How it all began: celebrating 10 seasons!

This Is Uncomfortable

Marketplace

News, Business

4.8 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Hard to believe, but we’re celebrating 10 seasons, and five years, of “This Is Uncomfortable”! In this special episode, we’re pulling back the curtain to reveal the show’s origins, the biggest lessons Reema’s learned along the way and our favorite money tips from expert guests. Plus we’ll hear from you, our listeners, about the insights that have stuck with you through the years.

We’ll be back with a new season in 2025! For special content and updates on what’s next, subscribe to our newsletter.

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0:00.0	Should I say, should I be the one that starts since? You're like, no, I do that.
0:08.0	That's my job.
0:10.0	That's Marketplace senior producer Haley Hirschman.
0:12.6	Back when we were in the office, we sat next to each other and we became close friends.
0:16.7	Well, I thought about you when I was making my lunch because it was a tuna salad
0:22.2	and I was like, oh oh this is so Rima.
0:24.3	Dude I always think of you when I make a tuna salad.
0:26.8	I think it's because you put me on it.
0:29.6	I thought you put me on it.
0:31.2	Oh really?
0:32.2	Well I remember you shared the recipe to make it with
0:35.2	yogurt and that was like pretty revolutionary for me. So while I'd love to just swap lunch recipes with Haley all day, I actually called her because this week we're doing something a little different.
0:49.0	Haley was the founding producer of This Is Uncomfortable.
0:52.6	Help me create the show more than five years ago.
0:55.5	And so in honor of our 10th season,
0:57.7	we want to pull back the curtain and give you a peek behind the scenes.
1:01.1	You'll hear things about the show that we've never shared before, the terrible title. the dad's wild expectations for my finances and how this show has helped some of you all
1:15.0	make dramatic changes in your lives. To get this party started, Haley and I are going
1:20.0	back to the very beginning. Do you want to take us back to baby
1:25.0	to take us back to baby Rima in 2018. What were you thinking about when you thought about
1:35.7	pitching this show? Yeah, to give it some context at the time I'm trying to
1:40.1	put myself back there I was a reporter at Marketplace and I was covering
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