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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WHO YELLING NOW? — Season 6, Episode 12

WHAT ARE WE BECOMING? — Season Finale
The Last Ordinary Day

What if history doesn't repeat itself?

What if humanity repeats humanity?

In the Season 6 finale of Who Yelling Now?, Olga Foreign™ follows two women named Mara, separated by five hundred years, through two remarkably ordinary days.

One hears a rumor in a crowded marketplace. The other watches a viral video on her phone. One watches a man condemned by a crowd. The other watches a woman destroyed online. Both know something the crowd doesn't know. Both have an opportunity to speak.

And both go home.

Different centuries. Different technology. Different societies.

Same humanity.

After an entire season asking What Are We Becoming?, this finale turns the question around. Perhaps we're not simply becoming our forefathers. Perhaps we're doing something much more consequential:

We are becoming someone else's forefathers.
We are becoming ancestors.

Through poetry, storytelling, humor, and reflection, Olga asks us to consider the ordinary choices that rarely feel important enough to become history—the things we repeat, tolerate, witness, ignore, and practice every day.

Because becoming may not happen in one dramatic moment.

It may happen quietly.

One breath.
One choice.
One silence.
One ordinary day.

And someday, people who haven't even been born yet may look back at us and ask:

How could they have known... and still gone home?

🎙️ Who Yelling Now? with Olga Foreign™
Season 6 Finale — What Are We Becoming?

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Episode 11 Description — Loud Before You Speak

What if the loudest person in the room never raises their voice?

In Episode 11 of Who Yelling Now?, Olga Foreign™ challenges the idea that loudness is sound.

A woman walks silently beside a powerful man, yet her beauty, education, clothing and presence announce his importance before he says a word.

A CEO appears to command 73,000 employees with a single sentence—“I’ve decided.” But how many analysts, advisers, executives, family members and unseen voices were inside that sentence before it became his?

And then there is the power vampire—the person who recognizes the value of your idea while you’re still calling it “probably nothing.”

Through two original poems, “The Most Important Accessory” and “I’ll Take It,” and the story “The Two Empty Chairs,” Olga explores how power is projected, borrowed, accumulated, surrendered and amplified.

Because maybe loud isn’t how much sound you make.

Maybe loud is how much of yourself you can make the world notice, carry, repeat, obey—or surrender to someone else.

So before you speak, ask yourself:

What has already spoken for you?

Who Yelling Now?
Season 6: What Are We Becoming?
Episode 11: Loud Before You Speak

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What Silence Makes of Us

We like to believe silence means we didn't participate.

But what if silence is one of the most powerful forms of participation?

In Season 6, Episode 10 of Who Yelling Now?, Olga Foreign™examines what happens when seeing becomes looking away, hearing becomespretending, and “not my business” becomes a way of life.

Through poetry and the darkly satirical story “The Neighborhood,”we enter a community whose residents possess remarkable gifts: they can becomeblind, deaf, mute—even invisible—the moment someone needs them. Then a newneighbor arrives who hasn't learned how not to see.

What happens to a society when enough people recognize what is happeningbut wait for someone else to respond?

Who are we becoming?

Perhaps full participants in our own destruction—using silence as ourgift to true evil.

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Season 6, Episode 9 — Addicted to Witnessing

We watch. We record. We replay. We judge.

But does witnessing something mean we actually understand what happened?

In Addicted to Witnessing, Olga Foreign explores ourgrowing dependence on seeing—and being seen—from the lives we perform on socialmedia to the violence, conflict, and human suffering we consume every day. Whathappens when a few seconds of video become enough for us to assign blame,demand punishment, and believe we know the truth?

Attorney David Thiruselvam joins the conversation toexamine what happens when what society believes it witnessed collides with whatcan actually be established in a courtroom. Together, they explore missingcontext, human memory, video evidence, desensitization to violence, socialpunishment, and the uncomfortable distance between “I saw it”and “I know what happened.”

Because perhaps our problem isn't that we aren't paying attention.

Perhaps we've become so addicted to witnessing that we've forgotten seeingand knowing are not the same thing.

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And yes—content is built, thumbnail is done, guest questions areready. Next is edit and record. 👍🏽

Season 6, Episode 8 — The Death of Waiting

We wait for enough money. Enough time. Enough certainty. The children to getolder. Work to slow down. The perfect moment to finally arrive.

But when does responsible waiting quietly become postponing our lives?

In The Death of Waiting, we explore what waiting once taught us,what our increasingly instant world may be taking away, and the dangerousdifference between patience and putting life on hold.

Through poetry and the story “The Sentence,” we ask adeceptively simple question:

Are you waiting as part of living—or are you waiting to live?

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