This week, Gail welcomes Kalyl Kadri of Words Hurt copy for a theatrical, silly, and deep conversation about how the rise of AI slop is driving people toward analog hobbies, in-person connection, and human-made work.

A former theatre-maker turned creative director, Kalyl writes brands with bite, identities that feel alive under the skin, messaging with vertebrae, and stories that refuse to sit quietly in the corner.

He has a decade and a half of experience directing performers onstage and nearly as long directing founders and creators on the page. He runs Words Hurt, where provoked businesses to put more FUN in their fundamentals, and get booked out while causing a scene.

You can find some of Kal on Instagram [http://instagram.com/wordshurt.copy], Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalylkadri/], Threads [https://www.threads.com/@wordshurt.copy], and at their website, www.words-hurt.com. [http://www.words-hurt.com/]

Our music is by Emily Bjorke, whose new single, Skeletons in Toronto [https://open.spotify.com/track/5sSlYO88S3YZ26OrMDpmii?si=84f19e5f436a4ca8], is available anywhere you listen to music.

You can find Where's Your Humanity on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/wheresyourhumanitypod], or listen on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@wheresyourhumanity], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/033nECGMmrQMQbsdlfp0cZ?si=666b42418f6d4ca7], and Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wheres-your-humanity/id6785683978].

To learn more about Gail and her work, you can go to her website, worksimple.io [https://worksimple.io/], or connect with her on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/worksimple.io], Threads [https://www.threads.com/worksimple.io], and Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@worksimple.io].

The Analog Renaissance with Kalyl Kadri

What does being evil and blocking your mom have to do with being a good steward of humanity? I guess you'll just have to listen to find out! 

This week, Gail welcomes Kim Lech of Oinopo Studio. Kim is a former brand designer, turned brand strategist & world builder, who creates cult leaders out of creatives & helps them become the person they need to be to say and do polarising things without melting into a puddle of anxiety. All with a personality packed visual identity & branded experience to support it.

In this episode, Kim breaks down what it means to be an obsession-worthy brand with a cult following, by leaning into your weird and owning your most polarizing takes. We also discuss launches gone wrong, corporate bullshit, and having a love-hate relationship with education.

You can find Kim on their website [https://oinopo.com/], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/oinopo.studio/], and Threads [https://www.threads.com/@oinopo.studio], and you can get their free Cult-Thinking Masterclass here [https://oinopo.myflodesk.com/masterclass].

Our theme music is by Emily Bjorke, whose new single, Skeletons in Toronto [https://open.spotify.com/track/5sSlYO88S3YZ26OrMDpmii?si=84f19e5f436a4ca8], is available anywhere you listen to music!!

To stay up-to-date on Where's Your Humanity episodes, you can follow me on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/wheresyourhumanitypod], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/033nECGMmrQMQbsdlfp0cZ?si=666b42418f6d4ca7], and Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wheres-your-humanity/id6785683978], and subscribe on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@wheresyourhumanity].

To learn more about Gail and her work, you can go to her website, worksimple.io [https://worksimple.io/], or connect with her on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/worksimple.io], Threads [https://www.threads.com/worksimple.io], and Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@worksimple.io].

Be More Evil & Block Your Mom with Kim Lech

This week, Gail welcomes Fran Rescigno of The Passions Collective. Fran is a Client Experience Architect and firm believer that your client experience and backend systems should be human-centric: benefitting both you and your clients (and your team). She's passionate about building solutions that feel like the right fit for your brain, while enabling you to deliver a 5-star client experience that doesn't require you to be glued to your phone or computer 24/7. When she's not working, which is actually a lot of the time, you'll probably find her hanging with her 3 cats, reading a fantasy or sci-fi book, doing breathwork, or spending time outside with her partner.

In this episode, we dive in to all the ways Fran has engineered her business to give her the space to work with her brain and accommodate her neurodivergence, work fewer hours, and intentionally unpack some of the behaviors we accept as "normal" work expectations.

Having started The Passions Collective in her last semester of college, Fran also opens up about the struggles and instability of being an entrepreneur,  applying to 9-5 jobs for the first time in her life, and embracing this season of life and business, despite approaching some major change.

You can find Fran on Instagram [https://instagram.com/thepassionscollective], Threads [https://www.threads.com/@thepassionscollective], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/thepassionscollective/], and at her website, https://www.thepassionscollective.com [https://www.thepassionscollective.com/].

You can upgrade your own client experience with Fran's Dubsado and Notion templates in her Template Shop. [https://www.thepassionscollective.com/shop]

You can find Where's Your Humanity on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/wheresyourhumanitypod], or listen on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@wheresyourhumanity], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/033nECGMmrQMQbsdlfp0cZ?si=666b42418f6d4ca7], and Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wheres-your-humanity/id6785683978].

To learn more about Gail and her work, you can go to her website, worksimple.io [https://worksimple.io/], or connect with her on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/worksimple.io], Threads [https://www.threads.com/worksimple.io], and Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@worksimple.io].

Self Discovery, Self Care, & Self Evolution with Fran Rescigno

This week, Gail welcomes Christi Johnson of Christi Johnson Creative [http://christijohnsoncreative.com].

