Category: Episodes

Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform

What do health and productivity optimization experts like Dr. Andrew Huberman, “dopamine addiction” experts like Dr. Anna Lembke, strict, clean-eating diets, personal finance experts, and welfare reform all have in common? Unreasonably high standards, rigidity, and traditionalism are common themes, but the narrative around them, and the way they are influencing us to view systemic problems affecting others is perhaps their most problematic aspect. 

Terms like “instant gratification” and “dopamine addiction” that came from health and productivity optimization theories, have popped up in spaces ranging from fitness to finance to homelessness in order to blame the victims of late-stage capitalism for their own distress. Among the most spurious claims was made by Jordan Peterson, who says that people suffer with issues like depression because they are not “optimally deprived.” Productivity optimization ideas are creating self-doubt on levels similar to conservative religious ideologies, with people even questioning themselves over decisions as minor and banal as whether or not they are allowed to listen to music or watch TV at all. This is because people are afraid that imperfect practice of protocols, whether it be not completely depriving themselves of all spending in the finance realm, or not doing only productive things in the productivity space, will result in economic demise, just as the religious ideas will make people afraid of spiritual demise. This leads to people not only blaming themselves for their own economic hardship, but in turn blaming the supposed “bad habits” of others for their failures, which impedes solidarity. As I have explained in prior episodes, the newest means of enforcement of late stage capitalism is us enforcing its ideals on others and that is precisely how these overly strict self-help ideas are being used. Overall, these ideas are serving to promote right-wing ideologies, obfuscate systemic problems, and distract the public from seeking social change. 

Self-help ideas can be a positive influence and some of these practices and protocols can substantially help people, but they need to be implemented in a way that is non-judgmental, inclusive, and understands systemic problems. Here, I start to discuss a path forward for a progressive and inclusive approach to self-help.

Episode Notes:

(Always rough, may contain errors.)

They don’t want you to be able to trust yourself when you know there is something wrong.

They blame you for everything, you cannot do anything right, so why listen to what you think? Then you only listen to what they think.

Health optimization/dopamine addiction narratives: 

People constantly questioning themselves about normal things like listening to music and watching TV, just like I’ve seen in strict religious environments.

Dopamine addiction is now being tied to almost everything

Because of the influence of these ideas in the San Francisco tech community, their terminology is even leaking into the way they discuss homelessness. 

Is instant gratification really the reason why people suffer? NO! 

It Is Not Dopamine Addiction, It Is Futility Aversion.

Based on their experience of working hard and never seeing the fruit of their labor, people rightly do not believe that working harder and harder will yield any different or better results. 

Jess’ video on religious asceticism and dopamine narratives: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT82FkkNt/

Jess’ website is sluggish.substack.com

All far-right ideologies keep you in a loop that keeps you from seeing the true systemic problems. 

People who are in bad situations already feel ashamed enough! 

People in bad situations are a lot smarter than the ivory tower gives them credit for. 

Even now fitness is moving away from more inclusive models like IIFYM to strict diets to fix so-called “dopamine addiction.” 

The term “processed food” is super ambiguous 

Personal finance – Dave Ramsey and Caleb Hammer:

Hammer commenters calling people immature, associating immaturity with people in hardship wanting better conditions and to be treated better 

Telling people to only work and sleep, but also meal prep everything 

The ironic importance of processed food for productivity (even as health optimization people say it’s terrible for productivity) and how we subsidize food impacts what food is available – Frenchy’s video on this: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT82FNecC/

Irony of strict budgeting to survive in capitalism is that the capitalist system depends on you to spend. Look at the RTO narrative.

Making you spend more and keeping you less financially healthy to “save downtowns.”

They don’t want you using your power, withholding your labor, they want you subservient

The common threat is that they don’t want you to know your own power

Finance experts will claim that you only need to severely deprive yourself and work extremely long hours for a few years to pay off your debt, that it’s only temporary, but claiming the suffering is temporary is totally false for most people.

Always feeling like you need to do more can ironically be a source of so-called distraction. 

Avoiding “instant gratification” aka poor people don’t deserve to be happy

Trying to do everything to become a so-called better person and climb out of poverty through optimization and frugality will lead to severe burnout. 

No one understands cognitive burden/load and workload capacity, and that there is substantial individual variation. You cannot work every moment you are awake. A free hour is not a free hour to do any specific thing there are certain times for someone can be awake, but incapable of doing work. 

Yes, there may be some “super” people who can do all of those things at the same time, but that’s not most people. 

Welfare reform is based around treating poor people as undeserving, forcing them into bad low wage jobs, even when they are qualified for better, and motivational rhetoric, blaming them for their own hardship. 

Uncertain Hour podcast from NPR on welfare reform: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/season-6-the-welfare-to-work-industrial-complex/

They want us to enforce these norms on each other so we blame each other, and those more marginalized among us for their problems. May not be a coincidence this stuff is regaining popularity with a recession coming.

The Economic Police State episode explains this tactic of capitalism getting us to do the bidding of the wealthy against each other in further depth and is very helpful in understanding this concept: https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2023/07/01/the-economic-police-state-is-coming-for-the-working-class-in-little-and-big-ways/

The solution is not to dismiss these ideas of improvement, but to get these concepts into conversation with the ideas of marginalized communities and systemic change 

These ideas in Health, Fitness, Finance, and Productivity can be very helpful to many people if we can find ways to adapt them and use them in an inclusive way. 

