Living A Life In Full

Not only is he a Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council , technology futurist and geopolitical expert, novelist, blogger, syndicated columnist, and media commentator, but he's completed thirteen Ironman triathlons, twenty-nine marathons, and twelve ultramarathons. His history is bordering on the superhuman. He previously served as Executive Vice President of the Asia Society , Deputy Staff Director...

Did you ever wonder how some physicians choose to go into emergency medicine, as well as what it takes to be successful—on a global scale? What about working in resource poor regions around the world that have multiple high demands following devastating catastrophic events? Dr. Janet Lin is just such a person, and an amazing and inspirational one. She is the Director of Health Systems Development...

Have you ever met a Medical Futurist? How about someone that has walked from Chicago to Washington, DC, for the bringing attention and a voice to those impacted by healthcare concerns? How about a physician educator who has literally taught around the world? Have you ever known someone who teaches everything from neuroanatomy, cellular and molecular biology to mathematical modeling, technology mar...

Did you ever wonder what it's like to explore the Amazon LOOKING for venomous, poisonous and toxic risks? Or how about pondering what it takes to get in the prestigious National Geographic Explorers Club? Or how about summiting Mt. Aconcagua or making it to Everest Base Camp, or even to Antarctica? How about curiosities as to what makes the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative tick and the amazing proj...

Have you ever wondered how the world of private equity and venture capital works? What are the ways to get started, how do you know what companies hold promise, how do you build and manage your own company and hold high standards and provide high performance results, year after year? In this episode, Bryan Cressey, Partner and Founder of the health service private equity firm Cressey & Company dis...

What do you think is scarier, to be launched off a carrier deck and hit 1200 MPH or to launch a successful healthcare technology company? Well you can find out because my guest on this episode is Richard Gengler, MBA, who has done both—first as a Navy F/A -18 pilot and next as the founding CEO of Prevail Health. Rich grew up in Madison Wisconsin and graduated with honors from the University of Min...

Have you ever had a problem with getting in really great shape? Is it that you don't have enough time, or you can't afford a gym membership, or you don't have any exercise equipment at home, or you have a killer travel schedule, or maybe you're just a bit too inhibited to work-out in front of others. Or maybe you want to augment your workouts to being up your performance. Well then you need to lea...

I had the pleasure of spending time with two of my favorite people, Dylan Bates and Matt Smith, recently as not only podcast guests, but we christened the first Facebook Live version of the Living a Life in Full show. Dylan is the CEO of ATI Physical Therapy , the largest, single brand physical therapy/sports medicine/rehabilitation company in the world with clinics coast to coast. Matt is the Sen...

Edward Marx is one of the most authentic people I know. He comes from humble beginnings and no silver spoon. Ed had some struggles as a young adult, including a lack of money, being fired from his first job, and having a not-so-stellar college GPA. Fast forward to today and he is CIO of one of the nation's top healthcare institutions, The Cleveland Clinic . In between, he served 15 years in the U....

Do you want to better understand Augmented Reality in surgery and training, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in diagnostics, DNA editing and CRISPR, precision medicine, big data and predictive analytics, bio-hacking, evidence-based medicine, and the value of incremental medicine? Then you'll really enjoy this tour-de-force episode with Dr. Nick van Terheyden. Physician and citizen of t...

So how would you travel the world—for years—with no money…? So many of us postpone many of the things we'd like to do, until something else happens first—we wait until we graduate, or until we get married, or until we have enough money, or until we retire—and then we realize, often too late, that we missed out on the experiences that would have enriched our lives. Well Daniel Rintz and Josephine F...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to create your own non-governmental organization, become part of the UN, create policy that changes lives, and travel the world doing so?   Well, then, let me introduce you to Jenifer L. White, PhD. She is an international psychologist, an arts-based researcher, author, and the founder of Project 1948 . She has worked extensively in Rwanda, Brazil, Ital...

Ian Lantz is one of the happiest activists I have ever had the pleasure to call friend. Lots of the other folks I have worked with may have had a grudge, or an ax to grind, or a cross to bear. Not Ian. In spite of a challenging childhood growing up in Los Angeles, he is one of the most giving and caring individuals that I know.                   It's almost like he's an accidental change-maker, an...

In this episode we get to learn about how Colin O'Brady had overcome challenges that would have derailed most of us, and he has done it with a smile and much aplomb! He came back from a severe injury in a faraway land with the help of his mom, family, and friends to become a top professional triathlete—winning overall in his very first competition! That did not satisfy his passion to help others i...

This episode features Glen Heggstad , a renaissance man who has circumnavigated the globe four times, most of which was on a motorcycle—solo.  But he would be the first to say he was not alone, as he found friendship and family everywhere he went. He's also a competition wining master martial artist and instructor, author of two books chronicling his adventurous life ( One More Day Everywhere: Cro...

This show features Sara Fix, owner at Endure It! Sports, and multiple top finisher at the Ironman Triathlon Championships in Kona. She is also an award-winning business woman, coach, and humanitarian—the whole package—as well as an extraordinary mother of three. Learn how to get started in triathlons, getting fit or coming back from an injury, as well as managing multiple demands on time, and her...

Alastair Wright is the Founder and Managing Director at the Genesus (sic) Foundation. He is an amazing young man, all of 24, who is doing world-changing work while managing all sorts of additional challenges himself and seeing the world. Give it a listen, you won't be disappointed. Learn more at http://www.alifeinfull.org/   Cheers, Chris    

In this episode I talk with Rita Ator, DPT and John Duncombe, DPT, two accomplished distance runners and experienced physical therapists about all things running—injury avoidance, getting started in running, coming back from an injury, and testing your abilities in longer distances like marathons and ultras. A great episode, I hope you will enjoy it! Learn more at  http://www.alifeinfull.org/ Chee...

  "Living a Life in Full" is the conversation you always wanted to have with that person who gave an amazing TED talk, or the author of one your favorite books, or that inspirational Olympian you always wanted to know more about. This show is for the intellectually curious. You want to not just more about the interesting and the innovative, but also what makes them tick, and maybe even what makes...