Owning HER Health podcast

About Owning HER Health podcast

Lissette Alvarez Holland (aka Dr. Lisa,) has been helping women enjoy the human experience of their curvier hustle and divine design for over two decades. After her move into peer leadership and relational development she is bringing her body intelligence and ecological economy frameworks front and center. Listen in to a variety of ways allied health pros, health adjacent care services and civics will become the new infrastructure of community health. Listen in to prepare now for taking advantage of even more opportunities being created in women's health, safer AI, and community care and avoid recreating the bottleneck mistakes of sick care centered medicine.

Publisher

Dr Lisa Holland DPT, AT, WHNC, CAP

Category

health & fitness · religion & spirituality

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Oct 2016

Latest episode

20 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

103 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   20 Aug 2026

   Be A Human in US Healthcare Today

   Line edited by Gemini for show notes, article format, and transcript publishing.because my ADHD and Systems thinking Polymath tendencies have a hard time expressing bite sized chunks. I have been diving into The Reality of the US Healthcare Illusions for decades but this August I am reflecting on where the human side of health systems is at risk of getting very lost inside the AI adoption processes going on. What I have found is that the more I dive into how Big Tech is thinking about the needs of humans, the more I am realizing these people making major decisions just seriously do not understand humans outside of the left hemisphere of our brains. This can be a sobering exercise and I am not really sure I have the emotional capacity to complete the intended 90 days if dismantling syntax I wanted to introduce into the ethos here and on my this show's Substack. Why? Because Coming from a background in human performance, sports therapy, and physical therapy, I actually am both intrigued and in love with the max potential of humans. In my studies and my life, I was granted access to every educational and professional opportunity. Like many Gen X women, I entered the workforce assuming parity with my male peers. However, entering motherhood revealed the profound structural biases built into American healthcare and corporate life. Three months of saved leave—even while navigating postpartum depression—was structurally inadequate. That personal turning point exposed the stark gaps in women's health and shifted my trajectory permanently. Pain, Trauma, and the Gaps in Big Health In the late 1990s, while treating chronic pain patients alongside pioneers like Dr. John Sarno, the intersections of my personal life and career converged. I recognized that traditional allopathic models were fundamentally failing women. My mother's experience with ovarian cancer—and her ultimate passing due to systemic care mismanagement and clinical detachment—highlighted how gender bias, cultural marginalization, and institutional stress dictate health outcomes. Legacy hospital systems, trapped in 7-to-14-minute transactional appointments, routinely mistake metric management for human care. The Upstream Escape: Cash Practice and Community Health To fill these systemic gaps, I was forced to move upstream, stepping away from the New York metropolitan corporate mindset to build cash-based boutique models, peer mentorship networks, and integrative wellness practices. Many high-performing clinicians leave legacy institutions during their professional prime not to retreat, but to build sustainable environments where care is guided by the social determinants of health rather than industrial quotas. Traditional healthcare models failed my family, and without proactive alternatives, they will continue to fail future generations. AI, Big Tech, and the Misunderstanding of Machine Learning Today, as AI transforms healthcare, the dominant narratives are controlled by Big Health and Big Tech, both framing artificial intelligence strictly around margin expansion and operational speed. Clinicians must understand the underlying principles: Machine Learning (ML) in technology maps directly to motor learning in human neurology. AI encompasses voice recognition, large language models, and predictive algorithms, yet decision-makers in Big Tech continue to apply linear logic to non-linear biological and social organisms. Delegating complex human friction to automated infrastructure will not fix systems that were broken by design. Allopathic Hegemony and the Power of Community Care Understanding modern health dysfunction requires examining its history, as detailed in The Social Transformation of American Medicine. Allopathic medicine historically fragmented the human body into isolated specialties, suppressing community-based care models that drive true public health. As the institutional medical complex faces systemic strain—evidenced by clinician burnout, insurance friction, and mass coverage drops—the response cannot be adopting white-labeled tech stacks or fleeing into luxury concierge medicine. The Path Forward for Independent Clinicians The future of sustainable care does not belong to corporate healthcare conglomerates or social media algorithms. It belongs to independent clinicians, allied health professionals, and small community health practices. I end this episode talking about how we can change the narratives around AI and preserve human systems that promote our health. By taking control of how AI is integrated at the grassroots level, practitioners can protect human-to-human relational intelligence, build resilient practice models, and maintain true ethical stewardship over patient care.  xoxo- Dr Lissette Alvarez-Holland

2. 