The 5 Keys to creating a more Progressive or Leftist Form of Self-Help: Positive, Inclusive, Empowering, Systemic, Supported

Got questions or comments about this episode? Have you faced oppression, have a story about bad bosses, a corrupt company, or another injustice you want to vent or spread the word about, or do you want to just share about your fitness or personal development journey? I’d love to hear from you!

Call in and leave a voicemail any time, day or night, toll-free at 844-477-PUNK (7865)

Or submit your question by email:

greyson@offspeedsolutions.com

Off Speed Solutions provides strategy and consulting for advocacy communications, digital marketing, websites, community engagement, day-to-day operational support, and media ecosystems. Proudly serving nonprofits, political organizations, individual advocates, media and content creators, entrepreneurs, and socially responsible enterprises. Learn more at http://www.offspeedsolutions.com

Follow on TikTok: https://www.TikTok.com/@fixerpunk

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fixerpunk

Follow on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/greysonnation

This podcast is not medical advice or professional advice of any sort. This content is for entertainment and general informational purposes only. We do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of the information herein. The viewer should not rely solely upon such and consult a competent professional before deciding to follow any course of action. Please promptly consult a qualified physician if you have any medical or mental health concerns.

Subscribe To The Podcast on Your Favorite Platform

I wanted to very briefly share my unique perspective on the controversy around Oliver Anthony and Rich Men North of Richmond, a country song that has gained much popularity among conservatives and was referenced during the GOP presidential debate. Many seem baffled by Anthony’s attempts to distance himself from Republican politicians and the seemingly contradictory blend of working class pro-labor sentiments and conservative welfare-shaming (I cover the fat-shaming aspects more at the end of the last episode) in the song. But based on my experience in conservative movements, his reflect a long-standing subset of right-libertarian ideology that has always operated in a populistic, anti-political manner, seemingly calling out the injustices caused by late stage capitalism, but pointing the blame at vaguely defined enemies, while ultimately serving conservative policy objectives. This is largely the result of the proliferation of conservative media, and hence political confusion amongst rural Americans. I believe that further left ideas that are not in the mainstream of the Democratic Party may likewise be able to engage this population who are facing issues progressive policies can solve but are unlikely to identify with either political party, yet are still largely influenced by conservative ideas. 

Programming note: A new full length episode will likely be posted in a couple days.

More on this at the end of last episode:

The Boss Who Requires Workers To Have Six Pack Abs and The Kayfabe of “Success Bros”

www.Fixerpunk.com

Got questions or comments about this episode? Have you faced oppression, have a story about bad bosses, a corrupt company, or another injustice you want to vent or spread the word about? I’d love to hear from you!
Call in and leave a voicemail any time, day or night, toll-free at 844-477-PUNK (7865)
Or submit your question by email:
greyson@offspeedsolutions.com

Off Speed Solutions provides strategy and consulting for advocacy communications, digital marketing, websites, community engagement, day-to-day operational support, and media ecosystems. Proudly serving nonprofits, political organizations, individual advocates, media and content creators, entrepreneurs, and socially responsible enterprises. Learn more at http://www.offspeedsolutions.c…

Follow on TikTok: https://www.TikTok.com/@fixerpunk

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fixe…

Follow on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/greyso…

This podcast is not professional advice of any sort. This content is for entertainment and general informational purposes only. We do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of the information herein. The viewer should not rely solely upon such and consult a competent professional before deciding to follow any course of action.

Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform

Recent polls have shown Democrats’ support has significantly declined among young men, specifically 12th grade high schoolers, lower income, less educated, and even Black and Latino voters. This should come as no surprise, given how Democrats have failed in all areas of long-term cultural engagement, focus on issues that do not resonate with these groups, currently lack a positive vision, as opposed to simply defending against threats from the right, and especially have not engaged adequately in narratives of positive masculinity to counter the right’s claims to vulnerable men. I explain how the Democrats’ current focus on 3 main points: Republicans/Trump are a threat to democracy, Republicans/Trump are a threat to minority identity groups, and “everything is fine now, keep it that way,” have helped in the short-term with more educated voters but ignore or even repel these key groups.

Somewhat paradoxically to conventional political wisdom, I feel that further left and more progressive ideas and groups can achieve far better success in these demographic groups that typical liberal/Democratic politics have left behind. These ideas can address the long-standing issues with material conditions that conservatives and the far-right have pushed false narratives about the cause of and fake solutions in a way liberals simply cannot. And they can create long-term engagement and narratives that combine strength with inclusion to help those who feel abandoned create community and seek true solutions to the systemic causes of their tribulation. There are very real issues that they face which Democrats exclude for short-term political reasons, but need to be addressed by someone. Right now that someone is the right, but it doesn’t have to be. Even if Democrats cannot address them, left-wing groups outside the mainstream of Democratic politics can act in a similar fashion to conservative groups, such as the Tea Party and Trump’s early supporters.  that were not initially embraced by the GOP but later became a major part of its support and changed its policy direction.

Continue reading “How Progressives & Leftists Can Win Over Groups Mainstream Democrats Have Failed”

Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform

Both the finances of organizations and the finances of the people in our community, especially those who are involved in activism, individually matter to the success of progressive and leftist movements. Better financial security serves the goal of helping uplift the working class, and also makes for more effective activism.

