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Hot Comb SurvivorsHot Comb Survivors: Counting Coins - Financial Wellness at D@mn Near 60!Send us a textFinancial wellness requires thoughtful planning around budgeting, legal protection, and finding purpose beyond work to ensure you don't outlive your money. Below are a few key takeaways:• Creating a detailed budget that accounts for all expenses, including the small everyday costs that add up quickly• Reviewing your budget quarterly to ensure you're sticking to your financial plan• Securing essential legal documents like a will, healthcare proxy, and power of attorney regardless of your wealth• Considering long-term care insurance, which can be obtained well into your 60s• Planning for Medicai...
2025-07-021h 11Hot Comb SurvivorsHot Comb & Hospital Gowns: Confronting Racial Disparities in the Delivery RoomSend us a textWhen Dr. Mackenzie Boyce—a physician herself—was nearly discharged from the hospital with undiagnosed preeclampsia just four days after giving birth, she realized a terrifying truth: medical training and knowledge couldn't protect her from a healthcare system that routinely fails Black women.The Hot Comb Survivors gather with two medical professionals to unpack the crisis of Black maternal health in America. Dr. Paige Long-Sharps, an OBGYN with decades of clinical experience, doesn't mince words about what's driving maternal mortality rates that are three times higher for Black women: "Absolute racism in t...
2025-06-121h 02
Irish Music Stories PodcastTransplanting Tradition in the Land of the TreesWhat do rampant evictions, military ship collisions, and Christmas trees have to do with jigs and reels? Learn how Gaelic culture resonated in Canada's "New Scotland," and down in the Boston States, from singer Mary Jane Lamond and fiddle players Troy MacGillivray, Andrea Beaton, Alasdair Fraser, Katie McNally, and Lee Cremo. Plenty of music here, too. Full playlist below. * * * * * * * Thanks to everybody for listening. And a special thank you to this month's underwriters: Peter Lee, Gabriele Clemens, Loretta Egan Murphy, John Boyce, Sol Foster, Paul Grajciar, Lisa and Bryon Giddens-White, Jen...
2020-05-1250 min