Klorporate Espionage

Lauren Curtis sent a cold email to a startup she'd never worked for, while very pregnant, after seeing a Facebook post from an old preceptor. That startup was PillPack. The rest — Amazon Pharmacy, Chewy, 6,000-person newsletter — came from following her curiosity instead of a plan. She calls it redistribution. Taking the skills that made you good at clinical care and pointing them somewhere the sy...

Natalie Freels, PA-C works in hospital medicine PA at Mayo Clinic Florida while running InsightHealth Consulting, helping healthtech startups figure out if their product will actually get adopted by clinicians. Her specialty? Telling founders when their "baby is ugly." In this episode, Natalie shares how she went from EMT to Epic superuser to fractional advisor, why founders have blinders on just...

Laura Demuth, MSN, NP-BC was employee #12 at a dermatology startup called Pocketderm. Nine years later, she's SVP People & Patients at Curology—a company that's grown from a scrappy team to $200M in revenue serving 4+ million patients, with products now in Target and CVS nationwide. In this episode, Laura shares how she went from bedside nursing to overseeing 100+ clinicians licensed in all 50...

Natalie Davis is a Pediatrician who returned home to Western Kentucky after practicing in wealthy St. Louis neighborhoods and barely recognized it. High school friends were dying from preventable diseases. No stranger to running towards problems, she co-founded PreventScripts to tackle the chronic disease epidemic upstream. She’s also advised companies like Doximity and HealthTap and is an LP at S...

Jasmine Bonder is a Nurse Practitioner who started as an ER nurse at 19 and hasn't stopped adding hats since. From the Cleveland Clinic to NFL sidelines, critical care to ketamine clinics, she built a portfolio career before even knowing what that meant. When COVID burnout hit, she pivoted hard. She taught pharmacology, joined an angel investor group, and learned the hard way which healthtech star...

David Eisenberg left psychiatry residency after his intern year and became Deputy Chief Medical Officer in less than two years, leading value-based care contracts worth over a million dollars. Then he walked away from the C-suite to go back and finish residency as a PGY2. Most people leave medicine and never look back. David left, succeeded in leadership and a venture capital fellowship, and then...

Joey Ferry was the first person in his family to graduate high school. An entrepreneur at heart, he became a nurse for job security, but he never stopped building things. Then he met Taofiki Gafar-Schaner, another nurse who'd spent months prototyping a solution to a problem they saw every shift: inadequate seizure padding on beds. Instead of complaining about blankets and tape on bed rails, Taofik...

Rami Wehbi left family medicine residency. Not because of burnout in the traditional sense—because he realized from day one that clinical practice wasn't right for him. He spent the next two years failing at multiple startups, working urgent care shifts he hated, and finally figuring out what mattered to him: helping other clinicians escape jobs that were killing their integrity. Rami is the co-fo...

Meredith didn't seek out health tech—it found her. She started consulting while keeping her bedside job, learned how to curate clinical data for machine learning, and validated that nurses absolutely belong in SaaS companies. Then she built Illuminate's remote navigation department from scratch, grew a team with zero turnover, and now leads AI-driven implementations while juggling sales support, p...

What happens when a PA does everything right: multiple specialties, side business, financial literacy, and still hits a ceiling? Jordan Fisher PA-C co-founded the PA Blueprint to teach PAs about money and burnout while working clinically. He later left clinical practice to become a Medical Science Liaison in response to that nagging feeling of “what’s next?”. 👋 In this episode, you'll learn: Why...

Breanne Kaiser MMSc, LLM is a lawyer, psychologist and healthcare operations leader who's spent her career asking the hard questions about mental health systems—and actually building solutions. From developing behavioral health initiatives in underserved countries to advocating for clinician voices in policy, she's proving that the people closest to the problems should be the ones designing the fi...

If you’ve ever had that lingering feeling that you weren’t meant to spend the rest of your career in the clinic, you’re not alone. In this episode I sat down with Hannah Pugh, OTR/L, who transitioned out of her career as an OT after feeling stuck in her title. Our conversation covers: Why she felt she never quite fell in love with being an OT How she approached exploring non-clinical roles, step b...

Have you ever had a frustrating experience with a translator service in a clinical setting? Yeah, us too. Kory Kindle DPT saw this problem as an opportunity — now he’s co-founding Vital Voice AI, an AI-powered real-time interpretation platform solving the language barriers he kept seeing compromise patient safety and care. He's proving you don't need a tech background to build healthcare solutions...

If you've ever wondered why documentation matters beyond checking boxes, felt crushed by the emotional toll of bedside care, or been curious about the clinicians building the tools that shape everything in healthcare, this conversation will open your eyes. 👋 This episode covers: The weight of being an empath in healthcare (and why it drives career transitions) What CDI, MS-DRG, UM, and ICD-10 act...

Elizabeth Santo is a physical therapist who discovered that treating individual patients wasn't enough when one in four women suffer from conditions the medical system barely acknowledges. Now she's leading clinical program management for a digital health company, where biofeedback sensors, AI, and human clinicians converge to solve what traditional healthcare hasn’t been able to. In this episode,...

🩺 Dr. Rue Laka is a formally trained and forward-thinking Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine physician turned entrepreneur who has fully embraced digital health. She is the CEO and Founder of Mecca Health, where she blends primary care with obesity and longevity medicine to enable her patients to optimize their health at every stage. 💡 In this episode, you'll learn: Why she chose entrepreneu...

❔ What do glass ampules, Code Blue charting, and tangled IV lines have in common? They're all problems Caleb Williams tried to solve as a nurse innovator. 💡 In this episode, you'll learn: Why his first product idea couldn't find a market How he turned Upwork side gigs into Fortune 500 consulting clients Lessons from raising capital as a nurse with no business background What "driving product dev...