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
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.
In this episode you’...
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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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March 18, 2025 • 33 mins
Understanding and fighting depression is not just for those clinically diagnosed with a depressive disorder. We all experience depression symptoms at times, even if only temporary. And if you’re not fighting depression, it’s likely someone close to you is.
Join us for a power-packed episode of the Infuse Compassion Podcast where Jodi O. Brown, author of the new book “DePRESSiON Fighter” talks about how to “press on” during these m...
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March 4, 2025 • 26 mins
Compassion in the C-Suite and across companies creates powerful results.
Amy and Mark talk about their insights from the conversation with Michelle Choate in Episode 2. If you haven’t listened to that conversation, listen to it first to get the most from this episode.
We talk about examples we’ve seen where understanding emotions and seeing people as humans more than resources helps leaders strengthen organizations. Compassiona...
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March 4, 2025 • 26 mins
Burnout is a topic most of us can relate to. Amy and Mark talk about their experiences with burnout and how the insights from Rebecca Ali in Episode 5 can be applied.
We’d love your insights and commitments as well. What will you do to notice burnout coming earlier? How can you reduce the negative impacts of burnout? How can you help others who may be approaching or in burnout?
Please share your thoughts in the comments. We love...
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March 4, 2025 • 51 mins
Burnout!
You’ve likely used some form of that word to describe how you’re feeling, personally or professionally. When we’re experiencing burnout, it’s hard to have compassion for yourself or for those around you.
Rebecca Ali is here for you! Rebecca has done deep research into the topic of burnout and shares what she has learned in this episode. The topic is so deep and important that we go longer than normal in this discussion,...
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March 4, 2025 • 28 mins
What does compassion look like on a personal level? Compassion for yourself? Compassion in your communication with yourself and others?
Amy and Mark have a short conversation about the simple ways we can show up more compassionately day-to-day.
Full disclosure: we were not originally planning to air this as an episode. This was a test run for what our conversations would sound like. But our freeform conversation brought out som...
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March 4, 2025 • 29 mins
Emotions and compassion are what you do OUTSIDE the workplace, right? Check those at the door when you enter the building!
WRONG!
Our first Infuse Compassion Podcast guest debunks the myth that the workplace is devoid of personal emotion. Michelle Choate works with executives and senior leaders to show the power of a compassionate workplace – starting with the person you see in the mirror each morning!
Join us for powerful insi...
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March 3, 2025 • 18 mins
Wahoo! A new podcast! What is the Infuse Compassion podcast all about? Who are Amy and Mark (other than the hosts)? How did this podcast come to be? What can I expect in the future?
All these questions will be answered in this short, introductory episode. If you care about increasing compassion and building greater humanity in any area of your life, this podcast is for you. Join the episode, meet Amy and Mark, and get ready for w...
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