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Jan 2, 2020 · Season 1
Eric Abramovitz

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  • 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?

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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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  • Oct 31, 2019 · Season 1 · Episode 21

    Money horror stories

    Halloween was so much simpler before we had bills (that's Reema Khrais on the right, on Halloween 1996).
    Courtesy: Reema Khrias

    This Halloween, we have listeners’ frightening stories of impulse buys, secret spending, spooky scams and a very Hungry Heart.

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  • Oct 24, 2019 · Season 1 · Episode 20

    Sperm, baby, sperm

    Victoria Montanez Roberts and Lucille Roberts, one of the couples we're following this week on the show.
    William Chambers/Marketplace

    Two couples won a chance at pregnancy, but money has complicated their journeys to build a family in different ways.

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  • Oct 17, 2019 · Season 1 · Episode 19

    Instrument of sabotage

    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.

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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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