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Make It Make Sense With Andrinique

Make It Make Sense With Andrinique

Written by: Andrinique Davis
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Ever look at your life and wonder how you got here? Your job drains you. The relationship you stayed in stopped making sense. The news feels designed to keep you confused.


Make It Make Sense With Andrinique is where we break it all down and take our power back.


Andrinique is an entrepreneur, manifestation coach, author of The Shift Back to Yourself, and former VP of Talent Acquisition who left corporate America to teach yoga, meditation, and mindset work. She breaks down current events, workplace dynamics, and personal transformation with the honesty most people won’t touch.


Whether you’re navigating a career pivot, leaving a relationship, trying to understand the world around you, rebuilding your identity, or learning to manifest what you actually want, this podcast helps you think critically, shift your mindset, and live authentically.




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  • AI Is Taking Your Job. What Women Need to Do Right Now.

    AI Is Taking Your Job. What Women Need to Do Right Now.
    May 4 2026
    On this episode of Make It Make Sense with Andrinique, we are talking about AI. Not the science fiction version. Not the hype. The version that is already in your workplace right now, whether you are engaging with it or not.If you are between 45 and 55, have been working for twenty-plus years, and your response to AI is "I've seen trends come and go," this episode is for you. Andrinique breaks down the real numbers behind which jobs are being eliminated first, why women are overrepresented in every single one of those categories, the psychology driving the resistance, and the Stanford research showing that AI models are already working against older women in hiring. Plus the Workday class action lawsuit you need to know about and the one step you can take this week that costs you nothing.This is not a tech episode. It is a career survival conversation.Chapter Notes00:00 Introduction Andrinique sets the stage. AI cut 55,000 jobs in 2025 alone and we are on pace to match that number by May 2026. This is the version of AI already inside your workplace right now.02:15 The Mindset That Could Cost You Your Career Rolling your eyes, saying you're too old, saying they won't replace you. Andrinique breaks down exactly why that mindset is the most dangerous position a woman in her career can take right now.08:40 Why This Tech Shift Is Different From Every Other The internet took a decade. Social media took a decade. ChatGPT launched in November 2022 and hit 800 million weekly users by December 2025. OpenAI crossed $25 billion in revenue before we hit the halfway point of 2026. Workers with AI skills are already earning up to 56% more than those without. This is not a gradual curve. It is a sprint.16:00 The Jobs Being Replaced Right Now Customer service. Administrative and clerical. Human resources. Accounting and bookkeeping. Data processing. Andrinique goes through the numbers category by category. 7.5 million administrative positions projected to be eliminated by next year. 30% of companies automating HR roles in 2026. These are not projections. This is what is happening right now.24:30 Why Women Are Most Exposed Every job being automated is a job where women are overrepresented. Women between 45 and 55 built their careers in exactly these functions. Only 34% of Gen X workers are using generative AI tools at work right now, compared to 50% of millennials. And AI confidence in this age group is going down, not up.32:10 The Psychology Behind the Resistance Three layers: identity threat, the "I've seen this before" trap, and a real access and confidence gap. Andrinique breaks down why smart, experienced women are avoiding the tools and why that avoidance is being noticed by the people making decisions about their jobs.41:00 The Bias Nobody Is Talking About Stanford researchers found that AI models are generating profiles that make women appear younger and less experienced than they are. Those are the same models screening resumes right now. Andrinique also breaks down the Workday class action lawsuit and what it means for every woman applying for jobs through that platform.47:20 What to Do Before It Is Too Late You do not need to become a tech expert. You need thirty minutes a week, a free Google Coursera certificate, and the willingness to say out loud at work that you are learning. Andrinique tells you exactly where to start and why the barrier is not your age, it is the story you are telling yourself about your age.If this episode hit you, do not let it sit. Subscribe to Make It Make Sense With Andrinique right now so you get every episode the second it drops, every Monday at 7AM Eastern. Then share this with one woman in your life who is still sleeping on AI, because she needs this conversation more than she knows. Follow the show, leave a comment, and tell me where you are. Are you using AI at work already or did this episode just wake you up? I want to know. We are on Apple, Spotify, YouTube, and everywhere you listen to podcasts. And if you want to go deeper, the newsletter lives on Substack at Make It Make Sense with Andrinique. The conversation does not stop here. See you Monday.Follow me at Instagram FacebookSubstackYou Tube
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    25 mins
  • We Are the Problem — Why Black Women Keep Tearing Each Other Down

