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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 fixes.

👋 In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why peer-to-peer support and community networks are more effective at preventing clinician burnout than top-down wellness programs
• The real challenges of implementing behavioral health programs in underserved countries (infrastructure, funding, cultural adaptation)
• How Breanne approaches building mental health systems from the ground up
• Why she's concerned about youth access to AI tools—and what guardrails are missing
• The risks of unregulated AI in mental health spaces where vulnerable populations are involved
• Why clinicians need to be involved in AI development and policy-making, not just end-users
• How mission-driven companies can prioritize ethical innovation in mental health tech

Breanne Kaiser is a psychologist and healthcare operations leader focused on youth mental health interventions and behavioral health solutions. With experience spanning community-based program development and international mental health initiatives, she's built systems in some of the most resource-constrained environments. Now she's consulting on behavioral health projects that center clinician input, ethical AI use, and sustainable support structures. Breanne believes the future of mental health depends on who gets to shape it—and she's making sure clinicians have a seat at that table.

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• Breanne’s Linkedin
• Kayla’s Linkedin
• Kayla’s Instagram

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Keywords: healthcare career transition, health tech jobs for nurses, psychologist, healthcare operations, clinical burnout prevention, AI healthcare tools, NP burnout, non-clinical careers, occupational therapist, mental health policy, ai policy, adolescent ai use, ai safe guarding, physician assistant

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 by step
• What course she took that rolled into pro-bono work for startups
• Creative ways to beef up your resume
• Landing her first full-time non-clinical role as Head of Clinical Experience
• Ways her OT skill set enabled her to help build and inform product at her role
• What a Customer Success Manager actually does
• Why her social media platform, The Practitioner Pivot, was born
• Conversations that are crucial for clinicians to have about career growth

Hannah Pugh, OTR/L, is the founder of Practitioner Pivot, LLC, where she empowers healthcare clinicians to discover fulfilling non-clinical careers. After years working across outpatient, inpatient, and acute care settings, Hannah realized her values of growth and flexibility extended beyond traditional patient care. She transitioned into the health tech space in 2021—landing her first non-clinical role through networking—and has since helped hundreds of clinicians do the same through her guides, workshops, and 1:1 consults. Passionate about helping clinicians see the value of their transferable skills, Hannah is on a mission to show that you are never “just a clinician.”

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• Hannah's LinkedIn
• Practitioner Pivot Resource Page
• Practitioner Pivot Instagram
• Kayla’s Linkedin
• Kayla’s Instagram

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Keywords: healthcare career transition, health tech jobs for nurses, clinical documentation improvement, AI healthcare tools, NP burnout, non-clinical careers, occupational therapist, client success manager, health tech product management, physician assistant

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—you just need to pay attention to the problems.

👋 In this episode, you’ll learn

• How Kory found his technical cofounder
• Why you don't need coding skills to build healthcare technology solutions
• The strategic advantage of maintaining clinical practice while developing your product
• How to navigate the tech world as a non-technical founder without letting gatekeeping stop you
• Why simplicity is actually the hardest thing to build in healthcare AI
• How Vital Voice AI is addressing language barriers that impact patient care quality
• What other issues Kory believes are legitimate patient care issue worth solving
• What makes him optimistic about healthcare's future despite industry challenges

Kory Kindle is the co-Founder of vitalvoice.ai, building the next era of healthcare and emergency response through AI-driven communication. He is a former professional soccer player turned Doctor of Physical Therapy, with experience ranging from rehabbing top athletes to improving functional mobility of patients in the hospital. Now he is focused on bridging language gaps in healthcare so patients and providers can connect when every second counts.

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🔗 Kory’s Linkedin

🔗 VitalVoiceAI

🔗 Kayla’s Linkedin

🔗 Kayla’s Instagram

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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 actually means for clinicians who've never touched revenue cycle
• How your incomplete documentation haunts patients long after your shift ends
• Whether you can burn out in non-clinical roles (yes, but differently)
• Why AI tools aren't just nice-to-have anymore—they're necessary for clinician survival
• How an NP becomes a product lead without losing her clinical identity

Erin Kreider MSN APRN NP-C CCDS spent years as a bedside nurse pouring her heart into patient care—and felt the weight of it. She grasped an opportunity to help build and implement a CDI program from scratch, learning the ins and outs of what makes “good” documentation and what gets hospitals paid.

After a few other career stops in Case Management and Utilization Review, and returning to NP school, Erin is THE swiss army knife of care delivery, patient navigation, and high quality billing and documentation.

Now, she's the CDI and Utilization Management Product Lead at Ambience Healthcare, bringing her depth of knowledge to build cutting-edge proactive AI tools to fix the documentation chaos she experienced firsthand and supercharge clinicians.

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🔗 Erin’s Linkedin

🔗 Kayla’s Linkedin

🔗 Kayla’s Instagram

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Keywords: nurse practitioner career transition, health tech jobs for nurses, clinical documentation improvement, AI healthcare tools, NP burnout, non-clinical nursing careers, revenue cycle management, Ambience Healthcare, health tech product management, physician assistant

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, you'll learn:

• How she transitioned to clinic-based PT to a role developing clinical programs at a unicorn health tech company
• What "program management" actually means when you're translating clinical insights for engineers who've never treated a patient
• Why pelvic health has been systematically ignored and how technology is finally changing that
• The real work of scaling clinical programs: maintaining rigor while serving thousands instead of dozens
• Why your clinical background might be your secret weapon in product development

If you've ever wondered whether there's more impact beyond the treatment room, how to speak both clinical and tech fluently, or what it takes to build healthcare solutions that actually address overlooked patient needs, this conversation will show you what's possible.

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🔗 Liz’s Linkedin

🔗  LIZ’S FAVORITE RESOURCES: APTA / Rachel Parotta DPT / Sara Reardon DPT

Are you a clinician pushing the status quo? REACH OUT!

👋 Kayla’s Linkedin

👋 Kayla’s Instagram

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Themes: Clinical-to-product transition, women's health innovation, health tech program management, scaling clinical operations, biofeedback technology, building for equity, pelvic floor physical therapy, physiotherapy

🩺 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 entrepreneurship over the traditional medicine hamster wheel
• The difference between functional medicine and longevity medicine (and why it matters)
• How she bootstrapped a concierge practice from scratch
• Why the membership model creates deeper patient relationships than insurance ever could
• Tech tools that actually streamline operations without overwhelming your practice
• The truth about comparing your entrepreneurial journey to others

🤔 If you've ever wondered what it takes to leave traditional practice and build something entirely new, how to balance clinical excellence with business operations, and why lifestyle medicine is the foundation before advanced therapies, this episode is for you.

GET CONNECTED: 🔗 Dr. Rue's LinkedIn 🔗 Mecca Health

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❔ 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 development" actually looks like day-to-day
• How he landed a Chief Clinical Officer role without leaving nursing

🤔 If you've ever wondered why hospitals need more clinicians in product development, how to identify problems worth solving, and the business lessons Caleb learned by doing, this episode is for you.

🩺 Caleb Williams is a nurse innovator whose impact is felt far beyond the hospital walls. During his time as an ER + ICU nurse, he went above and becoming ICU supervisor at just 24 years old and an active member of inpatient leadership. He is the founder of Med Content Pros, a marketing agency that helps companies reach more clinicians with their messaging. Most recently he is the Chief Clinical Officer of Crimson Medical Solutions where he translates his lived clinical experience into product development and implementation of a game-changing hardware solution for ICU nurses.

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🔗 Caleb's Linkedin

🔗 Crimson Medical

🔗 Med Content Pros

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