Sex and Money: Alexandra Fine
SPENT
“If you build it, they will come.” Alexandra Fine, the CEO of Dame, a line of sex toys for women wanted to build a totally different kind of sex toy for women. She tells me all about the challenges her company faces when it comes to selling female pleasure. We talk social media, censorship, and who gets to sell sex (and who doesn't)?
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Sex and Money: Allison Schrager
SPENT
Hey there! On the third episode of our Sex & Money miniseries, we're talking about RISK. What do we mean when talk about risky behavior?
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Sex and Money: Lucy Sweetkill & Dia Domina Dynasty
SPENT
Welcome to SPENT's brand spankin' new Sex & Money miniseries. Today, we've got dominatrix duo Dia Domina Dynasty and Lucy Sweetkill in the studio to talk about how they started their unique business as professional dominatrixes, how to ask for what you're worth, and why you need to do work that aligns with your values. For them? Compassion, open-mindedness, and kink.
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Sex and Money: Stoya
SPENT
We're back! On today's episode of SPENT, we’ve got adult film star, author, and activist STOYA in the studio to talk about royalties, residuals, and all the ways performers who work in adult entertainment can get financially screwed.
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Sean Donnelly: Can a Comedian Plan for His Retirement?
SPENT
Today we hit the road with Sean Donnelly, a stand-up comedian you may have seen on Comedy Central, David Letterman and Last Comic Standing. Sean tells us all the tips and tricks he's learned from 10 years on the road, his vices, his budgeting, where his money is going and where he wants to end up. Can a comedian ever retire? We work it out.
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Minda Harts: How to Make Money When You Grew Up Broke
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Minda Harts is the founder of The Memo LLC, a career development company for women of color. She's a superstar career coach, helping women of all ages and backgrounds, from colleges to boardrooms to homeless shelters improve their resumes and advocate for themselves. She's here to talk about finding money mentors and how you can actually teach people to be ambitious.
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Beth Karas: My Lunch With OJ and the Cost of Reinventing Yourself
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If you were glued to your TV during the Scott Peterson or Casey Anthony trials, you definitely know Beth Karas, the powerhouse CourtTV correspondent who kept audiences riveted to the legal proceedings of complex cases. Today, she gets personal and talks about her financial life, her career, life after CourtTV and the one thing that holds her back.
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Dan Ariely: "Why Are We So Bad With Money?"
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Our last episode of 2016! Dan Ariely, TED Talk star, Duke University professor and bestselling author of "Payoff," Rationally Irrational" and others talks to me about why we make terrible financial decisions, why comedians are fascinating, getting out of debt parties and why money can't buy you happiness.
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Ace Callwood: Why Is Freelancing So Hard?
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Ace Callwood is an entrepreneur. His specialty? Freelancers and taxes. In this episode he tells the ups and downs of starting his own business and how freelancers have to look out for themselves -- but it helps if you have the right tools to keep it all together.
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Sarah Tollemache: Wedding Bells and Medical Bill Hells
SPENT
Here come the bills! Sarah Tollemache is a comedian who has appeared on Comedy Central, Last Comic Standing and in clubs all over the US. She's planning her wedding and she's got a few things to say about money, marriage, medical bills and being broke.
info_outlineFree trials! Free apps! Free samples! If so much is free, why are we so broke? Jeff Kreisler, an award-winning comedian and author of "Get Rich Cheating" talks me through all the ways that free can cost you big.