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Healing Burnout and Finding Purpose as a Highly Sensitive Leader with Nina Khoo

Kimberly Marshall Episode 12

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In this episode of The Happy HSP Podcast, NLP Master and Sensitive Leadership Coach Nina Khoo shares how her journey through burnout, parenting sensitive children, and navigating high-pressure corporate life led her to discover her sensitivity. We discuss healing through practices like NIA, intuition-building, and mBraining, and how highly sensitive women can step into leadership with confidence and resilience.

Nina shares:

  • How recognizing sensitivity in her children helped her recognize it in herself.
  • The realities of burnout while working in a global investment bank.
  • What holistic practices like Nia and mBraining taught her about healing and resilience.
  • How she helps women embrace sensitivity as a leadership strength.

Topics covered:

  • Burnout and recovery for HSPs.
  • Parenting and advocating for sensitive children.
  • Embracing holistic tools for healing (Nia, mBraining, intuition-building).
  • Nina’s Revolutionary Resilience model for reframing sensitivity as a strength. 
  • Sensitivity as an asset in leadership and business.
  • Creating balance and purpose as a highly sensitive leader.

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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About Kimberly:

Kimberly Marshall is an ICF-certified Energy and Intuition coach for highly sensitive people (HSPs) and host of The Happy HSP Podcast. After 20 years in the publishing industry working for companies like Time Inc., Monster.com, and W. W. Norton, she left her corporate career to pursue work that better suited her HSP needs. She now help HSPs reconnect with their intuition, energy, and purpose so they can live gentle, soul-aligned lives.

Through her work, Kimberly hopes to shed more light on the reality of living with high sensitivity and inspire more HSPs to embrace their empathetic, loving, and gentle natures.

  • Hosted/produced by Kimberly Marshall
  • Edited by Fonzie Try Media
  • Artwork by Tara Corola