Empatea Empatea

☕️ Navigating one's career and finding the right business and employability skills can easily feel daunting and impossible, but today we seek to break them down with Jon Hering, the Head of Business Development for The Inspirational Learning Group (TILG), the UK's leading careers and enterprise challenge provider. Drawing from his diverse experiences in the managerial sphere and the educational sphere, Jon offers interesting anecdotes and real-life examples as to how one can bring empathy at work, and we hope his wisdom can be a source of comfort and inspiration for our community out there. Check out our episode to find out more about the UK's skill shortage, managerial challenges and more!

☕️ To us, a big part of Empatea is holding space and listening without judgement, whether this be while we are interviewing guests or simply catching up on our busy lives. This week, Sheren and Samah have a mini catch up from binging Bridgerton Season 2 to having some fun with some quick rapid fire questions.... To all our Indian listeners, if you recognise some of the questions, its because they were inspired by the Bollywood talk show Koffee with Karan ;)  

So what are you waiting for? Grab a cuppa and join us for a quick rapid fire episode!

☕️ Adam is business and design anthropologist, podcast host and entrepreneur. He uses his anthropological skills, human centred design and storytelling to help organisations get smart about people and culture and create change. His podcast This Anthro Life explores humanity's creative potential through design, culture and technology and is one that inspired us greatly! He is also a Senior Anthropologist at MotivBase, a research firm studying cultural change at scale by combining digital tools, Big Data and Anthropology.

In this episode, we begin by talking to Adam about what anthropology means, business anthropology, the changing nature of work and the intersection of big data and people. In the second half, we dived deeper into Adam’s podcast, ideas that have influenced his anthropology and more…

Stay tuned to hear Adam’s amazing insights…

☕️  Catherine is a creative writer and academic living in Sydney, Australia. She lectures in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. She graduated from the University of Oxford in 2012 and her award winning memoir about her experience there, “My Oxford”, was published in 2019.  In her memoir, Catherine delves into an eighteen month period of her life, spanning from her time at Oxford and thereafter, where the intersection of her intellectual life and her mental illness, anorexia, began her descent into being unwell. She takes us on her courageous journey of finding self-love, self-empathy, and her innate acknowledgement of needing help, all of which slowly redirected her to her road to recovery.   
Catherine dedicates this memoir as a piece of advice to her younger self, and hopes that it can be a source of comfort to anyone out there - you are not alone. Anorexia is very much a hidden illness, and something society doesn’t acknowledge enough of - we truly believe there is something for everyone to take away from this episode, and that to whoever is reading this, we hope you will have a listen 3  Throughout this week, we will be sharing snippets of our conversation with Catherine in our daily post captions, so follow us to stay updated :)   
TW : Anorexia, eating disorder, death, mental illness

☕️ Join us this week for a short round of hard-hitting questions from the card game, @werenotreallystrangers! Coming to our almost four year friendversary, we'd like to think we know each other pretty well, but we ended this conversation with a renewed understanding of each other's strengths, regrets, childhood, and memories. Meaningful connections aren't created overnight, and we encourage you guys to try this game out with your loved ones! Get rid of all those distractions and genuinely listen to what they have to say - you'll be surprised what you'll learn!   

Card game: @werenotreallystrangers [Not an ad! We resonated so much with their mission and loved their questions - we hope you guys find a chance to give this a go :)]

☕️ Farah is an internationally recognised facilitator, coach and speaker. Having rebuilt her own life and business from scratch after some life changing personal experiences, her career in the Aviation, IT, and Learning and Development sectors have led her to become an entrepreneur and embrace a mission to uplift women entrepreneurs & leaders to create their own path towards a meaningful and courageous life. When they work with Farah or her organisation Interact Consulting, they re-imagine their business, crafting a  purpose-driven enterprise that delivers more clarity, confidence and meaning for success.  In her 25 years’ experience, she has worked with global organizations including Johnson & Johnson, Decathlon, Pfizer, AliBaba and more!

Check out the episode to learn more about Farah's business, what it means to be a Courage Catalyst, her contributions to uplifting women, the relationship between empathy and leadership, her e-book and more!