The Humanity Practice Weekly

The Humanity Practice Weekly: 275 interruptions a day. Here's what they cost. This week I watched Harvey Guillén on The View— he's starring in The Rocky Horror Show right now — and something he said has stayed with me all week. "Coming out is never for yourself. It's for someone else." Then he added: "I like to reframe it to — not coming out, but letting you in." It touched my soul. Because in those words, I could hear the vulnerability. The wanting. And it left me pondering the question...

The Humanity Practice Weekly: Manager Moments Matter Managers are the heartbeat of our organizations. When they lead with values-aligned authenticity, they are the ultimate humanity practitioners — the people who make culture real in the everyday moments that matter most. But what happens when they're depleted? When we've loaded them with more than they can carry and given them nothing to work with? This week I've been thinking about what it actually looks like when a manager shows up fully....

I live by a simple motto: be proud, not perfect. Since January, I’ve been building The Humanity Practice to help us operationalize humanity at work — at a moment when we really need to. I chose Pronouns at Work as our first paid product on purpose. Not because every Skill Builder will be about inclusion, but because I couldn’t ignore our roots, and I couldn’t ignore Pride Month. Here’s what I believe: pronouns at work were never a political issue — they’re a communication practice. A business...

Good Awkward Is Why We Practice What Henna Pryor Reminded Me About This Work This week I sat in on a fireside chat with Henna Pryor, CSP , hosted by Women of Color in Staffing — a community The Humanity Practice is proud to sponsor and I personally love being part of. Her frame is the one I want to share with you. Awkwardness is a social emotion. You don't feel it when you're alone. You feel it in front of other people, right before the moments that matter. Advocating for yourself....

The Goodwill Tax, Breaking News, and a Free Gift The first Skill Builder kit just dropped. And I'm giving you this $1,500 gift, free. Today, for the first time, The Humanity Practice has a product in the world. Its name is Build Your Organization's Humanity Practice. And it just went live. I have been waiting to write that sentence for a long time. A Skill Builder kit is a ready-to-run training system that takes any internal leader from "we need to do this" through alignment, delivery, and...

The Humanity Practice Weekly — Change Your Workplace One Story, One Conversation, One Action at a Time. If you've been reading these for a while, I appreciate you. Stay with me — the shape is changing, the work isn't. And if it lands, share it with one person who needs it. I'm building The Humanity Practice in front of you. Every week I'll teach you a practice — and every week I'll go deeper on what I'm learning as I build this thing in real time. The wins. The drops. The things I changed my...

Standing in the moment. Rocki Howard and Esther Maria Swaty at Talint and Tiaras What's Changing, What I'm Building, and Why Now The final edition of a 4-part series. I told you last time something was changing. Here it is. Before I tell you what changed, let me tell you what this was If you've walked with me through this series, you know it didn't start as an announcement. It started in hibernation. In Part 1, I named the thing I'd been avoiding — that I was exhausted in a way no vacation...

The Humanity Practice Weekly: Human Hibernation (Part 3) I Didn't Need Better Boundaries. I Needed a Practice. A 4-Part Series In Part 1, I said something out loud that I hadn't fully processed yet: "I'm not living. I don't even have a life." In Part 2, I traced that feeling back to its root — a survival belief that had quietly built an operating system I was no longer thriving inside of. This is what happened when I decided to stop surviving inside that system and start redesigning it. The...

The Humanity Practice Weekly: Human Hibernation (Part 2) A 4-Part Series Not long ago, I said something out loud to my husband that surprised even me. "I’m not living. I don’t even have a life." The moment the words left my mouth, I knew they were true. From the outside, everything looked successful. The work was growing. Opportunities were expanding. I was providing well for my family. But inside that success, something had gone quietly wrong in the way I was living and working. Not long...