📩 When Instabuse™Interrupts: The High Cost of Digital Harassment in Business, Productivity, and Health
This keynote introduces Instabuse™, a term coined by Felizia Hunt to name a reality that many professional women are living—but dismissed or misunderstood when they try to explain it: technology-facilitated abuse disguised as concern, being “active,” or shared responsibility.
From long-winded email lectures to shared electronic updates that set off a flurry of texts, emails, calls to professionals—or confronting you about your family members’ unrelated social media posts.
The messages bait, provoke, destabilize, attack, and control. You’re trying to lead or sometimes just breathe—while being monitored, baited, and documented by someone who uses information as a weapon. It affects your money and your self-worth.
This talk explores:
- How Instabuse™ shows up in professional life—especially for divorced mothers who are leaders
- The financial, emotional, and reputational cost on women experiencing this
- How to respond without minimizing the issue or blaming the recipient
- A holistic framework for managing Instabuse™ while staying focused and safe
- The case for policy, HR, and system-level understanding of technology-facilitated abuse in professional spaces
For women building businesses, managing brands, or just trying to work in peace—this isn’t a communication issue, it’ is adult cyberbullying and harassment, also known as technology-facilitated abuse (TFA/TFDA).
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