On January 28, 2026 we published the final episode of season 2 of our collaboration with the International Diabetes Federation “Doing Well with Diabetes.” Nearly 2 years ago, my friend who was working on the Kids with Diabetes in Schools program (KiDS) reached out about a series to highlight people with diabetes around the world who were high achievers on a global scale. We highlighted the most decorated T1D Olympian, and other Olympic Athletes, Olympic hopefuls and pro athletes. We called it “Doing Well with Diabetes” a nod to Diabetics DOING Things and IDFs focus on people around the world living well with diabetes.

Those episodes were exciting for me, but I continually come back to the idea that lived experience with diabetes contains multitudes. We are all different people with different experiences, cultures, environments and realities. So what was exciting for me, could be inaccessible to others, especially those who don’t live in primarily western first world countries (though the United States certainly doesn’t seem very first world these days).

So this year, we focused less on elite performance and instead chose Global Health and Wellbeing. We spoke with recreational athletes, advocates who are inspired to create change based on their own experiences, a global nutritionist panel highlighting the differences in diabetes care in Brazil, South Asia/India and Zimbabwe and finally, an incredible interview about advocacy and storytelling from my friend Jyotsana.

Our conversation reminded me of something that I feel the need to remind you of.

You are never alone! Sometimes you just need to be the first mover to create a space for more people like you. Jyotsana overcame a tremendous amount of stigma by sharing her life with diabetes publicly and because she did, thousands of other women with diabetes in India have connected with her.

You may think there’s no room for you to share your story with diabetes, or you may think you aren’t unique enough to stand out or that the diabetes space is too crowded, but you and your story may be exactly what someone thinks is missing from the space.

Naval Ravikant says “the only thing they can’t take from you is mastery.” I would add that your own story is something we all have mastery of, and no one can take that from you.

I hope you get as much from this episode and this ongoing collaboration with the International Diabetes Federation as I do.

Rob

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