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Hello Reader,

Before we talk about this week's podcast, we wanted to let you know about things we have coming up, the Clear & Caring Communication virtual workshop on September 3, 2026 2pm EST, 90 minutes, $45 with recordings: It's a sneak peek into what we're hoping to plan for our March 6, 2027 in-person event in Miami Beach! Stay tuned and keep reading these newsletters, we'll share here first!

This week on the podcast I spoke with Cory Jenks, PharmD, a clinical pharmacist who has spent more than a decade in primary care managing diabetes, hypertension, and chronic disease. He also performs and teaches improv comedy, and he now co-runs a diabetes remission coaching practice. The conversation covered both halves of that work.

We started with communication. Cory took an improv class early in his career, during a first year of practice he describes as white-knuckling. What he learned there changed how he talks to people at work. The core skill, he says, is identifying what the person in front of you actually wants. Sometimes it’s the obvious thing. More often it’s underneath: the nurse who wants her work acknowledged, the patient who wants to be heard for the first time, the colleague who is short with you because something else is going on. You can’t always give people what they want, but understanding it changes what’s possible in the conversation.

The second half was about physical health, and this is where I learned the most. Cory’s view is that type 2 diabetes is better understood as a muscle problem than a sugar problem. Most of the glucose we store as glycogen lives in skeletal muscle. When we lose muscle over the years without intervening, we lose the place to put it, and it ends up in the blood instead. Building and using muscle opens a pathway that clears glucose without relying on insulin.

The practical version is smaller than most of us assume. Fifteen minutes, twice a week, of slow strength work performed to muscle failure. Thirty seconds of squats several times across a day, which in one study moved blood sugar more than a single thirty-minute walk. Five minutes outside between cases. A ten-minute nap. He calls these micro recoveries, and his argument is not that they are ideal. It’s that they are available, and most of us skip them while waiting for an hour that never arrives.

Here is the teaching point I’d hold onto:

Caring for your own health isn’t in competition with caring for everyone else. It is what makes the rest of it sustainable.

My question for you this week: what is the smallest version of a health practice you’ve been postponing, and could you do it today?

You can find Cory at coryjenks.com and on his podcast, The Diabetes Remission Roadmap.

You can book him to speak, or check out his podcast!

🎧 Listen to the podcast sneak peek episode below and listen to the full episode on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, Podbean, or Amazon Music.

Stay mindful and keep leading,
Lillian
Founder & CEO

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