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Money Diaries

Telling the truth about money, one person's story at a time

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    “My Finances, in Brief,” an Essay by David Sedaris

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    Kim Kardashian, Mogul, Tells Us Her Money Story

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    Money Diaries: Pride Edition

Daniel Negreanu (aka Kid Poker) began his life playing snooker, and eventually became the number one poker player in the world. He tells us what he learned about money, work, and confidence.

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How Canada’s Greatest Poker Player Learned He Wasn’t Lucky

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Roxane Gay on Financial Independence: 'The Most Important Thing a Woman Can Do for Herself'

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How I was Conned by the “Fake German Heiress”

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The World Wouldn't Make a Place for Angelica Ross. So She Made One for Herself

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Emily Ratajkowski Is Not a Commodity

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It’ll Work Itself Out (It Actually Won’t)

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Anthony Bourdain Does Not Want to Owe Anybody Even a Single Dollar

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Shangela Would Like to Remind You to Tip Your Drag Queen

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Natasha Rothwell's Character in “The White Lotus” Finds an Angel Investor. Her Real Life Didn't Quite Work That Way.

Hackatao Artist Royalty

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Love and Crypto: The Hackatao Story

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Karen Russell: A Brutally Honest Accounting of Writing, Money, and Motherhood

Illustration of comedian Joel Kim Booster

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Joel Kim Booster Was in Massive Student Debt Until Two Years Ago

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Stories From Our New Economy: Bullish on Bidets Edition

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Alison Roman Is the Patron Saint of Home Cooking and Everyone’s at Home

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Pandemic Money Diaries — Panic at Trader Joe’s Edition

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Cult Animator Carson Mell Decided Making Stuff Was More Important than College

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She’s a Toronto Legend, Model, and Style Icon. And She Was Nearly Homeless

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She Was Living in a Shelter Six Years Ago. Now She’s the CEO of Her Own Beauty Company

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How to Quit Your Job and Bike Around the World for $17,000

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The Star-Crossed Financial Life of One of the Greatest Living Astrologers

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The Founding Owner of the Raptors Believes in the Power of Drake

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Mike Piazza Was Successful Because You Booed Him

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Life Among America’s Four-Wheeled Nomads

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Boxing Legend “Sugar” Ray Leonard Was Never a Fighter

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The Queen of the $3 Billion Eyebrow Empire

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Michael Katchen Believes Everyone Should Have the Same Starting Line

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Welterweight Champ Errol Spence Will Keep Boxing Til He Starts Getting Hit

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The Founder of StockX on Living the Sneaker Economy

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What Do You Do When the Circus Closes?

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Bernie Parent Entered the NHL Making $20,000. It Suited Him Fine

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Women Who Make Us Want to be Fearless and Honest: 2018 Edition

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Money Diaries: Government Shutdown Edition

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The NHL's Seth Jones Makes His Money in Reverse

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Loss: A Love Story

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How to Get Thrown Down a Flight of Stairs for $500

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A Nobel Peace Prize Winner on the Economics of Slave Labour

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When the Olympic Games Are Really a Job Audition

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How an Artist Balances the Practical (Money) With the Surreal

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Debt: A Love Story

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What I Learned About Money Growing Up on a Commune

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My Credit Card History: a Self Portrait

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Halima Aden: Supermodel, Refugee, Muslim, Warehouse Worker

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Why Wendi McLendon-Covey Was Still Freelancing on the Set of 'Bridesmaids'

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Why Design World Legend Tina Roth Eisenberg Would Rather Build Four of Her Own Businesses Than Work for Someone Else

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Skylar Diggins-Smith Wants to Be Paid Like a Man and Isn't Afraid to Say It

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How Exactly Do You Build a Fortune Popping Pimples on YouTube?

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Director Lauren Greenfield Discovered What Hedge Funders, Porn Stars and Rappers All Have in Common

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The Financial Life of a Weed Entrepreneur

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Maye Musk Taught Her Highly Successful Children By Letting Them Go Their Own Way

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For Sasha Lane, Success Meant Being Able to Send Her Mom Home Again

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Jonathan Van Ness’s First Financial Principle: “I’m a girl who has to stop herself from shopping”

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Hector Bellerin's Money Philosophy: Invest Early, Buy Teslas, Eat Plants

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Brian Tyree Henry Tells His Money Story, From Yale to Food Stamps to Oscars

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Mark Duplass Will Fund Your Movie (and Maybe Buy You a House)

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Han Solo Wants to be Paid in Books

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Amar'e Stoudemire Was the Highest Paid Center Ever. And He Saved that Money.

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The Financial Coming of Age of the “Can You Hear Me Now” Guy

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Andre Iguodala and the Difference Between Being Rich and Having Wealth

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To Be the Best Rock Climber Is to Earn As Much As an Orthodontist

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An American Imam Talks Islam and Money

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The Shib Sibs Will Miss Those Free Chicken Sandwiches

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We Should Be as Fearless and Honest About Money as These Women

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Gary Numan and the Economics of Going Broke on £6 Million

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The Financial Realities of Being an Olympic Medalist

Margaret Atwood was told in college that to find her place in the world she should find a husband and become a wife. Then she went to Harvard and became an award-winning writer.

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“The Handmaid's Tale” Author: For Women, Money Can Be Power

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Broke Aubrey Plaza Lived on Peanut Butter. Now? Almond Butter, People!

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Mark Duplass Hated the Hollywood System So He Made His Own

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On “Girls,” He Wasn't Just Playing a Broke Guy in His 30s

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He Went from Yale to Food Stamps to Being Paper Boi on "Atlanta"

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Iman Shumpert is Good With Money (Just Like His Wife)

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She Won the Fight to Raise Minimum Wage. Then Lost It.

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Making It in NASCAR as a Woman Doesn’t Mean the Struggle Is Over

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Paul Reiser Likes Getting Paid to Tell Jokes

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Tegan and Sara: Only the Privileged Worry about Selling Out

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Rita Ora Is a Born Hustler. Just Like Her Immigrant Parents.

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He Became This Year’s Oscar Favourite By Going Broke Again and Again

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French Montana's Big Expenses: Strip Clubs, Global Charities

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Before He Had His Own Show, He Worked In Tech Support

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Errol Morris Says He Doesn't Deserve His Money. Neither Do You.

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“Why Wouldn't a Woman Want to Win?”

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Why Being in Lonely Island is a Strange Way to Make Money

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The Co-Creator of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Isn't Sure Exactly How Much She Makes

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Nnamdi Asomugha Figured the NFL Out Early: It Doesn't Provide a Future

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Spending a Thousand Bucks Still Makes Elijah Wood Very Nervous

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Bobbi Brown Was Terrible at Budgets. So She Decided to Make More Money.

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The Warby Parker CEO Thinks You Should Give Your Money Away. Now.

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Woody Harrelson Is a Terrible Debt Collector

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She Began Life in Rural China With No Plumbing. Now She's Our CFO.

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Awkwafina Tells Us the Money Secrets of Viral Fame

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Richard Linklater Tells Us Why He's Glad He Got Downsized.

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A Nun Tells Us What It's Like to Live With a Vow of Poverty

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“The Most Important Thing I Learned About Money Is Nobody Knows Anything.”

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Kevin Bacon: Money is Hard for Creative People

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How Hollywood's The Black List Changed the Economics of Movies

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Broad City’s Abbi Jacobson is Done with the Potatoes

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Alex Karpovsky, Star of HBO's Girls, Has Always Known the Hollywood Money Would End

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