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The internet can make you feel famous, furious, and insecure before you’ve even finished your coffee. We sit down with Sabrina Ramos, founder and creative director of Pop Spark Agency in New York City, to name what so many of us feel but rarely say out loud: the internet doesn’t love you back, and neither does a system built to monetize your attention.

We get into the dopamine loop behind likes and engagement, why “educating” trolls often turns into unpaid emotional labor, and how social media becomes a funhouse mirror that flattens real life into a one dimensional performance. Sabrina shares what changed when she stepped back from posting and why rebuilding offline community through groups and events is more than a cute self care idea, it’s how relationships survive.

Then we follow the thread into influencer marketing, ethical promotion, and consumer culture: buy now pay later, planned obsolescence, and the constant pressure to purchase your way to relief. From there, we take on instant reply expectations, remote work boundaries, and the hard truth about “human capital” workplaces that demand loyalty while offering none. Sabrina’s spiciest advice lands with a thud: if you’re overworked, under resourced, and everything depends on you, let it break.

We close with a candid conversation on veganism, intersectional feminism, and systems of oppression, plus a realistic look at what vegan meals actually look like day to day.

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Work with Sabrina: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sabrina-ramos-a1a47870/

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