Hired, fired, can’t retire (updated rerun)
This Is Uncomfortable
Marketplace
4.8 • 3.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
This week, we’re revisiting one of our favorite episodes and reconnecting with old friends for an update.
Rebecca Danigelis never planned to stop working. She was an executive housekeeper in Boston raising two kids as a single mom, and everything she earned went to making sure they got the best education she could afford. When her son Sian-Pierre was climbing the ranks as a journalist and entrepreneur, it seemed like all the overtime, frozen dinners and sacrifice were worth it. But just as his career was taking off, hers started to crumble.
We first aired this episode in 2022, and now Reema checks in with Rebecca and Sian-Pierre to see how their financial situation has unfolded.
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| 0:40.0 | Hey everyone, it's Rima. |
| 0:43.7 | So over the last five years, we've done more than 100 episodes of this is uncomfortable. |
| 0:49.0 | And as much as we can, we like to stay in touch with our guests to see how they're doing, you know, if they have any updates. |
| 0:54.9 | And recently I caught up with Sean Pierre and his mom Rebecca, who I interviewed a couple years ago. |
| 1:00.5 | Back then they shared this really intimate story that I think a lot of families can relate to. |
| 1:05.0 | Their story gets at the struggles of saving for retirement, the risks of letting your job define you, |
| 1:10.0 | and the sacrifices we make for the people we love. I find their relationship |
| 1:14.8 | to be very sweet and was excited to hear what they've been up to. But first we're |
| 1:19.3 | going to play the original episode and then at the very end we'll share their |
| 1:22.4 | update. |
| 1:23.0 | All right, here it is. |
| 1:25.0 | For Sean Pierre Regis, 2016 started off great. |
| 1:32.0 | He was at the top of his career. He'd gone from being an |
| 1:35.2 | assistant to a producer, to eventually an on-air contributor at CNN. And his goal |
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