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Interrupting Business As Usual — 98 episodes

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Ep 98: There's No Such Thing as a Dream Client

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Ep 97: Why Manifestation Is a Tool of White Supremacy and What to Do Instead

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Ep 96: It's Not Woo. It's Black.

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Ep 95: How to Build a Business That Doesn't Burn You Out

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Ep 94: Why Working Hard isn't Working

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Ep 93: Why GirlBoss Feminism Failed

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Ep 92: The September Scam: Hustle Culture's Second New Year

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Ep 91: Why Your Business Isn't Growing, Even Though You're Doing Everything

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Ep 90: It's Not Too Late: Twice the Results in Half the Time

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Ep 89: Back to School, Back to Unpaid Work

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EP 88: You Didn't Fall Behind This Summer. You Were Working.

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Ep 87: Community Is an Economy: The Business Model Capitalism Stole From Us

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Ep 86: From Surviving Alone to Building Together: What Collective Action Actually Looks Like

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Ep 85: The Counterfeit Community Scam: Why Finding Your People Feels So Hard

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Ep 84: The Hidden Cost of Isolation: What White Supremacy Collects When You're Disconnected

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Ep 83: Matriarchs Don't Create Millions Alone: Why Ethical Wealth Is Always Communal

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Ep 82: How Motherhood Changes Your Relationship With Money: Understanding Money Matrescence

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Ep 81: Why Care Work Requires Wealth

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Ep 80: The Mothering America Demands from Black Women: Labor, Liberation, and the Racialized Politics of Care

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Ep 79: Why Mothers are so Burned Out

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Ep 78: We Can't Have Matriarchy without Community

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Ep 77: How Do We Achieve Matriarchy? Healing Beyond Whiteness and Toward Collective Liberation with Myisha T. Hill

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Ep 76: How to Save Democracy with Matriarchy: Healing Historical Wounds and Practicing Care Without Control with Crystal Tennille Irby

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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

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Ep 74: The Problem with Leadership in Social Justice Spaces

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Ep 73: We Believe Survivors, So Why Does This Keep Happening?

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Ep 72: Why Sexual Violence Persists in Progressive Movements

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Ep 71: How to Radicalize Your Family Without Starting a War

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Ep 70: Respectability Politics and White Womanhood

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Ep 69: Why White Women Are So Politically Isolated

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Ep 68: Why Liberal Feminism Can't Stop Fascism

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Ep 67: Stop Asking Black People to Fight What You Won't Fix

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Ep 66: Why White Feminism Will Never Protect You from ICE, Cops, or the State

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Ep 65: Worse Than the Epstein Files: What Black People Already Know About Sexual Violence, Wealth, and Power in America

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Ep 64: White Guilt is Not Reparations

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Ep 63: ICE Shootings, Anti-ICE Protests, and How to Organize as White Feminists

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Ep 62: ICE in Minnesota, Alex Pretti, and How to Organize as a White Liberal

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Ep 61: Black Businesses are a Revolution

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Ep 60: Interrupting Business as Usual

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Ep 59: Interrupting White Lady Money Advice with Monique Melton

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Ep 58: From Ordinary to Revolutionary: The Power of One Voice in the Fight for Liberation

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Ep 57: Have the Presidential Term You Organized For with Andre Henry

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Ep 56: Have the Presidential Term You Organized for with Damon Turner

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Ep 55: Have the Presidential Term You Organized For with Shelley Bruce

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Ep 54: The Work Is Working: 10 Liberatory Lessons from 10K Downloads

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Ep 53: How to Help Friends and Family Survive State Sanctioned Violence

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Ep 52: Teach People How to Treat You by Setting Boundaries

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Ep 51: Holiday Survival Guide: How to Lead Anti-Racist Conversations at the Dinner Table with Family

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Ep 50: Rituals for the Revolution: Healing, Justice, and Spirituality with Jade T. Perry

