{"podcast":{"title":"Messy Liberation: Feminist Conversations about Politics and Pop Culture","slug":"messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884","podcast_index_feed_id":6952884,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/messyliberation","website_url":"https://beckymollenkamp.com/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/hf82SlIn9KCiQrra2GrZM-lS6DmiRHTQ0jtE9GBT_lc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9mMmU0/NjgyMWQ2YWYxMDE4/MTE0ZGIzY2I3MDEx/MTlhYS5wbmc.jpg","author":"Becky Mollenkamp","episode_count":111,"summary":"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 ...?","last_synced_at":"2026-06-23T02:19:01.342158+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884"},"episode":{"title":"Eat the Rich: Corporate Greed, Tax Dodging, and Why We're All Paying for It","slug":"eat-the-rich-corporate-greed-tax-dodging-and-why-we-re-all-paying-for-it","published_at":"2026-03-16T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884/eat-the-rich-corporate-greed-tax-dodging-and-why-we-re-all-paying-for-it","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/a5002ac7","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/a5002ac7/f82023c5.mp3","summary":"Get \"Liberate Your Business\" by Becky Mollenkamp https://liberateyourbusiness.com/ In this episode of Messy Liberation, feminist coaches and best friends Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown dig into the corporate greed crisis, from the Starbucks founder fleeing a state income tax to Oprah's \"let them eat cake\" energy at Paris Fashion Week. With a sharp intersectional lens, they connect wealth hoarding, stolen women's labor, a broken tax system, and the urgent need to build real community as an act of resistance. In This Episode, We Get Into: The Starbucks founder Howard Schultz announcing he's leaving Seattle for Florida after Washington state passed a new income tax — and what that says about corporate greed in America Oprah's out-of-touch social media presence during Paris Fashion Week while the world is literally on fire (including oil refinery disasters in Iran) The jaw-dropping data on CEO pay vs. worker pay — a 1,000% increase since 1978, with top CEOs now making ~285–300x more than their average employees How corporations exploit crises (like COVID-era supply chain disruptions) to normalize price gouging and shrinkflation The real history of International Women's Day as a labor movement — not a \"girlboss\" celebration — and how women's unpaid and underpaid labor has always been systematically stolen The pay gap breakdown: 78 cents on the dollar for white women, even less for Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and Latina women — and how women in care fields don't even have a comparable male wage to measure against How the U.S. tax system is deliberately made incomprehensible, who benefits from that confusion, and why 1 in 5 Fortune 500 companies paid zero federal taxes between 2018–2022 The red state/blue state tax welfare dynamic — and why blue state taxpayers are effecti…","meta_description":"Get \"Liberate Your Business\" by Becky Mollenkamp https://liberateyourbusiness.com/ In this episode of Messy Liberation, feminist coaches and best friends…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2755,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884/episodes/eat-the-rich-corporate-greed-tax-dodging-and-why-we-re-all-paying-for-it/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/messy-liberation-feminist-conversations-about-politics-and-pop-culture-6952884/eat-the-rich-corporate-greed-tax-dodging-and-why-we-re-all-paying-for-it.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}