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Casual conversations with purpose featuring interesting, inspiring, and innovative people from a variety of backgrounds, experiences, and industries. Everyone has a story to share, and every story is worth sharing.

Sep 27, 2017

Kerri MacKay joins me this week to offer up a primer on the Canadian health system, and discuss the stigma faced by people living with asthma, the challenges she faced getting an ADHD diagnosis, and the joy of seeing "Everyone Included" being fully embraced at Stanford Medicine X this year.

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Sep 19, 2017

This week I'm joined by Mindy Bartleson for a conversation about diabetes advocacy, being defined by a lack of a southern accent, her work supporting patient communities in Boston, and her upcoming, yet-to-be-titled book and the KickStarter campaign that will help finance its publishing.

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Sep 12, 2017

Hurricane Irma just came through the Greater Atlanta Area. Technically it was more of a Tropical Storm by the time it reached us, but it still knocked out power and internet for over a day. The result of those outages is this, a relative placeholder for what should be the proper episode of Just Talking this week. We'll...


Sep 5, 2017

Jamia Crockett joins me for a chat about patient advocacy, nostalgia for the Stanford Medicine X community, and most importantly a crash course on multiple sclerosis. We cover Jamia's diagnosis, the expanding treatment options available for someone living with multiple sclerosis, and the tricky nature of...