Every leader has a plan — until the road closes. The question isn't whether you'll hit a detour. It's whether you've been honest enough about which ones you could have seen coming.

In this episode, Jamie sits down with Matt Stobb, CEO of Your Health, for a candid conversation on what detours really cost healthcare leaders — and what they can teach us. Drawing on real moments from the frontlines of healthcare leadership, Jamie and Matt explore the difference between detours we create and detours we inherit, and what we owe our teams when we hit either one.

Key topics covered:

• The critical difference between avoidable and unavoidable detours — and how leaders confuse the two
• Why "there's no lesson in the second kick of a mule" is the most underrated leadership principle in healthcare
• A leader's real job when the detour hits: take responsibility, communicate openly, and run toward the fire — not away from it
• How navigating hard moments together is one of the most powerful team-building forces in healthcare
• Why the detour sometimes becomes a better route than the one you originally planned

If you're in the middle of a detour right now — or just past one you're still processing — this episode will meet you there.

What if the biggest threat to your healthcare organization isn't competition or reimbursement rates — it's the moment one of your team members decided that the policy was more important than the person in front of them?

In this episode, Jamie sits down with Matt Staub, CEO of Your Health, to explore the timeless "Give 'Em the Pickle" philosophy — born in a burger joint, but almost perfectly designed for healthcare. Matt and Jamie unpack the four pillars of the pickle framework — service, attitude, consistency, and teamwork — and trace each one directly into the reality of patient care, care team dynamics, and organizational culture.

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What you'll hear in this episode:

• Why charging a loyal customer 75 cents for extra pickles is the same mistake healthcare makes every day — and how the Ritz Carlton's $2,500 employee empowerment policy points to a better way
• How attitude isn't just a soft skill — it's the infrastructure of every patient interaction, including the ones where you're already having a bad day
• Why mistakes in healthcare aren't failures — they're invitations, and the patients who complained and felt heard often become your fiercest advocates
• What real consistency looks like in care delivery: not doing the same thing robotically, but doing ordinary things extraordinarily well, every single time
• How teamwork in healthcare means every person in the organization — from the CEO to the community health worker — has a role in whether the patient feels seen and served

This episode will challenge you to look at service not as a department or a satisfaction score, but as the very soul of what your organization stands for. Give 'em the pickle.

An ER nurse who spent 15 years on the night shift says she can predict which patients heal fastest — and it has nothing to do with diet or exercise. It's whether someone showed up for them and refused to stay quiet.

In this episode, Matt Staub, CEO of Your Health, sits down with Jamie Preston to unpack that idea from every angle: as a son who once filled a hospital waiting room with 20 advocates for his mother's liver transplant, as a nursing home administrator who sat with a dying patient who had no one else, and as a cancer patient who carried a notebook into every appointment so he wouldn't forget the questions that mattered.

Together they explore:

• Why family advocates get prioritized in the ER — and it isn't about fear of being sued
• The data behind advocacy: a 65% drop in 30-day hospital readmissions and a 98% staff satisfaction rate when patients have someone in their corner
• How to ask a "dumb" question without ever sounding dumb — and why staff want you to ask it
• What to do when a well-meaning advocate crosses the line into disrespect, and how healthcare workers can hold the line with empathy intact
• The "teach-back" method that helps patients actually retain what they were told
• Why the best advocates aren't the loudest in the room — they're the most present

This is a conversation about the most overlooked job in healthcare: the one nobody's officially hired for, but everybody eventually needs. Whether you're a caregiver, a patient, or the clinician on the other side of the exam table, you'll walk away knowing exactly what to do differently at your next appointment.

What if failure isn't the opposite of winning — but the gift that makes it possible?

In Part 2 of this two-part conversation, Your Health CEO Matt Staub opens up about the present he gave himself at 40: permission to fail. Then he shows what that looks like when life tests it — walking Jamie through a 2025 that brought prostate cancer, his daughter's surgery, the loss of his father, and professional hardship, and the quiet strength it takes to look back and say, "That was a good try. I'm still here. I'm hard to beat."

In this episode, you'll hear:

• How Matt reframes a loss into a "fall forward" — and the simple habit he uses to do it
• The agonizing leadership question of when to let someone you care about fail
• Why accountability, done right, is one of the best gifts you can give a friend
• The danger of only celebrating big wins — and how complacency quietly creeps in
• Why the only voice that truly matters is the one inside your own head

If you missed Part 1, start there for the full arc. Then settle in here for the deeper, more personal half — and walk away with a new relationship to the losses in your own life.

