HeyJaredThe Leadership Lab with Asbel Montes
Hosted by Asbel Montes, The Leadership Lab explores bold ideas, tough conversations, and real solutions shaping the future of healthcare and public service.
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Healthcare by the Fine Print with Pati McCandless (opens the original)
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"You would go to the same provider, same service, same facility, and the cost variation is going to be drastically different." In this episode of The Leadership Lab podcast, Asbel Montes sits down with Pati McCandless, Shareholder at Maynard Nexsen and a healthcare policy attorney with more than 30 years inside health plans, law firms, and government relations, for a conversation about the difference between what is legal in American healthcare and what is actually reasonable. The same knee repl
Smarter Data. Stronger Healthcare. with Dave O'Reilly (opens the original)
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"I don't think EMS has a data creation problem. It has a data connectivity and a context issue." In this episode of The Leadership Lab podcast, Asbel Montes sits down with Dave O'Reilly, CEO of Traumasoft, to talk about what it actually takes to make EMS data useful: connecting it, putting the patient at the center of it, and using AI to catch documentation gaps while the crew still remembers the call. Dave came to EMS from outside the industry, and Asbel admits he was not a fan of Traumasoft wh
Healthcare's Hardest Problems: 7 Leaders on CMS Fraud, EMS Data, Rural Care, and AI (opens the original)
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Seven conversations. One summit. And a room full of leaders who agreed the system is not working the way it should. We took The Leadership Lab on the road to Clarity 2026 in Laguna Beach, and this is the recap: the moments that stopped the room, pulled from seven special edition episodes recorded live at the summit. CMS stopping more than $2.5 billion before it went out the door. A paramedic in 2026 still faxing a patient record into a hospital that owns the ambulance. A rural blood program in M
Physicians as Leaders: Grace, Policy, and Transforming Healthcare with Dr. Rebekah Gee (opens the original)
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"It was taken away, but we're taking it back." In this episode of The Leadership Lab podcast, Asbel Montes sits down with Dr. Rebekah Gee, OBGYN, former Louisiana Secretary of Health, and Founder and CEO of Nest Health, to explore what happens when physicians stop giving their voice away and start leading the transformation of American healthcare. Dr. Gee has led at every level of the system: at the bedside, in state government, and now as a value-based care entrepreneur delivering whole-family
The Future of EMS at Scale with Nick Loporcaro (opens the original)
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What if the industry that saves your life doesn't believe in itself? That's the challenge Nick Loporcaro walked into when he joined Global Medical Response as Chairman and CEO in 2023. In this episode of The Leadership Lab, Asbel Montes sits down with the leader of the nation's largest EMS organization for a candid conversation about what it actually takes to transform an industry from the inside out. From GMR's landmark transition to the only publicly traded EMS company in the United States, to
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