Money can make or break your relationship, from NPR’s "It’s Been a Minute"
This Is Uncomfortable
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4.6 • 3.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Today, we’re featuring an episode of NPR’s “It’s Been A Minute.” Reema Khrais joins host Brittany Luse and Wailin Wong, host of NPR’s “The Indicator,” to talk about the hidden ways money shows up in dating and marriage.
And we’ve got a new “This Is Uncomfortable” project to share! You’ve heard Reema Khrais ask rapid-fire “uncomfortable money questions” on the show, where she asks guests to share details of their financial lives. Now we want to hear how you would answer! Send us a voice memo, and we may feature it on the show. This week, we kick things off off with listener Thistle from California.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's Rima. |
| 0:03.6 | So this week we're sharing an episode from our friends at NPR's It's Been a Minute. |
| 0:07.7 | It's a conversation I recently had on their show. |
| 0:10.2 | But first, you may have heard us do a thing on this show that we like to call uncomfortable questions, |
| 0:15.6 | where basically I ask our guests to share details of their financial lives. |
| 0:19.7 | Well, this week, we wanted to hear from one of you all. |
| 0:22.0 | And so we got this submission from a listener named Thistle. |
| 0:25.6 | Hi, I'm Thistle. I'm 28. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm a social worker in California. |
| 0:29.3 | And last year, I made about $70,000. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm a huge fan of the show. |
| 0:34.7 | And here are my answers to some of the uncomfortable money questions. |
| 0:58.0 | What was the last thing you bought on impulse? How much was it? And how did you feel after? Okay, so my family and our neighbors had a lot of fun watching hockey together this season, where San Jose Sharks fans, and we were over at their house a couple weeks ago to watch the last game of the season. And during one of the intermissions, I was looking on Poshmark on my phone and I found someone who had a shark's gear a couple sweatshirts and t-shirts for our family and our neighbor's family. |
| 1:03.4 | And all together it came out to $125, which felt like a great deal. |
| 1:08.0 | So definitely no regrets about that purchase. |
| 1:13.7 | What's a financial mistake that still haunts you? When I was 17, my Nana died and I inherited |
| 1:19.9 | about $45,000. And at the same time, I was in the middle of applying for college. And I got into |
| 1:25.5 | Oberlin College, which is a small liberal arts college in |
| 1:28.3 | Ohio. And they offered me some financial aid, but not as much as I've been hoping for. But now that |
| 1:34.3 | I had this money from my Nana, that made it feel possible. And as soon as I got there, I realized that I |
| 1:40.1 | just did not like it there in California. And I found out I hated the snow, and I felt really |
| 1:46.2 | isolated being so far away from all of my family and support system. So I stayed at Oberlin |
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