Chapter 6: Why You Feel Powerless at Work Even When You&#39;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.

Born of survival, raised on resistance. Trained in capitalism, but fluent in critique. This is my reckoning with the American Dream— and the blueprint I’m building in its place.