Episodes

Oct. 15, 2025

Standard Deviation EP2: Domino Effect

Dr. Nikki Maphis didn’t just lose a grant. She lost a lifeline. An early-career Alzheimer’s researcher driven by her grandmother’s diagnosis, Nikki poured years into her work—only to watch it vanish when the NIH’s MOSAIC prog...
Oct. 13, 2025

Family Reach: The Charity America Forced Into Existence

Carla Tardiff has spent 17 years as the CEO of Family Reach, a nonprofit that shouldn’t have to exist but absolutely does—because in America, cancer comes with a price tag your insurance doesn’t cover. We talk about shame, fe...
Oct. 6, 2025

The Genes of Wrath: Jennifer J. Brown

Jennifer J. Brown is a scientist, a writer, and a mother who never got the luxury of separating those roles. Her memoir When the Baby Is Not OK: Hopes & Genes is a punch to the gut of polite society and a medical system that ...
Oct. 1, 2025

Introducing Standard Deviation EP1: The Impossible Climb

This episode of Standard Deviation features Oliver Bogler in conversation with Dr Na Zhao, a cancer biologist caught in the crossfire of science, politics, and survival. Na’s life reads like a brutal lab experiment in persist...
Sept. 29, 2025

Sorry, Your Awareness Campaign is Showing

Katie Henry has seen some things. From nonprofit bootstraps to Big Pharma boardrooms, she’s been inside the machine—and still believes we can fix it. We go deep on her winding road from folding sweaters at J.Crew to launching...
Sept. 22, 2025

The Uncensored, Unapologetic Olivia Battinelli

What happens when you hand a mic to the most extroverted, uncensored Gen Z career coach in New York? You get Olivia Battinelli—adjunct professor, student advisor, mentor, speaker, and unfiltered truth-teller on everything fro...
Sept. 15, 2025

Miss Diagnosed: Sophie Sargent

Sophie Sargent walked into the studio already owning the mic. A pandemic-era media rebel raised in New Hampshire, trained in Homeland Security (yep), and shaped by rejection, she’s built a career out of DM’ing her way into ro...
Sept. 8, 2025

Building Tools, Not Excuses: Rethinking Healthcare with Marc Elia

This episode is sponsored by Invivyd, Inc. Marc Elia is a biotech investor, the Chairman of the Board at Invivyd, and a Long COVID patient who decided to challenge the system while still stuck inside it. He’s not here for cor...
Sept. 1, 2025

LEAD EP5: Redemption

After years of carrying the weight of lead, Shannon and Cooper find a path out from under the darkness and into the sunlight. LEAD: how this story ends is up to us is an audio docudrama series that tells the true story of one...
Aug. 25, 2025

LEAD EP4: The Long Haul

The deficits from the lead poisoning continue to intensify, Shannon channels her anger and grief into holding the people who hurt her son responsible. LEAD how this story ends is up to us is a true story written and produced ...
Aug. 18, 2025

LEAD EP3: Fraying at the Edges

The effects of the neurotoxin are taking their toll on Cooper as Shannon desperately tries to navigate the severity of their new reality. LEAD how this story ends is up to us is a true story written and produced by Shannon Bu...
Aug. 11, 2025

LEAD EP2 : Stop the Spiral

As the lead wreaks havoc on Cooper's development, Shannon searches for answers. Desperate to get a handle on what was happening to her son, she grabs onto a lifeboat - nursing school. Andy tries to piece together the past to ...
Aug. 4, 2025

LEAD EP1: The Monster in the Walls

A mysterious dust fills a young family’s apartment. The truth begins to unravel when the mother gets a call from the pediatrician - the monster deep within the walls has been unleashed. LEAD how this story ends is up to us is...
July 28, 2025

Meet My Grief: Notes from an Orphaned Teen

Lexi Silver is 15 years old. She lost both of her parents before she turned 11. That should tell you enough—but it doesn’t. Because Lexi isn’t here for your pity. She’s not a sob story. She’s not a trauma statistic. She’s a w...
July 21, 2025

The Cancer Fun House: Michele Andrews

Michelle Andrews built a career inside the pharma machine long before anyone knew what “DTC” meant. She helped launch Rituxan and watched Allegra commercials teach America how to ask for pills by name. Then she landed in the ...
July 14, 2025

D.A.M.M. Good Trouble: Ann Marie Morse

Dr. Anne Marie Morse walks into the studio like a one-woman Jersey Broadway show and leaves behind the best damn TED Talk you’ve never heard. She’s a neurologist, sleep medicine doc, narcolepsy expert, founder of D.A.M.M. Goo...
July 7, 2025

The Elastic Life of Gigi Robinson

Gigi Robinson grew up with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a disease that turns your joints into overcooked spaghetti. Instead of letting it sideline her, she built a career out of telling the truth about invisible illness. We talk a...
June 30, 2025

The Bronx Bleeds Blue: Vanessa Ghigliotty vs. Everyone

Episode Description: If you’ve ever wondered what happens when a Bronx-born pediatric nurse with stage 4 colon cancer survives, raises a kid, becomes a policy shark, and fights like hell for the ignored, meet Vanessa Ghigliot...
June 23, 2025

Ask Better Questions or Die Trying: Risa Arin

Risa Arin doesn’t just talk about health literacy. She built the damn platform. As founder and CEO of XpertPatient.com (yes, expert with no E), Risa’s taking a wrecking ball to how cancer education is delivered. A Cornell alu...
June 16, 2025

Pediatric Engineering for the Rest of Us: Dr. Jamie Wells

Dr. Jamie Wells is back—and this time, she brought a book. We cover everything from biomedical design screwups to the glorified billing software known as the EHR. Jamie's new book, A Clinical Lens on Pediatric Engineering , i...
June 9, 2025

Pinky Swear: Erica Campbell and The Wanted Mastectomy

Erica Campbell walked away from corporate life, took a hard left from the British Embassy, and found her calling writing checks for families nobody else sees. As Executive Director of Pinky Swear Foundation, she doesn’t waste...
June 2, 2025

Dr. Allyson Ocean Unfiltered: Science, Colons and Calling BS

Allyson with a Y. Ocean with two Ls. And zero chill when it comes to changing the face of cancer care. Dr. Allyson Ocean has been quietly—loudly—at the center of every major cancer breakthrough, nonprofit board, and science-b...
May 30, 2025

[BONUS] No One Told Me: COVID and Cancer

Sponsored by Invivyd, Inc. Nobody wants to hear about COVID-19 anymore. Especially not cancer patients. But if you’ve got a suppressed immune system thanks to chemo, radiation, stem cell transplants—or any of the other alphab...
May 26, 2025

Constellations and Cancer: A Storytelling Rebellion with Lisa Shufro

EPISODE DESCRIPTION Lisa Shufro is the storyteller’s storyteller. A musician turned innovation strategist, TEDMed curator, and unapologetic truth-teller, Lisa doesn’t just craft narratives—she engineers constellations out of ...