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What happens when personal grief collides with your professional life? Drawing on her experience as the CEO of a crisis management firm and a hospice chaplain, Meredith Wilson Parfet breaks down the reality of grief — at work and beyond — and shares practical tools for navigating chaos, without toxic positivity.
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Power Up Your Life
A podcast presented by the women behind GoBudance, a membership community of powerful and ambitious women looking to scale their businesses, careers, or portfolios.
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Don't Quit On Me
Don’t Quit on Me speaks with a wide range of people who share their stories, strategies, and perspectives that aim to inspire the belief that things can get better, no matter where you are.
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A Life Worth Working
A punchy 20-minute podcast about the messy, unspoken side of reinvention — the missteps, gaps, and heartbreaks that often spark new purpose.
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Inside Personal Growth
A long-running personal growth podcast with 700+ episodes unpacks why understanding your own grief — and everyone else’s — may be the most underrated crisis leadership skill there is.
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Kem Krest CEO Amish Shah in conversation with people who’ve navigated challenge, reinvention, and the winding roads that lead to meaningful success.
● HER AGENDA
Her Agenda — a media platform for ambitious women — profiles Meredith’s rare combination of executive experience and hospice chaplaincy, and what that unusual pairing brings to crisis leadership.
● FFI PRACTITIONER PRACTICE INSIGHTS
Meredith takes lessons learned as a hospice chaplain to offer a better framework for managing crises in family enterprise.
● TIME
“The organizations that survive crisis intact are ruthlessly focused on what matters most to them and are willing to let the extraneous fall by the wayside.”
● FORBES
Meredith Wilson Parfet puts on her hospice chaplain hat to explore the cultural shifts in death and dying, and offers a new framework to explain some of what we’re experiencing.
● THE WIESUITE
theWieSuite interviewed Meredith Wilson Parfet on managing through crisis for one of its live Masterclasses – the excerpted article features the highlights.
● WOMAN'S DAY
She Saw a Void and Filled It With Care
In their April/May print edition, Woman’s Day featured women who made over spaces to benefit their communities. Included was the meditation room that Meredith and her son created to support the TRU Community Care – the hospice center where she works as chaplain.
● FORBES
CEOs are often called on to provide leadership in a crisis. But what does an organization do when, for whatever reason, there’s no one in the corner office to respond to a disaster, scandal, or other business emergencies?
● LAWLINE
Aaron Solomon and Meredith Wilson Parfet analyze the elements of a compelling narrative, tools for identifying and organizing core narrative themes, and examples of the use of storytelling in complaints and litigation adjacent crisis communications.
● MINDFUL
Death doula and hospice chaplain Meredith Parfet reflects on what she and like-minded experts have learned from their work with the dying.
● IVY
This session led by Meredith Wilson offers an innovative approach to identifying, triaging, and living through professional and/or organizational crisis.
● FAST COMPANY
If asking when crisis is going to be over is the wrong question, what is the right one? A better framework with which to look at crisis would be to look at how we move through it.
● LAWLINE
Even under the best circumstances, a legal dispute can be exhausting, scary, and isolating, and the experience can significantly reduce the benefit of an eventual legal victory.
● LAWLINE
Why ‘No Comment’ is No Good For Your Client and What You Can Do Instead
● MINDFUL
Imagination is about curiosity, openness, and adaptability. It encourages us to perceive the darkest moments of struggle as neither fixed, nor inflexible, but subject to change. Imagination is about expansive potential.
● LAW360
When a business crisis hits, one of the first calls is usually to a lawyer. When that call comes, a lawyer needs to understand the emotional dynamic of a crisis and the particular energy it produces in order to fulfill their role as an adviser.
● INC.
One of the hallmarks of crisis is that life as we know it seems to change in an instant . . . . The one thing we do know for certain is that the status quo is untenable – we can’t go back to where we were nor can we stay where we are.
● FAST COMPANY INNOVATION FESTIVAL
In this talk, Meredith Parfet addresses the common ways leaders handle crisis energy, and simple techniques leaders can use to harness the energy of crisis for themselves and their organizations.
● FAST COMPANY
We don’t choose the crisis, but we can choose how it transforms us.
● LAWLINE
In this course, attorney Aaron Solomon and CEO Meredith Parfet of the Ravenyard Group will discuss the attorney’s role as advisor in a business crisis, as conceptualized by the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct.
● FAST COMPANY
Outrage is also one of the most common ways we respond to violations of what we perceive to be the principles of our community.
● LAW360
Much attention has already been paid to helping businesses make choices, manage risk and stay afloat during this challenging time. Little has been said, however, about how to help lawyers survive under the strain of balancing multiple client crises while simultaneously experiencing a crisis of their own.
● FAST COMPANY
Much attention has already been paid to helping businesses make choices, manage risk and stay afloat during this challenging time. Little has been said, however, about how to help lawyers survive under the strain of balancing multiple client crises while simultaneously experiencing a crisis of their own.
● FAST COMPANY
Employees need to believe that their organization is able to handle the crisis. Here are some tips to make that happen.