Death, Sex & Money

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What's Death, Sex & Money about?

Death, Sex & Money is a podcast about the big questions and hard choices that are often left out of polite conversation. Host Anna Sale talks to celebrities you've heard of—and to regular people you haven't—about the Big Stuff: relationships, money, family, work and making it all count while we're here.
WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, Snap Judgment, On the Media, Nancy, Death-Sex & Money, Here’s the Thing with Alec Baldwin and many others.
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Alice Wong On Ruckuses, Rag...

10.21.2020

The disability rights activist talks with me about facing discrimination as a teenager, managing her finances, and planning for her and her parents' futures. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us ...

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10.21.2020 Alice Wong On Ruckuses, Rage And Medicaid The disability rights activist talks with me about facing discrimination as a teenager, managing her finances, and planning for her and her parents' futures. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us ...
10.15.2020 Audio We Love Fest: California Love Our weeklong audio celebration wraps up with a conversation between a mother and son about immigrating, building a home, and appreciating Los Angeles. Subscribe to California Love from LAist Studios wherever you get your podcasts. Then tune in tomorrow, October ...
10.14.2020 Audio We Love Fest: Constellation Prize Our weeklong festival continues with a story about isolation, faith, and community from producer Bianca Giaever and The Believer Magazine. Subscribe to Constellation Prize from The Believer Magazine wherever you get your podcasts. They've also offered a special 20% discount ...
10.13.2020 Audio We Love Fest: Goodbye To All This We kick off our first ever Audio We Love Festival with a brand new show about loss, love and moving forward. Subscribe to Goodbye To All This from the BBC World Service wherever you get your podcasts. Then tune in ...
10.07.2020 Getting Real About Getting Older I don’t think that as a culture, we talk enough about getting older, and when we do, we don’t often do it well. It's time to have better conversations about aging—and we're going to do it with the help of ...
09.30.2020 Game Changer: A BMX Olympic Hopeful Looks To 2021 Chelsea Wolfe has dedicated the last four years to becoming one of the first BMX freestyle riders at the Olympics. The games' postponement has made her reevaluate everything. Want to see Chelsea in action? Watch her competing at the BMX ...
09.25.2020 Game Changer: Whether To Play, And Protest, In The NFL "Once you're done with football, you're done with football." Look out for more in our Game Changer series, about the ways athletes' lives and livelihoods have been upended by COVID-19, next week. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram ...
09.23.2020 Game Changer: A Minor League Pitcher's Lost Season 2020 was supposed to be the year Mitch Horacek made his Major League Baseball debut. Instead, he ended up throwing baseballs into a net by himself, and learning to code. Look out for more in our Game Changer series, about ...
09.16.2020 How Maria Hinojosa Learned To Fluff Her Feathers The journalist talks about building up her confidence in the world of media, and reaching a breaking point in her marriage that led her to reevaluate her priorities. This episode includes a description of a rape. Want to check out ...
09.11.2020 A Broadway Actor Turned Stay-At-Home Dad Our listener Bill Army was acting on Broadway until March 12. Since then, he's been taking care of his two daughters—and bringing the world indoors to them—while his wife works in a Queens emergency room. Check out photos of Bill's ...
09.09.2020 Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor On Racism, Insecurity and Negotiation Longtime Sesame Street actor Sonia Manzano and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talk about leaving their childhood homes in the Bronx, facing their insecurities, and coming to understand the power of the written word. This episode is part of ...
09.02.2020 Drop Off: A 24-Hour Daycare's Struggle To Stay Open "I have to keep coming until we've exhausted everything, and we definitely have to shut the door." Are you a new listener? Welcome! Check out our starter kit, which includes some of our favorite episodes of the show. It includes ...
08.26.2020 Books We Love: Inside The Bubble With Akwaeke Emezi Writer and artist Akwaeke Emezi talks with me about their childhood in Nigeria, their brief stint in veterinary school, and how, these days, they've deemed themself "worthy of extravagance." Watch the video of this live conversation here, thanks to our ...
08.19.2020 "They Rely On Me": An Update From A USPS Mail Carrier As the USPS finds itself at the center of a political divide, we check in with a mail carrier who wrote to us earlier this year about being an essential worker at the height of the pandemic. Are you a ...
08.12.2020 This Senator Saved My Love Life A story about what Alan Simpson, an expert on the federal deficit, taught me about love—and how it changed everything. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected] ...
08.05.2020 What Keeps Wendell Pierce Up At Night While spending the pandemic with his 95-year-old father in New Orleans, the actor is thinking hard about family and parenthood. Are you a new listener? Welcome! Check out our starter kit, which includes some of our favorite episodes of the ...
07.31.2020 Rent Is Due Tomorrow Today is July 31st—which means that for many people, rent is due tomorrow. But we know from watching recent data that a lot of people won't be able to pay by that deadline. According to a recent survey, nearly a ...
07.29.2020 Books We Love: A Big Conversation About "Big Friendship" Authors, podcasters and longtime friends Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow on friendship therapists, awkward spa weekends and why the word "bestie" just doesn't cut it. You can watch the video of this live conversation here, thanks to our friends at ...
07.22.2020 How Bobby Berk Became A Boss "I failed a lot, you know, I made a lot of wrong decisions. I just, I never let my failures end it." Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time ...
07.15.2020 A Widow’s Guide To Grieving "My therapist told me that it was okay to be mad at him for dying, whether or not it's rational. Because nothing about this is logical or makes sense." Looking for more Death, Sex & Money conversations about grief and ...
07.10.2020 Books We Love: Michael Arceneaux’s “I Don’t Want To Die Poor” The writer joined me live on Zoom to talk student loan debt, luxury CBD drinks, and why he's not going to "pimp out [his] trauma." Tune in this Tuesday, July 14th, at 4 PM Eastern for the second in this ...
07.08.2020 What Money Can't Solve A confession is tortured out of a suspect. He goes to prison. Back in 2016, he got a check for what he endured. But forgiveness is not part of the bargain. NPR's Planet Money collaborated with us on this episode. ...
07.01.2020 Skin Hunger: Part 2 In this collaboration with the podcast Love + Radio, we hear from listeners whose relationships ended right before the pandemic—or because of it. Thanks to the team at Love + Radio for their work on this collaboration. Subscribe to the ...
