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For a Living is taking an indefinite hiatus. I might post episodes sporadically. I might even roll out Season 11 in 2024. I'm grappling with all this as I type these very words. We'll see. For now, I just want to thank all of you who have been listening and supporting this project. This podcast and your support has made my world a better place.  Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. Listen to my my music over here and all my other projects are here. Get in touch on Insta, Facebook, or podcastforaliving [at] gmail.  Never too late to hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your people.  Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Stefania Arzamendia is an integrative humanistic psychotherapist and holistic health coach.  She grounds her work in Transactional Analysis, Gestalt therapy, and Compassionate Inquiry. She also prepares clients for ayahuasca experiences and guides them through the integration of psychedelic journeys. She also happens to be my therapist. Stefi encourages you to dive into the work of Dr. Gabor Mate and to explore the wildlife and the wildflowers  For a Living is taking an indefinite hiatus. I might post episodes sporadically. I might even roll out Season 11 in 2024. I'm grappling with all this as I type these very words. We'll see. For now, I just want to thank all of you who have been listening and supporting this project. This podcast and your support has made my world a better place.  Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon. Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. All my other projects are over here. Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your people. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License.Thanks to Liv Hunt for the logo design.  Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Mike Pesca is an award winning journalist, NPR legend, book author, substacker, and host of The Gist. Listen to The Gist every weekday. Follow Mike on Substack. Read his rollicking book on sports what ifs. Mike and I discussed many things, including:  His his interviews with Virginia Sole Smith, Rainn Wilson, and Leon Neyfakh. His appreciation for The Colin McEnroe Show, WTF with Marc Maron, Conversations With Coleman Hughes, Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air, Savage Lovecast, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, and On the Media. For the record, if there were six faces on Mt. Rushmore, I might just enshrine Sean Evans and Neil Brennan, both of whom are pursuing innovative interview approaches. Mike recommends you read American Pastimes: The Very Best of Red Smith. Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon. Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. All my other projects are over here. Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your people. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License.Thanks to Liv Hunt for the logo design.  Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Friends of the Pod weigh in for a short, kinda beautiful meditation on Labor Day. Celebrate with us!  This episode is brought to you by our friends at Cookies and Carnitas who urge you to check out Mango Pickle. Dig our explorations of working lives? Please show your support at Patreon. Listen to the songs I composed and recorded about my conversations with artists on Season 7.Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow button and share the pod with your people.Special thanks to Liv Hunt for our logo design.  Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License.  ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Steve Berman is the Executive Vice President of Film Finances Inc. He guarantees that films are made on time and on budget. Steve endorses the HBO mini-series Band of Brothers, both because it may well be the finest piece of work ever made for television and because it is a profound meditation on leadership.  Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon. Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. All my other projects are over here. Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your people. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License.Thanks to Liv Hunt for the logo design.  Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hugh Williamson is the Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division of Human Rights Watch.  Check out...-Hugh's website and his writing for Human Rights Watch -A collection of Hugh's writing and speaking about worker priests -The 1982 film, The Missing. Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon. Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. All my other projects are over here. Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your people. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License.Thanks to Liv Hunt for the logo design.  Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Dr. Tiffany Florvil is an historian focusing on histories of post-1945 Europe, the African diaspora, social movements, Black internationalism, gender and sexuality. It's intersectional, international, transnational work.  Check out Tiffany's website where you can check out her robust CV. perhaps follow her on Twitter @tnflorvil. We discussed Mobilizing Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the Making of a Transnational Movement and Rethinking Black German Studies: Approaches, Interventions and Histories and alluded to various projects in process. Tiffany mentioned many important intellectuals, "quotidian" and otherwise, including: May Ayim, Claudia Jones, Audre Lorde, and Shirley Graham Dubois. We also discussed Die Initiative Schwarze Menschen in Deutschland Bund e.V (The Initiative Black People in Germany). Tiffany urges you to read Showing Our Colors: Afro-German Women Speak Out.  Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon. Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. All my other projects are over here. Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your people. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License.Thanks to Liv Hunt for the logo design.  Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Jacob Veit  Mueller makes violins, violas, and cellos in Berlin. Check out Jacob's website to learn more. Perhaps follow him on Insta.  Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon. Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. All my other projects are over here. Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your people. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License.Thanks to Liv Hunt for the logo design.  Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Walter Rothschild is a rabbi, a storyteller, an author, and a railway enthusiast. I urge you to explore Walter's website. It is rich with his writing, song, and storytelling. Our man contains multitudes.  Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon. Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. All my other projects are over here. Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your people. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License.Thanks to Liv Hunt for the logo design.  Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Karen Waples is an educator, an AP Consultant, and a textbook author. We discuss her new textbook, Comparative Government and Politics: Stories of the World. Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon. Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. All my other projects are over here. Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your people. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License.Thanks to Liv Hunt for the logo design.  Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Eric Pan is a composer, pianist, and storyteller.  Here is Eric's website. Follow his riveting Insta account @pandelic. Explore his music on Spotify, Soundcloud, on YouTube,  or wherever you stream. We listened to Twilight Far and Oak Island. I dig Turtle on the Moon. Take journeys with him on his Substack. Eric urges you to read The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World and Effortless Mastery. Do you enjoy these explorations of working lives? Please support this project on Patreon. Check out my free weekly newsletter, The Sabbateur. All my other projects are over here. Get in touch on Insta, Twitter, Facebook, or at podcastforaliving [at] gmail. Please hit that follow/subscribe button, leave a review, and share the pod with your people. Our theme song is Nile's Blues by Kevin MacLeod, licensed under Creative Commons by an Attribution 4.0 License. Thanks to Liv Hunt for the logo design.  Please take good care of yourself. Thank you for listening! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Each Petal a Portal is a four-part composition arranged and performed by Daniel Lazar and Brian Trahan. The lyrics are selected from various poems by Joshua Weiner. I. Beneath the Dogwood’s White ExplosionII. No Essential Mysteries III. The Hand Holds Tight the LineIV. No Hand, No Hold The composition was recorded at Funkhaus studios in Berlin and produced by Bran Trahan. Brian and Joshua were both on Season 7 of For a Living. Here is my conversation with Brian and here with Joshua.   ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★