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Brown EnoughLife Kit IRL with Marielle SegarraToday we're hanging with Marielle Segarra — journalist, editor, and the host of NPR’s Life Kit. Marielle has a gift for asking the questions we all carry quietly: how do we take care of ourselves, make better decisions, and live with a little more clarity in an overwhelming world. We talk about curiosity as a practice, about translating information into care, and about what it means to meet people where they are — with empathy, honesty, and tools that actually help. This is a conversation about living better, together.
2026-01-1455 min
Consider This from NPRTips to set yourself up for success in 2026The new year is a time to set goals. But daily life often gets in the way of meeting our ambitions. NPR’s Life Kit podcast host Marielle Segarra give us some practical, daily life tips that can set us up for success in 2026. For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.This episode was produced by Michael Levitt. It was edited by Patrick Jarenwattananon. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.Learn more about sponsor message choice...
2026-01-0110 minConsider This from NPRTips to set yourself up for success in 2026The new year is a time to set goals. But daily life often gets in the way of meeting our ambitions. NPR’s Life Kit podcast host Marielle Segarra give us some practical, daily life tips that can set us up for success in 2026. For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at considerthis@npr.org.This episode was produced by Michael Levitt. It was edited by Patrick Jarenwattananon. Our executive producer is Sami Yenigun.Learn more about sponsor message choice...
2026-01-0110 min
It's Been a MinuteDreading family conflict? Here's some advice.Fighting with your family doesn’t have to be a holiday tradition.The majority of Americans will celebrate Thanksgiving tomorrow. And while it’s meant to be a time of family togetherness… sometimes, this holiday can make you never want to see your family again. To go or not to go? To fight or not to fight? Well, our friends at NPR’s Life Kit have tips for how to answer these questions. Marielle Segarra, host of Life Kit, speaks with experts and identifies 12 strategies to keep your family dinner peaceful this year.Follow Brittany Luse on Instagra...
2025-11-2618 min
Make Me SmartDealing with credit card or medical debt? Here's how to handle it.On today’s show, Kimberly is joined by the host of NPR’s “Life Kit” podcast, Marielle Segarra, who’s recently been working on a four-week newsletter series all about credit card debt — and how to avoid it all snowballing. Plus, we’ll play a round of Headline or Head-lyin’!Here’s everything we talked about today:“In credit card debt? There’s a path out” from Life Kit“Medical bills can cause a financial crisis. Here’s how to negotiate them” from Life Kit“A big misconception about debt — and how to tackle it” from Life Kit
2025-10-1020 min
NPR's Book of the DayIn 'The Dry Season,' Melissa Febos chronicles a transformative year of celibacyWriter and professor Melissa Febos had been in a series of consecutive relationships for decades. Then, one particularly devastating experience led her to take stock of her dependency on sex and love. She says she was in "the right amount of pain" to make a change. For Febos, that period kicked off what would become a year of transformative celibacy. Her new book The Dry Season chronicles the way abstinence from sex and relationships allowed Febos to awaken to her desires, motivations and decisions in a new way. In today's episode, she speaks with Marielle Segarra – host of NPR's Life Ki...
2025-06-1315 min
Life KitOur favorite tips on exercise, sleep, and playDan Harris of the 10% Happier podcast interviews Life Kit host Marielle Segarra as part of their Get Fit Sanely series. Marielle talks her favorite tips, like building in exercise snacks, preventing revenge bedtime procrastination, finding your play personality and more.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2025-06-0555 min
Silver FM 100.6Our favorite tips on exercise, sleep, and playDan Harris of the 10% Happier podcast interviews Life Kit host Marielle Segarra as part of their Get Fit Sanely series. Marielle talks her favorite tips, like building in exercise snacks, preventing revenge bedtime procrastination, finding your play personality and more.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2025-06-0558 min
10% Happier with Dan HarrisEasy, Evidence-Based Hacks for Fitness | Marielle SegarraIncluding: "exercise snacking," prioritizing play, and overcoming "revenge bedtime procrastination." Marielle Segarra is a reporter and the host of NPR's Life Kit, the award-winning podcast and radio show that shares trustworthy, nonjudgmental tips that help listeners navigate their lives. In this episode we talk about: How and why Marielle got interested in this stuff Exercise and sleep tips that Marielle has incorporated into her own life. Something called, "revenge bedtime procrastination" – and how to work with it Some key learnings from Marielle's experience with cancer The link between fitness and play—and why play is so im...
