Surviving to Serve: A Parallel Entrepreneur’s Comeback Ft Michael Sprintz
How do you launch a thriving medical practice, then pivot to a fast-scaling software startup—all while staying laser-focused on patient care, personal growth, and 24 years in recovery? In this episode, Mark Cleveland welcomes Dr. Michael Sprintz, an anesthesiologist-turned-tech-entrepreneur tackling chronic pain, addiction, and complicated billing structures in healthcare. Dr. Sprintz shares how resiliency, authentic leadership, and “flow” guide his parallel ventures.
Highlights:
Highlights:
- From OR to Revenue Tech – Why Michael traded the surgical suite for software code.
- 24 Years Sober – How recovery principles shape his resilience in business.
- Nail Compliance, Stop Revenue Bleed – The healthcare billing problem Michael solves.
- Mindset Hacks – Handling stress, negativity, and “the shadow self” with unshakable resolve.
- Chasing Flow – Moving from “hustle 24/7” to deeper creativity and real presence.
Show Notes:
- Cellarian Inc., healthcare software that improves diagnosis, treatment, documentation and risk-management for substance use disorder and other diseases - https://www.cellarian.com/
- A Life of Meaning: Relocating Your Center of Spiritual Gravity by James Hollis - https://jameshollis.net/hollisBooks.html
- Living with Borrowed Dust: Reflections on Life, Love and Other Grievances by James Hollis - https://jameshollis.net/hollisBooks.html
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho – https://www.amazon.com/Alchemist-Paulo-Coelho/dp/0062315005/
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended on It by Chris Voss – https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended/dp/0062407805
- Mark’s 2025 Bhavana – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twS9UpeqeF0
