Compassion

Ep 227. Christine Porath: Mastering Community

Ep 227. Christine Porath: Mastering Community

Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and the author of Mastering Civility, The Cost of Bad Behavior. Stew talks with Christine about her most recent book, Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from Surviving to Thriving and her research on the waning of community and effective ways of reweaving the fabric that holds our society together…[Click for more]

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Ep 212. Jessica Bacal: Learning from Rejection

Ep 212. Jessica Bacal: Learning from Rejection

Jessica Bacal is director of Reflective and Integrative Practices and of the Narratives Project at Smith College. Her latest book is The Rejection That Changed My Life: 25+ Powerful Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up at Work. It’s is a sequel of sorts to Jessica’s first bestseller, Mistakes I Made at Work: 25 Influential Women on What They Got Out of Getting It Wrong. Stew talks with Jessica about how to learn and grow from rejection by gleaning useful data from rejections, especially about your values…[Click for more]

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Ep 153. Due Quach: Portal to Peace

Ep 153. Due Quach: Portal to Peace

Due Quach (pronounced “Zway Kwok”), is the Founder and CEO of Calm Clarity and author of Calm Clarity: How to Use Science to Rewire Your Brain for Greater Wisdom, Fulfillment and Joy, one of Fast Company’s best business books of 2018. Stew and Due talk about her remarkable struggle for survival and how it led to her discovery of the mental and spiritual tools that saved her and her role in the documentary, The Portal, and about its aspirations to bring more healing to our world… [Click for more]

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Ep 130. John Baldoni: Grace

Ep 130. John Baldoni: Grace

John Baldoni is an internationally recognized leadership educator, executive coach, and author of 14 books including GRACE: A Leader’s Guide to a Better Us; Lead with Purpose, Lead Your Boss; and The Leader’s Pocket Guide. Stew and John discuss Grace, which focuses on how and why it’s essential for leaders -- for all of us -- to pay attention to common courtesy, comity, and civility in building connections in all parts of life…[Click for more]

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Ep 78. Leah Weiss: How We Work

Ep 78. Leah Weiss: How We Work

Dr. Leah Weiss is author of How We Work: Live Your Purpose, Reclaim Your Sanity, and Embrace the Daily Grind. She teaches a perennially waitlisted course at Stanford Business School called  "Leading with Mindfulness and Compassion." With a degree in Social Work and in Theology she she brings a distinctive perspective to business education. Stew and Leah talk about how to help people recognize what they truly care about so they can live and work more purposefully…[Click for more]

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Ep 61. Christine Porath: Workplace Civility

Ep 61. Christine Porath: Workplace Civility

Christine Porath is an Associate Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and author of Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace. Christine and Stew talk about the rise in incivility at work and in our society -- a serious problem, about which we can all do something.  They discuss the emotional and financial costs...[Click for more]

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