What If Fear Is What Keeps You Working? with Xochitl Gonzalez

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Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Business, Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Despite writing bestsellers and landing a Reese’s Book Club pick, Xochitl Gonzalez opens up about the lingering shame of precarity, the invisibility of working-class success, and why we need to drag money talk out into the light. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.5	If weight management is one of your new year goals, quicksilver scientific's GLP1 amplifier can help.
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1:15.3	Fear drives my work ethic. I think I have a disgusting work ethic. Like, I don't think it's good.
1:21.0	What does it mean to succeed in a world where every win feels temporary and every hustle has to
1:26.5	outrun collapse.
1:27.9	Sotra Gonzalez is a best-selling writer and in her words,
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