Speaking Of Show & Making Healthcare Work for You

Speaking Of Show & Making Healthcare Work for You

Making Healthcare Work for You (MHWFY) is a mission-driven online talk show that’s shifting the healthcare conversation to love, hope, inspiration, and real solutions. Stephanie Feals & Dr. Apurv Gupta host conversations with an elite group of leaders who are solving healthcare’s most complex challenges. MHWFY shines a light on leaders’ personal dedication, unique perspectives, and empowering solutions through unscripted, authentic conversations. The show helps educate people and connect the dots to drive healthcare transformation. Guests & audience members are the people shaping the future of healthcare - from those working on the front line, to those creating the technology, to those driving policy change in government.

Episodes

October 8, 2025 25 mins

Former NIH Director Dr. Elias Zerhouni joins us to share what’s broken about U.S. healthcare—and how we can make it work again. From the shift of power from providers to payers, to the need to depoliticize and regionalize care, Dr. Zerhouni breaks down the system’s biggest challenges and how to rebuild it around patients.

As former Director of the National Institutes of Health under President George W. Bush, Presidential Envoy unde...

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In this episode of Making Healthcare Work for You, Dr. Jennifer Fraser, author of The Bullied Brain and the upcoming The Gaslit Brain, teaches us how bullying, gaslighting, and abuse culture can manifest — and offers hope by sharing techniques to build healthier, more loving organizations with stronger leadership.

 

Some of the things we learn during this interview:

  • The three components of bullying
  • How harmful behaviors become...
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Check out our interview with Dr. Daniel Gordon, a London-based physician who has built a private clinic rooted in compassion, empathy, and strong values. We hear firsthand that the need for compassionate healthcare isn’t unique to the US—it's a global priority.

Dr. Gordon shares his journey creating a clinic that fuses traditional general practice values with modern technology and exceptional customer service. He explains how he cu...

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In this episode of Making Healthcare Work for You, we explore how Guidehealth is transforming value-based care through a combination of AI + human expertise.

 

Healthcare continues to face hurdle after hurdle, but Guidehealth is changing that—delivering quick wins that reduce staff burnout, increase patient engagement, and improve quality measures.

 

Listen in as we chat with Rob Alterman (Chief Performance Officer) and Dr. McKay C...

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In this episode of Making Healthcare Work for You, Wade Mitzel, CEO of UofL Physicians, shares how compassionate leadership with love is transforming healthcare in Kentucky. Wade reveals his three core leadership goals — being intentional, caring for each other, and building healthier communities — and how these values drive efforts to reduce staff turnover, improve patient outcomes, and create workplaces where people flourish.

 

W...

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Don’t miss this engaging interview with Mary Cole, Infection Control Specialist and Project Manager at The Highlands at Brighton, a skilled nursing facility known for taking in residents others consider hard to place.

She draws upon her 23+ years at the facility to show how a strong culture of compassion, leadership support, and deep patient relationships have created a place where people aren't just cared for — they are truly seen...

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In this MHWFY Voice of Love series (brought to you by VoiceLove), we’re featuring Tria Deibert, SVP of Culture and Team Member Wellbeing at Hackensack Meridian Health — recently named one of Fortune’s Top 100 Best Places to Work.

 

Tria shares details about how to build a thriving workplace culture in healthcare — and not surprisingly, it starts with trust, love, and leadership. 

 

She shares how they’re using tools like StandOut t...

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Stephen White is the founder of The PC, which sees 15,000 patients a week, is profitable, and is helping people find the purpose in their 4th quarter of life. 

You’d never know that Steve previously had such severe cognition issues that he couldn’t remember the name of a rhinoceros when shown a picture. 

 

After years of concussions from football and frequent seizures, leading to cognitive decline, Steve decided he needed to find a...

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Few people can say they’ve delivered a baby giraffe (let alone 3…), spent time with Steve Irwin, or that they traded Steelers tickets in exchange for a Komodo Dragon… but Henry Kacprzyk can share all those stories and more!

He spent 43 years dedicating his career to the animals and guests at the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium, and he has a lot of stories to tell! 

I was lucky enough to accidentally meet Henry at my latest trip to the ...

