Infuse Compassion
Infuse Compassion, a podcast hosted by Amy Quesenberry and Mark Carpenter, explores the transformative power of compassion in both professional and personal spheres. This insightful podcast offers actionable strategies to integrate compassion, enhancing results, relationships and overall well-being. By prioritizing human connection, listeners can build trust, inspire teams, and create lasting impact. Designed for current and aspiring business and community leaders, Infuse Compassion delivers authentic and vulnerable conversations that help to release barriers, open minds fostering meaningful connection to prioritize humanity in interactions. Tune in to gain tools for stronger communities, thriving businesses, and enriched personal lives through the power of compassion.
Episodes
August 5, 2025 • 24 mins
Amy and Mark reflect on our conversation with Natalie Luke about blocks to careers and personal progress. Listen in as we discuss:
- The “inner voice” that often leads to self-criticism and keeps us from reaching our potential.
- How to quiet the critic that lives inside us
- Some possible indications you need to look at a shift in your job or career.
- The tie between Natalie’s “UnCeiling” concept a...
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July 29, 2025 • 30 mins
In this episode of Infuse Compassion we talk about the barriers that keep you from achieving new heights. Our guest is Natalie Luke, author of “UnCeiling Your Career.” She shares insights that help you rethink the trajectory of your career and break through barriers that may be holding you back.
In this episode, you’ll learn about:
- External and internal barriers that could hold you back without knowing it.
- The ...
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July 22, 2025 • 28 mins
What does it really look like to get a reading from an abstract infusion artist? Join us as Amy and Mark discuss our thoughts on the conversation with Heather Eck in our last episode.
You’ll get a closer look at the work Heather does as Amy describes the reading she received from Heather and how it has informed her work, both supporting what she already knew about herself and encouraging her to step into the future.
Take a deeper...
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July 15, 2025 • 27 mins
We are a compilation of all parts of our lives -- physical, environmental, emotional, and spiritual. Some of those parts are harder to see than others. Heather Eck helps people see themselves in ways that provide connection to who they are and the work they are doing.
As an abstract infusion artists, Heather taps into her synesthesia to find paths in life that you're supposed to be on. Heather shares her story of finding her own ...
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July 8, 2025 • 32 mins
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Our guest this week is normally one of our hosts! Mark interviews our own Amy Quesenberry about her journey to a compassion-based career and the framework she developed to “Start With Compassion.” You’ll learn:
- What prompted Amy to step back from a corporate career and focus on compassion as her life’s mission.
- The comp...
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July 1, 2025 • 30 mins
How do you "compassion it"? Amy and Mark share their insights on the discussion in the last episode with Sara Schairer, founder of the Compassion It movement. Join us as we talk about ways we can tweak the non-compassionate systems that surround us and make a difference in our communities of compassion. We'd love YOUR ideas of how to change these systems, too, so please share your thoughts in the show notes. Let's keep "compassion"...
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June 24, 2025 • 31 mins
Compassion is action. That's why Sara Schairer saw the words "Compassion It" in the word compassionate. This is a conversation you won't want to miss. You’ll learn:
• Why compassion is the most important skill we can teach children.
• Why and how self-compassion is a community activity.
• How many of our systems are perfectly designed to drive OUT compassion.
• How compassion drives positive business...
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June 17, 2025 • 32 mins
Join Amy and Mark as we follow up our discussion with Nancy Gunter about communicating across generations. We talk about:
* Our own tips for listening better.
* How curiousity and humility are signs of a good leader, regardless of your title.
* The connection between diversity and generations, and why generations should be including in DEIB.
BONUS: You'll get to meet an additional member of the Infuse Compassion team -- one who...
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June 10, 2025 • 28 mins
Most workplaces have employees from across four or five generations. Communicating clearly across generations is necessary, challenging, and can even be rewarding. Our guest on this episode of Infuse Compassion helps us understand why generational communication is challenging and what we can do about it, particularly as leaders.
Nancy Gunter, CEO of Gunter Training, helps individuals and organizations get curious as they reach acr...
