How to Survive Cancel-Culture with Kelly Diels

There are far too many women today who won’t make themselves visible due to a fear of visibility itself — a fear of being targeted, trashed, and taken down. 

Joining us today is return guest, Kelly Diels, who always brings new and insightful ideas to the conversation. Kelly is a business teacher for Culture Makers where she helps socially conscious entrepreneurs achieve, not just financial success, but critical gains for social justice. 

Hear us unpack the intricacies of cancel-culture and public trashing, the fears that stop women from putting their work out into the world, and what can be done to address this. 

You’ll hear personal insights from both Jeni & Kelly about their experiences, the key lessons they took from it, what this type of targeting demonstrates about society’s treatment of women, and why communal action is essential if we want to change these cultural trends. 

To learn more about the forces behind these movements and the antidote to online trashing, be sure to tune in to the important conversation!

Here’s a sneak peek of what we discuss:

• Detailing the fears Kelly’s clients have around being targeted online.
• The cultural shift from being targeted by your ideological opponents to your peers.
• Why being targeted by your peers is more harmful than being targeted by your opponents.
• Mainstream culture’s expectation of women and what happens when they deviate from it.
• Unpacking what incentivizes people to initiate trashing campaigns.
• The impulse to level women who are considered to have too much power and resources.
• Historical teachings on (and examples of) trashing and what we can learn from it.
• Why it takes a community, not an individual, to stop the trashing trend.
• Kelly’s experience of public shaming and her advice to others going through it.
• How to put up boundaries when it comes to trashing and canceling.
• Bearing people’s humanity in mind when you are being trashed.
• Jeni’s experience with public shaming and the immense harm it does.

Resources: 

• Kelly Diels Website
• Subscribe to Kelly’s Sunday Love Letter
• The Luminaries LIVE, January 2024 cohort
• The VISIBLE Course

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