The Economic Police State episode that is frequently referenced in this episode: https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2023/07/01/the-economic-police-state-is-coming-for-the-working-class-in-little-and-big-ways/

Continue reading “Money Matters for Progressives & Left Movements + Personal Finance Without Poor-Shaming”

Subscribe on Your Favorite Platform

A recent tweet by MSNBC of an article about far-right and white supremacist radicalization in fitness and combat sports like mixed martial arts has drawn substantial attention and controversy to an issue that I have long viewed as imperative to protecting democracy and helping progressive movements gain support from young men in particular. Exposing these issues and the nefarious characters starting white supremacist MMA gyms and online groups is important, but rhetoric should be designed to show that the left does not oppose fitness and combat sports themselves. In fact, the left should be involved in fitness and combat sports, create alternatives for populations vulnerable to bad actors, and can both prevent radicalization and provide much benefit to the fitness community. There is a way to balance both the need for body positivity and the desire of many to become strong athletes and realize their full potential. Leftism and progressivism must not be known as the ideologies of weakness and defeat.

 

MSNBC article by Cynthia Miller-Idriss about white supremacist and far-right groups recruiting through online fitness communities:

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/pandemic-fitness-trends-have-gone-extreme-literally-n1292463?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma&taid=64abebca8cb4af0001865cf7&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

 

Article about the controversy surrounding the MSNBC article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12284617/amp/MSNBC-op-ed-slammed-online-claiming-working-linked-far-right-politics.html

 

If you are interested in preventing radicalization in fitness communities and creating a positive, progressive, leftist approach to fitness, I have more insights in these episodes:

https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2022/12/22/toward-an-inclusive-progressive-approach-to-bodybuilding-physique-and-strength-sports/

 

Episode on Liver King, right-wing fitness influencers, and how progressives can contribute to and influence  the fitness narrative:

https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2022/12/15/liver-king-and-why-fitness-communities-matter-for-inclusion-and-progressive-organizing/

 

As I discussed, pro wrestling has some amazing examples with progressive and leftist athletes showing a new path for positive masculinity, fitness, and combat sports. Adam Page is one of my favorite exemplars of this and my article “Can A Millennial Cowboy Wrestler’s Ways Help Save Our Social and Political Discourse?” will introduce you to his story and the lessons from his approach: https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2021/07/28/can-a-millennial-cowboy-wrestlers-ways-save-our-social-and-political-discourse/

 

Fighting Toxic Masculinity with Pro Wrestling episode:

https://podcast.greysonpeltier.com/wp/2023/01/14/fighting-toxic-masculinity-with-pro-wrestling-adam-page-for-president/

 

Article discussing narratives of “redemptive combat,” a new approach we can take to help young men see their strength in a non-toxic manner:

https://www.prowrestlingmusings.com/post/entering-jon-moxley-s-narrative-of-redemptive-combat

 

Got questions or comments about this episode? Is there another political or social issue you’d like me to cover? Have you faced oppression, have a story about bad bosses, a corrupt company, or another injustice you want to vent or spread the word about? I’d love to hear from you! Call in and leave a voicemail any time, day or night, toll free at 844-477-PUNK (7865)

Or submit your question by email:

greyson@offspeedsolutions.com

 

Off Speed Solutions provides strategy and consulting for advocacy communications, digital marketing, websites, community engagement, day-to-day operational support, and media ecosystems. Proudly serving nonprofits, political organizations, individual advocates, media and content creators, entrepreneurs, and socially responsible enterprises. Learn more at http://www.offspeedsolutions.com

 

Follow on TikTok: https://www.TikTok.com/@fixerpunk

 

Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fixerpunk

 

Follow on Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/greysonnation

 

This podcast is not professional advice of any sort. This content is for entertainment and general informational purposes only. We do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of the information herein. The viewer should not rely solely upon such and consult a competent professional before deciding to follow any course of action.

Subscribe on your favorite platform 

What do the Supreme Court’s student loan ruling, Netflix sharing rules, Costco aggressively checking membership cards, return to office plans, and increases in homelessness all have in common? The Economic Police State operates on a system of surveillance, control, and seemingly random rules, randomly singling out people to take economic blows, that build up silently to intimidate the working class, while setting the narrative so you, the worker, enforce the wealthy capitalists’ order for them while judging your fellow worker. It starts with little things, subtle mechanisms to increase profits by charging more and paying workers less, taking small comforts away from the customer and employee experience while blaming so-called freeloaders, so you cheer on the capitalists’ attempts to recapture their profits rather than have class solidarity with those affected. But in its more serious form it knocks the most vulnerable off the economic ladder in the hopes that the masses will gaslight them. 

 

Episode notes (always rough, may contain errors):

 

• We’ve already talked quite about employers enforcing more workplace rules, no work from home, being far more picky for good jobs, but there’s bad changes on the consumer side too.

 

• The Economic Police State sets the narrative so you, the working class, enforces the wealthy capitalists’ order for them.

 

• They are using enforcement, surveillance, and “small” changes to push profits out of the working class both as workers and consumers, and for the corporate class to assert its power dynamic. And they are pitting workers against each other to fight their battles.

 

• Sets up the tone for “everything’s fine, it’s just you” or “you must be doing something wrong.”

 

• They bait the “good upper middle class worker” to look down, sneer, and taunt those who are down with ease, and accuse them of stealing.

 

• The “I pay my bills” comments are rampant on anything related to student loans.

 

• Increasing prices to pad profits is just the start

 

• The difference between the economic police state and straight-up recession is that the former picks off the most vulnerable and gives them the most punishment.

