Interrupting Business As Usual

Nikki Blak
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Interrupting Business as Usual is the weekly resource for folks who've awakened to oppression, injustice, and the b******t of the status quo and are looking for ways to live, work, parent, build, and lead in more subversive, disruptive, and liberated ways. We talk life, business, purpose, and liberation — for the newly aware and long-time interrupters alike. If you're ready to rise to your next level, as the most liberated version of yourself, you're in the right place. Let's interrupt business as usual.

  1. 3d ago

    Ep 92: The September Scam: Hustle Culture's Second New Year

    Every fall, right when you're most depleted, an entire industry shows up with a very specific pitch: new planner, new system, fresh start energy, this time it'll be different. This episode is here to tell you what that pitch is actually doing and what to listen for before you fall for it again. In this episode, Nikk names the September Scam for exactly what it is: hustle culture's second new year, arriving on schedule every fall to sell you motion right when what you actually need is direction. Drawing on her four P's problem-solving framework and the precision-over-volume argument from last week, she breaks down why the real damage of the September Scam isn't the money you spend on the planner — and what a non-scammy September actually looks like. In this episode you'll learn: The two things hustle culture needs you to believe simultaneously — and why your awareness of them is your best protection The four P's framework Nikki teaches her private clients for solving any problem without defaulting to a purchase Why fresh starts are a feeling, not a strategy and what to do instead What two or three decisions inside your actual net capacity beats every quarterly reset on the market Mentioned in this episode: Episode 90: It's Not Too Late — Twice the Results in Half the Time (the foundation this episode builds on) Episode 88: You Didn't Fall Behind This Summer and Back to School. Episode 89: Back to School, Back to Unpaid Work Where do we go from here? To learn more about what you heard on the podcast today, visit nikkiblak.com. TAP HERE to subscribe to the free weekly email series Resourcing a Revolution for more deep dives and tools to help you do more than survive, delivered right to your email inbox. Follow me on IG: @nikkiblak Work With Nikki If the question "what actually drives my revenue" or "what even is my offer" doesn't have a clean answer yet, the application for Intersectional Feminist Life + Anti-Capitalist Business Coaching is open and ready for you to apply. TAP HERE to submit your application today. Next episode: Why Girlboss Feminism Failed

  2. Aug 23

    Ep 91: Why Your Business Isn't Growing, Even Though You're Doing Everything

    You post consistently. You built the freebie. You send the emails, show up on the platforms, follow every piece of advice you've ever been given and your revenue still doesn't reflect the effort. In this episode, Nikki calls out the pattern she watches play out constantly with entrepreneurs who come to work with her: that most of what gets called work in the online business space is a sophisticated way of avoiding the one question that would actually grow the business. Drawing on her background as a social media strategist and the HELP framework she teaches inside her 1:1 container, Nikki walks you through a diagnostic that starts at the foundation, not the content calendar. In this episode you'll learn: The difference between motion and movement and why production feels like progress even when it isn't producing anything The thing online business owners have been seduced into thinking they are and how it derails them from showing up online in a way that actually grows their business The diagnostic you need to run your current offer through before you create one more piece of anything What actually drives revenue in your business and how to find out if that's where your hours are actually going Why you don't need to create another freebie or lead magnet and what to do instead Other ways, besides revenue, to know if your business is growing or stuck. Mentioned in this episode: TAP HERE to listen to The Bite Size Business private podcast for free. 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. TAP HERE to subscribe to the free weekly email series Resourcing a Revolution for more deep dives and tools to help you do more than survive, delivered right to your email inbox. Follow Nikki on IG: @nikkiblak Work With Nikki If the foundation of your business needs to be repaired before you produce one more thing, the application for Intersectional Feminist Life + Anti-Capitalist Business Coaching is 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. TAP HERE to apply. Next episode: The September Scam: Hustle Culture's Second New Year

