On this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Felicity Fellows, a global community strategist who has built and scaled cultural ecosystems through her work with TED, TEDx, and her fandom agency Stan—to unpack the hidden dynamics shaping workplace culture.

Starting with a striking reality, HR is overwhelmingly made up of women, yet remains one of the most undervalued functions in organizations—they explore how roles rooted in traditionally “feminine” qualities like care, empathy, and nurturing are often dismissed as soft or secondary.

From HR to community-building, the conversation reframes these roles not as peripheral, but as foundational, asking what might shift if we treated care and connection as central to how work actually works.

On this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with Courtnee LeClaire, a transformational leader behind iconic moments at companies like Apple, to explore why she started calling herself a Chief “Becoming” Officer.

From launching products like the iPod and iPhone to navigating personal upheaval, Courtnee shares a deeply honest look at success, failure, and the myth of having it all figured out. Together, they unpack the tension between helping others and doing the inner work, the importance of trusting your instincts, and what it means to grow and learn while leading.

At the center of the conversation is Courtnee’s powerful reframing: we’re never “finished” we’re always becoming. And the real work isn’t perfection, it’s having the courage to keep going, even when you don’t know what you’re doing.

On this episode of From the Culture, Marcus Collins and Amanda Slavin sit down with stylist, author, and cultural thinker Stacey London for a candid conversation about feminism, identity, and how society assigns value to women.

They explore some of the reasons why patriarchal work cultures are bad for business and what it could look like to design a working world that utilizes traditionally feminine traits for business strategy and community culture. They unpack some of the ways women are often forced to navigate competing expectations just to exist, and they discuss why there’s a growing group of “older” post-menopausal women who want to stay in the workforce despite the ageism of patriarchy. The conversation also examines the role men play in building a more equitable world—and why real progress requires moving beyond shame, guilt, and reaction.

At its core, this episode is about shifting from survival to wholeness: letting go of old frameworks and learning how to show up fully, without shrinking to fit the room.