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Interrupting Business As Usual
by Nikki Blak
Interrupting Business as Usual is the weekly resource for folks who've awakened to oppression, injustice, and the bullshit of the status quo and are looking for ways to live, work, parent, build, and lead in more subversive, disruptive, and liberated ways.We talk life, business, purpose, and liberation — for the newly aware and long-time interrupters alike.If you're ready to rise to your next level, as the most liberated version of yourself, you're in the right place.Let's interrupt business as usual.
Episodes
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Ep 98: There's No Such Thing as a Dream Client
If you're struggling to get clients and you've done every ideal client exercise in the book, this episode is going to show you why those exercises might be part of the problem — and what actually turns people into clients. In this episode you'll learn: Where the dream client concept came from and...
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Ep 97: Why Manifestation Is a Tool of White Supremacy and What to Do Instead
You've Been Told Your Outcomes Are a Product of Your Vibration. Here's Why That's Not Spiritual — It's Political. If you've ever used manifestation practices and still felt like something was off — like the framework wasn't built for you, or worse, was working against you — this episode is going…
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Ep 96: It's Not Woo. It's Black.
When someone says "it's giving" or "no cap," people call it Gen Z slang. We know what that actually is. The same erasure is happening inside the spiritual and wellness industry — and this episode is going to spell out what's been going unsaid. In this episode, Nikki makes the case that what the…
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Ep 95: How to Build a Business That Doesn't Burn You Out
In this episode, Nikki defines what burnout actually is, where it comes from, and what it takes to build a business that stops producing it. In this episode you'll learn: What burnout actually is and why overuse of the term keeps people treating the wrong thing Why rest alone doesn't fix burnout...
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Ep 94: Why Working Hard isn't Working
You're Working More Than Ever. So Why Does It Feel Like You're Falling Further Behind? The Sunday scaries are real. And the exhaustion you feel going into another week of giving everything you have to work that keeps demanding more isn't a mindset problem. This episode is going to tell you…
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Ep 93: Why GirlBoss Feminism Failed
Here's Why Your Business Still Feels Off Even Though You Left Hustle Culture Behind You walked away from the boss babe era. You stopped glorifying the grind, you know better than to call burnout a badge of honor, and you would never describe yourself as a girlboss. So why does your business still...
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Ep 92: The September Scam: Hustle Culture's Second New Year
Every fall, right when you're most depleted, an entire industry shows up with a very specific pitch: new planner, new system, fresh start energy, this time it'll be different. This episode is here to tell you what that pitch is actually doing and what to listen for before you fall for it again.…
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Ep 91: Why Your Business Isn't Growing, Even Though You're Doing Everything
You post consistently. You built the freebie. You send the emails, show up on the platforms, follow every piece of advice you've ever been given and your revenue still doesn't reflect the effort. In this episode, Nikki calls out the pattern she watches play out constantly with entrepreneurs who...
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Ep 90: It's Not Too Late: Twice the Results in Half the Time
It's the middle of August and a very quiet, very convincing voice in the back of your mind has started doing the math on your year and concluding that whatever you wanted in 2026, it's too late to get it now. This episode is here to silence that voice. In this episode, Nikki makes the case that…
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Ep 89: Back to School, Back to Unpaid Work
Why Your Fall Plans Keep Falling Apart by November Someone is about to tell you that school starting means you're getting your time back. This episode is for what you're actually about to get if you don't do something different. In this episode, Nikki names what really happens when the first bell...
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EP 88: You Didn't Fall Behind This Summer. You Were Working.
You're limping into September more depleted than you were in May, and you can't figure out what you have to show for an entire summer. In this episode, Nikki breaks down how the exhaustion and overwhelm that caused all your projects and aspirations to sputter to a stop and the self-blame you're...
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Ep 87: Community Is an Economy: The Business Model Capitalism Stole From Us
If you've ever felt guilty charging for your work, exhausted by labor that never shows up in your paycheck, or trying and failing at brokering peace in a stealth war between your values and your money, this episode is not a mindset fix. It's a history lesson, and it's going to change everything....
