Good Work Shouldn't Be This Hard

What if the hardest-to-fill physician roles aren't recruitment problems at all?

In this episode, healthcare operations and physician recruitment leader Tammy Hager shares why recruitment and retention have to be thought about together and what it really costs when a specialty goes unfilled. She explains why she doesn't start with recruitment when she's recruiting and names the one metric healthcare leaders should check before they ever look at time to fill.

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What if hiring a lawyer didn't mean handing over a blank check and hoping for the best?

In this episode, Ryan Hurley, founder of Litix Legal, pulls back the curtain on how the billable hour turned inefficiency into a business model, how Arizona's new Alternative Business Structure rule made his transparent, flat-fee pricing possible, and what's still making the legal system harder than it should be.

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If a system keeps producing outcomes nobody actually wants, is it broken, or is it working exactly as designed?

In this episode, incentives strategist Aaron Bare joins Jenn to unpack the hidden and perverse incentives in the education and healthcare systems – and why chasing test scores and billing codes so often pulls us further from the outcomes we actually want.

Aaron shares what two decades of facilitating strategy inside hundreds of organizations taught him about incentives, why he believes AI will accelerate whatever is already broken inside a system, and what it actually takes to become a creator instead of a consumer in a world engineered for your attention.

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If you're bleeding margin every single day, what would it take to fix it before it's too late?

In this episode, Jake "The Ginger" Anderson takes us inside the cannabis industry's biggest blind spot: businesses running on Excel spreadsheets and assumptions instead of real data — including the magnitude of losses operators take if they scale a broken system instead of fixing it first.

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If you could change one thing about education tomorrow — without contending with the bureaucracy, red tape, or "how it's always been done" — what would you fix first?

In this episode, Dr. Renita Miller pulls back the curtain on what's really holding good educators back, who pays the price, and why change is so much harder than it should be.

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#035 - If you've ever reached a breaking point in your business, how do you know when enough is enough? D'Ana Joi is the host of the recently completed Multipassionate Mastery podcast, and in this candid conversation, she shares the inspiring story of closing her business to start a newly aligned season of life.


🎧 To that end, here's what we have for you in today's episode:

• 🍁 Joi's signature approach to thriving as a multipassionate
• 🥷 The dark side of online business
• 💡  How Human Design can help us make heavy decisions
• 💞 The full-circle happy ending in what she's doing now
• 👉 And lots more!

Connect with Joi:

• 🎙 Tune in to the Multipassionate Mastery podcast
• 🎧 Check out her interview on Off the Grid: Your Next Client Isn’t In Your DMs — Coaching Success Without Social Media with D’Ana Joi
• 🌐 Connect with her on LinkedIn

What's Next for Jenn:

• 👩‍💻 Strategy consulting for Jessica Ell Coaching: Navigating "Not This"
• ⏳ Managing operations for BlueHippo Human Resources
• 🧘‍♀️ Operational support for Goddess Circle Collective
• ✨ Human Design analysis for personal and professional pivots
•  🍎 1:1 Math and writing tutoring for grades 4-6

🖇 Links and resources

• 🔮 Check out the Human Design Notion templates on Etsy.
• 🧗‍♀️ Sign up for the self-guided Pivot Planner mini-course for a positive, practical framework for the change that matters most to you
• 💰 Incrementally upgrade your investing with Wealthfront

🎙 Related episodes

• 👥 Human Design for Business with Leann Wolf
• 🌠 Navigating Uncertainty and Starting at Square One with Jessica Ell

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This will be the last episode of the Incremental Upgrade podcast for the foreseeable future. Thank you for tuning in and spending time with me this season!

#034 - How can we use Human Design to find our dream role or improve our working relationships? Leann Wolff is a Human Design Professional and a BG5 Business and Career Consultant with over a decade of experience, and in today's episode, she explains several practical career applications of the Human Design system.


🎧 To that end, here's what we have for you in today's episode:

• 🔌 How BG5 compares to traditional Human Design
• 💸 Where to find the profit potentials and business skills in your chart
• 🤝 How Human Design impacts 1:1 working relationships and small group dynamics
• 👩‍🏫 Practical BG5 applications that help our businesses run in a more aligned, efficient way
• 👉 And lots more!

Connect with Leann:

• 🎙 Tune in to her YouTube Channel 
• 👩‍💻 Visit her website at https://www.powerofself.ca/

Connect with Jenn:

• 👩‍💻 Learn more about ways we can work together to apply Human Design to your business at jenngray.com.

