For a Living is taking an indefinite hiatus. I might post episodes sporadically. I might even roll out Season 11 in 2024. I'm grappling with all this as I type these very words. We'll see. For now, I just want to thank all of you who have been listening and supporting this project. This podcast and your support has made my world a better place. 

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Stefania Arzamendia is an integrative humanistic psychotherapist and holistic health coach.  She grounds her work in Transactional Analysis, Gestalt therapy, and Compassionate Inquiry. She also prepares clients for ayahuasca experiences and guides them through the integration of psychedelic journeys. She also happens to be my therapist.

Stefi encourages you to dive into the work of Dr. Gabor Mate and to explore the wildlife and the wildflowers 

For a Living is taking an indefinite hiatus. I might post episodes sporadically. I might even roll out Season 11 in 2024. I'm grappling with all this as I type these very words. We'll see. For now, I just want to thank all of you who have been listening and supporting this project. This podcast and your support has made my world a better place. 

Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon.

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Eric Pan is a composer, pianist, and storyteller. 

• Here is Eric's website. Follow his riveting Insta account @pandelic. 
• Explore his music on Spotify, Soundcloud, on YouTube,  or wherever you stream. We listened to Twilight Far and Oak Island. I dig Turtle on the Moon. 
• Take journeys with him on his Substack. 
• Eric urges you to read The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World and Effortless Mastery. 

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Jocelyn is an Earth Medicine Facilitator who channels the spirits of ayahuasca, yagé, and iboga to guide passengers along a sacred journey to the most vulnerable places. Armed with love and powerful plants, she kills egos and heals souls.

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Edlyn is an ICU nurse for patients with heart conditions at the University of Chicago medical center. She discusses how she grapples with vulnerability and death. Edlyn saves lives!

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The Guz discusses the challenges of being thrown into the midst of complicated divorce proceedings. And he shares stories, triumphant and tragic, of criminal defense.

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Dan tells us how a chance encounter with a magazine in Tommy Burke's basement launched him on the path to becoming Chicago’s premiere guitar tech. He shares the origin story of Chicago Fretworks and why, after two decades, he still loves being an axe man.

Visit Dan an Company at Chicago Fretworks and follow him on Instagram. 

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Fitness and Nutrition Coach, Power lifter, and Founder of No Bull Fitness, Kim Greenstein explains how she broke the golden handcuffs of a corporate career, resolving complicated negotiations to help people develop the resolve, the strategies, and the mindset to feel good and strong. She dives into how being a health and wellness consultant pits her against some strong cultural currents. She also talks about why she loves lifting really heavy stuff.

If you are in the Chicagoland area and want to dial into a wellness routine, learn more about Kim here and get in touch!

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Massage therapist Joe Leto shares how a coincidence in the college dorms set him on a path to healing people. He massages his way through the challenges and opportunities of being a massage therapist, which he loves with no uncertain passion. He also compares himself to Rambo...

Are you in South Carolina? Maybe Joe can ease the pain. Find him here.

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Jana teaches Bikram yoga. We talk about how yoga prepared her for a harrowing accident that left her physically decimated, but spiritually emboldened. We get into how the downfall of Bikram Choudhery clouds but clarifies her commitment to her Bikram practice.

If you are anywhere near Milwaukee, sweat and breathe with Jana at Bikram Yoga Heights. If you are not, follow her on Insta.

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My main man Scott divulges why he’s the go to guy for solving some of the internet’s most unique problems. As a web developer, he talks about how he wants to see the web develop.

Explore Scot's work on his website.

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Spaceman walks us through how he transitioned from teaching high school science to founding the Master Brewers Academy and teaching brewing science. He shares the problems and pleasures of building a school from the the ground up.

Check out the Todd & MBA at https://www.masterbreweracademy.com/.

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I'm joined by Chicago restaurateur and educator, Brad Newman! Brad takes a deep dive into how and why he works tirelessly to change the way we think about food and how, to his chagrin and mine, he struggles every step of the way.

