People Like Us Don't Get to Live Those Dreams. She Did Anyway

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Most stories about rising out of poverty get told as inspiration. Dr. Silvermoon Cashen tells hers as engineering. She was fourteen when the police came to the door in the middle of the night to say her mother was going into surgery, and she overheard her father say the thing she has never forgotten: we are really going to lose the house now. She took a work permit, took a job, and figured out within two months that no number of hours was ever going to change the math. That was the moment the method started, years before it had a name. In this episode, Dr. Jason Bradley and James Chester sit down with her to take that story apart and look at the machinery underneath it. She walks through…