Just trust me
When Ibby Hanlon started experiencing mysterious and debilitating pain, she put her faith in the medical system to find a solution. After a series of ...
This Is Uncomfortable
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This is a show about life and how money messes with it. Each week, Reema Khrais digs in with stories about the unanticipated ways money affects relationships, shapes identities and often defines what it means to be an adult. Presented by Marketplace.
No more money, please
The more Morgan Curtis learned about the source of her family’s multi-generation wealth — from gold mining, to fossil fuel investment, to slave owners...
On Oct. 14, we’re airing out our dirty laundry
“This Is Uncomfortable” is a podcast about our money and our feelings. And a lot of the money stuff we have the most feelings about we also like to k...
Meet the scammer
How do you bounce back from getting scammed? Become a scammer yourself, obviously. The inside story of a young man’s transformation into an online sca...
A big, fat loophole
What if we told you there was a way to walk away from your debts with no financial consequences? There’s just one big catch. By 21, Anthony was on top...
Going off script
Many of us feel pressure to hit life milestones by a certain age. But what if that prepackaged timeline — finishing school, achieving financial stabil...
Productivity won’t save you (rerun)
We live in a world that rewards us for producing, and producing, and producing. But why is it that no matter how much we do, it never feels like enoug...
Bad romance
Mira Celper had always wanted to be best friends with her mom, but their relationship grew strained once her mom started dating the mysterious David, ...
I need more money because I need more money
Growing up, Aisha Salaudeen always considered herself middle-class. But when she turned 13, her parents sent her to boarding school in Lagos, Nigeria,...
The intern uprising
Growing up in Ohio, Diana Wang dreamed of working for a fashion magazine. So when she was offered the position of head intern at Harper’s Bazaar, she ...