Eat at Cookies and Carnitas and visit Green City Markets.

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Each Petal a Portal is a four-part composition arranged and performed by Daniel Lazar and Brian Trahan. The lyrics are selected from various poems by Joshua Weiner.

I. Beneath the Dogwood’s White Explosion
II. No Essential Mysteries
III. The Hand Holds Tight the Line
IV. No Hand, No Hold

The composition was recorded at Funkhaus studios in Berlin and produced by Bran Trahan.

Brian and Joshua were both on Season 7 of For a Living. Here is my conversation with Brian and here with Joshua.  

Eric walks us along nine miles a day delivering post and what drove him to become the President of the Vermont Letter Carriers Union. He tells us why the USPS should matter to us all and how he is the real Bernie Bro.

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Welcome! Tune in to learn what I hope to do here.

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Committed to compassion and community, David Jacobson is the founder of Chicago Jewish Funerals. He cares for the deceased and comforts the mourners. 

• Learn more about David's work at Chicago Jewish Funerals and feel free to further explore Jewish funeral traditions, such as Shiva. 
• David briefly mentioned a charity he founded to bury indigent people. 
• David wisely urges us all have mentors and to be mentors. It's never too late! 

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Mike Lewin is the owner and crew chief at Professional Awesome Racing.

Check out the Professional Awesome team here. Need more Lewin? Listen to Hypercritical, the PA podcast. Here is their car screaming at Buttonwillow. Here is Mike demonstrating the splitter support rods he discussed in our podcast conversation. 

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Dr. Patrick Baker is a translator, subtitler, and language consultant.

Learn more about Patrick on his website. Perhaps peruse his robust academic CV. 

Per our conversation, Patrick invites you to explore:

• J.S. Bach's Art of the Fugue. 
• The compelling art of his brilliant wife, Katrin Grote-Baker. 
• The translation work of his distinguished neighbors, Heather Kimber and Nathan Fritz. 
• William Weaver, who is Patrick's North Star for translation. If you're reading Humberto Eco in English, you're also reading Weaver. 
• Hobbes' translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. 
• Der Morgen der Welt: Geschichte der Renaissance by Bernd Roeck. Or, maybe better yet, wait for the forthcoming English translation!
• All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski, who died on the same day and at the same hospital where Patrick's daughter was born. One day Patrick might translate this. 

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Jonathan Trozzolo sells Omega watches and supports clients at the KaDeWe Boutique on Berlin's KuDamm.

In thinking of time, JT heartily encourages you to read history! In particular, he urges you towards Mary Beard's acclaimed history of Ancient Rome, SPQR. You can hear her discuss her work at the 92nd St. Y.

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Steve Dye is the founding pastor at the CrossWay International Baptist Church in Berlin, Germany.

Since you might not get to the shag bark hickory tree on the northeast corner of the family farm in Ohio, Steve would urge you to think about Psalm 1:3 specifically, and nurturing community more broadly. 

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Chasity Crisp is a singer and an actress, currently playing Angelica Schuyler in the German production of Hamilton.

Learn more about Chasity on her website. Follow her on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. The German cast of Hamilton was featured in Vogue.  The translation of Hamilton from English to German was explored by Michael Paulson for The New York Times. Chasity urges you to read Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. 

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Juliane Seumel is a coach for individuals and teams, companies and NGOs. She meets people where they're at, fosters growth mindset, and creates space for change.

Learn more about Juliane on her website and follow her on Instagram. She would urge you to check out Wilhelmine's Komm wie du bist, Susan David on Emotional Agility, and perhaps theorist, Niklas Luhmann. 

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Zach Doubek is an air traffic controller at O'Hare International Airport.

After reminding us of the Golden Rule, Zach might urge you to check explore the work of Simon Sinek, especially his thinking about millennials. 

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Mike Pesca is an award winning journalist, NPR legend, book author, substacker, and host of The Gist.

