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1 week ago | 
marketplace.org | Reema Khrais |Zoe Saunders |Alice Wilder |Zoha Malik
Claudette Powell was your classic L.A. dreamer - she’d come to the West Coast with big hopes of becoming an actress and comedian. Twenty-three years later, she was on set, but not in the way she’d hoped. She worked in advertising, crafting promotional images for blockbuster movies. After years of failed auditions and dank comedy clubs, the glitz and glamor of Hollywood had dimmed. But in its place, a new dream took root - one that required her to pay off her nearly $150,000 of personal debt.
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2 weeks ago | 
marketplace.org | Reema Khrais |Zoe Saunders |Alice Wilder |Zoha Malik
When Hanna Sanborn was 12 years old, she made herself a promise: if she didn’t have kids by the time she turned 30, she’d figure out a way to do it on her own. Thirty came, she was single, so she found a sperm donor, did IVF, and became pregnant with twins. Everything was going smoothly – until a routine check-up turned into an emergency. Doctors told Sanborn she had preeclampsia, a potentially life-threatening condition for both parent and baby, and that she needed to deliver imminently.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Reema Khrais |Zoe Saunders |Alice Wilder
This Is Uncomfortable October 24, 2024 TranscriptNote: Marketplace podcasts are meant to be heard, with emphasis, tone and audio elements a transcript can’t capture. Transcripts are generated using a combination of automated software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting. Hayley Hershman: should I say it?
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Alice Wilder |Tony Wagner
Tananarive Due’s books scare me before I’ve even read the first page. She’s a horror writer, so of course creepy, supernatural things are going to happen to these characters. But Due’s writing is so evocative and ruthless that you can’t help but admire even the most brutal moments in the story. It hurts so good. So when I picked up her latest novel, “The Reformatory,” I knew that it would mess me up, I just didn’t yet know how.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Alice Wilder
It’s been almost three weeks since Hurricane Helene hit western North Carolina, and the team at Hickory Nut Gap Farm have already made considerable progress cleaning up debris. For some, the work was a way to cope with the chaos. “I had so many crew members that usually work in the store or in the kitchen, they live around here and they were like, ‘Can we just come on the farm? I gotta stay busy right now,'” said Virginia Hamilton, the farm’s operations manager.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Reema Khrais |Zoe Saunders |Alice Wilder |Marika Proctor
This Is Uncomfortable October 17, 2024 TranscriptNote: Marketplace podcasts are meant to be heard, with emphasis, tone and audio elements a transcript can’t capture. Transcripts are generated using a combination of automated software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting. Reema Khrais: Meet Jay. Jay Benedith: although everyone calls me Jay, my government name is Julia Benedith, and I am 32 years old.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Reema Khrais |Alice Wilder |WNYC Studios
This Is Uncomfortable October 10, 2024 TranscriptNote: Marketplace podcasts are meant to be heard, with emphasis, tone and audio elements a transcript can’t capture. Transcripts are generated using a combination of automated software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting. Alice Wilder: Hi everyone, I’m Alice Wilder, producer for This is Uncomfortable.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Alice Wilder |Tony Wagner
Hey y’all, it’s Alice. I’m a producer on “This Is Uncomfortable.” Earlier this year, when I was brainstorming for our 10th season, I noticed one theme coming up over and over again: grief. There’s this decision you have to make when you’re swimming in the ocean and see a big wave coming: You either fight against it, bracing your body and hoping you don’t get knocked over, or you dive under and feel its power move over you.
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Oct 3, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Reema Khrais |Alice Wilder |Zoe Saunders
This Is Uncomfortable October 3, 2024 TranscriptNote: Marketplace podcasts are meant to be heard, with emphasis, tone and audio elements a transcript can’t capture. Transcripts are generated using a combination of automated software and human transcribers, and may contain errors. Please check the corresponding audio before quoting. Reema Khrais: When did you first realize you were interested in working in death care? How did that come about? Joél Simone Maldonado: Oh my gosh. When I was a little girl.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | Alice Wilder |Tony Wagner
Hey everyone, Alice here, a producer for This is Uncomfortable. People are shocked when I tell them that I brush my dog June’s teeth every night before bed. Then I tell them that having nine of her teeth pulled cost almost a month’s rent. When I adopted June, she was 4 years old, with matted hair and teeth that smelled truly foul. Her veterinarian agreed that she needed to have a dental cleaning and that they’d probably end up removing some teeth.
