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Podcast: The PR Podcast
Episode: 230. Eileen Wixted, Wixted & Company, on Crisis and Empathy
Description: This week on The PR Podcast, we’re joined by Eileen Wixted, a nationally recognized crisis communications strategist and the founder of Wixted & Company.Eileen started her career as an Emmy-winning broadcast journalist before moving into corporate communications, where she built a reputation for guiding leaders through some of the most high-stakes situations imaginable—from nuclear energy and health care to financial services and agriculture.In this conversation, Eileen shares the lessons she’s learned from decades in the field: why leaders should own their bad news, how empathy and kindness can actually strengthen a crisis...