I Have Three Jobs. Here's How They're Really One.

Two years ago I wrote a newsletter about Halloween candy. One idea in it, that understanding someone and holding your ground are not opposites, turns out to explain how all of my work fits together. Then I introduce the newest piece, While We're Here, and ask for your help. Read the first post, "The File in the Closet Upstairs": https://whilewereheretalks.substack.c... Subscribe to While We're Here (free): https://whilewereheretalks.substack.com In this edition of Reading Between the Lines, I explain my portfolio career: three connected pieces of work, tied together by helping people solve problems and build connection. Dig Insights, and an executive empathy program I ran for 150 senior leaders at Mars Snacking North America Empathy Activist, including what I changed in my MD SHRM talk: adding "our plan" to the "I See You" formula While We're Here: what happened when I asked my parents the questions I had avoided, and why I started interviewing people about aging and the conversations families skip The ask: read the first post, subscribe, and share it with someone going through this. Then tell me the conversation your family keeps avoiding. CHAPTERS 00:00 The Halloween Analogy: Understanding Empathy 00:47 Portfolio Career: Connecting the Dots 03:43 Empathy in Leadership: Overcoming the Paradox 08:07 New chapter 08:07 New chapter 08:42 While We're Here: Conversations on Aging 11:48 Building Tools for Family Conversations 12:58 New chapter LINKS First post on While We're Here, "The File in the Closet Upstairs": https://whilewereheretalks.substack.c... While We're Here (Substack): https://whilewereheretalks.substack.com The original Halloween issue, "All I Got Was a Rock": https://readingbetweenthelines.beehii... Read this edition of Reading Between the Lines: https://readingbetweenthelines.beehii... Subscribe to the newsletter: https://readingbetweenthelines.beehii... RESEARCH MENTIONED Sadri, G., Weber, T. J., & Gentry, W. A. (2011). Empathic emotion and leadership performance: An empirical analysis across 38 countries. The Leadership Quarterly, 22(5), 818 to 830. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2011... MY BOOK Tell Me More About That: Solving the Empathy Crisis One Conversation at a Time: https://www.robvolpe.expert/books CONNECT Website: https://www.robvolpe.expert Instagram: @empathy_activist LinkedIn:   / rmvolpe   Stay curious. Ask good questions. Let empathy follow. #Empathy #AgingParents #WhileWereHere #PortfolioCareer #ReadingBetweenTheLines