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Death, Sex & Money

Life in Our 20s: Advice from Niecy Nash, Alia Shawkat & Terri Coleman

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Live from the Werk It Women's Podcast Festival at the Ace Hotel in downtown LA, we talk all about getting through your 20s with actors Alia Shawkat and Niecy Nash. Plus, a story from Terri Coleman about how Jose Cuervo taught her an important lesson in young adulthood.  Give and get advice about life in your 20s at deathsexmoney.org/20sadvice. Want to celebrate your next Ellen Burstyn-inspired "should-less day" in style? Get our new "I'm having a SHOULD-LESS DAY" mug!" Support Death, Sex & Money today by becoming a sustaining member at $8/month and we'll send you one. Go to deathsexmoney.org/donate or text "DSM" to 70101.  Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter and we'll send you great audio recommendations, fascinating letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Sign up at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter. Follow the show on Twitter @deathsexmoney and Facebook at facebook.com/deathsexmoney. Email us any time at deathsexmoney@wnyc.org. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I heard a voice as audible as my own.

0:03.0

Say, Neecy, don't be a selfish hever.

0:05.8

It's other people.

0:07.6

Now that's what the voice said to me.

0:09.0

Don't judge my voice. This is got sex and money. Sex and I am really glad to be here with you tonight in Los Angeles

0:37.8

as part of this festival that's celebrating what women podcasters are making the work at festival.

0:44.8

It's really an honor to be here in this incredibly beautiful theater.

0:48.8

I hope you get to see it before the lights went down.

0:51.2

Our show is about the things we think about a lot and need to talk

0:54.9

about more. And tonight we're talking about a life phase where there's a lot to think about

1:00.6

and a lot to talk about. Our 20s. When I think about my 20s, what I remember is feeling like I

1:08.8

had this clear track in front of me that immediately came to an abrupt end when school ended and everything

1:15.5

that had felt somewhat familiar fell away and I had to learn how to support myself.

1:21.2

I had to think about whether I needed more schooling to keep supporting myself into my career.

1:25.9

But really one of the things I thought the most about was sex and whether I knew how to do it and

1:31.3

whether I was doing it enough and whether people wanted to have sex with me

1:35.4

and then finally realizing I got to think about whether I wanted to have sex with them.

1:40.3

But there's a lot that goes into that phase of life and we asked death sex and money

1:44.4

listeners over the last couple of months if they were in their 20s what questions

1:48.7

they had in their lives as they were beginning adulthood and y'all had lot of questions. So we're going to do

1:55.0

some life advice at the end of this show with my incredible guests who are here tonight.

2:00.7

I am so stoked with these women that are here. Terry Coleman

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