Hosted by Selena Tatum Isles · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 15 episodes
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The Empathy Lab with Tatum I map what's breaking you before you do. I'm Selena Tatum Isles — former DJ Seriousblack (Coachella, Bonnaroo, SXSW, Wanderlust), Certified Yoga & Ayurvedic Teacher, grief doula, Doctoral Researcher, Quality Analyst at a global financial institution, and homeschooling mother. All of that is the method. Every week on The Empathy Lab, we audit the hidden architecture underneath your friction — the inherited scripts, the survival language, the somatic patterns paying rent in rooms you already earned. At work, at home, in the inner monologue at 2am. Using Mantra, Yantra, and Tantra as structural technology. Not spirituality as decoration. The friction is fractal. The Inefficiency Tax ends here. I'm Tatum. Stay anchored. 🌀 Read the Field Notes on
Selena Tatum Isles hosts The Empathy Lab, a society show with 15 episodes published.
You know the nod. The small one that travels around a meeting room or a kitchen table when everyone silently agrees to a plan that nobody actually believes in. In the Season One Finale of The Empathy Lab, Selena Tatum Is
EPISODE 15: Why You're Sorry for Wanting What You Want You made the ask. You named the real number. You set the boundary without a buffer. And then, four minutes later, you picked up your phone to soften it. “Obviously t
The Secret Auction in Your Mind That Keeps You Undervaluing Yourself Most of us are negotiating against ourselves long before any conversation begins — and we don’t even realize it. This Easter, Tatum exposes how an inte
Most of us self-sabotage our true desires before anyone else has a chance to. In this eye-opening episode, Selena Tatum uncovers how your internal Raga—the subtle grip of wanting—keeps you from asking fully for what you
Burning Down the Architecture That Can't Hold You Anymore In this episode of the Empathy Lab and the LAST EPISODE in LINGUISTIC BLOCKERS ARC series we explore the deeper patterns that keep us stuck in rooms where we've a
Did you drop the "just" from your sentence this week, and the room went completely cold? You didn't do it wrong. You just triggered the system's immune response. In Episode 11 of The Empathy Lab, we are stepping out of t
"I could be wrong, but..." "Sorry to bother you, just wondering..." "Does that make sense, right?" Last week, we looked at the words we wield as weapons against others. This week in The Empathy Lab, we are looking at the
The Somatic Shrink: BUT I recently found out I was nominated for the 2026 CEO’s Award of Excellence at a global financial institution—placing in the top 3% of the enterprise. My very first thought? "I won... BUT they pro
What is Structural Bypassing? It's the "I'm fine." "Whatever you want." "Let's park that." What if the most expensive words we speak are the ones we use to keep the peace? The Masterclass: Welcome back to The Empathy Lab
Why do we fight in the car on the way to a romantic dinner? Why do we use 'busyness' as a shield against the people we love? In this Valentine's dispatch, I move the Lab from the boardroom to the heart. We are mapping Th
Silence is not always golden. In high-stakes environments, silence is often expensive. In this episode of The Geometry of Disagreement , Selena Tatum Isles moves the Lab from the 'Heat' of the argument to the 'Cold' of t
Conflict is not a personality clash. It is a design flaw. And as we learn in the work of Emergent Strategy, that flaw is fractal: what happens at the small scale is a mirror of the large. In this extended 25-minute Maste
The Straight Line is the most expensive shape to inhabit. Why? Because it leaves no room for the 'Noise.' In this week's Mantra Cast, Selena Tatum Isles maps the geometry of the Straight Line —the clinical, precise exit
If the Tangle is chaos, the Circle is comfort. In this Field Report, Selena Tatum Isles diagnoses the 'Static Yantra'—the rhythmic loop of stagnant repetition where we pay a massive Energy Tax just to stay in the familia
We begin our investigation where most of us live: in the Tangle. In this debut Field Report, Selena Tatum Isles identifies the somatic signature of chaos. The Tangle isn't just 'busy-ness'; it is a high-frequency, franti
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