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Hosted by Shane Peterson · business · EN
Before you judge a job, listen to someone who has actually done it. Before you envy a job, learn what it costs. Before you dismiss a job, understand the skill inside it. And before you reduce a person to their occupation, hear their story. Tales from the Shift is a job deep dive show about the real lives behind the titles. Every profession has a public myth and a private reality. We sit down with the people who have lived the work and ask what outsiders get wrong, what the job demands, what it gives back, and what it takes from them. It is honest conversation with cops, nurses, lawyers, tradesmen, military veterans, performers, business owners, and people from jobs most of us misunderstand. Every job is a hidden world. Every worker knows something outsiders do not. The job title is the label. The story is the truth. NO AI videos are intentionally used, NO AI avatars or voicing. Real people, every time.
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Booking probability
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Tales from the Shift is hosted by Shane Peterson. The show has published 59 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Barber Explains the Job: What Men Tell Him in the Chair" (11 October 2026, 77 minutes), "Organic Farmer: I’d Do It Again, Even Knowing the Hard Parts | Real Truth About Organic Farming" (11 October 2026, 71 minutes), and "Water Well Driller Reveals How It's One of the Best Trades in 2026 | Real Truth About Jobs" (4 October 2026, 88 minutes).
Tales from the Shift publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 77 minutes across 59 episodes.
Booking probability for Tales from the Shift is 31%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Tales from the Shift requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Tales from the Shift's contact route on record: verified email.
Shane Peterson hosts Tales from the Shift, a business podcast with 59 episodes published.
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Episode #53
Chandler Wood spends his days cutting hair, but some of the hardest parts of the barber job have nothing to do with clippers. Regular clients talk. A lot. Divorce, death, sick kids, family problems, whatever is sitting...
Episode #49
Charles Dowding has worked as an organic market gardener since autumn 1982. He has written 16 books on the subject. He also runs a busy YouTube channel. The Royal Horticultural Society recently gave him its Elizabeth...
Episode #56
Dan is a water well driller, and this is a deep dive into how that job actually works. He explains how crews drill through overburden and solid granite looking for water-bearing fractures. The machines can weigh around...
Episode #62
Brian Silva served as an Air Force Pararescueman (PJ aka Parajumper) from 2005 to 2018. Most people have never heard of the job. Everyone knows what a Navy SEAL is. Almost nobody knows that PJs exist, or that every...
Episode #58
Scott Urbach returns to Tales from the Shift for his "overtime" episode, going deeper into daily life inside the CIA: protective details, cover stories, and classified phone calls most people will never make. Scott...
Episode #60
Thomas Casey is a former Probation / Parole Officer in New Hampshire, a combined role most states split into two separate jobs. He supervised people out of state prison and people sentenced by the courts. Caseloads ran...
Episode #48
Barry Black is affectionately known as the Forrest Gump of the FBI due to being at so many important events in US history. He spent 31 years as an FBI agent, was at the Waco incident with the Branch Davidian Cult, the...
Episode #37
Andrew Lewin is a marine biologist, science communicator, and host of the How to Protect the Ocean podcast with more than two decades of field experience, including research vessel work in the Gulf of Mexico, Arctic...
Episode #55
Suellio Almeida is a professional race car driver and racing coach based in Dubai. Before he ever sat in a real car, he built his technical foundation entirely in simulation: Gran Turismo, Assetto Corsa, and iRacing. He...
Episode #57
Dillon Jones has spent 12 years studying wildlife across Texas, Belize, and beyond. He's done midnight frog surveys in flooded rivers, pulled bot fly larvae from his own skin, and watched field work end relationships...
Episode #52
Mark Andrew spent his career as a firefighter and paramedic with the Dearborn Fire Department in Michigan, a suburban department that runs both fire trucks and ambulances out of the same stations. In this episode, the...
Episode #51
James R. Fitzgerald is a criminal profiler and forensic linguist. He began as a police officer near Philadelphia, joined the FBI, worked major crimes in New York, and later entered the Behavioral Analysis Unit at...
Episode #50
Adam Horwitz has spent decades in movies as a professional stunt performer, stunt actor, and stunt double. He has doubled for Andy Garcia, Jermaine Clement, and worked across a career most viewers never get to see up...
Episode #47
Lesley Holloway bought back the small-town diner that raised her, turning it into a second job that swallows her weekends and any illusion that love alone could save it. What she did not expect was how invisible the...
Episode #46
Kari Ickes has been a licensed funeral director and embalmer for 24 years. In this job, she carries other people's grief so they don't have to, embalms the people she loves, and has learned to turn off emotions in ways...
Episode #45
Steve Barnes explains the real job behind water utility work, from meter reading and shutoffs to smart meters, customer confrontations, water waste, and the hidden career paths inside municipal water systems. This...
Episode #44
Heather Ferris is back for her "overtime" episode after 25 years as a Las Vegas casino dealer, and this time the guardrails are off. She reveals what the eye in the sky really catches, how dealers actually get cheated...
Episode #43
Jody Maberry spent eight years as a park ranger across Washington State—and the job was nothing like most people imagine. From a drowning victim on day one to dangerous wildlife encounters and parks overrun by tourists...
Episode #39
Mike Morgan shares the brutal reality of his career as a police officer in Atlanta and Long Island. He details the trauma of the job and his transformative path toward healing through unconventional therapy. Like all...
Episode #41
Sharon Kent spent 38 years as a Critical Care Nurse caring for the sickest patients in the hospital. In this episode, Sharon explains what this ICU job is really like, from life-and-death decisions to difficult...
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Retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent
guitarist for stoner metal band Introvoid and cover band Rebecca Crow, Hamilton Fraser Total Landlord Insurance
Executive Publisher, Best Culture Solutions, Inc
30 Year Police Veteran, Mental Health & Plant-Based Medicine Advocate, Henderson County Tax Assessors Office
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