The Not Viable Project

Shannon

The Not Viable Project is a raw feminist podcast about surviving systems that silence women. From workplace trauma to invisible scars, we speak rage, truth, and resilience. When the world calls us too much, we call it out—loud.

  1. 08/06/2025

    The Rage of Man (Part 3 of 3): Self-Destruction: How Male Rage Harms Men

    "From suicides and mass incarceration to emotional isolation and early death—this episode is about the self-destruction at the heart of toxic masculinity. It’s about the boys who were never allowed to cry, who grew up into men who don’t know how to speak… until it’s too late. And it's about the world that tells them suffering in silence is strength, while it quietly digs their graves. This isn’t just about rage.  It’s about the cost of pretending you’re not human.  And the revolution that begins… when men stop pretending." Send a text

    40 min

  2. 07/30/2025

    The Rage of Man (Part 2 of 3): The Fallout

    "This is Part 2 of our series on the Rage of Man: The Lie of Strength and the Price We All Pay. Last episode, we tore the mask off male rage—showing how society grooms men to suppress everything except anger. How the myth of the invulnerable man creates a pressure cooker of shame, loneliness, and violence. How patriarchal conditioning turns vulnerability into a threat, and emotional suppression into a weapon. But tonight… we’re going deeper. Because male rage doesn’t just harm women. It doesn’t just wound families. It doesn’t just destabilise entire communities. It’s killing men too." Send a text

    20 min

  3. 07/26/2025

    The Rage of Man (Part 1 of 3): Toxic Masculinity and Male Rage

    "Toxic Masculinity and Male Rage"  "What if I told you that the angriest man in the room might actually be the most hurt? What if I told you that the rage we see in men – the shouting, the slammed doors, the silent fuming – often hides years of pain and fear, locked behind a wall of forced stoicism? We live in a world that teaches boys to bury their feelings. “Big boys don’t cry,” we say. Vulnerability is treated as weakness, until all that’s left for many men is anger – the one emotion society hasn’t forbidden them." Send a text

    20 min

  4. 07/10/2025

    INTRO into The Project: The Truth About Being ‘Too Emotional’

    Have you ever been told you’re too emotional? That your feelings are too intense, too disruptive, too much? In this powerful debut episode of The Not Viable Project, host Shannon explores the real meaning behind the phrase that has been used to silence women for generations. Drawing from personal experience, feminist theory, psychology, and raw statistics, reveals how the label “too emotional” is less about feelings—and more about control. From workplace gaslighting and emotional suppression to the epidemic of gender-based violence, this episode examines how society weaponises emotional language to shame women, dismiss truth, and uphold power. If you’ve ever cried in the bathroom, been called dramatic, or told to calm down when all you were doing was surviving—this episode will speak directly to your fire. Send a text

    9 min
  5. "When Mourning Becomes a Crime"

    06/11/2025

    "When Mourning Becomes a Crime"

    "What if I told you that your uterus is now a crime scene? That the blood between your thighs could trigger a police investigation? That in the eyes of the state, your miscarriage isn’t a tragedy—it’s a homicide? What if I told you… that grieving the loss of your baby could land you in a prison cell longer than the person who killed my baby boy? This is not a horror story. It’s not fiction.  It’s policy. It’s precedent. It’s punishment wrapped in the language of “protection.” And it’s spreading.  From El Salvador to Texas. From Victorian asylums to your period tracking app. We were told we were too emotional. So they locked us in institutions. We were told we were too sexual. So they outlawed our pleasure, our contraception, our choice. And now? Now they’re coming for our grief. If you’ve ever lost a pregnancy like I did, this episode may break you down.  But I promise you—it will make you fierce. Because mourning is not a crime.  But criminalising women absolutely is. Welcome to We Are The Reckoning. And today—we’re burning the whole damn script." Send a text

    33 min
  6. "The Psychology of Blame: How History Trains Us to Punish Women for Surviving"

