🎙️🧠 HOW WELL HAS THAT BEEN WORKING?

 

A Satirical Series on Saying “No,” “No More,” and “That’s Not My Job… With a Straight Face.”

By Empress Nice (pronounced, like the city in France or your favorite niece—but always Empress.)

📡 Broadcasting from the velvet-lined halls of your inner clarity... with the crisp professionalism of a 60 Minutes exposé, the visual pop of primetime punditry, and the buttery-smooth tone of your favorite midnight radio DJ whispering truth into your third eye.

🗞️ INTRODUCTION: THE CULTURE OF ENDURANCE IS CANCELED

Let’s not play coy.
The world has been running on your yes for far too long.
✅ Yes, I’ll stay late.
✅ Yes, I’ll explain it again.
✅ Yes, I’ll pretend that tone didn’t slice my soul open.
✅ Yes, I’ll nod like I wasn’t just gaslit in a staff meeting.

And what do you get for all that agreeable energy?
🥴 Burnout in a trench coat.
🤯 Confusion wearing pearls.
😐 And the occasional “You’re just too sensitive” as a parting gift.

Let’s name the plot twist no one saw coming:

Saying “no” might be the most spiritual, professional, and therapeutic thing you do this year.

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📉 THE SYSTEM BANKS ON YOUR EXHAUSTION

Let’s be real.
Workplaces, school systems, family structures, and even friend circles are held together with the invisible glue of your over-functioning.

You’ve been the:

• ✨ Emotional concierge

• 📞 On-call interpreter

• 🧯 Fire extinguisher for every avoidable emergency

• 🛠️ Unpaid problem-solver

• 📚 Walking encyclopedia for everyone else’s unhealed trauma

And for what?
A team lunch and a “you’re so resilient”?

Baby, resilience is cute—until it becomes the excuse they use to never fix the problem because “you always handle it.”

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🧾 THIS SERIES IS YOUR RECEIPT FOLDER

So let’s set the tone right now.
This is not your typical “just take a bubble bath” self-care sermon.
This is executive clarity.
This is emotionally literate power.
This is satirical, sanctified realness in a well-tailored blazer.
This is:

🧠 “HOW WELL HAS THAT BEEN WORKING?”

Because from now on, every assumption, every obligation, every role that’s been auto-downloaded into your life is under review.

✨ If it drains you, we delete it.
✨ If it gaslights you, we expose it.
✨ If it depends on your silence, we put a mic in your hand and ask one holy question:

Who told you that was your job in the first place?

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🎧 THE VIBE? PROFESSIONAL. PERSONAL. PETTY (IF NECESSARY).

Every post in this series will combine:

• 💼 The polish of a business strategist

• 🎙️ The warmth of a #1 late-night DJ

• 📺 The piercing satire of prime-time journalism

• 💅🏾 The eyebrow-raise of a woman who knows better now

We will:

• Examine power dynamics with surgical clarity

• Drag broken systems gently—but thoroughly

• Offer soulful exit strategies from overcommitment

• Restore your right to be clear, calm, and done

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🧘🏾‍♀️ BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS...

✨ You don’t have to be the one who always understands.
✨ You don’t have to be the one who “explains it nicely.”
✨ You don’t have to co-sign your own exhaustion.

Sometimes the most radical act of self-love is a well-placed:

“Actually… no.”

No extra slide deck.
No 3-paragraph email.
Just “no”—followed by silence and the sound of your boundaries locking into place like a luxury car door.

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💬 SO LET’S BEGIN.

Welcome to the only series that dares to ask:

💼🧠 HOW WELL HAS THAT BEEN WORKING?

📁 Pull up your receipts.
🗣️ Rehearse your “I’m not available for that” voice.
🎤 And let’s begin deprogramming the performance of perpetual yes.

Next post drops soon.

And remember:
We’re not angry. We’re just clear.
And clarity?

...is the new compliance.