017 | Lauren Curtis, PharmD | Hey Health Tech + Finding Where Your Clinical Skills Can Breathe

017 | Lauren Curtis, PharmD | Hey Health Tech + Finding Where Your Clinical Skills Can Breathe

Lauren Curtis sent a cold email to a startup she'd never worked for, while very pregnant, after seeing a Facebook post from an old preceptor. That startup was PillPack. The rest — Amazon Pharmacy, Chewy, 6,000-person newsletter — came from following her curiosity instead of a plan. She calls it redistribution. Taking the skills that made you good at clinical care and pointing them somewhere the system actually lets them breathe. In this episode she breaks down how that transition happened, what she wishes someone had told her about product management before she stumbled into it, and why she started Hey Health Tech. GET CONNECTED: 🔗 Lauren's LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauren-curtis/] / Hey Health Tech [https://www.heyhealthtech.com/] 🔗 Kayla's LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-bassett-pac/] 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for biweekly conversations with clinicians building beyond the bedside. Are you a clinician pushing the status quo? Reach out!

016 | Natalie Freels, PA-C | Ugly Babies, Startup Advising, and Why She'll Never Leave the Bedside

Natalie Freels, PA-C works in hospital medicine PA at Mayo Clinic Florida while running InsightHealth Consulting, helping healthtech startups figure out if their product will actually get adopted by clinicians. Her specialty? Telling founders when their "baby is ugly." In this episode, Natalie shares how she went from EMT to Epic superuser to fractional advisor, why founders have blinders on just like new parents, and what gets lost when startups try to pitch physicians. We talk about cold-DMing people on LinkedIn, joining accelerators to meet mentors, and why the portfolio career is the future. GET CONNECTED: 🔗 Natalie’s Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-freels/] / Website [https://www.insighthealthconsulting.com/] 🔗 Kayla’s Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-bassett-pac/] 🔗 Kayla’s Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/its.kla.b/] 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for biweekly conversations with clinicians who've transitioned into healthtech, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Are you a clinician pushing the status quo? Reach out! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-bassett-pac/]

015 | Laura Demuth MSN NP | Employee #12 to $200M: Building from the Inside

Laura Demuth, MSN, NP-BC was employee #12 at a dermatology startup called Pocketderm. Nine years later, she's SVP People & Patients at Curology—a company that's grown from a scrappy team to $200M in revenue serving 4+ million patients, with products now in Target and CVS nationwide. In this episode, Laura shares how she went from bedside nursing to overseeing 100+ clinicians licensed in all 50 states and why she took a huge risk after moving 3,000 miles from the East Coast to California for a startup she'd never heard of. Laura’s journey speaks to how you can stay clinical while building at scale if you're willing to embrace change. GET CONNECTED: * 🔗 Laura's Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurademuth/] * 🔗 Laura’s Substack [https://laurademuth.substack.com/] * 🔗 Kayla’s Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-bassett-pac/] * 🔗 Kayla’s Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/its.kla.b/] Resources Recommended by Laura: * Preston Alexander's Healthcare Breakdown: The Finance Course [https://gumroad.com/a/226086931/wmkctj] * Christina Farr's Second Opinion Newsletter [https://secondopinion.media/] * Halle Tecco's Massively Better Healthcare newsletter [https://halletecco.substack.com/] and book [https://rstyle.me/+eCK29QIukKtnMOquvsEgiQ] 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for conversations with clinicians who've transitioned into healthtech, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Are you a clinician pushing the status quo? Reach out! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-bassett-pac/]

014 | Natalie Davis, MD | Running Towards Problems in Healthcare - PreventScripts Cofounder and CMO

Natalie Davis is a Pediatrician who returned home to Western Kentucky after practicing in wealthy St. Louis neighborhoods and barely recognized it. High school friends were dying from preventable diseases. No stranger to running towards problems, she co-founded PreventScripts to tackle the chronic disease epidemic upstream. She’s also advised companies like Doximity and HealthTap and is an LP at Scrub Capital. We're talking about the moment she decided to build a company to revolutionize care, the challenges of serving rural populations, and why she continues to build for proactive care in a reactive system. In this episode, you’ll learn: * How she scribbled her first UI/UX designs on paper * Her holy grail system for running her business * How she convinced her co-founder not to go to med school * Why a pediatrician built a behavior change platform that gives patients 50 hours of nutrition education in a year * The "12 Commandments of Digital Health" * Her journey as an investor * What transferred from seeing 40 patients a day to building a digital health company You don't need to leave medicine to fix it You just need righteous anger and a willingness to run toward hard problems. GET CONNECTED: 🔗 Natalie’s Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliehodgemd/] / Website [https://nataliedavismd.com/] 🔗 PreventScripts [https://www.preventscripts.com/] 🔗 Kayla’s Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-bassett-pac/] 🔗 Kayla’s Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/its.kla.b/] 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for biweekly conversations with clinicians who've transitioned into healthtech, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Are you a clinician pushing the status quo? Reach out! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-bassett-pac/]

013 | Jasmine Bonder, NP | Portfolio Careers, Angel Investing, and The Clinician Founder Journey

Jasmine Bonder is a Nurse Practitioner who started as an ER nurse at 19 and hasn't stopped adding hats since. From the Cleveland Clinic to NFL sidelines, critical care to ketamine clinics, she built a portfolio career before even knowing what that meant. When COVID burnout hit, she pivoted hard. She taught pharmacology, joined an angel investor group, and learned the hard way which healthtech startups to avoid (think shady biotech without FDA approval). Jasmine is the founder of Clinova.Solutions [https://www.clinova.solutions/] focusing on evidence based asynchronous care at scale. We're unpacking her journey from bedside to boardroom, the red flags she almost missed, and her brass-tacks advice for anyone wanting to invest in themselves and take the leap. 👋 In this episode, you'll learn: * The clinician superpowers you’re overlooking * How to trust your clinical conscience in the world of tech * Why joining an angel investing group taught her more about business than any MBA could * How to use SOAP notes to get executive buy-in for your decisions * Brass-tacks advice for anyone wanting to invest in themselves and take the leap GET CONNECTED: 🔗 Jasmine’s Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasmine-bonder-67b3a827a/] 🔗 Clinova.Solutions [https://www.clinova.solutions/] 🔗 Kayla’s Linkedin [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-bassett-pac/] 🔗 Kayla’s Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/its.kla.b/] 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for biweekly conversations with clinicians who've transitioned into healthtech, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Are you a clinician pushing the status quo? Reach out! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/kayla-bassett-pac/]