Showcase Story
Roger’s Story
A remarkable account of a man supporting a person with total visual impairment to navigate life with a hybrid closed-loop system — the team and Roger going the extra mile in ways that few will ever see, but many will feel.
Why Inspiring Stories?
Over the past few months, the feedback from Glucose Never Lies® subscribers, podcast listeners, and website visitors has landed in two very clear ways.
First, people have consistently said that GNL brings a kind of clarity rarely found in the type 1 diabetes (T1D) ecosystem — a space filled with strong opinions, unexamined assumptions, and advice that often lacks balance, caveats, or context.
What GNL tries to offer is something different: evidence where it exists, honesty where it does not, lived experience as a reality check, and the pros and cons that allow people to make decisions rooted in understanding rather than authority.
Self-discovery requires leaning in — learning a little more than you might strictly want to. But with knowledge comes agency, and with agency comes better decisions. No one here is told what to do. Instead, we aim to show what’s possible, what’s safe, where the risks sit, and how to think clearly when the stakes are high.
If our work has helped you feel more informed and less alone, that means a great deal.
Second, the personal messages following my perosnal journey have been overwhelming — in the best possible way.
For those who missed it: the past two years (2023–2025) were brutal. Physical and mental health challenges compounded into a functional motor disorder, fuelled by undiagnosed ADHD and chronically low dopamine tone. Managing T1D on top of that nearly broke me.
Medication helped. Friends, colleagues, and family helped even more. And the messages of solidarity from this community — your honesty, your reflections, your compassion — reminded me that none of us gets through anything alone.
What these years taught me is simple: people need people.
Behind every person who “manages”, “achieves”, or “finds their footing” is usually someone whose love, patience, and quiet brilliance kept them upright. My wife, Dani, is one of those unsung heroes. Many of you have someone like that too. These small, human interventions — often invisible to the world — can be as transformative as any medication or algorithm.
That realisation led to this.
Introducing: Inspiring Stories
Inspiring Stories is a new GNL feature dedicated to showcasing the people — with and without diabetes — whose quiet acts of support, dedication, innovation, or kindness change someone’s life.
This isn’t limited to those living with T1D. We want to highlight the whole ecosystem of humans who show up in extraordinary ways:
- People living with type 1 diabetes
- Parents of children with diabetes
- Partners and loved ones who shoulder the invisible load
- Healthcare professionals whose care goes beyond the clinic
- Individuals whose creativity or compassion made a real difference
- Anyone with a story that helps someone else feel less alone
These stories won’t be polished press releases. They’ll be real accounts from real people — moments of challenge, breakthrough, vulnerability, humour, resilience, and the ingenuity that keeps people moving through difficult seasons.
Each story will be shared in the GNL Weekly Brief and on LinkedIn, reaching over a thousand people with diabetes. If a single story helps a single person, that’s enough. If it helps more, even better.
How to Share the Story: Yours or Someone Special
If you’d like to contribute, here’s the simplest format:
- Write from the heart. Don’t force polish. Authenticity connects.
- Include key details. The small specifics are often what resonate.
- Enhance clarity if needed. Write your first draft in your own voice, then feel free to use ChatGPT or another tool to improve readability — without losing your tone. Sometimes the story is powerful but the message gets buried; an AI edit can help make sure your meaning lands.
- Add images if you wish. A single photo often says what paragraphs cannot.
- Include your name, contact details, website, or social media.
- Send the story to: john@theglucoseneverlies.com
Once received, we’ll format it, publish it here, and let you know when it’s live.
Inspiring Stories
Roger’s Story
A remarkable account of a man supporting a person with total visual impairment to navigate life with a hybrid closed-loop system — the team and Roger going the extra mile in ways that few will ever see, but many will feel.
This is the start of something human and deeply aligned with GNL’s core mission: clarity, compassion, evidence, and the courage to describe reality as it is — not as we wish it to be. When the community shares its stories, the whole community becomes stronger.
