Diabetics Doing Things Podcast
by Diabetics Doing Things
Hosted by T1D Rob Howe, Diabetics Doing Things tells amazing stories of people with diabetes from across the globe, digging deep into everything it takes to Live Well with Diabetes and sharing exciting adventures along the way.
Episodes
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Episode 369 - Finding Community, Identity & Building The Chronically Illest with Rachael Stickles
Rachael Stickles started The Chronically Illest because, as Rob puts it, diabetes had absolutely no swag. People with diabetes get beige meter cases and T-shirts that don’t inspire daily wear. Rachael wanted to change that. So she and her partner turned their studio apartment into a workshop and...
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Episode 368 - CTO Peter Simpson on the Future of Dexcom CGMs
Peter Simpson has been at Dexcom for over 24 years, back when it was a small startup, and he says he's more excited about the technology now than at any point in that run. In this bonus tech episode, Dexcom's CTO walks us through the upcoming G8 sensor: about 50% smaller, plus a new in-use...
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Episode 367 - Diabetes Is Political: The Insulin Act, Public Pharma & Your Vote with T1 International
A lot of people think the $35 copay cap fixed insulin. For most of us, it didn't. In 2024, 36% of people responding to T1 International's out-of-pocket survey said they were rationing insulin, twice the rate in 2016. With midterms weeks away and the Insulin Act up in both the House and Senate, we...
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Episode 366 - Living With Type 1 Diabetes as a Touring Acrobat with Leah Orleans, Tiny Girl Big Show
Leah Orleans shoots a bow and arrow with her toes, juggles fire, puts knives on her face, and performs around 300 shows a year as Tiny Girl Big Show. In her late twenties, in the middle of a tour, she landed in the ER with an A1C of 14. A few months later, a well-meaning doctor asked what other...
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Episode 365 - How His Wife's T1D Diagnosis Led Aurelian Briner to Build Snaq
When Aurelian Briner's wife was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes about twelve years ago, the hardest questions kept coming back to the plate: how many carbs are in this or how big is this portion? Aurelian, a product manager with a business background and an entrepreneurial itch, decided that was a...
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Episode 364 - Resilience & Building a Big Life with Liz Van Voorhis
At 15, Liz Van Voorhis landed in the ER on spring break with a blood sugar of 1,200. She weighed 78 pounds. She had two questions for the doctor. First, when could she get back to cheer conditioning? Second, did this mean she couldn't finish her Halloween candy? It was April. That mix of grit and...
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Episode 363 - Danica Doble and Lucas Silva: A T1D Couple's Story
Rob sits down with a rare three-person interview: Danica Doble (@type1deeabetes) and her partner Lucas, who both live with type 1 diabetes. Their story starts with a genuinely wild diagnosis arc. Lucas was told he had type 2 diabetes, put on metformin, and left to figure it out on his own for…
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Episode 362- Living a Creative Life with Dave Holmes (MTV, Esquire)
Dave Holmes spent the late '90s and early 2000s as one of the faces of MTV, and these days he's a sharp, funny voice at Esquire — but before any of that, he spent six years being told he had type 2 diabetes when he actually had type 1. This week, Rob sits down with Dave to talk about that...
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Episode 361 - Rob Solo Episode: The AI Tool, the Trial, and the Retreat
It's episode 450 of Diabetics Doing Things — a milestone Rob almost forgets to mention until he's three topics deep. Fresh off Friends for Life in Orlando, he lays out what he calls the diabetes conference pyramid: the industry side (ADA, ADCES, ATTD, EASD) built for HCPs and brand messaging, and...
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Episode 360 - Highs, Lows, and Hormones: Aging with Type 1 Diabetes with Melissa Slemp
Melissa Slemp has lived with type 1 diabetes for 44 years — since she was diagnosed in 1982, before glucometers, before CGMs, back when insulin came from vials and syringes and "boiling your needles" was still a recent memory for a lot of people. In this episode, she and Rob trace that whole arc:...
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Episode 359 - Dexcom CEO on G8, Stolen Sensors, and the Truth from their New Advisory Council
Rob was at ADA 2026 in spirit — armed with press access and a list of questions unrelated to the usual conference talking points. His first guest from that coverage is Jake Leach, Dexcom's new CEO, who took over the role on January 1st after 22 years at the company. This is Jake's first time on...
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Episode 358 - Travel, Diabetes, and Disrupting What You Think You Know with Dylan Leonard
When mutual friends in the diabetes community kept telling Rob he had a doppelganger in LA, he figured they were exaggerating. Then he met Dylan Leonard — creative director, documentary filmmaker, college basketball player, type one diabetic, philosophy reader, world traveler — and yeah, the...
