#179 – Gus Haddad: From Doctor to Entrepreneur: An Immigrant’s Evolving Journey in Health & Medicine
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
Growing up amid the war-torn Lebanon during civil war, Gus finished medical school and moved to the US and became a practicing MD. He grew his own practice and then eventually franchised and sold his chain of practices and became on entrepreneur working on developing cell therapies to improved lives. Paralleled with his professional success, Gus is a happily married father of two and prioritizes first principles thinking.
0.00: Gus’s background in civil war-torn Lebanon
5.00: How 15 years of civil war shaped Gus’ perspective
13.00: Gus entering medical field as a fertility doctor
18.00: Dreaming of America
24.00: Finding his career in Fertility
30.00: Why Fertility is falling in the Western World
40.00: The Pitfalls Money and Success can have
48.00: Navigating Parenthood and Fears of Complacency
56.00: How Gus’s views on “Western Medicine”, as an MD, have changed and how he used natural healing with his mother
1.09.00: Changing your mind through your Diet
1.20.00: Gus’s health falling from his bad diet
Until next time, love and good vibes.
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| 0:00.0 | Money is a very dangerous tool and it can be a force of good, but it can also be force for |
| 0:06.5 | very bad things and no one teaches you how to handle it. If I can look back in time, |
| 0:12.2 | there was a short phase where you experience that wealth suddenly that it catches you |
| 0:18.0 | doing things that are probably not the best reflection for you could be. |
| 0:22.8 | And it takes a conscious effort for you to pump the brakes and money is a tool, but it's not a goal. |
| 0:30.3 | And if you stick to the mission, the money will follow, but it should not be your primary objective. |
| 0:36.5 | And if your primary objective is, I want to get wealthy. |
| 0:39.7 | I think, number one, you're less likely to achieve wealth. |
| 0:43.1 | Number two, if you do achieve it, you're very likely to misuse it and mishandle it |
| 0:48.6 | and not be the best person that you could do. |
| 0:56.5 | A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts. |
| 1:00.0 | Get ready to enter the Lionheart with your host, Lawrence Dunning. |
| 1:04.2 | We have a wonderful guest and a wonderful guest host. |
| 1:07.9 | We've got John Dimitross here on the mic, and our guest is Gus Haddad. And |
| 1:13.3 | Gus is a friend of mine that I've known now for some time. We actually met through an unfortunate |
| 1:18.3 | event, which was a cryptocurrency exchange bankruptcy. But out of every negative thing, there is always |
| 1:26.6 | opportunity and upside if you look hard enough. |
| 1:29.9 | So I'm very fortunate that I got to meet Gus and our other friend David and both of them live in Houston. |
| 1:36.4 | I had the opportunity to spend some time with both of them a few months ago at Gus's ranch, which was amazing. |
| 1:43.1 | And we got to talking about a lot of different things. |
| 1:47.0 | And Gus's story was very inspiring to me because Gus is an immigrant. He came here. He became a |
| 1:53.3 | medical doctor. He's a great success story that you love to hear about because it makes you |
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