5 Minute Crisis podcast
Resuming after a brief health related delay. New dates are below.
upcoming 5 Minute Crisis episodes:
November 18th - 22nd: Cancel Culture
November 25th - 29th: Freedom of Speech & Defamation Online
December 2nd - 6th: Reputation Management in the Gotcha Era
December 9th - 13th: Section 230 & Internet Regulations
5 minute crisis podcast is a week-daily 5 minute (or so) podcast about crisis management, public relations, and the people and issues that we need to know, delivered in a mini bite sized portion. Each week we start with a new topic. Old shows appear below with links to where you can listen.
Cancel Culture: What to do when it happens to you.
Upcoming
Episode - 11-22-2024
Celebrity or civilian, anyone can be canceled. But some basic understanding of how it happens, who is mostly likely to be canceled and what to do if it happens to you can make t he difference between an unpleasant, temporary situation and long-term devastation.
Cancel Culture: What happens when we get it wrong?
Upcoming
Episode - 11-21-2024
People's lives are being destroyed when they become the victim of canceling. While some may consider canceling and the losses associated “just deserts,” what happens when a completely innocent person becomes the target of a canceling campaign?
Cancel Culture: Weaponizing
Upcoming
Episode - 11-20-2024
While the popular narrative is that cancel culture is a societal reckoning for bad behavior, in many instances it is a carefully calculated strategy to manipulate the victim or the victim’s reputation. What happens when corporations use the power of canceling to manipulate perception and gain an advantage or rid themselves of a problem?
Cancel Culture: What and who is behind the trend?
Upcoming
Episode - 11-19-2024
With one poorly worded tweet, decade old misdeed, formerly acceptable behavior that hasn’t aged, or a viral bad moment, someone’s entire life, experiences, and accomplishments can be striped from them in an instant. But why are we as a society so ready and willing to judge a person’s worth on a instance? And who benefits when people are so easy to cancel?
Cancel Culture: What the heck is it?
Upcoming
Episode - 11-18-2024
Everywhere we look these days people are being “cancelled.” Celebrities are “#MeToo’d,” books and films are being removed from circulation because they run afoul of popular narratives, and it seems like someone is referred to as a “Karen” routinely on social media. But what exactly is “canceling” and why does it seem that no matter where we look, someone is being attacked?