Handle with Care: Empathy at Work
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Empathy and Connection for Start-ups: an interview with Selfless.ly
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Joshua Driver And so it's always been confusing to me why startups don't think about their culture from day one. And because we spend so much of our...
Lead Like a Human: an interview with Adam Weber
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
– Adam Weber One of the I think keys to genuine empathy is through consistent one on one and how you display empathy, like, structurally inside of ...
To See It, Be It: an interview with Max Yoder
25 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Max Yoder That divine middle is emotional liberation, where I can be compassionate and show compassion to an individual. But I do not need to carry ...
Human Skills Are Business Skills: an interview with Joe Staples
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Joe Staples For anybody listening, you can learn empathy. It's not something that somebody should go. You know, I'm not an empathetic. So I'm just g...
The Awakening: Embodied Empathy for Leaders
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Tegan Trovato There's an awakening happening in corporations and people are now choosing their jobs based on values. And that will force organizatio...
The Pulse of Your People: Optimizing Workplace Support During Crisis and COVID
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Smarrelli But at the end of it, you know, you can't be listening to the reality. It can't be you can't be talking about how fantastic things are ...
We Are Humans First: Empathy and International Teams
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Jorge Vargas And sometimes we forget that at work. We forget that in other scenarios. And at the end of the day, work is important and matters. But ...
How to Mainstream Mindfulness and Operationalize Compassion
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is the Handle with Care: Empathy at Work podcast. I'm your host, Liesel Mindrebo Mertes helping you build a culture of care and connection th...
Lament: Embracing Pain on the Path to Healing
26 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Mark Vroegop I mean, it's just so private and so painful and so isolating at so many levels. And that's why I said grief isn't tame, because part of...
Support for Those Struggling with the Disease of Addiction: an interview with Wendy Noe
12 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Wendy Noe We are we have been dealing with a crisis with with the disease of addiction. And again, I think that we can see that because we're talkin...
How to Stop Asian Hate and Support our Asian Friends and Colleagues: an interview with Tara VanderWoude
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Tara VanderWoude That has been so supportive of me, is just knowing that I'm not in it alone, not alone individually, but then not even alone as as ...
Layoffs, Trauma, and Disordered Identity: An Interview with Jon Tesser
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jon Tesser Do I have value? Do I have skills? Am I ever going to get a job again? Is am I worthy? Am I worthy? I mean, it gets down to this idea of sh...
E. coli, Cancer, and Cascading Grief: an interview with Jill Harding
03 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jill Harding Whenever I share those stories, people like you look so, so optimistic and you're so bubbly on life with what you've been through. And I ...
Alcohol, Addiction and Life in Recovery: an interview with Mike Thibideau
15 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Mike Thibideau But it's been. A really meaningful way to to change a lot of things about myself that were the underlying cause of like kind of what ...
Miscarriage and Meaning: an Interview with Danielle Ireland
01 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Miscarriage and Meaning: an Interview with Danielle Ireland - Danielle Ireland It was four or five different nurses came in one at a time and jus...
Lighting the Dark: Cari Hahn on Breast Cancer
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
- Cari Hahn And I and I remember being on my hands and my knees rocking back and forth, screaming at the top of my lungs. I just was so devastated. An...
COVID, Leadership, and Reducing Stigma: an interview with Arwen-Widmer-Bobyk
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Arwen Widmer-Bobyk I have no problem having everybody know that I had COVID. I don't I don't feel I don't feel that that is a reason for shame. Afte...
Hurting Yet Whole: Liuan Huska on living with chronic pain
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Liuan Huska And so I. I felt like when people were able to say to me, you're not just like something to be fixed, but we can actually learn from wha...
Working While Black, Part 2: To Be Us Productions
30 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Cedrick Smith We're going to tackle topics that are hidden in the crevices, that are a lot of times filled with shame and no one wants to talk about...
Working While Black: Part 1, To Be Us Productions
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Cedrick Smith So the disruptive part for me is the white supremacy, the white supremacy, and the microaggression is the microaggression of outright ra...
A New Normal: Char Simpson on life after the death of her soulmate
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Char Simpson You've got to create this new normal. You just got to find what makes you happy. And create this new normal and what makes you happy ma...
