Hope, Power, and Healthcare

About Hope, Power, and Healthcare

Insights and news for healthcare's innovators. Hear from change makers in healthcare & health technology about, and maybe even join us for a show!

Publisher

Chris Hemphill and Melissa Reilly

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 May 2025

Latest episode

25 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Sept 2026

   Is This the Future of Mental Health Support? Evaluating Five F*cks a Day: STLTH Feedback Ep. 2

   What if understanding what drains us could change how we respond to it? On this episode, the Hope, Power & Healthcare team is back with another session of STLTH Feedback - a live, unscripted deep dive where founders share their innovation and receive real-time input from industry insiders. For our second episode, we were joined by Rashida Boyd, founder of Five F*cks a Day - a digital mental health and wellness tool designed to help people understand what depleted them, what restores them, and the patterns that shape how they respond. Our hosts, Chris Hemphill and Melissa Reilly, were joined by clinical psychologist Dr. Kira Weidner, to pressure-test Rashida’s vision from multiple angles. The conversation moves from the psychology behind the product, to a much bigger question: What happens when a promising consumer mental health tool starts moving toward the healthcare system? Together, our “nurse sharks” dig into emotional awareness, resilience, provider workflows, clinical risk, privacy, AI, and what it would actually take for a tool like this to fit into the lives of both patients and clinicians. The goal? To ask the harder questions early, surface what still needs to be solved, and help founders build something stronger. What if we took STLTH Feedback beyond the screen? We’re exploring what it could look like to bring this format to a conference and put founders, healthcare leaders, and real-time feedback together in the same room. Stay tuned for official announcements, we might just be bringing the nurse sharks to a stage near you. Connect with us: Follow Hope, Power & Healthcare on LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/company/hope-power-healthcare/?viewAsMember=true Connect with Rashida Boyd:https://www.linkedin.com/in/rashidaboyd/?isSelfProfile=false Connect with Dr. Kira Weidner:https://www.linkedin.com/in/kiraweidnerpsyd/?isSelfProfile=false#HopePowerandHealthcare Hosts:Chris Hemphill - Chris’s 17 years in healthcare technology have spanned sales, operations, data science IC, and AI leadership. Chris couples this with a focus on health equity and serves as the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy Research Fellow for Healthcare AI. Chris’s currently leads Modular Feedback, which focuses on helping healthcare innovators find and build thoughtful AI use cases: https://modularfeedback.com Melissa Reilly - Melissa spent the last 20 years leading innovations at major payers: UnitedHealth Group(Optum Ventures), Aetna, and Evernorth/Cigna. She’s helped drive and commercialize multiple startups in AI & consumer testing, and she is now driving product and commercialization for healthcare innovators full-time. She brings industry expertise as well as a background in law, negotiation, & real estate. Her company’s name is STLTH. Production:Edited by Alyssa SchrollMusic by Chris Hemphill

2. 

   13 Jul 2026

   AI Knows More About Your Health Than You Do: Wearables As the Next Healthcare Revolution

   The next generation of healthcare won’t just generate more data, it will help us understand what that data actually represents. In this episode of Hope, Power and Healthcare, our hosts - Chris and Melissa, dive into one of the internet’s latest experiments: connecting your WHOOP data to Claude, to analyze your physiological reactions to daily life. What started as a funny story of a man using this to analyze his interactions with coworkers, quickly became a much bigger conversation about the future of healthcare, personal data, AI and what happens when continuous health monitoring meets LLMs. The two touch on how wearable devices are changing the way we are able to understand our own health, and why AI is making personal health data more accessible than ever. If you have an interest in digital health and AI, wearables, or simply how emerging technology is reshaping everyday life, this is an episode for you. Subscribe for more conversations exploring the intersection of hope, technology, leadership, and the future of healthcare. #ArtificialIntelligence #DigitalHealth #WHOOP #ClaudeAI #HopePowerandHealthcare Hosts:Chris Hemphill - Chris’s 17 years in healthcare technology have spanned sales, operations, data science IC, and AI leadership. Chris couples this with a focus on health equity and serves as the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy Research Fellow for Healthcare AI. Chris’s currently leads Modular Feedback, which focuses on helping healthcare innovators find and build thoughtful AI use cases: https://modularfeedback.com Melissa Reilly - Melissa spent the last 20 years leading innovations at major payers: UnitedHealth Group(Optum Ventures), Aetna, and Evernorth/Cigna. She’s helped drive and commercialize multiple startups in AI & consumer testing, and she is now driving product and commercialization for healthcare innovators full-time. She brings industry expertise as well as a background in law, negotiation, & real estate. Her company’s name is STLTH. Production:Edited by Alyssa SchrollMusic by Chris Hemphill

3. 

   24 Jun 2026

   Innovation vs. Math: What Are Healthcare Buyers Really Looking For?

   After years of hearing healthcare leaders ask, “What’s next?”, the conversation is officially changing. Healthcare innovation is evolving, but not in the way many founders expect. Fresh off AHIP 2026, Chris and Melissa discuss a growing reality across healthcare: buyers are becoming less interested in exciting new features, and more focused on measurable cost savings, operational efficiency, and proven outcomes. Drawing from Melissa’s experience as both a former health plan executive and healthcare consultant, and Chris’s practical perspectives, they explore why so many startups struggle to gain traction, how health plans evaluate new solutions, and what it really takes to build a product that aligns with market demand.If you’re building, selling, or investing in healthcare, this conversation offers a candid look at what decision-makers are prioritizing - and why understanding the problem may be more important than perfecting the solution. Hope, Power & Healthcare explores the people, ideas, and conversations shaping the future of healthcare. Like and Subscribe to follow along. #HealthcareStrategy #DigitalTransformation #HopePowerandHealthcare #ValueBasedCare Hosts: Chris Hemphill - Chris’s 17 years in healthcare technology have spanned sales, operations, data science IC, and AI leadership. Chris couples this with a focus on health equity and serves as the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy Research Fellow for Healthcare AI. Chris’s currently leads Modular Feedback, which focuses on helping healthcare innovators find and build thoughtful AI use cases: https://modularfeedback.com Melissa Reilly - Melissa spent the last 20 years leading innovations at major payers: UnitedHealth Group(Optum Ventures), Aetna, and Evernorth/Cigna. She’s helped drive and commercialize multiple startups in AI & consumer testing, and she is now driving product and commercialization for healthcare innovators full-time. She brings industry expertise as well as a background in law, negotiation, & real estate. Her company’s name is STLTH. Production:Edited by Alyssa SchrollMusic by Chris Hemphill

Who has been a guest on Hope, Power, and Healthcare

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Emily Brown
• Dean Browell
• Dr Eric Topol
• Crystal Brown

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 33 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

54

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32