Tuesdays w/TJae:
​Permission to be THAT girl . . .

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Hey Reader!

If you've been here a while... you might remember how we found each other.

Maybe it was 100 Voices. Maybe it was Would I Marry Me, or Introspection for Leaders, or the I'm Glad You Asked Card Game. However you got here... you've been part of something that has always run on the same engine: honest dialogue, real human connection, and the belief that even the people who feel most familiar to us... are not us.

And that difference is not something to fear. It's the whole point.

If you're one of the nearly 90 people who found your way here in the last year... welcome.

I'm glad you're here.
And I want to make sure you know what you signed up for.

Apparently, 2026 is also asking me to practice being seen.

Tuesdays w/ TJae is where I get to show up most authentically. My thoughts, my feelings, my beliefs. If you want a tour of my heart and my brain... and the occasional invitation to think alongside me... you're in the right place.

If you want to go deeper in different ways, there are two places for that.

​Follow me on LinkedIn. That's where I share the thinking, the frameworks, and the things I'm building in real time.

And subscribe to the HUMAN Practice Newsletter. That one is specifically about A More HUMAN Approach™ - the framework, the practice, the application.

Two different things. Both worth your time for different reasons.

Also... I recently got to sit down with two of my favorite humans - Drs. Shannon Jakes and Yara Cruz - on the LeaderSip Podcast.

We talked about AI, automation, and the one thing that gets harder the faster technology moves: remembering the humans technology still impacts.

It's a real conversation. The messy kind. Come listen.
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Also . . .

Tomorrow I’ll be receiving a Community Leadership Award from the Houston Business Journal.

And in this season, I’m practicing letting good things belong to me without immediately downplaying them.

More on that soon.

​​Before I share this more broadly, I wanted to bring it back here first.

I’m opening a small, inter-organizational space for people who want to practice the HUMAN framework together — not just as an idea, but as a way of thinking, deciding, and leading more intentionally.

It’s almost ready to be shared publicly.

If you want to hear about it before I officially put it out into the world, let’s chat.

May you have the courage to stand in what is true for you... and the tenderness to let it belong to you, too.
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LOVE first. Always.​
—TJae

In case you're new to Tuesdays w/ TJae, you should know that you won't receive emails from me every Tuesday, or on any particular Tuesday - but always (well, normally) on a Tuesday. As a child, whenever we'd visit my Grandpa James, he'd end the visit by saying "See you Tuesday," no matter when we were scheduled to see him again. So this newsletter is part nod to James Rivers, and part nod to my love of alliteration.

See you Tuesday!
TJae