156: When You Feel Controlled by Capitalism - Toi Marie Smith

Toi Marie is a womanist, a creator, a mother, and an impact strategist whose work focuses on challenging capitalism. And if you’re reading this and wondering why the heck this is important or applies to you—perk up your ears cutie cuties.

Capitalism is the tool that highlights why we feel so bad and guilty when we’re not being productive. It’s embedded with exploitation and extraction of people, relationships, beliefs, and ourselves. It keeps us thinking that we need to produce produce produce, do more do more do more—even if it goes against what our body tells us.

The truth is, you don’t need to live this way. You can challenge these beliefs. Is it okay to like to work? Absolutely! It’s when we feel dread about our work or shame or guilt about missing work that we need to address why that is, and what the alternative might be.

Toi sheds light on all of this and so much more, including how you can experience life, motherhood, and business differently.

Tune into episode #156:

In this episode, Toi and I talk about:

What capitalism is and why its a system that we rely on
How capitalism is tied into motherhood and how motherhood radicalized Toi’s life
Why Toi shifted from a corporate career to one of an entrepreneur
What it’s like to raise 4 boys in a capitalist society, while raising them to ask questions about this society
How we can tell the difference between producing because we love it, and producing because we feel like we have to
Advice for entrepreneurs on how to lower expectations of themselves and try to challenge the capitalist system we live in
Why anti-capitalism is not anti-money
How the modern family unit is designed to play into capitalism, and how to challenge that
How capitalism affects the body and why this ties into dismantling diet culture
Toi’s advice on how to acknowledge capitalism exists, while also dismantling it and radically caring for ourselves