2025-06-0459 min
Short WaveWhat's In Your Personal Care Products?Ever scan the ingredient list of your favorite personal care products like shampoos or lotions and think, what are these complicated chemicals? And are any of them bad for me? We definitely have. And our colleagues at NPR's Life Kit did one step better: They parlayed their anxiety spiral into a helpful guide on the safety of personal care products. So today, Gina talks to Life Kit's Marielle Segarra about some of the top chemicals of concern, including parabens and phthalates.Click here to hear the full Life Kit guide — including how to audit your go-to products.
2025-03-1915 minShort WaveWhat's In Your Personal Care Products?Ever scan the ingredient list of your favorite personal care products like shampoos or lotions and think, what are these complicated chemicals? And are any of them bad for me? We definitely have. And our colleagues at NPR's Life Kit did one step better: They parlayed their anxiety spiral into a helpful guide on the safety of personal care products. So today, Gina talks to Life Kit's Marielle Segarra about some of the top chemicals of concern, including parabens and phthalates.Click here to hear the full Life Kit guide — including how to audit your go-to products.
2025-03-1915 min
Consider This from NPRFor a happier new year, rethink your resolutions.It can be hard to resist jumping on the whole "New Year, New You" bandwagon. But if you've decided 2025 is your year to make some changes, we have tips to help you succeed."Life Kit" host Marielle Segarra joins us to share the best ways to approach New Year's resolutions.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2024-12-2611 minConsider This from NPRFor a happier new year, rethink your resolutions.It can be hard to resist jumping on the whole "New Year, New You" bandwagon. But if you've decided 2025 is your year to make some changes, we have tips to help you succeed."Life Kit" host Marielle Segarra joins us to share the best ways to approach New Year's resolutions.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2024-12-2611 min
51 PercentBreast cancer with Life Kit’s Marielle SegarraOn this week's 51%, WAMC's Ian Pickus speaks with NPR Life Kit host Marielle Segarra about the importance of breast cancer screening, and her own battle with breast cancer as a woman in her mid-30s. We also speak with Dr. Niraj Sharma of Cardinal Spine & Pain Medicine about some non-surgical treatments for chronic pain, and the struggles faced by independent, small-town doctors.
Guests: Marielle Segarra, host of Life Kit on NPR; Dr. Niraj Sharma, Cardinal Spine & Pain Medicine
You can listen to Life Kit's episode on breast cancer here.
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2024-11-2830 min51 PercentBreast cancer with Life Kit’s Marielle SegarraOn this week's 51%, WAMC's Ian Pickus speaks with NPR Life Kit host Marielle Segarra about the importance of breast cancer screening, and her own battle with breast cancer as a woman in her mid-30s. We also speak with Dr. Niraj Sharma of Cardinal Spine & Pain Medicine about some non-surgical treatments for chronic pain, and the struggles faced by independent, small-town doctors.
Guests: Marielle Segarra, host of Life Kit on NPR; Dr. Niraj Sharma, Cardinal Spine & Pain Medicine
You can listen to Life Kit's episode on breast cancer here.
51% is a national production of WA...
2024-11-2830 min
WAMC News PodcastWAMC News Podcast – Episode 551A lot of public radio reporting is telling difficult stories about challenging things that happen to other people. For NPR Life Kit host Marielle Segarra, a surprising breast cancer diagnosis a year ago was also a chance to get out the word about risk factors, treatment, and the latest science.
2024-11-0716 minWAMC News PodcastWAMC News Podcast – Episode 551A lot of public radio reporting is telling difficult stories about challenging things that happen to other people. For NPR Life Kit host Marielle Segarra, a surprising breast cancer diagnosis a year ago was also a chance to get out the word about risk factors, treatment, and the latest science.
2024-11-0716 min
Aspire for More: How to be an Everyday Negotiator#12 SPECIAL: NPR’s Life Kit: Negotiation tactics for everyday lifeThis is a special episode from Joan’s guest spot on the NPR’s Life Kit podcast with host, Marielle Segarra. When you hear the word "negotiation," what comes to mind? Do you picture tense boardrooms, contract signings, or heated discussions about salary? While those are certainly examples, negotiations happen in more places than we realize. Have you ever compromised on where to go for dinner, or decided who does the dishes? If so, you're already actively negotiating more than you might think. But how do we move beyond simple comp...
2024-09-0523 min
Consider This from NPRHow To Make New Year's Resolutions You Can Actually KeepThe tradition of the New Year's resolution can be alluring. What better moment in time to resolve to accomplish important goals ? New year, new you, right?But research and polling show that a lot of people who set out make resolutions give up on them. If the temptation of an extra hour of sleep is likely to crush your dream to attend that 6am spin class, maybe you need to rethink your resolution. Host Juana Summers talks with Marielle Segarra, host of NPR's Life Kit, about why focusing more on smaller goals and intentions can help...