Listen to The Gist every weekday. Follow Mike on Substack. Read his rollicking book on sports what ifs.

Mike and I discussed many things, including: 

• His his interviews with Virginia Sole Smith, Rainn Wilson, and Leon Neyfakh. 
• His appreciation for The Colin McEnroe Show, WTF with Marc Maron, Conversations With Coleman Hughes, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Savage Lovecast, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and On the Media. For the record, if there were six faces on Mt. Rushmore, I might just enshrine Sean Evans and Neil Brennan, both of whom are pursuing innovative interview approaches. 

Mike recommends you read American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith.

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Alexandra Skinner is an Advisor to the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety, and Consumer Protection. 

Having nothing to do with her beloved uncle, Principal Seymour Skinner, Alexandra urges you to take a breath, have a smile, and watch The Simpsons. 

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Hugh Williamson and I explore the mission of Worker Priests, also known as Ministers in Secular Employment.

Check out...
-A collection of Hugh's writing and speaking about worker priests
-My man Studs Terkel...and his book Working
-The obituary for Hugh's father, Tony Williamson

-The film, Sorry We MIssed You
-The story of Uzbek journalist, Muhammed Bekjanov
-Hugh also happens to be the Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch. 

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Maxx Vick is a booking agent, working with hard rock and metal bands to conceptualize and actualize their North American tours.

Maxx works at AGI, representing clients like these. While he is an agent for hard rock and metal bands, he is deep into country these days, especially Zach Bryan. 

• This episode is brought to you by our friends at Cookies and Carnitas who urge you to check out Indie Cafe. 
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Silvia Foster-Frau is a multiculturalism reporter at the America Desk of the Washington Post.

Here is Silvia's work at the WaPo. We discussed her piece Somos Latinos, which she wrote with Rachel Hatzipanagos. Silvia endorses La Voz newspapers. 

• This episode is brought to you by our friends at Cookies and Carnitas who urge you to check out Brass Heart. 
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Dan Mason is a restaurant manager and a stalwart of the Chicagoland dining scene. He is also one of the best guys around.

Dan waxed nostalgic about Bandera and Elephant & Castle. He dove deeper into his current work at Pomeroy. 

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Mike Winnick, aka DarfMike, is a host and commentator for the esports juggernaut, Counter Strike Global Offensive.

Mike frequently Tweets here.  You can follow him on Instagram and see his very cute dog. Here's a cast he did a couple weeks ago and a video from one of his last studio events. For good measure, here are some of Sadokist's iconic lines . 

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Pedro Ferrer Miranda is the GM of Ferrer Miranda Wineries: Solar de Viejo, Valdubón, and Bodegas Vionta.

Check out the Ferrer Miranda Wineries. Pedro suggests you try one wine from each of his three family wineries: Orube Selección de Familia, Valdubón X, and Vionta Albariño. Oh, and he endorses the Spielberg film, Warhorse...as it relates to his work. 

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Nickie Acero is the Director of Strategy and Impact at the Step Up Women's Network. 

Nickie referred to and celebrates the works of: Patricia Hill Collins, Adrienne Marie Brown, and Gloria Anzaldua. 

• She urges you to check out Sonya Renee Taylor and The Ohm Center. Also Mona Chalabi,  Evergreen Data, University Innovation Alliance, and Harvard's Strategic Data Project. 
• Step Up on the web. On Insta: @stepupwomensnetwork. On TikTok: @stepupwomensnetwork
• Nickie's Linkedin

• This episode is brought to you by our friends at Cookies and Carnitas who urge you to check out Mango Pickle. 
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I wouldn't want to take a sabbatical without telling y'all first.

Here are the episodes I adore but did not get the listens they deserve: Justin Jackson (SaaS bootstrapper), Sam Tatel (companion to the elderly), Julie Stewart (ASUA), Dria Dore (dancer), Jason Danvir (firefighter), Hayden Holbert (sustainable farmer).

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Drove Season 7 into the station in conversation with 3 For a Living Patrons: Bruce Field, Joe Ravesloot, and Jeff Stein.

