Episode 68: Selling as a Highly Sensitive Person with Ruth Poundwhite
This week I’m speaking with the amazing Ruth Poundwhite! Ruth is a certified coach, NLP practitioner & feminist marketer who supports highly sensitive humans to run businesses they love without sacrificing who they are.
Ruth and I talk about the preparation and inspiration behind her upcoming Soulful Sales Summit, which brings 30+ experts together to talk about finding your sales strategy as a highly sensitive business owner. We chat through the risks and rewards behind being yourself in your business, and how showing up as the real you can not only open up parts of your business, but parts of yourself too.
Tune in for more on how to approach ethical selling in a way that genuinely responds to your audience, embracing your ambition, and how to really get connected with the value of what you do.
And if you’re interested in attending Ruth’s Soulful Sales Summit, you can find all the information here: https://soulfulsalessummit.com/ray
The summit runs from 11 – 14 of October, and tickets to attend are free (with the options to upgrade for replays)!
Just an FYI, the link included is an affiliate link and I’ll be one of the speakers, which I am so excited about as I know it’s going to be an absolutely brilliant 4 days!
You can find out more about Ruth here:
https://ruthpoundwhite.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ruthpoundwhite/
And if you’ve caught the info about Real You Real Money in the intro, follow this link for more: https://www.raydodd.co.uk/real-you-real-money.
QUOTES
RUTH:
“Being myself and honouring my desires in my business… can be really confronting and sometimes you need to take breaks from stretching. But it is a privilege because this is the life I want to live, and I want to be myself in my life. And for me, my business has been the vehicle for that.”
“I think the hardest thing is trusting yourself to try things, because you don't know how they're gonna feel until you actually try them.”
“What I mean by Soulful Sales is selling in integrity with yourself. And obviously we've all had bad sales experiences and we've all had pushy people. We've all been ripped off - some of us have been scammed really badly. It's also true that selling as a whole does not have to be done one certain way. So Soulful Selling means selling in alignment with your own self, which includes your values, what you think is right or wrong, but also your energy levels – selling in a way that you can get behind.”
RAY:
“It's so important to just sit with who we are rather than constantly be striving. I think we are conditioned to do the striving to fit ourselves into the shape of other people we've seen as successful. Instead, let’s give ourselves that space to sit with who we actually are and what actually works for us and where we feel resistance.”