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Screw the Hierarchy — 154 episodes

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What a social worker advises on how to cope with workplace abuse

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Pulling back the curtain on the rigged system that enables workplace abuse

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How Dr. Bonnie Candia-Bailey's suicide from workplace abuse shows us we need to pass the Workplace Psychological Safety Act

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One advocate's story of a pattern of ableism at work — featuring Emma Farley

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What nearly 40 advocates and experts said in support of the Workplace Psychological Safety Act

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How two targets lead the way for protections from workplace psychological abuse in Texas — featuring Texas Bill Directors Dee Montanez and Stuart Mayper

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How Culturama.is pulls back the curtain on workplace culture — featuring founder Tomasz Urbanski

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How GE workers are mobilizing against abuse at work through #GEToo — featuring GE whistleblower Alex Horne

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Psychological injury IS physical injury: it shows up on brain scans — with Dr. Jennifer Fraser

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How an insurance adjustor endured discrimination — while the company claimed to support diversity

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The stages of recovery from the trauma of workplace abuse — and how we're leaning on one stage to seek justice

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3 reasons to join the Lives Lost to Workplace Bullying and Mobbing event on Saturday, October 22

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How employees took back the #QuietQuitting narrative with #QuietFiring

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The NBA's consequences for Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver. Are they enough?

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The argument for the need for the Workplace Psychological Safety Act

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The power of collective action to heal and create change

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The importance of a game plan after abuse at work (and what to put in it)

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3 big reasons bystanders don't step in

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How employers misuse productivity monitoring software and create toxic work environments

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How "quiet quitting" can help us cope with workplace abuse

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The power of our collective response to the trauma of workplace psychological abuse

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Lives lost to workplace bullying and mobbing

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How to get unbullied — featuring anti-bullying specialist Kalyani Pardeshi

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4 ways our bosses can keep us from working collectively — and what we can do about it

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How the OSH Act and OSHA can help us pave the way for psychologically safe workplaces

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How groups in power design systems that don't work — to keep themselves in power

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How we can create change after psychological abuse at work

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5 ways coaching can help you feel unstuck after psychological abuse at work

29

My top 4 ways Trump followed the abuser playbook around the January 6 insurrection

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The growing number of workplace suicides in the U.S.

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24 workers' rights bills we need to pass ASAP

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The difference between workplace bullying and mobbing

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My #1 coping mechanism for psychological abuse at work

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How we can challenge beliefs that don't serve us so we can create new patterns

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6 ways we can look at our life purpose

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Test your knowledge of workers' rights in the U.S.

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How to listen to targets of trauma so they can feel heard and begin to heal

38

The freedom we gain when we give up control

39

My top 5 ways anti-abuse groups perpetuate abuse

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How targets of workplace abuse found energy and healing in public action

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How we can move on after abuse at work

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The negative effects of stereotyping on men

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How Kroger allegedly abused Evan Seyfried to death

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We demand Justice for Evan

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How to reframe the feeling we're broken — featuring Awaken's Sophie Frabotta

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Why work-life balance is a myth for working parents — featuring LUMO's Sarah Olin

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How we can release trauma in the body — featuring Sharon LaFlamme

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How betrayal trauma affects our relationships — with relationship coach Mr. Jay

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How leaders' limiting beliefs affect organizations' teams and bottom lines — featuring leadership consultant Michele Molitor

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How childhood trauma plays out in our adult lives — featuring coach Riana Milne

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The negative stereotypes that hold back men and boys — featuring Jack Kammer

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How to transform your self-limiting stories so you can live authentically and achieve your full potential — featuring Crown Yourself's Kimberly Spencer

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How Asian-American leaders can resolve conflict — featuring leadership coach Jerry Fu

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How we can ascend Maslow's hierarchy of needs — with leadership coach Carissa Karban

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How to get out of a scarcity mindset — featuring leadership coach Carissa Karban

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Why we are not our thoughts — featuring leadership coach Carissa Karban

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How we can stand in our power with work — featuring Rose Kaz

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How one songwriter navigated sexism in the music industry

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What might happen when we continue to put profit over people — featuring author Barry Welsh

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How to reduce anxiety and stress using the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) — featuring Dr. Katie Nall

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How we can go from stuck to inspired — featuring healer Kristine Ovsepian

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What we need for emotional safety — and how we can provide it — featuring Doug Noll

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How a former liquor store employee is healing from abuse at work

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How we can use mindfulness to focus on OUR goals — featuring coach Christian Straka

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How to feel un-stuck at work — featuring career coach Lindsay Gordon

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How women can break free of the limitations of patriarchal conditioning — featuring coach Marcia Mariner

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How to live in the present moment as an act of self-care — featuring author Billy Mandarino

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How to go from external expectation and validation hostage to resilient self-leader — featuring life coach Kamini Wood

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What history shows us about standing up to abuse of power — featuring former attorney Mark M. Bello, known for suing the Roman Catholic Church for sexual abuse by clergy

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How mobbing differs from bullying — and what to do about it — featuring author Janice Harper