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For three decades, both Phil Koopman and Steve Wilson have been working in AI. They joined us on Making AI Work for You for a conversation about health tech safety and security. 

 

With exceptional backgrounds and unparalleled experience, they share their perspectives on:

  • Why cybersecurity is an “arms race”
  • How safety standards differ from machine learning testing
  • The considerations about the level of agency you give an AI sys...
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Check out our uplifting interview with Darlene Cunha, Nurse Executive at Trinity Health on our Voice of Love series, brought to you by VoiceLove.

 

Darlene not only inspires through incredible stories from her personal experience, but she teaches us the way to follow in her loving footsteps by using the Caritas processes that lead to increased scores from patient experience to colleague experience and retention. 

 

She clearly shar...

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Legendary founder of Becker's Healthcare and healthcare investor, Scott Becker, joins us for a conversation about considerations for investing in technology - with an emphasis on trust, safety, and security. 

 

Be sure to listen to listen in on this episode to hear about Scott's journey with investing, including advice he would give himself at the beginning of his investment journey. 

 

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In this compelling interview, Dr. Gordon Chen tells us how he and his wife, Dr. Jessica Chen, are working to add “Thrive” years to people’s lives through their new organization, ThriveWell. 

A ThriveYear is an additional year of health span attained through optimized health, wellness, and purpose. 

Gordon and Jessica spent 20 years working to transform primary care at ChenMed. Through his father’s journey being misdiagnosed with a ...

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Healthcare heavyweight investor, Bill Taranto, President of Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, joins us to share his investment strategies. 

Taking a patient-first approach, he looks for use cases that need solved, and finds aligned organizations to create an integrated solution that will positively impact patients. 

This interview is an absolute can’t-miss!! Bill shares how he evaluates opportunities, the relationship between CV...

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In this MHWFY Voice of Love interview (brought to you by VoiceLove), Kiersten LeBar joins us for an awesome conversation about how to operationalize loving practices as part of a greater Loving Organization. 

 

Kiersten is the Associate Chief Nursing Officer of Women’s, Children’s, and Psychiatry at the Medical University of South Carolina, a journey that started many years earlier when she was a pediatric patient at MUSC for cardi...

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Anurag Mairal, PhD joins us on Making AI Work for You about the role of technology in shaping and advancing healthcare worldwide.

 

Dr. Mairal talks to us about the importance of keeping all stakeholders in mind, and focusing on technology-enabled solutions that are patient-centered. He also talks about the role of policy as a lever to change. 

 

Anurag Mairal is the Director of Global Outreach Programs for the Stanford Mussallem C...

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In this interview, Johar Singh, CEO & Founder of Astra Wellbeing, and Shannon McPeak, Chief Wellness Officer at Astra Wellbeing & Founder/CEO of Operation Happy Nurse, talk about how their platform is changing the way healthcare workers are supported at work, helping to decrease burnout, patient safety and more. 

Everything is accessible through sms communication, making it readily available and easy to use, allowing for ve...

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In this MHWFY Voice of Love series (brought to you by VoiceLove), Julie Rish, VP of Consumer Experience at AdventHealth shares how investing in the company values and mission reflects its commitment to whole-person care. 

 

Throughout the interview Julie emphasizes the importance of remaining steadfast to your goals, and the importance of caring for those both giving and receiving care at your organization. 

 

She shares how Advent...

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Don’t miss this enlightening interview with Dr. Matthew Lungren, where he shares incredible insights about balancing technology in healthcare. 

 

Dr. Lungren is the Chief Scientific Officer of Health and Life Sciences at Microsoft, and is an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. 

 

Sherri Douville, CEO of Medigram & Chair of the TTIC, Dr. Apurv Gupta and I spoke with Dr. Lungren about his journey at Stanf...

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Geoffrey Smith spent years working in human capital management, but after a collision of personal life and professional life, he knew he had to shift gears.

He now spends his time focusing on helping those in healthcare positively impact patient experience and outcomes through love and compassion. He also hosts a podcast, Mo-Ments of Experience, inspired by his loving 14-year old beagle, Mo. 

In this episode, Geoffrey shares how he...

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