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by Nikki Blak
Interrupting Business as Usual is the weekly resource for folks who've awakened to oppression, injustice, and the bullshit 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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- 6 days ago36 min
Ep 101: Why the Worst Economy to Work In Is the Best Economy to Have an Offer In
Everyone's Saying the Economy Is Too Uncertain to Start Something. Here's Why They Have It Backwards. If you've been waiting for the economy to stabilize before you get your offer together, this episode is going to show you why that the economy you're waiting to recover from presents the best opportunity. In this episode, Nikki brings the receipts — real data on wage stagnation, layoffs, and purchasing power — and makes a case that is equal parts economic, cultural, and deeply personal. She turns the concept of "F U Money" on its head, highlights the growing cultural rejection of AI, automation, and mass production as a once-in-a-generation opportunity, and shares the specific moment she realized that sending out resumes was a waste of her time and energy. In this episode you'll learn: The real numbers on wages, purchasing power, and layoffs in 2026 — and what they're actually telling you The four levels of "F U Money" and what changes when you have an offer outside your job Why the AI economy makes right now the best time to have an offer Why January is the wrong time to start and what the people walking into 2027 ready to create an overtime impact on part-time hours with full-time income are doing right now 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 The 1:1 is the definitive private mentorship with structured support and personalized strategy for mothers, caregivers, and community keepers ready to make overtime impact on part-time hours with full-time income. TAP HERE to apply to work privately with Nikki. Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Business As Usual. Next episode: You Can't Pour From an Empty Account: Why Activists Need an Income Strategy
- 1 weeks ago35 min
Ep 100: How to Sell Without Feeling Gross
If selling makes you feel manipulative, coercive, or like you're doing something to people instead of for them, this episode is the medicine. And it's not a mindset hack. It's a completely different understanding of what selling actually is and a simple 3-step way to get the ick out. In this milestone 100th episode, Nikki traces the grossness back to its actual source and offers two frames that change everything and shows you that ethical selling isn't a technique. It's a relationship. In this episode you'll learn: The specific tactics that make selling feel gross and why they're not inherent to selling itself How marketing and community organizing require the exact same principles and what that means for how you show up in your business The three components of ethical selling that don't require you to compromise your integrity to get the yes What to examine if selling still feels uncomfortable after you've done the 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 Nikki on IG: @nikkiblak Work With Nikki The 1:1 is the definitive private mentorship with structured support and personalized strategy for mothers, caregivers, and community keepers ready to make overtime impact on part-time hours with full-time income. TAP HERE to apply to work privately with Nikki. Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Business As Usual. Next episode: Why the Worst Economy to Work In Is the Best Economy to Have an Offer In TAP HERE to Register now: Why Your Offers Suck and Don't Sell + How to Fix Them in 4 Steps. The FREE, live webinar Thursday, October 29th at 5 PM PT. Replay available for registrants.
- 2 weeks ago22 min
Ep 99: Why Being Transactional Is Killing Your Business
If your business is technically working — people are paying you, you're delivering, the cycle continues — but something about it feels hollow, exhausting, or like you're constantly starting over, this episode is going to tell you why. And it has nothing to do with your offer or your marketing. In this episode, Nikki makes the case that the transactional model — the default operating system of capitalism — is covertly draining the life out of businesses that should be thriving. She lays out what it actually looks like to run a business where the people who pay you are genuinely invested in what you're doing together — not just getting their money's worth and moving on. This episode is also for you if you're still waiting for your first client or customer. If you're putting content out, making offers, doing everything you've been told to do — and nobody is buying — the transactional model might be exactly what's in the way. When there's nothing bigger than the transaction to be part of, there's no reason for the right person to choose you specifically. This episode is about what changes when there is. In this episode you'll learn: Why transactional businesses produce transactional clients — and what that cycle actually costs you in energy, retention, and referrals How capitalism trained us to think about the people who pay us as consumers rather than humans — and what it feels like to both parties when that's the operating assumption The accomplice model: what your clients and customers actually become when the relationship is built on something bigger than an invoice What the horizon is and why any business — a t-shirt company, a hairstylist, a copywriter — can have one What the difference between a marketplace and a movement looks like in practice 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 The 1:1 is the definitive private mentorship with structured support and personalized strategy for mothers, caregivers, and community keepers ready to make overtime impact on part-time hours with full-time income. TAP HERE to apply to work privately with Nikki. Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Business As Usual. Next episode: How to Sell Without Feeling Gross TAP HERE to Register now: Why Your Offers Suck and Don't Sell + How to Fix Them in 4 Steps. Live webinar Thursday, October 29th at 5 PM PT. Replay available for registrants.
