The Power Map with Yasmina ⵣ

Welcome to 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐩 𝐏𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭. You can be on the panel. You can run the program. But if you don't control the funding or set the agenda, you don't hold the power.In the premiere episode, I explore why being in the room where it happens means nothing if the actual decisions were already made somewhere else. This episode deconstructs how institutions keep women operating strictly in "social" and "symbolic" power, and introduces the Five Forms of Power you need to understand to truly navigate the system. (𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘥𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵! 𝘞𝘢𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘴 𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘺 𝘢𝘱𝘱).⁣👉🏼𝐄𝐏𝐈𝐒𝐎𝐃𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐂𝐄𝐒:𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐩 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞: https://yasbens.com/shop/83b67624-2761-409e-ba0a-8b741ecab016𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐌𝐚𝐩 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐞𝐭: https://yasbens.com/shop/13ddf554-4d1d-4319-b46f-9750aeee37b8𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬: https://yasbens.com/shop/b35ad39a-1dea-42b3-a8f1-ea061d9ac025𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠: https://yasminabenslimane.substack.com/👉🏼 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝗪𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐌𝐄:Substack: https://substack.com/@yasminabenslimaneConstellations Academy: https://www.joinconstellationsacademy.com/Instagram: @yasbens | @constellationsacademyLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasminabenslimane/TikTok: @yasmina.benslimaneYouTube: @yasmina.benslimane

Is being in the room the same as having power in the room?This episode is about the decade I spent collecting UN agencies on my CV, sitting on boards where I was thirty years younger than everyone else, and slowly understanding something nobody in those spaces was willing to say out loud. Access is not influence. A seat at the table is not a vote. And being in the room where it happens does not mean you are part of what is happening.It is about the moment the system celebrated me loudly and abandoned me quietly. And why I finally understood that those two things were never a contradiction because my visibility was always in service of the institution and never really in service of me.More power to you ✨🤍🙏🏽

Is it fraud, or is it just the system working exactly as it was built to?This episode is about the myth of the meritocracy the one that tells us the list, the round, the recognition means you made it on your own. It's about what happens when we stop pretending that fraud is an individual failure, and start asking who built the conditions for it.More power to you ✨🤍🙏🏽substack essay: https://substack.com/@daughterofafricansun/note/p-206682411?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=9e9gywaiting list for constellations academy: https://www.joinconstellationsacademy.com/coming-soon

Do you feel free, or just comfortable? Most people never ask themselves that. I stopped assuming the two were the same thing. This episode is about the cage you can see, and the one you can't the one the system built around you, and the one you built yourself just to survive inside it. It's about why success can look complete from the outside and still feel like a room you can't leave. Right now, so many of us are living inside structures we didn't design jobs, institutions, expectations that were never built to let us fully arrive. We call it ambition. Sometimes it's just a cage with better lighting. This is about the bars you can point to, and the ones you've mistaken for your own personality.More power to you ✨🤍🙏🏽

Where are you from? Most people want a single answer. I stopped giving them one. This episode is about home, identity, and why “where are you from” was never just small talk. It’s a question that decides who feels legible, who gets simplified, and who is allowed complexity. Right now, we’re watching a World Cup that claims to celebrate global unity, while people are being denied entry to even witness it. Same system, different stage. It’s sports but it’s also about movement, access, and who gets to belong without justification. This is about borders you can see, and the ones you carry. More power to you ✨🤍🙏🏽

The real problem usually isn’t what you’ve built it’s the structure you’ve been building inside. A structure designed to keep the ceiling exactly where it is. That’s not a personal failure but an architecture problem.You can change the structure and still recreate the exact same patterns because you brought the same version of yourself into the new place. Both things need fixing. And they need fixing differently.In this video, I break down five concrete steps to actually do that. More power to you ✨🤍🙏🏽