Hard Conversations Can Be the Best Conversations

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 3, 2021

Anna Sale, host of the WNYC Studios podcast Death, Sex & Money and author of the book Let's Talk About Hard Things (Simon & Schuster, 2021), talks about her new book and shares how to have conversations about tough subjects like grief, mortality, identity, income and heartbreak and what happens when we really talk it out.

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