The Power of Empathy + Are You Oversharing? (5th Thing)
Feeling Things with Amy & Kat
Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Today’s quote: “Power of empathy: I’m in it with you. I’m not here to fix you. I’m not here to feel it for you. I’m here to feel with you and let you know you’re not alone.” -Brene Brown
Amy reads a few listener emails: one about connection & sharing things, one about a co-worker conflict, and another about evolving (which FYI: if you’re not evolving, you're dead!)
Kat gives us something to keep in mind when it comes to what we share publicly (like on social media or other platforms): “There is this culture that our whole lives can be exposed if we want them to be.” (Sometimes just sharing a small detail is more powerful than giving it all.)
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:08.8 | Happy Tuesday. I'm Amy. And I'm Kat. And welcome to The Fifth Thing. Today's quote comes from |
| 0:15.5 | Brinay Brown because we've been spending a lot of time with Atlas of the Heart, which is her |
| 0:20.2 | special that's on HBO Max. |
| 0:21.9 | It's also a book, but she did a five-part series. We've mentioned it on multiple episodes, |
| 0:28.4 | but I'm actually done with it now, but re-watching it. And I think it was in the fifth episode, |
| 0:32.8 | though, that she spent some time on empathy. And I decided to pull up a quote from her on the power of empathy |
| 0:39.3 | because I think this is just an important thing to remember and I want to remember it for myself |
| 0:43.7 | as well but she said the power of empathy I'm in it with you I'm not here to fix you I'm not |
| 0:50.2 | here to feel it for you I'm here to feel with you and let you know you're not alone. |
| 0:55.7 | And I just think that that's a great reminder when you are faced with, you know, |
| 1:02.2 | someone in your life that might be going through something or whether it's you knowing what, |
| 1:05.5 | what you need from people. And I think it's okay to also express to loved ones. But Kat, |
| 1:10.4 | you're the expert here. So I want you to lean into this more so, but that, hey, I don't need you to fix this right now because so many people they want to be of service and help and fix, but in the episode, Brune actually did role play with someone that works with her. She was in the crowds. She pulled her up and she gave several |
| 1:28.1 | examples. And some of them are like, oh, wow, I mean, it's actually not a bad thing that this |
| 1:32.7 | example or this person, quote unquote, is trying to do. But then it's not really what anybody needs, |
| 1:39.0 | especially when we're going through something hard. And a lot of times we think we can like |
| 1:43.1 | empathize with something, |
| 1:44.5 | but it's really not the same thing. It might be sympathy. I don't know. So you break it all down. |
| 1:49.7 | But what are your thoughts when you hear that quote, the power of empathy? Well, one, I feel like I |
| 1:54.8 | need to confess that I have yet to watch this. I'll put it on the list. But I really like that |
| 2:00.1 | because I think what I hear a lot of times |
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