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🩸All things Vascular surgery… and all things not

🎙️Miguel Montero-Baker
🎙️Lucas Ferrer Cardona

09/09/2025

Don't mind us!

Just celebrating that Life Of Flow Podcast received the Innovation in Vascular Education Award 2025 🏆✨

Huge thanks to the Global PAD Association for recognizing the work we’re doing to advance vascular education and patient impact around the world.

(And thanks to our friends Taylor Swift, Timothée Chalamet, Nick Offerman, and Angelina Jolie for photobombing our picture! 😉)

09/05/2025

The “diabetes diet” wasn’t designed to heal… but to keep the system running 👀 👉

�For decades, nutrition guidelines handed to patients have mirrored food industry interests more than actual outcomes.

Derrick Walker, a licensed dietitian who’s lived with type 1 diabetes for 35+ years, has seen it firsthand:

patients caught in a loop of carbs → insulin → more meds

while the root cause goes untouched.

But here’s the kicker: when patients finally get individualized nutrition therapy, results rival the impact of medications, and at a fraction of the cost.

According to the American Diabetes Association, strong evidence shows medical nutrition therapy can lower A1C by up to 2% and is more cost-effective than piling on prescriptions. Yet most patients never hear this until it’s too late…

�👉 Swipe through to see how the “diabetes diet” became one of the biggest traps in healthcare, and click here https://youtu.be/Ram1fompIbo for Derrick’s full episode.

08/22/2025

THE #1 RETIREMENT MISTAKE MOST HIGH-EARNING DOCTORS MAKE 👇

Most professionals focus on when they’ll retire, not how much they’ll need.

Frank Ross, Vice President & Wealth Advisor for Pentangle Wealth, says that shift in thinking can be the difference between financial freedom and running out of money.

3 steps to get it right:

1️⃣ Build an emergency cushion so you never sell investments in a crisis.

2️⃣ Start investing the moment you have $1 more than your safety net.

3️⃣ Avoid the emotional traps that make physicians buy high, sell low, and erase decades of compounding.

Why it works: These steps protect your wealth from the biggest threat, not the market, but your own behavior.

🎧 Click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3miagJEgC2c for the full episode with Frank Ross.

07/31/2025

5 voices. 1 episode. No scripts.

🧠 Tim Blair, , on walking away from a stable career, and why most founders don't make it.
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🫀 Dr. Jaafer Golzar on the moment PTAB stopped being a backup and became the first call.
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🇩🇪 Dr. Michael Lichtenberg on what’s still missing in CLI care, and why the amputation rate won’t budge.
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👶 Michelle Bruni , , on when to start bilingual parenting, and the myth that’s still holding parents back.
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🌍 Scott Addonizio on what he did when Trump’s tariffs hit 145%, and how he’s keeping BrosMed future-proof.

And a solo from us: bad advice, surgical pressure, and the stuff training doesn’t prepare you for.

🎧 👇 Click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg3ppZYyvkQ for the full episode!

07/24/2025

Most doctors are trained in controlled environments.

Dr. Antonio Muñoa wasn’t one of them.

He spent years treating patients deep in the jungle. No electricity, no OR, no support.

Just instinct, creativity, and the kind of pressure you can’t simulate in training.

And he’s still doing it. Hundreds of free surgeries a year, off-road, by choice.

This episode isn’t about heroism.

It’s about what medicine really demands when nothing else is there to help.

🎧 Full story on EP.77. Click here https://youtu.be/z5oKW-Kkfbw for the full episode.

07/23/2025

Most people avoid conflict zones.

He built a career in one.

Before Dr. Antonio Muñoa became a leading vascular surgeon, he spent years in the heart of Chiapas, navigating medicine during political unrest, isolation, and cultural divides, all while reimagining how healthcare could actually reach people.

What he learned there didn’t just shape his clinical instincts.

It reshaped his entire philosophy of care.

- How do you make surgery accessible when you have no tools?

- What happens when your OR is a jungle shack?

- And how do you not give up?

👇 Click here https://youtu.be/z5oKW-Kkfbw for the full episode.

07/17/2025

When a 145% import tax hit without warning, BrosMed COO Scott Addonizio had a decision to make: protect his margins, or protect his customers.

He chose the latter.

�He didn’t pass the cost down.

He didn’t panic.

�He stayed transparent and absorbed the hit.

This episode offers a look at real-time decision-making in MedTech, and what operational leadership looks like under pressure.

🎧 Click here for the full episode! https://youtu.be/B8LOr9GkNpU

07/10/2025

🧠 THE BRAIN DOESN’T JUST BURN OUT FROM DECISIONS. IT BURNS OUT FROM TINY FRICTIONS.

Writing an email from scratch.

�Rewording a message three times.

�Wondering if your tone sounds right.

All of this drains cognitive energy physicians need for higher-level thinking.

That’s why more clinicians are starting to integrate AI tools, not to replace judgment, but to streamline it!

Less back-and-forth.

�More clarity.

�Fewer loose ends in your head.

Over time, small reductions in friction add up to clearer thinking, and better decisions when it matters most.

🎧 Full conversation on Episode 75 of the Life of Flow Podcast! Click here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwEX8_lHVUk

07/08/2025

What if being “selfish” isn’t the problem in your relationship…

What if it’s the expectation to be selfless?

🎧 Click here https://youtu.be/zxaAbU_s_n8 for the full episode of the Life of Flow Podcast with #1 divorce lawyer James Sexton

07/03/2025

This is one of the biggest myths still floating around, even in 2025.

Raising a bilingual child won’t confuse them.

In fact, research shows that bilingual kids develop stronger cognitive flexibility and are better at problem-solving and switching between tasks.

➡️ Click here https://youtu.be/r77_LonalP0 to watch the full episode ft Michelle Bruni, PhD

06/26/2025

We’re still using a procedure that fails long-term, because no one wants to challenge it.

If you work in vascular, you’ve probably seen it.
Short-term wins that don’t hold.
Tools that look new but solve the same problem.
Outcomes that aren’t questioned nearly enough.

Dr. Michael Lichtenberg is calling it out.
And he’s not the only one thinking it.

Have you felt this too?
What do you think is holding the field back?

👉 Click here https://youtu.be/GPUqrCFvz3s for the full episode.

06/21/2025

What if the future of fem-pop bypass doesn’t involve a scalpel at all?

There’s a technique that’s giving cardiologists access to cases they’ve never touched, and making even seasoned surgeons pause. It’s fast, minimally invasive, and in some patients… it just works better.

But what makes it viable isn’t just the tech.
It’s knowing how to pick your cases, land your stent, and manage flow before anything goes down.

That’s what Dr. Jaafer Golzar breaks down in this week’s Life of Flow episode.
From real complications to the exact markers he watches post-op, you’ll hear the kind of details you don’t get from the podium.

💬 Click here https://youtu.be/MPuXZSpdNyE for the full episode.

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