2024-01-0114 min
Consider This from NPRHow To Make New Year's Resolutions You Can Actually KeepThe tradition of the New Year's resolution can be alluring. What better moment in time to resolve to accomplish important goals ? New year, new you, right?But research and polling show that a lot of people who set out make resolutions give up on them. If the temptation of an extra hour of sleep is likely to crush your dream to attend that 6am spin class, maybe you need to rethink your resolution. Host Juana Summers talks with Marielle Segarra, host of NPR's Life Kit, about why focusing more on smaller goals and intentions can help...
2024-01-0114 min
Life KitLife Kit answers your pressing questions about inflationThe prices of goods and services have gone up. How much of that is due to Ukraine or the pandemic? What can our elected officials do to lower prices? And how does inflation slow down? NPR's Marielle Segarra and Stacey Vanek Smith tackle listener queries.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2022-11-0820 min
Silver FM 100.6Life Kit answers your pressing questions about inflationThe prices of goods and services have gone up. How much of that is due to Ukraine or the pandemic? What can our elected officials do to lower prices? And how does inflation slow down? NPR's Marielle Segarra and Stacey Vanek Smith tackle listener queries.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2022-11-0823 min
Life Kit: MoneyLife Kit answers your pressing questions about inflationThe prices of goods and services have gone up. How much of that is due to Ukraine or the pandemic? What can our elected officials do to lower prices? And how does inflation slow down? NPR's Marielle Segarra and Stacey Vanek Smith tackle listener queries.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2022-11-0820 min
Life KitHow to start a new jobLife Kit host Marielle Segarra asks friends and family for advice on how to overcome her new-job jitters, meet new colleagues at NPR — and stay confident.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2022-09-1916 min
Silver FM 100.6How to start a new jobLife Kit host Marielle Segarra asks friends and family for advice on how to overcome her new-job jitters, meet new colleagues at NPR — and stay confident.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
2022-09-1918 min
This Is UncomfortableEndless circle of debtWhen Dalip Singh became taxi driver in New York City, he thought it’d be his ticket to the middle class. It would take years before he discovered that he’d instead bought into a massive lending scam, one that would go on for decades, pushing him and thousands of other drivers into extreme debt. Now, as Dalip and his family try to get ahead, they find themselves struggling against the exact systems they thought were meant to help them.“This Is Uncomfortable” is Reema Khrais, Donna Tam, Megan Detrie, Peter Balonon-Rosen, Camila Kerwin, Phoebe Unterman, Marielle...
2021-12-0235 min
Marketplace TechTesla's full self-driving mode is actually not fully self-drivingTesla will soon allow more drivers to have access to “full self-driving” mode, according to tweets by CEO Elon Musk. Drivers will pay $10,000 upfront or between $100 and $200 a month to use the software. Up until now, a beta version has been available to a select group of people. And the name "full self-driving" kind of implies that the car will drive itself. But, as Tesla notes on its website, that is not the case right now — these cars will not be autonomous. Marketplace's Marielle Segarra speaks with Alistair Weaver, editor-in-chief at the car-shopping site Edmunds.
2021-09-3010 minMarketplace TechSplashy tech events are still splashy … even online. By design.Amazon hosted its annual hardware event Tuesday, where it announced updates to some products, like its Ring home security system, and debuted some new ones, like a home security drone. Microsoft and Apple hosted similar events recently. You know the kind of event we're talking about, right? The kind pioneered by Steve Jobs. Big screens, fancy visuals, open bar, fancy food — maybe they've got an omelet station going. That's how they used to be in person. Marketplace's Marielle Segarra speaks with Ian Sherr, an editor at large at CNET, who has been to a lot of these.
2021-09-2911 minMarketplace TechConsider the curated life: Facebook pauses Instagram Kids rolloutFacebook just announced that it's pausing the rollout of Instagram Kids, a version of the platform for children under 13 years old, while it works to "demonstrate the value and need for this product.” The pause comes after a Wall Street Journal story a couple of weeks ago about the company's research on how Instagram affects teens. One finding? A third of teen girls who have body image issues say Instagram makes them worse. Marketplace's Marielle Segarra speaks with Jean Twenge, author of the book “iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids Are Growing Up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy — and Complete...
2021-09-2808 minMarketplace TechTired of robocalls? The FCC is stillllll trying to stop them.In the U.S., about 20% of calls to cellphones and 40% to landlines are robocalls — many of them scams. Tuesday is the deadline for voice service providers, including some phone companies, to show the Federal Communications Commission what steps they're taking to stop robocalls. Marketplace's Marielle Segarra speaks with Brad Reaves, a professor of computer science at North Carolina State University. Reaves said the FCC is telling these companies to be on the lookout for clear signs of fraud.
