The Combustion Chronicles

Two decades ago, a friend gave Myra Biblowit a vision and a challenge: cure breast cancer. As CEO of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Myra has made major strides towards that goal. She believes a bold vision inspires you to take risks and happily fail forward. In this week’s episode, we learn how Myra’s passion to fulfill her vision inspires commitment, creativity, and support and how her willingness to take bold risks has helped her achieve big results.

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Disruption ain’t easy, but that’s precisely why healthcare futurist Dr. Zayna Khayat knows it needs to happen, even when it feels like you’re being kicked in the teeth every day. On this week’s episode, Zayna recounts her journey from PhD biochemist to disruptor extraordinaire, and the hard-learned lessons along the way. She covers everything from the power of “creative destruction” to why health innovators don’t have to worry about job security.

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Like a lot of Americans, Dave and Erin Leaverton struggled with the political divisions they saw and felt after the 2016 elections. From Facebook fights to coffee shop arguments, they couldn’t stop wondering, “What would it take to bring unity to America?” Instead of just talking about this question or adding to social media echo chambers, they quit their jobs, put their three kids in an RV, and set out on a year-long journey across the country to search for an answer. Their year on the road is a story of challenge, hope, pain, change, and, of course, a big ol’ pile of disruption.

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One of Modern Healthcare’s Top 10 Leaders in Healthcare, Sean Slovenski has a knack for disruption, a commitment to transforming healthcare, and a fearless attitude towards failure. Throughout his storied career (including a recent stint as the president of Health and Wellness for Walmart, Inc.), he’s challenged companies to start with the customer/patient first and then build from there. In this wide-ranging interview, Slovenski discusses how consumers’ need for transparency, choice, affordability, and convenience is driving healthcare innovation and how compassion can combine with scalability for explosive results.

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Just months after landing a plum role on All My Children, Colin Egglesfield found his world turned upside down. A testicular cancer diagnosis threatened his career—and potentially his life. But the cancer (which he eventually beat) was just the latest obstacle on his journey from severe shyness to screen success. This week on The Combustion Chronicles, Colin, author of Agile Artist: Life Lessons from Hollywood and Beyond, tells Chief Ecosystem Disruptor Shawn Nason how he survived rejection, confronted his fears, and realized the power of the mind to attract positive people and outcomes.

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Every company in every industry is facing disruption as tastes change, profit margins shrink, and barriers to entry fall for upstart rivals. Soon Yu, former global VP of innovation at VF Corporation, says the key to avoiding obsolescence is to build iconic advantage. No, that doesn’t mean designing prettier smartphone icons; it means pursuing a strategy that builds real differentiation and turns your business into a cultural icon. Dig into this week’s episode with us as Soon explores the concept of iconic advantage. He gives us a sneak peek at his book of the same name, which challenges businesses to refocus their innovation priorities by building greater iconicity—yes, that’s a thing—and establishing timeless distinction and relevance.

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Paula Schneider made her name as an apparel-brand turnaround exec. Now she’s making her mark as CEO of cancer charity Susan G. Komen. At Komen Paula is fighting to slash breast cancer deaths by 50 percent in just six years. And the fight is personal: She lost her mother to metastatic breast cancer and is herself a survivor of the disease. Join us for this week’s episode as Paula discusses how she beat cancer, fought her way up the corporate ladder, and is now applying a turnaround mindset to keep breast cancer top of mind during a worldwide pandemic. No, cancer isn’t canceled—not yet anyway.

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COVID-19 has disrupted healthcare like a Cat 5 hurricane. So what comes next? And how do we create positive change on the other side of the pandemic? Jane Sarasohn-Kahn thinks she knows. The CEO of THINK-Health and founder of the Health Populi blog, Jane is a health economist, advisor, trend weaver, and author. And she’s our guest on this week’s episode. Join us as she shares her insight about three Ts—telehealth, trauma, and trust—the importance of self-care, and what it means to be a health citizen.

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Las Vegas-based artist Juan Muniz wants people to know it’s OK not to be OK. In his new book I’m Not OK, he utilizes simple, meaningful illustrations and quotations to create space for people to voice their own struggles with mental health. Shining a light on mental health, depression, and anxiety is a theme of much of his work, including his popular Ninobuni World lifestyle brand. We get disruptively raw on this week’s episode as Juan shares his own struggles to understand feelings of loss and confusion and the importance of “Say it simple; mean it deep.”

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Who better to disrupt the healthcare system than a Stanford- and Harvard-trained physician-scientist, entrepreneur, inventor, and innovator with more than 25 years of experience in clinical practice, biomedical research, and healthcare transformation? That’s Dr. Daniel Kraft, our guest on this week’s episode. Kraft is the brain behind IntelliMedicine—think personalized prescriptions you 3D print at home—and says the future of healthcare is being built by astrophysicists, gamers, and maker folks, not by doctors and biotech researchers. Tune in to hear why he calls the COVID-19 pandemic our Apollo 13 moment and why he thinks we’re in the midst of a practice pandemic. (Yikes!)

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