   17 Aug 2026

   Human Physical Intelligence vs. Artificial Compute

   Line edited by AI for show notes, article format, or transcript publishing. The Adoption Gap: Why Tech Misunderstands Human Friction People in tech often fail to understand adoption friction—why some people hesitate around AI while others embrace it. Having spent my career as a physical therapist, athletic trainer, and personal trainer, my clinical perspective is rooted entirely in human development and human systems. I've spent my life studying the intelligence of the human condition, but I realized early on that many people pay little attention to their physical bodies until they experience pain. Pain, Adaptation, and the Limits of Medicalization: Witnessing my father's chronic pain showed me how easily someone can become trapped in an identity of suffering—living through a diagnosis rather than organic reality. In healthcare, if you seek out enough doctors, someone will always find a structural flaw to treat. Statistically, about 30% of asymptomatic individuals walking around today have disc herniations on an MRI without any pain complaints. As long as we adapt and move, our natural intelligence works around structural variations. Movement is how we physically adapt. Optimization vs. Replacement: Entering the AI Landscape My background in movement and rehabilitation was always about bridging broken states to optimized states. When AI entered the cultural conversation, my interest was not about monetization, but about how "intelligence" was being defined. Tech initially pitched AI as a healthcare revolution before abruptly pivoting to marketing and large language models. Drawing on my background in human systems and integrated mathematics, I saw the parallel immediately: computing relies on binary logic, whereas human intelligence integrates non-verbal symbols, physical vectors, and somatosensory feedback. Kinetic Learning and the Language of Movement: Human learning is deeply physical. As a dancer, I learned not by analyzing verbal instructions, but by embodying rhythm and tone. Premier dancers are kinetic, physical learners. The human body possesses an innate capacity to convert complex rhythmic and physical inputs into movement without needing analytical breakdown. Tech Leaders and the Stunting of Physical Intelligence: The current enthusiasm for AI among engineers often stems from a lack of physical embodiment. Many modern tech leaders grew up trapped in cognitive, left-brain analysis, resulting in stunted physical intelligence. Instead of building compute to match the vast complexity of organic human design, tech developers reduce human function down to narrow computational fractions. When observing figures like Bill Gates, Elon Musk, or Sam Altman, their high cognitive intelligence exists alongside a clear disconnect from physical embodiment and interoception. Their products reflect this limitation, pushing ideologies that treat human friction as a flaw to be engineered away rather than an essential variable for growth. The High Cost of Bypassing the Body: When we fail to invest in organic human intelligence, we default to digital externalization, handing over critical thinking to machine learning analytics. We see extreme examples among tech elites who attempt to bypass aging with biometric gadgets and drastic interventions while remaining disconnected from their basic biological ecology. Historically, 80% of human communication is non-verbal, and our foundational health operates within that non-verbal, somatic baseline. By forcing human existence to conform strictly to linear, left-brain productivity metrics, we stop moving, we stop playing, and we perform thin layers of cognitive intelligence that aren't even ours. Reclaiming Organic Systems: The Cell as an LLM Every cell in your body contains a biological "large language model," with your organ systems operating as integrated processing networks. We have yet to fully understand or integrate our right-brain intelligence, let alone our full somatic design. Automating or replacing these organic networks with artificial interfaces—like connecting brain tissue directly to synthetic compute—overlooks the systemic reality of the whole organism. Community Health and Small Health Practices: As legacy healthcare systems collapse under top-down corporate weight, the solution is not waiting for institutional failure. The path forward lies in small health practices, private clinicians, social workers, and community health networks. By reclaiming physical movement, natural intelligence, and human systems integration, we ground well-being back where it belongs: in the human body and the local community. Human Systems & AI Ethics: Human Systems Integration, Human Architecture, AI Ethics, AI Adoption Friction, Natural Intelligence vs Artificial Intelligence, Relational Intelligence, Human Friction, Somatosensory Intelligence, Kinetic Learning Clinical & Movement Science: Physical Therapy, Doctor of Physical Therapy, Athletic Training, Human Movement Science, Interoception, Chronic Pain Adaptation, Biopsychosocial Model Healthcare Reform & Practice: Community Health, Small Health, Private Practice Infrastructure, Social Determinants of Health, Legacy Healthcare Collapse, Allied Health Leadership, Human-Centered Healthcare

