Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change)

Matthew Sheffield

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Booking Overview

Flux Podcasts (formerly Theory of Change) focuses on progressive analysis at the intersection of politics, religion, media, and technology, often bringing in experts to ground arguments in research and history. It’s a strong booking target for PR professionals working with academics and recognized authors who can translate complex ideas into public-facing dialogue.

Metrics

Episodes: 219

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.7/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

YouTube: 890 subscribers

Contact Information

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Host

Matthew Sheffield - Hosts the show “Theory of Change” (now part of the Flux network) and frames episodes around larger trends and intersections of politics, religion, media, and technology. The episode text also notes...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

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Typical Credentials:  
Academics (professors in communications, gender studies, science writing, history) and authors with substantial publications; occasionally practitioners/clinicians with specialized expertise (e.g., psychotherapist/breathwork).
Required Achievements:  
Published books on relevant topics, University faculty roles, Subject-matter specialization (e.g., science writing, African American/Latino history, communications and gender studies), Clinical or method-based professional practice with defined therapeutic specialties

Recent Guest Discussions

Ben Goldberger - Breathwork/trauma Recovery And Related Healing And Transformation Methods

Thomas Levenson - History Of Vaccine Opposition And Arguments Against Inoculations

Lisa Corrigan - Democracy In The U.s., Political Change And Cultural Power, Party Dynamics, And Organizing Culture

Recent Topics

Politics, History, Religion, Technology, Democracy

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Flux Podcasts (Formerly Theory of Change)
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The Power of Breath

June 18, 2026

Ben Goldberger is a psychotherapist and breathworker serving Chicaog and the surrounding suburbs since 2010. He supports people of all ages and backgrounds in healing and transforming the roots of depression, anxiety and other major life challenges. He specializes in trauma recovery, relationship repair, child development, addictions, journey integration, and spiritual development. He believes in the innate human capacity to heal.Full Circle Breathwork is an intensive body-centered process th...

Antivax arguments haven’t gotten any better in 300 years

June 16, 2026

Opposition to vaccines in the United States and around the world was a fringe view for a very long time, but it’s not anymore now, thanks to people like Donald Trump and his Health and Human Services Secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr. While this type of thinking has proliferated in the age of social media, in fact, being anti-vax is as old as the vaccines themselves. It’s a history worth exploring and knowing about, not just so that you can have better arguments for why vaccines work, but also so ...

The U.S. is inexperienced as a democracy, and it’s showing

June 09, 2026

“We live in the worst timeline” is a phrase you often hear people say in left-leaning social spaces. It’s usually a joke, but I think it’s more than that. The truth is that, while Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history, democracy in this country has been at risk many times throughout its lifetime, and also that it really couldn’t be said to have fully existed until the passage of the civil rights acts of the 1960s.The moment we’re living in is complicated. On the one h...

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