How to Have Conversations with Empathy

<p>The CEO and Founder of Lantern, Liz Eddy, stops by the show to give us advice on how to have more empathy in conversations. Many of life's struggles are difficult to talk about and she tells us about how she used her talents in entrepreneurship to address this.</p><p>~ ~ ~</p><p>Liz Eddy builds companies that tackle taboo topics. She founded her first social venture at age 15 focused on dating abuse and domestic violence education in schools. The org has been running (on its own) for nearly half her life.<br /><br />After graduating with a BBA from Parsons the New School for Design, she ran Special Projects for DoSomething.org, one of the largest global orgs for teens and social change. Then, she joined the founding team of Crisis Text Line as the Director of Communications. She oversaw brand, PR, marketing, strategic partnerships and business development--- growing the org to 12,000 volunteers, 76 million messages, in 3 countries. She left Crisis Text Line in 2018 to launch <a href="https://lantern.co/" target="_blank">Lantern</a>, a venture backed Public Benefit Corporation on a mission to change the way we talk about and manage end of life and death.<br /><br />Liz earned a Masters of Science in Strategic Communications from Columbia University in 2019. She is an active volunteer and Board member for Experience Camps, a one-week free summer camp for children who've lost a loved one. She is also a World Economic Forum Global Shaper, and committee member for the Dying Well Initiative of the Global Wellness Institute. In her free time, she is on a global search for the spiciest food. </p><p>~ ~ ~</p><p>Support the show on Patreon <a href="https://www.patreon.com/norlund" target="_blank"><strong>@norlund</strong></a></p><p>Check out more details about the show at <a href="https://www.chrisnorlund.com/podcast" target="_blank"><strong>https://www.chrisnorlund.com/podcast</strong></a></p><p>Follow on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/chris_norlund" target="_blank"><strong>@chris_norlund</strong></a></p><p>Follo