Wakey, wakey, this is LeBaron Cox, and I'm back, well, almost.

I'm thrilled that season two is in the works, and we'll be on your podcast player very, very soon.

But in the meantime, why don't to listen or relisten for some of you to my award-winning first season?

We talked about everything from operative mental health, from self-compassion and dating,

to class shaming and housing segregation.

And all of the conversations need to be heard on a loop.

Award-winning journalist and author Mary O'Hara.

One of the things about being poor is it's

exhausting. It is exhausting, either because you're doing four jobs and trying to bring up

some kids and find some child car, but also you're trying to process so much. Making season one

of the Lever and Cox Show was intense, glorious, eye-opening, healing.

It was really challenging because there was so many intense conversations that we had,

but I learned so much, I grew so much, and it was just really wonderful.

You do not want to miss the brilliance of the multi-talented creative superstar Billy Porter.

I have something to say, and I wanted to make sure that I was saying it for real.

You know, and using my voice in service.

Or the eye-opening straight talk of author Richard Rothstein.

The white working-class families, returning war veterans, were subsidized to move to these

suburbs, gained over the next couple of generations' wealth from the appreciation of the value

of their homes. African-Americans were prohibited from participating in this wealth generating program.

And when Kimberly Foster and I talk about beauty, girl, it's more than skin deep.

What I would want is even those people who don't fit any beauty ideal, any standard, right,

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