Healthcare Rap

Kurt Knight, CEO of Foodsmart, helps us understand food-as-medicine beyond the buzzwords, what "eating well made simple" actually looks like, and where he sees GLP-1’s fitting into the nutrition conversation.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Walmart and Soda Health’s new personalized nutritional guidance program. What leads us to believe that the program can gain traction, and what can healthcare leaders learn about converging AI, benefits, and behavior change?  JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#434)See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

(Originally airing in August 2023) Executive recruiter David Clark shares keys for approaching staffing, tips for job seekers, and traits that make a good healthcare executive in today’s up-and-down environment. JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#433) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In one of the most candid conversations ever on the show, Aaron Watkins and Chris Pace join Jared to discuss careers and leadership at the intersection of healthcare, marketing and technology. As the three of them recently found themselves in career transitions at the same time, they don't hold back as they talk stages of grief, how to evaluate new opportunities, encouraging and discouraging aspects of career transitions, the unique formula for leadership in this field, and what they think the future holds.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Current Health being reacquired by its original co-founder. What do we know about Best Buy Health’s restructuring, and is this an isolated incident or will reacquisition of digital health players gain traction?  JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or ju

(Originally airing in August 2023) Executive recruiter Kelly Gill from August 2023 shares the high stakes of healthcare organizations hiring for new positions as they strive to become more consumer-oriented, and how it’s more important than ever to be equally optimistic and realistic about job descriptions, qualifications, and contributions.  As this week’s main episode with Aaron Watkins and Chris Pace dives deep into careers and leadership, it’s interesting to hear how Kelly’s approach to staffing is just as relevant two years later.  JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#431) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jessica Holton, Co-Founder of Ours Privacy, gives us hope as she describes how to approach performance marketing in a privacy-first world. She gives a State of the State of developments in privacy over the last couple of years and why we as consumers not only expect personalization in healthcare outreach, but why hospitals and patients need it, too.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about NOOM’s gamification elements. Can they achieve their vision of being the "Duolingo of health," and what are the benefits to society as more people manage their metabolic health effectively?  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=

In the 3rd part of his bonus series of top advice, Jared shares his top 5 insights for nontraditional entrants coming into healthcare.  Don’t overestimate what your brand means in healthcare.  Don’t underestimate the resistance from traditional healthcare.  Don’t confuse the relationship aspects of healthcare with the transactional aspects.  Understand health consumers' buying behavior.  Consumers need you to continue to innovate on their behalf.  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for

Jared and Zain and review their experiences test driving the Reperio Health At-Home Screening Kit and discuss the benefits of being able to get results from the comfort of your home within a matter of minutes.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Amazon Pharmacy’s latest new features. How significant is their new caregiver feature and their making PillPack available to Medicare Part D members, and is anyone paying attention to these iterative updates from one of the biggest brands in the space?  VIDEO  Watch Jared's experience with the kit on our brand new YouTube channel:  https://youtube.com/shorts/Gy5O1DlEOdo?feature=share SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.c

In the 2nd of a 3-part bonus series, Jared shares his top 5 insights for B2B2C digital health companies to understand their role in making healthcare consumer-centered.  The role of digital health companies:  Understand consumers more deeply than anyone else.  Create a product or service so good that consumers demand it.  Educate consumers so they see you as a solution.  Educate health systems / employers / health plans so they understand your value.  Use your brand “for good” (obligatory Wicked reference).   SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap JOIN THE COMMUNITY

Ryan Howells, Program Manager of the CARIN Alliance and Partner at Leavitt Partners, shares how to kill the clipboard in healthcare once and for all. Ryan is reported to be a finalist to lead the ONC, and he recently co-authored a 17-page roadmap for federal policy and the industry to accelerate innovation and cut administrative waste. As an advocate for scaling open data standards at the federal level, his point of view on interoperability is important to understand as federal policy is being written as we speak.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about LillyDirect adding Alzheimer's care to its platform. Who’s really in charge of the journey when pharma becomes a care coordinator, and what role can Pharma platforms play in the continual evolution of healthcare becoming direct to consumer? Paper: Kill the Clipboard!: https://leavittpartners.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/NEW-Ideas-for-the-Trump-Department-of-HHS_FINAL.pdf  RFI: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/16/2025-0870