2021-09-2707 minMarketplace TechHey kid, see you in the metaverse?Next month, Epic Games will shut down Houseparty — the group video-chatting app that became popular in the pandemic — to focus instead on the metaverse. But, what is that, exactly? That is a topic for “Quality Assurance,” where we take a second look at a big tech story. While there are different visions of the metaverse to come, most digital builders and watchers believe the metaverse is essentially the next evolution of the internet, a virtual world that you'd move through with, some say, just one identity, not a bunch of separate logins or accounts. And you could do things in it like...
2021-09-2409 minMarketplace TechNew emoji are about to drop, but where do they come from anyway?Emoji users: Your vocabulary is about to grow. The Unicode Consortium, a group that approves emoji, has added 112 new ones, including a melting smiley face, a coral reef, an X-ray and more skin tone and gender options, like a pregnant man and pregnant person. The new icons will start appearing on your phones later this year. Marketplace's Marielle Segarra speaks with Jeremy Burge, chief emoji officer at Emojipedia, an encyclopedia for emoji. Burge talked about how emoji get approved and what happens when companies lobby for an emoji of one of their products.
2021-09-2311 minMarketplace TechWearable technology keeps hooking people as COVID lingersDuring the pandemic, especially with gyms shut down or just less appealing, people bought a lot of wearables. Those are smart devices that you wear on your body — in your ear, on your wrist or as a patch, even — that track your activity in some way. Look at sales of smartwatches. They jumped by almost 18% in 2020, according to Gartner. The research firm also forecasts that spending on wearables will grow to more than $81 billion by the end of this year. Marketplace's Marielle Segarra talked to Ramon Llamas, a research director at International Data Corp., about why wearables got so popular duri...
2021-09-2207 min
Marketplace TechMisinformation about COVID-19 planted a seed for online hate speechTuesday marks one week since the mass shootings in Atlanta that killed eight people, including six Asian women. Police have not labeled the attacks a hate crime. But we know that hate crimes against Asian Americans have been on the rise. Researchers at California State University, San Bernardino, looked at police data from 16 American cities and found that anti-Asian hate crimes more than doubled in 2020. At the same time, online hate speech against Asians has spiked. So as we think about these attacks, what do we know about online hate speech and how it translates to real-world violence? Marielle Segarra...
2021-03-2307 min
It's Been a MinuteWeekly Wrap: Coronavirus and the Markets; 'Love Is Blind' is Final Boss Reality TVThe fast-moving coronavirus has turned up in more than 40 countries, and now it's affecting the global economy. Sam talks to two reporters from Marketplace about the financial impact of the virus. Marielle Segarra details how consumers might feel its consequences, while Reema Khrais, host of the podcast This Is Uncomfortable, explains how the US government is trying to respond. Then, Sam talks to Mark Cuevas, a contestant on the Netflix show Love Is Blind, about his time on the show. He follows up that conversation with Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever, to break down the popularity of shows where...
2020-02-2840 min
Sirens: A Bombshell productionOnly Mostly DeadThis week on Bombshell, Radha, Erin, and Loren play natsec madlibs with Amanda Sloat, discussing every possible complexity of US-Syria policy during John Bolton's first week. The neverending potential for a trade war, protests in the run up to the US embassy in Israel's moving day, and Russian expulsions get a lightning round in Keeping Up Foreign Relations. And for White House mayhem they stick to the other side of the river, checking in on the disturbing trend of aviation mishaps, the anniversary of combat integration of women, and sending troops to the border. And you should all be watching...
2018-04-1851 min
What's The Story?Part 2 – WHYY Reporter Marielle Segarra talks about the reporter’s rolePart 2 – WHYY Reporter Marielle Segarra talks about the reporter’s role and follow-up to issues and suggested solutions that are discussed at the forum.
WHYY is orchestrating a statewide project that examines the problems that plague cities across Pennsylvania and solutions that are making a difference. Forums are being held to allow an opportunity for residents to share their concerns. Reporters then follow up on root causes and potential solutions for Pennsylvania’s urban challenges.
2015-01-2109 min
Note to SelfCan You *Like* God?The millenial generation has a reputation for selfies, oversharing and cat memes, but many faith leaders are flocking to platforms like Facebook and Twitter to attract more of these young people to the church.
In this week's episode, reporter (and lapsed Catholic) Marielle Segarra visits several tech-savvy churches in and around New York City to see if worship via smartphone apps and social media can bring her back into the fold.
Click on the audio to hear Segarra's personal journey and how one Long Island pastor tracks down parishioners away at college to make sure...
2013-12-1115 min