60: The Extroverted Highly Sensitive Man: An Interview with Johnny Martinez

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

Sensitive, Highlysensitiveperson, Mental Health, Aron, Introversion, Social Sciences, Personality, Mentalhealth, Introvert, Sensitivity, Shyness, Science, Health & Fitness, Hsp, Anxiety, Wellness

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

The Highly Sensitive Podcast is for people with Sensory Processing Sensitivity--or those who want to better understand HSPs. In this show, I share personal stories, tips, rants, and occasionally interviews with interesting HSPs.

Today's episode is a special treat! I've got an interview with an extroverted, highly sensitive, man. He's also a comedian and software engineer. It's Johnny Martinez of the Introvert Extrovert Podcast. In this episode, Johnny talks about:

How being highly sensitive can help you crush job interviews
Having a parent who is very not highly sensitive
The benefits of being an extroverted HSP as a software engineer
How comedy can be a defense mechanism
Having a panic attack on stage!
Ways to practice self-care as an HSP (mind, body, environment).

This episode is almost an hour long, but it's worth it for Johnny's insight and interesting stories. Find Johnny and his podcast:

Website: introextropod.com
Twitter: @introextropod

Want to support the podcast? If you enjoy my podcast and blog, if you find it helpful, uplifting, or entertaining, that's awesome! Would you consider giving just $1 per episode? Check out my Patreon page to see how it works at patreon.com/hsp

Podcast music attribution: Bust This Bust That (Professor Kliq) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the highly sensitive person podcast, a twice monthly podcast for people who experience the world intensely.
0:11.0	Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits. Welcome to episode 60 of the HSP podcast. I'm your host, Kelly. This is a show where I talk about what it's like to have sensory processing sensitivity. I share stories and opinions and sometimes interviews. And today is one of those days I'm very excited to share with you a special guest. He is a highly
0:40.2	sensitive, extroverted man. This is Johnny Martinez, one of the hosts of the great podcasts
0:48.1	called The Introvert Extrovert Podcast. His show aims to help people better understand themselves. Johnny is, as I mentioned, a highly
0:57.8	sensitive extrovert, and his co-host Al is an introvert who does not have the trait of high
1:03.5	sensitivity. You can find their show at introextropod.com. I was really looking forward to speaking with Johnny and hearing his unique perspective as an
1:14.7	extrovert and as a man who is highly sensitive.
1:18.5	Johnny is also a comedian and a software engineer.
1:22.5	So we talk about all of these things and what he finds are his challenges of his sensitivity, the benefits of
1:29.1	his sensitivity, some funny stories, and ways that he copes. So without further ado, let's get
1:36.7	started. Johnny, thanks so much for being on the show today. Kelly, thank you so much for
1:41.7	having me. I'm really excited to do this. First thing I want to ask you is, how did you discover that you were highly sensitive and an extrovert?
1:49.3	Well, that's a deep question.
1:51.6	In the past, it was a long, you know, it's a long road.
1:53.4	We all have these long life journeys and everything. point, like a lot of people, I was dealing with a lot of issues, dealt with, like, health
2:02.5	issues, and I started dealing with, you know, anxiety and depression issues and stuff like that.
2:07.3	Thankfully, now we have the internet, and I started kind of looking around and trying to do
2:11.6	some research and things, and I started kind of piling up on books and this and that.
2:16.4	And there was some point when I found something mentioning something called being a highly
2:23.3	sensitive person.
2:24.7	And I remember reading that and thinking, well, that's kind of a general thing.
2:29.7	You know, it's kind of like, it's like if they had named it something very specific or science-sounding,
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