Start Here: Welcome to Transform the Human Experience
Hi there—and thank you for being here.
This is where I think out loud (and in frameworks) about what it really means to flourish—as a person, as a society, and as a system.
Here, you’ll find reflections, research, stories, and strategy—all connected by one core question:
What if we designed every part of our world for the full human experience—not just efficiency, productivity, or compliance?
🔧 What You’ll Find Here
I explore the Transform the Human Experience (THX) approach through five core frameworks:
▸ 12 Utilities
How do we measure if something is truly useful or harmful across what people need most—like clarity, access, security, value, and emotional safety?
▸ PERMAH
A tool from positive psychology that asks: are we flourishing—or just surviving?
▸ Prospect Theory
Why losses hurt more than gains help—and how that explains so much about fear, control, and political behavior.
▸ Admiration Equation
What really builds loyalty? Skill, goodness, awe, and gratitude—not just outcomes.
▸ Micro-Moments
The tiniest moments shape the deepest impressions—of trust, safety, dignity, and worth.
These frameworks show up in everything I write—from critiques of government to stories about parenting through trauma. They help me map systems and design for something better.
📚 Series You Can Explore
Rather than a strict sequence, I write in series threads—which evolve over time. You can explore any one of them below:
✨ The Emotional Economy
A new way to measure what matters most.
Not clicks. Not scale.
But trust, awe, gratitude, and the micro-moments that create real loyalty.
This series explores how emotional value drives transformation—through practical tools, human-centered frameworks, and stories that make you feel seen.
📖 Living as a Cathedral of Awe
A journey of healing, awe, and self-remembrance — this series explores how micro-moments, emotional truth, and sacred frameworks can help us live not just with purpose, but with reverence.
💥📖 The Narcissist’s Playbook & The Life After
A dual series for survivors and seekers—unpacking narcissistic systems through THX frameworks, and guiding the journey of healing through emotional clarity, closure, and self-reclamation.
🎭📖 Behind the Mask: The Invisible Labor of Neurodivergent Survival
A powerful journey from masking to flourishing—revealing the hidden emotional labor neurodivergent people carry, and how we reclaim authenticity, belonging, and freedom.
🗓️ First They Came for the Calendar
This series tracks how the Trump administration has timed policy cuts and cultural erasures to coincide with months meant to celebrate marginalized communities. Using the THX frameworks, it documents what’s happened—and forecasts what’s next—so we can act before the silence takes hold.
💔Emotional Heresy
What if your feelings weren’t flaws—but sacred data? This series explores how religious systems, Christian nationalism, and patriarchal culture taught us to fear empathy and suppress emotion. Through theology, personal reflection, and reclaiming our emotional intelligence, Emotional Heresy invites you back to the truth your body never forgot: you're not too emotional—you're human, and that’s holy.
🧱 Architect of Trust
This series explores how trust is built, broken, and rebuilt—across relationships, systems, identities, and the self.
From trauma recovery and fatherhood to neurodivergence, faith, and leadership, these posts map the emotional and structural architecture of trust.
If you’ve ever asked, “Why don’t I feel safe?” or “How do I trust again?”—this is your blueprint.
❤️🩹 The Healing Series
This collection began with a single moment of clarity—and grew into a body of work mapping my journey from survival to wholeness. These essays are rooted in truth, story, and the frameworks I use to understand human experience (THX, PERMAH, and the Admiration Equation).
🧠 Disability, Autism & THX
Reframing neurodivergence as a system design opportunity—not a deficit.
🏛 Christian Nationalism vs Christian Patriotism
How politics, power, and belief intersect—and what our founders actually imagined.
📜 Neurodivergence & the Founding of a Nation
How cognitive diversity shaped early American systems—and what we can still learn from them.
🚍 Government That Works
Case studies on what public investment can look like when it’s designed for trust and flourishing.
💔 THX Reflections & Personal Essays
Essays on trauma, healing, leadership, and parenting—from the inside out.
⚡️ THX Pulse
Real-time reflections on current events through the lens of emotional and systemic breakdown.
📖 THX Framework Deep Dives
The foundational theory and application guide for all the THX frameworks.
🌱 Flourishing Families
What does it take to build a life together—and what happens when the systems meant to support us fall short?
🔹 Welcome to Transform the HX
The origin post—laying out the premise, promise, and frameworks of your Substack and THX philosophy.
🧭 How to Navigate This Substack
Here’s how I’ve structured the reading experience:
📌 This post is pinned to the top for orientation
🆕 New posts are on the left (above the fold)
🔥 Most popular posts are on the right (above the fold)
🧩 Below the fold, you’ll find all posts sorted by newest
🗂 Each post includes links back to its Series Hub and this Start Here guide
💬 What’s This Really About?
It’s about meaning. Resilience. Repair. Systems that heal instead of harm. Leadership that listens. Work that transforms. And how we become fully human in the middle of all of it.
If any of this resonates, I hope you’ll subscribe, comment, or share. And if you’re returning to this post after reading a few things—welcome back. You’re part of the conversation now.
Here’s to building a world that works better—for all of us.
—Tony Bodoh
