Make Your Damn Bed

Julie Merica
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  • Self-Improvement
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@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life. Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed - so you can start making it! Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for general information purposes only. This content is presented on an "as-is" basis. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 13h ago

    1887 || bossware: is your company spying on you 24/7?

    According to Ronan Farrow, over 70% of employers use some form of digital monitoring. They rank you against your coworkers and flag you if they deem you as unproductive. They track your locations even when you’re off of work. They are constantly sharing your data with third parties. They analyze your voice and facial expressions to build a behavioral profile and flag you as “employable” based on your f*****g voice. It flags if your mood changes. CVS, McDonald’s, Amazon, etc. all use this tech. But so do major hospitals and police departments. This data is being collected in malicious ways and in ways that would surprise you. They track your menstrual cycle. They track your voting habits. They track every single little thing. And they are never using it to give you a raise or offer you a more enjoyable job. They only use this data to blackmail you into more work, or to fire you completely because they flag you as incompatible with the company culture. So what do we do? Never cross streams. Keep personal devices separate from work devices. Never assume your company laptop isn’t watching the f**k out of you even when it’s off. Even if your phone is turned off, they’re tracking you. Use a VPN. Treat any company device as if the camera and microphone are always on. Never install a company app on your personal phone. Keep your own log of all of your accomplishments at work, even the small ones. And check your state laws. If your state requires your employer to disclose monitoring, see what your company reveals in the employee handbook. Talk to your union, if you’re in one. Your data is being used against you to keep you productive but this is a form of coercive control. You have to give up your privacy or you give up your ability to make a living. It’s our jobs to push back NOW, while we still can. Fight for transparency. Knowing is half the battle. The sources: More Perfect Union's expose on spyware at work. Ronan Farrow's "Bossware" video https://slack.green/en/blog/what-is-bosswarehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_monitoring_software Other important stuff: Support the BDS movement. organize clothing swaps with your friends. Get free resources from Annas Archive. Join your local DSA Become a READING PARTNER Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK. Info on War Tax Resistance. Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  2. 2d ago

    1886 || avarice (the greed is limitless)

    "Every product is a bait with which to seduce away the other’s very being, his money; every real and possible need is a weakness which will lead the fly to the glue-pot." - Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 The Sources:Marx's writing: Human Requirements and Division of Labour Under the Rule of Private Property Marx's Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJV6Fl3E56c&t=322s Other important stuff: Support the BDS movement. organize clothing swaps with your friends. Get free resources from Annas Archive. Join your local DSA Become a READING PARTNER Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK. Info on War Tax Resistance. Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  3. 3d ago

    another argument against billionaires

    Today is a re-release of an old episode, I'll be back Monday with the follow up to the Karl Marx series. The inequality crisis is obscene and violent. You cannot be an ethical billionaire. It's time we stop supporting them, in any way we can. Support the BDS movement. organize clothing swaps with your friends. Get free resources from Annas Archive. Join your local DSA Become a READING PARTNER Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK. Info on War Tax Resistance. Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  4. 4d ago

    the case against billionaires

    Today is a re-release of an old episode, I'll be back Monday with the follow up to the Karl Marx series. The inequality crisis is obscene and violent. You cannot be an ethical billionaire. It's time we stop supporting them, in any way we can. Support the BDS movement. organize clothing swaps with your friends. Get free resources from Annas Archive. Join your local DSA Become a READING PARTNER Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK. Info on War Tax Resistance. Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  5. 5d ago

