The Executive Edge podcast, Episode 245.
Dr Kenneth Ro MD has spent 35 years in emergency medicine. He kept seeing the same thing. Men who hadn’t seen a doctor in a decade, arriving with a heart attack or stroke that changed everything.
So Ken changed his approach. He now works upstream, helping high-performing men and women deal with health risks long before they reach A&E.
Around 80% of the people I work with are men. Much of what Ken shared felt very familiar.
In this episode
Why decline creeps up so slowly we barely notice
The one question to ask your doctor next time
How success quietly builds an echo chamber around leaders
Why midlife is an identity shift, not a crisis
The new scorecard for the second half of life
A Maasai warrior’s surprising definition of a man
The price of success
The more senior you become, the less honest feedback you get. Nobody tells the boss. And the boss rarely asks. Meanwhile, the body keeps score. Ken explains how to read the signs before it sends the bill.
Takeaway
Pause before you react. Start each day intending to respond rather than knee-jerk. Reflect on it that evening. Do it again tomorrow. Small days add up.
And break the silence.
Ken believes the biggest risk to men’s health isn’t cholesterol or blood pressure. It’s silence, and the loneliness that follows.
If you love a man, help him start that conversation.
About Ken
Ken is a double board-certified physician, creator of the RECLAIM Method and author of Prime: How to Win the Second Half of Life. He now practises precision medicine with Wild Health and also runs Back in the Game Men, his programme for men’s midlife health. He speaks to organisations on performance, sleep and burnout resilience.
Find out more
Website: kennethromd.com
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