This Podcast Will Change Your Life.
by Ben Tanzer
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.
Episodes
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life is very special Stickman release day episode, also known as Episode Three Hundred and Ninety-Four - Something Of A Redemption.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Jihoon Park (Stickman) on Pub Day for his debut novel Stickman. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Park's northern Californian home, in September 2026.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Ninety-Three - There's So Much More Going On.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Mallory Smart (Book of David, I Keep My Visions to Myself, The Only Living Girl in Chicago, Maudlin House). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and wherever Smart was...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Ninety-Two - How Life Is.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Keith Koeneman (Paternity, A Novel, First Son: The Biography of Richard M. Daley). It was recorded in-person (in-person!) at Koeneman's 1872 (1872!) Lincoln Park home in September 2026.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life is very special The Shitbird release day episode, also known as Episode Three Hundred and Ninety-One - The Good Stuff Speaks To Me.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Spencer Fleury (I Blame Myself But Also You, How I'm Spending My Afterlife) on Pub Day for his new book The Shitbird. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Fleury's new...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Ninety - You Can Make Your Own Path.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Brian Alan Ellis (House of Vlad Press, A Series of Pained Facial Expressions Made While Shredding Air Guitar: Poems, Observations, Lists, Letters, Notes, Bullshit Aphorisms and General Tales of Ordinary Crabbiness & so much more). It was...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Eighty-Nine - How These Things Come To Pass.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Dan Taberski (Manifesto, Running from COPS, Missing Richard Simmons & many, many other fine podcasts). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Taberski's Empire City home...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Eighty-Eight - It's Not Going To Happen To Me.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Liz Scott, Ph.D (You're Going To Die But Not Me!, Love Life: Confessions of a Psychologist, This Never Happened). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Scott's PDX home...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Eighty-Seven - Stretches Of Time.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Vincent Chu (Nice Places & Like A Champion). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Chu's O-Town home office in July 2026.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Eighty-Six - Honor The Fractures.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Sara Lippmann (Hidden River, Lech, Jerks & many, many other fine works). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Lippmann's home office in the Borough of Kings in June 2026.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Eighty-Five - A Spirit Of Defiance.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars David Masciotra (Exurbia Now, I Am Somebody: Why Jesse Jackson Matters, Barack Obama: Invisible Man & many, many other fine works). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Eighty-Four - Bothered.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Bobby Miller (Situation Nowhere, The Cleanse, Critters Attack!). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Miller's home office in The City of Dreams in May 2026.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Eighty-Three - This Feels Creative.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Blake Kimzey (Writing Workshops). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Kimzey's home office in the Big D in May 2026.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Eighty-Two - Roadmapping A Thing.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Liz Mason and Keidra Chaney (Rough Draft with Keidra and Liz Podcast & so much more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Mason and Chaney's home offices in greater...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Eighty-One - It's Time For Another Book.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars G. Riley Mills (Synergy And Sparks, The Bullseye Principle, The Pin Drop Principle). It was recorded in-person at Pinnacle Performance Company's podcast studio in Chicago, IL in April 2026.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Eighty - Single-Minded.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Steve Lafler (Crazy for You, Death Plays a Mean Harmonica, 1956 Book One: Sweet Sweet Little Ramona, Bughouse & many, many other fine works). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in…
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-Nine - C'Mon, Have Fun.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Jotham Austin, II PhD, Nick Elizalde, and Georgia Geis (Rabbit Hole of Research The Podcast & lots of other cool stuff). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Rabbit Hole...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-Eight - The Most Famous Writer On Earth.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Patrick Wensink (The Great Black Swamp, Fake Fruit Factory, Broken Piano for President & many, many more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Wensink's home, which can...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-Seven - A Hint Of Delight.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Deborah Shapiro (Watching the Detective, Consolation, B-Side Editions). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Shapiro's Chicagoland home in January 2026.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-Six - A Better Place.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Lucie Frost (How The Hell Did I Not Know That?). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Frost's Lone Star State home in December 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-Five - Landing On What We Really Want.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Tracey Gee (The Magic of Knowing What You Want: A Practical Guide to Unearthing the Wisdom of Your Desires). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Gee's City of Angels…
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-Four - Escape The Mundane.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life* stars Josh Dale (Thirty West Publishing House, The Light To Never Be Snuffed, Duality Lies Beneath). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Dale's Thirty West Publishing House...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-Three - Whatever We Can Do To Get There.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Peter Mountford (Detonator, The Dismal Science, A Young Man's Guide to Late Capitalism). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Mountford's home office in the City of...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-Two - Something To Connect To.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Shayne Terry (Leave: A Postpartum Account). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Terry's home in New York City's most populous borough in October 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy-One - An Echoing Effect.
This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Denton Loving (Feller, Tamp, Crimes Against Birds). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Loving's farm near the historic Cumberland Gap in September 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Seventy - Telling Truths.
This episode stars Joseph G. Peterson (The Perturbation of O, Memorandum from the Iowa Cloud Appreciation Society, Wanted: Elevator Man, Beautiful Piece & so many more). It was recorded in-person at the iconic Winter Garden at Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago, IL in September 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Nine - That Kind Of History.
This episode stars Maureen Aitken (The Patron Saint of Lost Girls). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and what was Aitken's home in Michigan or possibly Canada, our neighbors to the North, in September 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Eight - This Is Water.
