Human Beingness with Kathy Quinlan-Perez

Are You a Human Being or a Human Doing?

With Kathy Quinlan-Perez of PSI Seminars

In this episode of the PSI Podcast, hosts Tim Bowen and Mackenzie O’Kelley sit down with longtime PSI Seminars instructor Kathy Quinlan-Perez for a conversation about personal growth, human potential, and what Kathy calls “human beingness.”

After more than three decades of teaching and facilitating personal development work, Kathy has seen people enter seminars focused on a specific result: growing a business, improving a relationship, making more money, or creating a major change. Yet again and again, she has watched something deeper happen. People begin to reconnect with who they are, what matters most to them, and how they want to show up in their lives.

Kathy explores the difference between being a “human doing” and a human being, and why continually checking things off a to-do list does not necessarily create fulfillment. She shares how the PSI concept of Be-Do-Have invites us to begin with qualities such as courage, honesty, compassion, love, and connection, then allow our actions and results to flow from there.

The conversation also explores personal responsibility, integrity, staying current in your life, and one of the most powerful tools we have in our relationships: listening. Kathy explains how quickly judgment and the need to be right can create disconnection, and what becomes possible when we remember the humanity of the person across from us.

You’ll also hear Kathy share why resistance can sometimes precede a breakthrough, why continued growth matters even after decades of personal development work, and why taking a moment to ask, “How do I need to be right now?” can change the way you respond when life feels chaotic.

If you’ve found yourself becoming a “human doing machine,” this conversation is an invitation to reconsider not only what you want to accomplish, but who you choose to be while creating it.