If you’ve ever felt the pressure to shrink yourself to be liked, hide your emotions, or embrace a leadership style that felt inauthentic, this conversation is for you.

In today’s episode, I’m joined by Barbara Allen-Williams. She’s a therapist, a speaker on high sensitivity, and the author of The Little Book of HSP Wisdom. In this conversation, we talk about how HSPs can embrace authenticity and step into leadership roles with more ease, grace, and impact. We explore why empathy is the foundation for relationship-building, ways to honor our HSP needs, and how sensitivity can be a powerful asset in leadership and life.

Today I’m excited to share with you an episode I recorded with William Allen. He’s a renowned author, blogger, podcaster, and advocate for highly sensitive men.

In this powerful and timely conversation, William shares his experience growing up as a sensitive boy in a southern and conservative culture, and we also chat about how the expectations in our society in and around masculinity can impact the mental health of highly sensitive men. We dig into what happens when men feel the need to suppress their emotions, and how embracing sensitivity can build a path toward deeper healing — not only for men, but for every HSP.