Michael Ventura - With Great Empathy Comes Great Responsibility

Slo Mo: A Podcast with Mo Gawdat

Mo Gawdat

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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My guest today is Michael Ventura, an accomplished entrepreneur, creative director, and author who specializes in empathy. He is the founder and CEO of the strategy and design studio, Sub Rosa, and also teaches design thinking and integrating empathy into the creative process at Princeton University. His first book, "Applied Empathy", puts empathy at the center of design, innovation, and problem solving.With great empathy comes great responsibility, apparently. I did not expect to be tasked w...

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0:00.0	I am so glad you could join us. I'm your host Mo Gaudet. This podcast is nothing more than a conversation between two good friends sharing inspiring life stories and perhaps
0:16.3	some nuggets of wisdom along the way.
0:20.3	This is your invitation to slow down with us.
0:25.7	Welcome to Slo-mo. My guest today is an accomplished entrepreneur, creative director and a successful author.
0:40.0	Michael Ventura is the founder and CEO of the Strategy and Design Studio, sub-rosa.
0:46.0	His clients include a variety of Fortune 100 companies, governments, and progressive startups.
0:54.0	Michael also teaches design thinking and how to integrate empathy into the creative process
0:59.8	at Princeton University.
1:02.0	His first book, Applied Empathy, puts empathy at the
1:06.2	center of design, innovation, and problem solving. In his personal time, Michael is an
1:11.6	active practitioner of Eastern and Indigenous medicine,
1:16.1	often leading workshops on how to bring those powerful traditions into our modern life
1:21.6	and workplace.
1:23.6	Michael, I am so grateful that you're with me today.
1:27.0	Yeah, my pleasure.
1:27.8	It's a joy to be here.
1:29.5	How have you been holding up with the lockdown?
1:31.6	Is it okay?
1:32.1	I know you're in New York City so it's been
1:33.7	quite tough there yeah it's um and actually you may have just heard echo in the
1:38.8	background it's actually a series of F-16 fighter jets that are flying over New York right now at this very time to show
1:46.7	solidarity for all of the first responders and people working in the hospitals.
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