The Better Daily Podcast
Small shifts, big life.
Insights on personal development, wellness, and leadership - from the lens of a cardiovascular Radiologist, parent, and a life-long learner.
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Episodes
9 episodes
Personal Board of Directors: Five Voices Shaping Your Life
You already have a board of directors deciding the shape of your life. You just never elected them.When I moved from India for medical training, I lost my entire social circle overnight. What replaced it, almost by accident, changed how...
7. Decision Residue - Why Your Worst Choices Happen After Your Best Ones
You just made an excellent decision at work. Strategic, well-reasoned, consequential. Then you went home, ate garbage for dinner, skipped the workout, scrolled for ninety minutes, and snapped at someone you love.That is not a discipline ...
6. The 70% Rule
If your default thought when someone asks for help is "it is faster if I just do it myself," you do not have a time problem. You have a control problem. And it is the most expensive problem in leadership.In Episode 6 of The Better Daily...
5. The Conversation Tax
Silence is not peace. Silence is delayed conflict with compound interest. Every week you avoid a hard conversation, the cost goes up. Not linearly. Exponentially.In Episode 5 of The Better Daily, I draw on a clinical category called "st...
4. What to Do When Your "Why" Stops Working
Everyone talks about finding your why. Nobody talks about what to do when your why stops working — when you can still recite your mission but you can't feel it in your chest anymore.In this episode, I share the stretch in the ca...
3. Why Your Morning Is Decided the Night Before
For years I chased the perfect 5 AM routine, and it collapsed every time. Not from a lack of discipline, but because I was trying to win the morning with a sequence built by someone who did not have my life.The shift came when I stopped...
2. Triage Your Life: The One Question That Cuts Through Noise
In a cardiac cath lab at 2 AM, the interventionalist who saves the patient doesn't try to do everything at once. She asks one question — the most important question in clinical medicine: "What will cause irreversible harm if I ignore it for the...
1. The Scan That Changes Everything
The finding that changes a life is almost never the obvious one. It is not the large mass. It is the faint calcium in a coronary artery, the thing you would miss if your eyes were not trained to look for it.Your life works the same way....