  3. Aug 16

    Ep 90: It's Not Too Late: Twice the Results in Half the Time

    It's the middle of August and a very quiet, very convincing voice in the back of your mind has started doing the math on your year and concluding that whatever you wanted in 2026, it's too late to get it now. This episode is here to silence that voice. In this episode, Nikki makes the case that the calendar has never been your deadline, the hours were never the variable that mattered, and the 4 months sitting in front of you right now are not the leftovers of the year — they're the perfect sized container. Drawing on 4-day workweek research conducted across six countries, her own podcast growth story, and the results her clients produce inside small, decisive windows, Nikki breaks down why precision and decisiveness outperform volume every single time, and what it actually looks like to use what's left of this year instead of filing it under "didn't happen." In this episode you'll learn: Why "it's too late" is a lie built on a formula that was never actually true What results are actually made of and why it's not hours How to think in three windows instead of one, and why most goals aren't as big as you've been treating them What the largest 4-day workweek study ever conducted says about volume, precision, and output The one thing you need to do to conserve energy instead of spending it and why this approach is perfect for the most exhausted folks Mentioned in this episode: Episode 4: Interrupting Quitters Day. TAP HERE to listen. Episode 5: How to Reignite Your Resolution. TAP HERE to listen. Episode 22: Manifestation from Personal Growth to Collective Liberation. TAP HERE to listen. Episode 23: Manifestation and Money: Tools for Collective Liberation. TAP HERE to listen. 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. TAP HERE to subscribe to the free weekly email series Resourcing a Revolution for more deep dives and tools to help you do more than survive, delivered right to your email inbox. Follow Nikki on IG: @nikkiblak Work With Nikki If you want help finding your two or three decisions inside a container built to protect and them and produce results, the application for Intersectional Feminist Life + Anti-Capitalist Business Coaching is 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. TAP HERE to apply. Next episode: Episode 91: Why your business isn't growing even though you're doing everything right

  4. Aug 9

    Ep 89: Back to School, Back to Unpaid Work

    Why Your Fall Plans Keep Falling Apart by November Someone is about to tell you that school starting means you're getting your time back. This episode is for what you're actually about to get if you don't do something different. In this episode, Nikki names what really happens when the first bell rings. And surprise, surprise, it's not a break from the summer job of around the clock parenting and caregiving, but a shift change into a different type of life management. Drawing on the last three weeks of conversation about uncounted labor and the economy capitalism built on the backs of mothers and caregivers, Nikki breaks down the specific machinery of the school year job, why it keeps derailing your business and career goals every fall, and what to do about it right now, before the pattern sets in for another nine months. In this episode you'll learn: What the school system actually assumes about your availability — and what it costs you when those assumptions go unnamed Why setting fall goals based on the hours you appear to have is how November's self-blame gets pre-heated in August A 3-step process for putting the school year job on the books and managing it like you mean business The difference between chosen involvement and default absorption — and how to know which one you're doing What Nikki actually believe about how many hours entrepreneurs should be working each week and why small capacity is a design constraint, not a death sentence Mentioned in this episode: Episode 88: You Didn't Fall Behind This Summer. You Were Working. TAP HERE to listen. Bring your labor audit from that episode, it's the foundation for everything here. 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. TAP HERE to subscribe to the free weekly email series Resourcing a Revolution for more deep dives and tools to help you do more than survive, delivered right to your email inbox. Follow Nikki on IG: @nikkiblak Work With Me If you're heading into this fall determined that your business will not be the thing that gets sacrificed to the school year again, the application for Intersectional Feminist Life + Anti-Capitalist Business Coaching is 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. TAP HERE to apply. Next episode: It's Not Too Late: Twice the Results in Half the Time

  5. Aug 2

    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.⁣⁣⁣⁣ ⁣ Where do we go from here? To learn more about what you heard on the podcast today, visit nikkiblak.com. TAP HERE to subscribe to the free weekly email series Resourcing a Revolution for more deep dives and tools to help you do more than survive, delivered right to your email inbox. Follow Nikki on IG: @nikkiblak Work With Nikki If this episode found the place where your values, nervous system, and schedule 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. TAP HERE to apply. Next episode: Back to School, Back to Unpaid Work

  6. Jul 26

    Ep 87: Community Is an Economy: The Business Model Capitalism Stole From Us

    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. TAP HERE to subscribe to the free weekly email series Resourcing a Revolution for more deep dives and tools to help you do more than survive, delivered right to your email inbox. Follow Nikki on IG: @nikkiblak 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. TAP HERE to apply. Next episode: You Didn't Fall Behind This Summer. You Were Working