    06/04/2025

    "The Psychology of Blame: How History Trains Us to Punish Women for Surviving"

    "What if I told you…  That blaming the victim isn’t just ignorance—it’s a design.  What if I told you that for centuries, we haven’t just failed to protect women…  We’ve trained entire societies to blame them.  That in courtrooms, in headlines, in whispered conversations—  We are reenacting witch trials with better lighting.  And the only thing that’s changed…  is the costume. This episode is raw. It’s researched. It’s real.  Because if we want to dismantle injustice, we have to understand how it survives.  And the truth is: blame isn’t just a feeling.  It’s a weapon.  And it has always been aimed at women." Send a text

    28 min
  7. "The Fear of Reality: How Victim Blaming Kills Community"

    06/02/2025

    "The Fear of Reality: How Victim Blaming Kills Community"

    "What if I told you…  The real danger isn’t the violence—it’s what comes after.  It’s the silence.  The side-eyes.  The friends who vanish.  The family who turns cold.  The whispers of “she should’ve known better.”  What if I told you that every time someone says that, a piece of our humanity dies? This episode isn’t comfortable.  It’s not easy.  But it will change the way you see everything. Because victim blaming doesn’t just silence survivors—it destroys communities. And sometimes, it destroys the very people we claim to love. I know that because it happened to me. When my son was murdered, my best friend’s mother crossed the street to avoid me.  My best friend—she didn’t come to the funeral.  Years later, after having children of her own, she finally apologised. But the damage was already done. Or when I was drugged, beaten, and raped—after years of clawing my way back to life, to connection, to trust—the new friends I made questioned whether it happened.  One friend, sat with a thinking face on and looked up at me looking me right in the eyes and said, “You know what Shannon, I believe you” even if it does sound like a movie As if reality couldn’t be that cruel. As if his conviction was a fluke—not because of what he did to me, but because he must’ve hurt someone else. Someone not connected to them. I’m not friends with any of them now.  And here I am, still standing. Not because it didn’t break me. But because I refused to let their fear define me. I refused to shrink into the shadows So today, we’re going to talk about fear.  Not just the kind that comes with footsteps behind you or a locked door rattling—  But the kind that creeps into our institutions, our relationships, and our responses to trauma.  We’re going to talk about the way fear warps truth.  How it teaches people to protect themselves with cruelty.  How it turns communities against their own. And how we—you and I—can burn that lie to the f*****g ground. This is We Are The Reckoning. And today, we drag fear into the light." Send a text

    20 min
  8. "How the Language of 'For the People' is Leading Western Societies into a New Form of Dictatorship"

    05/14/2025

    "How the Language of 'For the People' is Leading Western Societies into a New Form of Dictatorship"

    "What if I told you the greatest threat to democracy isn’t a dictator in uniform — It’s a movement that claims to be “for the people.” That freedom isn’t being stolen with guns — It’s being rewritten with buzzwords like “equity,” “safety,” and “inclusion.” That the West isn’t resisting tyranny — It’s becoming it. Because authoritarianism doesn’t always march in jackboots anymore.  Now, it whispers in university halls.  It smiles from behind media desks.  It hides behind hashtags and human rights slogans.  It tells you censorship is compassion.  That silence is safety.  That questioning is hate. And if you think we’re immune — you haven’t been paying attention. In this episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on the most dangerous lie of our time:  That authoritarianism today wears a progressive mask.  From Lenin to Bukele, from the Taliban to Twitter, from cult leaders to corporate executives — the tactics haven’t changed.  Only the branding has. Welcome to the new dictatorship — wrapped in a flag, filtered through AI, and sold as virtue." Send a text

    31 min
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The Not Viable Project is a raw feminist podcast about surviving systems that silence women. From workplace trauma to invisible scars, we speak rage, truth, and resilience. When the world calls us too much, we call it out—loud.

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    Shannon
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