Dead bunnies, COVID meltdowns, and other empathy failures: personal reflections from Liesel Mertes
13 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Liesel Mertes It's been a pretty eventful and emotional week and a half in my house now with six people in the house. There's always high emotio...
He is a Gift and Every Day is Enough: Cerebral Palsy
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Peter Kline I'm never doing enough, never doing enough of working enough with them and never doing enough therapy outside of therapy hours with them...
"So, no babies?": Megan Flinn on survival and goodness
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Megan Flinn I have, I have faced my own deep, like I have survived the thing, I think a lot of people have the great wounding or the great pain poin...
My Son has an Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Interview with Chrissy Brack
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Chrissy Brack But if you want to know what it's like to be a special needs parent, it's pretty much like this year all the time, in a way, maybe wit...
The Fine Art of Waiting: Stacey Ballard on Chronic Illness
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Stacey Ballard I think the most important thing is that 40 percent of Americans live with at least one chronic illness, 40 percent of Americans. So ...
Living with a rare, terminal disease: Dustin Kaehr and HATTR
06 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Dustin Kaehr And I think there are some people that are so scared of dying that they never truly live. And so so I think if we can help people under...
Be Strong and Courageous: Teen Suicide and a Father's Heart
19 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Wade Brown While there are plenty of opportunities to be angry, we don't want to be angry. We don't. Joshua was a beautiful, beautiful young man. And ...
How can I honor her? Jason Seiden on life and meaning after his daughter's suicide
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Jason Seiden That meant that I would gladly, if I could be the last person ever lose a child. I would I would take that on, if I could, to say it li...
Racism, Loss, and Living while Black: an interview with Fred Brown
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Fred Brown That was difficult. And that the kind of person I am or what people expect from me is to not flinch in the face of adversity. I could nev...
Everything Fell Apart: Cancer, Miscarriage, Divorce, and Infant Loss. An Interview with Molly Huffman
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Molly Huffman A year after Tage died, I had processed so much that by the time my husband left, I, I was I was definitely anxious and really struggl...
My partner is dead: drunk driving and sudden death. An interview with Barry Hoyer
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Barry Hoyer All of my friends have kind of treated this is like the loss of a husband or a wife, like it has the exact same gravity. Yeah. Work, ...
Front-line workers & the stress of being essential: an interview with Seth Morales
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Seth Morales Those folks have had their eyes closed to this central, frontline workforce. And I think the lights have turned on and many people are ...
"Action is the best way to help": reform for restaurants in COVID-19
26 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Serena Suh The whole pandemic impacting our economy and the restaurant industry is a big, big event. But in the end, why is that so catastrophic is ...
Alcohol, Self-Soothing, & the Coronavirus: an interview with David Mills
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- David Mills But I promise you, anyone who's hearing this. There are absolutely incredible things about you that other people see that you don't see....
COVID-19 & Catering: Insights from the Pirate Ship
29 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Matt Mills You care about their family; you care about each other's success and what you're doing. And you never want to. You never want to see anyo...
Living with Depression: an Interview with Paul Ashley
15 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
- Paul Ashley Because it dismisses it dismisses who who I am or whoever that person is. You're saying it, too. It dismisses who their whole self is. Y...
Dissolved Adoption: Shame, Isolation, & Painful Choices
01 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
– Adam Bryan And in this, the first time we've talked publicly about this, because this gets a really people get shamed. This is this is a really bl...
Mental Health, Stigma, and Suicide: a Chinese-American Perspective
09 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
– Karen Ng Do we mention suicide? Do we use that word? And there was a lot of reluctance. My mom's gut reaction was no. How could we tell people tha...
Living with PTSD: an interview with Elsie Iudicello
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
And I think that was when I really learned that, you know, all our healing doesn't happen at the same time. I think I was very impatient to just get b...
My daughter has narcolepsy: an interview with Susan White
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
– Susan White I don't think people understand narcolepsy. They don't understand that. I'm sure any other invisible disability. It was hard for me to...
Nobody Sent a Card: Jennifer Merrell and Addison's Disease
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
And at the end of the day it felt like these are the people I spent 50 hours a week with. I was in the office seven something every morning always wan...
The Holidays Can Be Hard
09 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is it, really, the most wonderful time of the year? With all the holiday greetings and everybody, telling you to be of good cheer? Maybe not. Ma...
