, and a lot of people think it’s a load of rubbish. It doesn’t exist. And you and I and other people like us are here to educate the world. It is an actual thing. It exists. They’ve proven it through studies, et cetera, et cetera. It helps me advocate for my daughters. It’s like when we’re with my in-laws, for instance, and the girls are exhausted and tired and just want to lock themselves away or they need some alone time and there’s the inevitable criticisms or judgements.
Why aren’t they being sociable? Why aren’t they smiling? It’s like they’re just tired. Just give them a bit of time and then they’ll be sociable again, but they need some downtime. So, it’s about advocating for them, knowing what works for them, what doesn’t work for them. If you’re going to give them loads of sugar, expect dire consequences. If you are going to make them, go out and do things that they don’t really want to do all day, they’re going to be tired and grumpy. If we’re going to have to get up early to catch a flight, they’re going to need to rest. It is just like things that non-highly sensitive people, it wouldn’t occur to them that you’d need downtime or alone time or rest or to eat regular meals or healthy meals or whatever, because they can keep going without them. It’s really understanding that, nope, I need to eat regularly. My girls need to eat regularly, and we need alone time to recharge our batteries. It’s not because we don’t like people, it’s not being antisocial. We just need it to function. So, it’s understanding the way our physiology is so that I can actually advocate for myself and for them.
Kim: Right, exactly. So, your background is in psychology and now you work with highly sensitive people in leadership. Is that right?
Nina: Yes. So even though I studied psychology, I never actually worked in the field of psychology. I had a very convoluted career path, so have a degree in psychology, went on to study law, did a law conversion course, but then ended up in a global investment bank. It was a debt derivatives technology department of a global investment bank, sort of project management, project coordination work for them, and then a little bit of research and development, which was ironic, cause I’m not a technologist. And that’s where I burnt out and needed to go around the world for a year to recover. And then I studied neurolinguistic programming to heal myself and to understand myself. So, in a way, I went back to the whole neuroscience and the brain and how the brain works through NLP found it so useful for me that I decided to coach using NLP and then was doing that for a while, learning various other different things, and then learned I was highly sensitive.
So, my path through, since knowing that I’m highly sensitive myself, it was kind of an evolution. It’s like understanding what that meant for me, how I could do things that fit for me. So, I discovered things like Nia, which is a form of movement and dance that really works for me because it works on a mind, body, spirit, emotion level. I’ve recently got into using pure essential oils to help with the emotions and the resilience. I do something called wild voice work. So, I find things that work for me and then I share them with others. And I’ve forgotten what your question was now, Kimberly.
Kim: That’s a good question. I was just so enthralled in what you were sharing with me. I think I lost it too.
Nina: Well, that’s fine.
Kim: But more along the lines of oh, how you are working now with women, highly sensitive women in leadership and how that evolved for you, but you just shared so much. I’m really interested in what does this dance that you mentioned movement, is it like a somatic type thing?
Nina: Yeah, so it’s called Nia, which used to stand for neuromuscular something, something, but actually it’s a combination of the martial arts, the dance arts and the healing arts.
Kim: Wow.
Nina: There’s nine different movement forms. So, there’s the healing arts, yoga, Feldenkrais Alexander technique, the martial arts, Taekwondo, Tai Chi, Aikido, and the dance arts are modern dance, jazz dance, and Duncan dance after Isadora Duncan. But it’s this really beautiful practice. So, you can go along to a Nia class and just see it as a form of exercise.
The beautiful thing about Nia is you can do it in a way that works for your body. So, it doesn’t matter if you’re in a wheelchair, you can still do Nia, if you’re a top athlete, you can do Nia and everything in between because the thing about Nia is you do it your body’s way, which fits so beautifully for highly sensitive people. And you can do it at a level one, which is very healing up to level three, which is full on high impact levels. But as I said, it works on the mind, body, spirit, emotion level. So, you can actually work on so many different things through the Nia practice. So, it’s not just going to a studio and doing a Nia class. It can become a lifestyle practice. And I’ve actually worked with somebody called Elaine Wolf, who is a wonderful, I think she’s a psychotherapist as well, and also a black belt Nia instructor, and she uses Nia to Heal trauma. She says it’s one of the most powerful ways to work and heal trauma. So, it’s a wonderful practice.
Kim: The more HSPs I talk to, a lot of the work ends up bringing them back to mind, body, soul, holistic type health practices. We just need to nourish ourselves in ways that I feel like our society really doesn’t allow for.
Nina: Absolutely. And the reason I love Nia is because as a highly sensitive person, I live so much in my head. We have these busy brains.
