Best Steve Welty Podcasts (2025)

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Inside the Issue | "My Life, By Barbara Rosenberg," by Jordy Rosenberg 45:25

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Jordy Rosenberg reads his story “My Life, by Barbara Rosenberg,” from issue no. 253 (Fall 2025), told from the perspective of Barbara, a mother from Brooklyn who is ready to battle a corduroy blazer and the child who wants to wear it freely. This episode was produced by John DeLore, Lori Dorr, and Emily Stokes. The music used in this episode is “Ga…

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Personals | “I Got Snipped” 17:56

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Joseph Earl Thomas reads his essay “I Got Snipped: Notes after a Vasectomy,” about the best sexual decision he ever made. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed by John DeLore. Our theme song for this series is “Bryant Park and Ride,” composed and performed by David Cieri. Joseph Earl Thomas’s essay can be found…

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Personals | "Two Strip Clubs, Paris and New Hampshire" 20:57

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Lisa Carver reads an essay about visiting two strip clubs with her French husband: first the Moulin Rouge, then a dive bar in Bedford, New Hampshire. At the Moulin Rouge, she has a revelation: “Even though the women had naked boobies, they still looked like angels. I think angels do have naked boobies, now that I’ve seen this show.” This episode wa…

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Personals | “Wax and Gold and Gold," by Mihret Sibhat 18:07

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Mihret Sibhat reads her essay “Wax and Gold and Gold,” about a friendship she formed with a prostitute in Addis Ababa while attempting to teach her about Jesus. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed by John DeLore. Our theme song for this series is “Bryant Park and Ride,” composed and performed by David Cieri. …

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Personals | “What I Want to Say About Owning a Truck,” by J. D. Daniels 13:06

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“When people see your truck, they tend to see what you can do for them,” J. D. Daniels writes in his essay about a black Nissan hardbody pickup he owned many years ago. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed by John DeLore. Our theme song for this series is “Bryant Park and Ride,” composed and performed by David…

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Personals | “The Smoker,” by Ottessa Moshfegh 11:26

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Ottessa Moshfegh reads her essay “The Smoker,” about renovating a house soaked in nicotine—and a haunting encounter with its former owner. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song for this series is “Bryant Park and Ride,” composed and performed by David Cieri. Moshfegh's essay c…

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Trailer: The Paris Review presents "Personals," a new audio series 0:59

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“Personals” is a new audio series from The Paris Review, featuring writers reading first-person essays. Featuring essays from Ottessa Moshfegh, Mihret Sibhat, Joseph Earl Thomas, Lisa Carver, and J.D. Daniels. The series is produced by Sophie Haigney, Lori Dorr, Olivia Kan-Sperling, John DeLore, and Helena de Groot. Many thanks to our sponsor: MUBI…

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S4E12 | Concerning the Future of Souls, by Joy Williams 17:53

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The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams reads entries from “Concerning the Future of Souls” (issue no. 247, Spring 2024), a collection of stories following Azrael, the angel of death and transporter of souls. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed and sound-designed by John DeLore. Our t…

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S4E11 | Trial Run 37:51

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In Zach Williams’s “Trial Run” (issue no. 239, Spring 2022), an employee is subjected to two coworkers’ conspiracy theories when their office is targeted by an anonymous white supremacist hacker. The story is read by Michael Chernus, Danny Mastrogiorgio, and Gabriel Marin. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed …

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S4E10 | Foley’s Pond 8:54

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“We were thirteen and conspiratorial and what was said is now out of reach.” Jim Fletcher reads Peter Orner’s “Foley’s Pond” (issue no. 202, Fall 2012), a quietly devastating short story about the effects of a tragic accident on a boy and his community. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed and sound-designed b…

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S4E9 | “The Victim” by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki 30:05

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The legendary actor George Takei reads one of the oldest stories in the Review’s archive. Published by the magazine in 1957, “The Victim” is Ivan Morris’s English translation of the Japanese author Jun'ichirō Tanizaki’s 1910 literary debut. This episode was produced by John DeLore and Helena de Groot, and was mixed and sound-designed by John DeLore…

