Chapter 1: What is the main message about the 'little extra' in life?
Everything that is worth in life is going to take that little extra. Every problem has a solution. Every person has a good side. Every issue has a commonality. The ability to identify what are my weaknesses, recognize that they are weaknesses, and work around them to me has given me more than understanding what my strengths are.
Welcome to Digital Voices, where healthcare and life science leaders explore the real work behind transformation. This podcast is about people, leadership, and the conversations that move healthcare forward. Now your host, Ed Marks.
Welcome to another edition of Digital Voices. Thanks for listening. I know you have a lot of choices, lots of great content out there, and you've chosen to spend time with us. And it's going to be amazing because I have Dr. Luis Garcia with us. Luis, welcome to Digital Voices.
Thank you for the invitation. Hi to everybody. Everybody is taking the time to listen to us. A great day here in Chicago. And Ed, let's go.
I love it. We met only recently. So we were together and I was like, wow, this is a super interesting leader and physician. And I was like, you have to be on my digital voices program and you're so amazing. Gracious to accept my invitation. And so, as you said, here we are and here we go. So the most important question, Luis, that we ask all of our guests is what songs are on your playlist?
What kind of music do you like to listen to?
Well, let me try to answer that question, recognizing that I'm not necessarily a music man, but my playlist probably is a little bit boring to others. I have a combination of Spanish music and English music and mostly from the 80s. But if you allow me to share with you, I do have some favorite songs.
And the reason why these two particular songs, for example, come to mind is because they meant something at a specific time in my life. And the first song that is definitely in my playlist is called Home. And it's a song by Philip Phillips. That song is about finding comfort and belonging, even when you are in unfamiliar territory.
And it just so happened that, you know, it was in my late 40s, a single. One of those personal gaps in your life that you're trying to find yourself and you feel stuck and you feel sad and you feel depressed. And God blessed me with putting my wife in my path. And And that song reminds us about the strength of our unity because it so happened that she was also going through a very difficult time.
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Chapter 2: How did Luis Garcia's upbringing influence his career choices?
I'd like to share with you an analogy that very early in my career helped me. I don't know if you remember who Ian Thorpe is. Ian Thorpe was Michael Phelps of the Australian team, right? And the 2000 Olympics in Australia are coming. And he was 17 years old. And he had the spotlight right on him because he had to deliver. And I remember...
watching an interview with him a few months before the Olympics. And the reporter asked him, why do you wake up at three o'clock in the morning to train? And he said, well, because I know that the Americans are waking up at 3.30. Everything that is worth in life is going to take that little extra. And the difference between being ordinary and extraordinary is that extraordinary.
You as a human being always have a choice to leave a place better than how you found it. You know, I know no matter how difficult it is, no matter how complex the situation is, no matter how it looks. And sometimes it's just 0.1 mile in a run or is one more lap in the pool or is one more minute of training or is one more minute of conversation with somebody that you're mentoring.
It's just that little extra that If that allows you to live the world in a better place than how you found it, those little wins make a difference.
I love it. We could stop the podcast now because I think we've given our audience a lot to think about already between music and mantra and life. But Luis, tell us about your background. That's something else unique about you. Obviously, you have an accent. Tell us a little bit about yourself. Where did you grow up? What's your story?
Yeah, thanks for that, Ed. And I do have an accent. My wife tells me that she likes it. I don't like it, to be honest. But I was born and raised in Mexico City. And I was born in an environment where my mom and dad were excellent role models. They were very strict. And they always made it clear that the path to success was hard working and education. So we didn't have a choice.
I was one of four. I have a brother and two sisters. We grew up in a very poor neighborhood in Mexico City. My dad was the physician in town, and he started with a small clinic in my grandmother's kitchen that eventually became... another room, another room, and now it's a hospital. And then my mom brought the business background to that relationship.
And between both of them, a lot of sleepless nights, a lot of sacrifice. They were really able to give us a life that was better than we would have ever imagined. Once again, strong on education. For us, failure was not an option. And we had two great role models. And not only did we have great role models, but we had a platform where we could really identify what truly matters in life.
Of course, because of my mom and dad's sacrifices, we had everything. We had every toy. We had good clothes. We were going to a private school. But yet our neighborhood was a neighborhood of really poor people. And just being raised watching those contrasts where if I went to school, I was friends with very affluent people. Came back home and I was friends with my neighborhood people.
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