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A 6-week challenge with Dr. Ebony Green

You always know exactly what you should have said. Just not until 2am.

Learn to say the hard thing, kindly.

Dr. Ebony, on what the challenge actually is.

The KIND Challenge gives you the exact words for the conversations you keep putting off, so honesty lands as care instead of criticism, and the people you love actually hear you.

  • Say no without inventing an excuse
  • Tell the truth without starting a fight
  • Ask for help without feeling like a burden
  • Sleep, instead of rehearsing the conversation again
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$297, or 2 payments of $159. Begins Monday, August 24 at 5:00 PM Eastern.

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Is this you?

Tap every line that sounds like your life.

If any of that sounds familiar, you’re not bad at communication. You were never taught this.

There’s a difference, and it changes everything about what’s actually fixable here.

Plainly, what this is

A six-week challenge in saying what you mean.

Three short videos a week from Dr. Ebony. One real practice every Monday, with the whole week to do it. Seven live calls. A private community of people doing the same brave work. All of it builds one skill: saying the honest thing in a way that protects the relationship.

This is for you if

  • You keep the peace at your own expense
  • There's one conversation you've been carrying for weeks, months, maybe years
  • You want to be honest and stay close to the people involved
  • You'd rather practice in a safe room before you say it for real

What this is not

  • Therapy, counseling, or crisis support
  • A debate course for winning arguments
  • Hours of homework. Most days take 10 to 15 minutes
  • A course you buy and never open. It's live, with real people, for six weeks

Why I built this

At the height of my career, I lost 60 pounds in eight months. Not because I was trying to. Because I had stopped listening to my body so completely that it started communicating the only way it had left: by breaking down.

My doctor told me that if I didn’t stop, I might not make it through the week.

My first thought wasn’t about my health. It wasn’t about my family.

It was about who would cover my leadership summit.

I couldn’t say I needed help. I couldn’t say I was drowning. Not because I didn’t feel it. Because I didn’t know how.

I’d spent my career learning how to be strong. How to perform fine when I wasn’t. What nobody taught me was how to say the true thing, the hard, honest thing, kindly and clearly, without making it a crisis or disappearing.

I built The KIND Challenge because I needed it ten years before it existed.

Dr. Ebony Green

The framework

Four stages. Six weeks. One conversation at a time.

KIND is the path the whole challenge walks, in order. Each stage builds the one after it. Tap a letter to see what happens there.

Know Your Pressure Points

Week 1

Understand your own patterns before you try to change anything.

You'll map the exact conversations that make you go quiet, and figure out where that habit came from.

You’ll live each pillar before it’s even named. By the closing call, when you see the full framework laid out, you’ll realize you already did it.

“But what do I actually say?”

The SAYS Formula

That’s the question underneath every piece of advice you’ve ever been given about hard conversations. “Just be honest.” “Set boundaries.” Nobody tells you the actual words.

SAYS is a four-step method for saying anything hard so it lands as care instead of criticism. Walk through it step by step.

1 / 4

See their good first

Begin with what's true and good about them. The relationship comes before the problem.

Sounds like

“I really appreciate you thinking of me.”

Not a script that makes you sound mechanical. A tool that frees up your actual voice for the person in front of you.

The challenge itself · how the six weeks work

Six weeks. One pillar at a time.

The rhythm is simple: three short videos a week, one real practice every Monday with the whole week to do it, and a live call with Dr. Ebony every Thursday. Each week lives one stage of the KIND framework, in order, so the skill builds under you before you ever need it.

Week 1K

Know Your Pressure Points

Nice vs. kind. The freeze. The 2am replay. You map your own patterns before you try to change a single one.

Live · Kickoff call Monday, then Q&A Thursday

Week 2I

Improve Communication · Feel Heard

The five phrases that make anyone feel heard, practiced on the safest person in your life. Watch people open up before you ever say a hard thing.

