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EP 393: Self Help, LLC: Selling Empowerment with Kelly Diels

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You're the Queen of Your Life

In the first episode of this series, i unpacked the winner loser narrative that makes up so much of the foundation of contemporary self help advice. While watching the real houseives can be fun and valuable in terms of watching women not being miserable, at least some of the time, this depiction of carefree, abandon and overwhelming wealth comes at the expense of the oppression of others. Here's how mcgee put it: If everyone is busy making sure they get to be all they can be, then who will clean the houe, cook the dinners, diper the babies and nurse the infirm? Not to mention labor in the factories, sweep the streets, drive the taxis and load

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