  7. Jul 19

    Ep 86: From Surviving Alone to Building Together: What Collective Action Actually Looks Like

    You know that collective action is the key to radical socio-political change and you want to participate, but every picture you have of it involves a megaphone, a march, or a church basement meeting that requires a babysitter and a free evening you don't have. This episode is here to replace that picture entirely. In the Hot Community Summer finale, Nikki breaks down what building together actually looks like from the most ordinary, front-porch level all the way up to the structures that change legislation and material conditions. In this episode you'll learn: Why the picture of collective action in your head is not just slightly wrong — it's completely wrong, and that's by design What collective action looks like on a spectrum Why what the Black Panthers actually spent their days doing is the most important organizing lesson you've probably been sleeping on The difference between friendship and community What an actual entry point into collective action looks like (it's more embarrassingly ordinary than you think) 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. TAP HERE to subscribe to the free weekly email series Resourcing a Revolution for more deep dives and tools to help yuo do more than just survive, delivered right to your email inbox. Follow Nikki on IG: @nikkiblak Work With Me If this conversation challenged the way you think about community and your place in it, 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. TAP HERE to apply. Next episode: A whole new conversation begins — why the most essential economic system in your life has been hiding in plain sight, who benefits from calling it "not real work", and what it means for how you earn, spend, and build. Resource: Finding Your People: From Sociopolitical Isolation to Collective Action — a mini-course for anyone ready to move from disconnection to collective action. TAP HERE to get it.

  8. Jul 12

    Ep 85: The Counterfeit Community Scam: Why Finding Your People Feels So Hard

    You've tried community. You've shown up for it, invested in it, maybe even built your identity around it — and it still ended up feeling like the thing you were trying to escape. This episode is going to tell you exactly why, and it's not what you think. In this episode, Nikki names what most community spaces won't: that the dysfunction you keep encountering isn't random, isn't your fault, and isn't a reflection of what community can actually be. She breaks down the sixteen behaviors that follow people into every community space — activist circles, churches, workplaces, neighborhood groups — and explains why spaces that claim to be about liberation keep producing the same dynamics of harm. In this episode you'll learn: What counterfeit community is actually costing you individually and collectively The sixteen behaviors that sabotage even the most values-aligned spaces The charismatic leader problem and what Ella J. Baker understood about power that most communities still haven't learned The difference between codependence and interdependence, and why accountability is not punishment What real community actually looks like in practice Mentioned in this episode: TAP HERE to listen to Episode 30: White Women Can't Be Centered in Solidarity: Why Main Character Energy Is Killing Your Activism TAP HERE to listen to Episode 74: The Problem With Leadership in Social Justice Spaces TAP HERE to listen to Episode 27: What We Get Wrong About Community TAP HERE to listen to Episode 78: We Can't Have Matriarchy Without Community 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. TAP HERE to subscribe to the free weekly email series Resourcing a Revolution for more exclusive content delivered right to your email inbox. Follow me on IG: @nikkiblak Work With Me If this conversation challenged the way you think about community and your place in it, applications for 1:1 coaching are open. Through an intersectional feminist lens, Nikki supports women and femmes to examine the systems shaping their lives, relationships, work, money, ambition, caregiving, and self-worth so they can build lives rooted in liberation, not extraction. TAP HERE to apply. Next episode: Hot Community Summer finale — From Surviving Alone to Building Together: What Collective Action Actually Looks Like Resource: Finding Your People: From Sociopolitical Isolation to Collective Action, a mini-course for anyone ready to move from disconnection to collective action. TAP HERE to get it.

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Interrupting Business as Usual is the weekly resource for folks who've awakened to oppression, injustice, and the b******t of the status quo and are looking for ways to live, work, parent, build, and lead in more subversive, disruptive, and liberated ways. We talk life, business, purpose, and liberation — for the newly aware and long-time interrupters alike. If you're ready to rise to your next level, as the most liberated version of yourself, you're in the right place. Let's interrupt business as usual.

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