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The Empathy Room is a podcast designed to create space to discuss the power of empathy in all areas of life. Brought to you by Karen (Thatch Creative), a freelance creative and communications consultant based in Kent."Hi, I'm Karen, the host and creator of The Empathy Room.
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02: Empathy & Diversity. Having the Conversations that Matter (opens the original)
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How do we have conversations about diversity when we're worried about getting it wrong? In this episode of The Empathy Room , I'm joined by entrepreneur, educator and social media strategist Hannah Spence for an honest conversation about empathy, race, representation and what it means to feel truly seen. Hannah shares her experience as a Black woman in the UK and in business, raising Black sons, navigating spaces where she's underrepresented, and why avoiding difficult conversations can sometime
01: Why Empathy? Choosing to Understand Each Other (opens the original)
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What does it actually mean to choose empathy, especially when understanding someone else doesn't come naturally? For the very first episode of The Empathy Room , my friend Amy Walters turns the tables and interviews me, your host Karen, about why empathy has become such a central part of my life and work. We talk about moving from nurse to patient, chronic illness and invisible experiences, the people who showed up when life changed, and the harder side of empathy too: boundaries, self-kindness,
01.1 BONUS: Why Perfection is Restriction (opens the original)
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Why would you deliberately make a podcast that isn't polished to perfection? In this bonus conversation, Amy and I chat about why I wanted The Empathy Room to feel raw, real and conversational, and why sometimes good enough and done really is better than perfect and pending . We talk about perfectionism, authenticity, asking the uncomfortable questions, what I hope people feel when they're listening, and why my definition of success for this podcast has very little to do with numbers. Because if
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