we should all be scammers

MENTAL HEALTH FUNDRAISER: CLOSED 📥 sign up for my newsletter: https://cecexie.substack.com/ 🫶 support my work: https://www.patreon.com/cecexie You know what they say--one's a point, and two's a line! This week, we unpack one of my favorite fascinations--scams and scammers. I discuss how my imposter syndrome likely impacted why I found scammers so magnetic and how scams are mostly the same old bones dressed up in new disguises. The million-dollar question is: are we all vulnerable to scams because they implicate the human condition? From LuLaRoe to crypto to Baudrillard, I connect the dots right into our favorite scammers, Brittany Dawn, Anna Delvey, and Elizabeth Holmes--plus an alleged scammer whom I met in real life, to a confusing set of feelings. 🎙️ spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Wkb44PEYlsB9AGEbeedx5 🎙️ apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/currently-workshopping/id1648555789 [timestamps] 0:00 - intro 1:16 - imposter syndrome 5:13 - scams are a tale as old as time 6:58 - how new technologies encourage scams 11:18 - how social media encourages scams 15:10 - scams represent the human condition 19:35 - q&a: soft skills for corporate workplace success [references] https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/what-is-impostor-syndrome https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/1/18/18187373/fyre-festival-netflix-maria-konnikova https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/con-culture-experts-on-the-history-and-future-of-scamming https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/lularoe-millennial-women-entrepreneurship-lawsuits https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/cryptocurrency/what-is-celsius/ https://www.thecollector.com/baudrillard-philosophy-21st-century/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/style/liars-catfishing-deception.html https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/02/12/385310877/how-scams-worked-in-the-1800s https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/multi-level-marketing.asp 💕 f o l l o w m e 💞 @cecexie everywhere instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cecexie/ tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@cecexie twitter: https://twitter.com/cecexie website: https://www.cecexie.com 🎶 m u s i c 🎵 all music courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/UeKSDO0gWF/ ❓ F A Q s ❓ how old are you? 31 ('91 baby) which schools did you go to? yale (undergrad) and harvard (law school) what did you major in? economics what was your gpa and lsat score? 3.86/176 what sign/MBTI/enneagram are you? aries, ENFJ, 3w4 are you sure you're not a virgo? no part of my star chart is virgo or an earth sign, i swear