A Podcast from the American Humanist Association
How to be good without being told how.
How to Humanist asks life’s questions big and small with the help of brilliant humans along the way.
Hosted by Shay Leonia · New episodes weekly
About the show
More and more people are walking away from institutions that no longer fit — including religion — without losing one bit of their hunger for meaning, community, and moral purpose.
How To Humanist steps into exactly that space. Each week, host Shay Leonia explores what it means to live as a humanist in real time — sitting down with guests to dig into humanist ethics in 21st-century life, from spirituality and family to grief, growth, and making meaning on your own terms. It’s warm, it’s funny, and it doesn’t preach.
If you already share humanist values like compassion, empathy, and reason but never had the words for it — or you’re just curious — the show is meant to be a bridge: a welcoming place to explore humanism openly and decide for yourself whether it fits your life.
Shay Leonia
Shay hosts How To Humanist for the American Humanist Association, exploring the movement’s ideas — and her own path into it — with humor and honesty. As she puts it, humanism is helping her answer life’s big questions with confidence.
What we talk about
How To Humanist is produced by the American Humanist Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit — because science is real, and compassion is right.