Failing Up flips the script on failure and dives deep into the journeys of founders and entrepreneurs as they share their most pivotal setbacks and the invaluable lessons learned along the way. Failure is not a setback, but a stepping stone to success, offering insights that success often obscures.
I explore the raw, unfiltered stories behind the most painful lessons.
Beating Breast Cancer While Raising $10M | Vanessa Rissetto on The Future of Medicine
In this episode of Failing Up, I sit down with Vanessa Rissetto, CEO and co-founder of Culina Health — a registered dietitian, founder, mother, and certified badass — to talk about what she learned while battling breast cancer while raising $10M to build her company. This is a conversation about resilience, systems that fail us, and what real health actually looks like when the stakes are life-or-death.
We unpack the uncomfortable truths about modern healthcare:
– The hidden biases inside the medical system
– Whether “automated doctors” and AI should replace human care
– How obesity actually evolved (and what GLP-1s get right — and wrong)
– Why your microbiome diversity matters more than you think
– And why holistic health beats over-medicating every time
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:00 – Experiencing breast cancer
8:00 – Biases in the medical field
14:00 – Are automated doctors the future?
17:00 – Obesity, GLP-1s, and metabolic health
24:00 – Why microbiome diversity matters
34:00 – Holistic health vs. over-medication
50:00 – Speed round: health facts vs myths
55:00 - Thanks Vanessa for joining!
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10 Feb 2026
Don’t Let Life Harden You: Staying Optimistic When the World Gets Cynical with John Gillen
Claire sits down with John Gillen — Co-Founder of True Capital and host of Milk Road Macro — for a conversation about responsibility, resilience, and staying optimistic when the world feels cynical. From New York City’s budget crisis to the pressure of speaking out on public issues, John shares why he chooses eternal optimism — even when it’s unpopular.
We talk about:
- why leaders have a responsibility to speak
- how politics affects everyday life more than we admit
- the danger of becoming jaded
- why the hardest thing to protect isn’t money — it’s your mindset
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Zohran’s budget problem in NYC
11:00 - Responsibility to speak on issues
16:30 - Operating with Eternal Optimism
30:00 - Don’t let life harden you
39:00 - Are we all too jaded?
7 Jan 2026
The Truth About Biohacking: What Works, What’s Hype, What’s Dangerous
Biohacking promises better focus, stronger bodies, and longer lives—but where does optimization turn into obsession?
In this episode, Anthony from Feel Better Lab breaks down what biohacking actually is, what’s worth doing, and where the ethical line starts to blur. From olive oil and breathwork to concentration studies and the question of living forever, this is a grounded conversation on upgrading the human system without losing your humanity.
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1:00 - Olive Oil
3:00 - Where Anthony’s love for biohacking came from
11:00 - How biohacking has changed throughout the years
15:30 - Biohacks that are worth it
18:30 - Anthony’s concentration study
25:00 - Breathework/Sound science
30:00 - the line of ethics in biohacking
38:30 - Would you live forever if you could?
48:00 - Will biohacking make us “stronger?”
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