Hey humans, Stacie Baird here.
The truth is, nothing really changed in 2025—we just finally found the language for what has been true for a long time. This isn't a typical year-end review episode; it's a moment of closure and an opening. For six years, we've been talking about burnout, compassionate leadership, and psychological safety. But every time we had those conversations, we kept running into the same wall: the reality of our bodies. We realized that the burnout crisis we've been documenting is, at least in part, a women's health crisis that we haven't been naming.
In this episode, I'm taking you into the "in-between" space. I'm sharing why I realized I was participating in the same invisibility I was trying to challenge, hiding my own health struggles while performing wellness. We're connecting the dots between mental health and physical health because, for women, they simply cannot be separate.
Buckle up, because HX is evolving.
Starting in 2026, we are expanding our focus to whole person health at work through a woman's lens. This isn't about excluding men—it's about designing work for the reality of the majority of the workforce. It's about admitting that compassionate systems cannot exist if we pretend we don't have gender-specific needs. We are done with toxic positivity and we are done pretending that work happens separately from what is happening in our bodies.
If you've ever wondered if you're the only one managing everything invisibly, or if you're a leader watching talented women leave and don't understand why—this episode is for you.
Join me as we ask the hard questions and refuse the "either/or" choices we've been forced into. We are going to build the language we don't have yet, together.
See you in the new year. And this time, we're bringing all of us.
Stacie
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