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Death, Sex & Money - Ellen Burstyn's Lessons on Survival

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4.2 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Ellen Burstyn has won countless acting awards, but says she is proudest of raising her son. We talk about learning how to mother, leaving an abusive marriage and confronting death.

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Listen back to Ellen Burstyn in conversation with Gloria Steinem on Death, Sex & Money here. 

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0:00.0

Hi, it's Anna. In this episode with Ellen Burstyn is one of my all-time favorite death sex and money shows.

0:08.0

It's an example of what I'm proud that death sex and money adds to our world right now.

0:13.3

When we need more conversations that are complicated, curious, honest, and sometimes uncomfortable.

0:20.3

And, you know, one of the uncomfortable things I try to be

0:23.0

direct about on this show is money. And I'm going to be direct with you about that right now.

0:28.2

It takes money to make this show, for us to travel and report stories, to do live shows, to put

0:34.2

together big projects like our student loan series. And your support, your pitching in with your fellow listeners, is our most important source of funding. But right now, less than 0.3% of people who listen to death sex and money have donated. An even smaller percentage have signed up to support us on an ongoing basis as sustaining members,

0:56.1

which is the kind of reliable support that helps all of the shows here at WNYC Studios plan and grow.

1:02.9

I want us to at least get to 1% of listeners of death, sex, and money, and I know we can do it.

1:10.1

Join in and give what you can.

1:12.8

Here is your chance to be part of the 1%.

1:16.1

So if you like this show and you want to keep it going, we need you to donate now.

1:22.0

At a time when it feels like there's a lot going wrong with our world, I'm trying to direct

1:26.6

my money to things I believe in. I hope

1:29.1

death, sex, and money is one of those things for you. So please sign up to become a sustaining

1:34.3

member of the show and chip in what you can every month, along with your fellow listeners. If you

1:39.4

can give $8 a month, we've got a special new way for you to show your death, sex, and money, pride.

1:45.3

More on that later.

1:46.9

Go to deathsexmoney.org slash donate, or if you're in the U.S., text DSM to the number 70101 to get started.

1:56.2

Thank you for listening and for helping us continue to grow and build this death, sex, and money community.

2:02.7

Here's Ellen Burstyn.

2:04.9

See, everybody thinks acting is pretending, and it's the opposite.

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