About this episode

Rob interviews Dylan Leonard about his experiences with diabetes, travel, and his documentary on elite athletes with type one diabetes.

When mutual friends in the diabetes community kept telling Rob he had a doppelganger in LA, he figured they were exaggerating. Then he met Dylan Leonard — creative director, documentary filmmaker, college basketball player, type one diabetic, philosophy reader, world traveler — and yeah, the comparisons held up pretty well. Dylan was diagnosed at 15, having dropped 45 pounds before anyone realized something was wrong. He went from a hospital bed thinking he'd never eat sugar again to playing college basketball while managing T1D without a CGM, without a pump, and without knowing a single other person with diabetes for his first decade. What carried him through was activity — six hours of workouts a day during basketball season — and a mindset he's been intentionally building ever since through reading, travel, and genuinely hard conversations with himself. This episode goes wide. Rob and Dylan dig into Dylan's upcoming documentary Breaking Limits: Life on the Edge, which follows elite athletes with type one diabetes across seven different sports — from Olympic competitors to IndyCar drivers to American Ninja Warriors. Dylan invested his own money and thousands of hours into this…

People in this episode

Host: Rob

Guest: Dylan Leonard

Topics covered

• travel
• diabetes
• documentary filmmaking
• athletics
• personal development
• philosophy

Keywords

• type one diabetes
• documentary
• basketball
• travel education
• personal growth
• athletes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Breaking Limits, American Ninja Warriors, IndyCar, Olympic

Places: LA, California

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