No more money, please
This Is Uncomfortable
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4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The more Morgan Curtis learned about the source of her family’s multi-generation wealth — from gold mining, to fossil fuel investment, to slave ownership — the less she wanted anything to do with it. When she started to give away half a million dollars to social justice organizations in her late twenties, her dad told her he may write her out of her future inheritance. In this episode, we hear from them both.
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| 0:00.0 | Growing up, the things Morgan Curtis and her dad shared in common would end up being |
| 0:07.2 | the things that strained their relationship. |
| 0:09.9 | They were both driven, principled, the kind of people who come up with an idea and actually |
| 0:14.1 | commit to it. |
| 0:15.4 | Like the year Morgan's dad came up with the swim challenge. |
| 0:18.3 | I don't remember how I came about, but my dad said he would give me 100 perons if I |
| 0:24.6 | swam in the ocean every single month of the year. |
| 0:29.8 | At the time, they were living in London and they had to do this challenge even during |
| 0:33.2 | the winter. |
| 0:34.2 | No wet suits allowed. |
| 0:35.2 | Morgan was maybe 13 years old and she was set on getting that 100 pounds. |
| 0:40.1 | So every single month, she plunged into water that was at times ice cold and he'd often |
| 0:44.8 | jump right in with her. |
| 0:46.5 | So some days we'd be driving over to get the swim challenge done because it'd be the |
| 0:50.0 | last day of the month and it would be howling with the wind design, the rain is coming |
| 0:55.1 | down sideways. |
| 0:56.1 | We'll be like, okay, out to the beach here we go. |
| 1:00.5 | Why would you do that? |
| 1:02.2 | It was the swim challenge. |
| 1:04.1 | They kept up with it until the very last month. |
| 1:06.9 | And it was pouring rain and windy and just like a terrible day to be at the beach. |
| 1:15.6 | And I was like, okay, I gotta do it. |
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