Work Won't Save Us

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Work Won't Save Us...so we're on a quest to find what will!

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  1. Ep 012: Season 1 Recap with Chanté + Nicole

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    Ep 012: Season 1 Recap with Chanté + Nicole

    ✨Szn 1 Recap + Reflection! ✨ Join us for Season 1 recap + reflection between our host, Chanté Martinez Thurmond, and beloved collaborator, Nicole Tay! Topics include: ✴️ Entanglement with work + capitalism 🕸️ ✴️ Defining “good work” 👍🏾 ✴️ Questioning the ubiquity of "work" ❓ ✴️ Growth + lessons learned thus far 🦉 ✴️ What to expect in Szn 2! 🔮 ***** LINKS TO NICOLE’S CONTENT Connect with Nicole on TikTok | LinkedIn | Films LINKS TO CHANTÉ’S CONTENT TDH Website Connect with Chanté on Instagram, Bluesky, Threads, or LinkedIn ***** Please check out our website at ⁠⁠workwontsaveus.com⁠⁠ to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter/X⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ 🙏🏾🧡 WWSU Credits: Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond ​Lead Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda ​Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle ​Sponsored by ⁠TDH⁠ 🦄

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  2. Ep 011: Zaiden Sowle

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    Ep 011: Zaiden Sowle

    ✨In this week’s episode, we are so excited to be joined by WWSU assistant producer, Zaiden Sowle!!  TOPICS INCLUDE: ✴️ Ableism + Disability INjustice ✴️ Disclosing when you have a disability  ✴️ Our complicated relationship with assistive tech ✴️ Reliance on work for health benefits ✨Zaiden Sowle (she/they) is a Chicago-based queer, trans* woman, and neuro-emergent youth educator. As a current FoW Fellow at The Darkest Horse + Assistant Podcast Producer at WWSU, she is passionate about helping to make the workplace, and world, a more equitable place. ✨Zaiden is a proud graduate of Simmons College, a historic women’s college, where she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies and Sociology. She has dedicated her life to advocating for LGBTQ+ and disability rights and is currently preparing to pursue a Master’s in Education (MEd) to further her impact on young learners. ***** LINKS TO ZAIDEN’S CONTENT Connect with Zaiden on LinkedIn Read Zaiden’s 3-Part Blog Series “On Disability”: ​Part 1: How I Move Through The World​Part 2: Navigating My Career As a Disabled Person​Part 3: What COVID-19 Taught Me About Accessibility ​ ***** Please check out our website at ⁠⁠workwontsaveus.com⁠⁠ to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter/X⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ 🙏🏾🧡 WWSU Credits: Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond Lead Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle Sponsored by ⁠TDH⁠ 🦄

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  3. Ep 010: Malaika Jabali

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    Ep 010: Malaika Jabali

    ✨In this week’s episode, we are so excited to be joined by Malaika Jabli!!  TOPICS INCLUDE: ✴️ Journey to becoming a socialist ✊🏾 ✴️ Malaika’s Book: “It's Not You, It's Capitalism” 💁🏾‍♀️ ✴️ Capitalist propaganda + U.S. politics 🇺🇲 ✴️ Ways we can start to divest from capitalism 📉 ✨Malaika Jabali is a journalist + author whose writing has appeared in The Guardian, where she was a columnist, Teen Vogue, The New Republic, Vox, Very Smart Brothas, The Intercept, and ESSENCE, where she served as Senior News and Politics Editor. ✨Her debut book, “It’s Not You, It’s Capitalism: Why It’s Time to Break Up and How to Move On”, (Hachette/Algonquin) was named by the Boston Globe as one of the Best Books of 2023, and her debut political feature, “The Color of Economic Anxiety,” published in Current Affairs Magazine, was awarded the 2019 New York Association of Black Journalists Media Award for Newspaper/ Magazine feature. ✨A Columbia Law School graduate, Malaika was an Articles Editor for the Columbia Journal of Race + Law. As a public policy attorney, Malaika wrote legislation and examined policy for the New York City Council for seven years. ***** LINKS TO MALAIKA’S CONTENT Malaika’s ⁠website⁠ Connect with her on ⁠Instagram⁠ | ⁠Twitter⁠ Buy her book ⁠here⁠  ***** Please check out our website at⁠ ⁠⁠workwontsaveus.com⁠⁠⁠ to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter/X⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠ and⁠ ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠ 🙏🏾🧡 WWSU Credits: Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond Lead Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle Sponsored by ⁠TDH⁠ 🦄

