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How to Get Booked on Make Me Smart
Make Me Smart is a business podcast hosted by Marketplace with 260 episodes. Your strongest route into Make Me Smart starts with evidence from its feed and the contact path this show publishes.
Make Me Smart is not affiliated with Let's Make A Podcast. We cannot book its guests.
What Make Me Smart is about
Each weekday, Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams makes today make sense along with her Marketplace colleagues, breaking down happenings in tech, the economy, and culture. Because none of us is as smart as all of us.
In the show’s own words, from its public feed.
- Publishes
- a few times a week
- Latest episode
- Jun 21, 2026
- Catalogue
- 260 episodes
Recent episodes
Listen to a few of these before you pitch, then reference one by name.
- From "Marketplace Morning Report": The Rural Healthcare Crisis
- From "How We Survive": How to Dim the Sun
- The TikTok-ification of music marketing
- The highs and lows of the global art market
- Kimberly's final cheers on "Economics on Tap"
Episode list read from the show’s public RSS feed on 2026-08-23.
3 show-specific steps to pitch Make Me Smart
- 1
Listen before you pitch
Start with the latest episode of Make Me Smart, which publishes a few times a week, currently “From 'Marketplace Morning Report': The Rural Healthcare Crisis”. Listen for how the host frames the conversation, then make your angle fit Make Me Smart.
- 2
Send it to the address Make Me Smart publishes
Make Me Smart's feed publishes a contact address. We do not print Make Me Smart's address on public pages. A free account opens a pre-addressed draft for Make Me Smart in your mail app; we never send it. Get the address for Make Me Smart.
- 3
Lead with a specific, relevant angle
Hosts want an operator who can share real numbers, decisions, and lessons, not generic advice. Open with one sentence on why you fit Make Me Smart and the exact topic you would bring to an episode. See our pitch template, or write it now, prefilled for Make Me Smart, then grade the draft against Make Me Smart.
Pitch basics: read the complete guide. Make Me Smart is listed from Apple Podcasts (iTunes Search API), public directory data; its host can manage it below.
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