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This is a series of single-topic episodes that focus on extreme wealth. For years Alexandra Addison-Wrage has worked on corporate compliance and anti-corruption efforts, a field that provides a front-row view into human corruptibility. In these episodes, she digs into the practical, philosophical, political, and even spiritual roots of why people risk everything—from scandal to criminal charges—for the allure of money, even when all of their material needs are more than covered. She will explore some surprising challenges of wealth alongside the ways in which greed changes people and extreme wealth changes the rules that we all live by.
The author and philanthropistJennifer Rishercontinues the series by telling the story of her ear-popping rise from a middle-class Microsoft employee in the early &lsquo90s to an unexpected multimillionaire. The stock options she accrued with her husband, David&mdasha fellow Microsoft employee who went on to join Amazon and who is now the CEO of Lyft&mdashgave Jennifer immediate entry to a world of privilege that, as the child of a working-class household, she&rsquod never expected to join. Her experience showed her the peculiar nature of personal wealth: an agent of tremendous power that, she finds, does more to amplify people&rsquos character than to alter it.Jennifer Risher is the author of&ldquoWe Need to Talk: A Memoir About Wealth&rdquo, which aims to illuminate discussions of money that are often cloaked in taboo, guilt, and secrecy. She and her husband founded the#HalfMyDAF movement, which seeks to encourage wealthy people to make greater charitable gifts in their lifetimes.
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