You Must Change Your Life — With Mitchell S. Jackson

Dear Sugars

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Boston, Wbur, Sugar, Cheryl Strayed, Society & Culture, Dear, Relationships, Advice, Steve Almond

4.6 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, the Sugars talk to writer Mitchell S. Jackson, who started selling drugs when he was 14 years old and went to prison for drug possession years later. “There was no way for me to escape what I was doing,” he tells the Sugars. Jackson helps the Sugars answer letters from people who also feel stuck and aimless. One writes: “Here we are two abortions, two failed college attempts, a list of dead end jobs later, I’m stuck in a job I despise and I go home …

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0:00.0	The universe has good news for the lost, lonely, and heart sick.
0:10.2	The sugars are here, speaking straight into your ears.
0:13.7	I'm Steve Alman.
0:14.9	I'm Cheryl Strait.
0:15.9	This is Dear Sugar's.
0:17.9	Oh dear song, won't you please?
0:26.3	Yeah, some little sweet days with me.
0:33.3	I check my bell vibes every day.
0:41.3	Oh, and this sugar, you see in my way.
0:49.3	Hi Steve.
0:50.3	Hi Cheryl.
0:51.3	Here we are, beginning a new season of Dear Sugar's.
0:55.3	I'm very excited.
0:56.3	We have so many interesting things ahead.
0:58.3	Yeah, we are super, super psyched and just on a personal note, super psyched to see my
1:03.9	partner again.
1:05.5	My sentiments exactly.
1:07.9	So one of my favorite poems of all time by Realka is our K-Actor so of Apollo.
1:14.0	And it culminates in this line that has come into my mind countless times throughout my
1:18.3	life.
1:19.3	And it's this.
1:21.2	You must change your life.
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