Dr.  Oluwole Babatunde, MD, MPH, PhD, FWACP (he/him)

Dr.  Babatunde joined Momma on April 6, 2026 for a live Q&A via Twitch and YouTube to talk about The MAP-LAMP Framework: A Practical Guide to Rising Again + A Journey of Purpose, Pain, and Possibility

About Dr.  Babatunde

Oluwole’s mission is to fulfill God’s purpose by advancing from one level of success and value to the next while positively impacting the lives of others placed in his path. Currently, Oluwole is a fourth-year psychiatry resident physician at Prisma Health Psychiatry in Greer, South Carolina (Class of 2025). His journey into medicine and research is deeply personal, rooted in the loss of his parents at the ages of seven and thirteen, partly due to a shortage of medical professionals. These experiences ignited his passion for becoming a compassionate physician-scientist who shares his story to inspire others and provide holistic care within and beyond medical boundaries.

Oluwole earned his medical degree and Master of Public Health in Nigeria before moving to the United States in 2014 to pursue a PhD in Epidemiology. Over the past 16 years (2009–2024), he has published over 64 scientific manuscripts. His research interests include addiction, adverse childhood experiences, cancer, and health disparities. From 2017 to 2021, he completed a National Institutes of Health F99/K00 grant—a prestigious predoctoral-to-postdoctoral fellowship—focused on cancer disparities, prior to starting his residency.

Oluwole’s long-term career goal is to become an exceptional physician-scientist in psychiatry, combining his research and clinical expertise to reduce mental health burdens, particularly within minority populations. Beyond his medical career, he aspires to share the message of hope and resilience embodied by MAP-LAMP, inspiring millions globally, one person at a time.

Socials / Links for Guest Connection

• Website - https://oluwolebabatunde.com/

• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/oluwole.babatunde1

• YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@oluwolebabatunde1870

• Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wolebabatunde/

• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/oluwole-b-46b6192a/

References / Things Mentioned During the Stream

• Movie Recommendation: The Pursuit of Happyness 

• Book Recommendations:

  • The Law of Recognition by Mike Murdoch 

  • Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl 

• selfpublishing.com/ 

• “Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience 

• Romans 8:28 

• Enhanced muscle activity during interrupted sitting improves glycemic control in overweight and obese men 

• Favorite Poem: Still I Rise By Maya Angelou 

Episode Summary

This one's for anyone who's had to rebuild a life from nothing and wants a real framework instead of another empty pep talk.

Dr. Oluwole Babatunde lost his mother at seven and his father at thirteen. He grew up largely on his own, sneaking between the homes of people willing to take him in, finishing high school with almost no stable ground under him. Today he's a physician, a PhD in epidemiology, the author of over 60 published papers and an NIH fellow wrapping up his psychiatry residency in South Carolina. This episode is the story of how he got from one point to the other and the framework he built along the way to help other people do the same.

That framework is called MAP LAMP and it comes straight out of his book Adapt in Advance. Meaning making, Action, Plan, Learn, Alliance formation, Mission statement and Prayers. Wole walks through each piece with real stories from his own life, not just theory. He talks about the mentor who wrote him letters every week when he had nobody else checking in on him. He talks about waking up at 1am to study during his hardest year of medical school in Nigeria. He talks about the moment in his fourth year of med school when he made the decision that his story would not define him in a negative way and how that single choice changed the direction of everything after it.

We get into how he uses Viktor Frankl's work on meaning to process his own losses, why he calls therapy, medication and lifestyle the three legs of the same stool, and why he thinks people wildly underestimate what small daily actions can do for mental health. He walks 10,000 steps a day, listens to a book a week during his commute and still makes time to write inside the pages of physical books when something hits him hard enough. None of it is complicated. All of it adds up.

This conversation is for anyone who has been handed a rough start and wondered what to do with it. Wole doesn't offer easy answers or pretend the hard years didn't hurt. He talks openly about grief, about the seasons in his own life that looked a lot like major depression, and about what it actually takes to build a life on the other side of loss without pretending the loss never happened.

If you are in a season where things feel shattered, or you love someone who is, this episode gives you language and a framework for rising again that doesn't require you to have it all figured out first.

Connect with Dr. Wole Babatunde and grab a copy of Adapt in Advance through the links in the show notes.