Can Empathy Be the Most Powerful Strategy in a World of High Stress? (With Mimi Nicklin)

The Elemental Educator Podcast

Empathy is often mistaken for softness, kindness, or emotional sensitivity. But in this conversation, empathy advocate and author Mimi Nicklin shows us something fundamentally different: empathy is a hard skill rooted in the brain, essential for psychological safety, leadership, collaboration, and even human survival.

We explore why so many leaders struggle to listen, how stress and urgency shut down empathy neurologically, and why patience and consistency are the real engines of cultural change. This episode is a call to rethink how we lead — not with more control, but with deeper understanding.

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