Hollis Mahady

Hollis Mahady is a creator, storyteller, author, podcaster, independent musician, and creative entrepreneur whose work explores one central question: How do we stay human in a world that is becoming increasingly disconnected?

A world traveler and lifelong creative, Hollis has spent more than two decades pursuing projects that inspire connection, creativity, and personal growth. Her journey has taken her across the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom, and Japan, including recording at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London.

As an independent artist, Hollis continues to write and release original music, including her upcoming album, A Comedy of Errors. She is also the creator of Love Zombie Land, an imaginative multimedia universe that combines books, music, characters, and storytelling to promote kindness, unity, and self-discovery.

In 2015, Hollis introduced the Reconnection Movement, a manifesto exploring the impact of technology on human relationships. Today, she continues that conversation through the Re-Creation Movement, a philosophy that embraces innovation while encouraging people to preserve timeless values such as integrity, gratitude, empathy, community, and genuine human connection.

Through her nightly podcast, Hollis-tics, her books, music, and creative projects, Hollis encourages others to remember that no matter how much the world changes, being human still matters.

The Re-Connection Movement (2015)

In 2015, I wrote The Re-Connection Movement as a manifesto and a warning. At the time, my concern wasn't artificial intelligence. It was something much simpler: people were already becoming disconnected from one another.

Everywhere I looked, I saw people staring at screens instead of each other. Conversations were becoming shorter. Communities felt weaker. Presence was being replaced by distraction. Technology was bringing us closer digitally while somehow pulling us further apart as human beings.

The manifesto asked a simple question:

What happens when convenience becomes more important than connection?

It explored the idea that if we weren't careful, we would slowly forget the very things that make us human—conversation, creativity, empathy, community, and genuine human interaction.

I didn't want to be right.

Yet here we are.

What began with smartphones and social media has accelerated into an age of algorithms, automation, and artificial intelligence. Many of the concerns raised in The Re-Connection Movement feel more relevant today than they did when they were first written.

Below you can download a FREE PDF of the Re-Connection Movement exactly as it was written in 2015—untouched, unedited, and created without the help of ChatGPT, AI tools, or machine-generated content. It is a snapshot of a moment in time and a reminder that some of the challenges we face today were already beginning to emerge more than a decade ago.

The goal was never to reject technology.

The goal was—and still is—to remember what matters.