Infertility and IVF: an Interview with Julie McCorkle
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
- Julie McCorkle I didn't allow myself to be as vulnerable as I probably would today because there are a lot of great people out there that do truly c...
Going it alone: building a life and a business after your marriage crumbles. An interview with Jennifer Magley
10 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Magley I was I was grieving the loss of of this person of this role in my life and really just more of grieving the life that I thought I was...
Parkinson's Disease: loving and losing my dad
27 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do you support families living under the shadow of a long-term illness? Parkinson's disease is relentless and degenerative. There is no cure. ...
Mercy died, Moses needs surgery: my personal journey with grief
13 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I share a part of my story of loss. Elaine Brenner is my guest host as I move behind the microphone, telling the truth of my collision with dea...
Childhood Disruption, Part 3: An Interview with Magnus Mertes
29 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Disruptive life events linger; they cast a long shadow. Years afterwards, you can still be surprised by sadness or fear. Magnus knows about living wit...
Childhood Disruption, Part 2: An Interview with Jemima Mertes
22 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A hug, a nap, a kind word: each of these actions can be really helpful for those that are going through hard times. Jemima Mertes, age 6, shares these...
Childhood Disruption, Part 1: An Interview with Ada June Mertes
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When tragedy impacts in the life of a child, it can be difficult for adults to know how to help. Ada June, age 11, had a sister die and a brother unde...
Suicide, cancer, and life after loss: an interview with Jasmin Jenkins
03 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jasmin is no stranger to loss: her mother died of ovarian cancer while Jasmin was in high school. A few years later, Jasmin's brother, Rory, took his ...
Death, job loss, grief brain, and gratitude: an interview with Katie Huey
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the span of a few months, Katie Huey's father died, her husband lost his job, and she also found herself in a work transition. Katie's story begs t...
I have breast cancer: an interview with Sheri Alexander
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sheri is the Chief Strategy Officer at Gregory & Appel Insurance...and she received news of her breast cancer on her way into a client meeting. In thi...
Single parenting, a medical emergency, and inclusivity: an interview with Bre Sprague
07 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How supportive and inclusive is your organization to the needs of single parents? As her son fought for his life, Bre got a phone call from her compan...
What about the father? Matt & Jenny Kistler share on miscarriage, disappointment & stillbirth
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Miscarriage is all too common and it is difficult to talk about. If care is given, it is usually directed towards a grieving mother. Yet, what about t...
Miscarriage, stillbirth, and post-traumatic growth: an interview with Rachel Pritz
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
- Rachel Pritz We went home and we both just my husband I were like, we don't we don't even know what just happened. You know I mean we just felt like...
Divorce, depression, and alcohol: an interview with David Mills
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
– David Mills I've learned that I truly want to model what it means to be a man who is in control of your emotions because I drank I became an alcoh...
My father died: lessons in navigating loss and creating cultures of caring.
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
- Gale Nichols I think it's important to meet someone where they are and to also recognize that not everybody's path is the same some; people's pa...
I had a breakdown last night: working while anxious and overwhelmed
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
18:04 - Drew But I don't remember ever thinking to myself that I wanted to kill myself, but something in my head was saying you can't continue to keep...
My husband had a brain injury: the challenge of long-term disability
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a moment, everything can change. A traumatic brain injury dramatically altered life for Baher Malek, a software designer, and his family. Bess Ma...
We are adopting a child
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Adopting a child can be a long process, full of waiting and hoping and so much paperwork. Friends, family, and coworkers can be unaware of the stres...
I got injured and I won't be coming in to work
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Injuries can leave employees sidelined and organizations flailing. As an employee recovers, is management demonstrating support and trust or neglect a...
My mom just died...unexpectedly!
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
How do you pick up the pieces after the unexpected death of a parent? Julie Kratz shares the powerful story of Nancy, a much-loved mother. Julie also ...
My wife has cancer
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A cancer diagnosis is scary and totalizing. Hospital visits, financial stress, and lingering uncertainty affect the entire family unit. Brad Grammer s...
Trailer: Why cultivating empathy at work is important
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Today, I share my "why". Why I am starting this podcast and why I believe it is so essential to build empathy at work. We look at the numbers: ...