The Tech Glow Up - Fabulous conversations with innovative minds.
Get an unprecedented front row seat to vulnerable founder conversations with innovation leaders from Blockbuster, Meta, Sony, Cisco, Nokia, and more. Join Nathan C, founder of Awesome Future, for authentic discussions with product leaders, CEOs, and startup founders who share the real challenges of bringing breakthrough ideas to market.
Because having a good idea is only the first, easiest part of the entrepreneurial journey.
Each episode delivers relatable stories and actionable strategies from people who've navigated the startup trenches. Discover the soft skills and mental resilience that separate successful launches from failed attempts—without getting bogged down in tech jargon.
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Episodes
92 episodes
This Impact Angel Investor Reveals Their Secrets, Plus how Rural Hospitals Can Finally Get Paid - Joseph A. Riddle
Rural hospitals hold some of the most reliable receivables in finance — money owed by the US government — yet they can't borrow against them. Banks won't price the risk. So hospitals pledge buildings instead, starving themselves of capital. Jos...
Building A Sustainable Climate Future That Doesn't Suck Needs More VR Artists - Chip Giller, Agog
Most climate communication talks at people. It delivers facts, projections, timelines — and wonders why nothing changes. Facts land in the head, not the gut. Immersive media like XR, AR, VR changes that. When you're standing inside a story, it ...
He’s Built Snap's AR Smartglasses for 10+ Years. Take An Inside Look At Spectacles - Russell Patton
What does it take to stay committed to a vision when the technology is still developing? Russell Patton has been inside Snap working on camera glasses and AR smartglasses for over a decade. He's a Staff Product Manager on Snap Spect...
The Math Behind Sustainable Health Startups: There’s No Mission Without A Margin - Warren Templeton
Every health tech founder wants to change the system. But Warren Templeton, Managing Director at Health2047, will tell you that without financial sustainability, the mission dies on the vine. "No mission wi...
Mental Wellness Is a Skill Everyone Can Train Before the Crisis Hits - Leah Blain Chimney Trail Healthj
We train our bodies. We track our steps, our sleep, our resting heart rate. But when it comes to mental wellness — the skills that help people regulate, process, and recover — most people never learn them until something breaks. The tools exist...
Meet The HealthTech Impact Award Winners & The Personal Stories That Sparked Their Innovations.
Meet the HealthTech Impact Award Winners. Five innovators with five real, personal inspirations that keep them focussed and building. Ellyn Ito co-founded InnerStill after her 15-y...
40 EV’s On A Cross Country Test Show How Real-World Research Beats The Lab Every Time - Katie Tucker
Most vehicle research happens in ideal conditions — short commutes, familiar routes, full battery. Katie Tucker wanted to know what happens when the conditions aren't ideal. As Global Customer Research and CX Insights Manager at General Motors,...
Just-In-Time Learning Means Doctor & Nurses Have Answers When It Matters Most - Dr. Stephanie Lahr
Most technology implementations in healthcare fail in the same place: the moment after go-live, when clinicians are supposed to just know how to use the system. Dr. Stephanie Lahr, Chief Medical Officer at uP...
Invest In Communities Instead Of Arguing; Value-Based Care Needs a Source of Truth – Rachael Jones
Value-based care has a transparency problem. Payers have their number. Providers have their number. Nobody can agree on what truth is — and that disagreement is quietly costing providers money they should be reinvesting in their communities, th...
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CEO Wants Cheap Drugs! Pricing Transparency API Gives Patients Back Their Power - Miriam Paramore
America's healthcare system has been claiming to put patients first for decades. Miriam Paramore, founder and CEO of RX Utility, has spent 42 years in health IT watching that claim go unmet — and she built h...
200 Calls vs. an AI Concierge: How Guidehealth Makes Great Healthcare Affordable — Sanjay Doddamani
In December 2024, a Guidehealth customer needed blood pressure readings from thousands of seniors — fast. Over 200 people making calls for 20 straight days was the traditional answer. Guidehealth deployed an AI voice concierge instead. It colle...
Squash Your Imposter Syndrome! Real World Data, Women's Health & Humans In AI— Camille McWhirter
The NIH issued a policy encouraging the inclusion of women in clinical research in 1986. It took until 2016 — 30 years — for sex to be formally accepted as a biological variable. Camille McWhirter, VP of Clinical Trials, Real World Data, and Ca...
