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 about pricing, compensation, and care-based work isn't a sign that you're "bad at business" or are doomed to a life of poverty because you don't have an abundance mindset.

It's just evidence that you remember something the system needs you to forget.

By asking who decided what counts as work and what doesn't, Nikki reframes community, not as the opposite of business, but as the original business model and breaks down what it actually looks like to reunite care and commerce in your one life.

In this episode you'll learn:

  • The accounting trick that built capitalism's entire margin and who's been subsidizing it

  • Why your relational labor keeps leaving your business for free, and what that's actually costing you

  • What the informal economies of Black and Indigenous communities reveal about what "the economy" was always supposed to be

  • What changes when you understand community as the original business model

Mentioned in this episode:

  • Episode 86: From Surviving Alone to Building Together (listen first because this episode picks up where that one left off. TAP HERE to tune in.)

Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Business As Usual.⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣

Where do we go from here?

  • To learn more about what you heard on the podcast today, visit nikkiblak.com.

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Work With Me

If this episode found the place where your values and your money have been at war, applications for 1:1 coaching are open.

Through an intersectional feminist lens, Nikki helps women and femmes examine the systems shaping their lives, relationships, work, money, ambition, caregiving, and self-worth so they can build lives rooted in liberation, not extraction.

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