Kathryn Humphries turned down a buying position at Bergdorf Goodman to bet on a one-woman PR agency run by someone she’d just met — and that gut instinct shaped everything. From interning in Ralph Lauren’s celebrity dressing department to running social media at Gap, she built a career across New York’s fashion world before moving home to Houston, meeting her husband, and co-founding All You Need Method with her former boss Carla — a PR membership that teaches small business owners how to land their own press.
In this honest conversation, Kathryn shares what her days look like working from home with a four-year-old in school and an eighteen-month-old with a nanny downstairs, how she structures her work around her circadian rhythms and childcare around her workload, and the weekly routines that keep her family moving.
What We Cover:
Her morning rhythm: programmed coffee at 6:00am, couch snuggles with both girls fighting over space, and getting a four-year-old dressed and out the door by 7:15
The daily smoothie she never skips — Kelly LeVeque’s protein-fat-fiber-greens formula with “a lot of peanut butter”
How a Canyon Coffee blog post about circadian rhythms changed the way she structures every workday (mornings for writing, noon to 2:00 for calls, done by 3:00)
The career path from Ralph Lauren’s celebrity dressing department to Teen Vogue to Gap to starting her own PR consultancy in Houston
A secret love of acting — complete with an agent in Austin, NYU student films, and classes she still takes as a parent
Her nanny Miss Lucy’s game-changing move: cooking dinner during the baby’s nap a couple days a week and how she flexes her childcare based on her workload.
Reading Harry Potter to her four-year-old with some creative editing of the scary parts — and a chamomile tea ritual her daughter now mimics with hot water, honey, and milk
Sunday mornings at Central Market — the Texas grocery store experience with balloons, fresh fruit, a great playlist, and the whole family strolling the aisles
Connect with Kathryn:
Instagram: @kathrynwhumphries
Company: @allyouneedmethod
Substack: Open Book
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