Bonfire

Most of us have a junk drawer in our home. Keys, batteries, old chargers, loose change...and, what else? It turns out that junk drawers are shockingly revealing. Join us as Michelle Smith, our resident financial therapist, analyzes what Rachel and Suzanne found in theirs, and learn what your junk drawer might be telling you about your “stuff.” You might just find something that you never knew was there.

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It’s easy to reject the doomsday scenarios of the impact of technology on our concentration. After all, even as I’m typing this on my computer, I’m also checking Instagram and responding to a text. Yeah. So what? Well, we’ll tell you what. The way we behave around our technology, at work and at home, is giving away something that’s hard to get back. And oh, do we have stories to share.

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Who pays for dinner on a date? Answer this: are you a millennial? Do you earn a salary? Do you want to see sexism live forever?

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Or should we ask, what are you afraid of? Oh, yes, we’re going there...

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“Excuse me. I have a question. Can someone set up a soapbox for me?”

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Work for free? We say uh-uh. No. Unless it’s your dad who’s not paying you. Then you’ve got a problem. Right, Suzanne?

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A cringe-worry confession from Suzanne.

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It will take a while before we will be able to shake off the bad feelings and anger that surrounded us on all sides of this election. While revenge fantasies are often the first thing that comes to mind (or at least, came to ours), in the end, those thoughts just make you feel worse and less in control of the world around you. So we set out to find someone who has a very different take on what to do right now to feel better, and a story to go with it. It turns out that we didn’t need to look very hard. We bring Suzanne’s dad into the studio for everyone’s favorite segment, and “Ask Arthur” to share his story about a lost camera case, some friendly Geeks, and returning something that money can’t buy.

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Getting emotional at the office is typically a big no-no. Expressing anger can be particularly nasty. But is it really healthy to keep it all in? (Black Mirror Season 3 watchers will know the answer to that.) Maybe Trump really is right (yes, that’s not a typo) and what happens at work IS, in fact, only business? Cue Anne Kreamer, one of the founders of Spy Magazine, a Fast Company columnist, and author of the book (cue drumroll)...It’s All Personal. Anne gave us the full frontal on anger at work, and we didn’t cry once.

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Does arriving at your desk in the morning, flipping open your laptop, or hearing the ping of your phone feel like the beginning of a Stephen King movie? Feeling scared and anxious at work is all too common. We break it down and talk to an expert coach from the The Muse to help us understand and face our demons. Make some popcorn and get comfortable. Here we go.

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