This Podcast Will Change Your Life.
369 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis 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, Episode One Hundred and Sixty-Four - Way Quicker, And Much More Leisurely.
September 03, 2017 00:32 - 49 minutes - 17.1 MBThis episode stars Garret Schuelke (ANAMAKEE, Whup Jamboree). It was recorded while walking north on LaSalle Street in Chicago, IL in June 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Sixty-Three - Your Way Is Your Way.
August 17, 2017 04:04 - 57 minutes - 19.6 MBThis episode stars Michael Wayne Hampton (Bad Kids from Good Schools, Roller Girls Love Bobby Knight). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Hampton's home in Cincinnati, OH in June 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Sixty-Two - Be Useful.
August 04, 2017 01:31 - 50 minutes - 17.3 MBThis episode stars Lori Jakiela (Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work and the Writing Life, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth, Maybe). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life Hampton Inn satellite office in West Bloomfield, MI and Jakiela's home in Trafford, PA in August 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Sixty-One - Gathering Coherence.
July 24, 2017 02:02 - 56 minutes - 19.4 MBThis episode stars Bill Yarrow (The Vig of Love, We All Saw it Coming). It was recorded in Chicago, IL at Revival Food Hall in May 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2017 Edition Part VII - Drink Culture.
July 03, 2017 03:36 - 45 minutes - 15.6 MBThis episode stars Sam Slaughter (God in Neon, When You Cross That Line, The Manual). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2017 Edition Part VI - Fantastical.
June 19, 2017 03:46 - 46 minutes - 16 MBThis episode stars Sequoia Nagamatsu (Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2017 Edition Part V - In-Betweenness.
June 04, 2017 06:01 - 45 minutes - 15.5 MBThis episode stars Shaindel Beers (A Brief History of Time, The Children's War). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Fifty-Seven - Inexplicable.
May 16, 2017 02:33 - 53 minutes - 18.3 MBThis episode stars Seth Berg (Muted Lines from Someone Else's Memory, Aviary). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Berg's home in Minneapolis, MN in April 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Fifty-Six - I Am Home.
May 02, 2017 01:41 - 52 minutes - 18.2 MBThis episode stars Joshua Mohr (Some Things That Meant the World to Me, Fight Song, Sirens). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and some random Airbnb in Boston, MA in March 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Fifty-Five - A Lot Of Understanding.
April 17, 2017 23:51 - 1 hour - 21 MBThis episode stars Kara Vernor (Because I Wanted to Write You a Pop Song). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Vernor's home in Napa, CA in March 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2017 Edition Part IV - Beautifully Wrought.
April 03, 2017 02:07 - 48 minutes - 16.7 MBThis episode stars W. Todd Kaneko (The Dead Wrestler Elegies). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2017 Edition Part III - Gesticulating Madly.
March 15, 2017 05:03 - 44 minutes - 15.4 MBThis episode stars Melissa Faliveno (Ampersand: The Poets & Writers Podcast). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Fifty-Two - A Warm Up For Life.
March 02, 2017 22:39 - 1 hour - 21.5 MBThis episode stars Rick Kogan (Chicago Tribune, After Hours with Rick Kogan, A Chicago Tavern: A Goat, a curse and the American Dream). It was recorded in Chicago, IL at the Billy Goat Tavern in March 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2017 Edition Part II - An Interesting Experiment.
February 19, 2017 16:46 - 40 minutes - 14 MBThis episode stars Wendy C. Ortiz (Excavation: A Memoir, Hollywood Notebook, Bruja). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2017 Edition Part I - Kinda Cool.
February 13, 2017 02:33 - 49 minutes - 16.9 MBThis episode stars Donald Quist (Harbors). It was recorded in Washington, DC at AWP in February 2017.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Forty-Nine - Weird Tree Limbs.
January 16, 2017 04:42 - 1 hour - 21.2 MBThis episode stars Steve Lafler (Mean Cat, Dog Boy, Bughouse). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Lafler's home in Santa Rosa, CA in December 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Forty-Eight - Quasi-Punk.
January 04, 2017 00:50 - 1 hour - 21 MBThis episode stars Dane Bahr (Dock Street Press, The Story Project podcasts). It was recorded driving somewhere along 84 East from Portland, OR to Boise, ID in August 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Forty-Seven - All Me.
December 16, 2016 02:38 - 48 minutes - 16.7 MBThis episode stars Cory Martin (Love Sick, Write Out Publishing). It was recorded over the Skype between the This Blog Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Martin's home in Venice Beach, CA* in December 2016. *Unquestionably the greatest place in the world, despite our 14 year-old's protestations to the contrary.
This Commercial for This Handbook Will Change Your Life 001 - TACOS by the Cyn Vargas Will Change Your Life.
