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…

☕️ 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!

☕️ S3 EPISODE 1 :  Breaking Gender Barriers in STEM with Audrey Pe   

Audrey is an undergrad at Stanford University, inspired to break gender barriers in STEM and use technology to make a social difference. She launched her non-profit WiTech when she was 15 to educate, inspire and empower youth to overcome gender barriers and pursue a career in STEM. Audrey continues to grow the WiTech community with over 12 chapters around the world. She is a two-time TEDx, ASEAN and UN Speaker, having been featured in local and international publications like Forbes, Esquire and Elite Daily.   

Tune in to hear us talk to her about starting a non-profit as a teenager, breaking gender barriers in tech, digital empathy, and more…

This week we spoke to Catherine Gabell, a recruitment officer at Frontline, a social work charity working with vulnerable children in the UK. In her early years after graduating from university, her diverse work with multiple charities and social causes have inspired her to empower students and graduates to discover their career in the public sector.

Catherine reminds us that our journey to finding our career is not necessarily a straightforward one. After  listening to her story and demystifying a career in social work, we hope you get a glimpse into the types of skills, intention, leadership and obstacles in this exciting field. Tune in to find out more!

In this episode, we explore:

✅ My journey into the public sector

✅ Frontline: Vision, mission and approach to social change

✅ Leadership in social work

✅ Qualities of a good social worker

✅ Finding your mindset: Self-fulfillment vs. Serving others

✅ Debunking gender misconceptions & unspoken challenges in the public sector

✅ Navigating fork in the road moments: The corporate life?

☕️ Do our accents define who we are

Studying abroad has been a new experience for many of us, being not only a cultural shift, but also a language shift immersing us into a foreign culture that has raised questions about identity, individuality and community in us.  

This week, we are joined by one of our closest, international friends, Marina, as we dive into how accents have shaped our pre-university years, our time abroad as internationals, societal perceptions, and the role accents play in our interactions with those around us.

Join us in conversation with Charul Jaitly, co-founder and managing partner of Matiti Group, motivational speaker and  pioneer in women’s leadership. Her passion for her work and optimism for life is contagious and her constant pursuit to “enable and empower” people and organisations has left us with a lot of food for thought.

We hope you enjoy listening to her thoughts and stories as much as we did! Tune in to hear more shifting mindsets, finding empowerment and getting inspired!

• Vision and mission of Mātiti Group
  
• Client growth: Enabling, empowering and shifting mindsets
  
• Where does female corporate leadership stand in the future?
  
• Talking artificial intelligence and corporate environmental responsibility: The One Billion Tree Initiative
  
• How to be an unwavering optimist in uncertain times
  
• Breaking it down: What is the difference between change, evolution and transformation?
  
• Bringing empathy and inclusion to the workplace
  

This week we talked to the passionate and talented Rajesh PI, a theatre and wellness coach, actor and founder of the playback group ‘The Actors Collective’. Based in Bangalore, this group uses theatre to build teams, develop one’s sense of self and foster peace in the world.

We’ve been left inspired by this insightful conversation filled with anecdotes and a glimpse into the world of an actor! We hope you enjoy listening and get inspired by Rajesh’s stories, self awareness, and compassion...

In this episode of Empatea, we discuss:

✅ Playback theatre and The Actors Collective

✅ The importance of celebrating YOU

✅ Talking playback and theatre acting: Busting the myth of playback perfection

✅ Cinematography and acting in an increasingly virtual world

✅ Compassion, empathy, patience: Relationship management in the acting sphere

✅ Theatre as a tool for bonding, connection

✅ Importance of neutrality to develop individuality

We are super excited to be kicking off this new year with a brand new season! Tune in to catch the preview as we dive a little deeper into who we are as your hosts and reflect on what 2020 and 2021 mean to us and to growing this Empatea community!

Noha Hefny is a purpose driven, impactful and amazingly authentic force to be reckoned with - her journey is filled with multifaceted experiences ranging from humanitarian work with the UNHCR, UNWomen and UNESCO, to the corporate sector working for PepsiCo and McKinsey and Company, and finally taking the plunge into entrepreneurship with the world’s first speaker platform for Arab women called ‘She is Arab’. Her passion to create social impact has also led her to create her own innovation and consulting company, ‘People of Impact’.

Join us as we hear her story and learn more about the power and importance of finding your purpose, and in the process, be a little more human and connected with the world around.

In this episode of Empatea, we discuss:

✅ Humanitarian, corporate and entrepreneurship experiences

✅ Tackling unpredictability, uncertainty and change

✅ Discovering motivation and purpose

✅ VUCA model in COVID-19 climate

✅ Comparing empathy’s manifestation across different sectors

✅ Ripple effects of kindness to self, acts of compassion and making social impact

This week we are talking to Surinder Punjya, Executive Director of The Nesbitt Centre in Hong Kong, a centre empowering adults with learning disabilities through vocational education and social enterprises.

With multiple advanced academic pursuits in the field of disability and social welfare, Surinder’s passion and drive for his work never fails to shine through his personal and work projects. Join us as he takes us on his personal journey from academia to Nesbitt, his continued interest and love for the field of disability and insights on integration and building awareness for people with disabilities.

In this episode of Empatea, we discuss:

✅Journey with The Nesbitt Centre and interest in the field of disability

✅Finding the appropriate terminology to describe disability

✅The effect of small acts of empowerment

✅Integrating people with disabilities into society via social enterprises

✅Labelling and its impact on self-worth

✅Building social awareness: Community behaviour, normalising disability, and knowing our boundaries when offering help

Grab a drink as we sit down with Johnnie Moore, the Founder of Unhurried, an international facilitator, author of Unhurried at Work and visiting tutor at the Saïd Business School in Oxford University.

Johnnie dives into his reflective journey of understanding human relationships, informed by his wide-ranging experiences in facilitation and inspiration to host Unhurried conversations - a free and safe space for strangers to meet up and talk about whatever they want. In turn, things become unhurried - not necessarily slow - and enough space is created for connection to happen.

In this episode of Empatea, we discuss:

✅ The practice of being Unhurried and what it means

✅ Working with diverse people on an individual and organisational scale

✅ Finding the “sweet spot” between organisational structure and human individuality

✅ Hosting an Unhurried session and dealing with contrasting perspectives

✅ What introspection and empathy mean in the workplace today

Learn more about your co-hosts and the purpose of this podcast. Stay tuned for episodes releasing soon!