06.29.2020 Skin Hunger: Part 1 Along with the podcast Love + Radio, we've been asking you about how you're coping with a lack of physical touch in your lives due to the pandemic. This is what you told us. Thanks to the team at Love ...
06.24.2020 When Six Feet Isn't An Option Two stories on incarceration and coronavirus: an update from Lawrence Bartley, whose time sheltering in place has him reflecting on his time in prison, and a woman who wrote to him, worried about her incarcerated husband's safety. For more conversations ...
06.17.2020 An Essential Worker, Going Back In A conversation with Sharron, a certified nursing assistant in Virginia, who we first met in our essential workers episode this spring. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at ...
06.10.2020 I Love You, But There's This Money Thing... From budgeting blue books to a $60,000 engagement ring: your stories about love and money. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected] And support our work at ...
06.05.2020 "This Has Been A Long Time Coming." We asked you what you needed to say in this moment of reckoning with police brutality, structural racism, and grief. Here's what you told us. We want to keep talking with you about this. Send us a voice memo about ...
06.03.2020 Financial Therapy: How Much Should I Help My Family? "It's difficult to sometimes separate myself from being the one that always has to have it together." This episode is part of a special Financial Therapy series here on Death, Sex & Money, hosted by Amanda Clayman. If you have ...
06.01.2020 What Do You Need To Say Right Now? What do you need to say right now? As we take in the anguish that's surfacing today—about the fact that COVID19 is disproportionately impacting communities of color, about the violence of police brutality against Black people, and about all the ...
05.27.2020 Financial Therapy: Why Did I Take That Risk? Two years ago, Mathew* quit an executive job and struck out on his own to found an independent consulting firm. After months of bringing in "90% less than what [he] used to," business was finally starting to pick up earlier ...
05.20.2020 Financial Therapy: What Is Our Savings For? Before the pandemic, Dale ran an event space in Knoxville, Tennessee. After cancelling every booking this month—which was set to be their busiest ever—she finds herself wondering how to share the burden of her financial anxiety with her husband—and how ...
05.18.2020 Financial Therapy: Meet Amanda Clayman Many of our financial situations have changed drastically in the past two months. We're calling on a financial therapist to help us sort through all of the emotions those shifts are bringing up. Listen out for our special series with ...
05.13.2020 Madeleine Albright On Ambition and Obsoleteness The former secretary of state reflects on how now, in her 80s, she's re-experiencing a feeling she had in her 20s—after graduating from college and putting her career aside for family. We're collecting your memories and stories about people you've ...
05.08.2020 What Is A "Good Death" During A Pandemic? A listener named Lindsay, who works as a nurse in an ICU, is struggling with the way her patients are dying from COVID-19. Have thoughts to share with Lindsay? Email us at [email protected]
05.06.2020 Samantha Irby Is Prepared To Gracefully Bow Out The bestselling writer reflects on her sense of pride, and why she's got no problem going back to an hourly job "the minute it feels like this is over." Help us reach our fundraising goal! Support Death, Sex & Money ...
04.27.2020 Student Loans And The Pandemic: Your Questions, Answered A lot has changed in the student loan landscape since the pandemic hit. In this special collaboration with NPR's Life Kit, student loan expert Betsy Mayotte answers your questions about who is covered under the CARES Act, how private loan ...
04.22.2020 They Were Managing Their OCD. Then Came The Pandemic. Listener Diane Davis and author John Green have spent years learning tools to manage their obsessive thoughts and fears of contamination. But COVID-19 is putting all of them to the test. Sign up for our newsletter today at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. And ...
04.15.2020 An Immunocompromised Love Story We check in with Alana Duran, who has lupus and received a donor kidney several years ago from her new girlfriend at the time, Lori Interlicchio. What are you noticing about physical touch and intimacy right now? Whether you're partnered ...
04.10.2020 A Weekend Homework Assignment From Tayari Jones One of the things writer Tayari Jones has learned in isolation is mastering different forms of connection, from re-learning how to teach her college students over Zoom to sending money to friends in need. The simplest way she's connecting? Greeting ...
04.07.2020 Goodbye, John Prine "I'm just a lucky guy," John Prine told me in our 2018 interview. We will miss him.
04.03.2020 "Nobody Comes Here To Hide": Remembering Bill Withers Songwriting icon Bill Withers died this week at 81 years old. Today, we revisit my conversation with him—from the very first episode of Death, Sex & Money.
04.01.2020 "We Are The Glue": Stories From Essential Workers A few weeks back, we created a Pandemic Tool Kit for those of us who are staying home during the COVID-19 crisis. But we also wanted to hear from those of you who can't stay home right now because your ...
03.30.2020 A Surgical Nurse On Being Essential We asked essential workers to write in about what they need, and what they're thinking about. Here's what one surgical nurse in Ohio told us. Not subscribed to our newsletter yet? Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. And follow our show on ...
03.27.2020 If You Can't Isolate, What Do You Need? If you’re an essential worker who isn't able to stay home, we want to know what’s on your mind right now and what’s helping you. Record a voice memo and send it to [email protected] And if you are staying at ...
03.26.2020 Confessions of a Nashville Power Couple Jason Isbell was a restless guitarist. Amanda Shires was a fiddler who turned his life around. In 2014, they were a year into marriage, and discovering that sobriety and success come with new challenges. Want more? Here are a few ...
03.25.2020 What Rockstars And Sober People Already Know About Quarantine "It's bringing me back to early recovery....I have to think about the things that keep me sober for right now, because we have no idea what tomorrow is going to look like." Not subscribed to our newsletter yet? Sign up ...
03.20.2020 We Made A Pandemic Tool Kit This week, you've been helping us build a Pandemic Tool Kit. Now we want to see it in action! Pick something to do from the kit this weekend and send in your field reports from your activities of choice—pictures, voices ...
03.18.2020 Ben Sinclair Is A Fan Of Endings The High Maintenance star reflects on his childhood, what he's learned from his divorce, and why he's starting to smoke less weed. Looking for some TV recs? Here are five of my favorite High Maintenance episodes. I only picked from ...
03.13.2020 Alone Together: A COVID-19 Call-In Anna and Kai Wright, host of WNYC's The United States of Anxiety podcast, take your calls about how the coronavirus is impacting your life, your relationships, and your plans—and how you're coping with it all. You can find coronavirus tips ...

