The Goal Digger Podcast | Top Business and Marketing Podcast for Creatives, Entrepreneurs, and Women in Business · Jenna Kutcher

How to Break Free From the System That Needs You to Doubt Yourself

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We've been taught to fit into certain boxes and no matter what we do, we were doing something wrong. This was a strategy to control us.

The Gold Digger podcast with Jenna Kutcher hosts sociologist Ana Malaika Tubbs discussing how patriarchal systems create the appearance of personal failure in women while actually functioning as designed. Discussion traces historical policies (marriage bars, workplace discrimination) showing systemic nature of women's exclusion. Explores how visibility and boldness are perceived as threatening to women vs men. Examines power models: masculine (individualistic, dominating) vs feminine (collective, considerate). Features Jenna's journey from hustle-based business to soft leadership. Key insight: getting wealth into women's hands creates systemic change through redistribution.

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A history-minded look at how power and worth are shaped by exclusion.

Jenna Kutcher's conversation with Ana Malaika Tubbs turns into more than a business interview. It looks at how power, worth, and leadership are shaped by history and exclusion, with patriarchy framed as a set of inherited rules that decide who gets centered, who gets left out,…

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If you want to rethink the systems shaping your success, start here.

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