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  • Host Reema Khrais celebrates the podcast's launch in 2019.
    Hayley Hershman

    Reflecting on 10 seasons of “This Is Uncomfortable”

  • Oct 17, 2024 · Season 10

    Check your Venmo, please

    Jay Benedith, left, and Ben Williams
    Courtesy Jay Benedith

    When do you ask someone to pay their share, and how?

  • The gifts of mortality and movement, from “Notes From America”
    WNYC Studios

    Recommended listening for “This Is Uncomfortable” fans: A conversation with choreographer Bill T. Jones.

  • Oct 3, 2024 · Season 10

    When death is your career

    When death is your career
    Photo credit: De Anne R. Anthony

    Pulling back the curtain on the death care industry.

  • Sep 26, 2024 · Season 10

    Windfalls and vet bills

    Mike Perry and his beloved dog, Wisdom.
    courtesy of Mike Perry

    How the love and grief we feel for our pets shape our decisions about money.

  • Sep 19, 2024 · Season 10

    The things we leave behind

    Ross Petteruti
    Courtesy Petteruti family

    When Amanda’s father died, the things he left behind changed her relationship with him forever.

  • Sian-Pierre Regis and his mother, Rebecca Danigelis.
    Duty Free Film

    Rebecca Danigelis put all her earnings into her kids’ education. But as one son’s career took off, hers started to crumble.

  • Sep 5, 2024 · Season 10

    Wait, I think I’m being underpaid

    Nikki Massie

    Nikki Massie thought of her colleagues like family. But a revelation forced her to reconsider her beliefs about the workplace — and her value within it.

  • Sep 3, 2024 · Season 10

    What have you learned from the show?

    What have you learned from the show?

    Reema Khrais and producer Hayley Hershman reflect on what they’ve learned in 10 seasons of “This Is Uncomfortable” — and ask for your thoughts too!

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About the show

Marketplace’s award-winning narrative podcast, “This Is Uncomfortable,” is a show about life and how money messes with it. Each week, host Reema Khrais digs into stories about the unanticipated ways money shapes our relationships, identities and the choices we make. Join Reema as she cuts through the uncomfortable to get to the root of how money plagues us. Produced and distributed by Marketplace from American Public Media, you can find “This Is Uncomfortable” wherever you get your podcasts.