Deconstructing Power with Dr. Nancy Wadsworth Part 2: Toxic Power, Epstein & Elite Corruption

In this episode, I'm once again joined by Dr. Nancy Wadsworth, who is a Professor Emerita of Political Science at the University of Denver. Dr Wadsworth’s work sits at the intersection of culture, politics, race, religion, and social movements. In this episode we’re concerned with the Epstein files, elite power networks, and what ordinary citizens can do when systems fail to hold the powerful accountable. 

In this conversation, we discuss: 

• Feelings of powerlessness when our systems fail us

• How concentrated power insulates it from accountability

• Sex as an instrument of power

• The normalization of destructive power

• Local forms of empowerment and exercising your agency

• Seeing cracks in power as entry points for resistance

Dr. Nancy Wadsworth: Collectively, maybe there are some things that need to fall, that need to come apart, that need to crash, because we've been living out of alignment for a while. Is that an opportunity for us to begin saying, what do we really want? What do we really value? What do we want to build now?

Listen to the full conversation on the Inner Calling Podcast here. 

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