In the 1st of a 3-part bonus series, Jared shares his top takes on the impact and value for health systems to make healthcare consumer-centered:  Growth Strategy: Consumer experience is a differentiator, not a distraction.  Digital Transformation: Consumer expectations aren’t an obstacle — they’re the accelerator for change management.  Team Development: Every marketer is now in the experience business.  Business Model Innovation: The momentum behind the move to prevention and wellness dwarfs anything that we saw at the peak of retail health.  Personal Development: Being a source of trusted information is a moral imperative, and one of the quickest paths to fulfillment in this field.  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer,

Shweta Maniar, Global Director of Health and Life Sciences at Google, shares how investing in the foundations of healthcare delivery and life sciences innovation will power the evolution from sick care to well care in the years ahead.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the launch of General Medicine. What should you know about the new venture from former Amazon and PillPack leaders, and how could their consumer transformation architecture lead to a more "shoppable" consumer experience?  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the

(Originally airing in February 2023) Chris McGhee, the Co-Founder and former CEO of Current Health, shares the backstory of their health-at-home platform being acquired by Best Buy for $400 Million and offers insights on how care at home plays an important part in creating amazing consumer experiences.  With news last week that Best Buy Health is restructuring, it’s interesting to go back and hear the company’s vision now and the consumer behavior insights on which that vision is based.  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Commu

David Kamenir, Vice President of US Enterprise Strategy for Novo Nordisk, reflects on lessons in leadership, strategy, and the accelerated pace of change in healthcare and life sciences, and he shares how he has learned to understand and even predict consumerization trends during more than two decades as a Pharma leader.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about employee wellness trends. What does WellHub’s latest report tell us from millions of wellbeing data points, and where do employee wellness and digital fitness collide?  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is prod

(BONUS EPISODE) Live from ViVE: Stephanie Lahr, Chief Experience Officer at  Artisight, shares how computer vision and other smart hospital room technologies can identify some of the friction points that plague clinicians and free them up to spend more time on patient care.  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovation

What do a life score, a public benefit corporation, and boiling the ocean have in common? They’re all part of a big conversation with Gary Druckenmiller and Robert Sundelius that goes in directions we’ve always wanted to go. Are you tired of trying to fix misaligned incentives, or feel like the work you’re doing isn’t making enough change, or wonder why we aren’t talking more about human flourishing instead of just health or wellness? Let’s go there.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Whoop’s new hardware. What insights can we get from Whoop 5.0 about our long-term health and performance, and how can its data help you take charge of your health?   SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives. 

(BONUS EPISODE) Live from ViVE: Kent Dicks, CEO and Founder of Life365, chats about the amplified power of personal health data, the access challenge for Veterans in rural areas, and a real-life example of collecting remote patient data using balloon and a car charger!  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the home for bringing together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this communi

Dr. Marschall Runge, CEO of Michigan Medicine and Dean of the Medical School at the University of Michigan, shares remarkable perspective on how technology advances, policy changes, and emerging business models are fundamentally transforming the industry — all from his brand new book, The Great Healthcare Disruption.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about Oura’s newly released Meals and Glucose product features. What new health tracking possibilities do these features unlock for consumers, and what’s next from the world of modern wearables?  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: https://www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap JOIN

(BONUS EPISODE) Live from HIMSS: Joe Brennan, VP of Provider Solutions at TytoCare, discusses how having home-based health exams changes the dynamic of the patient experience.  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the only place to bring together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#417) See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Amelia Hay, VP of Startup Programming & Investments for AARP Innovation Labs, highlights the impressive ways that the 50-plus population is engaging in their health, where brain health and loneliness fit in, and how the AgeTech Collaborative is rapidly advancing efforts at the intersection of aging and wellness.  All that, plus the Flava of the Week about the revolutionary winds that are starting to blow again. Are you paying attention to how traditional care is falling further behind, and how can you recommit to be part of the future of health and wellness?  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: https://www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap JOIN

(BONUS EPISODE) Live from ViVE: Travis Rush, CEO of Reperio Health, shares the revolutionary way that patients can measure all of their relevant vital signs from the comfort of their own home within minutes — and no need for a lab.  SPOTLIGHT: SHED  Shed is revolutionizing health and wellness by making wellness available to everyone. Through personalized nutrition, high-quality supplements, and science-backed wellness strategies, Shed empowers individuals to take control of their health and live longer, healthier lives.  Start your wellness journey today: www.tryshed.com/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=healthcare_rap JOIN THE COMMUNITY This show is produced by the Healthcare Rap Community, the only place to bring together the voices of healthcare leaders and health consumers. Whether you're actively working to make healthcare more consumer-centered or just want to learn about cool new care models and innovations, this community is for you! (#415) See