• Side hustles and the creator economy are drying up. Fewer DoorDash deliveries available, less capital in the tech sector. This means people are forced back into the low wage slave economy.

 

• Shawnee, KS bans roommates

https://www.kcur.org/housing-development-section/2023-05-10/shawnee-kansas-co-living-ban-roommates-federal-lawsuit

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT8e9bWVG/

• Buying a home and living with roommates can get you out of the landlord system. Email me at greyson@offspeedsolutions.com to get a great real estate agent anywhere in the USA. (Licensed by the  California DRE # 02101592)
• Spying on workers to get more productivity, distrusting workers and sending them back to the office. Saying remote workers are pretending to work. Making us look like we’re working is more important than productivity.

 

• Companies less generous in helping customers during bad economic times. No mercy when they’re trying to recoup profits.

 

• Bad customer service is the fault of big companies making cuts but they use workers as a shield – More Perfect Union video explains it well: https://youtu.be/6JhobRAWDzg

 

• Netflix sharing issues, Costco going crazy with membership cards

 

• The cuts to customer service, hours from COVID have become permanent

 

• These things tend to be permanent

 

• Cuts from 2008 still in effect today

 

• Industry consolidation accelerates with bad economic times

 

• Real estate agents turning to fraudulent investment schemes, creatives turning to copyright trolling, have to keep the facade with fraud (as Patrick Lovell says)

 

• People doing the bidding of capitalism is a big part of the economic police state

 

• Promoting an “I’ve got mine” attitude. The political and business leaders are booking an everyone for themselves, Royal Rumble-type attitude. Workers fighting each other.

 

• Making workers a part of enforcing capital’s rule

 

• Call center subreddit is veers into pro-company and anti-consumer advocacy and work from home subreddit still has some anti-worker sentiment and especially gets upset at “low-skilled workers” and those with disabilities 

 

• Politics Done Right podcast featured documentary series “The Big Con” with Patrick Lovell discussing how Americans were fleeced during the 2008 recession: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6hpelT4R3gevrqRZBarzBB?si=d2cmwVfJSvypXunZw2Pm_w

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7mXbxbZX7mxqpEiMkHvf8g?si=RABQCm7HTi657BJ0eH5KqA

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0klPQxuMlb1O00ZxUECvmn?si=JXvPbp30QYqf2bCtXUJarQ

 

 It states that in the financial crisis some bank employees were given gift cards as incentives for foreclosing on people

 

• The corporations weaponize government for their own purposes.

 

• Legal system corruption and weaponization – judges assisting in foreclosure based on campaign donations

 

• Quote from The Big Con documentary: “A perfect crime is a crime that involves everybody” 

 

• Los Angeles city homelessness increased by 10%. Another case of conomically vulnerable being picked off.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-29/la-county-homelessness-unhoused-population-count-jumps-increase?utm_source=reddit.com

 

• Of course it is! We have withdrawn pandemic aid that helped people breathe and save, layoffs for good jobs, $71k is low income in LA, and done nothing for affordable housing

 

• Financial markets profit off of failures. Most of the money is not from investing in the real economy.

 

• COVID pandemic economic leniency is unlike any recession before.

Start preparing now: 

• Maintain a high level of savings and an have an

“escape plan” from bad bosses

• You need to be on high alert for bad business and financial deals.
• Be ready to know the legal system to defend against any collections issues

Got questions or comments about this episode? Is there another political or social issue you’d like me to cover? How will the student loan forgiveness being struck down affect your life? Are you facing the economic police state? Have you faced oppression, have a story about bad bosses, a corrupt company, or another injustice you want to vent or spread the word about? I’d love to hear from you! Call in and leave a voicemail any time, day or night, toll free at 844-477-PUNK (7865)

Or submit your question by email:

greyson@offspeedsolutions.com

 

Off Speed Solutions provides strategy and consulting for advocacy communications, digital marketing, websites, community engagement, day-to-day operational support, and media ecosystems. Proudly serving nonprofits, political organizations, individual advocates, media and content creators, entrepreneurs, and socially responsible enterprises. Learn more at http://www.offspeedsolutions.com

 

This is not financial advice. This content is for entertainment and general informational purposes only. We do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of the information herein. The viewer should not rely solely upon such and consult a competent professional before deciding to follow any course of action.

Subscribe To The Podcast On Your Favorite Platform

 

Happy Father’s Day and Happy Juneteenth tomorrow for all who celebrate.  I continue the discussion of the Repressed Warrior Paradox by explaining the key principles and steps in terms of self-care and mindset that activists, entrepreneurs, and other unlikely high performers need to follow if they are experiencing the puzzling combination of being fought as the biggest threat ever while being ridículed for their weakness and called things like whiny or lazy, and feeling defeated, kicked when you’re down. There is hope, if you choose to train and embrace your inner warrior the right way. Listen to the prior episode to know who these ideas are most important for.

 

But briefly, the Repressed Warrior Paradox is where those with strong potential are held down and being fought back against out of proportion with what they expect, and they don’t realize that is because of their extremely strong potential to create both social change and personal victory. Because they don’t see their own potential, they will back down or be blindsided and are prepared to be the kind of fighter they need to be, and are on the inside, to ultimately achieve their potential for unexpected victory.

 

Episode Notes: 

 

Notes are always rough and may contain errors/typos. 

 

Don’t go into a fight blind and untrained.

