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 carrying out of summer are not evidence of a discipline problem.

Drawing directly on last week's conversation about the economy capitalism built on uncounted labor, Nikki names what actually happened to your time, energy, and capacity between June and August and hands you a concrete assignment to change it before the school year starts and the new routine starts wrecking havoc.

In this episode you'll learn:

• Why summer is not the break it's marketed as

• Why the self-blame you're carrying out of summer is a predictable product of the erasure, not a reflection of what actually happened

• The difference between a discipline failure and a labor reallocation

• A two-part assignment to complete before the first school bell rings — because the next two weeks are the single best negotiation window of the entire year, and almost nobody treats them that way

Mentioned in this episode:

• Episode 87: Community Is an Economy. TAP HERE to hear the breakdown that makes this week's episode hit even harder.

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

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Next episode: Back to School, Back to Unpaid Work