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  4. Ep 009: Manish Jain

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    Ep 009: Manish Jain

    ✨In this week’s episode, we are grateful to be joined by Manish Jain!!  TOPICS INCLUDE: ✴️ Seva: Work as Worship 🙏🏾✨ ✴️ 🧟Deadlihoods vs. 🤗Alivelihoods  ✴️ Unlearning + Unschooling 🙃 ✴️ The shadow side of globalism 🌐 ✨ Manish Jain, is a social innovator and leader in the global deschooling + unlearning movement. Over the last 25+ years, he has dedicated himself to developing community-centered, regenerative ways of learning + being. ✨ He is the co-founder of some of the world’s most innovative educational experiments, including Shikshantar, Swaraj University, and The Ecoversities Alliance. Deeply passionate about regenerative learning, Manish actively promotes "alivelihoods"—careers and lifestyles that connect personal fulfillment with ecological well-being. ✨ In a previous chapter of his life, Manish worked at Morgan Stanley and served as a consultant to UNESCO, UNICEF, the World Bank, and several international organizations. Today, with degrees from Brown and Harvard, he is on a journey of "unlearning," striving to transcend the conventional education paradigm and shake up existing power structures. ***** LINKS TO MANISH’S CONTENT: Connect with him on Instagram | LinkedIn Shikshantar Website | Instagram | Facebook Swaraj University Website | Instagram | Facebook The Ecoversities Alliance Website | Instagram | Facebook  ***** Please check out our website at ⁠⁠workwontsaveus.com⁠⁠ to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter/X⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠LinkedIn ⁠⁠ 🙏🏾🧡 WWSU Credits: Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond Lead Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle Sponsored by ⁠TDH⁠ 🦄

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  5. Ep 008: Dr. Resmaa Menakem

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    Ep 008: Dr. Resmaa Menakem

    ✨In this week’s episode, we are deeply grateful to be joined by Dr. Resmaa Menakem!!  Topics Include ✴️Somatic Abolition 🧘🏾‍♀️ ✴️Rest as a biological imperative 😴 ✴️The challenges of “DEI” ⚠️ ✴️Slavery didn’t die, it evolved ♻️ ✴️Planting seeds for the future 🌱 ✨Dr. Resmaa Menakem (MSW, LICSW, SEP) is a Minneapolis-based therapist, best-selling author, and founder of Justice Leadership Solutions and the Cultural Somatics Institute. As the originator of Somatic Abolitionism, an embodied antiracist practice, he is dedicated to healing racialized trauma + building resilient communities. Working at the intersections of antiracism, communal healing, and embodied purpose, Resmaa is the challenging yet compassionate coach our world needs in this time of racial reckoning + global unrest. ✨His notable works include the New York Times bestseller "My Grandmother’s Hands," "The Quaking of America", and a new children’s book "The Stories from My Grandmother’s Hands". Resmaa’s voice + insights have reached global audiences through appearances on Oprah, Charlamagne Tha God’s "Tha God’s Honest Truth", "The Breakfast Club", Krista Tippett’s "On Being", and more.  ***** LINKS TO RESMAA’S CONTENT Resmaa’s Website Order *NEW* Children's Book  Order Resmaa’s Merch  Join Black Octopus Society Connect with him on Instagram | X (Twitter) | Facebook  ***** Please check out our website at ⁠⁠workwontsaveus.com⁠⁠ to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter/X⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ 🙏🏾🧡 WWSU Credits: Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond Lead Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle Sponsored by ⁠The Darkest Horse⁠ 🦄

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  6. Ep 007: Dr. Mary L. Gray

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    Ep 007: Dr. Mary L. Gray

