Explore every episode of the podcast Inspiring Women with Laurie McGraw

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Jessica McGlory, CEO and Founder at Guaranteed, a care company that focuses on end of life care. And we start by talking about death. Jessica shares her deeply personal journey that led to the creation of Guaranteed, when she was suddenly and unexpectedly thrown into becoming the primary caregiver for […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Rebekah Swain, Vice President of Managed Health Strategy, Planning, and Membership Performance at Advocate Health. Rebekah began her career in healthcare early, an original candy striper volunteer as a teenager and progressing through various roles in healthcare management. Her passion for healthcare stems from witnessing firsthand the impact […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Denielle deWynter, CFO and SVP of Hearst Health.  Denielle has spent twenty years in finance and half of them in various Hearst businesses.  It’s the mission driven focus that Denielle finds so meaningful, making this her best position so far.   In this 2024 WBL (Women Business Leaders) Series, Denielle […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Patrice Wolfe, CEO of AGS Health, a global revenue cycle technology, analytics and services company.  Patrice was only a few months in at AGS before the pandemic hit and talks about how she worked with her ~10,000 employee workforce, mostly based in India, while still serving the needs of her clients.  […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Kelli Clifton Ogunsanya, a healthcare leader over a network of community health centers. In addition to her work serving the population needs of underserved individuals and families, Kelli is very focused on supporting women in their own personal development as leaders.  Her own leadership journey started with the confidence building that […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Lisa Rangel, CEO and Founder of Chameleon Resumes.  During this time of great workforce shifts, Lisa has advice for how to be noticed and not forgotten and talks about why it is so important to keep building your network at any stage of your career.  She finds that the more senior […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Johanna Fic, a Senior Manager of Engagement Delivery at Salesforce.  Johanna is a technology consulting professional with experience helping clients in the consumer products industry, oil & gas industry, and the public sector improve and implement customer-centric technologies and business processes. Her passion is solving problems and improving customer experiences.  Johanna […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Nicole Christian Brathwaite, who works with under-served children and families in the area of mental health.  Dr. Christian Brathwaite is concerned about the mental health of children today in particular those who are experiencing trauma which may come from discrimination, racism, as well as other impacts from this pandemic.  Her […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Women Corbin Petro and Jessica Gelman, founders and CEOs of Eleanor Health and Kraft Analytics Group respectively.  As a married couple, Corbin and Jess jokingly refer to themselves as Team CJ, yet their drive and passion for growing their companies is anything but a joke.  There may be fewer female CEOs in […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Abby Sears, President and CEO of OCHIN, a nonprofit health care innovation center designed to provide knowledge solutions that promote quality, affordable health care for all.  Early on Abby learned she had a passion for business and science.  Then someone opened the door to leadership.  Every day Abby feels a responsibility […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Ann Barnes, CEO of IMO a healthcare company focused on data and insights.  Ann has purposefully built her teams to focus on diversity because this simply makes sense for her business.  She encourages other leaders to move from the discussion of DEI to doing the work of DEI.  As a senior […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Stacey Vanek Smith, acclaimed business and economics correspondent for NPR and author of Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition and Win the Workplace.  Stacey recognizes that we are in a powerful moment right now with a convergence of forces that has the potential to be very good for […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Rona Matthew, a leading woman in marketing and entertainment and currently a senior product marketing manager at TikTok.  Rona’s career has already been an adventure from when she started at Howard University to spending eight years in South Africa leading her own brand agency.  Being part of the majority, surrounding herself […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Kristin Rodriguez.  Kristin is many things, and one of those things is that Kristin is funny.  Don’t confuse her quick wit and humorous approach to career trajectory (a winding path indeed!) with anything less than her seriousness in how she expects to help Heroes.  Who are the Heroes?  The people […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Dana Zanone, a family medicine physician who has been implementing technology solutions for most of her career.  Now she wants physicians to have less time with the computer and much more of it focused on the more important work of being a physician – time with the patient.  Dana is […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Janet Dillione.  Janet is an incredibly accomplished executive in healthcare that is focused, at this stage of her career, on leaving healthcare better than when she found it.  As she reflects on key pivot points in her storied career, Janet has learned that progression is not a ladder and that careers […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Katie Goodman.  Katie is a podcast host, an influencer (in the world of soccer), a business owner, a yoga instructor, PR consultant and several other things.  