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Episode 357 - Racing at 150 MPH with Type 1 Diabetes: Tyler Cooke's Life in the Fast Lane
Tyler Cook is a professional GT3 racing driver who has competed in some of the most grueling endurance races on the planet, the 24 Hours of Spa, the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, IMSA, and GT World Challenge Europe. He's also been living with type 1 diabetes since he was 11 years old. This episode…
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Episode 356 - Six Marathons in Two Years: Steven Cannady on T1D, Race Prep, and Living Big
Steven Cannady was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes on December 21, 2004, during Christmas break, in eighth grade, after eating a family-size box of Fruit Loops and spending hours on the kitchen floor before his mom got home from work. Rob was diagnosed one week later on New Year's Day 2005.…
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Episode 355 - Hydration, Sleep, and a Possible T1D Cure with Neil Greathouse
Rob and Neil have been doing this a long time, long enough to get bored with the safe version of things. This conversation started as a Friday-at-5 PM debrief between two guys who've spent years making diabetes content, and it ended up going somewhere worth sharing. They talk about the trap of...
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Episode 354 - This Doctor Gets It: Burnout, Bureaucracy, & Better Diabetes Care, Dr. Gregory Dodell
Rob sits down with Dr. Gregory Dodell, an endocrinologist from New York City and one of the more honest voices in the diabetes space online. What starts as a conversation about why a doctor would bother making Instagram videos turns into something a lot more real, a candid look at what actually...
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Episode 353 - The Hidden Mental Load: A T1D Pshycotherapist on Burnout, Grief, and Letting Go
What happens in the room when a therapist with Type 1 diabetes hears the same fear over and over, that everyone else has their numbers under control, and you’re the only one who doesn’t? Rob sits down with Christine Keown, a registered psychotherapist and T1D since age four, to have the...
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Episode 352 - Health Insurance 101: What Every Diabetic Needs to Know Before Open Enrollment
Health insurance is one of those things that's genuinely important and genuinely confusing. When you're managing diabetes or any chronic illness, the stakes are a lot higher than for most people. One wrong plan choice can mean insulin coverage disappears, specialist visits become out-of-pocket…
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Episode 351 - What Your Doctor Was Never Taught About Diabetes with Dr. Hannah Parr, D.O.
Ten years ago, Hannah Hamlin came on the pod (Episode 8!) as a medical school student with type 1 diabetes trying to figure out how to manage blood sugar while surviving boards. She's back now as Dr. Hannah Parr, D.O., a physician with additional training in integrative medicine and diabetes...
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Episode 350 - Why You Hold Your Breath Every Time You Check Your Blood Sugar with Sam Tullman
Most of us know diabetes affects the body. Fewer of us talk honestly about what it does to the mind and what the mind does right back. In this episode, Rob sits down with Sam Tullman, co-founder and facilitator of Diabetes Sangha and a dedicated student of Rinzai Zen, for a wide-ranging...
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Episode 349 - The Movement Menu & Exercise for Real Diabetes Life with Amanda Mueller (@bolusandbiceps)
Exercise is one of the most recommended tools for living well with diabetes and one of the most complicated to actually start. In this episode, Rob sits down with Amanda Mueller (aka @bicepsandbolus), a certified personal trainer, corrections exercise specialist, and CPA who was diagnosed with…
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Episode 348 - Claude vs. T1D - I asked Claude 10 Questions about Type 1 Diabetes
Rob Howe has lived with type 1 diabetes for 21 years. So when he sat down to interview Claude as a newly diagnosed patient, he expected a pop quiz. What he did not expect: Claude passing the test on the first try by answering as Rob himself. Because Claude thought it been hosting this show all...
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Episode 347 - The Insulin Sensitivity Playbook: The Breath and Diabetes with The Breathing Diabetic, Nick Heath
Rob welcomes Dr. Nick Heath—an atmospheric scientist living with type 1 diabetes for 27+ years and known online as “The Breathing Diabetic”—to explore how breathing can become a practical lever for living well with diabetes. Nick shares his diagnosis at age 11 and how his “second diagnosis”…
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Episode 346 - The Insulin Sensitivity Playbook: Vinegar and Glucose with Dr. Carol Johnston
Dr. Carol Johnston—Arizona State University nutrition professor and registered dietitian known online as “The Vinegar Lady”—joins Rob to break down what decades of research actually say about vinegar, blood glucose, and metabolic health. Johnston explains how her work began with an obscure 1988…
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Episode 343 - Doing Well with Diabetes: Jyotsana Rangeen
On episode 3 of Doing Well with Diabetes Season 2, Rob and Jyotsana Rangeen discuss the journey of living with type 1 diabetes, focusing on the challenges of stigma, the importance of community support, and the transformative power of advocacy. Jyotsana shares her personal experiences from...
