So much of what we accept as “just the way things are” is actually a script—one written long before we arrived, and one we were never meant to question.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs introduces the idea of the script: the invisible story that tells us who to be, who to admire, who should lead, and who should comply. When we learn to see the system as a script rather than truth, its fragility becomes clear—and so does our power to imagine something new.

Because anything written can be rewritten.

This conversation invites you to notice the lines you were handed, question their authority, and begin considering what it might mean to author your own life.

Long before you knew who you were, rules were already written about who you were supposed to be.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs explores the quiet, powerful rules we inherit—about strength, care, emotion, worth, and belonging—rules we never consented to but learned in order to survive.

These rules weren’t designed to honor our full humanity. They were designed to keep a system running.

By learning to notice them, we begin to loosen their hold. And in that awareness, we reclaim choice, compassion, and the freedom to imagine something better than what we inherited.

We’re often told that “systems” only affect certain people. That some of us are trapped inside them, while others move through life untouched.

But that’s never been true.

In this episode, Anna Malaika Tubbs explores how the system we inherit shapes everyone—pressuring some people to shrink, others to harden, and all of us to live inside roles we never agreed to play. The harm may show up differently, but the architecture is shared.

When we see that clearly, something powerful happens:
we stop blaming ourselves, we stop turning against each other, and we begin asking better questions about what actually needs to change.

This conversation invites clarity over confusion, compassion over self-blame, and responsibility rooted in possibility—not guilt.