- 3 weeks ago28 min
Ep 98: There's No Such Thing as a Dream Client
If you're struggling to get clients and you've done every ideal client exercise in the book, this episode is going to show you why those exercises might be part of the problem — and what actually turns people into clients. In this episode you'll learn: Where the dream client concept came from and how manifestation culture infected a legitimate marketing tool Why the dream client framework strips real people of their agency — and what that's costing you The entitlement problem nobody talks about: how the dream client produces coaches and service providers who resent their actual clients for not being fictional enough Why dreaming about clients and getting clients are two completely different activities Nikki's tool for getting specific about who your person is without projecting What to do instead of building an avatar: the two things that actually turn people into clients 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 The 1:1 is the definitive private mentorship with structured support and personalized strategy for mothers, caregivers, and community keepers ready to make overtime impact on part-time hours with full-time income. TAP HERE to apply to work privately with Nikki. Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Business As Usual. Next episode: Why Being Transactional Is Killing Your Business TAP HERE to Register now: Why Your Offers Suck and Don't Sell + How to Fix Them in 4 Steps. Live webinar Thursday, October 29th at 5 PM PT. Replay available for registrants.
- Oct 4, 202616 min
Ep 97: Why Manifestation Is a Tool of White Supremacy and What to Do Instead
You've Been Told Your Outcomes Are a Product of Your Vibration. Here's Why That's Not Spiritual — It's Political. If you've ever used manifestation practices and still felt like something was off — like the framework wasn't built for you, or worse, was working against you — this episode is going to tell you exactly why. And you'll leave knowing what to do instead. In this episode, Nikki makes the case that modern manifestation — the Law of Attraction, the vision board, lucky girl syndrome, all of it — isn't just ancient wisdom. It's ancient wisdom with the ancestry removed and individualism installed. And that removal isn't neutral. In this episode, Nikki breaks down what was taken and what we get back when we tell the truth about it. In this episode you'll learn: The three specific ways manifestation functions as a supremacy tool rather than a spiritual neutral The core reframe that changes everything: from attracting to reclaiming, from asking to compelling Nikki's specific reclamation practice for people who are done asking the universe for what's already theirs Mentioned in this episode: TAP HERE to listen to Episode 96: It's Not Woo, It's Black TAP HERE to listen to Episode 77: How Do We Achieve Matriarchy? Healing Beyond Whiteness and Toward Collective Liberation with myisha t. hill 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 The 1:1 is the definitive private mentorship with structured support and personalized strategy for mothers, caregivers, and community keepers ready to make overtime impact on part-time hours with full-time income. TAP HERE to apply to work privately with Nikki. Take the quiz: TAP HERE to take the How White Is Your Feminist Business Model? Quiz. It's five minutes, free, and will show you where white dominance logic has taken root in your business. Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Business As Usual. Next episode: There's No Such Thing as a Dream Client
- Sep 27, 202620 min
Ep 96: It's Not Woo. It's Black.
