This Podcast Will Change Your Life

This episode stars Lee Matthew Goldberg (Stalker Stalked, Grenade Bouquets, Runaway Train and so many more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Goldberg's home on the island known as Manhattan in October 2021. 

This episode stars Diane Grimard Wilson (Brain Dance: My Journey with Invisible Illness, Second Chances, and the Wonders of Applied Neuroscience). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Wilson's home in the greater Chicagoland suburbs in August 2021. 

This episode stars Frank Zafiro (Wrong Place, Write Crime podcast and so many gritty, crime novels). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Zafiro's home in the Pacific Northwest in August 2021. 

This episode stars James Tate Hill (Blind Man's Bluff). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Hill's home in North Carolina (which just may be our very first discussion originated from there) in October 2021. 

This episode stars Joanna C. Valente (A Love Story, Yes, Poetry, Luna Luna Magazine). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Valente's home in New York (not Yonkers sadly) in September 2021. 

This episode stars Avner Landes (Meiselman: The Lean Years). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (and Landes' former hometown, sort of), and Landes' current home in Tel Aviv (yes, that Tel Aviv) in August 2021. 

This episode stars Robert Tomaino (New Madrid). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Tomaino's home, which is not out west, but east (east of the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio anyway) in Connecticut in October 2021. 

This episode stars Maria Price (Love You Still). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Price's home in the Hawkeye State otherwise known as Iowa in October 2021. 

This episode stars Christina Beauchemin (Let My Legacy Be Love: A Shortcut to Self-Loving). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Beauchemin's home in the glory that is upstate New York in September 2021. 

This episode stars Trish McDonald (Paper Bags). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and McDonald's home in South Florida (which is not so terribly far really from where Hemingway wrote) in September 2021. 

This episode stars D.W. Hogan (Unbroken Bonds). It was recorded, wait for it...live on the streets of Chicago in June 2021 and marks both the first live episode since before the pandemic began, but the first walk and talk posting since the way back.*

*Please enjoy the return of street noise and random ambient scuzz.

This episode stars Elizabeth B. Splaine (Swan Song Devil's Grace, Blind Order). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Splaine's home in the state of mind also known as Rhode Island in September 2021. 

This episode stars Alisha Bashaw (Four Eyes: A Memoir of a Millenial Caregiver). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Bashaw's home in the glorious state (and state of being) that is Colorado in August 2021.

This episode stars Mike Keren (Four Funerals, No Marriage). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Keren's home in the great state of New Jersey in August 2021.

This episode stars Anne Poirier (The Body Joyful - My Journey from Self-Loathing to Self-Acceptance, Shaping Perspectives). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Poirier's home (and the center of The Body Joyful movement) in Maine in August 2021.

This episode stars Emory Easton (Mother, Can You Hear Me Now?). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Easton's home in Central Illinois in July 2021.

This episode stars Grace Agnew (Sanctuary). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Agnew's office in New Jersey in July 2021.

This episode stars Gregory L. Norris (Ex Marks the Spot and so much more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Xanadu (for real) in August 2021.

This episode stars Spencer Fleury (How I'm Spending My Afterlife). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Fleury's home just minutes away from The Gold Cane in August 2021.

This episode stars Matt Fitzpatrick (Demon Tide, Matriarch Game, Crosshairs). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Fitzpatrick's home on Cape Cod in July 2021.

This episode stars Barbara Newman (The Dreamcatcher Codes). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Newman's home in Western Massachusetts in April 2021.

This episode stars Jason Fisk (Sub Urbane, Hank and Jules, Salt Creek Anthology, Sadly Beautiful). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Fisk's home in the Chicago suburbs in April 2021.

This episode stars Mallory Smart (Maudlin House, Textual Healing, The Only Living Girl in Chicago). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Smart's home in the Chicago suburbs in April 2021.

This episode stars Wayne Goodman (Queer Words Podcast, numerous books). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Goodman's home in Northern California in April 2021.

This episode stars B.B. Russell (Kindreds). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Russell's upstate New York home in April 2021. 

This very special 250th episode stars Chicago artist and author Dmitry Samarov (Old Style, All Hack, Soviet Stamps, Music to My Eyes). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Samarov's Chicago home in March 2021. 

This episode stars Nancie Laird Young (Tea with Dad - Finding Myself in My Father's Life). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Young's father's Maryland home in April 2021. 

This episode stars Amanda Headlee (Till We Become Monsters). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Headlee's home somewhere off in the snowy woods of Pennsylvania in April 2021. 

This episode stars Joshua Chaplinsky (The Paradox Twins, Whispers in the Ear of a Dreaming Ape, Kanye West-Reanimator). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Chaplinsky's home in the city so nice they named it twice (yes, it's New York City) in March 2021. 

This episode stars Amanda Headlee (Till We Become Monsters), B.B. Russell (Kindreds) and Gregory Norris (Ex Marks The Spot). It was recorded during SMOL Fair 2021 and over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and the authors various home studios in March 2021. 

This episode stars NM Senator Bill O'Neill (Panoramic Diaries, Short Session, The Definition of Empty). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Senator O'Neill's office at the New Mexico Legislature in March 2021. 

This episode stars Nancie Laird Young (Tea with Dad), Barbara Newman (The Dreamcatcher Codes), Marc Sheinbaum (Memories Live Here) & Sarina Prabasi (The Coffeehouse Resistance). It was recorded during SMOL Fair 2021 and over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and the authors various home studios in March 2021. 

This episode stars Dr. Gina Barreca (Fast Funny Women, "If You Lean In, Will Men Just Look Down Your Blouse?": Questions and Thoughts for Loud, Smart Women in Turbulent Times, They Used to Call Me Snow White . . . But I Drifted: Women's Strategic Use of Humor). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Dr. Barreca's home office in the great state of Connecticut in February 2021. 

This episode stars Kelly Kreglow (Kelly Kay Books, Crushing, Over A Barrel). It was recorded over the Zoom (I know) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Kreglow's husband (and previous guest) Eric Spitznagel's home office in the actual second city itself in February 2021. 

This episode stars Marc Sheinbaum (Memories Live Here). It was recorded over the Zoom (because you know) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Sheinbaum's home office in my home state of New York in January 2021. 

This episode stars Joe Walters (Independent Book Review). It was recorded over the Zoom (and we all know why that is) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Walter's home office out east in the great state of Pennsylvania in December 2020. 

This episode stars David Masciotra (I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters, Barack Obama: Invisible Man, Working On a Dream: The Progressive Political Vision of Bruce Springsteen). It was recorded over the Zoom (I know you know why) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Masciotra's home office out in the glorious midwest plains of Indiana in December 2020.