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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Lia Beck

"Armchair Expert" Co-Host Monica Padman on Friendship, Fame, and Coming Into Her Own

A photo of Nikki Ogunnaike and an inset photo of Monica Padman with the text "Money. Power. Style. Nice Talk with Nikki Ogunnaike".

Plenty of people move to Los Angeles hoping to make it big, but Monica Padman's trajectory is truly one of a kind. She's now the co-creator and co-host of "Armchair Expert", the hugely popular podcast she launched with Dax Shepard in 2018. But before that, she worked for Shepard and his wife, Kristen Bell—as their nanny.

So, how does one go from a nanny for a couple of Hollywood stars to creating a podcast—a very lucrative podcast—with one of them? Padman opens up about her career on the latest episode of the Marie Claire podcast "Nice Talk" with editor-in-chief Nikki Ogunnaike.

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