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.
E88: True Leadership is Kind: Reflections on Cindy Smarsh
Kindness and leadership – true leadership – go hand in hand. In this episode of the Infuse Compassion podcast, Amy and Mark discuss what we learned and how we were inspired by our conversation in last week’s episode with Cindy Smarsh, creator of the K.I.N.D.N.E.S.S. Code.
Listen in as we share our examples of the key principles of the K.I.N.D.N.E.S.S. Code and how you can apply the principles in your leadership and life. Listen in as we discuss:
• The power and importance of listening as a key factor in communication.
• How kindness includes making tough decisions and holding people accountable.
• The multitude of reasons leadership requires knowing your team members personally.
Join the conversation and consider how you can benefit from applying principles of kindness to your leadership.
Cindy Smarsh has been counseling, coaching, speaking, and writing for over 35 years helping people create meaningful lives personally and professionally. Most recently, Cindy followed an inspiration to become a workplace wellbeing expert who teaches kindness-based initiatives to people in leadership positions. She found a plethora of research backing the validity of creating a wellness-focused culture in corporations to increase employee engagement, improve productivity, raise employee satisfaction and retention, decrease team conflict, enhance morale, save time & money, and drive collective success.
Based on her findings, she created The K.I.N.D.N.E.S.S. Code™ a framework for up leveling the skillsets of professionals companywide to build a culture where everyone can thrive. She is on a mission to support people from all walks of life to be healthy and joy-filled with meaningful, impactful lives. She believes together we can make the world a better place and is determined to use what she has been given to make that possible.
Contact Cindy:
Email: cindy@cindysmarsh.com;
Website: cindysmarsh.com;
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thekindnesscode/;
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmX1Iyas873jLCale6MjBw;
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29 Sept 2026
E87: Exercise the Kindess Code with Cindy Smarsh
Kindness in business is sometimes considered soft, even fluffy. But this week’s Infuse Compassion podcast guest sees it differently.
Cindy Smarsh has done the research to “crack the code” for successful business leadership, and she found that kindness is the key. Listen in as Cindy shares how she developed the K.I.N.D.N.E.S.S. Code, eight components that improve leadership, strengthen teams, and lead to serious business outcomes.
In this episode you’ll learn:
• The one factor that 92% of employees say will keep them at their job and their company.
• An overview of the K.I.N.D.N.E.S.S. Code and how it is the key to organizational and team success.
• Examples of how kindness improves business outcomes.
Join us for an inside look at how you can access the code to leadership effectiveness and business success.
Cindy Smarsh has been counseling, coaching, speaking, and writing for over 35 years helping people create meaningful lives personally and professionally. Most recently, Cindy followed an inspiration to become a workplace wellbeing expert who teaches kindness-based initiatives to people in leadership positions. She found a plethora of research backing the validity of creating a wellness-focused culture in corporations to increase employee engagement, improve productivity, raise employee satisfaction and retention, decrease team conflict, enhance morale, save time & money, and drive collective success.
Based on her findings, she created The K.I.N.D.N.E.S.S. Code™ a framework for up leveling the skillsets of professionals companywide to build a culture where everyone can thrive. She is on a mission to support people from all walks of life to be healthy and joy-filled with meaningful, impactful lives. She believes together we can make the world a better place and is determined to use what she has been given to make that possible.
Contact your favorite Smarshmallow:
Email: cindy@cindysmarsh.com;
Website: cindysmarsh.com;
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thekindnesscode/;
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmX1Iyas873jLCale6MjBw;
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22 Sept 2026
E86: Whole Self Leadership: Reflections on Liz Watt
Leadership begins from the inside. Amy and Mark focus on the concept of “whole-self leadership” that Liz Watt shared with us in our last episode. We talk about key points of Liz’s THRIVE framework and how they tie to infusing compassion into the world.
Join us as we discuss:
- The power behind some of the questions Liz suggested as part of her THRIVE framework.
- What gets in the way of following our promptings to serve others.
- How caring for yourself increases your capacity to create and discover options.
Listen in and consider how you can apply THRIVE to your life and build your own “whole-self leadership” personally and professionally.
Elizabeth Ann Watt is a dynamic leader, holistic wellness expert, and CEO. She is dedicated to empowering others to live their fullest potential. As a multi best seller author, public speaker, and podcast host, Liz uses her voice to inspire positive change, sharing her life’s mission to uplift and serve others. Together with her husband of over 33 years, she coordinates Utah’s largest natural health and wellness conference, helping her community embrace proactive, natural health. A mother of six, Liz lives by her motto, “Live today to bless others tomorrow,” making each moment purposeful in her journey to impact the world for the better.
Contact Liz:
ElizabethAnnWatt.com (free 7-day wellness journey)
BeHealthyUtah.com
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