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Building Empathy w. Erin Thorp

In this episode host Justin McMenamy welcomes fellow leadership podcaster Erin Thorpe.

Across the conversation each discusses formative early-career experiences and how they shaped their mid-career focus on leadership. Both reflect on how not fitting within organizational norms can bleed into lowered self-worth, and they discuss a framework of being “refined” versus “consumed” by adversity, emphasizing that not every bad day warrants resignation and that staying in discomfort can build tenacity.

They explore differences between technical and people skills, contrasting engineering’s…

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