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Apr 8, 2021 · Season 4 · Episode 2
Kiara Aceves posing with some of the products she sold for Arbonne, a multilevel marketing company.

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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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  • Dec 3, 2020 · Season 3 · Episode 9

    There’s no place like home

    Reniqua Allen-Lamphere
    Nina Subin

    A woman tries to live her version of the American dream, only to discover the dream isn’t what she thought. 

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  • Nov 26, 2020 · Season 3

    The lies we tell our friends

    Jack Brunson and his wife, Jayme, in front of the home they bought with his inheritance.
    Courtesy: Jack Brunson

    … to hide how much money we have (or don’t have). This episode originally aired in August 2019.

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  • Nov 19, 2020 · Season 3 · Episode 8

    The student loan trap

    Jessie Suren, her mom and aunt celebrating Suren paying down her student loans.
    Courtesy: Jessie Suren

    This week, how one woman’s student loans put her middle-class dreams on the line.

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  • Nov 12, 2020 · Season 3 · Episode 7

    How the WNBA drove Loeffler into overtime

    Atlanta Dream center Elizabeth Williams.
    Courtesy: Elizabeth Williams

    Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler is headed for a runoff that could determine control of the U.S. Senate — and the WNBA team she co-owns is supporting her opponent.

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  • Nov 5, 2020 · Season 3

    Can’t buy me love

    Are they co-workers at happy hour? Or is it the blossoming of a new relationship? When you're lurking on Venmo, it can be hard to tell.
    Illustration by Tony Wagner/Marketplace

    What are you saying to other people with how you spend your money? And what’s it say about you? Plus: We need your help with an upcoming episode.

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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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