December 04, 2016 17:30 - 21 minutes - 7.48 MBThis Commercial for This Handbook Will Change Your Life 001 - TACOS* by the Cyn Vargas Will Change Your Life was recorded in The Chase Tower Food Court in Chicago, IL in December 2016. * This Handbook Will Change Your Life 001 - TACOS is coming soon though you should not hesitate to pre-order now thank you (www.changeyourlifethiswill.com/001-tacos).
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Forty-Six - Big Ideas.
December 02, 2016 05:14 - 56 minutes - 19.5 MBThis episode stars Gint Aras (The Fugue, Finding the Moon in Sugar). It was recorded in Chicago, IL in the Winter Garden at the Harold Washington Library in November 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Forty-Five - Victory.
November 19, 2016 23:01 - 45 minutes - 15.5 MBThis episode stars Alice Kaltman (Staggerwing) and includes an unplanned guest appearance from the quite fab visual artist Rob Funderburk. It was recorded in Chicago, IL at the Chicago Book Expo, which was being held at Columbia College, in November 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Forty-Four - You Never Met My Mother.
November 01, 2016 06:16 - 49 minutes - 16.8 MBThis episode stars Len Kuntz (I'm Not Supposed To Be Here and Neither Are You). It was recorded in Seattle, WA at the home of Dane Bahr and Dock Street Press in August 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Forty-Three - In Motion.
October 16, 2016 23:31 - 48 minutes - 16.6 MBThis episode stars Masande Ntshanga (The Reactive). It was recorded in Chicago, IL at Revival Food Hall in September 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2016 Edition Part VI - Being Wanted.
October 02, 2016 17:00 - 44 minutes - 5.04 MBThis episode stars Chris Tarry (How To Carry Bigfoot Home). Not Chris L. Terry. It was recorded in Los Angeles, CA at AWP in March 2016 and wraps-up our series of AWP 2016 podcasts.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Forty-One - Semi-Plausible.
September 15, 2016 22:28 - 56 minutes - 19.5 MBThis episode stars Leland Cheuk (The Misadventures of Sulliver Pong, Letters from Dinosaurs). It was recorded in Chicago, IL in the lobby of the Allegro Hotel in July 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Forty - The Beauty And The Horror.
September 01, 2016 05:24 - 1 hour - 23.1 MBThis episode stars Susan Messing (Messing With a Friend, The Real Live Brady Bunch). It was recorded in Chicago, IL on the back porch and in the kitchen of Susan Messing's house* in July 2016. *Please note, that it is quite possible that you will encounter a leaf blower around the sixteen minute mark and that said leaf blower may factor into the conversation for approximately two minutes.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2016 Edition Part V - Patron Saint.
August 18, 2016 00:34 - 38 minutes - 4.41 MBThis episode stars Alex Kudera (Auggie's Revenge, Fight for Your Long Day). It was recorded in Los Angeles, CA at AWP in March 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Thirty-Eight - Good Company.
August 02, 2016 02:45 - 46 minutes - 16 MBThis episode stars Zoe Zolbrod (Currency, The Telling). It was recorded at the 2016 Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago, IL in June 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Thirty-Seven - Uncommon.
July 17, 2016 16:14 - 1 hour - 30.1 MBThis episode stars Eric Spitznagel (Fast Forward, Old Records Never Die). It was recorded at the 2016 Printers Row Lit Fest in Chicago, IL in June 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Thirty-Six - Still Mic'd.
July 03, 2016 03:44 - 1 hour - 6.91 MBThis episode stars Christine Maul Rice (Swarm Theory, Hypertext Magazine). It was recorded at the Bourgeois Pig Cafe in Chicago, IL in May 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2016 Edition Part IV - Dreamer.
June 15, 2016 23:14 - 46 minutes - 5.37 MBThis episode stars Gabino Iglesias (Zero Saints, Gutmouth). It was recorded in Los Angeles, CA at AWP in March 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2016 Edition Part III - Not Sweating.
June 03, 2016 07:25 - 50 minutes - 5.76 MBThis episode stars Kali VanBaale, Mathieu Cailler and Vanessa Blakeslee (The Good Divide, Loss Angeles and Juventud respectively). It was recorded in Los Angeles, CA at AWP (and Riordan's Tavern) in March 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Thirty-Three - The Prince of Darkness.
May 16, 2016 06:46 - 1 hour - 7.22 MBThis episode stars Alan Heathcock (Volt). It was recorded at the Saint Lawrence Gridiron in Boise, ID in March 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2016 Edition Part II - Alien Intelligence.
May 04, 2016 00:56 - 51 minutes - 5.85 MBThis episode stars Anthony Michael Morena (The Voyager Record A Transmission). It was recorded in Los Angeles, CA at AWP in March 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, The AWP 2016 Edition Part I - Not An Atonement.
