The Correlation Between Purpose and Depression with Scott Kolbaba-Ep 26

On today’s episode, we are joined by Scott Kolbaba. Scott J. Kolbaba is a practicing physician of internal medicine for more years than he would like to admit. After college, he joined the Marine Corps where he served until he started medical school at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He graduated with honors and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Completing his residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, he subsequently appeared in Chicago Magazine as a “Top Doctor”. In what he calls his abundant leisure time, he enjoys writing. His first book, Physicians’ Untold Stories, has been an Amazon bestseller and is now internationally published. It is an anthology of stories about miraculous events in physicians’ lives.

He has always wanted to write a children’s book and his experiences in the adolescent psychiatric unit of Northwestern Medicine gave him the incentive. He was called to the emergency department to see a depressed young girl in a coma from a drug overdose. She recovered but he did not, and decided to write a positive uplifting book that would encourage young people to believe in themselves and to find their purpose. His new book, Clara’s Magic Garden, also an Amazon bestseller, is a collaboration with his son, Florin. It promotes the importance of love, acceptance, purpose and an appreciation for the natural world.

Some of his friends accuse him of doing things in a big way. He has raised championship pumpkins in his back yard, and he flies the largest kites on the beach. His children, tired of holding the strings, bought him an anchor for Christmas to hold the kites down. He has seven children and twelve grandchildren with one on the way. Even his dog, a Newfoundland, at 150 pounds is a gentle giant. He continues to practice medicine and hopes to write more books in what he calls his leisure time, between midnight and two a.m.

In this episode we discuss:

-The importance of purpose

-The correlation between purpose and depression

-How COVID impacted teens today

-Scott’s book Clara’s Magic Garden

-And so much more!

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How to connect with Scott:

Website: ClarasMagicGardenbook.com

LinkedIn: Scott Kolbaba, M.D.

How to connect with Matt:

Instagram: mattfindora