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Hayley Hershman

Producer

Hayley Hershman is the senior producer of podcast development, where she brings ideas to life. Some of her favorite projects are the story-telling show "This Is Uncomfortable," the award-winning climate show "How We Survive," and Marketplace’s first video podcast, "Financially Inclined."

She has worked on a myriad of Marketplace projects, both in studio and in the field, including special coverage of the tenth anniversary of the financial crisis and a series on globalization and capitalism. At one point she interviewed celebrities for a series on Marketplace Weekend, which was very cool.

Hayley was born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She’s a graduate of the University of Michigan, but really knows very little about football so please don’t ask. 

Latest from Hayley Hershman

  • Chris Johnson and Lindsey Galbraith
    Courtesy Lindsey Galbraith

    When Lindsey Galbraith’s marriage ended over financial infidelity, she swore she would never mix money and relationships again. Then she met someone new.

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  • Apr 29, 2021

    A cruel disease

    Geetha Balagopal keeps pictures of her daughter Priya on display in her office.
    Reema Khrais/Marketplace

    After a young woman dies by suicide, Reema sets out to understand why money was on her mind shortly before her death.

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  • Apr 22, 2021

    Pretty hurts

    Esther Calixte-Bea
    Courtesy: Esther Calixte-Bea

    Esther Calixte-Bea spent hundreds of dollars a month trying to keep her body hair under control, until she finally hit a breaking point.

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  • The marriage penalty
    Maria Ponomariova/Getty Images

    After spending years fighting to get disability benefits, Amber was finally approved. But she and her wife, Diana, didn’t realize they had entered a complicated, arcane system where health care might cost them their marriage.

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  • Kiara Aceves posing with some of the products she sold for Arbonne, a multilevel marketing company.
    Courtesy: Kiara Aceves

    The U.S. had more than 16 million MLM sellers in 2019, and most of them will likely end up breaking even or losing money. But Kiara quickly became the exception to the rule — or at least, that’s what she thought.

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  • Apr 1, 2021

    A lifelong scam

    Axton Betz-Hamilton and her parents in 2012.
    Courtesy: Axton Betz-Hamilton

    Axton Betz-Hamilton spent 20 years trying to track down an identity thief that wreaked havoc on her family, only to discover the truth was uglier than she’d imagined.

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  • This Is Uncomfortable returns October 6!

    “This Is Uncomfortable” is back for season four.

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  • Productivity won’t save you
    Getty

    This week, we look at our obsession with productivity, and why the urge to optimize everything we do makes us feel like we’re never enough.

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  • Tiarra Noblin and her daughters, Na’el and Kayla.
    Courtesy: Tiarra Noblin

    In September alone, women left the workplace at four times the rate that men did. The numbers are shocking, but behind them are real, human experiences. This week, we hear some of those stories.

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  • Reniqua Allen-Lamphere
    Nina Subin

    A woman tries to live her version of the American dream, only to discover the dream isn’t what she thought. 

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