This week's guest is Anita Nowak. Anita is a subject matter expert in empathy and social entrepreneurship. She holds a doctorate degree in Philosophy from McGill University. She also happens to be a two time TedX speaker. Anita has worked in profit and non for profit organizations for over 20 years and has served as a volunteer/locally and internationally over that time period. I hope you enjoy this episode.

Topics:

• What is empathy?
• Does everyone deserve empathy (4:20)
• How to increase empathy (11:13)
• Why does Anita study empathy (16:55)
• Economic benefits of purposeful technology (32:20)
• JEDI (33:27)
• Equity vs opportunity (39:00)
• Empathic vs empath (42:57)
• Correlation between moral development and empathy (52:48)
• Anita's experience in Rwanda (1:05:53)
• Purposeful Empathy (youtube)
• First book (1:12:38)

Links:

Anitanowak.com