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Scorpion Venom and Coffee Enemas Didn't Cure My Mother's Cancer

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My Father Planned His Death. I Didn’t Stop Him.

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My Shy Bladder

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My Eating Disorder Turned Into an Obsession With Money

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44 mins

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You’re at a Crossroads. We’re Here to Help.

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42 mins

A Sociopath's Guide to Death, Sex, and Money

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I Was In Debt. Then My Sister Offered Me $16,000.

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This Senator Saved My Love Life

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Life After Death: News About the Future of Death, Sex & Money!

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Four Interviews and a Funeral

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Dec 27, 2023

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Your Inheritance Stories: When Death, Family and Money Mix

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Dec 20, 2023

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36 mins

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Productive Discomfort: A Job Training Program for Single Moms That Centers Mental Health

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Dec 6, 2023

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Nov 29, 2023

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Nov 22, 2023

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In Our Marriage, Psychosis Comes and Goes

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Raphael Saadiq: Music Was My Therapy. It Had To Be.

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An End of Life Doctor’s Shocking Loss

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Ellen Burstyn at 90 Today

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Aug 9, 2023

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Aug 2, 2023

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The Crude Reality of Debt from This is Uncomfortable

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I Still Love My Dad, But I Don't Love Guns

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Can You Help Your Kid’s Anxiety By Changing Your Behavior?

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Ocean Vuong on Telling Lies, Building Family and Loving the Knicks

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Hold On: Should I Tell My Boss I’m Depressed?

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Hold On: Let’s Talk About Psych Meds

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Hold On: My Diagnosis, My Self

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May 17, 2023

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May 13, 2023

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May 3, 2023

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Apr 26, 2023

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Apr 5, 2023

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Mar 22, 2023

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Mar 15, 2023

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A Trans Parent’s Adoption Journey

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Mar 8, 2023

46 mins

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Mar 1, 2023

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E384

Your One Night Stand Stories, Revisited

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Feb 15, 2023

21 mins

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Gabrielle Union Completes Herself

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Feb 8, 2023

40 mins

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Margo Price After Cheating and Drinking

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Feb 1, 2023

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Your Estrangement Calls Answered Live

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Jan 25, 2023

42 mins

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Jan 18, 2023

37 mins

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42 mins

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28 mins

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Radiolab’s Lulu Miller Steals All Her Best Ideas From Her Kids

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Dec 21, 2022

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Estrangement’s Alternate Endings

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Dec 14, 2022

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Dec 7, 2022

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Estrangement Purgatory

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Nov 23, 2022

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Estrangement: We Were Close, Now I Don’t Know You

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Nov 21, 2022

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Race and Friendship After 2020: An Update

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Nov 16, 2022

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Between Friends: Stories About Race and Friendship

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Nov 9, 2022

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An Update from the Sex Worker Next Door

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Nov 2, 2022

49 mins

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Sandra Cisneros on Sex, Aging, and the Paranormal

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Oct 26, 2022

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Oct 19, 2022

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Conversations with My Dead Mother

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Oct 12, 2022

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I Wanted To Be A 'Good Girl'

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India Walton: I Knew It Was Gonna Be Tough, But I Didn't Expect it to Get Nasty

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Sep 28, 2022

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Inside John Waters' Home (But Not Inside His Colon)

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Sep 21, 2022

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How Clothes Help Us Find Our People and Ourselves

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Sep 14, 2022

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Lucinda Williams Says Whatever the Hell She Wants

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Sep 7, 2022

30 mins

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Big Freedia Bounces Back

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Aug 31, 2022

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Finding Meaning After My Husband's Public Death

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Aug 24, 2022

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Knock Knock, Who's There? Bob the Drag Queen

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Aug 17, 2022

36 mins

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What's Going On With Student Loans?

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Aug 10, 2022

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"This Isn't Just About Abortion": What the End of Roe Means to You

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Aug 3, 2022

43 mins

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Bottled Up: Your Stories About Alcohol

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Jul 27, 2022

47 mins

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The Highs and Lows of Being a Starbucks Union Organizer

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Jul 20, 2022

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“No Call Goes Unanswered”: A Lifeline in Wyoming

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The Very Hot Marriage of Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts

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Jun 29, 2022

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Cut Loose: Your Stories of Breaking Up

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Jun 22, 2022

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'I'm Done Kissing Your Butt': From Manager to Labor Activist

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How Harvey Fierstein's Bad Sex Led to Good Art

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Jun 8, 2022

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What Our Teachers Are Carrying

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Maria Hinojosa on Partying, Partnership, and Her New Pulitzer

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May 18, 2022

33 mins

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How Much Climate Anxiety Helps?