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Ep 86: From Surviving Alone to Building Together: What Collective Action Actually Looks Like
You know that collective action is the key to radical socio-political change and you want to participate, but every picture you have of it involves a megaphone, a march, or a church basement meeting that requires a babysitter and a free evening you don't have. This episode is here to replace that...
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Ep 85: The Counterfeit Community Scam: Why Finding Your People Feels So Hard
You've tried community. You've shown up for it, invested in it, maybe even built your identity around it — and it still ended up feeling like the thing you were trying to escape. This episode is going to tell you exactly why, and it's not what you think. In this episode, Nikki names what most...
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Ep 84: The Hidden Cost of Isolation: What White Supremacy Collects When You're Disconnected
You believe in collective action. You know community matters. So why do you still feel so profoundly, persistently alone? And why does trying to change that feel almost impossible? This episode is the answer you didn't know you were waiting for. In this episode, Nikki makes the case that your...
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Ep 83: Matriarchs Don't Create Millions Alone: Why Ethical Wealth Is Always Communal
In 1921, a single dollar circulated up to 19 times inside Tulsa's Greenwood District — Black Wall Street — before it ever left the community. White supremacy burned it to the ground. Kicking off Hot Community Summer, Nikki makes the case that wealth was never meant to be individual or hoarded, it...
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Ep 82: How Motherhood Changes Your Relationship With Money: Understanding Money Matrescence
There's a name for what happens to a woman's identity when she becomes a mother. There's never been a name for what happens to her relationship with money — until now. In this episode, Nikki introduce an original framework — Money Matrescence — naming a psychological and neurological shift that...
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Ep 81: Why Care Work Requires Wealth
Every mother needs a million dollars. That's not a hot take, that's the math. In this episode, Nikki is breaking down the real, updated cost of raising a child and caring for aging parents in this economy, why caretakers are chronically under-resourced by design, and what it actually means to…
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Ep 80: The Mothering America Demands from Black Women: Labor, Liberation, and the Racialized Politics of Care
In this episode of Interrupting Business As Usual, Nikki explores the hidden history and present-day reality of labor extraction from Black women and femmes. From chattel slavery and domestic labor to corporate emotional labor, DEI work, workplace culture repair, and community caretaking, this...
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Ep 79: Why Mothers are so Burned Out
Women are expected to absorb the failures of society while rarely benefiting from the systems they hold together and we've been conditioned to call that love. We call it motherhood, sacrifice, and "doing what needs to be done." But what we rarely call it is labor. In this episode of Interrupting...
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Ep 78: We Can't Have Matriarchy without Community
Everybody keeps saying they want matriarchy, but few folks want to do the work to actually be in community. In this episode of Interrupting Business As Usual, Nikki unpacks why rugged individualism is fundamentally incompatible with liberation, collective care, and matriarchy. From settler...
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Ep 77: How Do We Achieve Matriarchy? Healing Beyond Whiteness and Toward Collective Liberation with Myisha T. Hill
Matriarchy is not simply women occupying positions of power inside the same violent systems. It is a complete reimagining of how we relate to ourselves, one another, the Earth, healing, care, accountability, and collective survival. In the final installment of this series on matriarchy, Nikki…
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Ep 76: How to Save Democracy with Matriarchy: Healing Historical Wounds and Practicing Care Without Control with Crystal Tennille Irby
What would it actually take to save democracy? And what if the answer isn't more control, more domination, or simply replacing men with women in positions of power? In this episode of Interrupting Business as Usual, Nikki sits down with writer, podcaster, birth worker, and creative visionary...
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Ep 75: Matriarchy Won't Work Until We Rethink Power: Care, Repair, and What Liberal Feminism Gets Wrong with Rev. Brig Feltus
Matriarchy won't save us. Not if we're still operating from the same broken understanding of power that created the world we're trying to escape. In this episode of Interrupting Business as Usual, Nikki is in conversation with Reverend Brig Feltus - anti-racism educator, metaphysical minister…
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Ep 74: The Problem with Leadership in Social Justice Spaces
You don't have a leadership problem. You have a how you think about leadership problem. Every time harm happens in activist spaces, we ask: Who allowed this person to lead? But we don't ask: Why were we organizing ourselves around them in the first place? In this episode, Nikki breaks down how...
