Explora Books has released The Genome of Faith podcast by Dr Ulysses Lagrimas Labilles, documenting his transition from healthcare professional to patient through reflections and readings drawn from his book of the same title. Now streaming on Spotify and YouTube, the six-episode series invites listeners into a personal story shaped by faith, empathy, and the experience of navigating stage 4 non-small cell lung cancer with brain metastases.
Across its debut season, Dr Labilles—an epidemiologist and former CDC Foundation COVID-19 Response Corps member—turns the perspective shaped by his scientific career toward his most personal challenge: living through a terminal cancer diagnosis. Recorded from his writing space in St. Louis, Missouri, each short episode combines candid reflection with readings from The Genome of Faith: A Life Unfolding Between Heaven and Earth, published by Explora Books.
Throughout the series, Dr Labilles reflects on how illness reshaped his understanding of identity, care, and human connection, while introducing listeners to Fidempathia, a term he coined to describe the fusion of faith and empathy that helped him move from the shock of diagnosis toward a renewed sense of community, meaning, and peace.
The season opens with Dr Labilles recovering from a craniotomy and explaining the origins of Fidempathia as a framework intended to give clinicians, caregivers, and patients a shared language for hope. Later episodes revisit specific chapters from the book, including “Petals of Grace, Shadows of Silent Wars,” which reflects on his experiences as a pandemic-era epidemiologist, and “Gathered in Grace,” which explores how practical acts of support and everyday compassion can sustain someone through serious illness.
The final episode draws a connection between Dr Labilles’s own circumstances and the historical figure he was named after, Ulysses S. Grant, while reflecting on how a data-driven scientist learned to understand time differently once treatment schedules replaced long-term certainty.
Summarizing the perspective that shapes both the podcast and the book, Dr Labilles wrote, “I began this journey through science, but I finished it in Grace.”
At the center of the series is The Genome of Faith, which follows Dr Labilles’s life from his upbringing in the Philippines and early career as a dental clinician through graduate studies in epidemiology and frontline public health work during the COVID-19 pandemic with the Navajo Nation. It also reflects on his cancer diagnosis and treatment in St. Louis. The book combines clinical realities—including his MET exon 14 mutation and precision oncology treatment—with an account of the faith, family, and relationships that sustained him through multiple brain surgeries. It concludes with letters to his four children and reflections on the legacy he hopes to leave behind.
Dr Labilles holds a PhD in Applied Public Health Epidemiology and has worked as a research affiliate and federal contractor in cancer and infectious disease research, including roles supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. His writing and advocacy work has also been featured on the People of Distinction podcast with Benji Cole.
The full podcast for the memoir The Genome of Faith: A Life Unfolding Between Heaven and Earth is now streaming on Spotify and YouTube. The book is available on Amazon and other major digital bookstores.
About Explora Books
Explora Books is a book marketing firm located in the heart of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The company specializes in self-publishing and marketing, taking pride in its exhaustive research and creative strategies that provide wider avenues for aspiring authors to gain recognition for their works. Explora Books aims to guide authors through the complexities of self-publishing, offering convenient solutions to navigate this process. The firm fosters and redefines creativity and innovation, setting new industry standards. Explora Books is dedicated to empowering authors globally.
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