Christi Johnson is a compassionate business coach and the founder of The Dream Biz® Playground, where she teaches strategy through play to help creative and neurodivergent entrepreneurs build joy-driven businesses that actually feel good to run. After a mental health crisis in 2024 nearly cost her everything, she made it her mission to help others grow sustainably without burning out and with self-care as the foundation, not the afterthought. When she’s not working with clients, you’ll find her playing the piano, hanging out with her 25 nieces and nephews, or recording episodes for The Dream Biz® Podcast [https://open.spotify.com/show/677AF6pd1PdFkRip5hUSQn?si=BxV6JSBkQs2Rj1a6Qd_5AQ]. You can connect with her on Instagram [Https://instagram.com/christijohnsoncreative], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christijohnsoncreative], or Threads [https://www.threads.com/@christijohnsoncreative].

Christi shares her story of how getting diagnosed with ADHD at 30 made her close her business, crash out, and rediscover her own creativity.

Now she teaches other creative and neurodivergent entrepreneurs how to reconnect with themselves, make art (whether they're good at it or not), and express themselves in the way their true self wants to show up in this world and in their business. 

We talk about a lot of practical advice for bringing your dream business to life, and you can find some of Christi's free resources here:

Designing Your Dream Business [https://cjc.myflodesk.com/dream]

Creating a Joy Menu [https://cjc.myflodesk.com/joy]

Alt Business Owner Support/Accountability Group [https://cjc.myflodesk.com/altbiz]

You can find Where's Your Humanity on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/wheresyourhumanitypod], or listen on Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@wheresyourhumanity], Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/033nECGMmrQMQbsdlfp0cZ?si=666b42418f6d4ca7], and Apple Podcasts [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wheres-your-humanity/id6785683978].

To learn more about Gail and her work, you can go to her website, worksimple.io [https://worksimple.io/], or connect with her on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/worksimple.io], Threads [https://www.threads.com/worksimple.io], and Tiktok [https://www.tiktok.com/@worksimple.io].

Embrace Your Whims & Make Bad Art with Christi Johnson

In this episode, we talk all about how AI flattens your brand voice (YES, even if you "train" it), how to pick and choose what parts of your life to share online (and why defining these constraints makes your life a whole lot easier), and why it is a privilege to be inconvenienced (and to pay to outsource inconvenient tasks). 

Joining us is copywriter extraordinaire and the mastermind behind my own web copy, Andrea Shah. Andrea is a copywriter and marketing consultant for wedding creatives who want to spotlight their artistry and client experience. She has over a decade of experience working on websites and brand voice for Fortune 500 companies and luxury brands alike. She teaches wedding professionals how to use psychology, storytelling, and market research to make their perfect-match clients feel deeply seen and heard.

Andrea lives in Philadelphia with her family. She identifies as: an Enneagram 5, an average watercolor artist, a pretty good baker, a Midwest native, a speed reader, a mom of one, a horror movie fan, and a Francophile.

You can learn more about Andrea's work at www.andreashah.com [https://www.andreashah.com/], or on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/andreashahcopy], LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreashahcopy], and Threads [https://www.threads.com/andreashahcopy].

You can find Where's Your Humanity on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/033nECGMmrQMQbsdlfp0cZ?si=7d4e991f64fb42b5], Youtube [https://www.youtube.com/@wheresyourhumanity], and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/wheresyourhumanitypod], and you can learn more about Gail and her work at www.worksimple.io [https://worksimple.io/].

Our theme music is composed and produced by my dear friend Emily Bjorke [https://open.spotify.com/artist/3rdbta3JCTJrDteemhfRGx?si=u4vkADGtQWWgcGc3_vyF9Q], and you can go stream her new single, Skeletons in Toronto, anywhere you listen to music.

Branding, Boundaries, and Being Inconvenienced with Andrea Shah

Where's Your Humanity is an exploration of the deep value of human-centered businesses, building community, and cultivating a meaningful life in and beyond business.

Gail Fraser is your Operations Fairy Godmother and founder of Worksimple, helping creative service providers return to the work they love through systems that make sense.

In a world where hyper-individualism, exploitation, transactional relationships, and AI are promoted and normalized, "Where's Your Humanity?" is a question Gail asks herself so often. So this podcast will bring real conversations, with real business owners, and real humans that care about each other.

Follow ⁠Where's Your Humanity⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/wheresyourhumanitypod] on Instagram, and learn more about Gail at ⁠Worksimple⁠ [https://worksimple.io/], and ⁠@worksimple.io on Instagram⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/worksimple.io] and ⁠Threads⁠ [https://www.threads.com/@worksimple.io].

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Exploring the deep value of human-centered business, community, and cultivating a meaningful life in the era of AI.

Let us escape the hyper-individualistic culture of AI and late-stage capitalism by talking to each other, unpacking the societal expectations that separate us, and how we combat it through and beyond our business.

In Where's Your Humanity, we'll talk all things finding your people, building community, navigating entrepreneurship, self-exploration, and building a life worth living through the noise.

Gail Fraser

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