In honor of #WorldCancerDay today, Team Powdered Donut’s weekly podcast is featuring a compilation of highlights from Season 1. We had an incredible slate of guests from across the cancer community, and today’s episode takes a key snippet from each of my conversations with a running commentary throughout. It’s been so much fun going back...

Today marks the 9th anniversary of Bill Keegan’s passing from cancer on January 27, 2017. This episode of the Team Powdered Donut™ podcast is a special one. Rather than an interview, this is a conversation. A conversation between two friends. Friends connected early in their careers at Apple. Friends that both met the loves of...

Some episodes are more personal than others. Today’s guest is Dr. Leon Platanias, Director, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University. Northwestern happens to be my alma mater, and I first met Leon in early 2014 when he was named interim director of the cancer center. After graduating Northwestern, I met my late...

As one chapter closes, another one has opened. In Emma’s words, “I am honored and overjoyed to have signed with the Indy Ignite Professional Volleyball team for the 2026 season! I am excited to get started and be back home in Indiana!” I am honored to have Emma start the next chapter of the Team...

Welcome to Season Two of the Team Powdered Donut™ podcast. For those that listened to Season One, you may recall the tradition that led to this podcast and my upcoming road trip via Airstream. On the weekend before my wife, Maureen, passed after 11 years with breast cancer, our oncologist prescribed donuts. We dutifully complied...

There are episodes and there are episodes. I couldn’t think of a better episode as we “wrap” Season One than this one with Dr. Gail Bones. This is an episode that was truly months in the making. I first met Gail on a flight from Austin to Nashville, which we discuss in the podcast. The...

Excited by this latest episode with Jonathan Reckford, CEO of Habitat for Humanity International. Jonathan and I ran into each other when the Jimmy & Rosalynn Carter Work Project came to Austin a few weeks ago. My family’s connection with Habitat for Humanity came when my late wife, Maureen, was getting her Masters at the...

Jane Kristen Marczewski, known as Nightbirde, was an inspiration to the world. Many remember her as the winner of Simon Cowell’s Golden Buzzer on America’s Got Talent in 2021, but most remember her by her wise words and demeanor. Jane represented so many who were going through their own difficult journeys when she walked on...

Super excited to be sharing this episode of the Team Powdered Donut™ podcast with Paula Schneider, now the honorary vice chair of Susan G. Komen as she transitions out of her role these past eight years as CEO. Two things as I drop this episode at the beginning of the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium....

From academia to patient centered research and now as the Chief Medical Officer for Blood Cancer United, Gwen Nichols is changing the paradigm of care for hematology patients. When faced by a diagnosis of blood cancer, you must have the right treatment to deal with the specific form of the disease. Gwen has followed her...