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How effective sexual harassment law has been at disrupting the status quo

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What we can learn from the evolution of sexual harassment law to address the power structures that benefit white men

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How a Kroger manager allegedly bullied employee Evan Seyfried to suicide

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How "yes" people enable serial abusers — part of the workplace abuse playbook

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A federal whistleblower from the U.S. Border Patrol reveals what it's like to expose corruption

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Former NFL cheerleader Lacy Fields reveals what it was like to go up against the NFL

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How female minority nurses described their work cultures in hospitals

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How to shift your mindset so you can put your values first

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How employers in health care management funneled sexism through bullying

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38 targets of workplace abuse share their stories and insights with legislators to demand change

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Why training isn't the ultimate solution to mistreatment and diversity problems

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How far behind the U.S. is when it comes to legislating workplace abuse

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My 3 big takeaways about how to approach work and life from a high school graduation

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How to cope with — and feel valued in — an oppressive culture

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The top 3 reasons to virtually testify in support of workplace anti-abuse legislation

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Opinion: I worry about the ability to inspire with demands for in-person work

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Hazing: one major sign of a toxic workplace or industry

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4 red flags of bullying at work to look out for

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Will Hollywood producer Scott Rudin finally be held accountable for his abusive behavior?

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Get support with healing from workplace abuse at the Re-Define Virtual Summit

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Learn how to navigate workplace abuse at day 1 of the Re-Define Virtual Summit

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How 13 junior financial analysts exposed abuse at Goldman Sachs — and the debate that followed

93

We can give unions more power to fight for us through the PRO Act. But will we?

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Should we expect a rise in workplace bullying as more workers get the COVID vaccine?

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How to introduce workplace anti-abuse legislation — the Dignity At Work Act — in your state

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Why and how we can pass workplace anti-abuse legislation, the Dignity At Work Act

97

The truth behind healthcare violence — and how we can stop it

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15 workers' rights worth fighting for across the country

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5 ways the film The Assistant shows how abuse at work stays hidden

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The 1970s Boston women's movement that inspired the hit film 9 to 5

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My top 3 signs of a toxic work culture

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3 textbook workplace abuse aspects of the Anita Hill story

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Three common limiting beliefs after workplace bullying

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How workplace abuse can trigger childhood trauma

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How Planned Parenthood and Twitch recently tackled workplace abuse

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Are Hollywood and the medical industry finally addressing the elephant in the room?

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The why and how of the Dignity At Work Act

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How three recent stories of workplace bullying follow the playbook

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How to know if you're bullied at work — and what to expect in the aftermath

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3 major abuse tactics we've seen around this week's election

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The top ten things that suck the most about workplace abuse recovery

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There's one group most like to get bullied at work

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How to craft your workplace bullying story

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How to move out of victim, rescuer, or bully mode

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What you can do for National Bullying Prevention Month

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3 major ways to advocate for social change when it comes to workplace bullying

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What justice looks like for targets of workplace bullying

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How to have a healthy mindset

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When blame can help you heal from workplace bullying

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8 major signs a toxic boss is subtly trying to destroy your life

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8 ways we can disrupt the social hierarchies at work

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How three Black employees fared after reporting discrimination at work

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After her boss put her life in danger with zero accountability, why has this Black female police officer been fighting for a decade? Part 2

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After her boss put her life in danger with zero accountability, why has this Black female police officer been fighting for a decade? Part 1

125

The stereotypes that keep most of us out of power at work

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What it means to take radical responsibility for our lives after abuse at work

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What justice looks like for those whose abuse falls under illegal discrimination

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How to take control of your career — and your life

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How to prevent nastiness from affecting you

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Discrimination happens — just not here

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How Daniel Stone fought abuse of power at Dollar General amid COVID-19

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How those in power use "othering" to retain power in our hierarchical system

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How to voice what's right to turn anger into action — while taking your power back and healing

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What self-care is truly all about (probably not what you think)

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The thinking behind the Dignity At Work Act, aimed to give workers protections from abuse at work

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We're all in this together? Doesn't look like Amazon is

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How COVID-19 exposes workplace abuse

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Owning our power to question the world and create our realities

139

What at-will employment is — and how banning it would drastically help workers

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Ending bullying starts with our kids

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What the COVID-19 pandemic shows about workers' rights we need — and have needed all along

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How employers have major legal advantages

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Secrets companies won't tell you about your fate

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How race influences obtaining a lawyer in a discrimination case

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How one target of workplace abuse went from rock bottom to living in her power

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How to detach from the emotions around workplace abuse

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How conflict escalates after an employee reports discrimination

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How Survivor shows our bias and re-creates hierarchies

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7 ways the legal system upholds discrimination

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How to un-learn limiting beliefs about ourselves

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How non-disclosure agreements harm targets of workplace abuse — and what we can do about it

152

How a good old boys' club managed out a state worker for asking for fair compensation

153

Top 5 ways the film Bombshell showed textbook workplace abuse

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Why screw the hierarchy?