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S4E8 | The Walk Book 17:40

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Sean Thor Conroe shares entries from “The Walk Book”—his meticulous, funny travelogue about his 2014 attempt to walk across the United States—including some rain-soaked field recordings. This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore, and was sound-designed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season is “Shadow,” composed and perfo…

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S4E7 | Olga Tokarczuk’s Divine Cosmos 18:02

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The Nobel Prize–winning Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk discusses the souls of animals, discovering feminism, and her home in the village of Krajanów where she was once neighbors with “three different translators of William Blake in an excerpt from her Art of Fiction interview with Marta Figlerowicz. This episode was produced and sound-designed by Joh…

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S4E6 | About Ed 46:41

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“We needed erotic touch to tell us what we were.” Robert Glück reads from About Ed, a memoir about his relationship with his former partner Ed Aulerich-Sugai. The performance is paired with excerpts from his Art of Fiction interview with Lucy Ives. This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore, and was mixed and sound-designed by Hel…

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S4E5 | Scenes from an Open Marriage 36:28

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“Nothing reifies a romance like proximate disaster.” Seated at her kitchen table, Jean Garnett reads her essay “Scenes from an Open Marriage” and chats with the Review’s deputy editor, Lidija Haas, and senior producer of the podcast, Helena de Groot. This episode was produced, sound-designed, and mixed by Helena de Groot. Our theme song this season…

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S4E4 | Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait 10:58

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“The only colors we’re going to use will be blacker than most blacks. Mm-kay.” Terrance Hayes reads his poem, “Bob Ross Paints Your Portrait.” An homage to the iconic host of the PBS show The Joy of Painting, and an exploration of Blackness: “deep-space black, black-hole black … lampblack and ink black, boot black and blackjack and blacker.” This e…

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S4E3 | The I is Made of Paper 21:23

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Sharon Olds discusses sex, religion, and writing poems that "women were definitely not supposed to write,” in an excerpt from her Art of Poetry interview with Jessica Laser. Olds also reads three of her poems: “Sisters of Sexual Treasure” (issue no. 74, Fall–Winter 1978), “True Love,” and “The Easel.” This episode wa…

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S4E2 | The Same IKEA Bed 10:28

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A stealth poetry reading inside a bustling IKEA. Poet Maggie Millner reads her own poem (Issue no. 239, Spring 2022), as well as two more from the archive: Toi Dericotte’s “Bird” (Issue No. 124, Fall 1992) and Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Death” (Issue No. 82, Winter 1981). This episode was produced by Helena de Groot and John DeLore, and was sound-design…

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S4E1 | “This is Everything There Will Ever Be” by Rivers Solomon 34:52

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Actor, producer, and screenwriter Lena Waithe reads Rivers Solomon’s “This Is Everything There Will Ever Be,” which was published in issue no. 243 of the Review. The story, dark and uplifting by turns, is a portrait of “just another late-forties dyke entirely too into basketball, dogs, and memes.” This episode was produced and sound-designed by Hel…

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Season 4 Trailer: The Paris Review Podcast 2:16

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The Paris Review Podcast returns with a new season on November 15, 2023. Selections of interviews, fiction, essays, and poetry from America’s most legendary literary quarterly, brought to life in sound. Catch up now on earlier seasons & then tune in November 15th for the fourth season.By The Paris Review

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S3E5 | A Strange Way to Live (with Phoebe Bridgers, Connor Ratliff, Joan Didion, Natalie-Scenters Zapico, Bud Smith, Jericho Brown, Jessica Hecht, Avery Trufelman) 49:48

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Our Season 3 finale opens with “The Trick Is to Pretend,” a poem by Natalie Scenters-Zapico, read by the singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers: “I climb knowing the only way down / is by falling.” The actor Jessica Hecht plays Joan Didion in a reenactment of her classic Art of Fiction interview with Linda Kuehl. Jericho Brown reads his poem “Hero”: “my…

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S3E4 | Form and Formlessness (with Rachel Cusk, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Allan Gurganus, Deborah Landau) 44:20

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In an essay specially commissioned for the podcast, Aisha Sabatini Sloan describes rambling around Paris with her father, Lester Sloan, a longtime staff photographer for Newsweek, and a glamorous woman who befriends them. In an excerpt from The Art of Fiction no. 246, Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti discuss how writing her first novel helped Cusk disco…

