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  • “This Is Uncomfortable” is back next week

    This season, we’ll dig into topics like dating and divorce, financial fraud and work/life balance. Here’s a sneak peek.

  • Jan 16, 2020 · Season 1

    I have class anxiety (rerun)

    "Cool" is a synonym for "rich" at "Mean Girls'" North Shore High.
    Image via Paramount Pictures

    A listener struggles to navigate all the unspoken rules of middle-class life.

  • Jan 2, 2020 · Season 1

    Instrument of sabotage (rerun)

    Eric Abramovitz
    Josh Abramovitz/Courtesy Toronto Symphony Orchestra

    In the cutthroat world of professional classical music, Eric Abramovitz was headed towards a shining career. Until something — or someone — got in the way.

  • Dec 26, 2019 · Season 1

    When money makes it weird (rerun)

    Shawnika Giger and Terence McPherson
    Courtesy: Shawnika Giger met Terence McPherson

    Reema tries to settle a debt she’s been avoiding. And what happens when one person in a relationship has way more money?

  • Dec 12, 2019 · Season 1 · Episode 25

    Bonus: Money horror stories II

    Bonus: Money horror stories II

    You kept sending in money horror stories. Here are a couple more of our favorites.

  • Nov 28, 2019 · Season 1

    Home/work (rerun)

    Reema and her father, Jamal Khrais
    Courtesy: Reema Khrais

    Just in time for Thanksgiving, we’re revisiting the “jobs” everyone takes on in our families — starting Reema’s.

  • Nov 21, 2019 · Season 1 · Episode 24

    When your life depends on it

    When your life depends on it
    Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

    A daughter goes to unexpected lengths to navigate the healthcare system and its costs in order to help her mom.

  • Nov 14, 2019 · Season 1 · Episode 23

    Love thy neighbor, and pay off their debts, too

    Caroline Butcher leads a dance class in Philadelphia.
    Peter Balonon-Rosen/Marketplace

    Caroline Butcher turned to religion when injury and debt threatened her dance career. What she found was an unusual solution to her money problems.

  • Nov 7, 2019 · Season 1 · Episode 22

    Don’t buy your boss a gift

    Don’t buy your boss a gift
    Tony Wagner/Marketplace

    Plus more advice from our friends on splitting the bill at dinner and taking control of your finances, this week in the “The Group Chat.”

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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.