    1885 || money reduces everything to a need for more money

    "Every product is a bait with which to seduce away the other’s very being, his money; every real and possible need is a weakness which will lead the fly to the glue-pot." - Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 "The need for money is therefore the true need produced by the economic system, and it is the only need which the latter produces. The quantity of money becomes to an ever greater degree its sole effective quality. Just as it reduces everything to its abstract form, so it reduces itself in the course of its own movement to quantitative being. Excess and intemperance come to be its true norm." - Karl Marx, Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Machinery is used by capitalists, not to lighten human toil, but to extract more surplus-value, intensify the pace of work, lengthen the work day. The Sources:Marx's writing: Human Requirements and Division of Labour Under the Rule of Private Property Marx's Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJV6Fl3E56c&t=322s Other important stuff: Support the BDS movement. organize clothing swaps with your friends. Get free resources from Annas Archive. Join your local DSA Become a READING PARTNER Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK. Info on War Tax Resistance. Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  6. 6d ago

    1884 || Karoshi

    We’ve been strategically stripped of our ability to relax, which has taken away our ability to create, and most of us have completely forgotten how to have fun and goof off and play. Without our ability to relax, create, and play, we lose our ability to simply exist. There’s always so much to do, so many moving parts to keep spinning. And if I’m lucky enough to get a second to breathe, there’s absolutely no way I have the capacity to do anything else with it but dissociate or nap or cry or stare blankly at a wall or a screen until the next thing demands my attention. All work and no play means chronic stress, sleep deprivation, long hours, endless grinding, and bleak visions for the future. Reforms aimed at promoting work-life balance, limiting overtime hours, and ensuring adequate rest can work. The Sources: Marx's writing: Human Requirements and Division of Labour Under the Rule of Private Property PubMed: Unveiling the Global Surge: Unraveling the Factors Fueling the Spread of Karoshi Syndrome YouTube: Will We All Work Until We Die? Forbes: Micro-retirement Forbes: Karoshi Article: Negotiating a 4 day workweek Other cool stuff: Support the BDS movement. organize clothing swaps with your friends. Get free resources from Annas Archive. Join your local DSA Become a READING PARTNER Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK. Info on War Tax Resistance. Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  7. Oct 21

    1883 || addiction vs expansion

    The addict has found the right door but is using the wrong key. Research: People hate to think Reading: Jung on addiction Article: How to Stop Phone Addiction Video: 7 Science-Based Ways to Beat Phone Addiction Support the BDS movement. organize clothing swaps with your friends. Get free resources from Annas Archive. Join your local DSA Become a READING PARTNER Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK. Info on War Tax Resistance. Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  8. Oct 20

    1882 || your focus is a commodity

    You are born worthy, and you are worthy now. No matter how productive you are, you are still inherently valuable. It's time we designed a system that reflected that reality. map out community run networks: food + skill sharing, tool libraries, mutual aid. create a borrowing/lending economy within your community: sharing is caring. reclaim your time from the attention economy: create intentional friction. stop commodifying your attention: starve the algorithm, add physical and mental friction to break the habit of constant scrolling. Article: How to Stop Phone Addiction Video: 7 Science-Based Ways to Beat Phone Addiction Support the BDS movement. organize clothing swaps with your friends. Get free resources from Annas Archive. Join your local DSA Become a READING PARTNER Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK. Info on War Tax Resistance. Donate to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and the Sudan Relief Fund The opinions expressed by Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast are intended for entertainment purposes only. Make Your Damn Bed podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Read Julie's Medium Blog. Support JULIE (and the show!) Support + get some bonus stuff over on PATREON. Get an occasional personal email from me: www.makeyourdamnbedpodcast.com Tune in on INSTAGRAM AND YOUTUBE or TIKTOK Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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@MYDBpodcast is a bite sized, real talk, daily motivation podcast to play while you make your bed every morning. Build momentum - better your life. Each episode is around 10 minutes and intended to encourage, motivate, and inspire you to get out of bed - so you can start making it! Julie Merica and Make Your Damn Bed Podcast is not intended or implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. All content, including text, graphics, images and information, is for general information purposes only. This content is presented on an "as-is" basis. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/make-your-damn-bed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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  • Creator
    Julie Merica
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    1.9K
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
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  • Show Website
    Make Your Damn Bed

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