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S3E3 | Without Malice, Without Triumph (with Edward P Jones, Hilton Als, Amber Gray) 49:48

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This episode focuses exclusively on the work of fiction writer Edward P. Jones, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Known World and All Aunt Hagar’s Children, and subject of the Art of Fiction no. 222. The episode opens with an excerpt from that interview, a conversation between Jones and Hilton Als. Then actor Amber Gray (Hadestown) reads Jones’s…

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S3E2 | A Gift for Burning (with Monica Youn, Molly McCully Brown, Venita Blackburn, George Saunders) 34:32

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George Saunders, in an excerpt from his Art of Fiction interview, explains how his teenage job delivering fast food prepared him to write fiction; Monica Youn reads her poem “Goldacre,” which tells the truth about Twinkies; Molly McCully Brown reads her essay “If You Are Permanently Lost,” in which she confesses that “space makes no sense”; and Ven…

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S3E1 | A Memory of the Species (with Robert Frost, Yohanca Delgado, Antonella Anedda) 46:54

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Robert Frost defines modern poetry in an excerpt from his [Art of Poetry interview](https://urldefense.com/v3/ https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4678/the-art-of-poetry-no-2-robert-frost ;!!NUnUjx3wvH5xgA!La9JzfrCxrTLTJC-BUCjhUWQaEI9PUYzjObTI7BHU1X34cu0PG5sG9hZ3SP6-g%24); the Italian poet Antonella Anedda discusses her poem “[Historiae 2](ht…

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Season 3 Trailer: The Paris Review Podcast Returns 2:30

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The celebrated podcast returns for its third season. Join us on an audio odyssey through the pages of The Paris Review, featuring the best fiction, poetry, interviews, and archival recordings, from the world's most legendary literary quarterly. This season features fiction by Yohanca Delgado, Venita Blackburn, Bud Smith, Allan Gurganus, and Edward …

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Celebrating N. Scott Momaday 10:35

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A special bonus episode of The Paris Review Podcast celebrating N. Scott Momaday, the winner of the Review’s 2021 Hadada Award, which recognizes a distinguished member of the writing community who has made a strong and unique contribution to literature. What you are about to hear is an exclusive excerpt of the first step in the process of conductin…

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Where have I been? 2:57

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I have not recorded an episode of the Good Life Property Management podcast in many months. I started a new podcast called Daily Stoke for Entrepreneurs. Please join me on my new show! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-stoke-for-entrepreneurs/id1512474580?ign-mpt=uo%3D4 Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or whoever you listen. Search "Steve Welt…

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A Tree Grows Live in Brooklyn (A Live Recording at On Air Fest 2020) 31:45

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A special bonus episode, recorded live at On Air Fest on March 8, 2020 (just before social distancing sent everyone home), featuring a crowded room of lovely human beings enjoying an immersive live performance of The Paris Review Podcast. The show opens with excerpts of Toni Morrison’s 1993 Art of Fiction Interview, scored live by some of the music…

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S2E5 | Odd Planets (with Charlotte Rampling, Simone de Beauvoir, Danez Smith, Griffin Dunne, Henry Green, Sarah Manguso, and WS Merwin) 45:13

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The final episode of Season 2. The incomparable Charlotte Rampling reenacts Simone de Beauvoir’s classic 1965 Paris Review interview; Danez Smith reads their poem “my bitch!”; Sarah Manguso shares her lyric essay “Oceans,” about moving to California, cancer, and writing oceanically; actor Griffin Dunne reads Henry Green’s story “Arcady; or a Night …

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Opt Out of Life with Nate Broughton 47:33

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Welcome to the Good Life Property Management podcast! I'm your host, Steve Welty. This is a show for property management entrepreneurs who want to build not only a great business but also great lives. I'm here to help you gain the freedom to live life on your own terms while creating a positive impact in the world. Also, please check out Steve Welt…

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S2E4 | Lift and Fall (with Tennessee Williams, Charles Wright, Bill Callahan, J.M. Holmes, Anne Sexton, and Jenny Slate) 43:31

