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Love Letters to Troublemakers
Your BS detector isn't broken — corporate culture just trained you to ignore it. Love Letters is the podcast for anyone who has ever suspected the problem isn’t us. We name what's broken at work, back it up with receipts, and build real power with workers who are done performing. No productivity hacks. No personal brand advice. Just honest analysis and a community ready to change the status quo. New episodes weekly.
Episodes
- Love Letters to Troublemakers
E20. AI Future of Work Multiverse
"Organizations, they're not bystanders to AI and impact on jobs. They're the architects. And so when things happen, it was not by chance, by magic, by fiat…
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E19. Are Nonprofit Boards Failing the Sector?
Are Nonprofit Boards Failing the Sector? The Cost of Dysfunction & How to Fix It Did you know there are nearly two million nonprofit organizations in the…
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E18. Corporate Gaslighting & Pay-to-Play Awards
Welcome to Season 2 of Love Letters to Troublemakers (formerly Circle Back Club): (Not) The Best Places to Work. In our season premiere, Aparna Rae and…
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Not The Best Places To Work
Welcome to Season 2 of Love Letters to Troublemakers (formerly Circle Back Club). This season, we are launching an open-source investigation into the sacred…
- Love Letters to Troublemakers
E17. Is AI a Psychosocial Workplace Hazard? A Conversation with Ruhee Meghani
"We have lost the art of struggle... We need strong neural pathways built through pressure, not stress, but pressure. And that comes through challenging our…
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E16. Beyond the Deck: Stop Over-Analyzing & Get Your Reps In
"Work across so many sectors trains us to treat real-world human problems like abstract strategy exercises." — Aparna Rae IN THIS EPISODE Are you tired of…
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E15. Beyond the LinkedIn Algorithm: Using Your Voice to Fight Corporate Constraints
"Brands are for products. People are defined by stories. And when they tell those stories in powerful ways, there is nothing more magnetic." IN THIS EPISODE If…
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E14. Why hard data always loses to corporate interests—and how to fight back 📊📉
"No billionaire can pull off theft in broad daylight without the help of everyday professional class workers who choose to stay silent or act out of outright…
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E 13. Why You Have No Bandwidth to Learn: Scarcity & Cognitive Load
"The room isn’t empty because we stopped wanting to learn. It’s empty because we’ve made it harder to feed the hunger." IN THIS EPISODE Have you noticed that…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE12. Reclaiming Dignity at Work and for Workers
"Dignity isn't a perk. It's not a leadership style. It is the foundation for safety, collective action, and honest work." IN THIS EPISODE In our Season 1…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE11. Are White Collar Workers to Blame?
IN THIS EPISODE "The institution isn't failing in spite of us. It's failing because we keep it going the way it is." In this deeply personal and reflective…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE10. Corporate Wellness Theater
We’ve all seen the emails that start with "Now more than ever, we need to talk about wellness." But whose problem is it really? IN THIS EPISODE Lars and Aparna…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE9. Breaking Corporate Isolation
Corporate professionalism is often a tool used to isolate us from our coworkers and the world. It’s time to bridge the gap. IN THIS EPISODE Aparna and Lars are…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE8. The Self-Advocacy Trap and Myth of The Girl Boss
The Myth of Self-Advocacy: Beyond the Girl Boss Industrial Complex We did everything the playbook told us to do—the salary negotiations, the networking, the…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE7. Your Body Knows It's Not Safe at Work
We’ve been taught to treat our bodies as mere vehicles that carry our brains to the next meeting, but our soma is actually our most reliable intelligence…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE6. Workplaces are Health Hazards
We’ve rebranded workplace depression as "burnout" and personal failure, but the data shows the harm is actually by design. IN THIS EPISODE Aparna and Lars are…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE5. Who is the Ideal Worker?
We’re all exhausted trying to meet a standard of perfection that wasn't even designed for human beings. IN THIS EPISODE Aparna and Lars are joined by…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE4. The Implicit & Explicit Social Contract of Work
We all sign a contract letter when we enter the office, but most of the rules are never actually written down. Explore the hidden unwritten rules of the office…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE3. Fear of Losing it All - Golden Handcuffs
Fear of losing it all The Invisible Tax of White-Collar Security We often trade our silence and our values for the promise of a steady paycheck, but we have to…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE2. Who Built Modern Work?
Who Built This? The History of Modern Corporate Culture. If you’ve ever felt like a replaceable cog in a machine that values spreadsheets over people, it’s…
Love Letters to TroublemakersE1. The Ick - Why Work Feels Worse?
You're not burned out because you're weak — you're burned out because the system was designed this way. This isn't a self-help episode. It's a reality check —…
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Season 1 Trailer
The Circle Back Club envisions a future of work grounded in community, wellbeing, dignity, and care instead of endless financial growth and burnout. When you…