MedStory Podcast

Spencer Lalk

lalkspencer@gmail.com

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Booking Overview

An interview-led healthcare show focused on physicians, public health, medical innovation, entrepreneurship, and the human stories behind careers in medicine, typically featuring external doctors, healthcare leaders, and policy advocates. Strong pitch candidates include physician authors, healthtech founders, public health experts, healthcare executives, and clinicians with distinctive personal or systems-level stories; booking difficulty is medium because guests need credible professional expertise and a compelling narrative, but are not consistently celebrity-level figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 58

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 5.0/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Neutral

Location: USA

Contact Information

lalkspencer@gmail.com

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Host

Spencer Lalk - Host of a healthcare podcast featuring conversations with physicians, healthcare leaders, entrepreneurs, and public health advocates about medicine, innovation, and the human experience.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

medium
Typical Credentials:  
Physicians, healthcare executives, healthtech or medical entrepreneurs, public health leaders, policy advocates, and experts with firsthand experience of challenges facing patients or clinicians.
Required Achievements:  
Senior clinical or healthcare leadership, Public health or policy leadership, Medical or scientific expertise, Building a healthcare or healthtech venture, Advocacy or public communication on healthcare issues

Recent Guest Discussions

Russell Kennedy - Anxiety, Trauma, Stress Biology, Physician Burnout, Healing, And Reconnecting With The Body.

Jessica McIntyre - Physician Burnout, Panic, Infertility, Gender Expectations, Identity, Vulnerability, And Creating Supportive Spaces For Women In Medicine.

Devika Bhushan - Childhood Trauma, Stress Biology, Public Health Leadership, Misinformation, Crisis Response, Health-system Trust, And Empathetic Communication.

Basma Faris - Women’s Health, Endometriosis, Nutrition, Menopause, Chronic Disease, Medical Career Reinvention, And The Supplement Industry.

Annie Andrews - Gun Violence, Healthcare Access, Child Health Advocacy, Public Policy, And Moving From Clinical Care Into Political Action.

Recent Topics

Healthcare, Healthtech, Physician Wellness, Health Policy, Medical Leadership

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
MedStory Podcast
:

Anxiety Is Not a Mind Problem, It's a Body Problem

June 10, 2026

Dr. Russell Kennedy grew up watching his father, who had schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, deteriorate into psychiatric crisis, and spent decades trying to outrun the same fate. In this raw and wide-ranging conversation, the physician, neuroscientist, and former stand-up comedian shares how an LSD trip in 2013 cracked open what years of cognitive therapy couldn't: that anxiety lives in the body, not the mind. From a moment of accidental enlightenment on a rooftop in India to nearly losi...

Medicine Tamed the Me Out of Me

March 09, 2026

In this episode, Jessica McIntyre, MD shares the 2:00 AM moment during a 28-hour ICU shift when everything cracked. After intubating a critically ill baby, she walked into the call room and had her first panic attack. That moment forced her to confront a painful truth: medicine had disconnected her from herself.What followed was unexpected. A late-night Google search led her to the Wild Woman Project, a mountaintop retreat that changed the trajectory of her career and identity. She opens up a...

From Pediatrician to Acting Surgeon General During COVID

March 02, 2026

In this episode, Dr. Devika Bhushan shares her journey from practicing pediatrician to serving as California’s Acting Surgeon General during one of the most turbulent periods in modern public health. Stepping into the role in the middle of COVID, she helped lead statewide efforts around trauma-informed care, crisis response, and rebuilding trust in health systems.She explains the science behind childhood trauma and stress biology, how misinformation erodes public confidence, and what it takes...

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