About the Show
Business decisions make headlines. The people living them rarely do.Human, Actually is the podcast for anyone who has ever sat through a company-wide announcement and thought: that's not the whole story. Each week, co-hosts Janessa Jameson and Jennifer Gamble take the biggest conversations happening in business — layoffs, return-to-office mandates, AI displacement, burnout, performance culture — and examine what they actually feel like for the humans on the inside.
Janessa brings the perspective of someone who has lived it as an individual contributor. Jenn brings the view from the leadership table. They don't always agree. That's the point.
New episodes every Monday. Business, but make it honest.
What We Cover
Every episode of Human, Actually lives inside one of five themes:The Human Behind the Headline
Every business story has a press release version and a human version. We tell the second one. When a layoff announcement lands, when an RTO mandate drops, when a reorg reshuffles everything — we ask what it actually feels like for the people living through it.
The Two Sides of the Table
The same decision looks completely different depending on where you're sitting. Janessa comes at every story from the individual contributor seat. Jenn comes at it from the leadership seat. We don't perform agreement. When we disagree on air, we keep it in.
Work Is Personal (And That's Okay)
Business culture tells us to leave our feelings at the door. We think that's why so much goes wrong. Burnout, performance culture, identity at work, the emotional labor of being managed and of managing — these aren't soft topics. They're the real ones.
The Language of Power
Companies have a dialect. Once you learn to translate it, you can't unhear it. We decode the gap between what organizations say and what they actually mean — from layoff language to performance improvement plans to all-hands talking points.
What We're All Walking Into
AI, automation, and the future of work aren't abstract concerns. They're already happening to real people. This is the forward-looking part of the show — keeping the conversation grounded in the human experience of a landscape that's changing fast.
Your Hosts
Janessa JamesonJanessa is the founder of Centerline Consulting, a fractional PMO and delivery leadership practice working with mid-market companies. She also publishes The Strategic PM, a weekly newsletter on AI-augmented program management and delivery leadership. Janessa brings the individual contributor perspective to every Human, Actually conversation — the view from inside the meeting, not above it.
Find her at centerline.consulting and jmjameson.substack.com.
Jennifer Gamble
Jennifer is a VP-level RevOps leader who brings the management perspective to the show. Where Janessa asks what a decision feels like from the inside, Jenn asks why it got made and what it looks like from the other side of the table. Together they cover the full conversation — not just half of it.
Listen and Follow
Human, Actually publishes every Monday. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen. If an episode lands for you, a review on Apple Podcasts helps more people find the show — and we read every single one.For guest inquiries, sponsorship conversations, or listener mail, reach us at hello@humanactuallypodcast.com.