Kim: Yes. All the thinking and yeah…ruminating…
Nina: Exactly. Processing constantly. So, we can just live in our brains and we forget that we have bodies. And when I started dancing Nia, I started to reconnect with my body. And I’ve also incorporated into my work something called multiple brain integration training or mBraining, which is a beautiful process which works on the premise that we have brains not just in our heads, but also our hearts and our guts, and shown this to be the case that we have brain cells actually throughout our bodies, but we have concentrations obviously in our actual brains, but also our hearts and guts. And then you think about the gut biome and how that’s so important. So, in order to really thrive, especially as a highly sensitive person, I believe you need to take a holistic approach. You need to look at somatic movement. Nia for me is so good to help me get out of my head and back into my body.
Kim: Bodies. That’s such a great point. I feel like in the fast-paced world we live in, we’re constantly focused on things outside of ourselves. What can I do to get a better job? How can I, and everything’s kind of focused on our outer world and our minds and thoughts when we forget how much nourishment we can get from paying attention to our bodies and our nervous systems.
Nina: And also our incredible intuition. So as highly sensed people, I believe we have impeccable intuition, and it’s just about learning to trust it. Because I think that’s something else that, especially in the West, that we’re not taught to listen to our intuition. We don’t take it seriously. Whereas I believe in an energetic sense that everything is energy, everything is vibrations. And I believe that highly sensitive people have these highly responsive nervous systems that act like radio antenna, and it helps us pick up on the energies and the frequencies more readily than others who are not highly sensitive. And it’s being able to use this and use these. I’ve done a lot of work on intuition and how our intuition is actually us just being able to pick up on information that is out there in the ether. I find it fascinating. Absolutely fascinating.
Kim: And when you talk about this intuition, are you talking with our bodies or our thoughts and minds, or is there a difference or is it kind of all of that together?
Nina: I believe that if you think of everything as sort of vibrations, everything in the world is made of vibrations. We can pick up on these vibrations more easily. And I think it’s through our nervous system actually, so it’s part brain, but everything is electrical impulses, energy. So, it’s like our brains, our hearts are these incredible vessels that are able to pick up on electrical impulses. So, it is our whole body actually. It’s not just our brain that is picking up on thoughts and vibrations. It is our entire body.
Kim: And it just seems intuitively that if we’re so disconnected from our bodies, it would be harder to tap into that.
Nina: Yeah, absolutely. I have this belief that I think, I really believe that humans are capable of so much more than we currently realize. And so, I have a slight problem with the whole way that we’re going into AI, and there’s almost this transhumanism movement where some people are actually even embedding microchips into their bodies to build technology into that actual body. And I’m thinking, whoa, let’s explore what we’re capable of first before we try and start enhancing things. Because once we start enhancing things artificially, we just lose our capability to tap into the wonderful incredibleness that we are.
So yeah, I think human beings are incredible, and I just want to really celebrate that. And also, as highly sensitive people, I believe everybody is unique and everybody is incredible, but I believe highly sensitive people are more designed to readily connect to this “something bigger,” whatever that means for you, whether it’s energy, whether it’s religion, god, spirituality, nature, I believe we can connect more easily than others.
Kim: Yes. Yeah. It’s almost like we have through our sensitive bodies just kind of innate ability to tap into that a little more easily and pick up on things around us a little bit more easily. Like you said, everyone has that ability. Maybe it might be more just innate for us.
Nina: Yeah, yeah. I think we’re more highly attuned, which is this whole evolutionary thing. We are the first alerters. We are the canaries in the coal mine, whatever is out there that is causing any problems or dangers for us, the highly sensitive person is designed to pick up on it first. Everybody else will eventually, but we will be the first alerters, and so it makes sense that we’re more readily able to notice these other things.
Kim: So, in your career journey, you mentioned that you were studying psychology and then you went into finance, correct? Well, after you studied law, oh my goodness. Was it like a side-career for you in your mind? What made you make that decision and what made you come back to coaching?
Nina: So, I’ve never been one of these people who’s known what they wanted to do in their life. I have two sisters. One of them has always known that she wanted to go into medicine. That’s what she wanted to do from young. And lo and behold, that’s what she did throughout her whole life. She’s now a very successful consultant. I’m not like her at all. I’ve always been like, oh, my father wanted me to be a lawyer, but my A-level grades weren’t brilliant. So, I fell into psychology and then I thought, okay, I’ll go and study law, love studying it. But it was very stressful. It was very compressed. The studying then thought, Nope, I don’t want to become a lawyer. So, sort of fell into various different jobs. So, I was just doing temporary contracts and ended up, I found myself in this global investment bank in the debt derivatives technology department.