When someone says "it's giving" or "no cap," people call it Gen Z slang. We know what that actually is. The same erasure is happening inside the spiritual and wellness industry — and this episode is going to spell out what's been going unsaid. In this episode, Nikki makes the case that what the New Age industry packaged and sold as spirituality, energy work, and manifestation has African and African diasporic origins that got scrubbed and sanitized for white consumption and profit — and that the word "woo" is not a neutral descriptor. Pointing to the history of Hoodoo, Voodoo, and African ancestral practices, Nikki highlights what was taken, what got lost in the pillaging, and what becomes possible when we simply tell the truth about where these practices came from. In this episode you'll learn: Why "woo" isn't a neutral descriptor The specific African and African diasporic practices that form the foundation of what gets sold as New Age spirituality What gets lost when spiritual practice is stripped of its communal roots and sold as individual enhancement The financial dimension of spiritual appropriation — who profits, who gets penalized, and why What right relationship with these practices actually looks like for everyone in the spiritual business space Go deeper right now: TAP HERE to listen to Episode 48: Decolonizing Prayer: Reclaiming God as a Liberation Praxis with Bossy Bruja TAP HERE to listen to Episode 49: Black Mysticism as Ancestral Technology:Decolonizing Tarot with Sanyu Estelle TAP HERE to listen to Episode 50: Rituals for the Revolution: Healing, Justice, and Spirituality with Jade T. Perry 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 The 1:1 is the definitive private mentorship with structured support and personalized strategy for mothers, caregivers, and community keepers ready to make overtime impact on part-time hours with full-time income. TAP HERE to apply to work privately with Nikki. Take the quiz: TAP HERE to take the How White Is Your Feminist Business Model? Quiz. It's five minutes, free, and will show you where white dominance logic has taken root in your business. Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Business As Usual. Next episode: Why Manifestation Is a Tool of White Supremacy and What to Do Instead
- Sep 20, 202628 min
Ep 95: How to Build a Business That Doesn't Burn You Out
In this episode, Nikki defines what burnout actually is, where it comes from, and what it takes to build a business that stops producing it. In this episode you'll learn: What burnout actually is and why overuse of the term keeps people treating the wrong thing Why rest alone doesn't fix burnout and what the two missing ingredients are to prevent burnout relapse The gentrification and commodification of self-care Three checkpoints to tell you right now whether you're building a business that will burn you out How creating overtime impact, powered by part-time hours, sustained by full-time income prevents burnout in your business Mentioned in this episode: TAP HERE to listen to Episode 28: You're Not Burned Out, You're Bored TAP HERE to listen to Episode 94: Why Working Harder Isn't Working TAP HERE to take the free How White Is Your Feminist Business Model? Quiz. 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 checkpoints in this episode brought your attention to something in your business that you want to rebuild with real support, TAP HERE to apply to work privately with Nikki in Intersectional Feminist Life + Anti-Capitalist Business Coaching. Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Business As Usual.
- Sep 13, 202638 min
Ep 94: Why Working Hard isn't Working
You're Working More Than Ever. So Why Does It Feel Like You're Falling Further Behind? The Sunday scaries are real. And the exhaustion you feel going into another week of giving everything you have to work that keeps demanding more isn't a mindset problem. This episode is going to tell you exactly what it is and how to resolve it. In this episode, Nikki makes her most personal and political argument yet: that the hard work ethic is not just ineffective — it is a system that was never designed to reward the people working the hardest inside it. In this episode you'll learn: Why "twice as good for half the recognition" is not just a saying What the data actually shows about effort, output, and four-day workweeks Why the gig economy and multiple jobholding are evidence of the hard work myth failing How the same overwork pattern that fries your nervous system is also running your content strategy, your offer suite, and your revenue What precision produces that volume never will Mentioned in this episode: TAP HERE to listen to Episode 91: Why Your Business Isn't Growing Even Though You're Doing Everything Right TAP HERE to listen to Episode 90: It's Not Too Late: Twice the Results in Half the Time Free Resources: TAP HERE to listen to The Bite-Sized Business Podcast, the free resource designed to help you stop overcomplicating your offers and overthinking your business so you can finally get it off the ground. HOW WHITE IS YOUR FEMINIST BUSINESS MODEL? TAP HERE to take the new quiz and find out. 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're ready to have your offer up and selling by the holiday season, TAP HERE to apply to work privately with Nikki in Intersectional Feminist Life + Anti-Capitalist Business Coaching. Special thanks to Def Sound for providing the theme for Interrupting Business As Usual. Next episode: Burnout Is Not a Business Strategy
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