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Josh Levine: Building an Empathetic Culture
What does it mean to leverage your culture as a competitive advantage? What does culture even mean, and why is it so important that an organization articulate and live out its values? This episode will answer all your questions, especially if you’ve ever thought culture…
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Carrie Melissa Jones: Building Successful Communities
Why so many brand communities (and even social cause communities) fail is because they are not truly communities. They are simply a collection of people. For a community to thrive for the long term, you need mutual concern, ongoing stewardship – and yes, empathy. If…
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Michele Wucker: How “Risk Empathy” Impacts Team Performance
Do you know what your risk fingerprint is? Like your actual fingerprint, your risk fingerprint is unique to you and based on your biology, but also your experiences and environment. Your risk fingerprint shapes what you see as risk or what you don’t believe is…
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Charna Cassell: Recognizing and Regulating Trauma at Work – Yours and Others
In order to be the best leader you can be, you have to be present and attuned to what your teams are going through. That requires regulating ourselves and our own emotions. Things get even stickier when you throw trauma into the mix. You get…
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Dr. Lorea Martinez: Social and Emotional Learning. Not Just for Kids!
How well do you understand your own emotions? Do your emotions ever get in the way of producing quality work or collaborating effectively? Chances are, yes. This is why social-emotional learning, or SEL, is so important for us to teach children at home and at…
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Karen Cornwell: Gender Harmony Leads to Innovation
If you have experienced disharmony in your workplace, it might not be because other people are evil and out to get you! It may just be that there’s a clash of different mindsets and a whole host of assumptions being unfairly made. How many great…
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Michelle Kaplan: How Poetry Can Boost Team Collaboration and Trust
How can poetry help a team better collaborate and connect? You’re about to find out! My guest is Michelle Kaplan, and today we talk about the important role that creativity plays in sparking conversation, breaking down walls, and building trust for better collaboration. We discuss…
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Raman Frey: How to Incentivize Empathy and Community in a Capitalist World
How do we shift from an individualistic culture that incentivizes power grabbing and consumerism into a more community-driven culture where everyone gets their needs met – and yes, innovative leaders can still make money and succeed? It’s possible, if we get creative, build new systems,…
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Eric Dawson: When You Ask Young People How to Change the World, They Step Up and Lead!
This might be one of my favorite podcast interviews ever. Not just because I got to interview a dear high school friend who has positively impacted the world, but because of one word: HOPE. Today, I speak with Eric Dawson, CEO and founder of Peace…
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Pat Timmons: Empathy in Social Media Marketing
What does empathetic marketing even look like in today’s digital age, where everything seems to be done over email or social media? And what are some principles to help marketers embrace and turn it into action? Today’s guest, social media marketer Pat Timmons, wrote a…
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Michelle Sherman: Why the Most Successful Leaders Combine Resilience with Imagination
Imagination and resilience are the hallmarks of successful leaders, those who can envision the goal before they even know exactly how to get there, and those who can bounce back and learn from failure rather than let it discourage them. Imagination and resilience are what…
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Woodson Martin: Balancing Corporate Success with Humanitarian Work
Do you have to choose between a successful corporate career and humanitarian work? Or can they live in harmony? Today’s guest proves that you can not only do both, but that you can engage your team and such work can make you a better, more…
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