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Episode 345 - Leading with T1D featuring University Presidents Dr. Sally Kornbluth (MIT) and Ron Daniels (Johns Hopkins)
Summary In this episode, two university presidents, Dr. Sally Kornbluth (MIT) and Ron Daniels (Johns Hopkins) join Rob to talk about adult-onset Type 1 (LADA), leading in high-performance environments, and the single most “practical” diabetes upgrade: making a friend with diabetes. What stands…
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Episode 344 - Doing Well with Diabetes: Kerry Murphy
Episode 4 of Doing Well with Diabetes Season 2 features Kerry Murphy, wife and mother to multiple people with type 1 diabetes and founder of Follow T1Ds, who explains how her long, layered exposure to T1D—from her sister-in-law and husband to her niece and daughter—pushed her from terrified...
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Episode 342 - Doing Well with Diabetes: Overcoming Stigma in Sports
Episode 2 of Doing Well with Diabetes Season 2 focuses on “Overcoming Stigma in Sports,” highlighting two elite athletes living with type 1 diabetes outside the traditional Western spotlight. In part one, Rebeca Jara, a Costa Rican pole vaulter, shares her diagnosis at age seven, the...
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Episode 341 - Doing Well with Diabetes: Global Nutritionist Panel
On episode 1 of Doing Well with Diabetes Season 2 Rob opens with a global nutritionist panel featuring three voices from three continents—Ravi Subramanian (India/Australia), Sally Anne Shirto (Zimbabwe/South Africa), and Marina Cavalin (Brazil). Each shares how diabetes shaped their lives, their...
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Episode 340 - Jordan Keltner from Netlix' Love is Blind
Summary In this special episode of Diabetics Doing Things, Rob Howe interviews Jordan Keltner, a participant from Netflix's Love is Blind Season 9, who shares his journey as a caregiver for his son with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). They discuss the challenges of misdiagnosis, the importance of…
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Episode 339 - $11 Insulin for All: Civica Rx’s Breakthrough with CalRx and the Future of Affordable Insulin
In this episode of Diabetics Doing Things, host Rob Howe sits down with Allan Coukell, Chief Government Affairs and Public Policy Officer at Civica Rx, to discuss one of the most significant healthcare developments in years: California’s announcement that insulin pens will be available for $11…
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Episode 338 - DKA In Real Life: ‘It Can Happen to You’ with Danica Collins
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this video should not be used for medical diagnosis or treatment or as a substitute for professional medical advice. Individual symptoms, situations and circumstances may vary. Sponsored by Abbott Summary In this episode, Rob Howe interviews Danica Collins, a...
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Episode 337 - DKA In Real Life: a Caregiver’s Perspective with Leigh Fickling
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this video should not be used for medical diagnosis or treatment or as a substitute for professional medical advice. Individual symptoms, situations and circumstances may vary. Sponsored by Abbott Summary In this conversation, Leigh Fickling shares her journey…
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Episode 335 - Euglycemic DKA & Other Hidden Dangers with Dr. Eden Miller
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this video should not be used for medical diagnosis or treatment or as a substitute for professional medical advice. Individual symptoms, situations and circumstances may vary. Sponsored by Abbott Summary In this episode, Dr. Eden Miller discusses the concept of...
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Episode 336 - Strategies to Treat and Help Prevent DKA with Dr. Eden Miller
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this video should not be used for medical diagnosis or treatment or as a substitute for professional medical advice. Individual symptoms, situations and circumstances may vary. Sponsored by Abbott Summary In this episode of Diabetics Doing Things, Dr. Eden…
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Episode 334 - What is DKA? Breaking down the basics with Dr. Eden Miller
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this video should not be used for medical diagnosis or treatment or as a substitute for professional medical advice. Individual symptoms, situations and circumstances may vary. Sponsored by Abbott Summary In this episode, Dr. Eden Miller discusses diabetic...
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Episode 333 - Playing College Golf with T1D - Nancy Cox
In this episode, Nancy Cox shares her inspiring journey as a collegiate golfer living with type 1 diabetes. From her diagnosis to her recent tournament win, Nancy discusses the challenges and triumphs of managing diabetes while competing at a high level. She emphasizes the importance of...
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Episode 332 - Playing College Basketball with T1D - Cooper Farrall the T1D Hooper
In this episode, Rob Howe interviews Cooper Farrall, a college basketball player living with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). They discuss Cooper's journey from diagnosis at age 11, the challenges he faced growing up with diabetes in a small town, and his decision to share his story publicly to inspire...
