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…
2 days, 16 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, 2 days 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, 2 days 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, 2 days 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…
1 month 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, 1 week 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, 2 weeks 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