Sarah Barnes-Humphrey

Let's Talk Supply Chain™ (LTSC) is a global supply chain media platform founded by Sarah Barnes-Humphrey that connects over 1.5 million supply chain professionals worldwide through podcasts, live shows, news content, and community programming. Sarah launched the podcast in 2016 while still working in her family's freight forwarding business — initially as a creative outlet to explore the industry she loved. When the family business collapsed in late 2017, the show became a lifeline: she kept recording because companies had paid to appear, and that obligation gave her a reason to get up in the morning. What began as a scrappy solo podcast called '2 Babes Talk Supply Chain' was rebranded in April 2018 to Let's Talk Supply Chain™. Today it is one of the top 1% most downloaded podcasts globally, with 450+ episodes, 300K+ listeners, and a reach of over 50 million supply chain professionals.

After the family business closed in late 2017, Sarah spent a year struggling to land interviews in a male-dominated industry where she often found herself one of only three women at any given conference. She took two part-time jobs to survive — one of which was mopping floors at a tennis club. But she never stopped building. She had started the podcast before the collapse, and she continued recording it out of obligation to sponsors who had paid to appear. That commitment — not a grand strategic vision — became the bridge. She rebranded the show in 2018, leaned into content creation as her primary vehicle, and built LTSC into a platform that would eventually reach millions. Her story is less about a pivot and more about what happens when someone refuses to abandon the one thing they were still doing even when everything else fell apart.

Blended is a podcast Sarah founded in 2021 that brings together five people from different walks of life — strangers who have never met each other and often have never met Sarah — to have honest, unscripted conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. The format is audio-only, without video, specifically because people become 'squirrely' around sensitive topics when they can be seen. Each episode opens with a question Sarah asks all guests: 'How do you identify?' — and the answer is entirely up to the guest, which itself reframes what identity conversation can look like. The Blended Pledge is the companion nonprofit, which exists to make the mission of creating space for underrepresented voices into a tangible organizational commitment. Sarah considers this work — alongside Let's Talk Supply Chain™ and Women in Supply Chain™ — part of a single coherent mission: creating safe spaces where people feel seen and heard.

Sarah's debut memoir, *I Buried Her in a French Press: A Memoir About Finding My Voice and the Power of Being Heard*, was published in October 2025 and became an Amazon #1 Best Seller. The title is not a metaphor — it refers to a real event Sarah describes in the book: during the COVID pandemic, her grandmother passed away in the UK while Sarah was in Canada. She flew over under quarantine restrictions, had only 20 minutes before the burial, and discovered that her grandmother's ashes were in a plastic bag in a white paper box — because the niece in charge had cleared the house before Sarah arrived. Searching through the only untouched cupboard, Sarah found a brand-new French press with a receipt from 1992, and used it as an urn. The book uses that story as an entry point into a broader memoir about identity, resilience, self-worth, and finding — and losing, and finding again — your voice. It is Sarah's most personal work and the fullest account of everything she went through before and after building Let's Talk Supply Chain™.

Sarah has described a lifelong terror of public speaking so acute that even thinking about joining Toastmasters made her hands sweat. Her solution was characteristic of how she approaches fear: she didn't take the gentle path. She hired a talent agent and started going on acting auditions — with no intention of becoming an actress. She got yelled out of audition rooms repeatedly because she couldn't memorize lines. But that wasn't the point. The point, as she explains it, was to get out of her own way. By throwing herself into a high-stakes, high-rejection environment where no one expected her to succeed, she removed the pressure of performance and simply learned to survive being in the room. She eventually appeared on live television twice. Today she speaks at global conferences and has appeared on stage four times at a single event. The fear didn't disappear — she just stopped letting it be the deciding vote.

Sarah has been named a Top 100 Most Influential Women Leader in Supply Chain globally (by B2G) and a Top 100 Most Influential Women in Canadian Supply Chain by the Supply Chain Management Association (SCMA). She was recognized as a Pros to Know 2024 honoree by Supply & Demand Chain Executive and named a Top 10 Supply Chain Influencer by Supply Chain Digital in October 2024. Her memoir, *I Buried Her in a French Press*, became an Amazon #1 Best Seller upon its October 2025 release. She is a member of the Forbes Business Council (contributing since January 2025), a board director at FITT (Forum for International Trade Training), and a past recipient of the Women in Supply Chain award from Supply & Demand Chain Executive. She has also been featured as one of the 10 Most Admired Women by Success Pitchers.