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Anna Sale Introduces Dead End: A New Jersey Political Murder Mystery

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Apr 29, 2022

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Siblinghood

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Hard: Softening Expectations

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Hard: Little Pill, Big Pharma

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Apr 6, 2022

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Hard: Erectile Disappointment

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Mar 30, 2022

36 mins

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Why Lynn Nottage Cashed Out Her 401(k)

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Affairs, Throuples, and Big Monogamy: Your Relationship Questions Answered

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Mar 9, 2022

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Inheriting Divorce

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Feb 23, 2022

36 mins

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Where is Lisa Fischer's Backup?

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Feb 16, 2022

33 mins

E334

This Elvis Impersonator Does It For Love… And Money

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Feb 9, 2022

34 mins

E333

André De Shields On Living With His Shadow

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Jan 26, 2022

40 mins

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Downsizing After Divorce

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Jan 19, 2022

33 mins

E331

A New Year's Pep Talk From Robin Arzón

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Jan 12, 2022

38 mins

E330

Why I Steal

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Dec 29, 2021

39 mins

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A Season to Savor

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Dec 22, 2021

25 mins

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The Weight Of Love

E328·

Dec 15, 2021

50 mins

E327

Why Alan Cumming Doesn't Do Drama

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Dec 1, 2021

32 mins

E326

Becoming A Parent Of Six, At 25

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Nov 24, 2021

35 mins

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“What I Live With”: The Aftermath of Fatal Accidents

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Nov 10, 2021

38 mins

E324

I Love My Dad, But I Don't Love Guns

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Nov 3, 2021

40 mins

E323

Order Up, Tapped Out: Life After Restaurant Burnout

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Oct 27, 2021

45 mins

E322

Succession's J. Smith-Cameron On Old Haunts and New Normals

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Oct 20, 2021

40 mins

E321

Dead People Don't Have Any Secrets

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Oct 6, 2021

27 mins

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Your Infertility Stories Have Many Different Endings

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Sep 29, 2021

45 mins

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"You Should Be Carrying This. Not Me."

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Sep 22, 2021

40 mins

E318

When A Banker Became A Nun

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Sep 8, 2021

30 mins

E317

Decision Fatigue Is Real. We Called For Backup.

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Sep 1, 2021

1h 7m

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Financial Therapy: A Baby, And A Plan

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Aug 18, 2021

47 mins

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Financial Therapy: Struggling To Trust Again

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Aug 11, 2021

54 mins

E314

Financial Therapy: A Secret Gambling Addiction

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Aug 4, 2021

39 mins

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When Grief Doesn't Move In Stages

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Jul 23, 2021

37 mins

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Doree Shafrir On The Out Of Control IVF Train

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Jul 14, 2021

47 mins

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When Indie Rockers Become Full-Time Caregivers

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Jul 7, 2021

34 mins

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A Teen Musician Is Ready For His Solo. His Mom Is Not.

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Jun 23, 2021

38 mins

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"The Lying Stops Now": Your Hardest Conversations

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Jun 16, 2021

32 mins

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Michelle Zauner's Joy Is Rooted In Vengeance

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Jun 9, 2021

40 mins

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Mahershala Ali and Rafael Casal: Envy Is A Hell Of A Drug

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Jun 2, 2021

38 mins

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Alison Bechdel On Menopause, Mortality and Punching Pennies

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May 26, 2021

39 mins

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A Former Pro Climber On Enduring Chronic Illness

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May 19, 2021

58 mins

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Strictly, Entirely On The Fence About Having A Kid

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May 12, 2021

45 mins

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Where Noel and Anna's Hot Girl Summer Went Wrong

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May 5, 2021

1h 2m

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The 7 Hardest Conversations I've Ever Had On This Show

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Apr 28, 2021

40 mins

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When I Almost Died

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Apr 21, 2021

39 mins

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I Was In Debt. Then My Sister Offered Me $16,000.

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Apr 14, 2021

44 mins

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When Claudia Rankine Brought Up Race In Couples Counseling

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Apr 7, 2021

43 mins

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A Friend In The Execution Room

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Mar 24, 2021

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Finding Blessings and Throwing Vases

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Mar 17, 2021

28 mins

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Masks On, Tops Off: Inside A Texas Strip Club

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Mar 10, 2021

44 mins

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Ugh, Dating Right Now

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Mar 3, 2021

35 mins

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I Was Your Father, Until I Wasn't

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Feb 24, 2021

35 mins

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Your One Night Stand Stories

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Feb 17, 2021

18 mins

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Getting Real About Getting Older, Live

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Feb 10, 2021

1h 5m

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What The Border Taught Norma Elia Cantú About Being Free

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Feb 3, 2021

39 mins

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Beverly Glenn-Copeland's Gifts From The Universe

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Jan 27, 2021

35 mins

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Marlo Thomas Is Her Mother's Revenge

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Jan 20, 2021

39 mins

E288

Just Ask Us: Your Stories About Life After 60

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Jan 6, 2021

55 mins

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Death, Sex & 2020

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Dec 28, 2020

36 mins

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All That 2020 Has Taken From Us

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Dec 16, 2020

32 mins

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Stuck Apart, And Falling In Love

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Dec 8, 2020

41 mins

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Living Alone and Liking It. Sometimes.