Stayed there for three months and then moved around. And I think because I didn’t know, I was highly sensitive at the time, I really struggled because I didn’t know why. Well, there were certain things. For me, it was a little bit of a toxic environment because there was a lot, it was very political, and there were some people who were really playing a political game, and that just did not sit well for me. As an HSP, I would see through all the rubbish and think, okay, so hang on. That person is the one who is crucial to the team. They’re doing all the heavy lifting and the work, but his manager is down at the pub, schmoozing, all the heads of department…
Kim: You’re triggering my PTSD.
Nina: It was just crazy. And I was always very fortunate because I was brought in to work quite closely with the chief technology officer, and I think he saw my potential way more than I could. I just kind of was trying to keep my head above water there. But clearly, I was asking the right sort of questions. I was very good at going around and talking to everybody and talking to all the developers and really finding out what was going on for them.
And so, then the CTO would say to me, okay, so what’s really happening in the department? What’s really going on? Not what they were telling him, but what was really happening on ground level. And I was able to tell him that. So, I guess I was quite valuable in that respect. So, I was very fortunate that I worked with people who saw my abilities even before I did.
But yeah, as I said, I ended up shifting around doing different things, worked in project coordination, research and development, and then they were announcing voluntary redundancies and my hand shot up because I’d already booked my round-the-world ticket.
Kim: Wow.
Nina: I actually went traveling for 12 months, and I think it was because I was so burnt out, I just needed to heal my nervous system. And so, I went beach hopping just to heal for 12 months. It was great.
Kim: That must have been beautiful.
Nina: It was. And I really needed it. And then I came back and thought, okay, so now what do I do? And I was very fortunate because I had been made redundant. I had a little bit of money. So that’s when I invested in studying NLP for myself. And then the rest is history. Everything happens for a reason. And now I am where I am.
And coming back to a question you asked a while back, Kimberly, about how I’ve ended up working with sensitive female leaders. When I first discovered that I was highly sensitive, my children were highly sensitive. My friend who had given me Dr. Elaine Arin’s book, and I set up a business supporting parents and carers of highly sensitive children because that’s where we were and that’s what we were struggling with. So, we thought, let’s help others who must be struggling with similar things.
And then I thought after a little while of doing that, I wanted to go back to coaching. And so, I’d done a lot of research on the highly sensitive traits. I really wanted to raise awareness of the highly sensitive trait because people really do need to know about it. And so I went back into coaching, raising awareness of the trait. And then as I progressed and as I developed and as I managed to heal my highly sensitive nervous system more and more through Nia, as I developed my own confidence, that’s when I started to recognize that actually our highly sensitive trait is a huge advantage. And actually, it’s one of our greatest leadership assets. And then I became a very late feminist. It took me a long time to recognize actually that things are very unequal, and I don’t know how, I never was a feminist in my younger years.
I am now, but so I feel very passionately that we need to raise awareness of the highly sensitive trait, get people to see that actually, it’s not something we need to hide or be ashamed of, or God forbid, try and medicate away. But it’s something that we need to understand and embrace. And that’s what I have a program called Born to Lead. That’s what I teach and Born to Lead. It’s about accepting and appreciating a highly sensitive trait, but also that our ability to think and process deeply, our incredible empathy, our ability to feel deeply, our ability to see things that others miss and relate them to the big picture.
These are incredible assets, and we need leaders who are able to do this. And this is highly sensitive leaders. And I want to promote and support highly sensitive women just because there’s so much inequality in the top levels. We need more women in levels of leadership. That’s not to say that I don’t support advancing highly sensitive men as well, of course I do, and men in general, but we need to promote the women just to get to the 50-50 level. Otherwise, it’s still very, very unequal.
Kim: And how do you see having more highly sensitive leadership working out for us as human beings? What is the benefit to that?
Nina: Oh, wow. So, I think if we had more highly sensitive leaders, the leaders would be making decisions that worked for the long term, the legacy decision making rather than the short-term decisions. They wouldn’t be looking at how do we just make a biggest profit now and keep our shareholders happy. It would be how are these decisions and the direction we’re going in actually going to benefit everybody globally?
So, I think highly sensitive people because we have this propensity to think deeply and see the bigger picture when we make decisions, they are really well-considered, and they look to the long term. And also, I believe that highly sensitive women in a way are wired because we are physiologically the child bearers. We think about the generations to come, not just now it’s like, how are my children and my children’s children going to exist in this world that we’re creating? And so, this is why I believe highly sensitive female leaders would change the way the world is for the better.