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Ep 73: We Believe Survivors, So Why Does This Keep Happening?
We say we believe survivors. And for the most part, we do. But if that's true… why does the same harm keep happening in liberation spaces? Why do the patterns stay the same - even in communities that claim to know better? In this episode, Nikki breaks down why belief without action changes…
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Ep 72: Why Sexual Violence Persists in Progressive Movements
Sexual violence keeps showing up in progressive spaces, activist communities, and liberation movements - and the question isn't how did this happen? It's why does this keep happening? In this episode, Nikki breaks down how power, socialization, and a lack of real accountability allow harm to...
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Ep 71: How to Radicalize Your Family Without Starting a War
If your family is parroting Fox News talking points, reposting propaganda, defending harmful policies, or just avoiding politics altogether, you've probably felt the tension. You want to say something. But you don't want to ruin dinner. You don't want to make it awkward. You don't want to damage...
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Ep 70: Respectability Politics and White Womanhood
A lot of white women have been taught that change happens by being polite. By being reasonable. By doing the "right" things and trusting that the system will respond in kind. But what if that's the very thing keeping oppressive systems in place? In this episode, Nikki breaks down how…
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Ep 69: Why White Women Are So Politically Isolated
"I feel alone in this." If that thought has been running through your mind lately, you're not imagining things. A lot of white women and femmes are experiencing a deep sense of political isolation right now - in their families, friendships, workplaces, and communities. But this isn't random. And...
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Ep 68: Why Liberal Feminism Can't Stop Fascism
Authoritarian politics are gaining ground, yet many people feel like they're doing everything they were taught to do — voting, posting, donating, speaking out — and none of it seems to be stopping the slide. So what's going on? In this episode, Nikki breaks down why liberal feminism was never…
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Ep 67: Stop Asking Black People to Fight What You Won't Fix
Every time the state escalates its violence, the same pattern repeats: A new crisis erupts, people are shocked, outraged, grief stricken, and activated. And white progressives flood the inboxes of Black educators, activists, and organizers demanding to know: What should I do? What should I say?...
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Ep 66: Why White Feminism Will Never Protect You from ICE, Cops, or the State
In this episode of Interrupting Business As Usual, Nikki breaks down why white feminism will never protect you from state violence and what you need to build instead. If you're shocked that the same system that brutalized George Floyd is now executing white citizens, you weren't paying attention…
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Ep 65: Worse Than the Epstein Files: What Black People Already Know About Sexual Violence, Wealth, and Power in America
The Epstein files have reignited global outrage about sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and the abuse of power by wealthy elites. But what if the Epstein scandal isn't an isolated case and instead reveals a deeper pattern rooted in American history? In this episode, we explore the historical...
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Ep 64: White Guilt is Not Reparations
Here's why feelings aren't repair and what accountability actually requires. In this episode of Interrupting Business as Usual, Nikki breaks down a truth many people avoid: white guilt is not reparations. Feeling bad about racism does not redistribute power, repair harm, or return what was taken....
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Ep 63: ICE Shootings, Anti-ICE Protests, and How to Organize as White Feminists
This episode is about recognizing patterns. Nikki walks through how white violence becomes visible only when whiteness is at risk, and why white feminists — especially those clinging to liberal ideals of civility and reform — need to stop organizing for safety and start organizing to build...
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Ep 62: ICE in Minnesota, Alex Pretti, and How to Organize as a White Liberal
It's taken another escalation in state-sanctioned violence for the alarm bells to go off. And now, white liberals are activated again — just like summer 2020. But here's the question: for how long? In this episode, Nikki does what white liberalism won't: gets to the root. This is not a vibe…
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Ep 61: Black Businesses are a Revolution
If your liberation work ignores capital, you're not doing the whole work. This episode isn't another "buy Black" PSA or a feel-good nod to small businesses. This is a wake-up call. Nikki unpacks how money has always been at the center of our oppression and how it fuels white dominance…
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Ep 60: Interrupting Business as Usual
In this pivotal episode, Nikki Blak names what many liberation spaces avoid: money is the nucleus of every oppressive system we claim to oppose. From anti-Blackness to white dominance, from colonial theft to modern-day funding inequities, the throughline has always been capital, access, and...
