My Podcast in iTunes is showing Zero Episodes

I have a podcast in iTunes that isn't showing any available episodes, when it has been okay for a couple weeks with no changes to the RSS feed. I've looked through other messages on this forum, but didn't find an answer.
What could be causing this?
iTunes Feed: http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/expert-enough/id489503775
RSS Feed: feed://feeds.feedburner.com/expertenough
Thanks in advance for the help!

None of your episodes have playable media: it's necessary for each episode to have an 'enclosure' tag containing the URL of a media file - mp3. m4a, mp4, m4v, or mov - without this iTunes will not display the episodes. You say it was working before, so something has been done to the feed to change it.
Following the link from the top episode:
http://expertenough.com/1123/18-expert-quotes
produces what is basically a weblog entry with no sign of any media.

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