Check out where to find me next. My workshops, events, and courses are easy and calming for introverts and highly sensitive people (HSPs), and designed with inclusion in mind.
- Upcoming live events
- Online courses, which sometimes have live calls included.
- Small group communities for learning and camaraderie together.
How Your Sparketype Can Help Relieve Career Stress
Live workshop has now passed but you can still get the replay. 
Join this 75-minute workshop replay to unlock the power of your unique Sparketype®. Using your free Sparketype® Assessment, discover the key to finding fulfillment in your career by understanding what truly ignites your passion and energy, and how to align your work with your innate strengths and motivations.
Host and facilitator: Val Nelson, Career and Business Coach for HSPs and Introverts
Guest speaker: Monica Parker, Career Coach for Mid-career Women, and Certified Sparketype Advisor
Recording available for $27. (It was free to attend live and also for our current clients.)
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Could I Leave My 9-5? – Intro to Self-employment
Learn how that Scary Cliff can become a Simple Bridge.
If you’ve been thinking about self-employment, or even trying it on the side, you probably have some concerns about how that “leap” actually works.
In this interactive online course, you’ll get concrete answers to your worries about money, energy, risk — all with introverts and highly sensitive people (HSPs) in mind.
This is about heart-centered and practical self-employment especially for solo service professionals (coaches, consultants, healing arts, creative services).
You get access to 4 live group calls, and self-paced lessons. You can do some or all.
Easy Marketing Methods for Introvert/HSP Solopreneurs
A Fresh Perspective on Attracting Clients, that Even Introverts/HSPs Will Love.
Stay tuned for launch date. **In the meantime, the above course on Self-employment will cover some of this. You might want to check that out!
If the thought of marketing makes you feel anxious or drained, I’ll help you step into a new perspective —where effective marketing can fit inside your comfort zone. And we’ll get specific with methods to choose from and how to choose.
I am an introvert and highly sensitive person (HSP) who discovered more ease with marketing and now have a steady coaching business. I will teach you some simple principles to make marketing work for you too. Especially for heart-centered, self-employed service providers, who I call SOULpreneurs.
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Recent Podcast Interviews
You can listen to recent interviews of me here:
- Empathic Leadership Summit segment: Sensitive Strengths: A New Paradigm For Self-Employment. Oct. 2024.
- Podcast episode: “Dealing with Comparisonitis and Shame Attacks with Val Nelson” on The Gentle Rebel Podcast. July 2024
- Podcast episode, “Considering Self-employment with Career and Business Coach, Val Nelson,” on The HSP Podcast, Feb. 2024.
- “HSP Coaches discuss the new book, Sensitive” (We got into being sensitive as part of our work and personal lives), The HSP Podcast, Sept. 2023
- “Self-employment for highly sensitive people (HSPs)” on HSP Connection, Sept. 2023.
- New Possibilities: Can Introverts Be Entrepreneurs? Outgrow the Grind Podcast, June 2022
- Introverts Finding Their Career Path, The Quiet and Strong Podcast, Feb. 2022
- Understanding Introversion, High Sensitivity and Using These to Live Your True Calling, with Career & Business Coach, Val Nelson, April 2021, The Financially Free Woman
Speaking Availability
I am currently limiting my speaking to podcast interviews, panels, and HSP-specific audiences, so I can stay focused on other priorities. If you have a great speaking invitation I can’t refuse, please contact me. See my speaking page for topics.
I’ve been a speaker at numerous organizations and events including Harvard Business School’s Women in Business Conference, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts Small Business Development Centers (MSBDC), Holistic Chamber of Commerce Western Mass, Annual Women Business Owners Conference, Women Business Owner’s Alliance (WBOA), Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce, Easthampton Chamber of Commerce, Univ. of Connecticut, Bay Path College, Hidden-Tech, Podcamp Western Mass, Western Mass Coaching Alliance, and UMass Amherst Alumni Association.
I’ve also enjoyed being interviewed — for radio, podcasts, blogs, and articles.
About my speaking topics and media interviews >>
Recent Talks
“Sensitive Superpowers for Self-employment”
Empathic Leadership Summit
Oct. 2024
“Seasoned HSP Solopreneurs Facing Change”
Sensitive Empowerment Community
Sept. 2024
“Client Attraction Made Easier for HSP Coaches”
High Sensory Coaching Community
Nov. 2022
“Career and Business Fits for HSPs”
Sensitive Empowerment Community
Nov. 2022
“Self-employment for HSPs”
Sensitive Empowerment Community
June 2022
“Resilient Solopreneurs”
Webinar
May 2020
“The Cause of Marketing Anxiety… and the Cure”
Gentle Business Revolution/ Sarah Santacroce
June 2019
“I Love My Client Work, But I Hate Marketing. Then What?”
International Coaches Federation – New England Chapter (ICFNE)
Dec. 2018
“Pricing and Packaging Your Heart-centered Services”
The Quiet Collective Conference for Introverted Women Entrepreneurs
March 2018
“The Role of Intuition in Running Your Business”
Women Business Owners Alliance
January 2018
“Networking Secrets from an Ex-Wallflower”
Mount Holyoke College Alumni Association
S. Hadley, MA – Dec. 2016
“Networking Secrets from an Ex-Wallflower”
Harvard Business School, Dynamic Women in Business Conference.
Boston, MA – Feb. 2015
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