You're listening to Life Kit from NPR.

Hey, it's Mariel.

Today we've got a special episode.

It's a little meta, actually, a conversation about giving advice.

That's what we do here at Life Kit, but we're not the only ones in this advice game.

The podcast, Am I Doing It Wrong from the Huffington Post?

Well, they're like our cousins in a way.

Theirs is a conversation show that explores the anxieties we all have about trying to get our lives right,

everything from how to say sorry to how to do your laundry.

And their hosts, Raj Punjabi Johnson and Noah Michelson, invited me on to talk about this

thing we do, talking to experts, bringing you advice. We get into some of the best advice we've

gotten in our personal lives, how we decide when to share personal details on our shows,

and some of the episodes were itching to do. It was a really fun conversation.

And that's coming up after the break.

Hi, I'm Raj Punjabi Johnson, head of identity content at HuffPost.

And I'm Noah Michelson, head of HuffPost Personal. Welcome to a very special bonus episode of Am I Doing

It Wrong. Today we are talking to Mariel Segarra, the host of NPR's Life Kit.

Raj, I love Life Kit. I never thought we'd have this like worlds colliding where two

advice shows would come together. It's going to be magical. Yeah, let's get into it. Mariel, thank you for being here. We're so excited to chat with you. Yeah. Thanks for having me. It's, I guess not that often that like three advice givers, getters all get in a room together. So we thought it'd just be fun to sort of say like, how do we do this? Why do we do this? What are our lives like? Yeah. And I guess the question

we can start with is, you know, as a professional advice giver or someone who facilitates that,

what's the best piece of advice that you've gotten in your life? Yeah, I think I get a lot of really good advice from my dad.

He gives advice on a range of things, and there are these pearls of wisdom that come out

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