 

If you Internalize Repressive Ideas, you lose their ability to create change and can destroy your potential

 

Those with potential in oppressed populations have this happen more often, so if you are a POC, LGBTQ+, disabled, it’s more likely

 

The actions of those who are oppressed to seek political or economic power most frequently fall in that category. For example Black Lives Matter is seen by some conservatives both as weak cry babies and the greatest threat to America of all time.

 

Why are conservatives so scared of “weak and lazy” leftists?

 

You may be strong but viewed as excessively sensitive

 

Even (and sometimes especially) when you were at your weakest, worst moment, they see you as a threat

 

You may not be able to rely on the normal systems so you have to be very prepared and stronger than normal, even as people perceive you as weaker or you are in need.

 

From a policy perspective, safety nets are designed for an average person and with other interests in mind, largely conformity and capitalism (sometimes real estate and community nuisance/NIMBY too)

 

The workplace can far too often be more about abusing people to give bosses a rise than it is about productivity

 

Won’t be able to work yourself up the ranks. you have to leap

 

You may need to consider entrepreneurship (but also consider unionizing/organizing your workplace for better conditions)

 

This is why you need to especially make sure you are financially prepared to not have a job, if you have to quit or become unemployed otherwise, and not have to rely on a bad boss at a low-wage job you’re forced into by necessity or manipulative “welfare to work” systems

 

Make sure you maintain more than adequate savings. I have other episodes on high yield savings accounts and using CDs to make sure you don’t spend your savings 

 

Listen to The Uncertain Hour from NPR for more on the ills of the so-called “welfare to work” system: https://www.marketplace.org/shows/the-uncertain-hour/season-6-the-welfare-to-work-industrial-complex/amp/

 

You may get ridiculed by comparison eg. someone saying “I have seen people with worse disabilities do really well under the conventional way.”

 

You’re not going to be  the “model minority” or “model disabled person” etc. per se

 

The people who keep commenting on my TikTok video about the disabled person being kicked out of her mom’s house. A bad case of “generational warfare” in the comments section but also a case study of people demeaning young people living at home as a threat but also weak and lazy. 

 

You may be the exact opposite of a tailored high performance lifestyle or the stereotype of a “successful person” who needs one.

 

Things will look different for you than the hustle culture Huberman Lab obsessed Tech Bro

 

You may have difficulty with compliance. It just means you have to do so in a different way.

 

Analyzing the statement “This is a ruthless world and you must be ruthless to cope with it.”

Should it be this way? Absolutely not.

 

Maybe you can’t get away with things the way normal people can.

 

How you do it will be more unique and perhaps stricter than others, or maybe less strict.

 

It could be that nothing less than peak performance works for you because you have more to overcome

 

• What to do:

Embrace it and know that’s who you are. Just knowing can help you not become hopeless when you see all this negative stuff happen. Stop fighting yourself.

 

Most important is to know what works for you and stick with it!

 

Become who you’ve dreamed of being. If you don’t, it will blow up inside you.

 

Ignoring it or trying to make yourself feel better about your failure only makes things worse. Being weaker makes it worse. Accommodate and care for yourself but don’t succumb to weakness.

 

Don’t let their imputation of weakness become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

 

Focus on key practices and knowledge. Care for your physical and mental health. Be trained for high stress. Know when to back out.

 

Getting beaten up before you can get up creates a death spiral. Victory, not submission, is the only remedy.

 

The right environment that allows you to be you is key, not trying to make you something you aren’t.

 

Hard to get the right resources to perform well with a unique personality when you’re oppressed

 

Invest in yourself when you can

 

Avoid excessive judgmental rhetoric, but don’t avoid all difficult things

 

Take control of your own development. They want you to stay weak and easy to beat up, so the threat is neutralized. Systems may not help you how they help others.

 

Focus on results and what you uniquely want, not on behavioral compliance

 

Remember your nature is to fight behavioral control, though some people do well with harder rules sometimes if they are aligned with them.

 

You can burn out far more easily as well, so you may not be able to be constantly working really hard. It’s hard to find an environment that will allow you to use your value and not hurt you.

 

You have to find the balance between not being demeaned, shamed, or burned out, and being pushed to be better. Other people may respond better than you to typical tactics.

 

Be vulnerable and kind, but don’t let yourself be knocked down

 

Preparation is key. You may have to work a lot harder because you have strength and capabilities you don’t know you have. Be prepared to share your expertise and toot your own horn.

 

Be more diligent and careful than usual.

 

Get The RIGHT mental health care – you need to consider a provider with a mental performance approach if possible rather than only alleviating symptoms or sedating you

 

Your warrior side can come out at the absolute worst possible time in the worst possible way. Be prepared and try to avoid those kinds of situations. Take some time to think and back away for a moment.

 

You have a lot more power. Easier to hurt someone with a 90 mph fastball than a 60 mph fastball. You need to have more control.

 

Fighting too hard at the wrong time especially can be your downfall.

 

You have to be more disciplined than normal but it can be harder to do so in a “normal” way or a rule-bound manner

But know this can make you worse as well. Know what works for you and stick with it

 

Regular health and psychological screenings by a qualified doctor (ideally one trained in performance)

are imperative

 

Again sadly challenging to get the right care for those with poor socioeconomic status

 

You have to find what is exactly right for you and stick with it, whether it’s more or less structure or discipline.

 

Policy change is needed to create a more inclusive world that doesn’t require extreme level of victory to survive it.

