Podcast Feature: Non-Toxic Goal Setting for HSP & Neurodivergent Business Owners

Written By Sara Lobkovich

Sara Lobkovich on Sensitive. Podcast with Kim Kimball: April 21, 2025

In this revealing podcast episode, Sara Lobkovich shares her expertise on creating goals that honor rather than deplete personal capacity. As an OKR Master Coach and Nationally Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach, she speaks candidly about navigating business growth as a neurodivergent, deeply introverted person with a trauma-impacted brain. The conversation explores practical frameworks for "non-toxic" goal setting, including how intrinsic "selfish" goals paradoxically create deeper organizational alignment, the shift from achievement obsession to sustainable progress, and the crucial connection between nervous system-informed work and productivity. Lobkovich offers actionable insights for neurodivergent professionals who've felt traditional goal-setting methodologies don't accommodate their unique thinking styles, with a step-by-step approach to creating shame-free goals rooted in authenticity rather than external expectations.

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About Sara Lobkovich

Strategist, Coach, Speaker/Facilitator

Sara Lobkovich helps unconventional and strategic thinkers build confidence, courage and connected strategic plans to help them turn their brilliant insights into undeniable results.

She picks up where other strategists leave off: facilitating culture and behavior change to help you actually achieve your strategy, instead of it sitting on a shelf.

Sara also develops frameworks that enable people whose identity, cognitive style or values put us at odds with mainstream (American) business culture to set and achieve big, bold goals (no matter what personal or environmental challenges they face).

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