The great team from the The Holding Group joins us today. The founding team includes 4 licensed clinical social workers that have owned and operated a community based palliative care program for the last five years. Not only are they working for themselves, but they are working on something they truly believe in with their closest friends. Each member of the founding group (Erin Nielsen, Bree Addison Owens, Dana Lahoff, and Laurel Eskra Tropeano) bring a unique skill set, making not only a rich personal experience, but a meaningful experience for the patients and providers they serve.

Chelsea Sweeney is an amazing young entrepreneur. She has gone from CNA, to floor nurse, to case manager, to owning her own successful healthcare company in under 5 years. Her care management company, Maintain Me, was cash-flow positive within a few months of opening. And now, just 18 months after opening her first business, she and her husband are about to open a second business, which you’ll learn more about on this episode!

Today we have Chris Lee on the podcast. Chris is the CEO for the Colorado Visiting Nurses Association which is the largest and oldest healthcare agency in the state. Chris has taken an interesting path in healthcare, including stops in business development, hospital imagining, and mergers and acquisitions.

This is our first ever episode and today Jessie is talking with Terri Casterton.