In other words, a millennial!  Katie graduated from Mississippi State and spent a few years in “big girl jobs” and learned that being in a […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Patrice Harris.  Dr. Harris speaks about what it means to be the first, one of the first, the only …..African American woman in so many spaces.  She has always gravitated to where the decisions are being made and if she sees something that is not working, she feels this is […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Julie Castro Abrams, founder and CEO of How Women Invest and How Women Lead.  For over 30 years, Julie, who describes herself as a social justice warrior, has been intent on affecting everyone’s opportunity to advance.  She takes a scientific approach to supporting and advancing women at the investment and board […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman May Busch, a sought after executive coach, speaker, advisor, and author.  May was just one more incredibly smart, talented, hardworking financial analyst at Morgan Stanley when at age 23 she found she had a special strength – reading the room and performing some tai chi moves to change the energy. Being […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Natalie Davis, CEO and Co-Founder of United States of Care.  Natalie has been working to improve people’s lives and opportunity for health for nearly two decades.  This means bringing together a lot of stakeholders including many of healthcare’s power brokers.  You might find that intimidating, but not for Natalie. She looks […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Miruna Sasu, PhD, and Chief Strategy Office of COTA, Inc.  Always a risk taker, Miruna thrives on the challenges of pursuing big ideas and changing something drastically.  But risk taking comes with having a support system, one that she trusts, not only her husband and family, but also trusted friends and […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Fran Ayalasomayajula.  She still doesn’t understand why it took a pandemic to embrace telehealth but she urges us to continue to accelerate and to double down on universal design.  Fran is clear that digital health holds great promise for global health issues, but personalization, form factors, and honing in on data […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Sarah Oremland.  She is an executive coach and leadership development consultant but considers herself a Business Psychologist.  Sarah discusses what today’s high-performance teams need to engage and retain the workforce of today. Sarah has a quintessentially unique mix: the hunger and motivation of a former salesperson, the ability to actively listen […]

In this 2024 WBL (Women Business Leaders) Series, Emily talks about her leadership journey from the point of view of a “mid careerist”.  Today she is leading innovation operations at Geisinger.  Her path to leadership was not a clear straight journey and she credits her prior diverse experience to giving her the confidence to lead […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Natasha Sheybani, a scientist focused on eradicating cancer. Natasha Sheybani, PhD, serves as Senior Scientist at the Focused Ultrasound Foundation, where her role involves supporting research programs in glioblastoma, gene therapy and cancer immunotherapy. She is also a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University, where her appointment is shared among […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Chrissy Farr, a San Francisco-based health-tech investor with a background in journalism. Chrissy is a Principal at OMERS Ventures having joined in 2020 and is focused on healthtech, with special expertise in behavioral health, telemedicine, electronic medical records, and women’s health. Previously, she was a writer and frequent on-air contributor for […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Insha Haque, a family medicine doctor in New Hampshire who has led a life of service in addition to serving her patients today. Dr. Insha Haque’s focuses include Quality Improvement, Clinical Innovation, Population Health and Leadership via a Systems Change Philosophy. My clinical work is centered primarily in outpatient Primary […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Marie E. Lamont, President and Chief Operating Officer of Inteliquet, a clinical trials technology company. Marie E. Lamont is responsible for the overall vision and operations of Inteliquet. With the goal of providing patients and physicians access to the latest and best treatment options and care available, she […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Alexis DiGasso, a psychologist/postdoctoral fellow practicing in Rhode Island. Dr. Alexis DiGasso is a Postdoctoral Fellow in clinical psychology at Providence Behavioral Health Associates. Dr. DiGasso earned her bachelor’s Degree from Boston College, and her master’s and doctorate degrees from William James College in Newton, MA with specializations in Children […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Monica Bolbjerg, Chairman, CEO and Founder of Qure4u. Dr. Bolbjerg is a doctor, an entrepreneur, and a digital health pioneer. As a young physician, Dr. Bolbjerg noticed the lack of tools available to engage with and help patients beyond episodic, in-person encounters. That experience ignited her passion to create patient engagement […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Alerie Stiles, a Vice President at TSI Healthcare.  Alerie self describes as being ON A MISSION TO IMPROVE HEALTHCARE FOR PHYSICIANS 👨🏻‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️AND PATIENTS 👴🏻🧓🏽 THROUGH TECHNOLOGY Driven by value and outcomes Physician designed workflows (from personally shadowing over 1,000 physicians) Clinical product strategy & analytics Always striving to […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Hena Waseem, a Resident Physician and Neurologist who recently completed her Masters of Public Health from Dartmouth.  