This Is Uncomfortable
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This Is Uncomfortable
This is a show about life and how money messes with it. Each week, Marketplace’s Reema Khrais digs in with stories about the unanticipated ways money affects relationships, shapes identities and often defines what it means to be an adult. How much money do you lend a friend? Who can afford to vote?...
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"You'll never be ready to buy a home"
When newlyweds Chantal and Travis Lisback started searching for their dream home in Seattle, they weren’t entirely on the same page. Chantal was eager...
Work Drama: Your questions, our advice
Ever wrestled with a work problem and didn’t know where to turn? We’ve got you. In our new advice column, “Work Drama,” we try to find answers to your...
New Nun Syndrome
After decades of trying to make it as an actor and comedian in Hollywood, Claudette Powell felt deeply unfulfilled. So she set her sights on a radical...
Will you be my nanny?
Hanna Sanborn was a single mom with newborn twins, struggling to find affordable childcare. Her best friend, Bryer Rossi, was burned out at work and l...
"This Is Uncomfortable" is back May 1
“This Is Uncomfortable” returns with four brand-new episodes about life and how money messes with it.
This season: Two best friends, struggling...
“Unlocking the Gates” on housing and economic opportunity
“This Is Uncomfortable” will be back in your feeds with brand new episodes in May, and in the meantime, we’re sharing the first episode of “Unlocking...
How it all began: celebrating 10 seasons!
Hard to believe, but we’re celebrating 10 seasons, and five years, of “This Is Uncomfortable”! In this special episode, we’re pulling back the curtai...
Check your Venmo, please
Last spring, Jay Benedith and Ben Williams matched on a dating app and quickly hit it off. But just a few weeks into their budding romance, a Venmo re...
The gifts of mortality and movement, from “Notes From America”
This week, we’re sharing an episode of another podcast we think you’ll love. “Notes From America With Kai Wright” is a show from WNYC Studios about th...
When death is your career
What does it mean to make a living from death? From a young age, Joél Simone Maldonado was fascinated by mortality, leading her to a career as a funer...
Windfalls and vet bills
In the early 90s, Mike Perry found himself in a tough spot. He was living a carefree life when he was asked to take in a black mutt named Wisdom. What...
The things we leave behind
While sorting through her father’s belongings after his death, Amanda Petteruti came across a collection of locked toolboxes. What she discovered insi...
Hired, fired, can’t retire (updated rerun)
This week, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes and reconnecting with old friends for an update.
Rebecca Danigelis never planned to sto...
Wait, I think I’m being underpaid
Nikki Massie never had a reason to question her salary. After more than a decade with the same company, she’d earned awards, promotions and the trust...
What have you learned from the show?
As we reflect on 10 seasons of “This Is Uncomfortable,” Reema shares a snippet of a conversation with the show’s founder-producer, Hayley Hershman, ab...
“Why did you buy more bones?”
Sisters Brittany Walsh and Nicole O’Neil have always been close. But when Nicole started experiencing mysterious health problems, her turn toward alte...
Hanif Abdurraqib on what it means to “make it”
For our season premiere, we’re sharing a conversation with one of our favorite writers, Hanif Abdurraqib. He joins Reema for a wide-ranging conversati...
“This Is Uncomfortable” is back Aug. 22
“This Is Uncomfortable” returns for its 10th season (you read that right: 10th!) with brand-new episodes about life and how money messes with it.
An update from Hana
When we last heard from Hana Albaioumy, she was grappling with an agonizing decision. She wanted to escape Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, but it wo...
Meet Jasmine! And her new pod, “Sacred Scandal: Nation of Saints”
Do you listen carefully to our credits every week? Then you might’ve heard of our “silent contributor,” Jasmine Romero, who has been editing “This Is...
Join our Uncomfortable book club!
Hey y’all! We’re working on a new season coming at you this August, but over the summer we’re trying something new: The Uncomfortable Book Club! Every...
The promise of a miracle cure
Doris Tyler has energy well beyond her 80 years. Even after retiring from her career as a music teacher, she remained active in her community — drivin...
The high price of cheap clothes
Lorena has been a garment worker in Los Angeles for over twenty years, going to work each day in a small factory to sew trendy fast fashion clothes fo...
No more panic shopping
What’s behind our desire to reinvent ourselves through fashion? Is it even possible to shop sustainably? This week on the show, Reema sets out to answ...
The bias we don’t talk about
Lindsey Niehay dreamed of being a doctor since she was a teenager. But when she graduated from medical school and started a residency program in emerg...
“How do I stop overspending?”
A while back, we asked you to share your money struggles, and we heard from many of you! In today’s episode, we booked a session with financial therap...
So, who’s gonna pay for this?
Nicole and Rachel were deeply in love when they had their first serious fight about money. It seemed easily resolvable, but the disagreement dragged o...
You used to be so pretty
Growing up, Haein Shim was taught that if she wanted to succeed, she needed to change her appearance. Shim was raised in South Korea, where a competit...
Are rich people bad? From “Classy”
This week, we’re sharing an episode from another podcast we think you’ll love. “Classy” is a new show from Pineapple Street Studios and Audacy explori...
Money talks, love listens
Four years later, host Reema Khrais checks in with one of our favorite couples, Mandy and Zach. In our first season, they told us about the challenges...
Dream on a deadline
At what point do you walk away from your dreams? Kashy gave himself a deadline: if he didn’t become a pop star by the time he turned 25, he’d give up...
First-gen finances, from “Financially Inclined”
We wanted to share a particularly uncomfy episode from Marketplace’s “Financially Inclined,” a financial literacy podcast for teens.
Being a fir...
My name is Hana
Overnight, Hana’s life became unrecognizable. She used to enjoy quiet mornings in her lovingly decorated apartment in Gaza, but since Israel’s invasio...
A conversation with Baba
In our new season premiere, Reema sits down with her father to reflect on how recent global headlines have been impacting their family in Gaza.
“This Is Uncomfortable” is back Feb. 1
“This Is Uncomfortable” returns for its ninth season Feb. 1, with brand-new episodes about life and how money messes with it. We’ve got stories about...
A note from Reema
Hey, Reema here. I just wanted to thank you all for listening to “This Is Uncomfortable” this year. We shared some great stories in 2023 and memorable...
Free rent’s gonna cost you
What would you be willing to live with for free rent? No heat, mice in the walls, a toilet in the middle of an unfinished basement? Chris Badeker and...
Instrument of sabotage (rerun)
In the cutthroat world of professional classical music, Eric Abramovitz was headed toward a shining career. Until something — or someone — got in the...
Are they serious? from “Tiny Huge Decisions”
We have a special treat for you today! We’re sharing an episode of the new podcast from APM Studios and Chalk + Blade called “Tiny Huge Decisions.” Th...
Broken hearts can break the bank
You’re heartbroken. You just got out of a relationship, and now you have to figure out who you are and what you want as this newly single you. But tha...