People come to me for a lot of advice and I'm generally quite honored, but on occasion I kind of just say okay I don't need

Can I have a day without somebody coming to talk about yeah about another breakup.

This is death sex and money. Here's some money go see a Star War. The show from

WNY about the things we think about a lot.

We're going to rip that flesh out for you and eat it.

And need to talk about more.

Can no one find nude photos of me on the internet?

I'm Ali Ashokat in for Anna Sale. The first time I was

on Death Sex and Money I was 28 years old. It was a live show with Anna in Los Angeles and the conversation was about what it's like to be in your 20s.

But I recently turned 30 and now I'm looking for some different kind of advice about the next chapter of my life

So when I was asked back to be a guest host on this episode I knew exactly who I wanted to get it from

Esther, hello, hello, Esther Perel.

Therapist, author, and host of her own podcast,

Where Should We Begin.

She studies intimacy and monogamy and sexuality, things that I think about all the time.

Thank you so much for putting the time aside to do this. I mean so much to me.

My pleasure.

I think I was like 26 or 27 when I discovered her work.

So really from that point on I kind of just got obsessed with her. Like my dream was just to have like a session with her

just to like pull her aside and be like okay this is my stuff I want to talk about but

this interview is about as close as I could get to a counseling session.

So I really wanted to ask her about her life,

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