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Dec 2, 2020

30 mins

E283

Miguel Gutierrez's Strongly Worded Emails About Art and Money

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Nov 25, 2020

36 mins

E282

I Killed Someone. Now I Study Police Violence.

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Nov 18, 2020

44 mins

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51 Years Loving A Man Named Sissy

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Nov 11, 2020

44 mins

E280

What’s Going On In Your Immigrant Family's Group Chat?

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Oct 28, 2020

46 mins

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Alice Wong On Ruckuses, Rage And Medicaid

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Oct 21, 2020

49 mins

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Audio We Love Fest: California Love

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Oct 15, 2020

51 mins

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Audio We Love Fest: Constellation Prize

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Oct 14, 2020

1 hr

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Audio We Love Fest: Goodbye To All This

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Oct 13, 2020

41 mins

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Getting Real About Getting Older

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Oct 7, 2020

30 mins

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Game Changer: A BMX Olympic Hopeful Looks To 2021

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Sep 30, 2020

29 mins

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Game Changer: Whether To Play, And Protest, In The NFL

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Sep 25, 2020

28 mins

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Game Changer: A Minor League Pitcher's Lost Season

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Sep 23, 2020

29 mins

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How Maria Hinojosa Learned To Fluff Her Feathers

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Sep 16, 2020

31 mins

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A Broadway Actor Turned Stay-At-Home Dad

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Sep 11, 2020

6 mins

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Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor On Racism, Insecurity and Negotiation

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Sep 9, 2020

40 mins

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Drop Off: A 24-Hour Daycare's Struggle To Stay Open

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Sep 2, 2020

36 mins

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Books We Love: Inside The Bubble With Akwaeke Emezi

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Aug 26, 2020

1h 2m

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"They Rely On Me": An Update From A USPS Mail Carrier

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Aug 19, 2020

15 mins

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This Senator Saved My Love Life

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Aug 12, 2020

28 mins

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What Keeps Wendell Pierce Up At Night

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Aug 5, 2020

36 mins

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Rent Is Due Tomorrow

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Jul 31, 2020

3 mins

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Books We Love: A Big Conversation About "Big Friendship"

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Jul 29, 2020

1h 14m

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How Bobby Berk Became A Boss

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Jul 22, 2020

35 mins

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A Widow’s Guide To Grieving

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Jul 15, 2020

33 mins

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Books We Love: Michael Arceneaux’s “I Don’t Want To Die Poor”

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Jul 10, 2020

57 mins

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What Money Can't Solve

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Jul 8, 2020

35 mins

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Skin Hunger: Part 2

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Jul 1, 2020

34 mins

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Skin Hunger: Part 1

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Jun 29, 2020

30 mins

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When Six Feet Isn't An Option

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Jun 24, 2020

31 mins

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An Essential Worker, Going Back In

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Jun 17, 2020

36 mins

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I Love You, But There's This Money Thing...

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Jun 10, 2020

29 mins

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"This Has Been A Long Time Coming."

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Jun 5, 2020

27 mins

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Financial Therapy: How Much Should I Help My Family?

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Jun 3, 2020

33 mins

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What Do You Need To Say Right Now?

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3 mins

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Financial Therapy: Why Did I Take That Risk?

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May 27, 2020

30 mins

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Financial Therapy: What Is Our Savings For?

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May 20, 2020

29 mins

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Financial Therapy: Meet Amanda Clayman

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May 18, 2020

16 mins

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Madeleine Albright On Ambition and Obsoleteness

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May 13, 2020

38 mins

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What Is A "Good Death" During A Pandemic?

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May 8, 2020

5 mins

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Samantha Irby Is Prepared To Gracefully Bow Out

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May 6, 2020

37 mins

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Student Loans And The Pandemic: Your Questions, Answered

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Apr 27, 2020

30 mins

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They Were Managing Their OCD. Then Came The Pandemic.

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Apr 22, 2020

34 mins

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An Immunocompromised Love Story

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Apr 15, 2020

37 mins

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A Weekend Homework Assignment From Tayari Jones

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Apr 10, 2020

10 mins

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Goodbye, John Prine

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Apr 7, 2020

28 mins

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"Nobody Comes Here To Hide": Remembering Bill Withers

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Apr 3, 2020

28 mins

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"We Are The Glue": Stories From Essential Workers

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Apr 1, 2020

30 mins

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A Surgical Nurse On Being Essential

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Mar 30, 2020

6 mins

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If You Can't Isolate, What Do You Need?

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Mar 27, 2020

4 mins

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Confessions of a Nashville Power Couple

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Mar 26, 2020

30 mins

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What Rockstars And Sober People Already Know About Quarantine

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Mar 25, 2020

31 mins

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We Made A Pandemic Tool Kit

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Mar 20, 2020

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