    We Are the Problem — Why Black Women Keep Tearing Each Other Down
    Apr 27 2026
    Black women have built empires from kitchen tables. And some of us have been the first ones in the comments tearing those empires down.In this episode, Andrinique takes on one of the most uncomfortable conversations in Black women’s culture: the pattern of Black women tearing each other down. Not as critics or outsiders looking in, but as women who are part of the community and who have seen it up close. She traces the behavior from its roots in slavery and respectability politics all the way to present-day comment sections, and asks the question most people are too afraid to ask: do you even know your nervous system is dysregulated when this happens?This episode is not a celebration. It is a reckoning.This episode is a mirror. Come ready to look.Andrinique gets into a pattern that too many of us recognize but not enough of us are willing to talk about: the way Black women direct some of their most destructive energy at each other. From comment sections and group chats to airport confrontations and coordinated social media attacks, it is everywhere. And it has been going on a lot longer than the internet has existed.Andrinique traces the stories of Lisa Price, who founded Carol’s Daughter in 1993 and was called a sellout when she sold it in 2014. Monique Rodriguez, who built Mielle Organics from her home in 2014 and faced a coordinated takedown after selling to Procter and Gamble in 2023. Richelieu Dennis, who started Shea Moisture on the streets of Harlem in 1991 and sold for 1.6 billion dollars in 2017. Chilli from TLC, who has been targeted for her appearance, her relationship, and her choices for years. And Emma Grede, founding partner of SKIMS and CEO of Good American, whose opinions triggered a pile-on that stopped being about ideas almost immediately.Then she goes deeper. Into the history of respectability politics. Into internalized misogynoir. Into what happens when a nervous system has been carrying generational trauma for so long it cannot tell the difference between a real threat and a stranger making a decision that has nothing to do with you.People and Brands ReferencedEmma Grede is a British entrepreneur who co-founded Good American with Khloe Kardashian in 2016 and became a founding partner of SKIMS with Kim Kardashian in 2019. Neither company has been sold; she is still actively running both. In 2026, comments she made about remote work and parenting went viral and generated significant backlash, particularly from Black women.Lisa Price founded Carol’s Daughter in 1993 in her Brooklyn kitchen as a natural hair care brand. She sold the company to L’Oreal USA in 2014. The sale price was not publicly disclosed. She remained with the brand post-acquisition, and in 2025, L’Oreal sold Carol’s Daughter back to Lisa Price. She is currently the independent owner and operator.Monique Rodriguez founded Mielle Organics in 2014, building a natural hair care brand from her home after a personal health crisis. She sold Mielle to P&G Beauty, a division of Procter and Gamble, in January 2023. The sale price was not publicly disclosed, though the brand was valued at over one hundred million dollars at the time of sale. Monique Rodriguez remains CEO and her husband Melvin Rodriguez remains COO.Richelieu Dennis began selling shea butter products on the streets of Harlem in 1991 and built Sundial Brands, the parent company of Shea Moisture, into a major natural beauty company. In 2017, he sold Sundial Brands to Unilever for a reported 1.6 billion dollars. As part of the deal, he established the New Voices Fund to invest in Black women entrepreneurs. He has since stepped back from day-to-day operations of Shea Moisture.Rozonda Thomas, known as Chilli, is a founding member of TLC, one of the best-selling musical groups in history. She is not a business founder but has been a consistent target of public attacks from Black women, specifically regarding her interracial relationship with actor Matthew Lawrence, her appearance, and most recently her political activity in 2026. She publicly addressed the controversy and clarified her position.Key Topics CoveredRespectability politics and its origins in the late 1800s and early 1900s as a Black community survival strategy under Jim Crow, and how it became an internalized standard used to police other Black women. The concept of internalized misogynoir, defined by scholar Moya Bailey as the intersection of anti-Black racism and misogyny directed specifically at Black women, and how it manifests when Black women enforce harmful standards on each other. Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome, as developed by Dr. Joy DeGruy, and its connection to the crabs-in-a-barrel dynamic within Black communities. JAMA Psychiatry research showing that racial discrimination literally alters the neural response to threat in Black women, creating chronic nervous system dysregulation that causes non-threats to register as threats. The way this pattern is being observed and absorbed ...
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    26 mins
  • The Money Story That Is Still Costing You Your Retirement

    The Money Story That Is Still Costing You Your Retirement
    Apr 20 2026

    This episode is the final installment of the April's 401K Retirement series.

    In this episode, Andrinique covers the part of financial wellness that rarely gets airtime: the psychological and generational roots of money behavior. We break down how inherited money beliefs form, what financial trauma research actually says about spending and avoidance patterns, and why so many women can learn the right information and still not move. The conversation closes with what identity-level change looks like in practice and why finishing this series is not the end of the work but the beginning of doing it differently.


    Topics covered in this episode:

    • How money beliefs are inherited and why they operate below conscious awareness
    • What the research says about financial trauma and its behavioral impact
    • The difference between financial education and financial transformation
    • Why strategies fail when the identity behind them has not shifted
    • What it looks like to close a chapter and start the next one with intention

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    Resources mentioned: https://beacons.ai/andriniquemarie
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    17 mins
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