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I run a community health center. I’ve written thirteen books, made sixty-five albums, and I host a podcast about staying human. My wife and daughter both live with endometriosis, which is how I ended up doing advocacy I never planned on.

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What I’m good to talk about

• Believing women takes more than believing them.
  My wife and daughter both live with endometriosis. I watched what it costs to be doubted by people who love you and by systems built to help you. What I got wrong first was thinking belief was the finish line. It is not. It is the entry fee.
• What a man’s role in women’s health looks like when you stop performing it.
  I overcorrected. I wanted to direct the care plan, explain the disease back to people, be the loudest guy in the advocacy space. This is a story about learning to be useful instead of visible, and I am happy to tell it against myself.
• Running a mission when the money does not care about the mission.
  I started in community health in 1999 as an AmeriCorps volunteer. I am the CEO now. Twenty-five years in one field teaches you the hardest problem is not access or funding or staffing. It is holding the mission steady while you make the business work.
• ADHD, and what it is like to be married to it.
  Not ADHD as a diagnosis to explain. ADHD as the thing your family lives beside. The honest version, including the parts where I am the difficulty.
• Using AI without letting it eat the human part.
  I make art, music and books with these tools and I am not defensive about it. I am also not evangelical. The question I keep coming back to: what is the tool helping you build, and where does it point people?
• Making a lot of things, and whether that is focus or avoidance.
  Thirteen books. Sixty-five albums. A podcast. Everyone says pick one. I have an answer, and it is not a productivity system.
• Grief, caregiving, and the ordinary Tuesdays.
  The parts of loss nobody schedules around. This is where my audience actually lives.

Ten questions you can lift

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1. Your wife and daughter both live with endometriosis. What did you get wrong first?
2. You have said belief is the entry fee, not the finish line. What does that mean in practice?
3. You have talked about becoming the loudest person in the advocacy space. What happened?
4. You went from AmeriCorps volunteer to CEO of the same kind of organization. What does that let you see that other executives do not?
5. What is the decision that looks obvious on a spreadsheet and wrong in a waiting room?
6. You have written thirteen books and made sixty-five albums. Is that focus, or is it avoidance?
7. What is it actually like to be married to someone with ADHD, from the other side of it?
8. You make art and music with AI and you are open about it. What is the line you will not cross?
9. What do you say to a man who wants to help and keeps making it worse?
10. You called the podcast Still Here, Still Trying. Who is that for?

What I sound like

• EndoBattery
  Super Hero Dad: Advocating for Teen Daughter, Wife, and The Endo Warriors
• The Optimist’s Way
  Two appearances, on Apple Podcasts
• Core Solutions
  AI and the Future of Integrated Care — an executive perspective
• Still Here, Still Trying
  My own show, now in season two

Bio

Short. Mike Baker is a healthcare CEO, author of thirteen books, and an endometriosis advocate in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. He hosts the podcast Still Here, Still Trying.

Medium. Mike Baker began in community health in 1999 as an AmeriCorps volunteer and is now CEO of Heritage Health. He has written thirteen books, released sixty-five albums, and hosts Still Here, Still Trying. His wife and daughter both live with endometriosis, which led to advocacy work recognized with a NACHC Advocacy Award. He was named an Idaho Business Review CEO of Influence in 2021, and speaks on healthcare leadership, believing women, ADHD, and staying human while using AI.