Beyond the Prescription
By Lucy McBride MD
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Join Dr. Lucy McBride for honest conversations about what it really takes to be healthy. Each episode goes beyond quick fixes and conflicting health advice to explore the questions that matter: How do we navigate a healthcare system that's often too rushed to see us as whole people? Who can we trust when everyone seems to be selling something? And how do we reclaim agency over our own health?
Drawing from 25 years of clinical experience, Dr. McBride brings evidence-based clarity to complex health topics—from mental health and preventive care to the future of medicine itself. Whether interviewing leading healthcare innovators, answering listener questions, or sharing insights from her own practice, her mission is the same: helping you reclaim agency over your health.
For listeners who want more than a prescription—who want to understand their bodies, advocate for themselves, and cut through the noise of modern wellness culture—this is your guide to getting the care you actually need.
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The Silent Killer: What Everyone Should Know About Blood Pressure
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May 26, 2026 |
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Can People Actually Change?
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May 13, 2026 |
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Mattering: An Overlooked Determinant of Human Health & What To Do About It
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May 07, 2026 |
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Health & Human Connection: A Conversation with Former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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What the New Cholesterol Guidelines Mean for You: A Conversation with NYU Cardiologist Dr. Greg Katz
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Cutting Through Wellness Noise: 6 Rules for a Long & Healthy Life with Dr. Zeke Emanuel
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Rethinking Hormone Therapy, Hot Flashes & Sexual Health with Dr. Lauren Streicher, MD
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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The Real Reason You're Googling Facelifts
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Can AI Fix Healthcare? A Conversation Dr. Bob Wachter, Chair of Medicine at UCSF & Author of A Giant Leap
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Feb 20, 2026 |
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Rethinking GLP-1s & Metabolic Health with Ashley Koff, RD
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Feb 06, 2026 |
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How to Protect your Health When the World Feels Like It's Falling Apart
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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The New USDA Food Pyramid: Wacky or Well Done?
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Jan 10, 2026 |
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Making Sense of Hormone Therapy & the FDA’s Removal of the Black Box Warning ⛔️
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Testosterone for Women: What You Need to Know with NYT Journalist Susan Dominus
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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How to Manage Anxiety When It Feels Like the World is Falling Apart with Dr. Jessi Gold
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Cutting Through the Noise Around COVID Vaccines with Shira Doron MD
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Sep 03, 2025 |
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How to Get What You Need from Our Broken Healthcare System
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Aug 27, 2025 |
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Top Tips for Brain Health: A Conversation with cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Julie Fratantoni
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Aug 20, 2025 |
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Is a "Good Death" Possible?
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Jul 30, 2025 |
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[B]oldly exploring old age, from the blessings to the b******t, with writer Debbie Weil
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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Fired Up 🔥 A Conversation with Shannon Watts about Turning your Spark Into Flame at Any Age
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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A Conversation with Dr. Mary Claire Haver about menopause, perimenopause & HRT 🔥
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Sexual health is health: a conversation with urologist & sex med expert Dr. Rachel Rubin about menopause, HRT, & genitourinary health
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Jun 18, 2025 |
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Gut Health: Practical Solutions for Common GI Issues
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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Navigating COVID in 2025: A Conversation with Adam Cifu, MD
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Jun 04, 2025 |
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How to manage stress & improve your mental health: a conversation with best selling author and physician Dr. Aditi Nerurkar
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May 16, 2025 |
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Brain Care is Self Care: Practical Strategies for Cognitive Health
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May 09, 2025 |
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My Live Video about Sleep: Why it Matters & How to Get It
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May 04, 2025 |
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Live Q&A about cardiovascular disease—cholesterol, blood pressure, & how to protect your heart
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Apr 25, 2025 |
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A live video: Managing Anxiety During Times of Uncertainty
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Apr 18, 2025 |
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A conversation with Dr. Sharon Malone on menopause, hormone therapy, & how to be your best self-advocate in the doctor's office
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Apr 11, 2025 |
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Pre-diabetes & metabolic health!
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Apr 04, 2025 |
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Friday Q&A: topics include healthy weight loss, “normal” vs. unhealthy anxiety, when to seek a 2nd opinion, sleep tips & more!
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Mar 22, 2025 |
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Live Q&A discussing pre-diabetes, thyroid disease, gastro-esophageal reflux, treatments of arthritis & more
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Mar 14, 2025 |
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Live Q&A discussing measles, cancer prevention, Lipoprotein (a), preventing heart disease & more
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Mar 07, 2025 |
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How To Make Sense of Medical News
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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Live Q&A now! Topics include cholesterol, statins, full body, MRIs, how to talk to a family member with mental health problems
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Feb 21, 2025 |
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Free live Q&A starting now! Answering your questions about weight loss medications, aging, cognitive health, cancer screenings, & managing blood pressure.💊
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Feb 14, 2025 |
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Looking for calm amid chaos? Me too 😩😭 join me now for a conversation with Shannon Watts
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Feb 10, 2025 |
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Join my live Q&A. It’s free! All are welcome
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Feb 07, 2025 |
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Our first live Q&A! Greetings from my bedroom! 😆
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Jan 31, 2025 |
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Post-Election Distress: How to Move Forward with Purpose & Hope (Regardless of your Politics)
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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When the Kids Leave Home: A Conversation with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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How Worried Should You Be About COVID & Winter Viruses? 🦠
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Is There a Link Between BMI & Health?