Whoever scores the most goals wins. Simple — until you leave the field and try to keep score in your actual life, where there's no referee and no final whistle. So how do you know if you're winning?

In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Your Health CEO Matt Staub sits down with Jamie Preston to redefine what a win actually is. Matt opens with the daily ritual that grounds him — making it to the gym — and the moment he realized the win wasn't the scale or the heavier lift, but the discipline of showing up at all.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why the heaviest weight at the gym is the front door — and what that teaches about every goal
• The hidden cost of only celebrating the big wins (hint: it's called burnout)
• What a humbling match-play golf loss taught Jamie about changing the goal instead of the game
• Why Matt believes pressure is a privilege — and how he leans into it
• Who actually decides what counts as a win, and what to do when there's no scoreboard

This is the half where winning gets redefined from the outside in. Press play, then come back next week for Part 2 — where it gets personal.

What if the patient never noticed the merger at all? For Matt Staub, that's not a failure — it's the goal.

In this episode, Your Health CEO Matt Staub sits down with Jamie to talk through the company's merger with TCPA and Providence Care — a move that brings together similar footprints in primary care, palliative, hospice, skilled nursing, and assisted living across South Carolina and Georgia. As a 23-year healthcare veteran going through his first merger, Matt is candid about the tedious due-diligence "earnest money" phase, the EMR transitions ahead, and why he refuses to let "what could go wrong" crowd out "what could go right."

You'll hear:

• Why "mass moves mass" — and what scale actually buys patients in care management and data analytics
• How Your Health breaks 50,000 patients into groups, teams, and "hubs" so no one falls through the cracks
• The "change is hard" philosophy and the discipline of productive (not just effective) communication
• How the spirit of agape — godly love — still threads through a company that's evolved far past its original name
• What success looks like in six months: patient retention, mission and margin

If you lead through change — or live through it — this one will reframe how you think about getting bigger without losing what made you matter.

What if the most important care in the entire healthcare system is also the most underfunded? While hospitals and inpatient reimbursements rise with inflation, the physician fee schedule has quietly declined roughly 33% in real terms over 25 years — and this year it's facing another cut.

In this episode, Jamie Preston sits down with Your Health CEO Matt Staub, just back from Capitol Hill, where he spent a record-setting 95-degree day meeting with seven legislative offices to advocate for physicians, providers, and the patients they serve across rural South Carolina, Georgia, and beyond. What follows is part field report, part reflection on why preventive primary care saves money and lives — and why we plan meticulously for weddings, retirement, and vacations, but treat our own health with a "call us if something happens" approach.

In this conversation:

• Why a 2.5–5% physician fee cut hits frontline rural practices hardest
• The bipartisan doctors' caucus and the real appetite for reform
• Why winning can come from a loss — the Kobe Bryant mindset on process over outcome
• How a Disney ride (Spaceship Earth) reframes humanity's whole story around communication
• The case for proactive, team-based primary care over reactive sick visits

Press play for a conversation about advocacy, communication, and a simple, powerful idea: the change you need to make starts with you.

"What if you train them and they leave?" It's the fear that quietly keeps most healthcare leaders from investing in their people. Matt Staub — CEO of Your Health — wants you to sit with the question his mentor once asked in return: What if you don't train them, and they stay?

In this episode, Matt joins Jamie Preston for a conversation about why workforce education isn't a perk at Your Health — it's the culture. From nationally accredited apprenticeships, to a training pipeline built out of a licensing crisis, to the real people behind the success stories, this is a blueprint for leaders who want to grow something that lasts.

Key topics covered:

• The lumberjack story: why sharpening your axe beats swinging harder every time
• How a shortage of licensed administrators became the catalyst for Your Health's training engine
• The shift from "education happens on your own time" to "this is how we behave"
• Real success stories — Olivia, Kristin, Taylor, McKinsey, Rebecca — and what they share
• Matt's three challenges for anyone ready to grow: show up, find your who, take your shot

If you've ever wondered whether developing your people is worth the cost, this episode will change the math. Press play — then look around, and ask yourself who's looking at you.