On this episode of Off the Clock, I’m joined by my friend Diana, one of the fiercest and warmest women I know, a great storyteller, and one of the most driven professionals I've ever met. Here’s some of what we talk about:

First question: What is the most baller way of dropping off your child at a birthday party?

• stories of crooked Colombian priests, escaping Pablo Escobar’s men and fleeing to America
• steering your kids away from classmates whose parents suck
• the origin of her love of medicine because nurses let her sneak in as a kid during her mom’s treatment and prep for brain surgery
• her fearlessness in standing up to bullsh*t authority
• we unpack some of the saga of our elementary school getting closed
• our insanely all over the map musical tastes including Limp Bizkit! DMX! George Strait! Brooks & Dunn! Metallica!
• what it’s like acclimating to America in the 90s and being the only non-white person in her school
• the Max show The Pitt, nurses who smoke, empathy and violence against medical practitioners
• travel stories of Europe and Mexico and how she knew she loved her now husband
• the counter instinct of wanting people to reply “no” to your wedding invitation and our weirdly synchronous anniversary dates

Theme song by Sorry Sweetheart.

Logo by Nebulus Visions.

Produced by Deft Communications.

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Recorded on my back porch.