How Small Health Businesses Can Survive this K-Shaped economy

The Myth of Our Natural Exhausted Intelligence: Bypassing Human Friction for Artificial Control

Open Access Episode ( 52 Min) This episode first premiered on my Owning HER Health Podcast ( Ep 103) but I thought it is an important conversation to have here as well because I am in the process of recording and writing a Substack Series around the humans side of AI integrations that I am concerned Silicon Valley is either ignorant or ignoring. You decide. Key Points Overview * The Refusal of Evolutionary Integration: * The Pathology of Friction Removal: * The Linguistic Shift from Humans to Agents: * Fabricated Demand and Psych-Ops Economics: * The Myth of Exhausted Human Intelligence: The tech elite operates on the arrogant assumption that humanity has exhausted its understanding of its own internal technologies (intuition, somatic integration, ancient wisdom). This premise justifies the reckless rollout of uncontrolled artificial systems before our own psychological and governance models have matured. Human Systems Thinking vs. The AI Hype I speak to a lot of different things I see inter connected. I will get into more depth on each of these different nodes in other essays and AfterGlow Show podcasts so consider subscribing. Dr. Lissette Alvarez- Holland, DPT, AT, WHNC, CAP is a strategic advisor exploring sustainable leadership, relational capital, and boutique healthcare enterprise design. Her work helps clinic owners and community-based organizations build resilient, human-centered systems in a rapidly changing world. Bookmark www.drlisahollandpt.com [http://www.drlisahollandpt.com] Thanks for reading The Owning HER Health™ AfterGlow by Dr. Lisa ! This post is public so feel free to share it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit curvyhustle.substack.com/subscribe [https://curvyhustle.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

How Small Health Businesses Can Survive this K-Shaped economy

This is a follow up podcast on a YouTube Livestream I recorded earlier today about several models of business when operating outside the current US Industrial Medical Complex. I don't think many of my peers in direct access allied health understand their options beyond going cash based or hybrid. When I had my women's health PT practice inside The BellyGuru, my Yoga Training Center, I created a few variations depending on how big I was operating at the time. I am very bullish on community based, small health centered business opportunities come 2027 and even now as the US federal cuts take hold and push people out of the traditional allopathic arm of healthcare called medicine. This video HERE [https://www.youtube.com/live/BCkV5ff-svQ]introduces the concepts I dive more into on this podcast. If these open Substack podcasts sound interesting, consider sponsoring my media shares. Substack payments directly support all media production so that members and the public have many ways to execute on my frameworks. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit curvyhustle.substack.com/subscribe [https://curvyhustle.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The Quiet Risk Inside AI-Enabled Care: Why “Feeling Understood” Is Not the Same as Practicing Well

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit curvyhustle.substack.com [https://curvyhustle.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] These Afterglow Podcasts are intended to serve as micro learning bonuses. Today's Lesson: How Should Small Health BE Integrating BIG Tech? There is a very specific advantage allied healthcare providers like Physical Therapists, Athletic Trainers, Elder care and Child Care givers, Midwifery groups, Doulas, Sleep Trainers, Health Coaches, Mental Health Therapists and even Yoga Therapists, who can operate in direct access have right now that the larger medical system is still slow to recognize: * We are not waiting for permission to integrate AI. * You are already using it to make documenting lighter * We see it can design our prior created programs more efficiently. * We want it to stretch limited time into something that still feels human without displacing humans in the evaluation and supervision of optimal care, even if takes over plan execution. But there is a craft and expert artistry that can not be removed from the process of healing, even if capitalism and the industrial mindset, led by the American US, has done our best to manufacture outcomes. The ethics of healing and that hippocratic oath could admit that despite all the medical care tech, the health tech and the biometrics, we have been horrible at manufacturing new actual health inside the metrics of economic success. If anything, there are not enough people inside healthcare who are being the canaries in the coal mine around mass adoptions without the human friction in the very biopsychosocial and spiritual needs being centered over max adoption for agentic, non human frictionless profits. What About Small Health Being The Guardrails? Here are a few things that community health facing providers and owner/ operators of clinics or care centers can do different than corporate medicine’s use of AI. * You are already a fast and critical thinker, yet you are not actually looking to hand over the relational interviews and creation of trust that is so important in the post acute care, functional diagnosis. * You using AI for thinking faster or handing it over to decide what is the patient’s medical and risk diagnosis. You already have it and it really is not the core determinant of how and what you will deliver to get them back into their general or special roles inside community enrollment. * Think way bigger and wider than an AI for notes. You want AI to organize your observations and the patient’s subjective inquires to find the common threads inside the conversational complexity and to do that using set constraints in sources for data aggregations. The AI you wrap your bots around must be able to meet more than HIPAA. Do you know how many clinics are employing staff who use their own AI, from various vendors, and thus exposing multiple risks, because the clinic owners refuse to learn more about it? See Bonus notes for: 1) What They Never Assumed You Would Need in Professional Schools 2) The Health or Care Breakdown 3) Why AI Is Not Just a Tool in Care Economy Systems 4) The Subtle Shift Most Providers Miss 5) Why This Matters More in Allied Health Than in Medicine 6) The Real Risks in Poor Integrations 7) Thinking System-Level AI Strategy Becomes a Care Ethics Issue Closing Thought The future of community health will not be determined by who uses AI the fastest. It will be determined by who understands the difference between: systems that support human intelligence and systems that begin to replace the felt experience of human authority

How can we use technology to create more space for the human connection that truly heals?

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit curvyhustle.substack.com [https://curvyhustle.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] Thank you for tuning in! I have been thinking a lot about the hard space I find myself in during this massive push from everyone into AI adoptions. I say push because it is a market creation. No one asked for automotive, computative, organizational agents. Not anyone who is outside increasing production as their business model and primary means of income…

Let's Reboot This Podcast for Gen X 2026-03-19

HER Afterglow Show: Episode 1: Where we are headed. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit curvyhustle.substack.com/subscribe [https://curvyhustle.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]