For a Living
Committed to empathic engagement, For a Living explores working lives. I am humbled by the support of my listeners and grateful to my guests, who have been vulnerable, reflective, and insightful.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 61 minutes
- Episodes
- 112
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
Medicine Woman Jocelyn Gonzalez Guides Us
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 …
ICU Nurse Edlyn Bauzon Saves Lives
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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Hip Cat Jeff Guzak, Attorney At Paw
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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King of Martin Luthiers, Dan Wolf
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 …
No Bull with Coach Kim Greenstein
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…
Joe Leto Has Magic Hands
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…
Chit Happens with Jana John, Yoga Teacher
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…
The Internet c/o Scott Robbin
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.
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Pale [M]Ale, Todd Space Teaches Brewing
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…
Brad Newman, Food Fighter
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 st…
Eric Spencer Delivers
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 th…
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