Dr. Waseem currently in the Leadership and Preventive Medicine Residency at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.  There she has had several unique training opportunities due to the COVID19 pandemic including being Co-author of New Hampshire Crisis Standards […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Renee Bovelle, an ophthalmologist, business owner, educator, cyber security expert, organized medicine leader, and more.  How does she do it all?  She finds time for the things that excite her and gains her energy from giving back and continuing to learn. Renee Bovelle, MD is owner and […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Sheila Talton.  Corporate executive Sheila G. Talton was born on October 12, 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. As a teenager, she became involved in the civil rights movement in Rockford, Illinois. Talton went on to graduate from Northern Illinois University with her B.S. degree in business administration and speech […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Michelle Wright.   In this 2024 WBL (Women Business Leaders) Series, Michelle begins our conversation talking about what it means to play the long game.  She has always been in Maryland and for nearly thirty of those years she was a senior executive at Carefirst BlueCross BlueShield.  To play the […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Denise Brosseau.  Denise understands what it takes to be a thought leader, an influencer and how to build your career through experience and expertise.  Denise has spent her career as an entrepreneur and thought leader herself and she has been adamant and active in supporting women advance their own […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Bridget Duffy. Bridget Duffy, M.D.,is the Chief Medical Officer for Vocera. As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Duffy plays a key role in new product innovations, acquisitions, and accelerating adoption of technology that protects and connects frontline workers. Prior to her appointment at Vocera, Dr. Duffy co-founded and […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Bettina Hein.  Bettina Hein is a serial software entrepreneur that has built technology companies in both Europe and the United States. She is most recently the founder of digital health startup juli, her third software company. She is also the founder of Pixability, a video advertising company in […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Meghan Krueger.  Meghan Krueger, RN. Registered Nurse at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program You can follow Meghan on LinkedIn. Read the transcript here.

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Brook West.  Brook West, Chief Commercial Officer LinkedIn As a successful P&L leader, Brook leads the enterprise sales function for Carrum Health. She has a proven track record of scaling sales multiple times in the digital health space. In her most recent role, Brook was responsible for building […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Sabina Shaikh.  Dr. Sabina Shaikh is the Director of the Program on Global Environment and an Associate Senior Instructional Professor in Environmental and Urban Studies at the University of Chicago.  She holds a PhD in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of California at Davis and […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dorri McWhorter.  Dorri is in a race with Elon Musk, whether he knows it or not.  There is a 30-year plan to get to Mars –the time to get to gender parity is currently estimated to be 200 years. 200 years?  Dorri is having nothing to do with […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Maya Inozemtseva, a physical therapist and home health therapist.  Maya found her calling with physical therapy from an early age and pursued the needed coursework and training in Boston.  She was thrilled to be practicing what she loved and then the pandemic simply shut everything down.  She never […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Lara Dodo.  Working across different fields and industries has meant a lot of learning for Lara.  One of the most important learnings has been how she has become very comfortable asking the right questions until she gets answers that make sense to her. Lara Dodo, Chief Growth and Operating […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Van Ton-Quinlivan.  Years of experience across public, private and non-profit sectors did not prepare her for how to handle launching her business just before the pandemic brought the country to its knees.  But her longtime business approach and mindset, moving at the speed of need, certainly did. Van […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Nadine Hauf.   In this 2024 WBL (Women Business Leaders) Series, Nadine begins our conversation with a view into how she developed an innovative technology hub for health plan members.  A place where people can come into the care system and understand what is available to them.  She built this […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Joané Booth, who is passionate about engaging with communities of color in her work at the Michigan League of Conservation Voters.  She entered the government arena not knowing a lot about government.  Quickly she understood the impact of policy and she caught the bug.  Having now worked at […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Kristen Valdes who shares lessons she has learned in building her company b.well Connected Health. Kristen Valdes, the founder and CEO of b.well Connected Health (www.icanbwell.com), has dedicated her career to empowering consumers with the data and tools to take control of their health care journey. An award-winning […]

Laurie McGraw is speaking with Inspiring Woman Dr. Ying Sun.  Dr. Sun is a first-gen, Asian American postdoctoral scholar.  She believes people need to see the whole individual to be a good ally.  First gens that come from low-income families – they are stressed out about finances; they are intimately tied to their families and […]