This episode stars Katharine Coldiron (Out There in the Dark, Wire Mothers, Junk Film & many more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and what I believe is Coldiron's home, which just may be somewhere in The Golden State, in...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Seven - In Balance.
This episode stars M. M. De Voe (A Flash of Darkness, Book & Baby, Pen Parentis). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and De Voe's awesomely bookshelf'd Gotham City home in September 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Six - (Still) Always Hustling.
This episode stars Lee Matthew Goldberg (Miles in Time, The Great Gimmelmans, The Ancestor & many others). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Goldberg's Gotham City home in August 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Five - I'll Be Writing Until The End.
This episode stars Curtis Smith (Deaf Heaven, Communion, Bad Monkey & many others). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Smith's Keystone State home in July 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Four - Perpetual Motion Machine.
This episode stars Hosho McCreesh (Psalms from the Badlands, Chinese Gucci, A Deep & Gorgeous Thirst & many others). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and McCreesh's New Mexico compound in July 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Three - Animating Force.
This episode stars former (and forever) guest Giano Cromley (American Mythology, The Prince of Infinite Space, What We Build Upon the Ruins, The Last Good Halloween). It was recorded live and on a walk along Division Street in Chicago, IL that started and concluded at Rite Liquors in July 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-Two - In The Moment.
This episode stars Hannah Pittard (If You Love It, Let You Kill You, We Are Too Many & many others). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Pittard's home in Kentucky in June 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty-One - Unresolvable Paradoxes.
This episode stars Seth Rogoff (The Castle: A Novel, Smashing the Tablets: Radical Retellings of the Hebrew Bible, The Kirschbaum Lectures). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Kafka's (and Rogoff's now) home city of Prague…
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Sixty - The Message Within The Message.
This episode stars Dr. Stacey Diane Arañez Litam (Patterns That Remain: A Guide to Healing for Asian Children for Immigrants). It was recorded in-person at the Fairfield Inn & Suites Chicago Downtown* in April 2025. *Please do ignore the occasional outside noise, unlike the host and guest, there...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Nine - How Many Masterpieces Does Someone Have To Create (also known as the After Hours: Scorsese, Grief and the Grammar of Cinema edition).
This episode stars Judy and Adam Tanzer, the host's mother and brother respectively. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and their homes which are located in greater Philadelphia-land in April 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Eight - A Rich Life.
This episode stars Wendy C. Ortiz (Excavation: A Memoir; Hollywood Notebook, and Bruja: A Dreamoir) just as all three of her groundbreaking books have been simultaneously re-released. It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and…
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Seven - Always Bleeding.
This episode stars David Scott Hay ([NSFW], The Fountain). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Hay's home in the City of Angels in February 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Six - Surreal Moments.
This episode stars Ruben Quesada (Brutal Companion, Jane /La Segua, and more). It was recorded in-person and in the host's South Loop office in February 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Five - A Farewell To Kings.
This episode stars Kurt Baumeister (Twilight Of The Gods, Pax Americana). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Baumeister's home in greater Philadelphialand in February 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Four - Where Is This Train Going.
This episode stars Ignatius Valentine Aloysius & David Allen Sullivan (Salt Pruning, Fishhead: Republic of Want, Strong-Armed Angels). It was recorded in-person and in the host's South Loop office in January 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Three - I Wanted To Write The Book.
This episode stars Christine Marie Eberle (Finding God Along the Way, Finding God Abiding, Finding God In Ordinary Time). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Eberle's home in greater Philadelphialand in January 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-Two - A Really Fine Time.
This episode stars Cynthia Weiner (A Gorgeous Excitement). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Weiner's home town of New York City in January 2025.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty-One - To Outlast Doubt.
This episode stars Jeremy T. Wilson (The Quail Who Wears The Shirt, Adult Teeth). It was recorded in person at The Coffee Studio in Chicago, IL in October 2024.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Fifty - Trying To Write A Better World.
This Podcast Will Change Your Life is a most glorious year-end episode, as well as a quite glorious Three Hundred and Fiftieth episode, which stars the equally, and endlessly glorious Rachel Robbins (Sound of a Thousand Stars, In Lieu of Flowers). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Forty-Nine - A Musicality.
This episode stars Mathieu Cailler (Forest for the Trees, May I Have This Dance?, Loss Angeles & many, many more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Cailler's Loss Angeles home office in September 2024.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Forty-Eight - Making The Case.
This episode stars William Walsh (The Poets, Pathologies, Questionstruck & many, many more). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Walsh's Massachusetts' workplace in August 2024.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Forty-Seven - A Particular Truth.
This episode stars Ross McMeekin (Below the Falls, The Hummingbirds). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and McMeekin's Northwest home in August 2024.
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Forty-Six - Re-Learning.
This episode stars Anne Poirier (Not a Fat Annie, The Body Joyful). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Poirier's Sunshine State home in September 2024. We want to note that the episode is dropping today in honor of Body...
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This Podcast Will Change Your Life, Episode Three Hundred and Forty-Five - Headspace.
This episode stars Ben Lindner (Beyond The Zero podcast). It was recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Lindner's down under home studio in July 2024.
About this show
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.
Hosted by
Ben Tanzer