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Episodes 81 - 90 of 162

  • May 27, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 9

    Bad romance

    When Mira Celper, right, saw her mom, Leigh Hendry, quickly fall in love with a man she only knew through phone calls, she became suspicious.
    Courtesy Mira Celper

    Mira Celper’s relationship with her mom grew strained when her mom started dating the mysterious David. As her mom fell deeper in love, Mira couldn’t shake the feeling that something about David was off.

  • May 20, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 8

    I need more money because I need more money

    Aisha Salaudeen
    Courtesy: Aisha Salaudeen

    This week, we take a deep dive into one woman’s past to understand why she can’t seem to kick her financial anxiety.

  • May 13, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 7

    The intern uprising

    Diana Wang, photographed in the store she now owns in Ohio, Fine Feather.
    Courtesy: Diana Wang

    When Diana Wang got the head intern position at Harper’s Bazaar, she thought she’d finally landed her big break. Instead, she helped lead an uprising of many different unpaid interns.

  • May 6, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 6

    What’s mine is not yours

    Chris Johnson and Lindsey Galbraith
    Courtesy Lindsey Galbraith

    When Lindsey Galbraith’s marriage ended over financial infidelity, she swore she would never mix money and relationships again. Then she met someone new.

  • Apr 29, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 5

    A cruel disease

    Geetha Balagopal keeps pictures of her daughter Priya on display in her office.
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    After a young woman dies by suicide, Reema sets out to understand why money was on her mind shortly before her death.

  • Apr 22, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 4

    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.

  • Apr 15, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 3

    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.

  • Apr 8, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 2

    “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.

  • Apr 1, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 1

    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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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.

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