Ana Sauceda spent a decade trying to fit her parent’s script before throwing it out and writing her own.

In this episode from December, we look at our obsession with productivity and why the urge to optimize everything we do makes us feel like we’re never enough.

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.

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

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.

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

After a young woman dies by suicide, Reema sets out to understand why money was on her mind shortly before her death.

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

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.