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Messy Liberation: Feminist Conversations about Politics and Pop Culture

Messy Liberation: Feminist Conversations about Politics and Pop Culture

By: Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown
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Join feminist coaches Taina Brown and Becky Mollenkamp for casual (and often deep) conversations about business, current events, politics, pop culture, and more. We’re not perfect activists or allies! These are our real-time, messy feminist perspectives on the world around us. This podcast is for you if you find yourself asking questions like: • Why is feminism important today? • What is intersectional feminism? • Can capitalism be ethical? • What does liberation mean? • Equity vs. equality — what's the difference and why does it matter? • What does a Trump victory mean for my life? • What is mutual aid? • How do we engage in collective action? • Can I find safety in community? • What's a feminist approach to ... ? • What's the feminist perspective on ...?2024 Becky Mollenkamp LLC Politics & Government Social Sciences
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  • Invisible labor and the truth about workplace culture: Faith Clarke on building restorative workspaces
    Oct 6 2025

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    Coaching can feel like a solo sport, but it doesn’t have to!


    Join Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown for a free live workshop on October 30th at 2 p.m. ET where we’ll explore what it really takes to grow as a coach rooted in liberation, not just business.


    🌟 In this session, you’ll learn:

    • What liberation can look like for you and your clients
    • The 3 essentials every coach needs for a sustainable, liberatory practice
    • How community can fuel your growth with fresh ideas, accountability, and support

    This isn’t just another workshop—it’s a doorway into deeper connection with coaches who share your values.


    👉 Reserve your free spot today: https://evt.to/eodmahasw

    (If you can’t make it live, sign up anyway—replay will be available!)

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    👉 On October 9, 2025, Feminist Founders is hosting The Weight We Carry, a free, focus-group-style conversation on invisible labor. We’ll share stories, hold space, and imagine what collective relief might look like. And your stories will directly shape a white paper we’re writing to push this issue into wider conversations where it belongs. ✨ Reserve your free spot here



    In this episode of Messy Liberation, Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown are joined by their dear friend and collaborator Faith Clarke. Faith is a workplace culture strategist who challenges extractive systems and works to build restorative, liberatory environments rooted in belonging.

    Together, the three dig into what “belonging” really means—not as a buzzword, but as an embodied experience of communal care, shared responsibility, and accountability. Faith shares stories from her corporate and nonprofit experiences, connects belonging to invisible labor, and explains why true belonging requires honesty about what spaces can and can’t hold.

    This is a conversation about work, family, faith, identity, power, and the hard truth that belonging isn’t something leaders “create”—it’s something communities must practice together.


    In this episode, we discuss:

    • What belonging feels like and how to recognize its absence
    • Why extractive work systems can never truly foster belonging
    • The violence of having to self-advocate in spaces that won’t meet your needs
    • Invisible labor and how marginalized folks often hold it all together
    • Why belonging must be a community responsibility and not left to leaders alone
    • Signs your workplace or organization lacks true belonging
    • How Faith and Becky are partnering on an upcoming container to address invisible labor


    🎤PROUD MEMBERS OF THE FEMINIST PODCASTERS COLLECTIVE


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    46 mins
  • From Prudish to Political: Sex, Segregation, and Survival in America
    Oct 1 2025

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    Coaching can feel like a solo sport, but it doesn’t have to!


    Join Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown for a free live workshop on October 30th at 2 p.m. ET where we’ll explore what it really takes to grow as a coach rooted in liberation, not just business.


    🌟 In this session, you’ll learn:

    • What liberation can look like for you and your clients
    • The 3 essentials every coach needs for a sustainable, liberatory practice
    • How community can fuel your growth with fresh ideas, accountability, and support

    This isn’t just another workshop—it’s a doorway into deeper connection with coaches who share your values.


    👉 Reserve your free spot today: https://evt.to/eodmahasw

    (If you can’t make it live, sign up anyway—replay will be available!)

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    Becky’s sick, Taina’s tired, and somehow that makes for the best kind of messy conversation. From writing smut to why summer feels like winter, this grab bag episode runs the gamut of sex, TV, astrology, and systemic injustice.

    Discussed in this episode:

    • What it’s really like to write sex scenes (and why it’s more about logistics than lust)
    • Becky’s prudish confessions about watching intimacy on screen
    • Love Is Blind: Brazil – Over 50 and why watching older women date is surprisingly joyful
    • British comfort TV vs. American sensory-overload reality shows
    • Astrology, natal charts, and why New Year’s actually starts in Scorpio or Virgo season
    • Why summer feels like winter and autumn brings the most creativity
    • Becky’s son’s “welcome to capitalism” moment with a half-empty bag of chips
    • Activism that disrupts power at the table, not just in the streets
    • The parallels between Baltimore and St. Louis: segregation, schools, and systemic inequities
    • Infrastructure failures, unsafe water, and the privilege required to access safety

    🎤 PROUD MEMBERS OF THE FEMINIST PODCASTERS COLLECTIVE

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    1 hr
  • Coaching can feel like a solo sport, but it doesn’t have to
    Sep 23 2025

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    Coaching can feel like a solo sport, but it doesn’t have to!


    Join Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown for a free live workshop on October 30th at 2 p.m. ET where we’ll explore what it really takes to grow as a coach rooted in liberation, not just business.


    🌟 In this session, you’ll learn:

    • What liberation can look like for you and your clients
    • The 3 essentials every coach needs for a sustainable, liberatory practice
    • How community can fuel your growth with fresh ideas, accountability, and support

    This isn’t just another workshop—it’s a doorway into deeper connection with coaches who share your values.


    👉 Reserve your free spot today: https://evt.to/eodmahasw

    (If you can’t make it live, sign up anyway—replay will be available!)

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    THIS IS FOR COACHES (or anyone who uses coaching skills)...

    Join Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown for a free live workshop on October 30th at 2 p.m. ET where we’ll explore what it really takes to grow as a coach rooted in liberation, not just business.


    🌟 In this session, you’ll learn:

    • What liberation can look like for you and your clients
    • The 3 essentials every coach needs for a sustainable, liberatory practice
    • How community can fuel your growth with fresh ideas, accountability, and support

    This isn’t just another workshop—it’s a doorway into deeper connection with coaches who share your values.


    👉 Reserve your free spot today: https://evt.to/eodmahasw

    (If you can’t make it live, sign up anyway—replay will be available!)

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    2 mins
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