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  1. 11/20/2022

    Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

    This week, Alicia talks about how to live your values and put weight behind them, taking a look at two recent stories in New Zealand current events. We look at the Starship Foundation's rejection of a donation from gambling proceeds, and pay parity for the Black Ferns, to ask: what does it mean to really live your values? How do we accept challenges and failures as opportunities to make a stand? What happens when we don't? Enjoy!

    35 min

  2. 11/16/2022

    On Littering

    In this episode, Alicia talks about littering - what it means to shed our detritus, physically, digitally or even emotionally...

    33 min

  3. 09/23/2022

    Fake Diversity

    What is diversity washing - and why is it such a problem? Alicia talks about the difference between visible and substantive diversity and why the latter is so important in society, media and the workplaces. She calls bullsh*t on corporate diversity and inclusion, makes an impassioned case for bringing class into the conversation and recommends throwing out the table, rather than saving a place at it. Also features: Lizzo chat, COVID book recommendations. Book recommendation 1: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara Book recommendation 2: My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh Bonus recommendation: Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants To Be by Steven Pressfield Article mentioned: The Problem With Professionalism by Alicia McKay

    32 min

  4. 09/16/2022

    Long Live the Queen?

    Alicia McKay tackles the media madness surrounding the death of QEII, gets under the skin of royalism and exposes the irony and hypocrisy of declaring a public holiday for the Queen in Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. Constitutional monarchy is dead. Long live Aotearoa.

    33 min

  5. 09/09/2022

    Systems, Elbows and The Family Man

    Alicia talks about how pointing fingers at people, while letting systems operate unchecked, is damaging all of us. This week we're talking about patriarchy, politics and infidelity through a systems lens - and getting under the skin of unchallenged morality like table manners. You can read the Family Man article here And a recent article about why women are so exhausted here. Also, check out these great resources on systems thinking and problem solving: If Dr Russell Ackoff had given a Ted Talk The Systems Thinker Guide to Daily Systems Thinking Practice Fix the System, Not the Women: Laura Bates

    30 min

  6. 09/02/2022

    Guilt, Gloriavale and Gangs

    This week, Alicia tackles the guilt of conscious consumerism in a world designed for bad behaviour. the hypocritical way we treat cults and gangs, domestic labour inequity, Leonardo DiCaprio and Louis CK.

    37 min

  7. 08/19/2022

    #BigRantEnergy - The Good Old Days, Toxic Positivity and Punch-Down Politics

    Alicia channels her best rant energy on this week's show, tackling: - Sickness, and the idea that lifting restrictions will help businesses - Simplified nostalgia and the problem with the good old days - Low-rate political rhetoric that hates on the poor - Cruel optimism and toxic positivity. If you need a good rant in your life, this is the episode for you.

    26 min

  8. 08/12/2022

    Human Meatball

    Today we discuss the deep shame of being caught in an act of petty shenanigans, the great human meatball, and the perils of being blacklisted by both the Russian government and a retailer in Dunedin.

    32 min
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    Alicia McKay
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