Diabetics Doing Things Podcast

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Episode 358 - Travel, Diabetes, and Disrupting What You Think You Know with Dylan Leonard

June 17, 2026

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 comparisons held up pretty well. Dylan was diagnosed at 15, having dropped 45 pounds before anyone realized something was wrong. He went from a hospital bed thinking he'd never eat sugar again to p...

Episode 357 - Racing at 150 MPH with Type 1 Diabetes: Tyler Cooke's Life in the Fast Lane

June 10, 2026

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 gets into what it actually looks like to manage blood sugar in a fire suit, in a 130-degree cockpit, at 150 miles per hour, sometimes at 3 a.m. Tyler takes us back to his diagnosis in 2006 — an ICU...

Episode 356 - Six Marathons in Two Years: Steven Cannady on T1D, Race Prep, and Living Big (Copy)

June 04, 2026

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. Neither of them knew this until they were halfway through this conversation. Twenty-one years later, they're both living actively with T1D and talking openly about it, and it shows. Steven has run si...