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This Podcast Will Change Your Life.

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This Podcast Will Change Your Life is a long-form interview show hosted by writer, teacher, trainer, coach and content creator Ben Tanzer and housed at This Blog Will Change Your Life. The show focuses on conversations with authors, creatives and changemakers from around the world.
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Episodes

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, A SMOL Fair 2021 Special Episode - What Now? Authors Discuss Their Debuts.

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.

Mar 17, 20211 hr 21 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Forty-Three - Being Funny Is A Choice.

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.

Mar 01, 20211 hr 2 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Thirty-Nine - Dissident.

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.

Jan 12, 20211 hr 15 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Year-End BONUS Episode (though it's also Episode Two Hundred and Thirty-Eight for record keeping purposes) - It's Not Just You.

This Year-End BONUS episode stars Kailah "KP" Peters and Meg Harris of They Call Us Feminist Literary Magazine. It was recorded over the Zoom (yes, still, apologies)* between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Peters and Harris' home offices across the very same great city of Chicago in December 2020. *And please do disregard my moments of oddly robotic voice and other seemingly weird weather-induced Zoom glitchery.

Dec 27, 20201 hr 11 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Thirty-Seven - Elated.

This episode stars Emily Schultz (The Blondes, little threats). It was recorded over the Zoom (because look, you know)* between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life (temporary) home studio in Chicago, IL and Schultz's borrowed office in the artistic haven also known as Brooklyn in December 2020. *And please do disregard the early moments of fanboying, it is corrected in short order, but could not be avoided.

Dec 15, 20201 hr 20 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Thirty-Four - Saying Something.

This episode stars Randall Gavin Horton ({#289-128}, Hook: A Memoir). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's the thing for now, and maybe forever if we all don't start wearing masks) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything must be now) and the wilds of the great state of Connecticut in October 2020.

Nov 02, 20201 hr 4 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Thirty-Three - Sharing The Planet.

This episode stars Kathryn Haueisen (Mayflower Chronicles: A Tale of Two Cultures). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's the thing for now, and maybe forever if we all don't start wearing masks) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, because again, the mask thing, and because that's the thing for the foreseeable future anyway) and (the home of the cheating Astros) Houston, TX in October 2020.

Oct 16, 20201 hr 3 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Thirty-Two - Everything I Know.

This episode stars Matthew Salesses (The Hundred Year Flood, Disappear Doppelgänger Disappear). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's the thing for now, and maybe forever if we all don't start wearing masks) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, because again, the mask thing, and because that's the thing for the foreseeable future anyway) and the wilds of Iowa in September 2020.

Oct 01, 20201 hr 16 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Thirty-One - The Arc Of History.

This episode stars Satish Prabasi (Fragments of Memory: A Nepali National's Reminiscences). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's the thing for now, maybe forever) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, because again, that's the thing for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and the Green Mountains of Vermont in August 2020.

Sep 15, 20201 hr 5 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Thirty - An Education.

This episode stars Matt Fitzpatrick (Crosshairs, Matriarch Game). It was recorded over the Zoom (because that's the thing now, yo) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and a parked car somewhere on Cape Cod in August 2020.

Sep 01, 20201 hr 1 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Twenty-Nine - Empathy.

This episode stars Lee Matthew Goldberg (The Ancestor, Slow Down, The Mentor). It was recorded over the Zoom (and is my first endeavor at doing so, yo) between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Goldberg's home in the city that never sleeps in July 2020.

Aug 16, 20201 hr 8 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Twenty-Eight - Now What.

This episode stars the Jennifer Pastiloff (On Being Human-A Memoir of Waking Up, Living Real, And Listening Hard). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Pastiloff's home in the City of Angels in July 2020.

Aug 02, 20201 hr 12 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Twenty-Six - Feeling So Much.

This episode stars Jonathan Evison (West of Here, The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, Lawn Boy). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Evison's compound off in the wilds of Western Washington in June 2020.

Jul 08, 20201 hr 5 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Twenty-Four - Grace.

This episode stars the Donald Quist (Harbors, For Other Ghosts, Past Ten, Black & White & Read All Over). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Quist's Missouri home in June 2020.

Jun 21, 20201 hr 4 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Twenty-Three - The Perfect Thing.

This episode stars the glorious Alice Kaltman (The Tantalizing Tale of Grace Minnaugh, Wavehouse, Staggerwing). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Kaltman's Brooklyn home (though I do like to imagaine it was Kaltman's Montauk surf compound) in April 2020.

May 29, 20201 hr 6 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Twenty-Two - A Celebration.

This episode stars Hosho McCreesh and Brian McGettrick (A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst - Unabridged Audio & Everything Else We Must Endure respectively). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be now, for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever), McCreesh's hidden New Mexico bunker and McGettrick's home in the north of Ireland.

May 07, 20201 hr 3 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Twenty - Being Heard.

This episode stars Shifra Malka (Dare to Matter: Lessons in Living a Large Life). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be for the foreseeable future, and possibly forever) and Malka's home office in Baltimore, MD.

Apr 23, 20201 hr 5 min

This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Two Hundred and Nineteen - Now More Than Ever.

This episode stars Stuart Ross (Jenny in Corona). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL (as everything will be for the foreseeable future) and Ross' home office, which is in Chicago, IL as well (and where there are no immediate plans to record any further episodes, though you never know).

Mar 30, 20201 hr 7 min
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