Live · Thursday Q&A with Dr. Ebony

Week 3I

Improve Communication · Say the Truth

The SAYS formula, the centerpiece of the whole challenge. You draft your hard conversation in writing. Nothing gets sent yet.

Live · Thursday Q&A · SAYS scenarios, live

Week 4N

Normalize Honest Conversation

Your first real conversation, deliberately lower-stakes, entirely on your timeline. “I need help” is a complete sentence.

Live · Thursday Q&A with Dr. Ebony

Week 5N·D

Consolidate and Begin to Design

What to do when your body panics mid-sentence. How to repair a misstep. And the quiet identity shift: you're becoming someone who says the thing.

Live · Thursday Q&A with Dr. Ebony

Week 6D

Design for Sustainable Communication

The capstone conversation, when you're ready. Then your Personal KIND Communication Plan: one page, yours forever.

Live · Thursday Q&A · closing celebration and the full framework reveal

No brave conversation before Week 4. Even then, only when you’re ready. That’s the promise, and it’s the whole design.

Enrollment is open

That’s the six weeks. The founding cohort is open now.

  • Begins Monday, August 24, 5:00 PM Eastern
  • Capped at 40
  • Enroll by Sunday, August 30
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$297, or 2 payments of $159.

Free · the warm-up before the challenge

15 days of saying it kindly.

Every day for 15 days, Dr. Ebony drops one real script on Instagram: the exact words for a conversation most people get wrong. The full scripts live here, one unlocking each day. Day 1 drops tomorrow.

To be clear: these 15 days are not the challenge. They’re the free warm-up, and a taste of what the words can do. The challenge is the six-week program above, it begins Monday, August 24, and enrollment is open right now.

01TomorrowHow to say no to plans without ruining the relationship
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06Unlocks day 6
07Unlocks day 7
08Unlocks day 8
09Unlocks day 9
10Unlocks day 10
11Unlocks day 11
12Unlocks day 12
13Unlocks day 13
14Unlocks day 14
15Unlocks day 15

Everything you get

Real tools you’ll actually use.

This is The KIND Toolkit, the five guides waiting inside, already designed, already built. Plus the daily practice space on your phone, wherever you are. It’s the same work organizations pay Dr. Ebony serious money for, rebuilt for your actual life.

The In-the-Moment Pocket Guide
The Kind Scripts Library
The Kind Soul Companion journal
01

6 weeks of guided teaching

18 short videos, three a week on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Most run under five minutes.

02

7 live sessions with Dr. Ebony

A kickoff call, then a live Q&A every Thursday at 6:00 PM Eastern for six weeks. All recorded if you can't be there.

03

One real practice each week

A single anchor Dare every Monday, with the whole week to do it. Tagged by intensity, so you always know what's possible for you today.

04

The KIND Soul Assessment

Your personal roadmap for the six weeks, plus a Week 6 re-score that shows you exactly how far you moved.

05

The In-the-Moment Pocket Guide

The 5 phrases that make anyone feel heard, and the sentence that buys you time when you freeze.

06

The Kind Scripts Library

Word-for-word scripts, built on SAYS, for the 12 hardest conversations most people avoid.

07

Your Personal KIND Communication Plan

Everything that mattered, compressed to one page. Yours to keep.

08

A private community of Kind Souls

Dedicated spaces for discussion, brave moments, wins, and asking Dr. Ebony directly.

09

Bonus extras, announced at kickoff

Dr. Ebony is adding surprises for the founding cohort on top of everything above. Full reveal at the kickoff.

What this normally costs

Add up what it would cost to buy this anywhere else.

Organizations hire Dr. Ebony to teach this and pay her by the hour. Here is the whole challenge, priced the way you would have to pay for it piece by piece.

  • 7 live sessions with Dr. Ebony

    $1,750

  • Six weeks of teaching, 18 videos

    $497

  • The KIND Toolkit, all five guides

    $644

  • The private Kind Souls community, six weeks

    $97

  • The Say-It Promise

    $250

Total value

$3,238

Your price, founding cohort

Or split into 2 payments of $159.

