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EP 16: The Performance Tax: The Price Black People Pay to Succeed (Ft. Savon & Antoinette from the Can’t Afford Therapy Podcast)
Some rooms don't just ask you to show up.They ask you to perform.
To soften your voice. To shrink your personality. To make yourself "easier" to digest. To become a version of yourself that feels acceptable even if it doesn't feel authentic.
For Black professionals, that performance often becomes second nature. We call it being professional. We call it code-switching. We call it reading the room.
But every performance has a cost.
In this episode of (L)Earned The Hard Way, Kier Gaines sits down with Savon and Antoinette, hosts of the award-winning Can't Afford Therapy Podcast, for a…
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