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Death, Sex & Money episodes:

Alice Wong On Ruckuses, Rage And Medicaid

Audio We Love Fest: California Love

Audio We Love Fest: Constellation Prize

Audio We Love Fest: Goodbye To All This

Getting Real About Getting Older

Game Changer: A BMX Olympic Hopeful Looks To 2021

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

Game Changer: A Minor League Pitcher's Lost Season

How Maria Hinojosa Learned To Fluff Her Feathers

A Broadway Actor Turned Stay-At-Home Dad

Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor On Racism, Insecurity and Negotiation

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

Books We Love: Inside The Bubble With Akwaeke Emezi

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

This Senator Saved My Love Life

What Keeps Wendell Pierce Up At Night

Rent Is Due Tomorrow

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

How Bobby Berk Became A Boss

A Widow’s Guide To Grieving

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

What Money Can't Solve

Skin Hunger: Part 2

Skin Hunger: Part 1

When Six Feet Isn't An Option

An Essential Worker, Going Back In

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

"This Has Been A Long Time Coming."

Financial Therapy: How Much Should I Help My Family?

What Do You Need To Say Right Now?

Financial Therapy: Why Did I Take That Risk?

Financial Therapy: What Is Our Savings For?

Financial Therapy: Meet Amanda Clayman

Madeleine Albright On Ambition and Obsoleteness

What Is A "Good Death" During A Pandemic?

Samantha Irby Is Prepared To Gracefully Bow Out

Student Loans And The Pandemic: Your Questions, Answered

They Were Managing Their OCD. Then Came The Pandemic.

An Immunocompromised Love Story

A Weekend Homework Assignment From Tayari Jones

Goodbye, John Prine

"Nobody Comes Here To Hide": Remembering Bill Withers

"We Are The Glue": Stories From Essential Workers

A Surgical Nurse On Being Essential

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

Confessions of a Nashville Power Couple

What Rockstars And Sober People Already Know About Quarantine

We Made A Pandemic Tool Kit

Ben Sinclair Is A Fan Of Endings

Alone Together: A COVID-19 Call-In

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