Screw the Hierarchy

Screw the Hierarchy

Hosted by: Deb Falzoi

The podcast about the social hierarchies that keep white men in power positions at work, most of the rest of us out of them, and what we can do about it. You feel robbed of your dignity, treading water from the...

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

Episode #105

Research shows that ALL of us have experienced childhood trauma. But how does it show up for us later in life? In this episode, Global Life & Love Coach Riana Milne shares her top 10 Traumas from the Childhood...
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The negative stereotypes that hold back men and boys — featuring Jack Kammer

Episode #104

While white men hold the majority of power positions in the U.S. workforce, most white men do not. The result: resentment from the unfairness and pent up emotions from our culture's negative stereotype of men and boys...
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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

Episode #103

The stories we tell ourselves can hold us back. If we define ourselves according to how others defined us in childhood, for example, there's an opportunity to un-learn those beliefs that hold us back. In this episode,...
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How Asian-American leaders can resolve conflict — featuring leadership coach Jerry Fu

Episode #102

Our ability to resolve conflict can be influenced by our cultural upbringing, including our modeling of having difficult conversations or asserting our needs. In this episode, leadership coach Jerry Fu shares his...
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How we can ascend Maslow's hierarchy of needs — with leadership coach Carissa Karban

Episode #101

What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and how can we ascend it to self-actualize? How did the pandemic bring so many of us back to the bottom of the pyramid? In this episode, leadership coach Carissa Karban shares how...
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How to get out of a scarcity mindset — featuring leadership coach Carissa Karban

Episode #100

Thinking in binary terms can keep us in a scarcity mindset. So what's one simple change we can make to move to a mindset of abundance? In this episode, leadership coach Carissa Karban shares what she calls the most...
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Why we are not our thoughts — featuring leadership coach Carissa Karban

Episode #99

The stories in our heads have impact. Thoughts lead to beliefs, and beliefs lead to action. So how do we choose the stories we tell ourselves so we can change our beliefs? In this episode, leadership coach Carissa...
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How we can stand in our power with work — featuring Rose Kaz

Episode #98

Rose Kaz set out to build is a community of women who flip the script on how we do business, sharing the wealth of knowledge and resources to shift old paradigms. The result: the LBI Backstage Pass, a community with...
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How one songwriter navigated sexism in the music industry

Episode #97

Songwriter Ellen Violette aspired to write music. But what she encountered was an industry full of sexist behaviors. In this episode, Ellen reveals how she coped with that music industry that didn't value her...
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What might happen when we continue to put profit over people — featuring author Barry Welsh

Episode #96

Inspired by real events, author Barry Welsh takes readers on a journey through what could happen when greed continues to go unchecked. In his book AMERICA: Land of the Greed and Home of the Grave, the first of a...
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How to reduce anxiety and stress using the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) — featuring Dr. Katie Nall

Episode #95

When former math teacher Dr. Katie Nall saw how much anxiety her students had from taking math tests, she took action. She showed her students how to dissolve WAFFLES (worries, anxiety, fear, frustration, lethargy,...
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How we can go from stuck to inspired — featuring healer Kristine Ovsepian

Episode #94

After the trauma of abuse at work, we often feel stuck. The exhaustion can feel overwhelming and debilitating. The anxiety is a feeling healer Kristine Ovsepian is familiar with. After her own journey of feeling empty...
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