Feeling Powerless? Here’s What You Can Do to Make a Difference

Feeling helpless with everything happening around you? Wondering what you, as one person, can do to make a difference? In this episode of Empowered Human, Nina Garcia breaks it down with real talk and practical tools to help you step into your power without getting lost in fear, frustration, or uncertainty. We’re diving into:

💌 The idea of a “powered” America—where control is one-sided.
💌 The Table of Consent, a game-changing tool that helps you decide which ideas truly nourish you and which ones you don’t have to accept.
💌 How small actions can create a big change.

What you’ll get:
0:40 - Why this episode is different and focused on American listeners
2:18 - The power of slowing down in times of uncertainty
3:34 - What does it mean to empower America?
5:24 - Powered vs. Empowered: Understanding the difference
7:55 - How questioning leadership strengthens empowerment
9:49 - Thinking systemically: Self, others, and the world at large
11:17 - Introducing the Table of Consent—a tool for decision-making
15:15 - Seeing commands as offerings and reclaiming your voice
18:04 - Applying the Table of Consent to real-life conflicts
21:12 - The challenge: What’s one thing you can commit to this week?

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Resources:

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Empowered Human with Nina Garcia is an episodic journey for self justice, personal freedom, and lifelong liberation. We can all use tools to recondition cultural beliefs that don't serve our lived experience as a human being. It starts with you, so have a journal on hand or a good friend to dialogue with what comes up for you in this episode. And if you can't play with this today? That's okay too. Stay curious. We'll see you later, or in the next episode friend. New episodes Wednesdays, with a tool for Empowerment in each one: subscribe for notification