Debt Heads Minis is a collection of work-in-progress vignettes on the topic of debt (duh) that we’ll be sharing here while we work on our official series, and more crucially, while we work to secure funding to sustain the full-time production of that series.
Thanks to a grant we won last year, we have successfully completed a full pilot episode (!) and are currently at work on episodes two, three, four … (!!)
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Welcome back to our four-part series in which Debt Heads co-host Jamie Feldman, who started paying off roughly $20,000 of credit card debt two years ago, aims to answer the question: “how the hell did you get into so much debt in the first place?”
Last week’s episode, our first, explored how having low self-worth contributes to financial woes. You can listen to it here.
This week we’re digging into an aspect of debt accrual that is a bit more practical than abstract — wages. Or rather, lack thereof.
After getting laid off from her journalism job in 2021, Jamie grappled with the fact that she’d spent more than seven years chasing clicks to put money in someone else’s pocket, and trading in a fair income for perks, a fancy job title and an exciting email address (that she mainly used to secure dinner reservations at restaurants she could not afford to eat at on her salary).
Jamie’s employment experience is not the most egregious example, but the fact remains — so many of us in this country simply do not make enough money to get by.
As always, stay tuned for more updates, and if you like this content, feel free to join this community and help us in our goal toward making a living wage by becoming a paid monthly subscriber.
Love,
Jamie & Rachel, aka the Debt Heads
Debt Heads Minis: 'f you, pay me'