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Pep Talk: Navigating Class with Ashley C. Ford

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The Difference Between Worthiness and Not Enough

i don't think a lot of people who are living, and have always lived at a lower socio economic status, really understand how much people who are middle class or upper middle class think they are just normal. And i didn't know that until i came to new york. I could have used a pep talk every time i entered a room and thought that because i had been invited, perhaps, and not actual paid to be there the way some people had, that i was less worthy of being in that room. One things that really bothers me in this country is the idea that getting something for free makes you value it less. We only believe that when we're talking about giving people

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