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Episode 331 - Why Mental Health Matters in Diabetes Care with Cassadie Farnsworth
In this episode, Rob interviews Cassadie Farnsworth, a creator and advocate for those living with diabetes. Cassadie shares her personal journey of being misdiagnosed with type 2 diabetes before receiving the correct type 1 diagnosis. The conversation delves into the importance of mental health…
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Episode 330 - Zan Fleming - Founder and Executive Chairman of Kinexum
In this episode of the Diabetes Innovators Series, the conversation explores the evolution of diabetes treatment, the challenges faced in managing diabetes today, and the future of diabetes research. Zan, an endocrinologist and former FDA executive and Founder and executive chairman of Kinexum,...
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Episode 329 - Stacey Simms - Author & Host of Diabetes Connections & Diabetes Connections Presents Mom's Night Out
In this episode of the Diabetes Innovators Series, Rob interviews Stacey Simms, host of Diabetes Connections, author of World’s Worst Diabetes Mom Series, and host and creator of Diabetes Connections Presents Mom’s Night Out event. They discuss the innovative approaches to diabetes support,...
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Episode 328 - Dr. Leonard D'Avolio & Dr. Monica Gomberg - Blue Circle Health
In this episode of the Diabetes Innovators Series, Rob interviews Dr. Monica Gomberg and Leonard D'Avolio from Blue Circle Health, discussing the innovative approaches they are taking to improve diabetes care, particularly for those with type 1 diabetes. They emphasize the importance of...
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Episode 327 - Farhaneh Ahmadi - CEO & Co-Founder of Eddii
In this episode of the Diabetes Innovators Series, Rob interviews Farhaneh Ahmadi, CEO and co-founder of Eddii, a virtual care solution for diabetes management. They discuss the evolution of Eddie from a daily management app to a comprehensive virtual clinic, addressing barriers to endocrinology...
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Episode 326 - Jonathan Rigby - CEO and Chairman of Sernova
In this episode of the Diabetes Innovators Series, Rob interviews Jonathan Rigby, CEO of Sernova Biotherapeutics, about the innovative approaches to treating type 1 diabetes, particularly through the development of a biohybrid organ known as the cell pouch. Jonathan shares his personal journey as…
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Episode 325 - Dr. Viral Shah, Professor of Medicine of Endocrinology Indiana University
In this episode of the Diabetes Innovators Series, Rob interviews Dr. Viral N Shah discussing the Adjust T1D trial, which investigates the effects of semaglutide, a GLP-1 agonist, on adults with type 1 diabetes. The trial aims to explore adjunctive treatment options beyond insulin, focusing on...
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Episode 324 - Dr. Anath Shalev - Founder and CSO - TIXiMED
In this episode of the Diabetes Innovators Series, Rob interviews Dr. Anath Shalev discussing the recent advancements in TIXiMed's TIX100, an oral therapy for type 1 diabetes. The conversation covers the successful completion of a phase one study, the implications of the results, and the…
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Episode 323 - Dr. Mike C. Riddell - York University
In this episode of the Diabetes Innovators Series, Rob interviews Dr. Michael Riddell and discuss the latest innovations in diabetes management, particularly focusing on exercise, education, and emerging therapies. He emphasizes the importance of personalized approaches to diabetes care, the role...
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Episode 322 - Eric Benjamin - Chief Product and Customer Experience Officer at Insulet
In this episode of the Diabetes Innovators Series, Eric Benjamin, Chief Product and Customer Experience Officer at Insulet, discusses the latest innovations in diabetes management, particularly focusing on the integration of the Dexcom G7 with the Omnipod 5 system. He emphasizes the importance of...
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Episode 321 - Paul DiPerna - President and Chairman of Modular Medical
In this episode of the Diabetes Innovators Series, Paul DiPerna, President and Chairman of Modular Medical, discusses the innovative Pivot product designed for diabetes management. He emphasizes the need for simpler solutions for less engaged patients, reflecting on his journey in diabetes...
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Episode 320 - Scott Hebl - Vice President for Program Management at Medtronic
In this episode of the Diabetes Innovators Series, Scott Hebl, Vice President for Program Management at Medtronic, discusses the exciting innovations and future of the MiniMed brand following its separation from Medtronic. He highlights the importance of simplifying diabetes management through...
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Hosted by T1D Rob Howe, Diabetics Doing Things tells amazing stories of people with diabetes from across the globe, digging deep into everything it takes to Live Well with Diabetes and sharing exciting adventures along the way.
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