Bruce mentioned American Made by Farah Stockman and Rough Draft by Katy Tur.

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Friends of the Pod weigh in for a short, kinda beautiful meditation on Labor Day. Celebrate with us! 

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• Special thanks to Liv Hunt for our logo design.  Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. 

This is a song about a podcast conversation I recorded with Berlin-based visual artist, Hannah Dougherty. 

Lyrics - Daniel Lazar (and Dr. Seuss)
Lead Vocal - Daniel Lazar
Backing Vocals - Megan Fleming and Scott Robbin
Guitar - Scott Robbin
Bass - Marty Kondziolka
Drums - Marty Kondziolka

Produced, engineered, mixed, and mastered by Marty Kondziolka. Thanks Marty!!

Hannah Dougherty is a Berlin-based visual artist with whom it is always a bona fide joy to be in conversation. Today is her birthday!

Learn more about Hannah on her website, follow her on Instagram, and check out Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures. 

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Listen to the songs I composed and recorded about my guest on Season 7.
Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail.
Please hit that follow button and share the pod with your people.

As always, special thanks to Liv Hunt for logo design, Rotem Fisher for mastering audio, and Marty Kondziolka for music production and engineering. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. 

Be kind and stay healthy. Thank you for listening. 

Ben Kim is a kind soul, an internationally celebrated classical pianist, and a dear old friend. 

You can follow Ben on Instagram and YouTube, keep up with him here, and enjoy more of his work here.
Ben would have you explore the work of Fou T'Song, perhaps this piece. He also would urge you to listen Leon Fleisher's Brahms Piano Concertos. 

Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon.
Listen to the songs I composed and recorded about my guest on Season 7.
Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail.
Please hit that follow button and share the pod with your people.

As always, special thanks to Liv Hunt for logo design, Rotem Fisher for mastering audio, and Brian Trahan for music production and engineering. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. 

Be kind and stay healthy. Thank you for listening. 

This track features Kevin Fleming on guitars, and backing vocal, Megan Fleming on vocal, and Marty Kondziolka on drums. It also features the John F. Kennedy High School Berlin Choir under the direction of Dr. Joseph Curtis.

Produced by Brian Trahan.

Elina Akhmetova is a London-based dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She fosters a longform community practice that tends towards collective ecstasy.

You can follow Lina on Instagram and see a clip of her at work here. She would have you explore...

• Pina Bausch’s Cafe Müller - The part between 11:11-16:20 changed the course of her life
• The Body Keeps the Score
• Ways of Being Together 
• Ghost and John!

Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon.
Listen to the songs I composed and recorded about my guest on Season 7.
Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail.
Please hit that follow button and share the pod with your people.

As always, special thanks to Liv Hunt for logo design, Rotem Fisher for mastering audio, and Brian Trahan for music production and engineering. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. 

Be kind and stay healthy. Thank you for listening. 

Scott Williams made this mix, a trip around the world, exclusively for this podcast. Wicked cool. Enjoy!

Raised in Cornwall, residing in my building in Berlin, Scott Williams  DJ who takes listeners on phantasmagoric sonic adventures.

Keep up with Scott's work on Mixcloud. I know he digs this set and this one. This one here is mighty groovy too. 
Scott would have you watch the 2001 documentary Scratch for free on YouTube. He would also urge you to listen closely to Critical Beatdown by the Ultramagnetic Emcees.
If you're in Berlin, hit up Scotts fave record shops: Dodo Beach, Space Hall, and Lefte Records. If you're not in Berlin, Scott still thinks you should stopping thinking about it and just get a record player.

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Listen to the songs I composed and recorded about my guest on Season 7.
Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail.
Please hit that follow button and share the pod with your people.

As always, special thanks to Liv Hunt for logo design, Rotem Fisher for mastering audio, and Brian Trahan for music production and engineering. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. 

Be kind and stay healthy. Thank you for listening. 

