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FromThis Is Uncomfortable


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FromThis Is Uncomfortable

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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Oct 14, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The more Morgan Curtis learned about the source of her family’s multi-generation wealth — from gold mining, to fossil fuel investment, to slave ownership — the less she wanted anything to do with it. When she started to give away half a million dollars to social justice organizations in her late twenties, her dad told her he may write her out of her future inheritance. In this episode, we hear from them both.
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Released:
Oct 14, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

This is a show about life and how money messes with it. Each week, Marketplace’s Reema Khrais digs in with stories about the unanticipated ways money affects relationships, shapes identities and often defines what it means to be an adult. How much money do you lend a friend? Who can afford to vote? Can you get your life back after being wrongfully convicted?