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. 

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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. 

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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.

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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. 
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• Listen to the songs I composed and recorded about my conversations with artists on Season 7.
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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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Jacob Veit  Mueller makes violins, violas, and cellos in Berlin.

Check out Jacob's website to learn more. Perhaps follow him on Insta. 

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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. 

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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.

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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. 

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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 Explosion
II. No Essential Mysteries
III. The Hand Holds Tight the Line
IV. 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.  

Committed to compassion and community, David Jacobson is the founder of Chicago Jewish Funerals. He cares for the deceased and comforts the mourners. 

• Learn more about David's work at Chicago Jewish Funerals and feel free to further explore Jewish funeral traditions, such as Shiva. 
• David briefly mentioned a charity he founded to bury indigent people. 
• David wisely urges us all have mentors and to be mentors. It's never too late! 

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Mike Lewin is the owner and crew chief at Professional Awesome Racing.

Check out the Professional Awesome team here. Need more Lewin? Listen to Hypercritical, the PA podcast. Here is their car screaming at Buttonwillow. Here is Mike demonstrating the splitter support rods he discussed in our podcast conversation. 

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Dr. Patrick Baker is a translator, subtitler, and language consultant.

Learn more about Patrick on his website. Perhaps peruse his robust academic CV. 

Per our conversation, Patrick invites you to explore:

• J.S. Bach's Art of the Fugue. 
• The compelling art of his brilliant wife, Katrin Grote-Baker. 
• The translation work of his distinguished neighbors, Heather Kimber and Nathan Fritz. 
• William Weaver, who is Patrick's North Star for translation. If you're reading Humberto Eco in English, you're also reading Weaver. 
• Hobbes' translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. 
• Der Morgen der Welt: Geschichte der Renaissance by Bernd Roeck. Or, maybe better yet, wait for the forthcoming English translation!
• All for Nothing by Walter Kempowski, who died on the same day and at the same hospital where Patrick's daughter was born. One day Patrick might translate this. 

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Jonathan Trozzolo sells Omega watches and supports clients at the KaDeWe Boutique on Berlin's KuDamm.

In thinking of time, JT heartily encourages you to read history! In particular, he urges you towards Mary Beard's acclaimed history of Ancient Rome, SPQR. You can hear her discuss her work at the 92nd St. Y.

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Steve Dye is the founding pastor at the CrossWay International Baptist Church in Berlin, Germany.

Since you might not get to the shag bark hickory tree on the northeast corner of the family farm in Ohio, Steve would urge you to think about Psalm 1:3 specifically, and nurturing community more broadly. 

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Chasity Crisp is a singer and an actress, currently playing Angelica Schuyler in the German production of Hamilton.

Learn more about Chasity on her website. Follow her on Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. The German cast of Hamilton was featured in Vogue.  The translation of Hamilton from English to German was explored by Michael Paulson for The New York Times. Chasity urges you to read Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. 

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