Aggressively Human: Online Business in the Age of AI, Algorithms & Automations

"Feminist Rants Are My Superpower": Intersectional Leadership with Becky Mollenkamp


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How do we build businesses and community inside a broken system—without replicating that system in our own work?

By leading through an intersectional, feminist, and collective lens.

In this episode, we talk with Becky Mollenkamp about what it means to build and lead this way: grounded in shared power, mutual care, and collective growth. Becky shares how her work as a coach and podcaster has evolved over the years, why she’s no longer trying to “go it alone,” and how building in community has been the most liberating move of all. We also talk about what it really means to earn money ethically, challenge systems without burning out, and keep showing up (even in the chaos of summer).

We also get into the behind-the-scenes of launching multiple podcasts, navigating Substack and social media with ethics intact, and the real tension of building a business when you care deeply about people and want to pay your bills without selling your soul.

This is a conversation for anyone trying to build something different in a world that rewards “the one right way to build.”

* How Becky’s proximity to the Ferguson uprising catalyzed a shift in her perspective

* The real difference between commerce and capitalism (and why most pricing models get this wrong)

* What it means to build a business rooted in mutuality, not hierarchy

* What the hell to do with Substack, Meta, and other imperfect tools

* The behind-the-scenes of stewarding multiple podcasts, and the choice to have a co-host or not

* The problem with trying to do it all alone—and how Becky’s moving toward collective action over solo growth

* Why podcasting might just be the most human way to have the conversations we actually want to have

“Yeah, I can come up with lots of ideas, but they're always richer when it's done in collective with these other women who have different lived experiences than me. And then, yeah, I'll move the ball forward. I love moving the ball forward, but I'm more excited now. I'm moving the ball forward with these ideas that are so much more richer.” - Becky

About our Guest

Becky Mollenkamp

Feminist Podcasters Collective

Feminist Founders

Messy Liberation

Assigned Reading

Mentioned Resources

Tema Okun’s Essay

Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein

The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist

“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House” — Audre Lorde

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Meg Casebolt

Jessica Lackey



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