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Messy Liberation: Feminist Conversations about Politics and Pop Culture

Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown

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 —

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4:17

New podcast ... Just Rest

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2025/12/30

Check out Flick'N'Beans podcast at https://www.buzzsprout.com/2227504Our friend Nicole just dropped the trailer for her new podcast Just Rest — and we're SOOO excited! We’re both part of the Feminist Podcast Collective, and watching this show come to life has been such a joy. Just Rest is for people who care deeply, work hard, and are tired of being told burnout is just the price of caring.This podcast is all about rest as resistance, sustainable change, and staying human in a

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31:57

We’re Aiming for 10% Better in 2026 🤣

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2025/12/30

Check out Flick'N'Beans podcast at https://www.buzzsprout.com/2227504As 2025 winds down, Becky and Taina sit with the mess—grief, burnout, political devastation, small joys, and the complicated work of staying human inside it all. This isn’t an episode about toxic optimism or shiny New Year’s resolutions. It’s about telling the truth: some years are brutal. Some losses are enormous. And still, we have to find ways to keep living.In this end-of-year reflection, they talk candidly about

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54:07

Burnout, Pain, Grief: What to Do When Everything...

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2025/12/15

Some days aren’t fixable. They aren’t mindset problems. They aren’t invitations to “reframe.” They’re just heavy, painful, vulnerable days—and pretending otherwise only makes them worse.In this episode, Becky and Taina talk honestly about what it looks like to live inside a bad day instead of trying to hustle your way out of it. From chronic pain and perimenopause to caregiving, grief, financial stress, and the impossible emotional math of deciding when it’s time to let go, this

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54:56

Grief, Care, Accountability, and Beyoncé (Obviously)

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2025/12/08

This week’s episode goes straight for the tender spots—disability, guilt, surrender, messy healing, cultural expectations, accountability, and, yes… Beyoncé. It’s one of those conversations that reminds you why we started this show in the first place: to tell the truth about being human in a world that keeps demanding performance.Taina opens with a vulnerable (and infuriatingly relatable) mess about navigating life with a disability while recovering from intense medical trauma, and the

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51:20

Dismantle Gatekeeping and Embrace Embodied Leadership

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2025/12/01

We didn't record a new show this week, but we're happy to share this episode of The Empowered & Embodied Show with Taina Brown. It's so good! Enjoy!

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33:44

Imposter Syndrome is Real, but This Rumor is Wilder

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2025/11/24

This week’s episode of Messy Liberation is exactly what the name promises: deeply human, a little chaotic, politically charged, creatively fueled, and threaded with the kind of vulnerability most people only share with their therapist.Becky opens up about the messy joy and stomach-turning self-doubt of writing her first book — including imposter syndrome, fears of co-opting liberatory work, the ethics of citation, and the tension between wanting to be seen and fearing the inevitable

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43:56

Equity, Attraction, and Other Things We’re Not...

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2025/11/19

In this week’s episode, Becky and Taina dive straight into the deep end of real-life mess: school-district politics, equity vs. “equality,” the exhausting reality of advocating inside systems designed to fail kids, and the tender, complicated terrain of queer marriage, desire, and boundaries. This one is personal, raw, a little chaotic, and very us. Becky shares what it’s like preparing to speak at a school board meeting about inequitable resource distribution in her son’s district — while

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52:24

Messy, Not Wrong: Embracing Multiplicity and...

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2025/11/10

This week, Becky and Taina sit down with client experience designer and “business cousin” Portia Michele Osumaré for a liberatory conversation about the beauty of being “messy”—and why it’s not something to fix. Together they explore what it means to live outside the boxes that capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy build for us.From being multi-hyphenate creatives to dismantling productivity culture, this conversation dives into queerness, control, and community—and how letting

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46:55

Policing, Privilege, and Power (and Why None of It’s...