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June 3, 2025 • 27 mins
Drop in on Amy and Mark’s conversation about mind-body connections and the lessons we learned from talking with Alex Tanon and Brandi Guild in last week’s episode. We are in a studio together for this episode, so it creates a different dynamic than some of our other episodes. We explore the importance of:
• Learning from mistakes but putting them behind us.
• Partnering with those we are closest to in our relationsh...
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May 27, 2025 • 45 mins
Compassion and personal well-being can be learned in many different ways. This episode of the Infuse Compassion podcast is unique in many ways. First, we have two guests instead of one. Therapist and dancer Alex Tañón and dance instructor and choreographer Brandi Guild join us to share insights into the relationship between dance and mental health.
In working together in dance, Brandi and Alex discovered lessons that apply in both...
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May 20, 2025 • 21 mins
When work and passion collide, you find yourself in heart-centered work. And that’s the best kind of work to do.
Amy and Mark reflect on our conversation with Jenn Smith about creating connection between the work you do and your passions to create a happier, healthier career. Some key points we discuss include:
- Finding what your passionate about based on what brings you energy in your work.
- How simple changes t...
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May 13, 2025 • 33 mins
How connected are your career and your heart?
In this episode of the Infuse Compassion Podcast, Jenn Smith explains to us how you can be more heart-based in navigating your career. We all have gifts to give the world, but we sometimes disconnect the work we do with the values we have, which keeps us from fully sharing our gifts.
In this episode you’ll learn:
• The symptoms that indicate your career may be misaligned wit...
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May 6, 2025 • 18 mins
Do you have kindness superheroes in your life? How can you be a kindness superhero to others?
Amy and Mark reflect on the conversation we had with Captain Kindman, Randy McNeely, in our last episode. We remember the people who create moments of kindness and compassion in our lives. In many ways, these are the kindness superheroes in our lives.
We discuss the impact we’ve seen of kindness from others and examples of how kindness s...
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April 29, 2025 • 29 mins
In this episode of the Infuse Compassion podcast, we talk with Captain Kindman, AKA Randy McNeely. Randy is a kindness amplifier, executive producer of “The Kindness Factor,” and a Kindness Worldwide Ambassador.
We talk about the powerful impact of simple acts of kindness. These are not “random” acts of kindness, but “intentional” acts of kindness that take little effort but go a long way in lifting humanity.
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April 22, 2025 • 28 mins
Caregivers of elderly family members play a pivotal role in healthcare today, but they often find themselves overlooked. Amy and Mark reflect on what we learned in our conversation with Dr. Anna Thomas about the importance of viewing caregiving as leadership.
Just as we need to support our leaders in the workplace by bringing our own talents to the job, we can find ways to support caregivers by looking at our strengths. We discuss...
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April 15, 2025 • 32 mins
Caregivers of family members suffering from dementia, Alzheimers, or other long-term needs are the invisible backbone of the healthcare system in the United States. Currently, 53 million people are serving as caregivers to family members. As they give care, who is caring for them?
Dr. Anna Thomas, a palliative care physician, joins us on this episode to discuss how caregiving is like leadership, and that leadership includes caring...
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April 8, 2025 • 26 mins
We know we need to take our vitamins for a healthy body and mind, but we also need vitamins to keep our spirits and souls going.
Happiness is the vitamin!
Amy and Mark talk in this episode about our conversation last week with happiness expert Michelle McCullough. We discuss the importance of getting our “daily dose” of happiness , what forms that vitamin comes in for us, and how we can help provide “Vitamin-H” to those we work ...
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We all want happiness. The world around us telling us how we can get happiness through buying a product, attending an event, or taking a journey. But what is happiness really? And how happy are you?
The Infuse Compassion Podcast conversation with happiness expert Michelle McCullough will help answer those questions. Michelle shares insights from the 2024 United States Happiness Report and provides strategies to help you make happi...
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March 25, 2025 • 26 mins
Amy and Mark reflect on the conversation with Jodi O. Brown about facing the fight with depression in many areas of life. We share our personal battles as well as how we’ve seen others courageously battle episodes of depression.
We’ll share our key takeaways from the conversation with Jodi in Episode 7 and how compassion makes a difference in the fight against depression in our own lives and the lives of those we work with and tho...
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