The Glow Stick Gods is an original fiction podcast chronicling the lives of the A-Listers of the 90’s underground party scene. Based on the true rise and fall of a group of glittery glow stick twirling Ecstasy takers when Crystal Meth came on the scene. Jessy, the Mafia Hairdresser, travels around the world to the best parties and witnesses the doom of the Rave World when Crystal Meth comes on the scene. The Podcast Author is the narrative voice of all the hilarious characters!

15 Original Fiction Podcast Episodes + Bonus Episodes

True stories. Questionable decisions. Fabulous fiction.

Author, storyteller and longtime hairdresser Jon-David turns his own wildly unconventional life into fast, funny and unapologetically LGBTQ fiction.

Mafia Hairdresser takes readers into the cocaine-fueled glamour, crime and excess of the 1980s, where a young hairdresser discovers that getting mixed up with mobsters, movie stars and Hollywood’s beautiful people can be murder.

Its sequel, The Glow Stick Gods, jumps into the 1990s world of Chicago nightlife, circuit parties, raves, Ecstasy and excess—where the party is fabulous, the friendships are complicated, and not everyone makes it home.

Inspired by Jon-David’s real-life adventures, both novels mix crime, comedy, queer history and the kind of stories you could only hear from a hairdresser who was actually there.

Meet the Mafia Hairdresser. Read the books. Then hear the stories come alive on the podcasts.