Life of Flow

Interventional Radiology is facing an identity crisis. In this episode, Dr. Kumar Madassery, MD shares what it took to establish one of the few independent IR departments in the country and why economic realities, training pathways, and hospital politics make that fight so complex. He discusses the struggle between diagnostic and procedural work, how reimbursement models undervalue complex interve...

El Dr. Andrea Casini y el Dr. Giacomo Clerici llevan más de dos décadas trabajando juntos en Italia, enfrentando algunos de los casos más complejos de pie diabético e isquemia crítica. En esta conversación, comparten cómo surgió su experiencia pionera en la arterialización venosa profunda, los errores y aprendizajes de los primeros pacientes, y cómo lograron transformar la frustración en innovació...

What does it take for a physician to move from consulting hours to lasting influence in MedTech? In this week’s episode, Dr. Jay Mathews MD, MS, FACC, FSCAI, shares his path from early startup work in software and design to interventional cardiology, and how that background shaped his approach to device development. He discusses the trade-offs between consulting and equity, the risks physicians fa...

Ser cardióloga pediátrica en el hospital número uno de Estados Unidos significa convivir con la excelencia, pero también con la presión de que cada error cueste demasiado. En este episodio, la Dra. Shreya Sheth comparte cómo la medicina realmente aprende de los errores, qué implica liderar un centro de seguridad del paciente, y por qué cuestionar las estructuras establecidas, inspirándose incluso...

Dr. Eric J. Dippel, MD, FACC doesn’t hold back in this episode. From bringing prosthetic heart valves to school as a kid to spending eight hours placing 30 stents in a patient the system later abandoned, Dippel’s story is one of obsession, frustration, and defiance. He shares why he walked away from hospitals run by administrators, how insurance decisions literally kill people, and why building hi...

¿Qué harías si pudieras dejar de pensar solo en la jubilación y empezar a construir riqueza para tus 40 y 50? 💸 En este episodio, Austin Hankwitz nos muestra cómo organizarse desde temprano, por qué el 401k no es suficiente, y qué significa crear una “cuenta puente” que te permita libertad antes de los 60. Además, comparte su experiencia como inversor ángel en más de 28 startups y explica cómo mé...

Derrick Walker, MS, RD, CDE isn’t your typical dietitian... After living with type 1 diabetes for more than 35 years, he left a career in hairstyling to become a dietitian and diabetes educator, driven by the reality that his own condition was expensive and difficult to manage. In this episode, Derrick explains why the standard “diabetes diet” makes patients sicker, how the food industry sold Amer...

Owen Hunt, you might know him as Bootsy Greenwood, joins us for a conversation about the psychology of power, influence, and how group energy shapes what people do. We explore Reality Transurfing and its concept of “pendulums”: energetic structures that form around groups, feed on attention, and keep people in line. From politics to personal decisions, Owen shares how pendulums show up in everyday...

Frank Ross, Vice President and Wealth Advisor at Pentangle Wealth, joins Life of Flow Podcast to share a candid look at how he helps clients replace their income in retirement, avoid common investing mistakes, and build financial plans that work. From starting out as a 22-year-old financial advisor to advising major firms like JPMorgan and Oppenheimer Funds, Frank breaks down how much money is rea...

After more than a decade in medtech, working alongside surgeons, hospital teams, and device reps, Eric Plumb saw the same problem everywhere. Now, as the Founder and CEO of PROXDIS, he built the tech that could finally fix it. In this episode, Eric joins us to talk about why the OR still runs on chaos, what he learned managing over 180 hospital accounts at Medtronic, and how PROXDIS’s scheduling a...

Courtney Johnson sabe lo que es construir una marca personal desde cero… con ansiedad, vergüenza y todo. En esta conversación íntima y sin filtro, nos muestra por qué postear en redes puede sentirse como escalar una montaña emocional, y cómo atravesarla sin dejar de ser vos. Desde el síndrome del impostor hasta la “montaña del cringe”, Courtney explica por qué mostrarse online activa inseguridades...

From entrepreneurial leaps to the future of bypass, the most powerful moments from the past months are here. In this best-of episode, we revisit conversations with some of the sharpest minds in MedTech, vascular surgery, cardiology, and education, including ICHOR Founder and CEO Tim Blair, interventional cardiologist Dr. Jaafer Golzar, interventional angiologist Dr. Michael Lichtenberg, bilingual...