Telling The Missing, Authentic Stories About The Human Side of Entrepreneurship - Hi. I'm Nathan C.
We're almost 60 episodes in and I haven't really introduced myself.Oops.Hi. I'm Nathan C (they/them), and I started The Tech Glow Up as my love letter to the founders and innovators I've had the privilege of meeting throughout my ...
Quality Was This Doctor’s “Hobby.” Responsibility For Outcomes Made It His Job — David Buchanan - Town Square Health
For 25 years, Dr. David Buchanan called quality his hobby. In healthcare, you get paid for volume — not for keeping people healthy. Every hospital admission he prevented, every chronic condition he managed well, was essentially unpaid work. He ...
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Why the Same Surgery, Same Doctor, Same Insurance Can Costs 3x More – Dr. Allison (Alli) Oakes, Trilliant Health
The same surgery. The same doctor. The same hospital. Same insurer, but a different insurance plan and a price that's three times higher. That's not a hypothetical. It's the daily reality of healthcare in 2026, and it's what Dr. Allison (Alli) ...
Free the Pharmacist. Ask the Doctor. Two Vive Conversations On Doing AI Right In Healthcare - Virginia Halsey, Dr. Jay Anders
Everyone says AI in healthcare needs a "human in the loop." Fewer people can tell you what that actually means. This live Vive 2026 episode of The Tech Glow Up features two health IT veterans who are done waiting for theory to catch up with pra...
What Self-Driving Cars Taught This CEO About Safe AI in Healthcare | Nitesh Shroff at VIVE
The revenue cycle is one of healthcare's most expensive blind spots. Health systems pour everything into clinical excellence and then leave money on the table through billing leakage, under-coded claims, denied authorizations, and documentation...
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AI That Really Gets You, Building Emotional Intelligence Into Mental Health Care - Attune Media Labs
Most AI reads your words. Attune Media Labs built one that reads your body, your mannerisms, your culture. David and Robert Bosnak, the father-son co-founders and HLTH Foundation Techquity Impact A...
Carta Healthcare Grew 50% in a Quarter By Applying Values & AI To The Right Problems – Brent Dover
Most CEOs at VIVE were talking about what AI could do. Brent Dover, CEO of Carta Healthcare, came back to the Tech Glow Up with receipts. Since we last spoke in October, Carta grew revenue 50% in a si...
This Patent-Holding ER Doctor Uses AI For Workforce & Patient Empowerment – Dr. Pavitra Krishnamani
What if the biggest barrier to healthcare AI wasn't the technology, but it was the workforce not yet equipped to use it? Dr. Pavitra Krishnamani is the newly appointed Director of AI and Digital Health Education at
This Tech Helps Community Health Workers Get Paid, Solves Ops & Care Gaps - Colby Takeda, Pear Suite
The reality of health equity starts not in a clinic but in the community, addressing fundamental needs like housing, food, and transportation that doctors and nurses can't solve. These critical factors, known as Social Determinants of Health (S...
Fixing Healthcare Pains in Patient Identity, Predictive Journeys & Price Transparency Live From Vive - Joe Hickey, Patty Hayward, Lathe Bigler
Healthcare has a data problem, but not the kind most people assume. The information exists. It's scattered across dozens of systems that don't talk to each other, and every provider encounter requires reconstructing your story from scratch. In ...
AI, The Future of Medicine & How Trust Makes Care Feel More Human — Dr. Louise, Elsevier From VIVE
One pattern keeps showing up in the hundreds of conversations I have with CEOs and clinical innovation leaders: the companies that last are the ones that stay in service of the human relationship. Dr. Louise Chang, Global VP of Clinical Strateg...
This Cardiologist's AI Platform Closes Specialty Care Gaps in 20 Seconds, Scales Access - Reza Sanai
Rural communities often face a grim choice: drive three hours for a specialist or wait nine months. This massive barrier to specialty care is one of the biggest drivers of health inequity. What if a primary care provider could get a...
How Trusted AIs Can Solve Elder Loneliness & Doctor Burnout - Dr. Tim O’Connell & Oren Nissim
Recorded live at the VIVE event: The healthcare industry is hungry for AI standards, governance, and certification, making the need for genuinely trustworthy tech more urgent than ever. CEOs Dr. Tim O’Connell of emtelligent and Oren Nissim of B...
