Interrupting Business As Usual

Everyone's Saying the Economy Is Too Uncertain to Start Something. Here's Why They Have It Backwards. If you've been waiting for the economy to stabilize before you get your offer together, this episode is going to show you why that the economy you're waiting to recover from presents the best opportunity. In this episode, Nikki brings the receipts — real data on wage stagnation, layoffs, and purch...

If selling makes you feel manipulative, coercive, or like you're doing something to people instead of for them, this episode is the medicine. And it's not a mindset hack. It's a completely different understanding of what selling actually is and a simple 3-step way to get the ick out. In this milestone 100th episode, Nikki traces the grossness back to its actual source and offers two frames that ch...

If your business is technically working — people are paying you, you're delivering, the cycle continues — but something about it feels hollow, exhausting, or like you're constantly starting over, this episode is going to tell you why. And it has nothing to do with your offer or your marketing. In this episode, Nikki makes the case that the transactional model — the default operating system of capi...

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 how manifestation culture infected a legitimate marketing tool Why the dream client framework strips r...

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 to tell you exactly why. And you'll leave knowing what to do instead. In this episode, Nikki makes the...

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 New Age industry packaged and sold as spirituality, energy work, and manifestation has African and Afric...

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 and what the two missing ingredients are to prevent burnout relapse The gentrification and commodificat...

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 exactly what it is and how to resolve it. In this episode, Nikki makes her most personal and political argume...

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 feel like it is running on something you don't actually believe in? This episode is going to tell you...

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. In this episode, Nikk names the September Scam for exactly what it is: hustle culture's second new year,...

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 come to work with her: that most of what gets called work in the online business space is a sophisticate...

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 the calendar has never been your deadline, the hours were never the variable that mattered, and the 4 mo...

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 rings. And surprise, surprise, it's not a break from the summer job of around the clock parenting and...

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 carrying out of summer are not evidence of a discipline problem. Drawing directly on last week's convers...

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. The economy you've been trying to succeed inside of was built on a theft and the discomfort you feel ab...

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 picture entirely. In the Hot Community Summer finale, Nikki breaks down what building together actuall...

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 community spaces won't: that the dysfunction you keep encountering isn't random, isn't your fault, and isn...

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 isolation is not a personal failure, a pandemic side effect, or a social media problem. Drawing on the his...

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 was designed that way to keep us disconnected and disempowered. This episode lays out what it actually...

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 caretakers experience but rarely have language for. Pulling from matrescence research, scarcity science...

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 want wealth as a woman whose labor holds entire families and communities together. This is the brass tacks...

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 episode examines the ways Black women's labor has always been treated as essential while simultaneously...

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 Business As Usual , Nikki unpacks the hidden economic reality beneath modern motherhood, caregiving, e...

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 colonialism and capitalism to the myth of "single motherhood," this conversation explores how hyper-independ...

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 sits down with educator, author, and healing justice practitioner Myisha T. Hill for a profound conversati...