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Peter Balonon-Rosen

Producer

Peter produced the narrative podcasts “The Uncertain Hour” and “This Is Uncomfortable.” He also reported radio features for Marketplace’s radio programs, wrote for our website and served as an in-studio and field photographer. What was your first job? Dishwasher What do you think is the hardest part of your job that no one knows? Video conferences. In your next life, what would your career be? Foley artist. Fill in the blank: Money can’t buy you happiness, but it can buy you ______. Snacks for the snack desk. What’s your most memorable Marketplace moment? Seeking out tornadoes with storm chasers for half a week to report a story about the business of storm chasing. Watching severe storms develop over the prairies of Nebraska was breathtaking.

Latest from Peter Balonon-Rosen

  • Jun 10, 2021

    Going off script

    Ana Sauceda, right, and her dad.
    Courtesy Ana Sauceda

    Ana Sauceda spent a decade trying to fit her parent’s script before throwing it out and writing her own.

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  • Productivity won’t save you (rerun)
    Getty

    In this episode from December, 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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  • May 27, 2021

    Bad romance

    When Mira Celper, right, saw her mom, Leigh Hendry, quickly fall in love with a man she only knew through phone calls, she became suspicious.
    Courtesy Mira Celper

    Mira Celper’s relationship with her mom grew strained when her mom started dating the mysterious David. As her mom fell deeper in love, Mira couldn’t shake the feeling that something about David was off.

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  • Aisha Salaudeen
    Courtesy: Aisha Salaudeen

    This week, we take a deep dive into one woman’s past to understand why she can’t seem to kick her financial anxiety.

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  • Diana Wang, photographed in the store she now owns in Ohio, Fine Feather.
    Courtesy: Diana Wang

    When Diana Wang got the head intern position at Harper’s Bazaar, she thought she’d finally landed her big break. Instead, she helped lead an uprising of many different unpaid interns.

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  • 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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