Hi team, before we get into this episode, just a quick content warning that we do discuss

suicide in this episode.

So if that is not something that you want to hear about today or something that triggers you,

feel free to skip it.

We will see you back here next week.

Thank you. We know that poverty is a

feature of capitalism. We also know poverty is a policy choice and we see this

anywhere that a government has decided to implement fighting poverty as a

policy decision. They succeed. So we know that the fact that people

live in poverty, the fact that people with quote-unquote good jobs still can't afford to make ends meet,

those are all policy decisions.

Hello, welcome back to the show.

If you're an oldy-bitty goody, welcome back.

If you're new here, welcome, this is a show called Financial Feminist. It's a show where we talk

about how money affects women differently and how we can fight the patriarchy by getting rich.

Today on the show, our guest is Madeline Pendleton, who has an incredible new book out all about how to

survive capitalism and how to get even a lousy t-shirt doing it but today we talk

about so many things how to understand your emotional connection to money, how to navigate tough times as a business

owner, including trying to avoid layoffs, surviving on truly nothing and how you go about

actually figuring out how to manage your

personal finances when you are completely broke and have very little money and we

also talk about how to overcome all of the emotional narratives you've been believing about money.

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