How To Start Your 2020 Right: Advice From NPR's 'Life Kit'

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🗓️ 6 January 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Wondering how to get a solid start on your New Year's resolution? Whether you're hoping to get your finances in better shape or change your diet, the experts at NPR's 'Life Kit' have some advice that can help. NPR correspondent Chris Arnold and NPR senior editor and correspondent Maria Godoy join Sam Sanders as they dig into how to make those New Year's resolutions stick and how to have a relaxing weekend.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all from NPR, I'm Sam Sanders, it's been a minute.
0:08.9	Happy weekend to my listeners, to my guests.
0:11.0	Also, happy new year.
0:13.1	It is 2020.
0:14.7	How do y'all feel about that?
0:15.7	I'm gonna own this year.
0:17.1	Oh yeah.
0:18.1	I'm like glistening in the jaun of a new year.
0:21.2	Those two voices you hear are my guests, NPR correspondent Chris Arnold, he covers personal
0:25.9	finance and Maria Godoy, senior editor and correspondent on NPR Science Desk and host of NPR's
0:32.6	food blog, The Salt.
0:34.7	But besides doing those two amazing things, Chris and Maria, they are both also two of
0:41.4	several hosts of an NPR podcast called Life Kit.
0:45.9	Tell our listeners what that shows about.
0:47.6	It's basically about using all our reporting knowledge to give you advice that you can
0:52.3	actually use in your life to get your stuff together.
0:54.1	I like that.
0:55.1	The cool idea behind it is each of us is hundreds of reporters at NPR, right?
1:00.0	We each know a little bit of the universe really well.
1:03.6	At parties, we'll be like, how do you invest for your retirement account?
1:07.7	That happens to be something I know a lot about.
1:11.0	I know the best people to call on whatever.
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