🖇 Links and resources

• 🔮 Check out the Human Design Notion templates on Etsy.
• 🧗‍♀️ Sign up for the self-guided Pivot Planner mini-course for a positive, practical framework for the change that matters most to you
• 💰 Incrementally upgrade your investing with Wealthfront

🎙 Related episodes

• 💡 Episode 23: What's Your Decision-Making Superpower?

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#033 - If we're starting from zero financially, how can we shift our thoughts and reality from scarcity to abundance? Mercedes Collins is a financial coach who helps young women accelerate their financial goals and build healthy money habits, and in today's episode, she challenges limiting beliefs about money and shares several practical tips about investing for the future while also enjoying the present.


🎧 To that end, here's what we have for you in today's episode:

• 🕊 Why abundance is about more than just money
• 💸 How "passive" passive income actually is
• 💰The difference between scarcity and aligned spending
• 🏠 Practical approaches to paying off debt and investing in real estate
• 👉 And lots more!

Connect with Mercedes:

• 🎙 Tune in to the Abundance Generators podcast
• 👩‍💻 Visit her website at mercedescollins.com
• 💰 Download the free Aligned Spending Plan
• 📱Connect with her on Instagram @mercedes.a.collins

Connect with Jenn:

• 👩‍💻 Learn more about ways we can work together to apply Human Design to your business at jenngray.com.

🖇 Links and resources

• 🔮 Check out the Human Design Notion templates on Etsy.
• 🧗‍♀️ Sign up for the self-guided Pivot Planner mini-course for a positive, practical framework for the change that matters most to you
• 💰 Incrementally upgrade your investing with Wealthfront

🎙 Related episodes

• 💡 Episode 17: Getting Out of Debt

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#032 - We sign our girls up for sports to build teamwork or tutoring to support academics or art to enhance creativity, but what are we doing for their emotional well-being? Kristen Arnett is a former fifth grade teacher, a mom of four, and the founder of Meant to Be Me, where she teaches pre-teen girls about confidence, mindset, and self-image. How our daughters see themselves can be a major factor in decisions they make about the kind of life they want to have, and Kristen has several practical techniques to support parents in raising resilient girls.


🎧 To that end, here's what we have for you in today's episode:

• 💭 How our thoughts help or hurt us when we face adversity
• 🌻 Practical techniques to support our daughters' emotional well-being
• 📱 Social media boundaries to consider for pre-teens
• 🎨 How a positive self-image can actually contribute to others
• 👉 And lots more!

Connect with Kristen:

• 👩‍💻 Learn more about Meant to Be Me classes and resources for pre-teen girls 
• 📱Connect with her on Instagram @meanttobe.me

Connect with Jenn:

• 👩‍💻 Learn more about ways we can work together to apply Human Design to your business at jenngray.com.
• 👩‍👦 Curious about how Human Design impacts your relationship with your child?  Book a free consult here.

🖇 Links and resources

• 🔮 Want to DIY it? Check out the Human Design Notion templates on Etsy.
• 🧗‍♀️ Sign up for the self-guided Pivot Planner mini-course for a positive, practical framework for the change that matters most to you
• 💰 Incrementally upgrade your investing with Wealthfront

🎙 Related episodes

• 💡 Episode 30: Self Awareness and Intuition in Relationships with Diana Dorell

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#031 - One of the major limiting beliefs I had about returning to self employment during my teaching years was that I couldn't work remotely because I didn't want to work from home. Before COVID, my office consumed my entire living room, so I felt constantly restless and unproductive in my environment — but today's guest changed that for me by welcoming me into the beautiful coworking space where I work now. She's not only the community manager, but also the owner of several small businesses, including Notion for ADHD, where she creates digital systems to help ADHD people work more efficiently. 


To that end, here's what we have for you in today's episode:

• 🏙 What factors she considers in creating an inspiring physical workspace
• 🖇 Coworking vs home office set-ups and tasks
• 👩‍💻 How digital environments in Notion can set us up for success
• 🎨 Practical inspiration and productivity techniques for ADHD
• 👉 And lots more!

Connect with Braelyn:

• 👩‍💻 Check out her Notion templates for ADHD on her website
• 📱Connect with her on TikTok @notionforadhd

Curious about how Human Design environment impacts your productivity? ⤵️

✨ Claim your first session free at jenngray.com ✨

🖇 Links and resources

• 🔮 Want to DIY it? Check out the Human Design Notion templates on Etsy.
• 🧗‍♀️ Sign up for the self-guided Pivot Planner mini-course for a positive, practical framework for the change that matters most to you
• 💰 Incrementally upgrade your investing with Wealthfront

🎙 Related episodes

• 💡 Episode 10: Creating Work Life Boundaries

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Thanks so much for tuning in today!