$297

Every figure above is either Dr. Ebony’s own hourly rate or what that piece costs to buy on its own. About $42 a live session, with everything else included rather than extra.

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A promise, before anything else

We are not going to practice on the people you love before you’re ready.

Every dare in this challenge builds your skill before it asks you to use it. You will never be sent into a real conversation without the framework for that conversation already in your hands. No brave conversation happens before Week 4, and even then, entirely on your own timeline.

That’s a promise.

Dr. Ebony Green speaking at a TEDx event
Dr. Ebony Green in the Hello Kind Soul podcast studio

On the TEDx stage, and in the Hello Kind Soul studio

Meet your guide

Dr. Ebony Green

For over two decades, Dr. Ebony has taught leaders how to say hard things without breaking trust: executive teams, school districts, hospital systems, rooms where one badly delivered sentence costs real money and real relationships.

The KIND Challenge takes that same research and brings it home, to the conversations that matter more than any meeting: the ones with your partner, your kids, your parents, your friends.

She teaches the thing she once had to learn the hard way. You read that story above.

  • 25+ years leading in education and leadership development
  • Works with executive teams, school districts, and organizations on communication under pressure
  • TEDx speaker
  • Host of the Hello Kind Soul podcast
  • Author of Acts of Liberation

The research underneath

Psychological safety is the single strongest predictor of team effectiveness, ahead of team composition and individual talent.

Edmondson, 1999 · Google Project Aristotle, 2015

85% of employees have withheld critical information from a manager out of fear of consequences.

Mazzei, Kim & Dell'Oro, 2012

Burnout is a systemic and cultural failure, not an individual one. The same is true of communication breakdowns at home.

SHRM / Gallup, 2024

Common questions

Is this therapy?

No. It's a communication challenge, grounded in real research, translated into your actual relationships. If something surfaces during the six weeks that needs more support than a challenge can give, Dr. Ebony will say so directly and point you toward the right kind of help. That's built into how the program works.

Are the 15 daily scripts the same thing as the challenge?

No. The 15 "How to Say That Kindly" scripts are free. They're happening on Instagram right now, and they unlock on this page when you join the waitlist. The challenge is the six-week live program those scripts are warming up: the KIND framework, the SAYS formula, weekly practice, seven live calls, and the community. The free scripts hand you words for fifteen specific conversations. The challenge teaches you to build the words for any conversation, yourself, for good.

What if I don't have time?

Most videos run under five minutes, three days a week. One real practice per week, a single anchor Dare every Monday, with the whole week to do it. Most people spend 10 to 15 minutes on the days they show up.

How much does it cost, and when does it start?

$297, or 2 payments of $159. The founding cohort runs Monday, August 24 to October 4, 2026, and it is capped at 40. Enrollment is open now.

What if the right moment for a hard conversation never comes up?

That's genuinely fine, and expected for some people. The challenge gives you the tool. It doesn't force the moment. No brave conversation is required before Week 4, and even then, only when you're ready.

Is this just free content I could find on Instagram?

Some of the framing, yes. Dr. Ebony teaches pieces of this for free. What you get here is the full method, sequenced correctly, with weekly accountability, live coaching, and a community actually practicing alongside you. Most people don't change a lifelong pattern from one Reel.

What if I can't make the live calls?

All seven are recorded, and the replays live inside the platform.

Enrollment is open

There’s a conversation you’ve been carrying. You already know which one.

Six weeks from now, you could still be carrying it. Or you could have the words.

  • Six weeks, Monday, August 24 to October 4, 2026

  • We begin at 5:00 PM Eastern, so you can block the hour now

  • 7 live calls with Dr. Ebony, all recorded

  • Capped at 40. Enrollment closes Sunday, August 30

$297or 2 × $159

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