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Megan Detrie

Senior producer

Megan Detrie formerly senior produced “This Is Uncomfortable,” a new podcast hosted by Reema Khrais. What was your first job? Subway sandwich artist. What is something that everyone should own, no matter how much it costs? Comfortable headphones What’s something that you thought you knew but later found out you were wrong about? How to pronounce "rhetoric." What’s the favorite item in your workspace and why? Gold clogs.

Latest from Megan Detrie

  • Apr 22, 2021

    Pretty hurts

    Esther Calixte-Bea
    Courtesy: Esther Calixte-Bea

    Esther Calixte-Bea spent hundreds of dollars a month trying to keep her body hair under control, until she finally hit a breaking point.

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  • Apr 15, 2021

    The marriage penalty

    The marriage penalty
    Maria Ponomariova/Getty Images

    After spending years fighting to get disability benefits, Amber was finally approved. But she and her wife, Diana, didn’t realize they had entered a complicated, arcane system where health care might cost them their marriage.

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  • Apr 8, 2021

    “Click here for a life-changing opportunity”

    Kiara Aceves posing with some of the products she sold for Arbonne, a multilevel marketing company.
    Courtesy: Kiara Aceves

    The U.S. had more than 16 million MLM sellers in 2019, and most of them will likely end up breaking even or losing money. But Kiara quickly became the exception to the rule — or at least, that’s what she thought.

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  • Apr 1, 2021

    A lifelong scam

    Axton Betz-Hamilton and her parents in 2012.
    Courtesy: Axton Betz-Hamilton

    Axton Betz-Hamilton spent 20 years trying to track down an identity thief that wreaked havoc on her family, only to discover the truth was uglier than she’d imagined.

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  • Mar 25, 2021

    On April 1, we’re all getting scammed

    This Is Uncomfortable returns October 6!

    “This Is Uncomfortable” is back for season four.

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  • Dec 17, 2020

    Productivity won’t save you

    Productivity won’t save you
    Getty

    This week, we look at our obsession with productivity, and why the urge to optimize everything we do makes us feel like we’re never enough.

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  • Dec 10, 2020

    Pandemic motherhood

    Tiarra Noblin and her daughters, Na’el and Kayla.
    Courtesy: Tiarra Noblin

    In September alone, women left the workplace at four times the rate that men did. The numbers are shocking, but behind them are real, human experiences. This week, we hear some of those stories.

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  • Dec 3, 2020

    There’s no place like home

    Reniqua Allen-Lamphere
    Nina Subin

    A woman tries to live her version of the American dream, only to discover the dream isn’t what she thought. 

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  • Nov 26, 2020

    The lies we tell our friends

    Jack Brunson and his wife, Jayme, in front of the home they bought with his inheritance.
    Courtesy: Jack Brunson

    … to hide how much money we have (or don’t have). This episode originally aired in August 2019.

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  • Nov 19, 2020

    The student loan trap

    Jessie Suren, her mom and aunt celebrating Suren paying down her student loans.
    Courtesy: Jessie Suren

    This week, how one woman’s student loans put her middle-class dreams on the line.

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