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May 13, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 7
Diana Wang, photographed in the store she now owns in Ohio, Fine Feather.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Apr 15, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 3

    The marriage penalty

    The marriage penalty
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    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 · 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.

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  • 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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  • Mar 25, 2021 · Season 4

    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 · Season 3 · Episode 11

    Productivity won’t save you

    Productivity won’t save you
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    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 · Season 3 · Episode 10

    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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About the show

This is Uncomfortable is the award-winning show about life and how money messes with it. Each week, Marketplace’s Reema Khrais explores how money shapes our decisions, relationships, and sense of self through conversations that are intimate, surprising, and deeply human. From the economic headlines that hit our wallets to the choices that keep us up at night, the show digs into the money questions we’re too afraid to ask and gives listeners a way to feel less alone in this increasingly complicated world. Produced and distributed by Marketplace from American Public Media, you can find “This Is Uncomfortable” wherever you get your podcasts.

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