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Finding Hope & Light within Darkness
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Dr. Devorah Heitner on Growing Up in Public
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Suneel Gupta on Finding Your Dharma
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Monica Gandhi on What's Next with COVID
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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The Healing Power of Psychedelic Medicine
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Let’s Talk About Sex
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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Should You Take Hormone Replacement Therapy?
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Jessica Lahey on Talking to Teens about Alcohol
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Jul 03, 2023 |
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Nedra Tawwab on The Freedom (and Health) of Self-Expression
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Dr. Rachel Zoffness on Re-Conceptualizing Pain & Pain Management
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Health is a Process, Not an Outcome
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May 22, 2023 |
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Jessica Grose on the State of American Motherhood
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May 15, 2023 |
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Caitlin Murray on the Healing Power of Humor
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May 08, 2023 |
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Dr. Samantha Boardman on Turning Stress into Strength
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May 01, 2023 |
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Trust Your Gut
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Melissa Urban on Overcoming Addiction
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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How to Turn Injury into Opportunity
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Dr. Lisa Damour on The Emotional Lives of Teenagers
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Dr. Suzanne Koven on Why Storytelling Matters in Medicine
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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A COVID Roundup: Where to Go Now?
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Chrysta Bilton on Fertility, Femininity & Uncovering Family Secrets
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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What Are You Feeding Your Brain?
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Natalia Petrzela on America's Fitness Obsession
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Does Invisible Suffering "Count" in the Doctor's Office?
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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Dr. Emily Silverman on Caring for Caregivers
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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Let’s Re-Conceptualize Health: Introducing the Four “I”s
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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Tashira Halyard on Fashion, Fearlessness, & Finding Her Voice
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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A Preview of Beyond the Prescription: Season 2!
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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Daniela Pierre-Bravo on Why Belonging Matters for Our Health
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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Tiler Peck on How A Career-Threatening Physical Injury Helped Unlock Her Body & Mind
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Dr. Glynis Albright on Rejecting Diet Culture & Using Food as Medicine
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Anya Kamenetz on “The Stolen Year” for Kids during COVID
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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Laurie Cameron on Mastering Mindfulness
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Mike Bassett on Redemption, Self-Compassion, and Digging out of “The Ditch”
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Elise Loehnen on Reconceptualizing Wellness and Healing
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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Jeffrey Blount on Elevating Underrepresented Children to Improve Health & Well-being
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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Soledad O’Brien on Lifting Marginalized Communities Through Storytelling
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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The U.S. Surgeon General on the Epidemic of Loneliness
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Jon Favreau on Screen Addiction and the Importance of Social Connection for Mental Health
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Shannon Watts on the Personal and Societal Toll of Gun Violence in America
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Caralena Peterson On Effortless Perfection
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Oct 03, 2022 |
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Tori Nelson on Healing Through Boxing
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Gloria Riviera on Surviving Brain Cancer
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Sep 19, 2022 |
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Meghan Daum On the Unspeakable Elements of Life, Death, and Health
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Sep 12, 2022 |
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Dr. Sunita Puri on Dying with Dignity
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Phyllis Fagell, LCPC, On Post-Pandemic Parenting and the Triumphs and Struggles of Middle School
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Aug 29, 2022 |
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Dr. Susan Landers On Burnout, the “Good Enough” Mother, and the Selflessness of Self-Care
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Aug 22, 2022 |
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Larissa May on Digital Hygiene & the Adolescent Brain
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Aug 15, 2022 |
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Hamilton Leithauser on Performance Anxiety, Grief, and the Rockstar life
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Aug 08, 2022 |
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Keri Blakinger on Reclaiming her Humanity after Addiction and Incarceration
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Aug 01, 2022 |
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Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng on Doctoring, the Pandemic, and “Changing the Boogey”
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Jul 25, 2022 |
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Katherine Kendall on Sexual Trauma, Harvey Weinstein, and Healing through #MeToo
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Jul 18, 2022 |
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Emily Oster on Career Crossroads and Disappointments and Data-Based Decision-Making
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Jul 11, 2022 |
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Amy Chua on Self-Doubt, Perseverance, and Tiger Mothering
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Jun 27, 2022 |
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Abby Greensfelder on the Gender Pay Gap and Power of Female Storytelling
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Jun 20, 2022 |
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Kathleen Buhle on Addiction, Relationship Trauma, and her Divorce from Hunter Biden
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Jun 14, 2022 |
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Dr. Sharon Malone on Menopause, Equality and Women’s Health Care
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Jun 06, 2022 |
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Greg Galeazzi on his Tour of Duty in Afghanistan
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May 31, 2022 |
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Will McCormack on Addiction, Recovery, and the Pressure to Perform in Hollywood
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May 24, 2022 |
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Andrea Razzaghi on Racial and Gender Diversity in STEM, and Being a Woman of Color at NASA
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May 17, 2022 |
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Mika Brzezinski on Shame, Disordered Eating, and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
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May 10, 2022 |
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Scott Stossel on his Battle with Anxiety
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May 03, 2022 |
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Jennifer Sey on Pain, Perseverance, and the Power of Speaking Our Truth
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May 03, 2022 |
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Introducing Beyond the Prescription with Lucy McBride, MD
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Apr 25, 2022 |