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.

In this episode,journalist,Steve Fishman,discusses his reporting on Bernie Madoff and the collapse of Madoff&rsquos $65 billion ponzi scheme. Steve doggedly pursued the story even after the financier was sent to a federal prison in North Carolina. Eventually the two men connected for a series of phone interviews that gave Steve a unique insight into the truths and lies that enabled Madoff to con investors at an industrial scale. Steve explains that greed was but one motivation for Madoff, an apex Manhattan insider who never forgot humiliations he suffered during his youth in Queens.

Alexandra's first guest in the series isClay Cockrell, a therapist in New York City whoseWalk and Talk Therapypractice specializes in treating very wealthy clients. The problems they bring to therapy give him a unique insight into the privileges, the anxieties, and the perils exclusive to the 1%.

David Jackson, a senior reporter with Injustice Watch, discusses his work exposing corruption, which has led to both indictments and legislative reform.

Anand Mangnale of the OCCRP joins the podcast to describe his investigation into the practices of the vast and powerful Adnani Group in India, the spyware discovered on his phone as soon as the story began to break and the subsequent efforts to silence him, including bizarre charges of financial support of terrorism.