Bridget Bodnar

Senior Producer

SHORT BIO

Bridget is the director of podcasts at Marketplace. She's also the host and co-creator of “Million Bazillion,” Marketplace's award-winning podcast for kids about money.

Bridget has worked at Marketplace since 2011 when she started as an intern. Since then, she's worked across multiple shows and podcasts, including for several years on the flagship evening broadcast of “Marketplace.” She was the senior producer of “Million Bazillion” and “Make Me Smart.”

Bridget is originally from Michigan but now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughters. They have a lot of cats.

Latest Stories (236)

A warehouse dash with Rent the Runway

Apr 30, 2015
Rent the Runway combines data and fashion to create a multi-million dollar empire.
Spools of thread used for repairs at the Rent the Runway warehouse.
Tobin Low

Checking in with Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky

Apr 23, 2015
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky talks about the company's (somewhat unexpected) success.
An up-close look at Airbnb's wall timeline. 
Kai Ryssdal/Marketplace

Seth Meyers is getting the hang of his new gig

Apr 13, 2015
A year into hosting Late Night, Seth Meyers on what's next for the show.
Seth Meyers (L) in a skit imagining if Hannah Horvath (played by Lena Dunham) from the HBO show "Girls" joined the writer's room. Dunham is underneath the jacket.
NBC

Franchising pies without losing the secret ingredient

Mar 30, 2015
LA chain the Pie Hole wrestles with expanding while remaining authentic.
Kai Ryssdal stands at the counter of The Pie Hole in downtown Los Angeles.
Daisy Palacios/Marketplace

The tricky business behind fake Hollywood money

Mar 10, 2015
How a well-known prop maker found himself accused of counterfeiting.
There are rules prop makers must follow in duplicating money.
Joe Raedle/Newsmakers

Quincy Jones on Clark Terry, a godfather of jazz

Oct 2, 2014
Terry was known for integrating "The Tonight Show" Band back in 1960, and taught jazz to Miles Davis, Winton Marsalis and Quincy Jones.
Justin Kauflin and Clark Terry in "Keep on Keepin' On."
Courtesy:RADiUS-TWC

What do John Wayne and Dracula have in common?

May 23, 2014
The Marketplace Datebook for Monday, May 26, 2014.
Marketplace

Fashion soared as the economy faltered in the 1930s

May 20, 2014
Clothes made the (wo)man... even during the Great Depression.
1930s fashion.
Sasha/Hulton Archive

The story behind red M&M's

May 15, 2014
They were in the bag, then they weren't, then they were again.