 

Use your power and unique strength to create social change while also improving your own life and achieving your victory. This is your special opportunity to not only help yourself but also others. Take this opportunity and do it. 

 

Don’t be afraid to seek help but choose the right help that gets your values, your ideas, and your personality. You may need to offload some things.

 

Contact Off Speed Solutions for support with your advocacy or business goals with communications strategy and implementation, including social media, content marketing, digital and traditional media, and cultural analysis, and a variety of other business support services! OffSpeedSolutions.com

 

Just because you are not perfect and haven’t had the love/support from others or haven’t had the victory or success, doesn’t mean you aren’t capable of great things.

 

The fact that you were feeling this way, the fact that you’re seeing this opposition, means that you can have success beyond what you imagined.

 

These are just a start. More ideas to come. Follow for more.

 

Got questions or comments about this episode? Is there another political or social issue you’d like me to cover? Are you realizing you are a repressed warrior seeing how opposition indicates you have more potential than you think and want to tell your story? Have you faced oppression, have a story about bad bosses, a corrupt company, or another injustice you want to vent or spread the word about? I’d love to hear from you! Call in and leave a voicemail any time, day or night, toll free at 844-477-PUNK (7865)

Or submit your question by email:

greyson@offspeedsolutions.com

 

Off Speed Solutions provides strategy and consulting for advocacy communications, digital marketing, websites, community engagement, day-to-day operational support, and media ecosystems. Proudly serving nonprofits, political organizations, individual advocates, media and content creators, entrepreneurs, and socially responsible enterprises. Learn more at http://www.offspeedsolutions.com

 

If you suspect any medical or mental health concern, please promptly consult a qualified physician. 

 

This content is for entertainment and general informational purposes only. We do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of the information herein. The viewer should not rely solely upon such and consult a competent professional before deciding to follow any course of action.

Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform

Facing opposition and challenges way beyond what you expected? Feeling like you’re always being kicked when you’re down? Noticing a strange pattern of being called weak and small, while you’re being treated as the biggest threat in the world? It could be a sign you have strong potential and will succeed in a bigger and better way than you expect. Whether you are an activist for a marginalized community, trying to advance from a lower socioeconomic status, building a business with a new, unconventional set of ideas, or doing anything that bucks the establishment, you don’t want to miss this episode. Develop a strong, fighting mindset, don’t internalize the ways they make you seem to be weak, overcome the ridicule, and stick to your values and uniqueness to gain success in advocacy and in your personal goals.

 

This episode introduces what I have termed the Repressed Warrior Paradox, where those with strong potential are held down and being fought back against out of proportion with what they expect, and they don’t realize that is because of their extremely strong potential to create both social change and personal victory. Because they don’t see their own potential, they will back down or be blindsided and are prepared to be the kind of fighter they need to be, and are on the inside to ultimately achieve their potential for unexpected victory. This is the first of three parts, in three episodes – this episode is focused on describing the typology. Next are individual steps if you are facing this experience to feel more confident and achieve success, and discussing the systemic designs that keep people with strong potential down, and how we can create better policies in a better society that allows more people to achieve at their highest level. 

Notes: 

 

You’re an activist and realize that somehow weak, lazy people are the biggest threat in the world to conservatives. Why? 

 

Major principle: Today’s nuisance can be tomorrow’s champion

 

The Repressed Warrior Paradox typology:

You are being beaten up on, you just want to live your life, but can’t.

 

Wondering why things are so hard for you.

 

You just can’t fit in and nothing can go your way, and everything is harder for you, but you just can’t point out why

 

Ridiculed even when doing the right thing.

 

You just can’t do things the way others can do them, but you can do a lot more than them

 

A lot of potential but just cannot make it in conventional spaces and manners

 

You are frequently a failure, but not because you’re bad, but because you disagree or you just cannot stand how things are done.

 

You may be strong but viewed as excessively sensitive

 

Even little stuff may seem harder, this sometimes comes along with neurodivergence but is not the same)

 

Has to do more with an anti-authoritarian attitude

 

For seemingly no good reason, being knocked out for extended periods of time. Left defeated, confused, and helpless.

 

You’re called weak, lazy, a whiner, despite of how hard you work, and are also somehow a massive threat, public enemy #1

 

You feel you’re not conventionally strong or smart but there’s a small voice that tells you that vou are better than you are being told. Maybe you have shown strong potential and achievement in the past but maybe not now.

 

Oppressed populations have this happen more often, so if you are a POC, LGBTQ+, disabled, it’s more likely.

 

Kicked when you are down. Why? Maybe it’s because you are a threat and stronger and more capable of victory than you think.

 

Happens to anyone who has the ability to validate or spread ideas the establishment does not like.

 

They want to knock you out before you can ever win. Interference comes to take you out ahead of time because you are a big threat, a bigger threat with more of a chance of victory than you ever believed.

 

Simply put: the better of a fighter you are, the more likely you are to get badly beaten up. And this has less to do with physical fights than it does potential and oppression.

 

Orange Cassidy – sometimes staying low-key and underestimated can be a strategic advantage

 

Embrace that you are a warrior and capable of victory

 

This comes with needing to live a more high performance lifestyle, and taking steps to stay prepared. I will explain more on the practical steps to feel better and start succeeding on the next episode.

 

You have a lot more power. You need to be more careful than normal and show control. It’s easier to hurt someone with a 90 mph fastball than a 60 mph fastball. 