April 15, 2016 19:35 - 56 minutes - 6.41 MBThis episode stars David Olimpio (This Is Not A Confession). It was recorded in Los Angeles, CA at AWP in March 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Thirty - This Is A Package Deal.
April 04, 2016 23:29 - 44 minutes - 5.05 MBThis episode stars Aubrie Cox and Jim Warner (Citizen Lit). It was recorded at the East Quad at the Voices of the Middle West 2016 conference in Ann Arbor, MI in March 2016.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Nine - Know Yourself.
March 22, 2016 13:10 - 1 hour - 7.06 MBThis episode stars Robert Vaughan (Microtones, Addicts & Basements, Rift). It was recorded in the hotel bar at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago in Chicago, IL in March 2015.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Eight - Making Stuff.
March 06, 2016 05:15 - 54 minutes - 6.29 MBThis episode stars Brian Alan Ellis and Bud Smith (King Shit, Tables Without Chairs #1, F250, House of Vlad, Unknown Press). It was recorded* over the Skype between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Ellis' home in Tallahassee, FL Smith's home in Washington Height, NY in February 2016. *With apologies for the glitchy volume during the first several minutes. It gets addressed. Promise.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Seven - Let Them Tell You No.
February 15, 2016 07:23 - 57 minutes - 6.56 MBThis episode stars Keidra Chaney (The Learned Fangirl). It was recorded at GePaDe Caffe in Chicago, IL in December 2015.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Six - No One Cares More Than You.
February 02, 2016 22:47 - 40 minutes - 4.58 MBThis episode stars Steve Karas (Kind Sorta America Dream). It was recorded walking around the Loop in a quite chilly Chicago, IL in December 2015.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Five - Kind Of Upsetting.
January 24, 2016 01:56 - 1 hour - 7.81 MBThis episode stars Duncan MacKenzie (Bad at Sports, Citizen Brick). It was recorded at Columbia College in Chicago, IL in December 2015.
"This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Four - A Lot Of Misfit."
January 03, 2016 05:23 - 48 minutes - 5.56 MBThis episode stars Mel Bosworth and Ryan Ridge (Camouflage Country, Freight, American Homes, Small Press Book Review, Juked). It was recorded over the Skype between the TBWCYL, Inc. corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Bosworth's home in Northhampton, MA and Ridge's home in Louisville, KY in December 2015.
"This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Three - I'm Going To Get My Voice Out There."
December 17, 2015 19:57 - 55 minutes - 6.39 MBThis episode stars Amy Guth (Three Fallen Women, WGN Radio, Strangewaze, The Op-Ed Project Public Voices Fellowship and much, much more). It was recorded at GePaDe Caffe in Chicago, IL in November 2015.
"This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-Two - We Build Community."
December 03, 2015 16:13 - 52 minutes - 6.05 MBThis episode stars John "Johnny Misfit" Wawrzaszek (CHIPRC, Chicago Zine Fest, Two Cookie Minimum). It was recorded in Chicago, IL in the Winter Garden at the Harold Washington Library in December 2015.
"This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty-One - Slow And Steady."
November 16, 2015 02:49 - 36 minutes - 4.13 MBThis episode stars Jerry Brennan (Tortoise Books, Resistance, Project Genesis). It was recorded at Oasis Cafe in Chicago, IL in November 2015.
"This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Twenty - Laser Focus."
November 01, 2015 22:18 - 53 minutes - 6.08 MBThis episode stars Wendy C. Ortiz (Excavation, Hollywood Notebook). It was recorded over the Skype between the TBWCYL, Inc. corporate offices in Chicago, IL and Ortiz's home in Los Angeles, CA in September 2015.
"This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Nineteen - Positively Disruptive."
October 16, 2015 19:44 - 49 minutes - 5.63 MBThis episode stars Christian Picciolini (Romantic Violence - Memoirs of an American Skinhead). It was recorded at Soho House Chicago in Chicago, IL in August 2015.
"This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Eighteen - Not My Dad."
October 01, 2015 15:45 - 49 minutes - 5.62 MBThis episode stars Rachel Slotnick (In Lieu of Flowers). It was recorded at Trader Vic's in Chicago, IL in August 2015.
"This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Seventeen - Artist First."
September 17, 2015 15:31 - 26 minutes - 3.02 MBThis episode stars RA Washington (Guide To Kulchur, Citi). It was recorded at Guide To Kulchure in Cleveland, OH in July 2015.
"This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode One Hundred and Sixteen - Don't Be An Asshole."
September 01, 2015 06:14 - 49 minutes - 5.67 MBThis episode stars Jennifer Pastiloff (The Manifest-Station). It was recorded at GePaDe Caffe in Chicago, IL in August 2015.