Kim: A bit more nurturing rather than, you said the short-term gains nurturing what’s in this for everyone. How can we really improve for the long-term?
Nina: Absolutely. Yeah.
Kim: That is so beautiful. What would you say are some of the things that you struggle with when it comes to my sensitivity?
Nina: Well, I have a very recent incident. I went to see the dental hygienist yesterday, and the practice that I go to, the hygienist has changed over the years. So, I used to go and there was the most lovely, gentle, she was probably highly sensitive hygienist who would talk me through what she was doing. She talk really, she’d tell me what was happening and chatter to me, there’d be lovely soft music playing in the background. And I was absolutely fine with her.
Sadly, the one yesterday, and they’ve actually put in my notes that I don’t like, they use this ultrasonic tool now to clean the plaque off your teeth, but in order to use that, that you also have to have water and then a suction thing. So, you’ve got the assistant and the hygienist digging around in your mouth with a suction and the noise and this.
And I found that so overwhelming. And luckily, I’m able to just take myself away through self-hypnosis or whatever. But I was sitting in the chair going, do you know what? I really hate this. I almost feel violated. There’s two people with three different instruments in my mouth. I do not like this, and I’m having to pay a fortune for this as well.
Of course, I’m getting lovely clean teeth in the process. But I was thinking, no, I am going to have to say something. So, I did actually say to the hygienist afterwards, I said, I actually found that quite challenging. And I’m just curious. The notes that you said you’ve looked at where it says that I’m uncomfortable with certain things, did that make a difference? And what difference did it make? And she sort of looked at me blankly and I thought, okay, perhaps you’re really not familiar with highly sensitive people and don’t really understand that that was quite a traumatic experience for me. So that is something that really overwhelmed me.
And it’s ironic because I managed to have both my daughters without any pain medication. So, they were both natural births, but I don’t like going to the dental hygienist and having people in my math that
Kim: A unique sort of torture that you’re paying for.
Nina: Yes, exactly. It’s like, no, thank you. So, my quest now is to find a dental hygienist who is nice and gentle, the one that I used to go to, and I have a year to do it.
Kim: So, the physical limitation, not limitations, but the physical overwhelm can be a lot for you. I hear you. I know once I went to the dentist, and they actually struck a nerve in my mouth. Yeah, it’s just traumatic.
Nina: Yeah.
Kim: It’s hard to escape, like you said, because we’re so focused on every little thing that they’re doing. I hear you with that wholeheartedly. So good luck finding a better hygienist!
Nina: Thank for you.
Kim: So, what are the things that you love about the trait?
Nina: Sometimes when people ask me about being highly sensitive and I take them through the DOES characteristics, I describe the emotional side of being able to stand and look at a sunset. And I don’t just look at the sunset and go, oh, that’s pretty. I kind of see all the amazing colors. I almost sense the vibrations of the sun setting. It’s like this huge multi-level experience. It’s just so beautiful. I love listening to music. I love walking through nature and just seeing everything and smelling everything and sensing everything. I love the ability to really experience life on, it’s almost a heightened level.
So, when it’s good, it’s really, really good. When you’re sitting in the dental hygienist chair, not so much there is the positive side as well. It’s like smelling a beautiful rose or it is just being in nature and having that wonderful smell after it’s rained. Things like that that are just so beautiful as a highly sensitive person.
And also, when I talk to other highly sensitive people, when you are in a room with like-minded people and the conversations that you can have, much like the one we’re having here today, it’s like when you just get each other, and you can just talk about incredible things that are so deep and meaningful. That’s what I love about being highly sensitive.
Kim: Such a gift. I feel like with my experience, most of the conversations I have with amazing people, I’m so lucky to have people in my life, they just don’t touch upon the things that you and I really sink into. It’s hard to explain and it’s hard to share that moment. You mentioned a sunset to us, it’s just like the world stops and we’re just immersed in this experience taking in everything where someone can just glance at it and be like, that’s great, and move on. To us. It’s a big deal. And I think that’s absolutely beautiful. That’s something that everyone kind of thinks about wanting to do is slow down and live in the moment. And it’s something that I feel like we can do quite naturally and share. It means a lot to us.
Nina: And this is why I think so many highly sensitive people are great artists or great authors or great musicians. We really have that sensitivity and that sensibility. And if we’re able to convey that to others that a lot of these beautiful artists are able to do, it just enriches everybody’s lives.
Kim: Helping other people see things through our eyes can be cathartic and artistic.
Nina: Yeah.
