Chapter 6: Why You Feel Powerless at Work Even When You're the Boss. The title was real, but the power often was not. This chapter unpacks why so many leaders feel responsible without authority, how hierarchy turns capable people into buffers for broken systems, and why real power requires redesigning how truth, trust, decisions, and resources actually move.
Jul 14
52 min
Chapter Five: The Paycheck Ponzi Scheme | Double Down Payments Chapter Five argues that the paycheck was sold as security, but too often functions as managed dependency. This chapter unpacks why recurring income can feel like safety without actually creating freedom, how workers confuse predictability with protection, and why sovereign power begins when the paycheck becomes a tool, not a god.
Jul 8
43 min
Chapter 4: Why We Were Betrayed for ProfitThe betrayal was not accidental. It was designed into the spreadsheet. This chapter unpacks how profit became a moral metric, how workers became headcount, and why the future of work requires building systems that do not demand human disappearance as the price of survival.More BZStay in The Loop Instagram: @thebzchannelTwitter: @thebzchannelLinkedIn: @nbzcoaching WAYS TO WORK WITH METhe Anti-Business School - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/theantibusinessschool Join the Psychic Profits Squad - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/psychic-profit-squadYour Exit Strategy Workbook - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/your-exit-strategyLove Your Workshop - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/love-your-workThe People Pleaser's Guide to Building Better Boundaries - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/build-better-boundaries
Jul 1
57 min
Chapter 3: Burnout Is Their Business ModelBurnout was sold as the price of ambition, but for many of us, it became the operating system. This chapter unpacks how exhaustion became proof of loyalty, why rest started to feel risky, and how modern work keeps people begging to stay inside the very structures breaking them. More BZStay in The Loop Instagram: @thebzchannelTwitter: @thebzchannelLinkedIn: @nbzcoaching WAYS TO WORK WITH METhe Anti-Business School - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/theantibusinessschool Join the Psychic Profits Squad - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/psychic-profit-squadYour Exit Strategy Workbook - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/your-exit-strategyLove Your Workshop - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/love-your-workThe People Pleaser's Guide to Building Better Boundaries - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/build-better-boundaries
Jun 24
44 min
Chapter 2: Golden Handcuffs and Gilded Cages The career was sold as a guarantee, but for many of us, it became obedience with benefits. This episode unpacks golden handcuffs, gilded cages, and why freedom requires deconstructing the career inside you, not just changing where you work.More BZStay in The Loop Instagram: @thebzchannelTwitter: @thebzchannelLinkedIn: @nbzcoaching WAYS TO WORK WITH METhe Anti-Business School - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/theantibusinessschool Join the Psychic Profits Squad - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/psychic-profit-squadYour Exit Strategy Workbook - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/your-exit-strategyLove Your Workshop - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/love-your-workThe People Pleaser's Guide to Building Better Boundaries - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/build-better-boundaries
Jun 17
1 hr 8 min
Welcome to the first chapter of my new book! We will spend the next few weeks going through it, chapter by chapter. The American Dream was sold as freedom, but for many of us, it became obedience with better branding. This episode unpacks how success became a system of control and introduces sovereign work as the new blueprint.More BZStay in The Loop Instagram: @thebzchannelTwitter: @thebzchannelLinkedIn: @nbzcoaching WAYS TO WORK WITH METhe Anti-Business School - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/theantibusinessschool Join the Psychic Profits Squad - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/psychic-profit-squadYour Exit Strategy Workbook - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/your-exit-strategyLove Your Workshop - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/love-your-workThe People Pleaser's Guide to Building Better Boundaries - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/build-better-boundaries
Jun 10
59 min
You are not broken. Work is.In this prelude episode, Nicole introduces her first book, Why Work Isn’t Working: The Evolution of Business 3.0, and opens the door to the next few months of episodes, where she’ll be reading the book chapter by chapter.This is not another productivity pep talk. It is not a “fix your morning routine and become a better little worker bee” situation. This episode asks a much bigger question:What are you calling security that is actually just predictability?
Jun 3
30 min
Your exhaustion might not be the work. It might be the leak underneath the work. In this episode, we unpack the hidden cost of overworking, hypervigilance, constant availability, over-responsibility, and endless optimization. The stuff we’ve been taught to call ambition, discipline, preparedness, and leadership.From sleep disruption and caffeine withdrawal to problem-solving addiction, handstand practice, gardening, AI agents, grant deadlines, and the strange relief of finally giving up, this episode is about learning how to stop forcing, start noticing, and return to the radical act of being.Because maybe peace is not what happens once everything is handled. Maybe peace is what teaches us we don’t have to handle everything all at once.More BZStay in The Loop Instagram: @thebzchannelTwitter: @thebzchannelLinkedIn: @nbzcoaching WAYS TO WORK WITH METhe Anti-Business School - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/theantibusinessschool Join the Psychic Profits Squad - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/psychic-profit-squadYour Exit Strategy Workbook - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/your-exit-strategyLove Your Workshop - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/love-your-workThe People Pleaser's Guide to Building Better Boundaries - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/build-better-boundaries
May 27
34 min
AI is not the villain. It is not the apocalypse. It is not the enemy lurking in your laptop with a tiny robot knife. It is a mirror. And what it reflects back can be brutal. In this episode, we unpack why AI feels so emotionally loaded right now, especially for people whose value has been tied to competence, productivity, originality, responsiveness, and being “the one who can handle it.” This is not a conversation about whether AI will replace us. It is a conversation about what happens when AI exposes where we still obey old systems, where we still confuse work with worth, and where we quietly do not trust ourselves. This episode explores the identity rupture underneath AI anxiety, the danger of acting more like machines, and why the real work now is discernment, trust, humanity, and remembering that your value was never your output.More BZStay in The Loop Instagram: @thebzchannelTwitter: @thebzchannelLinkedIn: @nbzcoaching WAYS TO WORK WITH METhe Anti-Business School - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/theantibusinessschool Join the Psychic Profits Squad - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/psychic-profit-squadYour Exit Strategy Workbook - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/your-exit-strategyLove Your Workshop - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/love-your-workThe People Pleaser's Guide to Building Better Boundaries - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/build-better-boundariesCreditsProduc
May 20
42 min
You can leave the toxic boss and still become the worst boss you ever had. In this episode, we break down Boss 3.0, the future of leadership without panic, martyrdom, overreaction, or founder drama. Your nervous system is not your org chart. Heal thy damn self.More BZStay in The Loop Instagram: @thebzchannelTwitter: @thebzchannelLinkedIn: @nbzcoaching WAYS TO WORK WITH METhe Anti-Business School - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/theantibusinessschool Join the Psychic Profits Squad - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/psychic-profit-squadYour Exit Strategy Workbook - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/your-exit-strategyLove Your Workshop - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/love-your-workThe People Pleaser's Guide to Building Better Boundaries - https://nicolebz.kartra.com/page/build-better-boundariesCreditsProduction: Shannon KuehlCover Art: Beau StantonPodcast Artist: Amanda NoIntro by Micky FourOutro by Marmaduke Dando
May 13
41 min
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