The Happy HSP Podcast
Are you a highly sensitive person (HSP) who often feels overwhelmed, misunderstood, or out of place in the world around you? Join host Kimberly Marshall on The Happy HSP Podcast as we dive deep into the personal stories of everyday HSPs, explore what it means to live life with heightened sensitivity, and discover the many reasons to celebrate our gentle nature.
The Happy HSP Podcast
Redesigning Career and Success as a Highly Sensitive Person with Krista Casey
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What happens when you’re getting signals that your life and career are misaligned with your sensitive needs and nature?
In this episode, I chat with Krista Casey to explore what it means to redesign our careers and understanding of success as highly sensitive people. Krista shares her journey from senior creative leadership in a fast-paced corporate environment to coaching highly sensitive people in creating values-aligned, nervous-system–friendly work and lives.
If you’re an HSP who is craving more clarity, meaning, and a softer path forward, this episode is for you.
What Krista shares:
- Why overstimulation, and not a lack of capability, was at the root of her burnout.
- What stepping away from work and becoming a parent revealed about her nervous system.
- How values mapping helps redefine success and career direction.
- The importance of designing work with sensitivity instead of against it.
Topics covered:
- High sensitivity in corporate and leadership roles.
- Nervous system awareness and regulation for HSPs.
- Boundaries, people-pleasing, and overachieving tendencies.
- Redesigning career paths through values-led decision making.
- Why HSPs thrive in connection-driven and purpose-led work.
- Finding confidence and self-trust through unmasking.
About Krista Casey:
Krista Casey is a coach, co-founder, creative director, and expat. After spending more than a decade leading large creative teams at global brands like Wayfair and New Balance, she now helps HSPs design lives and careers that feel authentic, balanced, and values-aligned.
Her coaching combines design thinking, values mapping, and parts work to help clients move from overthinking to action with clarity and confidence.
A highly sensitive person herself, Krista brings both lived experience and practical frameworks to her work. She’s passionate about helping sensitive, thoughtful people thrive in a world that often feels really complicated. She also writes about identity, nervous system, boundaries, people-pleasing, and building a life that feels like yours on Substack.
Follow along on Krista’s journey:
Websites: https://www.kristacaseycoaching.com/
https://www.theshiftmakers.com/about-us
https://the-shift-a7b7a2-2829568a9d744a5faced0b.webflow.io/power-circles
Substack: https://kristacoaching.substack.com/
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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