 

www.Fixerpunk.com

 

Got questions or comments about this episode? Is there another political or social issue you’d like me to cover? Are you realizing you are a repressed warrior seeing how opposition indicates you have more potential than you think and want to tell your story? Have you faced oppression, have a story about bad bosses, a corrupt company, or another injustice you want to vent or spread the word about? I’d love to hear from you! Call in and leave a voicemail any time, day or night, toll free at 844-477-PUNK (7865)

Or submit your question by email:

greyson@offspeedsolutions.com

 

Off Speed Solutions provides strategy and consulting for advocacy communications, community engagement, day-to-day operational support, and media ecosystems. Proudly serving nonprofits, political organizations, individual advocates, media and content creators, and socially responsible enterprises. Learn more at http://www.offspeedsolutions.com

 

If you suspect any medical or mental health concern, please promptly consult a qualified physician. 

 

This content is for entertainment and general informational purposes only. We do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of the information herein. The viewer should not rely solely upon such and consult a competent professional before deciding to follow any course of action.

 

Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform

Inside Safe, the initiative created by new Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to move unhoused people out of encampments into hotel and motel rooms and ultimately more permanent housing has recently come under fire for poor, unsanitary conditions, uncaring staff, lack of food, poor communication, and sometimes ridiculous policies. Mutual aid groups, and other advocacy organizations involved with the homeless have termed the program “Inside Starving” and established a website showing atrocious stories of incompetence and poor quality services from the program: http://www.insidestarving.com

 

This is a perfect example of how homeless service programs fail on the basics of customer experience and make themselves ineffective by not doing the little things right. It also shows the pervasive attitude of not treating unhoused people as equals which ultimately results in negative publicity, a bad reputation of services amongst the unhoused community, poor adoption of the services by unhoused people, reluctance to accept future services, and ultimately program failure. Just by following the same steps of hospitality one would show to a customer in the private sector, or even a guest in your own home and having a systemic attitude shifters towards such, we can make these programs actually work without having to resort to the use of force. 

 

The episode is a little rough and ran longer than expected, so my apologies.

 

Notes:

 

Inside Safe program is way better than other efforts but could use some improvement to say the least

 

No food, jail-like conditions, very

unsanitary, roaches, etc., no toiletries, not able to go to their work

 

Someone’s tent got thrown away and didn’t get a room because he was in the hospital getting amputation surgery. This is who needs the help!

 

The homeless service people all ordered themselves food but didn’t get food for anyone else

 

Homeless service providers should listen to marketers. We also make people do things they don’t want to do, but we can’t hold a gun to your head to make you buy something.

 

My approach includes both policy expertise and marketing and sales knowledge, which is somewhat uncommon among social service providers, who see their customer as donors only and those people who know only work with donors

 

Inside Safe’s “customer” is seen as those adversely affected by encampments

 

The solution is not more coercion, it’s better services!

 

Overall patronizing inconsiderate attitude, even if they want to help and care, this is part of the system

 

They wouldn’t do this to someone they invited over their house for example

 

A decent meal is cheap! Anyone organizing some kind of event knows this.

 

Homeless communities stick together, have a form of solidarity, and inform each other.

 

Word of mouth spreads

 

It’s just like product reviews, but why don’t we see it that way?

 

Capitalism makes it so that when we provide a service to one type of people we feel like we can do it badly, even when it’s easy to do it better. 

 

Give them something nice! People are happy when you treat them (and feed them) well. Doesn’t take much more money than what you were already spending

 

There’s a major difference in how the private and public sectors do temporary housing. It’s not impossible to get it right. I got temporary housing through insurance. It was great. This isn’t hard.

 

Make them feel good about their decision, like it’s exclusive and a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

 

Call staff “concierges” and little,stupid stuff like that, along with the substantive things that hospitality and human decency would call for. 

 

Feed them! You do that at sales presentations to get them to talk to you. Give them the continental breakfast when you show up or something like that. 

 

Or give them a brown bag once on the bus so it creates incentive, if you must make it only for those who accept the offer.

 

People who stay in the encampment are your top of funnel prospects, so still nurture those relationships.

 

Going through Inside Starving demands

 

This is an exchange. The homeless people have something the city wants and the city has something they want. The advocates need to get this. The city needs to as well.

 

You’ve got to give the people what they want, which is safe, accessible public spaces

 

One of them said don’t focus on aesthetics and “no cameras when council members come.” I think there should be limits and not get credit where it’s not due but this is an exchange. Let them get the recognition for doing something good.

 

Having a sanitary environment and not having drugs and crime are reasonable.

 

Both sides are going to posture. Like by saying that they shouldn’t have to give up their tent. But please don’t let the perfect become the enemy of the good.

Got questions or comments about this episode? Is there another political or social issue you’d like me to cover? Have you faced oppression, have a story about bad bosses, a corrupt company, or another injustice you want to vent or spread the word about? I’d love to hear from you. Call in and leave a voicemail any time, day or night, toll free at 844-477-PUNK (7865)

Or submit your question by email:

greyson@offspeedsolutions.com

 

 

Off Speed Solutions provides strategy and consulting for advocacy communications, community engagement, day-to-day operational support, and media ecosystems. Proudly serving nonprofits, political organizations, individual advocates, media and content creators, and socially responsible enterprises. Learn more at http://www.offspeedsolutions.com

 

This content is for entertainment and general informational purposes only. We do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of the information herein. The viewer should not rely solely upon such and consult a competent professional before deciding to follow any course of action.

