The demand for salary transparency, plus a new fresh prince of 'Bel-Air'

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🗓️ 11 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Victoria Walker, former The Points Guy senior travel reporter, didn't think much about tweeting her salary when she quit her job and offering advice for anyone interested in applying. But the tweet went viral and sparked a wider conversation about pay transparency. Sam asks Victoria why she did it and talks with Wall Street Journal workplace reporter Lauren Weber about why pay transparency matters.

Plus, Sam chats with Morgan Cooper, creator of Bel-Air, a new dramatic retelling of the The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. Then, they play Who Said That? with actor Jordan L. Jones, who plays Jazz on the show.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, you're listening to It's Been A Minute from NPR.
0:03.0	I'm Sam Sanders, and my first guest this hour, she's fancy.
0:08.1	So I flown some of the best airlines,
0:10.9	stayed at some of the nicest hotels in the world,
0:13.0	the Renaissance Pouquet, the JW Marriott and Mauritius.
0:16.4	That is Victoria Walker.
0:18.1	And she used to have perhaps one of the most glamorous jobs
0:21.4	in all of journalism.
0:23.4	Victoria was a senior travel reporter at The Point Sky.
0:26.8	It's this website that publishes travel tips and news.
0:30.3	Basically Victoria wrote stories about how to travel well.
0:33.9	And her research for those stories was her traveling well.
0:37.8	Flying Emirates was probably one of the most life-changing
0:41.3	experiences of my life.
0:42.7	It was an on-board shower.
0:44.6	Like I got to shower at 40,000 feet over the Atlantic Ocean.
0:50.0	There's an on-board bar for business
0:52.0	and first-class passengers that had rack of lamb on a plane.
0:55.9	Like I don't even eat lamb.
0:57.3	Like I don't even eat lamb on the ground.
1:00.3	I've been following Victoria online for a while now,
1:05.2	and I've always been jealous.
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