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Ep 59: Interrupting White Lady Money Advice with Monique Melton
You deserve more than budget templates and manifestation tips that ignore systemic oppression and attempt to erase your reality. In this deeply candid conversation, Nikki Blak is joined by educator, entrepreneur, and liberatory visionary Monique Melton to dismantle the myth of neutral money…
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Ep 58: From Ordinary to Revolutionary: The Power of One Voice in the Fight for Liberation
"You don't need to be the loudest voice — you just need to speak when it counts." In this episode of Interrupting Everything, we're unpacking the myth that you need a platform, pedigree, or permission slip to make a real difference. Whether you're new to this work or knee-deep in it, this episode...
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Ep 57: Have the Presidential Term You Organized For with Andre Henry
In this deeply reflective and energizing conversation, Nikki Blak and Andre Henry cut through the noise of electoral politics to remind us of a deeper truth: we will always have the presidential term we organized for, not just the one we voted for. Together, they unpack what it means to organize...
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Ep 56: Have the Presidential Term You Organized for with Damon Turner
If you've been sitting around waiting for liberation to be legislated, this episode is your wake-up call. In this powerful conversation, Nikki Blak sits down with artist, activist, community organizer, and cultural architect Damon Turner to talk about what it really means to build the world we...
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Ep 55: Have the Presidential Term You Organized For with Shelley Bruce
We're almost a full year into this administration, and a lot of you are wondering: Where's the justice we fought for? Where's the liberation we voted for? In this episode, Nikki Blak sits down with Los Angeles based community organizer and artist Shelley Bruce, for real and passionate…
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Ep 54: The Work Is Working: 10 Liberatory Lessons from 10K Downloads
This isn't just a celebration of 10,000 downloads. It's a lesson in what it means to stay rooted in purpose, show up consistently, and make the work non-negotiable. In this episode, Nikki Blak reflects on 10 liberatory lessons that came from launching Interrupting Everything in January — lessons...
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Ep 53: How to Help Friends and Family Survive State Sanctioned Violence
State sanctioned violence is not theoretical. It's not just a headline. It's not just happening somewhere else. State sanctioned violence is happening to our people — to your people — and too many of us don't know what to do about it. In this episode, we interrupt the silence. We talk about what...
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Ep 52: Teach People How to Treat You by Setting Boundaries
You don't have to wait for people to "get it." In this episode, Nikki breaks down how boundaries are not just protection. They're instruction and a relationship building tool. You'll learn how to set clear, loving limits that interrupt and correct the conditioning that says you owe everyone…
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Ep 51: Holiday Survival Guide: How to Lead Anti-Racist Conversations at the Dinner Table with Family
You've been avoiding your cousin's problematic Facebook rants all year and now you're sitting next to them at the dinner table. This episode is your go-to survival guide for holiday gatherings where silence feels safer but you refuse to turn down the volume on your values. Nikki shares her...
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Ep 50: Rituals for the Revolution: Healing, Justice, and Spirituality with Jade T. Perry
In this episode, Nikki Blak is in conversation with Jade T. Perry — a spiritual practitioner, mystic, and founder of The Mystic Soul Project — about what it really means to tend to Black wellness at the root. This isn't about high-vibe affirmations or aesthetic altars. It's about building real...
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Ep 49: Black Mysticism Is Ancestral Technology: Decolonizing Tarot with Sanyu Estelle
Black mysticism is ancestral technology. In this episode of Interrupting Everything, Nikki Blak is joined by Sanyu Estelle, an Claircognizant Soothsayer and Spiritual Strategist whose work blends personal truth, ancestral memory, and rigorous intuition. Together, they talk about what it means to...
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Interrupting Business as Usual is the weekly resource for folks who've awakened to oppression, injustice, and the bullshit of the status quo and are looking for ways to live, work, parent, build, and lead in more subversive, disruptive, and liberated ways.We talk life, business, purpose, and liberation — for the newly aware and long-time interrupters alike.If you're ready to rise to your next level, as the most liberated version of yourself, you're in the right place.Let's interrupt business as usual.
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