This Podcast Will Change Your Life.

T h i s e p i s o d e o f This Podcast Will Change Your Life s t a r s Mallory Smart ( Book of David, I Keep My Visions to Myself, The Only Living Girl in Chicago, Maudlin House ) . I t w a s r e c o r d e d o v e r t h e Z o o m b e t w e e n t h e T h i s P o d c a s t W i l l C h a n g e Y o u r L i f e h o m e s t u d i o i n C h i c a g o , I L a n d wherever Smart was hunkered down in Bulgar...

This episode of This Podcast Will Change Your Life stars Keith Koeneman ( Paternity, A Novel, F i r s t S o n : T h e B i o g r a p h y o f R i c h a r d M . D a l e y ). It was recorded in-person (in-person!) at Koeneman's 1872 (1872!) Lincoln Park home in September 2026. 

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 home office in Portugal, yes that Portugal, in August 2026. 

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 recorded over the Zoom between the This Podcast Will Change Your Life home studio in Chicago, IL and Elli...

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 office in August 2026. 

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 office in July 2026. 

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. 

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. 

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 Masciotra's home office in The Hoosier State in June 2026. 

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. 

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. 

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 Chicagoland in April 2026. 

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.

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 Chicago, IL and Lafler's family compound in Northern California in March 2026.

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 of Research The Podcast's home studio, which can be found somewhere in the Hoosier state in January 20...

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 be found in the general vicinity of the Cumberland Gap in January 2026.

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. 

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. 

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 home in December 2025. 

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 office in greater Philadelphialand in November 2025.  *Do note, that this is a rare three-episode month...

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 Goodwill in October 2025. 

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. 

T h i s e p i s o d e o f T h i s P o d c a s t W i l l C h a n g e Y o u r L i f e s t a r s Denton Loving ( Feller, Tamp, Crimes Against Birds ) . I t w a s r e c o r d e d o v e r t h e Z o o m b e t w e e n t h e T h i s P o d c a s t W i l l C h a n g e Y o u r L i f e h o m e s t u d i o i n C h i c a g o , I L a n d Loving's farm near the historic Cumberland Gap i n S e p t e m b e r 2 0 2...

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.

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.