For a Living

Season 5 launches next week. Wanna hear what's in store for ya? 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 and Rotem Fisher for mastering audio. Our theme...

I welcome three Patrons to explore the pod. Big thanks to Lorri Hofer, Richard Schwartz, and Scott Robbin for their support!  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 fo...

This is Dave's Lab .  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 and Rotem Fisher for mastering audio. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod , li...

The Reverend Billy Simmons and his partner in life and in work Amanda Simmons share the story and the mission of their punky, funky, and downright rockin' salon on Chicago’s north side. Visit the good Reverend and Amanda here . Check out their work on Insta .  Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon . Get in touch on Insta , Twitter , Facebook , or at podcastfora...

Jason Teplitz is a cybersecurity expert and a sales engineering manager. His team makes hospitals, schools, governments, businesses, and elections more secure. 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 alw...

To launch our new series, ¡StudZ'ShortZ!, we welcome internationally acclaimed certified pet funeral celebrant, Howard Maple. Dr. Maple brings pets into the afterlife with the dignity they deserve. He is a legend in the field. Tune in and you'll see why. Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon . Get in touch on Insta , Twitter , Facebook , or at podcastforaliving...

Guiomar Mendieta MD, PHD is a Cardiologist with a specialty in Ischemic heart disease. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at CNIC in Madrid and is studying epidemiology in London. 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...

Hayden Holbert is a regenerative farmer in Ripon, Wisconsin. He is young and innovative, clever and kind. He works assiduously to raise livestock, support plant life, and create community. This is Avrom Farms . This is Hayden's band, The Blisters (right? I told ya. Serious stuff).  Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon . Get in touch on Insta , Twitter , Facebo...

Richard Schwartz is Head of TV at Olive Bridge Entertainment and a splendid fella. His productions include the Rose D'Or winning comedy WOKE for Hulu, DGA Award-winning docuseries ENCORE! for Disney+, Annie Award-nominated MOONBEAM CITY for Comedy Central, Golden Globe-nominated MICHAEL J. FOX SHOW for NBC, Netflix global Top 10 hit SNEAKERHEADS, sitcom THE McCARTHYS for CBS. Dig our explorations...

Eric Lindberg is a comedian who has been working the Chicago scene for over two decades. He walks us along his meteoric rise and agonizing fall of his high risk, high reward gamble as a mentalist. And he makes us laugh when we need it most! Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon . Get in touch on Insta , Twitter , Facebook , or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail [d...

Dria Dore is a stripper and a world class burlesque dancer. She lays it bare, taking us for a couple turns around the stripper pole. As a Black woman who refuses to countenance being boxed in, Dria has developed some hard-earned wisdom about the intersectionality of race, gender, and respectability politics. Let's take a skinny dip (or a chunky dunk) into Season 4! Check Dria out at: Aero Space in...

Season 4 launches next week. Wanna hear what's in store for ya? Take a sneak peek... 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 and Rotem Fisher for master...

Patrons Patrick Baker, Todd Greenstein, and Laura Stevens talk all things Studs. We look back on seasons past and think about how the pod might evolve. 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, spe...

Jill Beytin and Julia Joubert are, respectively, the CEO and Creative Director of Bear Radio, Berlin's English-speaking podcasting network and community. Check out JFKS IDEAS and a panoply of killer podcasts over at Bear Radio . 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. Ple...

Brad Lazar is a Certified Financial Planner, an all-around good fella, and much to his chagrin, my brother. 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 and...

Michał Mroziński is a nurse, an advocate, a philosopher, and a stickler. He stands for and with those in need. Here is the MLK project that both grounded and lifted me this week. 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...

Julie Stewart is an Assistant United States Attorney, working her dream job, pursuing truth, justice, and the American Way. 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...

Kierra Jackson is a nurse-midwife. She brings life into the world! 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 and Rotem Fisher for mastering audio. Our the...

Jason is an Engineer Operator at the Houston Fire Department. He's also a solid fella. 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 and Rotem Fisher for mast...

Todd owns and operates a small business that has evolved from providing Santa and Easter services to malls to offering train rides around the mall to kids. 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,...

The real Sausage King of Chicago, Jimmy Phototopolous discusses the joys and challenges of three decades of owning and operating a Chicagoland hot dog stand. If you are in the neighborhood be sure to visit Photos . 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 f...

Ryan is an HVAC technician who has become a jack of all trades. He discusses how he patiently puzzles through complicated problems and he shares the pleasures and problems of being a one-man operation. 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...

Shana Burns is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Forensics Services Manager. She dives into her clinical work with substance abuse victims as well as with high risk sex offenders. She also discusses how and why she transitioned to leadership. Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon . Get in touch on Insta , Twitter , Facebook , or at podcastforalivin...

Cortney is a chef, author, entrepreneur, and spiritual guide. Food is her language to talk about other things. Learn more about Cortney at her website and on Insta .  Subscribe. Leave a comment. Want to recommend a guest? Email me . Our theme song is "Nile's Blues" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com). Licensed under Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 License . Special thanks to Rotem Steinberg for...

Jonny (aka DJ Jonny Shiitake) discusses the Portland strip club scene unique and how he carved his role in a community committed to catharsis. Want more Jonny? Check out his Insta . 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 wi...