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2025/11/03

Becky and Taina try something new in this episode—a looser, more conversational format inspired by their friends from BRB, Crying. Each host brings a “messy situation” to unpack together.Taina starts with a real-life scare: police chasing a man through her backyard in Baltimore. The conversation unfolds into a raw discussion about policing, white conditioning, racialized fear, and what “abolish the police” really means. Together, they pull apart the myths of “good cops” and community

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59:34

Your Body Isn’t the Problem: Divorce Diet Culture &...

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2025/10/27

Becky and Taina are joined by fitness coach Laura Thomas for a brutally honest conversation about body image, aging, and what it really means to feel at home in your body.They unpack how diet culture is a tool of patriarchy and capitalism, how the “male gaze” shapes even the most “empowering” wellness trends, and how we can start to reclaim movement as a way to care for ourselves rather than control ourselves.This episode invites all of us, especially those socialized as women, to stop

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63:31

Two podcasts walk Into a crying session (because...

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2025/10/20

•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•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 clientsThe 3 essentials every coach needs for a sustainable, liberatory practiceHow community can fuel your growth with fresh ideas,

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53:35

Taylor Swift, fascism, and determining what's enough...

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2025/10/13

•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•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 clientsThe 3 essentials every coach needs for a sustainable, liberatory practiceHow community can fuel your growth with fresh ideas,

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46:00

Invisible labor and the truth about workplace...

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2025/10/06

•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•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 clientsThe 3 essentials every coach needs for a sustainable, liberatory practiceHow community can fuel your growth with fresh ideas,

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60:38

From Prudish to Political: Sex, Segregation, and...

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2025/10/01

•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•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 clientsThe 3 essentials every coach needs for a sustainable, liberatory practiceHow community can fuel your growth with fresh ideas,

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2:40

Coaching can feel like a solo sport, but it doesn’t...

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2025/09/23

•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•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 clientsThe 3 essentials every coach needs for a sustainable, liberatory practiceHow community can fuel your growth with fresh ideas,

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46:42

The Cult of America: Charlie Kirk, Liberal...

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2025/09/23

•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•~•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 clientsThe 3 essentials every coach needs for a sustainable, liberatory practiceHow community can fuel your growth with fresh ideas,

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49:09

Grief Doesn’t Have to Suck: Lessons from Nikki the...

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2025/09/15

Death isn’t something most of us are taught to face with honesty, compassion, or ritual. In this episode of Messy Liberation, hosts Becky Mollenkamp and Taina Brown sit down with Nikki Smith, The Death Doula, to explore what it means to navigate dying, grief, and collective loss with more humanity.Nikki shares how her personal experiences with loss led her to become a death doula and grief coach, and why she believes grief doesn’t have to suck. Together, we talk about how our culture fails

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57:40

Rest So You Can Rage with Jordan Maney

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2025/09/08

What does it mean to rest in a world that’s constantly demanding more from us—and why is rest such an essential part of resistance?In this episode, Becky and Taina sit down with Jordan Maney (aka The Radical Joy Coach) to talk about rest as resistance, how to distinguish between anger and rage, and why “rest so you can rage” is a mantra worth remembering.Together they unpack:The difference between anger (short-term) and rage (sustainable)Why rest, joy, and care are essential for sustaining

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56:12

Body Liberation vs. Body Positivity: Tiana Dodson on...

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2025/09/02

Becky and Taina sit down with Tiana Dodson, a body liberation facilitator who helps people reconnect with their bodies, destigmatize fatness, and confront the oppressive systems that keep us at war with ourselves.Together, we dig into the messy, nuanced truths about body liberation: what it really means beyond “body positivity,” why loving your body isn’t always possible (or required), and how systemic oppression—not personal failure—shapes our relationships with our bodies.Tiana shares her

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43:32

Fascism, Marriage Equality, and White Feminism

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2025/08/18

This week on Messy Liberation, Becky and Taina dive headfirst into the chaos of U.S. politics, personal rights under threat, and the culture wars playing out in real time. From the militarization of D.C. to the looming Supreme Court cases threatening Obergefell, they unpack how Project 2025 is already reshaping daily life and why “just wait and see” isn’t an option when democracy is on the line.They also get personal: what it means to feel unsafe in your own country, how queer couples are

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