Kim: That’s really beautiful. So, what is something, a piece of advice you can give to highly sensitive people who may be struggling to find happiness or meaning in their lives?
Nina: I think the biggest shift for me was when I started to really research and understand what it meant to be highly sensitive. I stopped feeling like a victim because as I said earlier, I always felt there was something wrong with me. And I think it’s very easy as a sensitive person living in the Western World, especially where sensitivity isn’t valued, you can start to feel like a victim to your sensitivity.
So, it’s really read the books, read the websites, read the blogs, listen to the podcasts, get good quality information on what it means to be highly sensitive and understand as well that even within the sensitivity spectrum, there are more highly sensitive people and then people are highly sensitive in different ways. And then you also have high sensation seeking highly sensitives. You have introverted highly sensitives, and you have extroverted highly sensitives. You might have some who also have ADHD or autism or other neurodivergent things going on. So, it’s like really explore what flavor of HSP you are and embrace that and understand that you have incredible abilities that you’re probably taking for granted that other people don’t have. And is to really sink into those incredible experiences that you have and go out of your way to have more of them.
Kim: Right. Yeah. Instead of saying, I’m highly sensitive and this is awful, get curious, learn more, see what makes you tick, see how you can work with it.
Nina: And see that it’s your greatest leadership asset if that’s the way you want to go. But all highly sensitive people are leaders, whether they know it or not, because we are the first alerters. So, by definition we’re leading.
Kim: Right. That’s such a great way to put it. And you’re working on a book and a program right now. Is that something you can share with me or us?
Nina: Yes. So, resilience is something that has always been a bug bear for me. That whole thing of, oh, do you know something’s gone wrong? Just bounce back. Just get over it. And of course, as highly sensitive people, we don’t tend to be able to just bounce back and dust ourselves off and go, yeah, yeah, everything’s fine. We’ll be ruminating, we’ll be feeling, we’ll be developing.
But actually then I believe we bounce forward because we take all of that learning from what’s gone wrong. And so, I’ve developed a new model of resilience, which I called Revolutionary Resilience, and there are seven keys in this model that span from getting out of your head and back into your body to what we were talking about before, rather than short-termism and short-term thinking, it’s to think about the long-term and legacy thinking. So, there’s seven keys to the model. I’m currently writing a book about it just right at the beginning, but are hoping to have that done.
And so, I’ll be able to share that. And also, I have my program Born to Lead, which is, it’s there, but it’s always developing because whatever I find that works for me, I add to the program. So, it’s almost a living, breathing thing as well.
Kim: That’s wonderful. Well, thank you so much for the work that you do, and thank you for sharing that with me today. I also wanted to ask if you could share how people can follow along on your journey.
Nina: So, the best way to contact me is have a look at my website, which is www.ninakhoo.com. You’ll see all my blogs, my resources, my programs, ways to connect with me. I have a weekly newsletter that goes out every Wednesday called Nina’s Nudge, so you can sign up to my newsletter on there. And it also gives you all the social media handles as well on my website. So have a look at www.ninakhoo.com. I’d love to connect with your listeners.
Kim: Perfect. Thank you so much for joining me today. It was a pleasure.
Nina: Oh, thank you. It was my pleasure too.
Thank you so much for listening in on my conversation with Nina. I hope it inspires you to explore all the different ways you can nurture your sensitivity and build your own leadership skills.
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About Nina Khoo
Nina Khoo — NLP Master & Sensitive Leadership Coach
When highly sensitive women embrace their way of being, they win and the world wins. In Nina’s coaching and training programs, she supports her clients to discover their own unique and natural path to success.
As creator of the Born to Lead Program and the Revolutionary Resilience Model, Nina has developed a body of work designed to guide highly sensitive women to succeed in the sometimes hard and harsh worlds of entrepreneurship and corporate life.
A certified Master NLP Coach, Wild Voice™ Facilitator, and NIA Movement practitioner, Nina combines her experience in pursuit of her mission: to help create a world where sensitivity is respected and valued, and no one feels they have to “push through” ever again.
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Website: www.ninakhoo.com
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After 20 years in the publishing industry working for companies like Time Inc., Monster.com, and W. W. Norton, Kimberly Marshall left her corporate work to create a gentler and more nurturing career that better suited her as an HSP. After repeatedly struggling with burnout and low confidence in the workplace, she now helps HSPs create careers that bring them lots of purpose, meaning, and joy. With the Happy HSP Podcast, Kimberly hopes to shed more light on the reality of living with high sensitivity and inspire more HSPs to embrace their empathetic, generous, and loving natures.
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