The Emotionally Awkward Cost of Money with Reema Khrais

Alive with Steve Burns

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

5.0 • 588 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Reema swings by Steve’s window to share what she’s learned about money and why it’s so emotionally awkward. Reema is the host of the Marketplace podcast, This is Uncomfortable. The show focuses on life and how money messes with it. Reema is an experienced audio journalist with an emphasis on personal finance. She reported in Turkey in 2018 as an ICFJ Bringing the World Home Fellow. Previously, she reported on education policy for North Carolina Public Radio as a Fletcher Fellow. To get 15% off your next gift, go to uncommongoods.com/alive. You can follow Steve Burns @steveburnsalive on Instagram. Watch full episodes of Alive on YouTube. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. If you haven’t yet, now is a great time to subscribe to Lemonada Premium. You’ll get ad-free episodes and bonus content from Steve. Just hit the 'subscribe' button on Apple Podcasts, or, for all other podcast apps head to lemonadapremium.com to subscribe. Click this link for a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this show and all Lemonada shows: lemonadamedia.com/sponsors See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Lemonada
0:02.0	Lemonada
0:06.0	Hey, there you are.
0:11.0	Come on in. It's raining out there. It's good to see you.
0:27.6	Welcome to Alive.
0:30.6	Hey, so do you remember when we were talking about how just totally fraught and weird money feels?
0:42.3	Yeah. I've been stuck on that. There's tea. Do you want tea?
0:48.3	Okay.
0:49.3	Um...
0:51.3	And I'm not just talking about money like dollars and cents.
0:56.5	I mean, I'm talking about money as feelings, you know, as safety, belonging, you know, all that stuff that you can't really spreadsheet.
1:11.8	The thing is, it seems to me, money's never just money, right?
1:17.7	It always represents something.
1:22.8	Security.
1:26.1	Dignity.
1:27.6	For me, at one point in my life, money represented the opportunity to have an apartment dignity, right?
1:29.6	For me, at one point in my life, money represented the opportunity to have an apartment
1:31.6	where the shower was not in the kitchen.
1:35.7	For many, many people,
1:39.2	it simply represents food for the next day.
1:46.0	What does money represent to you?
1:54.0	Yeah.
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