Episodes

  • Is Men’s Sexual Health a Biomarker for Overall Health? Dr. Paul Turek Thinks So

    Is Men’s Sexual Health a Biomarker for Overall Health? Dr. Paul Turek Thinks So
    Oct 27 2025
    This week, Jim is chatting with his own doctor, Dr. Paul Turek, one of the nation’s leading experts in male fertility and founder of The Turek Clinic. Jim and Dr. Turek talk about why sperm health reflects overall health, and how mental health, physical health, epigenetics, lifestyle, and environment ALL affect fertility. They discuss how men's resistance to the doctors is more often due to the fact that they are siloed. Kids have pediatricians. At 16, girls move on to their gynecologists, who become primary care doctors, while boy's health care fades. This conversation will hopefully help you see how men’s health and fertility require a holistic, 360-degree approach to the body, mind, and spirit. In this episode, you'll learn: 1. How sperm health reflects total wellness 2. How microplastics affect fertility 3. Why men lose consistent care after youth 4. How GLP-1 drugs may help sperm count 5. What happens during “manopause”
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    46 mins
  • Dr. Cliff Hudis on The Optimistic Future of Cancer Treatment

    Dr. Cliff Hudis on The Optimistic Future of Cancer Treatment
    Oct 13 2025
    This week, Jim is speaking with the incomparable Dr. Cliff Hudis about his work in oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering to his shift into the public sector as CEO of The American Society of Clininal Oncology. Cliff is a wealth of knowledge and insights and this audience will cling to every word. He's a delight of a person, full of warmth, heart, and just the right amount of fight. We discussed the first iteration of his career in breast cancer and the incredible leaps in treatment he witnessed including the discovery of BRCA and HER2 in the early 1990's. We're also Getting Real about the roadblocks in the way of advancing the research, development and treatment of cancer, specifically the push and pull between public and private sector funding. Cliff stresses the importance governmental funding plays in cancer treatment and boosting scientist and doctor morale. Finally, as always, we touch and music, specifically The Rolling Stones, which you won't want to miss! In this episode, you'll learn: 1. How coordinated global research efforts drove one of medicine’s biggest mortality declines 2. How agriculture, economics, and environment are as critical as biology in reducing risk 3. That federal funding is driver of progress. Bipartisan congressional support keeps research alive even in uncertain times 4. Where early detection stands and why evidence, not hype, defines what screening tools doctors should use on patients 5. What’s real and what’s not yet real in cancer vaccines and immunotherapy
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    48 mins
  • Dr. Adrienne Youdim Knows Why Hunger Is So Much Bigger Than Food

    Dr. Adrienne Youdim Knows Why Hunger Is So Much Bigger Than Food
    Sep 29 2025
    This week, the tables are turning! Jim is trading hot seats with Dr. Adrienne Youdim, physician, author, and TEDx speaker. He was on her podcast HealthBite and now she's on Get Real. He's worked with Dr. Youdim during his weight loss journey, both in number crunching and dietary shifts, and also in finding the source of his hunger, and thus his pain and grief. Dr. Youdim runs her practice in Beverly Hills where she helps high achieving clients shift their physical and emotional health, so that they can discover even greater professional health. She believes success is best achieved when we're connected to our well-being. We're excited to share her work and her expertise. In this episode, you'll learn: 1. About the importance of body composition when we're losing fat versus muscle 2. That true nourishment goes way beyond food 3. That hunger is way more than physical 4. That GLP-1's wont do the trick without comprehensive and consistent lifestyle shifts 5. That when we turn off the food noise and pause before reaching for the snack, we connect with feelings we need to in order to heal
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    39 mins
  • Scheana Shay Shares The Good Side of Talking About Mental Health

    Scheana Shay Shares The Good Side of Talking About Mental Health
    Sep 15 2025
    Jim is getting real with his friend Scheana Shay about her new book The Good Side. He met Scheana and her husband Brock with his late wife Audra a few years ago. They bonded over a shared belief in lifelong marriage and the resilience required for its ups and downs. Scheana opens up about living with OCD and postpartum OCD, the years of misdiagnoses, and what it felt like to finally put a name to her struggles. She and Jim talk about why telling the truth to friends and family is a requirement and how facing the truth is healing. Scheana also shares what it’s like to raise a daughter in the spotlight, balancing openness with protection. Writing The Good Side gave her a way to process her journey on Vanderpump Rules and The Valley. In this episode, you'll learn: 1. Whether Lisa Vanderpump has read Scheana's memoir 2. The ways her marriage is moving through its own truth telling 3. The origin of the name Summer, her daughter's name, and how it connects Jim to Scheana 4. How talking about her post partum OCD has helped other women get to their own diagnosis 5. The pressures of living life on reality TV
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    34 mins
  • How Shanna Adamic & Stephanie Trunzo Stay Audaciously Optimistic

