What were the conditions that allowed you to develop your empathy?

“Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.” – Mohsin Hamid

We believe empathy is one of the most important ingredients enabling effectiveness and so we connected with some amazing folks to ask them about the conditions that allowed them to develop into such empathic leaders.

Ragan VitaNuova

I am not an empath, not by the definition of the word. Empathy, rather, is a gift I harnessed in the crucible of relational carnage. My 20’s and 30’s were experienced in the midst of a spiritually and psychologically abusive marriage. Read More>>

Tanya Slaughter

I was always an emphatic person I never liked seeing people suffer going through bad situations myself I understand people’s pain. Read More>>

Simone Levy

As a child, I viewed life like a story or a musical-movie (not a movie-musical, for me there’s a big difference there) where there was so much joy and happiness , deeply influenced by “High School Musical” which is ironic, cause it is a movie-musical. Read More>>

Paola Diaz

Growing up being the neurodivergent black-sheep of a large family of extremely talented, extroverted and characteristic individuals is not for the faint-hearted. Read More>>

Hope Dobrzynski & Christi Somers

As two women from working-class homes in white suburbs on the East Coast, empathy was something we were both raised with. We both moved to NYC in our early twenties, and you cannot live in this area and not develop a sense of understanding when you are surrounded by so many others—if you have a pulse. Read More>>

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