408: She drew cartoons through medical school - now she has over 90,000 Substack subscribers (with Laurie Marbas)

How to Write for a Living · May 31, 2026 · 1h 9m

Season 4, episode 8 is here!Laurie Marbas, MD, MBA started her Substack on January 6th, 2025. She had three kids in medical school, served in the Air Force, built and sold a telemedicine company, and spent 25 years as a physician before any of that.This conversation went everywhere, and it was brilliant.What we covered:- How Laurie got through medical school with three small children by drawing cartoons, and why she still remembers everything she drew 25 years later.- What lifestyle medicine actually means in practice, and why Laurie thinks putting it at the centre of medical education would…