In this episode, Esther Kane interviews Jenn Granneman, founder of the world’s largest online community for introverts, IntrovertDear.com, and the co-founder of HighlySensitiveRefuge.com. In this interview, we discuss her new book, SENSITIVE which she co-wrote with Andre Solo.
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Episode Contents:
0:00 Compassionate Conversations Intro
0:24 HSP Series Intro 2:13 Introduction of Jenn Granneman
3:10 Jenn’s personal experience of being a highly sensitive person
7:58 How she manages being in the public eye as an introvert and HSP
10:00 The evolution in writing about introversion and now sensitivity
16:06 Differences between introversion and high sensitivity
19:00 Strengths of sensitive people
22:12 Language to use when talking about sensitivity
28:38 Practical tools to manage overstimulation
32:23 Difference between empathy and self-compassion
36:06 How to thrive as an introvert/HSP
40:00 What Jenn would tell her young self now as a ‘wise elder’
Show notes:
You can find Jenn’s wonderful work here:
Her on-line communities:
Books:
- Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World, to be published by Harmony in March 2023
- The Secret Lives of Introverts, published by Skyhorse in 2017
My review of Jenn’s first book
Esther’s “What is the difference between a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) & an Introvert?”
More FREE Resources:
- Learn more about the Highly Sensitive Personality
- Read a whole lot of articles I’ve written on Highly Sensitive People
