Hello, everyone, I'm Kimberly Adams.

Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where none of us is as smart as all of us.

And today, I'm super excited because we're checking in on our friends over at This Is Uncomfortable.

The amazing Reimekreys and her team have been working on reimagining

the show, and they have new episodes out starting today, available wherever you get your

podcast. So we wanted to bring Rima back on the show to tell us all about it. Rima, welcome back.

Thanks so much for having me. So excited to be here. So now everybody knows what you've been

working on since you've been away. Yes, yes. On the relaunch, tell us a bit about the new

version of This Is Uncomfortable, what you're hoping to do with the new format. Yeah. So as some of your

listeners might know, you know, I've been hosting This Is Uncomfortable now for about six years or so.

And so I was in my late 20s when I first pitched it. I wanted to figure out why my relationship with money felt so fraught.

I wanted to hear more people talk openly about money and how it impacts our relationships and our

choices. And so for a long time, the show was seasonal, mostly long formform narrative storytelling, and we did that for about 10 seasons.

But the moment we're in now feels a lot different than it did back then. And so with this relaunch, we are going weekly, which is very exciting. But more importantly, we're changing the format so we can be more responsive to the headlines and conversations happening in our culture.

So it's going to be a lot more conversational, more in the moment.

We'll still have those deeply personal stories, but we're also going to be doing roundtables

and advice segments with experts and answering your listener questions.

And so for the last several months, we've been putting together episodes and covering really a wide range of topics, everything from financial secrets and pre-nups to caring for aging parents.

We've also got stories about job hunting and monetizing your hobbies or how boycotts show up in our lives.

And, you know, the goal really is for the show to feel like an ongoing conversation, a place where people can talk about money and process what is happening all around us in real time and hopefully feel a little less alone navigating all of it.

So it's very exciting.

Yeah. So many of these issues we have with money feel like it's your problem, but it's often things that everybody's going through. I want to get to some of the, some little snippets of what you've been working on. You've got two new episodes out today. One is about job hunting. And you and I have talked on this show about how rough the job market has been lately,

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