This song is a meditation on a podcast conversation with poet and professor, Joshua Weiner. The lyrics are a version of a Osip Mandelstam poem, translated by Weiner. It features Marty Kondziolka on drums, Mark Kondziolka on sax, and is produced by Brian Trahan.

Poet and professor Joshua Weiner and I explore poetry and music, inspiration and translation, adventure and catharsis.

Keep up with Josh on his website, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Pick up his new book Flight and Metamorphosis, a collection by the poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs. The New York Times recommends it and so do I! Josh is on tour. Go see him live.

Diver deeper into  some of the poems we explore on the podcast: Casting Back, Paul van Ostaijen: Village, 1928 a version, Art Pepper, Mandelstam: Voronezh, 1935.
 
Josh might have you read the 1984 Village Voice interview with James Baldwin and urges you to watch the Apu Trilogy.

Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon.
Listen to the songs I composed and recorded about my guest on Season 7.
Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail.
Please hit that follow button and share the pod with your people.
As always, special thanks to Liv Hunt for logo design, Rotem Fisher for mastering audio, and Brian Trahan for music production and engineering. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. 

Be kind and stay healthy. Thank you for listening. 

Poet and professor Joshua Weiner and I explore poetry and music, inspiration and translation, adventure and catharsis.

Keep up with Josh on his website, on Twitter, and on Instagram. Pick up his new book Flight and Metamorphosis, a collection by the poet, dramatist, and Nobel laureate Nelly Sachs. The New York Times recommends it and so do I! Josh is on tour. Go see him live.

Diver deeper into  some of the poems we explore on the podcast: Casting Back, Paul van Ostaijen: Village, 1928 a version, Art Pepper, Mandelstam: Voronezh, 1935.
 
Josh might have you read the 1984 Village Voice interview with James Baldwin and urges you to watch the Apu Trilogy.

Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon.
Listen to the songs I composed and recorded about my guest on Season 7.
Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail.
Please hit that follow button and share the pod with your people.

As always, special thanks to Liv Hunt for logo design, Rotem Fisher for mastering audio, and Brian Trahan for music production and engineering. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. 

Be kind and stay healthy. Thank you for listening. 

Steve Berman is the Executive Vice President of Film Finances Inc. He guarantees that films are made on time and on budget.

Steve endorses the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, both because it may well be the finest piece of work ever made for television and because it is a profound meditation on leadership. 

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Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License.
Thanks to Liv Hunt for the logo design. 

Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening!

This less than masterful, whiskey-infused cover of the Dylan masterpiece is in dialogue with my conversation with conceptual artist and photographer, Sonya Naumann. Produced by Brian Trahan.

Sonya Naumann is a visual artist, photographer, professor, smartie pants and sweetie pie. The first time I met her she told me it's "Sonya, like lasagna". Still is.

Explore Sonya's work at her website and follow her on Instagram. She recommends Dylan's Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie and advises me to dive deep with her pal Laurel Snyder.

Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon.
Listen to the songs I composed and recorded about my guest on Season 7.
Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail.
Please hit that follow button and share the pod with your people.

As always, special thanks to Liv Hunt for logo design, Rotem Fisher for mastering audio, and Brian Trahan for music production and engineering.

Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. 

Be kind and stay healthy. Thank you for listening. 

Brian Trahan is a music producer, audio engineer, and composer. He is also an accomplished pianist and singer. He is brings people together, obsesses with and for them, creates empathic spaces for deep listening, and spreads love.

Learn more about Brian here and follow him on Instagram. Dive into Brian's music on Spotify or wherever you get music. You can also explore his artist playlist. Get into more Daniel Cherote and Kelsey Brae. And check out Phoebe Bridgers' Halloween. 

Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon.
Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail [dot] com.
Please hit that follow button and share the pod with your people.

As always, special thanks to Liv Hunt for logo design, Rotem Fisher for mastering audio, and Brian Trahan for music production and engineering.

Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. 

Be kind and stay healthy. Thank you for listening.