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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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…