Other People's Pockets

This episode contains adult content and listener discretion is advised.

Maybe the sexiest voice you will hear on this show? Yumprincess Elle is a voice actor, writer and singer who stumbled into the world of creating audio erotica on a whim. Now she has an avid fan base and has built a new financial future by doing this style of online sex work. She says that as a disabled person, creating audio porn has transformed her relationship to money ... and to affording healthcare.

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YouTube: @YumprincessElle 

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Laura Lyster-Mensh has witnessed people die, and through that she's discovered some surprising things: family-related financial shenanigans, aloneness, secrets. She's also realized that unlike being a birth doula or a hospice nurse, being a death doula is not a way to earn money. Why? Listen to find out.

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Twitter: @lauracollinslm

Instagram: @lauraoncapitolhill

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Coss Marte is a lifelong entrepreneur and the founder of CONBODY, a workout program he created in prison that employs formerly incarcerated fitness instructors. He also founded CONBUD, a legal cannabis dispensary that's taking advantage of licenses being given to people convicted of marijuana-related offenses. Coss talked about why being in prison can be so expensive, and how finding a job post-incarceration is so difficult.

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Instagram: @cossmarte

Instagram: @conbudny

Instagram: @conbody

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conbud.com

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Jeremy Bowditch is many things: Neighborhood Council Member in Los Angeles, Lakers fan, wine snob. He's not afraid to admit that what he does to make money — advertising — doesn't light his fire. Lately, he's focused on redistributing the wealth he discovered by marrying his wife, and on being transparent about how they actually afforded a house. 

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Instagram: @jbowditch

Twitter: @jbowditch

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Ingrid Nilsen was one of the quintessential YouTube stars of the 2010’s, known for her candid, girl-next-door style videos about makeup and "boyfriend-approved" outfits. Then one day, she quit YouTube, saying goodbye to her 8 million followers and the fortune that came with them. Now, Ingrid runs a fragrance company, The New Savant, that she co-founded with Erica Anderson. She gets a paycheck, but it ain't that YouTube money.

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Instagram: @ingridnilsen 
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5zSySQab9SA6Wz569WDgqw
Twitter: @ingridnilsen

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At age 11, Uzziah Campbell founded Calm & Cure Candle Co. as a way to process the trauma of the pandemic and murders by police. Now 14, Uzziah has a growing savings account and is learning to manage the money from his business. His mom, Nakia, joins to discuss how it all comes together.

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Instagram: @calmandcure_candles 
Instagram: @the.mental.motivator
calmandcurecandles.com

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Ben Shewry has one of the top restaurants in the world, but even he needs to supplement his income. Ben is the New Zealand-born chef and owner of Attica, in Melbourne, Australia, a highly-acclaimed yet anti-"fine dining" establishment. He talks about his paycheck, his skater punk youth, and the definition of "selling out."

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Instagram: @benshewry
Attica: https://www.attica.com.au/

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Today, we’re sharing a clip from the new season of "This Is Uncomfortable" — a podcast from Marketplace where host Reema Khrais digs into stories about the surprising ways money shapes our relationships, identities and the choices we make. You can find the full episode and the new season of “This is Uncomfortable” wherever you get your podcasts.

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Wednesday Martin is a writer and social researcher whose #1 NYT-bestelling book, "The Primates of Park Avenue," revealed the inner world of rich Upper East Side mommies. Now, her anthropologist's eye is turned toward a different type of social currency: sex, erotic capital, cheating, "ethical" non-monogamy, and all things women's sexuality. And she reveals the tricky money conversations that go on inside her own open marriage.

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Twitter: @wednesdaymartin
Instagram: @wednesdaymartinphd
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It's time for a Pocket Dial! That's where we zoom out and reflect on what people are saying so far on Other People's Pockets. Mary O'Hara, an award-winning journalist whose work centers on social policy and socioeconomic class, helps us process what we're learning about people's income, class identity, and money secrets.

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Twitter: @maryohara1 
Instagram: @maryoharawriter
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