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Singer/songwriter Bill Callahan reads “Laguna Blues,” a poem by former U.S. poet laureate Charles Wright; J.M. Holmes reads his Pushcart Prize–winning story “What’s Wrong with You? What’s Wrong with Me?”; seminal dramatist Tennessee Williams describes his daily rituals in an archival interview; and comedian Jenny Slate channels Anne Sexton in her r…

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S2E3 | Memory, Rich Memory (with Dylan Thomas, Salman Rushdie, Sharon Olds, Alexandra Kleeman, Devendra Banhart, and Paulé Bártón) 45:07

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Salman Rushdie reads an apologetic letter written by Dylan Thomas to his editor; poet Sharon Olds identifies “The Solution” to America’s problems; Alexandra Kleeman reads her haunting story “Fairy Tale”; and singer/songwriter Devendra Banhart reads the little-known legend of “The Woe Shirt,” as written by Paulé Bártón.“Mea Culpa” © The Dylan Thomas…

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The One Thing 21:13

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Welcome to the Good Life Property Management podcast! I'm your host, Steve Welty. This is a show for property management entrepreneurs who want to build not only a great business but also great lives. I'm here to help you gain the freedom to live life on your own terms while creating a positive impact in the world. Also, please check out Steve Welt…

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S2E2 | Making Light (with Philip Roth, Jason Alexander, Lucille Clifton, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Brenda Shaughnessy) 52:40

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Actor Quincy Tyler Bernstine revisits one of the most unsettling scandals of the nineties with her reading of Lucille Clifton’s poem “lorena”; Jason Alexander brings Philip Roth’s early story “The Conversion of the Jews” to vivid life; and poet Brenda Shaughnessy contemplates “All Possible Pain.”Lucille Clifton, “lorena” from The Collected Poems of…

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S2E1 | Before the Light (with Toni Morrison, Molly Ringwald, Mary Terrier, Alex Dimitrov) 34:58

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Legendary novelist and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison explains why beauty is absolutely necessary in an interview from the magazine’s archives; Molly Ringwald channels adolescent grief in her reading of “Guests,” a story by Mary Terrier; and poet Alex Dimitrov reads his poem “Impermanence.”By The Paris Review

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Season 2 Trailer: The Paris Review Podcast Returns 2:13

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The celebrated podcast from the legendary literary magazine returns! Join us for new audio adventures through The Paris Review's fiction, poetry, interviews, archival recordings, and sonic imaginings with the likes of Simone de Beauvoir , Tennessee Williams, and today's leading writers. Featuring readings and writings from Charlotte Rampling, Jason…

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A new playbook for today's best leaders: A Conversation with Wine to Water CEO David Cuthbert 49:23

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Welcome to the Good Life Property Management podcast! I'm your host, Steve Welty. This is a show for property management entrepreneurs who want to build not only a great business but also great lives. I'm here to help you gain the freedom to live life on your own terms while creating a positive impact in the world. Also, please check out Steve Welt…

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From the darkness to the light: A Talk with Rob Coldwell 54:19

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Welcome to the Good Life Property Management podcast! I'm your host, Steve Welty. This is a show for property management entrepreneurs who want to build not only a great business but also great lives. I'm here to help you gain the freedom to live life on your own terms while creating a positive impact in the world. Also, please check out Steve Welt…

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Our Philosophies 18:25

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Welcome to the Good Life Property Management podcast! I'm your host, Steve Welty. This is a show for property management entrepreneurs who want to build not only a great business but also great lives. I'm here to help you gain the freedom to live life on your own terms while creating a positive impact in the world. Also, please check out Steve Welt…

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The Secret Weapon in Business: WHY 23:52

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Welcome to the Good Life Property Management podcast! I'm your host, Steve Welty. This is a show for property management entrepreneurs who want to build not only a great business but also great lives. I'm here to help you gain the freedom to live life on your own terms while creating a positive impact in the world. Also, please check out Steve Welt…

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We've Been Sold a Lie 17:21

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Welcome to the Good Life Property Management podcast! I'm your host, Steve Welty. This is a show for property management entrepreneurs who want to build not only a great business but also great lives. I'm here to help you gain the freedom to live life on your own terms while creating a positive impact in the world. Please check out Steve Welty's Mu…