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   3 Aug 2026

   Why Allied Health (Not AI or Tech Platforms) Will Restore Trust in Healthcare

   Welcome back to Episode 105. This is a short 10 min episode where I am throwing out some ideas and asking for some feedback. Feel free to comment on my Linked in or Substack. I've really been considering putting out a daily show—whether live or pre-recorded—about how we navigate this new era. Make no mistake, this is an era defined by the mass adoption of AI and health tech. My thoughts on this began over the weekend when much to my heartbreak, I saw two gambling invitations on my feeds and then was reminded what is going on with the mass exodus of nursing. I can't be the only one to see a lot of gamification starting up as a good way to "engage" people. This is completely under the radar of public health's challenges with mental addictions. The concern I have is that most addictions start with tiny, tiny dopamine hits, and gamification of online group challenges do that. The resistence is being hit young and in sneaky fun ways that do not need you to have a big mindful snort of a drug while sitting inside a casino. This is now the US losing the plot between entertainment and normalizing full out mental illnesses and sociopathies. It got me thinking of my children and the evolving alliance between corporate health and tech. I really hate the money side will actually ignore why we have open nursing slots at all, as we enter the nurse shift bidding wars. As I sit here examining the shifting definitions of health—specifically here in the US—I keep coming back to one truth: our digital footprint is all we have left. It is our modern hieroglyphics. I'm thinking deeply about how we can proactively influence the data being scraped, harvested, and gathered right now. Recently, I've been helping professionals navigate brand protection and IP. But protecting your IP isn't enough anymore. We need boots on the ground—soldiers, if you will—getting out here and just being openly, unapologetically human. People are rapidly losing the ability to tell what's real and what's synthetic. This isn't about starting a war with technology; it's about introducing a variable that the system did not anticipate coming: genuine human presence. When I look at where healthcare is heading, it's clear there is a systemic, societal illness at play. We are watching human systems break down. Yesterday on LinkedIn, I posted about a disturbing trend where new platforms have nurses literally bidding against each other for shifts—bragging that they are the "Uber of nursing." Is this really what we want? We are introducing gamification and bidding dynamics into healthcare in a society that already struggles massively with addiction. It's gambling, plain and simple. If you don't know my background, human systems have always been my passion. Years ago, I opened one of the first cash-based boutique physical therapy practices in the nation, housed inside an integrative yoga therapy center. I didn't do it to be "first." I did it because no traditional clinic—where I worked as a physical therapist and certified athletic trainer—understood what I was trying to say about active women, stress, and the mind-body connection. Early on in New York City, I was treating patients sent directly from Dr. John Sarno, author of Healing Back Pain, who pioneered the mind-body approach to chronic pain. I was working with Broadway dancers in Manhattan, learning from elite facilities like Kessler (where Christopher Reeve rehabilitated), and serving as a lead student athletic trainer back at Hofstra University in 1994. From young dancers to collegiate athletes, the lesson was always the same: performance, recovery, and longevity require keeping the athlete's mind in the game. Eventually, I saw the stark split—the total bifurcation—between traditional medicine and true health. Because I saw where the industry was going, and because I was a woman who wanted to raise my kids in my 20s and maintain true autonomy over my career, I built a portfolio career. Traditional medicine in this country wasn't built to support that level of independence or holistic thinking. Looking at where we are today, I'm not trying to "save" corporate medicine. Medicine in the U.S. is severely broken, and its core incentives were misaligned from the start. But community health? Community health has a massive opportunity right now. Trust in institutional medicine has completely collapsed—compounded by political division, pandemic burnout, and the atrocious way hospital systems treated their own frontline workers. Now, corporate health tech is testing the waters with gamified nursing shift bids. Make no mistake: if they can do it to nursing, they will bring it to physical therapy, rehab, and outpatient clinics next. We're already seeing venture-backed platforms like Hinge Health and Sword Health enter the space, rolling out automated pelvic floor programs, direct-to-consumer blood panels, and at-home hormone kits. Here is the bottom line: allopathic physicians don't have the time or integrative skill set to guide patients through this personalized, fragmented landscape. Who is going to guide them? Allied health professionals. To fix this massive trust deficit, it will take credentialed experts who are willing to show up consistently, speak directly, and restore real human relationships. I've always believed in practicing what you preach—and right now, staying human is the most radical thing we can do. Key Takeaways for Show Notes The AI Imperative: Why creating authentic digital footprints is vital as AI scrapes online health data. The Gamification of Healthcare: The dangerous rise of "Uber-style" bidding apps for nursing and allied health. Medicine vs. Health: Why corporate medicine is failing while community and allied health are positioned to lead. The Mind-Body Precedent: How lessons from sports medicine and Dr. John Sarno apply to today's burnout culture.

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