    ✨In this week’s episode, we are grateful to be joined by Dr. Mary L. Gray, PhD!  Topics include: ✴️ How AI technology is shaping work 🤖 ✴️ Ghost Work: millions of hidden jobs that fuel the tech industry 👻 ✴️ Queer identity + care in the face of capitalism 🦄 ✴️ The future of collaboration + data trusts ✨Dr. Gray is Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and Faculty Associate at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She maintains a faculty position in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering with affiliations in Anthropology and Gender Studies at Indiana University.  ✨Mary, an anthropologist and media scholar by training, focuses on how people’s everyday uses of technologies transform labor, identity, and human rights. She sits on several boards, including Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research and the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors, in addition to chairing the Microsoft Research Ethics Review Program—the only federally registered institutional review board of its kind in the tech industry.  ✨In 2020, Mary was named a MacArthur Fellow for her contributions to anthropology and the study of technology, digital economies, and society. ***** LINKS TO DR. GRAY’S CONTENT Mary’s Website Buy her book: “Ghost Work” Connect via LinkedIn Learn about Project Resolve Learn about Health Leads  Learn about Health Equity Community Collaborative (HECC) ***** Please check out our website at ⁠⁠workwontsaveus.com⁠⁠ to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter/X⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ 🙏🏾🧡 WWSU Credits: Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond Lead Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle Sponsored by ⁠The Darkest Horse⁠⁠ 🦄

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  7. Ep 006: Mid-Season Reflection

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    Ep 006: Mid-Season Reflection

    ✨Mid-Szn Reflection! ✨ Join us for a special mid-season chat between our host, Chanté Martinez Thurmond, and collaborator, yasmin marrero! Topics include: ✴️ What has resonated so far 💗 ✴️ The interconnectedness of it all ♾️ ✴️ Accepting the invitation to be reflective 🪞 ✴️ How to share what’s coming up for YOU as a listener! 💌 ***** LINKS TO YASMIN’S CONTENT yasmin’s website Connect with yasmin on Instagram, Threads, or LinkedIn ***** LINKS TO CHANTÉ’S CONTENT TDH Website Connect with Chanté on Instagram, Threads, Mastodon or LinkedIn ***** Please check out our website at ⁠⁠workwontsaveus.com⁠⁠ to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter/X⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ 🙏🏾🧡 WWSU Credits: Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond Lead Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle Sponsored by The Darkest Horse⁠⁠ 🦄

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  8. Ep 005: Ila Malhotra Gregory

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    Ep 005: Ila Malhotra Gregory

    ✨In this week’s episode, we are grateful to be joined by Ila Malhotra Gregory!! Topics include: ✴️ Loving labor ✴️ Distinction between schooling vs education  ✴️ How school has been a site of oppression and site of liberation ✴️ Weaving as a process, a role and way of being ✴️ The power of youth wisdom + their POV in building liberated futures ✨Ila Malhotra Gregory is an Ecosystem Weaver and Gardener at ⁠YouthxYouth⁠. They are exploring how we might organize, in ways that are both effective and beautiful, by growing meaningful relationships with one another. Ila has a strong commitment to care for all beings and is exploring kincentric ways of being, doing, leading and working informed by deep resonance with the values of reciprocity and relationality. ***** LINKS TO IlA’S CONTENT ⁠ila’s bio⁠ Check out ⁠YouthxYouth⁠ Attend ⁠YxY Annual Learning Festival⁠ Connect with ila on ⁠Instagram⁠ Follow YouthxYouth on ⁠Instagram⁠ ***** Please check out our website at⁠ ⁠⁠workwontsaveus.com⁠⁠⁠ to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter/X⁠⁠⁠,⁠ ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠⁠ and⁠ ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠⁠ 🙏🏾🧡 WWSU Credits: Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond Lead Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle Sponsored by ⁠The Darkest Horse⁠⁠⁠ 🦄

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  9. Ep 004: Dr. Breeze Harper

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    Ep 004: Dr. Breeze Harper

    ✨In this week’s episode, we are delighted to be joined by Dr. Breeze Harper, PhD! Topics include: ✴️ The lasting impacts of racialized agricultural capitalism and food sovereignty 🌾 ✴️ How work, food, and motherhood influence each other today 🔁 ✴️ Our entangled history and co-dependence of endorphinated caffeinated capitalism ☕ ✴️ People + practices that inspire us 🤩 ✨Breeze holds a PhD in Cultural Geography along with an MA in Educational/Instructional technologies. She is the Founder of Black Zephyr. She’s also an author + editor of the highly acclaimed anthology, Sistah Vegan 📚🥕 ***** LINKS TO BREEZE’S CONTENT Breeze’s Website Read: Sistah Vegan! Read: Sistah Vegan Blog Connect with her on Instagram | LinkedIn ***** Please check out our website at workwontsaveus.com⁠⁠ to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter/X⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ 🙏🏾🧡 WWSU Credits Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond Lead Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle Sponsored by ⁠The Darkest Horse⁠⁠⁠ 🦄

