Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhat Makes a Life Worth Living?
Season 1 Episode 12
Dr. Ezekiel “Zeke” Emanuel has spent his career confronting medicine's toughest questions—how we care for the sick, how we face death, and whether li…
14 hours ago
What Dying Taught Me About Living
Season 1 Episode 11
Anita Moorjani spent much of her life afraid—of disappointing others, of illness, and ultimately, of death. Raised in a traditional Indian family in …
1 week ago
Knighted with a Diagnosis
At 30, Iain Ward was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and given five years to live. Rather than organize his life around dying, he started to run…
2 weeks ago
A Cancer Cure?
Season 1 Episode 9
For more than four decades, Dr. Azra Raza has pursued a radical idea at the heart of her acclaimed book The First Cell: What if, instead of chasing c…
3 weeks ago
Unstoppable
Season 1 Episode 8
At four years old, Dr. Dawn Mussallem became fascinated with living to 100—a childhood dream that would shape her life and career in ways she could n…
4 weeks ago
From Inspiration to Invention
Season 1 Episode 7
What began as work on a government research project led David Schmidt to an unexpected discovery—and ultimately, an invention he believed could reach…
1 month ago
The Long Game
Season 1 Episode 6
Four Super Bowl rings made Terry Bradshaw a football legend, while decades on television made his larger-than-life personality just as iconic. But th…
1 month, 1 week ago
The Couric Effect
Season 1 Episode 5
Cancer shattered Katie Couric’s life more than once—but she turned that profound loss into a mission with the same moxie that has defined her trailbl…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Food as Medicine: The Next Frontier of Medicine May Already Be on Our Plates
Season 1 Episode 4
Dr. William Li joins William Shatner & Melanie Shatner Gretsch to reveal the rapidly evolving science behind how what we eat can unlock the body’s ow…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Why We Get Triggered
Season 1 Episode 3
Dr. Gabor Maté explores with William Shatner & Melanie Shatner Gretsch how childhood experiences shape our stress responses, relationships, health, a…
2 months ago