Three shows, one newsletter, and one physician trying to make sense of it out loud.
Calvin Carr thought success looked like wearing a suit and working on Wall Street. Instead, he ended up building a marketing agency called Trash Marketing. In this conversation, we trace Calvin’s journey from growing up in Portland, Maine, to studying economics and finance at Tulane, working at some of the largest advertising agencies in the world, helping scale venture-backed startups, and ultimately walking away to build something of his own.
Murray Morella didn’t start out as an elite endurance athlete. In fact, there was a point in his life when he was overweight, unhealthy, struggling with bad habits, and questioning the direction of his career. One day,
Dr. Oksana Nimkevych came to the United States with a six-month-old baby, spent 18 months studying for Step 1 in a library after Katrina, and built a life in medicine from the ground up. Now she’s a nephrologist, pract
What does it really take to become a surgeon… and stay one? In this episode of *The Last Zebra*, I sit down with Dr. Barton Wax, a hand surgeon whose journey didn’t follow a straight line.
What happens when you spend years building a career that looks perfect on paper… but doesn’t feel right anymore? In this episode of The Last Zebra, Dr. Effie Richardson shares a journey that doesn’t follow the script.
What does it really mean to “put someone to sleep”? For Dr. Omotore Eruvwetere, it’s not just a procedure—it’s a moment of trust, fear, and responsibility… all happening in minutes.
On patience, uncertainty, and the parts of medicine that do not compress well.
Three moments I did not have language for at 27, and do now.
Latin, medicine, and the sentence I keep coming back to.
Ten threads that keep coming up. Pull one.
