Hired, fired, can’t retire
This Is Uncomfortable
Marketplace
4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Rebecca Danigelis never planned to stop working. She was an executive housekeeper in Boston raising two kids as a single mom, and everything she earned went to making sure they got the best education she could afford. When her son Sian-Pierre was climbing the ranks as a journalist and entrepreneur, it seemed like all the overtime, frozen dinners and sacrifice were worth it. Just as his career was taking off, however, hers started to crumble.
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| 0:00.0 | For Sean Pierre Regis, 2016 started off great. |
| 0:07.1 | He was at the top of his career. |
| 0:08.7 | He'd gone from being an assistant to a producer, eventually an on-air contributor at CNN. |
| 0:14.2 | And his goal was just to keep on climbing. |
| 0:16.8 | I was consumed by that. |
| 0:19.5 | And I really thought that I would be the best at it, that I would learn more, that I would |
| 0:23.2 | get bigger scoops, that I would get bigger exclusives, that my name would get bigger. |
| 0:28.3 | Getting to this place hadn't been easy. |
| 0:30.5 | You could say it was the accumulation of a lifelong marathon effort. |
| 0:34.7 | And not just his effort, his mom's too. |
| 0:37.4 | He pulled all nighters in high school while she worked overtime as a single mom. |
| 0:41.8 | He joined every extracurricular, got himself into a selective college. |
| 0:45.8 | She borrowed money from friends, budgeted every penny. |
| 0:48.9 | And it seemed like he was becoming the embodiment of all that hard work. |
| 0:53.0 | He turned out beautifully. |
| 0:56.0 | This is Sean Pierce mom, Rebecca. |
| 0:58.4 | He's done very, very well with so proud of him. |
| 1:02.8 | But it's right around this time, as his career was really taking off, that hers started |
| 1:08.3 | to crumble. |
| 1:13.0 | He started realizing something was wrong when the calls began. |
| 1:16.4 | He'd been the middle of the newsroom when his mom would hit him up, sounding incredibly |
| 1:20.2 | upset. |
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