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Business Tip for Culture Makers #626: Reconsider Your Payment Plans because Charging Extra for Payment Plans Can Be Exploitative

By Kelly Diels / June 26, 2016 / 0 Comments

I’m looking around at our empowerment spaces at the payment plans being offered and I’m seeing some arguably predatory practices.

the link between our buying habits and our vote

By Kelly Diels / June 17, 2016 / 1 Comment

Likability, authority. Marketing designed to automatically trigger particular behaviours has political consequences: we get in the habit of obeying.

Liking Someone Can Be Terrible Information

By Kelly Diels / May 30, 2016 / 2 Comments

When someone is trying to get us to like them and they have a commercial interest vested in us liking them, you need more information before proceeding.

Business Tip for Culture Makers #527: Pledge to Only Speak at Events/Podcasts that are SUBSTANTIALLY Inclusive

By Kelly Diels / May 27, 2016 / 0 Comments

Women with other dominant identities – white, cis, straight, able-bodied, thin – can leverage their privilege, power, and platforms to make new norms.

on the abuse of reciprocity and women

By Kelly Diels / May 21, 2016 / Comments Off on on the abuse of reciprocity and women

When it comes to reciprocity, a justice lever, some of us activate the need to reciprocate in order to disproportionately advantage ourselves over others.

On the ‘Mental Triggers’ of Online Marketing, The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand, Assessing Who Deserves Your Money, and Why We Should Be Skeptical of Makeover Stories

By Kelly Diels / May 18, 2016 / 14 Comments

Want to know if someone is trying, by design, to construct an authoritarian dynamic to “mentally trigger” you to buy from them? Look for makeover stories.

Pursuing Work-Life Balance Preserves the Status Quo

By Kelly Diels / April 21, 2016 / 1 Comment

Women are not failing to lean in and we’re not failing at work-life balance; work and life – which is to say, our society – are failing us.

Not Every Man is a Patriarch. Not Every Patriarch is a Man.

By Kelly Diels / April 14, 2016 / 1 Comment

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is about a few people learning how to switch positions in the existing hierarchy: that hierarchy is white patriarchy.

Women Are Not a Problem to Be Fixed

By Kelly Diels / April 13, 2016 / 1 Comment

The self-improvement industry is often about correcting the fundamental problem our culture has with us: that we are women.That we are a problem to be fixed

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand: We Can Do Better

By Kelly Diels / March 31, 2016 / 6 Comments

The Female Lifestyle Empowerment Brand is a problematic ideology of ideal femininity sold to us by the entrepreneurs and leaders we most trust, and hire.