    How Shanna Adamic & Stephanie Trunzo Stay Audaciously Optimistic
    Aug 25 2025
    For great leaders, optimism is a driving force. In this episode of Get Real, Shanna Adamic, Executive Director of the Oracle Health Foundation and author of Audacious Optimism, shares how her health journey and battle with a life-threatening brain tumor shaped her philosophy on resilient leadership. She’s joined by her good friend Stephanie Trunzo, CEO of Merge, who has guided major companies through transformation at the intersection of technology and business. Shanna reflects on her decade as an NFL cheerleader and her career in healthcare philanthropy. Stephanie offers her perspective on building a healthcare system that truly empowers patients. Together, they explore how audacious optimism fuels intuitive decision-making and the ability to turn challenges into opportunities. 5 Things You’ll Learn: - How “audacious optimism” can turn setbacks into growth. - What Shanna’s health journey teaches about resilience and leadership. - Why patient empowerment and storytelling matter in healthcare. - How Stephanie applies human-centered design to transform technology. - The impact of the Oracle Health Foundation in removing barriers to care.
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    45 mins
  • Jonathan Gluck, Journalist and Author of An Exercise in Uncertainty

    Jonathan Gluck, Journalist and Author of An Exercise in Uncertainty
    Aug 11 2025
    In today's episode, Jim is speaking with Jonathan Gluck about his new memoir An Exercise in Uncertainty. Gluck is a leading journalist, writing for publications like The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Vogue. He also served as the deputy editor of New York Magazine. Two decades ago, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a rare, incurable blood cancer, and told he had over a year to live. At its core, his memoir asks: how do we live our mortality? Tune in as we learn about coping with uncertainty with the incomparable, Jonathan Gluck. 1. How a slip on the ice led to an early cancer diagnosis 2. What treatable but not curable means and how his doctors have managed multiple myeloma over many years 3. How to cope with constant uncertainty 4. Why work can be a lifeline during long-term illness 5. How illness impacts a marriage and family, and the tools that help keep relationships strong
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    49 mins
  • Shelley Zalis, Founder and CEO of The Female Quotient

    Shelley Zalis, Founder and CEO of The Female Quotient
    Jul 21 2025
    On this episode of Get Real, Jim is joined by Shelley Zalis, Founder and CEO of The Female Quotient and the self-titled Chief Troublemaker. Shelley is the force behind one of the largest global communities of women in business. TFQ is 7 million strong across more than 100 countries. What began as a walk through CES with 50 women turned into a movement and a business... Shelley created a space she never had in business where women show up fully, support one another, and work together without sacrificing authenticity, and what makes them incredible as women. Shelley shares with Jim how she turned TFQ into a global brand, what she’s learned about being first, and why the soft skills we’ve undervalued for decades are some of the most essential leadership traits. In this episode, you’ll learn: 1. How Shelley scaled a single moment into a 7-million-women global platform 2. Why she believes every workplace should be redesigned 3. The evolution of The Female Quotient
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    34 mins
  • Dr. Mary Claire Haver, #1 Menopause Expert and Founder of The Pause Life

    Dr. Mary Claire Haver, #1 Menopause Expert and Founder of The Pause Life
    Jul 14 2025
    In this episode we're joined by the menopause GOAT, Dr. Mary Claire Haver. A board-certified OB-GYN, bestselling author, and truth-teller, Dr. Haver unpacks the science, stigma, and solutions surrounding menopause and perimenopause. She's breaking down what’s happening with your hormones and exposing the flawed studies that scared a generation of women away from HRT. Dr. Whether you're in your 40s or 70s, this is essential listening for anyone who wants to age smarter. In this episode, you’ll learn: 1. The difference between perimenopause and menopause and why your brain tracks the shift before your cycle does. 2. How flawed data from the 2002 WHI study derailed hormone therapy use for decades — and what the new research actually says. 3. Why hormone replacement therapy (HRT) isn't just about hot flashes. It protects your brain, bones, heart, and future independence. 4. More about GLP-1s and why traditional lifestyle advice often isn’t enough in midlife. 5. How to build your “nursing home prevention plan” through strength, nutrition, and medicine.
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    41 mins