Customer Service
Doesn't Have to
Stay Broken

Reduce turnover 50%. Increase customer loyalty 60%.
Prove kindness isn't weakness—it's your most profitable strategy.

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50%
Lower Turnover
Companies with high-empathy cultures
8.85:1
ROI in Year One
Real returns from kindness training
$1.77M
Annual Savings
For mid-size service companies

Something Broke in 2020

Every day, Facebook fills with complaints about terrible service. Employees are quitting. Customers are angrier. Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z can't communicate.

Something fundamental broke in how we treat each other—and nobody's fixed it yet.

The old playbook doesn't work. Corporate training doesn't help. And everyone's suffering: employees, customers, managers, and companies.

The Breaking Points:

  • Customers treating every inconvenience like a war crime
  • Employees would rather work literally anywhere else
  • Generational divide in what "good service" even means
  • Zero acknowledgment that the system is broken
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I'm Patty Esch

After 40 years in customer service across 7 industries—from a photo booth to mortgage lending to HOA property management—I've seen it all.

I wrote The Kindness Strength to prove that treating people well isn't just right—it's wildly profitable.

"Kindness isn't weakness. It's not soft. It's not a personality trait. Kindness is a strategic business decision that delivers measurable results."
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THE KINDNESS
STRENGTH
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The Kindness Strength

Why Kindness Isn't Weakness—It's Your Secret Weapon for Profits, Retention, and Not Losing Your Mind

This isn't another corporate training manual filled with feel-good platitudes. This is a survival guide backed by data, built on real-world experience, and proven to actually work.

What You'll Learn:

  • Why customer service broke after 2020
  • The business case for kindness (with hard ROI)
  • How to bridge the Gen X/Millennial/Gen Z divide
  • De-escalation scripts that actually work
  • How to set boundaries without being a jerk
  • Practical strategies you can use tomorrow

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Inspire your team with data-driven insights about the kindness comeback. From conferences to corporate events.

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Reduce turnover and improve communication with customized workshops for your team. Real strategies, measurable results.

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The Podcast

Weekly real talk about customer service, generational communication, and rebuilding humanity in business.

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The Kindness Works Podcast

Real talk about customer service, generational divides, and why kindness is your competitive advantage.

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40 Years. 7 Industries. One Mission.

Prove that kindness works.

I've spent four decades in customer service trenches you didn't even know existed. From running a tiny photo booth in a parking lot to mortgage lending during the housing crisis to HOA property management (which is basically customer service on expert mode).

I've been screamed at, threatened, and told I'm the worst person alive—all before 10 AM. I've also helped thousands of people, built loyal customer bases, and turned around toxic teams.

After watching customer service completely collapse post-2020, I realized someone needed to help rebuild it. Not with corporate platitudes, but with real solutions backed by data and proven by experience.

That's why I founded Kindness Works and wrote The Kindness Strength.

"I'm not a consultant who learned this from a textbook. I've worked the counters, made the loans, dealt with the angry customers. I speak their language because I've been there."

I live in Texarkana, Texas with my husband of 25+ years, 4 children, 6 grandchildren, and two French Bulldogs I call my "four-legged toddlers."

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