 

Subscribe On Your Favorite Platform

Fixing The Fixerpunk episodes cover ideas about changing yourself and society from my own self-development process. These are generally far more unstructured episodes.

 

The inspiration for the title of today’s episode comes from Brandon Cutler’s quote from his match against Jon Moxley and Claudio Castagnoli of the Blackpool Combat Club: “What do you do when the people that stand up to bullies aren’t here anymore? You Stand Tall, You Don’t Back Down, and You Be Elite!” I feel these words are very instructive amidst the manufactured debt ceiling crisis, created by Congressional Republican bullies (whom I will term the Black Pill Combat Club, get it?) who are holding the world economy hostage. I likewise feel they are applicable as pressures from the economic situation and a variety of manufactured crises are being applied to distract and intimidate workers seeking better conditions and a more equitable economy, and to those advocating for changes to create a better society through public investments in our social safety net, clean energy, and other programs that are being put on the chopping block.

 

• TikTok Live coming soon? http://TikTok.com/@fixerpunk
• The goal of the livestream is to help others through their journeys
• Key principle: Everything takes longer than it should
• Our idea of self improvement is based on that people know instinctively what they should do, and it’s the lack of resources more often that stops them from doing it, judgment and authoritarian ideas don’t help
• One important “rule”: As soon as you see something go wrong, do not let it linger without taking care of it
• Why this podcast has gotten deeper into politics
• We need to address the systemic issues and crises that prevent people from reaching their potential
• People are struggling out there, but we have to take time away to deal with contrived problems made up by people who want to oppress other people
• We get distracted by random crises, pathological or not, in our lives too
• A lot of today’s politics, especially with the GOP controlling the narrative, is fake issues designed to distract and take back progress
• COVID pandemic created astonishing progress around actually helping people economically
• Lots of people’s economic situations improved due to relief programs
• Even low-wage jobs started treating people better
• From this foundation, maybe now we have a chance to start building a better world.
• This debt ceiling situation is designed to get you to believe that our chance to create a more economically just world with less inequality is no longer possible and that your leverage against oppressive bosses is gone.
• Remember what your purpose and intention really is before you sell yourself short
• Very carefully define what an “opportunity” is to you so you don’t define the scraps they give you in a crisis as your purpose and goal
• My purpose is to advocate for others and find solutions to our economic and political state for those who have been oppressed can reach their full potential
• The false “wisdom” around economic talks
• What Darby Allin and Sammy Guevara can teach us about purpose, bad advice about “playing it safe,” and not selling out when given false “opportunity”
• Sammy Guevara retweeted me!
• Going beyond what others expect of you,
• listening to others can keep you stuck and not achieving your dreams
• There is practicality, reality, and time that need to be considered
• Having some fun before it all crumbles down
• Getting preoccupied with your worries when you are supposed to be having fun
• The Superkick Party Ahead of the Apocalypse
• Have fun responsibly and it can give you hope, it will help you know why you are doing all that hard work
• You have to know why you are putting yourself through the suffering and pain of whatever effort you are putting in
• If you lose sight of what will make you feel good, you won’t want to do the hard work
• Stagnated in the area of fitness, not feeling as motivated about summer as I expected
• Enrolled in a fitness challenge, still not motivated around diet and dropping fat
• Being consistent in the gym, getting stronger though
• Building a tolerance to dopamine
• My key nutrition strategy has been substituting unhealthy foods for healthier, similar ones with protein and fiber
• Have a ton of healthier snacks and junk food substitutes like Skinny Pop popcorn, Fiber One 70 calorie brownies, Quest frosted cookies, Chobani zero sugar yogurt, etc.
• You have to understand where your body has a limit and isn’t in tune with your goals. No matter what motivation you have, it might just not go.
• Have I weakened myself inadvertently? Hard to tell when you can push yourself more
• Hard to get experts in coaching for achievement and goals with neurodivergence
• Many are not economically able or socially discouraged to seek expert help
• Detecting scams and frauds. Maybe a new topic for the show?
• Your personal life and household tasks can be a bit too inefficient
• Find solutions that work for you
• Am I using too many of my resources on things that don’t matter?
• It’s okay to do things that you like even if others don’t get it
• When you are not able to be yourself, you won’t perform well
• Employers try to motivate with shock, anger, threats, and micromanagement, but that doesn’t work, especially long-term
• Employers’ motivational tactics won’t work if you are economically deprived and not being compensated well.
• “Shut up and go back to work” people don’t realize that this shame and force doesn’t create productivity or performance.
• Compensation, respect, and purpose create productivity
• The world’s leading high performance experts have moved to a 4 day work week, because they know it improves performance
• Standing up politically helps us to be better as we help others

Got questions or comments about this episode? Is there another political or social issue you’d like me to cover? Have you faced oppression, have a story about bad bosses, a corrupt company, or another injustice you want to vent or spread the word about? I’d love to hear from you. Call in and leave a voicemail any time, day or night, toll free at 844-477-PUNK (7865)

Or submit your question by email:

greyson@offspeedsolutions.com

 

 

Off Speed Solutions provides strategy and consulting for advocacy communications, community engagement, day-to-day operational support, and media ecosystems. Proudly serving nonprofits, political organizations, individual advocates, media and content creators, and socially responsible enterprises. Learn more at http://www.offspeedsolutions.com

 

This content is for entertainment and general informational purposes only. We do not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of the information herein. The viewer should not rely solely upon such and consult a competent professional before deciding to follow any course of action.