Season 4, episode 8 is here!
Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA started her Substack on January 6th, 2025. She had three kids in medical school, served in the Air Force, built and sold a telemedicine company, and spent 25 years as a physician before any of that.
This conversation went everywhere, and it was brilliant.
What we covered:
- How Laurie got through medical school with three small children by drawing cartoons, and why she still remembers everything she drew 25 years later.
- What lifestyle medicine actually means in practice, and why Laurie thinks putting it at the centre of medical education would change everything.
- The story of a patient who reversed type 2 diabetes by walking to the end of her driveway, and what it taught Laurie about where real change actually begins.
- Why the biggest psychological mistake people make when trying to improve their health has nothing to do with willpower.
- The one question Laurie thinks every Substack writer needs to answer before they write a single word.
- How she grew a Facebook page from 9,000 to 83,000 followers in a matter of months and what that did for her Substack subscriber count.
- What she thinks is coming next, including three literary agents who have already come knocking.
You can find Laurie and the The Habit Healers on Substack.
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