CNN To Debut New Podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta

 A few years ago, it was rare indeed to find a TV personality who would then host a podcast. That career move was viewed as a come-down. It would be like an award-winning actor who decided to suddenly do car commercials where he rides around aimlessly and utters nonsense to his inside voice.

Today, however, podcasts are no longer perceived as second-class media citizens. Proof of that elevation in status is a recent announcement that award-winning journalist and CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, will soon embark on a new journey with the premiere of his new podcast, Chasing Life.

For the first time in more than a year, many of us are ready to imagine the next chapter of our lives. In Chasing Life, Dr. Gupta will guide listeners on how to mindfully approach our new normal, while finding a balance between self-care and productivity. 

“As we’re entering a new—and more hopeful—phase of this pandemic, now seemed like a worthy point in time to start a new podcast with recovery and reflection in mind,” said Dr. Gupta. “While we may never be able to replicate a pre-2020 world, I hope we can all start moving forward and start chasing life again.

Listeners can look forward to advice on how to unearth their mental and physical potential in a post-pandemic world as Dr. Gupta speaks to medical experts, researchers, colleagues, friends, and family about the surprising science behind rebuilding our mind and body.

The first episode will premiere May 11 and will be available to listen at cnn.com/audio, across mobile devices via CNN’s apps for iOS and Android, and on all major podcast platforms. Subsequent episodes will be released every Tuesday. 

Sanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and writer. He serves as associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, associate professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine, and chief medical correspondent for CNN.

Dr. Gupta has been instrumental during the pandemic in helping people understand the science behind the virus and counter wild claims of ineffective and potentially dangerous medications or nonsensical therapies that involved bleach ingestion and other quack cures.

You can read more about the upcoming podcast in an essay penned by Dr. Gupta, here. 

CNN Audio broadcasts a slate of podcasts and showcasts, as well as special programming and live audio.

You can discover CNN Audio content at www.cnn.com/audio.