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Ep 49: Black Mysticism Is Ancestral Technology: Decolonizing Tarot with Sanyu Estelle

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Ep 48: Decolonizing Prayer: Reclaiming God as a Liberation Praxis with Bossy Bruja

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Ep 47: We've Lost the Plot: Why Anti-Racism Still Requires Naming Whiteness

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Ep 46: The Real Definition of Racism (And Why Most People Still Get It Wrong)

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Ep 45: How Racism Created Race: The History, the Lie, and the Real Definition You Were Never Taught

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Ep 44: 5 Lessons from 5 Years of Freedom After Corporate Life

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Ep 43: How I Walked Away from My 9-5 Toward Liberation

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Ep 42: Collective Liberation Takes More Than Learning

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Ep 41: Interrupting the Myth of the Perfect Moment

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Ep 40: Watching Isn't Working: Why Now is the Best Time to Join IWW

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Ep 39: It's a Shift, Not a Splurge: The Value of Investing in Interrupting White Womanhood

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Ep 38: How to Reclaim Your Time with Interrupting White Womanhood

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Ep 37: The Work Can't Wait — Why Now Is the Time to Interrupt Oppression

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Ep 36: The Audacity to Interrupt - Why That's Your First Step Toward Liberation

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Ep 35: White Feminism Runs on Fear

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Ep 34: Breaking Up with White Feminism for Good – Not to be Good

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Ep 33: What White Feminism Never Taught You (But You Desperately Need to Know)

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Ep 32: From Book Club to Breakthrough: How to Stop Listening and Learning and Start Taking Action for Collective Liberation

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Ep 31: Why You Still Feel Stuck Even After Doing the Work

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Ep 30: White Women Can't Be Centered in Solidarity: Why Main Character Energy Is Killing Your Activism

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Ep 29: Calm in Chaos: Why You Crash Out in a Crisis and How to Stop

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Ep 28: You're Not Burned Out, You're Bored

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Ep 27: What We Get Wrong About Community

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Ep 26: Interrupting Individualism and Isolation with Def Sound

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Ep 25: Why We Must be Radical to Be on the Right Side of History

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Ep 24: From Panic to Protocol: Real-Time Responses to ICE Raids in Your Community
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Ep 23: Manifestation and Money: Tools for Collective Liberation

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Ep 22: Manifestation: From Personal Growth to Collective Liberation

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Ep 21: How to Actually Help with Lily Tsui

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Ep 20: Why Activism Feels Hard

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Ep 19: Black Folks Weren't Born to Fight: Interrupting the Myth of Inherent Activism

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Ep 18: How to THRIVE without DEI

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Ep 17: No DEI No Problem: Effective Allyship Without Formal Institutional Support

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Ep 16: The 10 Skills You Need to Keep Doing the Work of Anti-Racism in the Post DEI Era

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Ep 15: In Your Activist Era: 6 Archetypes to Embody for Collective Liberation

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Ep 14: Interrupting Suffering and Claiming Joy as Your Birthright with Thea Monyeé

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Ep 13: Interrupting Despair Pt. 2

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Ep 12: Interrupting Despair Pt. 1

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Ep 11: Milestone Magic: Celebrating 1,000 Downloads

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Ep 10: How to Care for Yourself in a Crisis
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Ep. 9: Interrupting Relying on the Labor of Black Women
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Ep. 8: Interrupting Consumerism with Aja Barber

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Ep 7: Interrupting Anti-Blackness with Joquina M. Reed

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Ep 6: Interrupting Shame and Reclaiming Self-Sovereignty with EbonyJanice

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Ep 5: How to Reignite Your Resolution

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Ep. 4: Interrupting Quitter's Day

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Ep 3: Interrupting the Annual White Washing of MLK

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Ep. 2: Your Ungovernable Year: A 6-Step Guide to Activism and Creating Collective Liberation in 2025

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Ep. 1: Ungovernable: Redefining Resistance in 2025

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