WHO YELLING NOW? — Season 7: Let’s Create Controversy
EP03 — THE UNSAFE ECONOMY: I Just Wanted to Feel Safe

How much are you paying just to feel safe?

Home insurance. Car insurance. Health insurance. Life insurance. Security cameras. Alarm systems. Cybersecurity. Medical screenings. Safer cars. Better locks. Emergency supplies. Identity protection.

And somehow, after buying all that protection, the feeling of being unsafe never completely disappears.

In this episode of Who Yelling Now?, Olga Foreign™ explores The Unsafe Economy—the enormous network of legitimate industries built around our need to protect ourselves from what might happen.

This isn't a conspiracy.

Crime exists. Accidents happen. People become sick. Homes burn. identities are stolen. Cars crash. People die.

We need many of these services.

That's what makes the question uncomfortable.

Insurance companies need policyholders. Security companies need customers. Hospitals need patients. Police respond to danger. Manufacturers sell protective products. Technology companies protect our identities and information. Even the funeral industry exists because eventually, none of us gets out alive.

Someone must sell.

Someone must buy.

And somewhere between actual danger and the possibility of danger sits something extraordinarily valuable:

the human desire to feel safe.

Through poetry, satire and the story of an ordinary woman who simply wants some peace of mind, Olga asks what happens when every solution to one fear introduces us to another risk worth protecting ourselves against.

Are we actually becoming safer?

Or are we becoming increasingly aware of everything that could make us unsafe?

And if the world suddenly became completely safe tomorrow...

how many industries could afford it?

Welcome to THE UNSAFE ECONOMY.

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WHO YELLING NOW? — S7 EP02WHO FREED SPEECH?

We call it free speech.

But who imprisoned it? Who freed it? And if speech is truly free, why can speaking cost so damn much?

In Episode 2 of Who Yelling Now? — Let’s Create Controversy, Olga Foreign™ explores the distance between having the legal right to speak and actually feeling free to use your voice.

A job can hold your tongue. So can poverty. Family. Culture. Fear. Belonging. Retaliation. Even love can make us calculate the price of a sentence before we say it.

And silence has a price too.

Through poetry, the fictional story “The Price of Silence,” and a candid conversation with guest Ama K. Karikari, Esq., this episode asks what happens when the ability to speak is distributed unequally—and whether silencing some people eventually costs all of society.

Ama K. Karikari, Esq. is an author, speaker, and transformational guide who helps mothers understand emotional harm, rebuild self-trust, and move forward with clarity. She is the author of Silenced to Soaring, an empowerment workbook created to help women understand patterns including the silent treatment and emotional withdrawal.

Ama also leads Soaring Sisters, a Skool community offering weekly support, accountability, and mastermind sessions for women healing and working toward stronger personal and professional lives for themselves and their children. She holds degrees from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Wharton, and is the founder of Milestales Project Staffing.

Together, Olga and Ama explore some uncomfortable questions:

Can speech really be free when people pay different prices for using it? When does choosing silence become learned silence? Does wealth make the consequences of speaking easier to survive? Can belonging become its own form of censorship? And perhaps most uncomfortable of all—when nobody is physically stopping us from speaking, what still holds our tongues?

Because maybe speech isn't simply about whether someone gives us permission to speak.

Maybe it's also about what it costs us when we do—and what it costs everyone when we don't.

Guest: Ama K. Karikari, Esq.

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WHO YELLING NOW? — SEASON 7, EPISODE 01
AMEN INCORPORATED
Season 7: Let’s Create Controversy

Welcome to the annual meeting of Amen Incorporated.

Twenty years ago, Amen began with twelve people, folding chairs, a borrowed keyboard, and a desire to serve its community.

Today?

There are buildings. Employees. Volunteers. Property. Executive compensation. Marketing. Membership growth. Attrition. Youth programs. Community outreach. Competition. Revenue projections. Five-year targets.

And, of course, faith.

Olga Foreign™ was invited to open the meeting with a poem.

She probably should have left afterward.

Instead, she saw coffee.

So she stayed.

What follows is an ordinary corporate meeting about an organization doing what organizations do: raising money, paying employees, maintaining property, attracting new members, retaining existing ones, serving its community, protecting its reputation, planning for growth—and making sure the doors remain open.

Nothing illegal happens.

Nobody confesses to stealing anything.

Nobody runs out of the room carrying a bag of money.

Which creates a much more uncomfortable question:

Why does ordinary business language suddenly sound so different when the business is faith?

When does outreach become marketing?

When does evangelism become customer acquisition?

When does giving become recurring revenue?

When does a congregation become a market?

And if an organization depends upon your spiritual belief to receive your financial support...

how much do you know about the organization you financially support because of what you spiritually believe?

I came to give them a poem.

I stayed for the meeting.

I left with questions.

And apparently...a slight limp.

Welcome to Season 7.

Let’s Create Controversy.

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