The AC Pulse — Season 2, Episode 13: They Called It Closure. I Call It Ghosting

Burnout didn’t work. So they went silent.

In Episode 13 of The AC Pulse, Amanda Corrales examines the next phase in institutional containment: ghosting disguised as resolution.

After the meeting.
After the “thank you for sharing.”
After the promise to “take this back to leadership.”

Comes nothing.

This episode breaks down:

• Silence as a strategic risk-management tool

• Closure without accountability

• Why ambiguity protects institutions

• How disengagement becomes a form of control

If Episode 12 explored engineered exhaustion, Episode 13 exposes what happens when exhaustion fails — systems disengage.

Featuring the satirical ad ClosureCo™, complete with a PDF titled “Moving Forward” that says absolutely nothing.

🔜 Next episode: The Personal Cost of Speaking Up — what institutional silence does to your body, your career, and your community.

Follow The AC Pulse on Spotify for weekly episodes.
Find us on Instagram @theacpulse
Watch full episodes on YouTube
Streaming on Amazon Music.

Silence isn’t closure. It’s containment.

The AC Pulse — Season 2, Episode 12: The Burnout Was the Point

Burnout isn’t a personal failure—it’s a system feature.

In this episode of The AC Pulse, Amanda Corrales breaks down how exhaustion is deliberately engineered into creative and nonprofit systems to silence dissent, deflect accountability, and quietly remove artists who won’t comply.

We examine:

• Burnout as a built-in silencing tool

• Strategic fatigue through paperwork, delays, and deflection

• The quiet exodus of harmed artists

• Why institutions survive while artists burn out

This isn’t about working too hard.
It’s about systems designed to wear people down until they disappear.
Because exhaustion is cheaper than accountability.

🔜 Next episode: False resolutions—when institutions offer “healing” instead of repair.

📘 Featured resource: The Artist Code: Power
A framework for artists who want language, leverage, and clarity in systems that rely on silence.

Follow The AC Pulse on Spotify for new episodes every week.
Find us on Instagram @theacpulse
Watch on YouTube and listen on Amazon Music.

The AC Pulse — Season 2, Episode 11The Whisper Network Wasn’t Lying

The whisper network wasn’t gossip.
It wasn’t drama.
It was survival.

In this episode of The AC Pulse, host Amanda Corrales gives voice to the stories artists were never allowed to say out loud — the late-night texts, the hallway warnings, the quiet “be careful” messages that turned out to be true.

This episode examines how institutional silence, soft blacklisting, and reputation control operate in the arts — and why artists learn to whisper instead of speak publicly.

🔍 What this episode covers:

• Why the whisper network exists in the arts
• How unpaid labor is framed as “opportunity”
• Institutional blacklisting without paper trails
• How reputations are quietly destroyed without formal action
• Why accountability is punished while compliance is rewarded
• How artists protect each other when systems won’t

Amanda breaks down how silence is cultivated, how concerns are acknowledged privately and dismissed publicly, and how artists are labeled “difficult” the moment they ask for boundaries or accountability.

This episode makes one thing clear:
The truth didn’t disappear.
It learned how to survive underground.

📘 For Artists Ready to Reclaim Authority

Amanda’s new release, The Artist Code: Power, is a guided companion for artists navigating exploitation, silence, and power in creative industries.

👉 Find it here: https://tr.ee/f8xV7YmmKQ

Have you ever heard something in the whisper network — and later realized it was true?

• Tag @theacpulse
• Use #WhisperedWasTrue
• Or share anonymously: amanda@ajcorrales.com

Follow The AC Pulse, share this episode, and leave a review.
Truth travels differently when it’s recognized.