The Healthcare Rebellion with Dr. Frank Benedetto

What happens when you dedicate your life to solving a problem most people don't even know exists? In this episode of The Healthcare Rebellion Podcast, Frank sits down with Theresa Richard, speech-language pathologist, entrepreneur, educator, and founder of multiple industry-changing organizations in the medical SLP space. Theresa shares her journey from discovering the life-changing impact of swal...

Most healthcare providers got into this profession because they genuinely want to help people. And somewhere along the way, that calling gets twisted into a belief system that says struggling financially makes you more ethical. That charging what you're worth is somehow greedy. That building wealth and serving patients well are things that can't coexist. John Coleman is here to dismantle that enti...

What would it take for you to finally start taking care of yourself? Jared Maynard is a physiotherapist, strength coach, and one of the longest-standing members of the HoneyBadger Project community. In 2023, he was put on life support with a 50 to 75 percent mortality rate. His doctors told his family to say goodbye. And then, inexplicably, he began to recover. The 40 pounds of muscle his body cat...

Erica Bermudez was seeing 90 pelvic health patients a week inside a therapy mill in Manhattan. She was acting as the clinical director with no clinical director above her, rushing women through some of the most intimate, emotional care imaginable... 10 minutes a session, even if they were crying. And when she hit that number, the company celebrated her on the team chat. She knew something was brok...

Adam Leipzig was a senior executive at Walt Disney Studios when Disney was still scrappy. He helped build it into a cultural powerhouse. He went on to become President of National Geographic Films. Across four decades, he has produced over 40 acclaimed films (the likes of Dead Poets Society, March of the Penguins, A Plastic Ocean) that have collectively earned over $2 billion worldwide and picked...

In 2015, Matt Reynolds shut down his brick and mortar gym and went all in on a fully digital coaching platform. Everyone thought he was crazy. A decade later he runs one of the largest online coaching businesses in the world, a software platform used by hundreds of coaches, and a team with a monthly churn rate under 3% in an industry where 20% is the norm. He saw where the world was going and move...

Mel Abraham went from a CPA grinding in the hours-for-dollars model to becoming the behind-the-scenes financial mentor for some of the biggest creators in the world including Brendan Burchard and Anthony Trucks. He met Frank at a Brendan Burchard event in 2019, the same event where the concept for The HoneyBadger Project was born. Since then, Mel has fundamentally shifted how Frank thinks about mo...

Eliza Sampey started treating patients remotely in 2012, years before telehealth was a real conversation in U.S. healthcare. She wasn't following a trend. She was following the needs of her patients who were adventure athletes that couldn't make it to her clinic. Everyone said she was crazy but she trusted that her vision was worth fighting for even when her employer said no. But Eliza's story goe...

What if the reason your marketing feels flat is because healthcare taught you to strip every ounce of personality out of it? Mark Fisher built one of the most talked-about gyms in New York City not because he had the best equipment or the lowest prices, but because he refused to be boring. Mark Fisher Fitness grossed nearly $34 million over its lifetime, called its clients ninjas, and used a unico...

What if the traditional mental health model is keeping people stuck instead of helping them heal? Russell Beebe went from burned-out clinical director to building a thriving recovery program that's helping men overcome sex and porn addiction, not through years of ambiguous therapy sessions, but through a comprehensive, results-driven approach that addresses the real problem beneath the behavior. I...

What does aerospace engineering have in common with the future of rehab, coaching, and human performance? More than you’d think. In this episode, I sit down with industrial designer, innovation executive, and founder of POSE Andy Grove. His career spans aerospace, finance, fitness, and emerging health technology. Andy breaks down how first-principle thinking from engineering and design shaped his...

Adam Meakins is either loved or hated. There's no in-between. If you know of Adam, this episode is going to be quite the surprise. The outspoken physio from the UK is a social media force who has spent years calling out bullshit in healthcare, often at tremendous personal cost. In this raw, unfiltered conversation, Adam reveals the deeper philosophy behind his controversial approach and why he bel...

Most healthcare professionals think they're experiencing burnout. They're wrong. What they're actually facing is compassion fatigue. It’s reaching epidemic proportions and taking out healthcare workers at an alarming pace. In this critical conversation, Dr. Russ Irwin, a clinical psychologist and neuroscience expert, exposes the devastating difference between burnout and compassion fatigue. Frank...

In this eye-opening conversation, San Francisco investor Paul Singh, destroys the myth that healthcare needs more innovation and reveals why the solution is actually much simpler than you think. He shares the counterintuitive data on why advanced education can hurt your entrepreneurial success and why most practice owners are focusing on completely the wrong things. Paul has backed thousands of co...

When Dave Eyerly set out to reinvent regional air travel in 2010, he ran into the same barriers healthcare providers face today: bloated systems, rigid regulations, and outdated thinking that punishes innovation. Everyone told him a subscription-based airline would never work. They were wrong. Dave co-founded Surf Air, a private flight club that bypassed traditional aviation’s red tape and deliver...

From publishing controversial articles in the mid 2000s to building a global movement, Kelly Starrett has been disrupting healthcare norms for over a decade before most even recognized the system was broken. In this powerful conversation, Kelly shares how he dared to challenge established practices despite fierce pushback and built a revolutionary approach to Physical Therapy that combines perform...

What followed Anthony Trucks’ failed shoulder surgery was eight years of identity loss, financial chaos, and a spiral to rock bottom, all triggered by a healthcare system that failed. In this raw conversation, Anthony exposes the real cost of the broken system and how he used the pain to forge a new identity and fuel his purpose, offering powerful lessons for healthcare providers who feel like the...