The Human Work Podcast

Lesha Nelson (she/her) is a body worker, somatic practitioner who works with mothers, babies, and families during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Much of her work focuses on supporting the nervous system and helping both parents and babies integrate big experiences like birth, sleeping and feeding challenges, and early stress of this big transition. She uses gentle bodywork and somatic experi...

“I felt really passionate about helping people feel strength and resilience in their own bodies, and having someone who can help them believe that those things are true in their body no matter what they’re dealing with.”  While being a small business owner has its ups and downs, Sarah McNurlin (she/her) finds that it truly fills her cup, and has set up her own business — as the owner of Pinon Phys...

"Create your own story, create your own narrative, and don’t let work drain you of your life’s purpose.” Jacey Thornton (she/they) is deeply rooted in her purpose to alleviate the suffering of others. At one of the darkest moments of her life, she reflected on why she should stay on this earth. This was about 20 years ago, when she was wondering why she had so much suffering in her life. "I rememb...

Caro Nilsson (she/her) was born in Vancouver, Washington and haws spent her entire life building relationships with the land in America's endlessly variable biomes, and translating those feelings and findings into paintings. She holds a B.A. in Fine Arts with a Distinguished Major in Printmaking, and a B.S. in Architecture from the University of Virginia. Caro completed her first solo painting res...

Andrew Jylkka (he/him) is the former owner and baker of Southeast Dough Company, in Sitka, Alaska. Andrew shut down his business in October, and talks about the process of grappling with a new way of working and understanding himself separate from his work. "I still want [my work] to be fulfilling. I still want my work to align with my values, but I don’t want my work to define my values... That’s...

Leif Ariel (she/her) is an energy healer and energetic mentor who works with humans (and more recently, therapists/care practitioners) who feel bled dry from a life lived isolated up in their minds. She guides humans who are stuck in habitual ways of being into deep curiosity with themselves and the possibility of a greater reality. Together with her clients, Leif leads in the exploration of the w...

“Never stop following your dreams and never let anyone tell you that you can’t do something, even yourself.” This is the advice Joshua Lucero (he/him) would give to his younger self. Joshua is the owner of Lucero Hair and Wellness in Salt Lake City, Utah, and of Lucero Hair Care. He has been doing hair since 2013 and has truly cultivated a passion for his craft. He got into the industry to find a ...

Jean Madison Reiser is a career and life coach, the Founder of Whole Human Co. and a Human|Work mentor working at the intersection of work and life. She is Clifton Strengths Certified and supports leaders, entrepreneurs, and teams in optimizing their work in alignment to their strengths. Jean shares her story of why she became a coach, why she works with Strengths, and her journey of burnout worki...

Hello and welcome back to Human | Work Stories where we are telling the stories of working humans doing human work. I’m your host Charlie Warner. Today we will be sharing the human work story of Alyson La. Alyson is a data educator, technology career facilitator, mom, partner, explorer, and just a very lovely human to get to know. Alyson got her career start in Silicon Valley working in the accoun...

Charlie (she/they) is an entrepreneur, professor, speaker, and purpose–driven leader who loves exploring our human relationships with work. She is the founder of Human|Work, a professional education platform and mentor network on a mission to "humanize the nature of work." Charlie specializes in strategic alignment and loves working with purpose–driven humans in aligning to work that works for the...

Felina Danalis works in human and organizational resiliency as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, coach, and facilitator. She’s supported hundreds of humans in incorporating resiliency to stress and trauma into their lives and organizations. She’s worked as a international diplomat, coached trauma professionals, and facilitated retreats for companies like Google, Planned Parenthood, and more. Fe...

Sabi Habib–Lowder is a social media strategist, storyteller, film producer, and oh so much more. She is the visionary behind Critical Socials, whose mission is to uplift small brands to create meaningful impact through authentic connections. Drawing from experience in documentary film, copywriting, and community organizing, Sabi excels in devising captivating content strategies. With a B.S. in Com...

On this week's weekly wander, Charlie and Jean Madison wander about "composting" or the intentional reflection and letting go of certain processes, practices, and work during the autumn season. 

Kasey Ring is a personal financial coach who works to empower women in their stories of money. As a former personal banker, Kasey worked with high net–worth individuals to manage and grow their wealth. However, while she enjoyed this work, she felt that she wanted to make a bigger impact and help educate her clients on how to build wealth, not necessarily grow it further. Kasey started Upwar...

On this week's Weekly Wander, Charlie and Jean explore the importance of working with our strengths (instead of a constant improvement of weaknesses) and how to embrace what we are already good at in our human–work experience. 

Elizabeth Rosenbloom is a geospatial analyst and designer, aka cartographer, who works to help others and herself make sense of the world. She has worked with a wide–range of clients in both public (governmental) and private sectors, designing specialized maps, analyzing patterns within the maps and related data, and making products and web interfaces to communicate the results. She currentl...

On this week's Weekly Wander, and wander about enriching our work experiences on a micro and a macro level. We discuss how enrichment is a practice that can be both incremental, like a “sprinkling”, and a transformative one. We share specific practices for enriching our own experiences of work and for enriching the work experiences of those we work with. Join us in humanizing the natur...

On this week's Weekly Wander, Charlie and Gretchen wander about how to utilize the practices of permaculture mapping to improve the sustainability of our work. We explore how the mapping process can bring more resiliency, efficiency, and intentionality to the processes and systems of our work and our lives.

On this week's Weekly Wander, Charlie and Grae wander about the nature of work: our internal human nature, the natural contexts and influences on our experience of work, and how nature can model solutions to many of our modern–day challenges. 

Britt and Kass Thomas are artists, community builders, entrepreneurs, and the power couple behind Rekindled & Co.—a tattoo parlor and barber shop in Salt Lake City, UT. In their work, they gracefully navigate the experience of being entrepreneurs who seek to share their crafts while growing a business. As humans, they generously hold space for their clients to express themselves and conn...

On this week's Weekly Wander, Charlie and Jean explore wholeness versus hollowness in work—in the work we do and in the organizations we do work in. We explore cultivating our own sense of wholeness in work, discuss the importance of integrity, and wander about how leaders can nurture a sense of wholeness in their teams.

On this week's Weekly Wander, Charlie and Jean continue our conversation about trust, wandering deep into the realm of self–trust. We explore how to develop self–trust, how to dance between internal and external trust, and how to cultivate trust as leaders. 

On this week's Weekly Wander, Charlie and Jean explore trust in work—trust in ourselves, trust in our process, and trust in others. We discuss what it feels like to be in trusting alignment and how to create practices for building trust. 

On this Week's Weekly Wander, Charlie and Jean wander about the human experience of entreprenurship. We discuss our own journeys in self–employment and the humility that comes with being self–employed. 

On this Week's Weekly Wander, Charlie and Jean wander about how to accommodate the very human experience of having "a case of the Mondays."