All the things I was rating prescriptions and referrals for, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, joint pain, anxiety and depression, gastrointestinal issues, hormone stuff, all of it.

They were very dependent on what we were eating and how we were moving and how we were managing

stress.

And yet there was no place on my prescription pad for food in any serious way or for movement

or for meditation or for any of the things that were the root cause drivers of some of these

conditions.

And so what I saw was that we'd created a revolving door

between primary care and specialist that was just spinning faster and faster. While people

got sicker and sicker and had a longer and longer list of drugs to take, and I was just like,

this is not going to work.

I'm Light Watkins, and today I've got another bite-sized plot twist podcast episode for you,

which is a shorter clip from a past episode where the guest shares the story of that pivotal moment in their life that directed them toward what ultimately became their path and their

purpose.

And sometimes that plot twist looks like getting fired from a job or losing a bunch of money.

Or in the case of today's guest, Dr. Robin Berzin, she was unfulfilled in what looked like a successful career path at the U.S. attorney's office.

And that became her wake-up call.

Robin realized that she wanted to help people rather than prosecute them, and that, combined with the memories of her grandmother's battle with preventable cancer, led Robin to pivot

to a path that would help to revolutionize how we think about health care.

Let's listen in.

Music how we think about health care. Let's listen in. I sold searched a bunch because I sat there and I was working at the U.S.

Attorney's Office, prosecuting securities, fraud is, you know, on a paralegal level,

supporting the prosecutors, really.

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