{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"People Analytics","title":"Flexible Cultures & Invisible Illnesses with Jodie Cenci","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1859,"description":"Join us as Jodie Cenci, HR Director at Primary, shares her deeply personal journey with chronic illness and disability. From uncertain diagnoses to discovering fibromyalgia, Jody opens up about the transformative power of workplace flexibility and representation. Her story is a masterclass on empathy, resilience, and advocacy for inclusive work cultures.Here are a few of the topics we’ll discuss on this episode of People Analytics:Jody's struggle with an invisible illnessFibromyalgia's daily impact on work The importance of workplace flexibilityNavigating HR while managing disabilityBuilding supportive company culturesResources:PrimaryStaffGeek Connect with Jodie Cenci:LinkedInConnect with our host, Lindsay Patton:LinkedIn EmailQuotables:2:28 - It still really amazes and saddens me how little representation we have of people with disabilities. So I think it is so important. And if me as a kid, if I could have seen something like that, I can't even imagine what that would've done for my confidence to just know that like, this isn't just something that's happening to me, there are other kids like me. So it feels really special being able to work with a company that's moving that message forward.6:46 -  I'm an HR team of one. So I was playing both the role of HR and disabled employee in my own interactive process, which I was having with my managers who also happened to be the CEOs and Co-founders of my company. So like there was just nothing normal about like how any of this was happening. Layer on top of that, like for all of the HR people listening, we were about a week away from mid-year reviews and a month away from open enrollment. So like, the idea of going on leave just seemed like completely impossible, but also seemingly very unemployable. Like, but how do you do reviews in open enrollment with no HR?16:26 -  I think it's also true with a lot of disabilities, and it's certainly true with fibromyalgia, that my disability varies day to day, sometimes even...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LZiH28Fqv554cP0YOC3mUlECfkMXgmHH_FevGjudEbE/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE5NDQ5LzE2Mzg4/OTcwODUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}