Hey everyone, we're about to wrap this season of Love Letters, which, as you know, has been all about love and money.

I've learned so much from our guests and their stories.

But before we go, I need to know, what are you taking away from this season?

What did it make you think about? Did it remind you of a money story from your life?

Do you have any money-related relationship advice that you just need to share with the world?

Send us a short voice memo, like three minutes or less, to lovelettersatboston.com.

That's lovelettersatboston.com. We might use it in a future episode of the podcast.

Please include your name, it can just be a first name, or a pseudonym, and where you're from,

in the recording. I can't wait to hear what you think.

It was early May. I was scrolling through social media trying to get information about the writer's

strike. You've probably heard about the writer's guild of America's strike, which is ongoing as

I record this in the summer of 2023. The WGA members who write the TV shows and movies I

depend on to be entertained were fed up with lack of compensation. For example, there was a lot of

press around one writer, Alex O'Keefe, who worked on the hit show The Bear. He revealed that after

working on that show for a season, he was not rich, maybe not even comfortable. He tweeted that

he went to the WGA awards, wearing a bow tie, bought on credit, and $6 in my bank account.

Basically, even if you're successful in this work, it might be a struggle to support yourself.

That's why, at the start of May, WGA members voted to strike, which was a big deal and hadn't

happened since 2007. Everybody put their pencils down, or walked away from their computers more

accurately, and then mobs of people took to the picket lines all around Hollywood.

So at some point while reading the strike updates, I saw something very interesting.

WGA member JD Samuel's Cuba was advertising an event on social media. It was called Strike Up a

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