Activist Michealene Risley on Storytelling, Empathy, Sexual Abuse
Finding Mastery with Dr. Michael Gervais
Dr. Michael Gervais
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 November 2016
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Michealene Risley is an award-winning writer, director and human rights activist.
In This Episode:
-Being a “master” of empathy
-Why she’s hesitant to include dominance in the definition of mastery
-Growing up with dark secrets that she wasn’t initially prepared to face
-How slamming her hand in a car door proved to be a life altering moment
-Why her childhood experiences have given her a keen eye for picking up on other people’s emotions and past experiences
-Making a documentary in Zimbabwe and being thrown in jail
-Why the hardest moment in her life was her not being true to her family mission
-Comparing and contrasting external success vs. the internal experience
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