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My Upcoming Book
Happy, Happy New Year! Welcome, 2025! Can we just take a moment to process how that’s even possible? Five years since the pandemic. Five. Years. I mean—what the what? Well, as we step into this new year, I’ve got some fun news to share! It might be brand new to some of you, and for…
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Exciting News: Faye McCray Consulting is Now Culture and Quill!
I’m thrilled to announce that Faye McCray Consulting has rebranded as Culture and Quill! This new agency is dedicated to nurturing and building impactful stories that resonate, connect, and inspire. With this launch, I’m expanding my mission to support individuals, brands, and organizations in telling stories that matter. Our focus is on crafting powerful narratives…
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What if it all works out?
A month into landing my first senior leadership role, I found myself at the end of a leadership retreat, sitting at a table surrounded by new colleagues I deeply admired. We were celebrating putting a big dent in strategic planning, and somehow, over perfect old fashioneds, we began discussing childhood summer vacations. As they shared…
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Listen to Your Mother HoCo
This Mother’s Day weekend, I had the honor of co-hosting Listen to Your Mother, an event showcasing 10 incredible women storytellers as they shared honest, heartfelt, and powerful stories of motherhood. Topics ranges from infertility, to getting dating advice from your college aged kid, to parenting with mental illness, to generational sweet potato pie mishaps.…
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Fight or Fly
When my brother Tommy became a police officer, he was only nineteen. My father, born in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, is an Air Force veteran who rose through the ranks in the NYPD. He is a tough dude. With a strong family history of military and law enforcement, the decision for my brother to join the NYPD…
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Rest & Reclaim
A few months ago, a friend and I decided to plan a retreat – specially designed for busy women of color as a reminder to rest and reclaim themselves from the relentlessness of the daily grind. We named it Rest & Reclaim and opened it up to 15 women. It sold out within 2 days…
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Legacy
Last week, my family and I said goodbye to my grandfather just a week shy of his 100th birthday. I didn’t know him well – he lived hundreds of miles away when I was growing up, and my dad is one of ten so I am one of many, many (many) grandkids. But every action…
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Reflections on the CROWN Act
Like so many Black women, my hair journey has been a winding road. My hair has accessorized every phase of my growth from Jheri curls in Kindergarten (thanks again for that, Mom 🥴) to long box braids in college to processed, straight hair in my twenties. No choice, however, proved to be as significant and…
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Thank you, Judy
I walked into my first job interview holding a Sprite can. My hair was spray dyed blue, I wore shorts I cut with scissors, and I giggled before answering each question. Judy, my prospective boss, stared at me over the rim of her glasses sizing me up. The look she gave me was a mixture…
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What is Meant to Be, Will Be
When I was a baby lawyer, I had the honor of working with an intern who was attending law school at night. He was a father, a husband, and worked full time as a court officer. You only had to spend five minutes with him to know one day he was going to also be…
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