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Feb 11
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What If Fear Is What Keeps You Working? ...

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle
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Despite writing bestsellers and landing a Reese’s Book Club pick, Xochitl Gonzalez opens up about the lingering shame of precarity, the invisibility of working-class success, and why we need to drag money talk out into the light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices 
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