Liberatory Business with Simone Seol
Let's build community care, social responsibility, and allyship into every aspect of your business — not as an afterthought, but as a core foundation. Because business isn’t neutral. The way we sell, market, and structure our offers either upholds oppressive systems or actively works to dismantle them.
We’re here to have honest, nuanced, and sometimes uncomfortable conversations about what it really means to run a business that is both profitable and radically principled.
Episodes
78 episodes
77. Decolonizing manifestation, Part 2 - Our Desires come from Ancestors
Conventional manifestation puts all the weight on you: what you want, what thoughts you think, what you put on your vision board, your vibrations.In today's episode, I'm proposing a radical reframe.&nb...
76. Decolonizing Manifestation, Part 1: The Roots of Magic
Why am I teaching manifestation as a marketing teacher?Because effective marketing IS manifesting: changing reality with your intention. Good marketers are master manifestors.But we need to get to the roots of the idea. Because th...
75. How I use tarot cards as a business tool
Tarot is a very important tool for my business. In this episode, I'm unpacking how I use itWhat I'm really teaching in this episode is how to work with any tool that gives you access to knowing beyond your rational mind - withou...
74. We want you to make cool shit with AI. Here's why.
If you're exhausted by AI replacing human voices, automating the soul out of everything, and those hustle-y calls to "adopt AI or be left behind" — we're with you.But here's the other side. Right now, for the first time ever, you have th...
73. My story of growing up Korean and ADHD - a conversation on neurodivergence and intersectionality with Jak Levine-Pritzker
When ADHD coach Jak Levine-Pritzker asked me to be interviewed for her upcoming book on ADHD and intersectionality, I said yes — and asked if we could share it on the podcast too. What followed was one of the most vulnerable convers...
72. Just because you don't like it, doesn't mean it's a scam
If you're a practitioner that works outside of mainstream institutions, you might have had your work dismissed as a scam, a grift, or a cult — or if you've watched it happen to someone you respect — this episode is for you. I'm pull...
71. We should all fail more
So many of us are settling for lives we never failed at.Those are lives that were never really lived in, either. This episode is your permission slip to start failing more, today, at the things that actually...
70. How to have original ideas
If you've ever felt like all you're doing is regurgitating other people's ideas or repackaging your teacher's frameworks, this one is for you. Your original thinking has never mattered more, and I'm going to teach you how to have more original ...
69. You're not procrastinating, you're doing invisible work
If you've ever called yourself lazy, or wondered what's wrong with you for not being able to just sit down and do the thing — this episode is for you.What if "procrastination" is just the wrong word for what you're actually doin...
68. Their discomfort is not your emergency
This is my love to courageous ones everywhere.People aren't just listening to what you say.They're listening to how you're saying it.If you're saying something that's worth saying... whatever it is, say it with you...
67. What small, unscalable businesses teach us about profit
Why is the deepest business wisdom you can find NOT in an online course?That's because it lives in Asian noodle stalls, kitchen hair salons, and family businesses run by aunties and uncles who've never heard of Canva. Let's l...
66. An Asian guide to prayer as a spiritual technology (with Joey Liu and Daniel Lim)
I'm sitting down with two of my closest friends, and most effective pray-ers I know: Joey Liu and Danny Lim.We're talking about how to understand prayer NOT as the performative, begging, outcome-obsessed version so many of us grew up wit...
65. Responsible AI stewardship: a Buddhist perspective (with Billy Seol)
My brother Billy Seol — software engineer, and Buddhist life coach — is one of the sharpest thinkers I know. And he has thoughts about AI I haven't seen anywhere else that really enlightened me, and I wanted to share them with you.<...
64. A Case for Hope: AI and the environment, mental health, and world-building (with Tallulah Le Merle)
This is part 2 of a two-part series with Tallulah Le Merle — one of the most respected leaders at the intersection of AI and humanity. In this final episode, we talk about the impact of AI on the environment and mental health, where...
63: A Case for Hope: AI and jobs, education, the meaning of intelligence (with Talullah Le Merle)
There is no shortage of voices weighing in on AI right now, and a lot of them are scared. I was too, honestly. Then I heard a talk by one of the most respected leaders at the intersection of AI and humanity, and it cracked me wide o...
62. People have plenty of money
If the economy is supposedly in the shitter, why is consumer spending at an all-time high? Let's look at the data behind the scarcity narrative that's been shrinking many businesses.Listen to hear more about:The uncomfortable...
61. The multi-passionate advantage in an AI world
As someone who's spent her whole life feeling like a misfit for having too many interests and not enough specialization, I'm inviting you to reconsider everything you've been told about what makes you valuable — because the world is about to ne...
60. Enlightenment and ancestral coaching frameworks
If you've ever sat in a coaching session and felt like the framework was useful but somehow too small, too constricting, like something essential was being left out... I'm inviting you to find out what that something is, and where it went.<...
59. What my 30's taught me
As I turned 40 recently, I started asking myself what the single biggest lesson of my thirties was — and the answer surprised me. It wasn't a business strategy or a mindset shift. It was about the importance of self-respect in relationships.
58. How to actually get unshakable confidence
You've been told that confidence is an inside job — go inward, believe in yourself, hype yourself up, and then go do the thing. But what if that kind of confidence is fragile and incomplete? In this episode, I'm offering a fundament...
56. 4 things I'm no longer doing as I turn 40
I'm turning 40, and I could not be more excited about it. I LOVE getting older.As I reflected on this milestone, I realized there are four things I'm officially done carrying into this next chapter.If you're at any kind of thresho...
55. Four questions to ask if you think you might be underpricing
Here is a completely different way to think about pricing — one that has nothing to do with industry norms or value propositions, and everything to do with what your ancestors planted inside you and what it actually requires to steward that.