Mike Baker — Author, Healthcare CEO, Speaker and Advocate
Beautifully
Unfocused
I never planned to build any of this. I went into community health through AmeriCorps in 1999 and thought I had found a job. Twenty-seven years later I am still there, and for the last seventeen I have led Heritage Health, a community health center in North Idaho.
Somewhere in those years I started making things, because there were things happening in my family, my work and my own head that I could not leave alone. The AI art came first. Then music, then a podcast, then the books. I have always been an advocate, and watching Kellie and Sammie live with endometriosis turned that advocacy toward women’s health. From the outside, I understand why this looks like too many things. From where I sit, it is one life.
Or start with a book → Latest · essay published Sep 2, 2026
The People You Sort of Know
I have been traveling quite a bit lately, and coming home has made me notice something about home that I had never given much thought. There are the o
I Still Reach for My Mom
There are still moments when something happens and my first instinct is to tell my mom.
AI Is Making Us Better at Working Alone. I’m Not Sure We Understand What That Changes.
AI is making individuals more capable — and quietly changing how much we rely on each other at work. What leaders should watch as the tools spread.
What to Say When Your Wife Is in Pain and You Can’t Fix It
For a long time I thought being a good husband meant being the person who could make things better. Then I found myself loving people through pain I could not solve.
Believe her the first time
People with endometriosis wait years to be believed. I watched people I love go through it. So I wrote the book, made the art, and say it out loud in rooms where decisions get made.
Still Here, Still Trying
We Got Lucky. That Is the Problem: Endometriosis, Diagnosis Delays, and Advocacy
Ordinary Tuesday
Fourteen songs about the moments between the chapters, named after my newsletter. Out now here and on SoundCloud, streaming to follow.
I’ll send you the next one
My letter is called Just an Ordinary Tuesday. Essays mostly, and now and then a song, an episode, some artwork, or something from the advocacy work.
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