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  10. Ep 003: Dr. Nicole Truesdell

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    Ep 003: Dr. Nicole Truesdell

    ✨In this week’s episode, we are excited + honored to be joined by Dr. Nicole Truesdell, PhD! Topics include:  ✴️ Identity, social location and the history of racialized capitalism 🌐 ✴️ Spiritual warfare, colonialism and work 🛡️ ✴️ Work, as an institution, relies upon individualism, consumerism and commodification [of our bodies] 🛒 ✴️ Sense of self + the power of seeing beyond ourselves 💞  ✨Dr. Truesdell holds a doctorate in Socio-Cultural Anthropology along with an M.A. in Biological/Forensic Anthropology. She is the Founder of Truesdell & Associates, a boutique Executive Strategy Firm based in Chicago.  ✨Nicole is also the Host + Producer of Abolitionist Dreamscapes – a podcast focused on “navigating humanity in this dumpster fire that we call society.” 🎙️ ----- LINKS TO DR. TRUESDELL’S CONTENT Nicole’s Website Subscribe to her Patreon Book an Astrological Reading Connect with her on TikTok | Instagram | YouTube ----- Please check out our website at ⁠⁠workwontsaveus.com⁠⁠ to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Twitter/X⁠⁠, ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠LinkedIn⁠⁠ 🙏🏾🧡 WWSU Credits: ​Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond​Lead Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda​Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle​Sponsored by ⁠The Darkest Horse⁠⁠⁠ 🦄

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  11. Ep 002: Douglas Rushkoff

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    Ep 002: Douglas Rushkoff

    ✨In this week’s episode, we are thrilled to be joined by Dr. Douglas Rushkoff, PhD!! Topics include: ✴️ Late stage capitalism: how the hell did we get here? 🧐 ✴️ The history of employment 🌍 ✴️ Digital Manifest Destiny 💻 ✴️ The importance of returning back home…to ourselves, each other and our communities ----- LINKS TO DOUGLAS' CONTENT Rushkoff.com Bio Order his most recent book: Survival of the Richest Connect on Substack Listen to Team Human ----- Please check out our website at ⁠workwontsaveus.com⁠ to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on ⁠Instagram⁠, ⁠Threads⁠, ⁠Twitter/X⁠, ⁠TikTok⁠ and ⁠LinkedIn⁠ 🙏🏾🧡 Credits: ​Work Won’t Save Us is created, hosted, and Executive-Produced by Chanté Martinez Thurmond​Lead-Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda​Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle​Sponsored by ⁠The Darkest Horse⁠⁠⁠ 🦄

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  12. Ep 001: Intro to WWSU with Chanté + Rada

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    Ep 001: Intro to WWSU with Chanté + Rada

    ✨ Intro episode to Work Won't Save Us (WWSU)✨ Join us for our debut episode where we intentionally take a moment to introduce you to, and interview, our host Chanté Martinez Thurmond.   Rada Yovovich, co-founder and dear friend to Chanté, serves as our interviewer and special guest host! Together, the two of them discuss: ✴️ Social Location as a practice + ritual 🌱 ✴️ Our definition(s) of work + our relationship(s) to it 💻 ✴️ Intro to WWSU 🧡 ✴️ The Darkest Horse (TDH) 🦄 ✴️ What to expect in our 1st season! 🌟 ----- Please check out our website at workwontsaveus.com to learn how you can get involved! Help us spread the word and/or share funny memes 😁 with us over on your favorite social media channel! Connect with us on Instagram, Threads, Twitter/X, TikTok and LinkedIn 🙏🏾🧡 Credits: Host + Executive Producer: Chanté Martinez Thurmond Lead-Producer + Editor: Paige Miranda Assistant Producer: Zaiden Sowle Special s/o to AdeOla Fadumiye + Rada Yovovich Sponsored by ⁠The Darkest Horse⁠⁠⁠ 🦄

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