Activist Michealene Risley on Storytelling, Empathy, Sexual Abuse

Michealene Risley is an award-winning writer, director and human rights activist.

In This Episode:

-Being a “master” of empathy

-Why she’s hesitant to include dominance in the definition of mastery

-Growing up with dark secrets that she wasn’t initially prepared to face

-How slamming her hand in a car door proved to be a life altering moment

-Why her childhood experiences have given her a keen eye for picking up on other people’s emotions and past experiences

-Making a documentary in Zimbabwe and being thrown in jail

-Why the hardest moment in her life was her not being true to her family mission

-Comparing and contrasting external success vs. the internal experience

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