World-renowned vascular surgeon Dr. José Antonio Muñoa Prado chose to begin his medical journey in the most unlikely of places... the heart of the Mexican jungle during the Zapatista uprising. In this episode, he shares the raw, often surreal stories from his early years working in Chiapas, MX, living through armed conflict, delivering care in deeply divided communities, and learning first-hand wh...

In this week’s episode, Scott Addonizio gives a candid look at what it’s like to run a MedTech company when tariffs spike overnight. Disrupting supply chains, inflating costs, and forcing urgent business decisions. He shares how he navigated a 145% import tax on Chinese-made devices, protected customers from cost hikes, and why building U.S. manufacturing might be the only way forward. From OEM an...

We wanted to try something different for this episode. Instead of coming in with a topic or script, we asked ChatGPT to generate a list of questions based on our past conversations, what someone who’s been listening to Life of Flow might be curious about if they could sit down and ask us anything. The result: a wide-ranging Q&A where we talk about mental prep before high-risk cases, the worst...

Michelle Bruni is a bilingual parenting educator, content creator, and mom of two, raising her kids in a language that isn’t even her own. With a PhD in psychology and a research background in bilingualism, Michelle is on a mission to help families hold on to something most people are still being told to let go of: their language. In this episode, she breaks down the myth that bilingualism causes...

Dr. Michael Lichtenberg, MD, FESC, is the Chief Medical Officer and Director of the Angiology Department and Vascular Center at the Arnsberg Clinic in Arnsberg, Germany. He’s also the co-founder of the PEO app, a global hub for vascular education that connects specialists to on-demand training, live conferences, and research tools. Known across Europe for challenging the status quo in vascular car...

Dr. Jaafer Golzar is an interventional cardiologist, endovascular specialist, and Director of Limb Salvage & Endovascular Intervention at Advocate Trinity Hospital. He’s seen more than his share of “no-option” cases, the patients everyone else gave up on. In this episode, he walks us through how percutaneous arterial bypass with the PTAB, DETOUR System is changing that. From patients headed fo...

Timothy Blair has spent more than 30 years inside some of the most influential companies in MedTech. But when he was offered a multimillion-dollar deal that could have accelerated everything, he walked away. In this episode, Tim shares why he turned down funding that most founders would have taken. He explains how early-stage deals can quietly dismantle a company’s future and what it takes to grow...

James Sexton has spent over two decades helping successful, brilliant people untangle their marriages, piece by piece. In this episode, he shares what they all tend to miss, why doctors in particular are some of the most at-risk, and why high-achievers, especially physicians and surgeons, are uniquely vulnerable to relationship breakdown. From emotional burnout to misplaced self-soothing, to caree...

Cesar Marin spent 25 years as a producer at CNN. He had the job, the security, the routine, and a cannabis dependency that was silently taking over his life. Then came the layoff. And with it, a collapse… and a chance to start again. In this episode, Cesar shares how psychedelics changed everything. What began as recreational curiosity turned into a reset that helped him break free from a toxic pa...

Vascular technologist Jill Sommerset and dual-registered cardiac and vascular sonographer, Abigail Mize, join us for a deep, practical conversation about one of the biggest shifts happening in CLI care right now. They break down how a simple but powerful technique, Pedal Acceleration Time (PAT), is helping clinicians move from image-based outcomes to physiology-based decisions. PAT isn’t just anot...

Intimacy coach, Stephanie Ganowski, joins Life of Flow for a powerful and honest conversation about intimacy, connection, and why so many men today are silently struggling in the bedroom. As a clinical s*xologist, Stephanie shares what’s really going on beneath the surface. She speaks to the pressure men feel to perform, the shame that often comes with it, and the disconnect that builds when no on...

Dr. George Adams joins us for a powerful conversation on leadership, resilience, and what it really looks like to push a field forward when most people are still holding back. In this episode, George shares what it felt like to be criticized for doing things "too early" and why those same critics eventually came to him privately for advice. He reflects on the experiences that shaped his...

What does it really take to build a $100M MedTech company from scratch? In this episode, Scott Addonizio gets raw about the journey. From packing up his life and moving to China with a one-way ticket, to running one of the most successful balloon and stent manufacturers in Asia, Scott shares what no pitch deck or press release will tell you. Now back in the U.S. as COO of BrosMed, he's taking...