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The Business of Benefits Podcast

The Business of Benefits Podcast

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For decades, employers have been fed a lie: “There’s nothing you can do to control healthcare costs.” This couldn’t be further from the truth. The system is doing exactly what it was designed to do—profit off of HR, CFOs, and CEOs who believe that lie year after year.With 180 million Americans relying on employer-sponsored healthcare, it’s time to challenge the status quo. The Business of Benefits is your No BS, No Sales guide to the real solutions. No gimmicks—just the truth about how to take control, transform your benefits, and care for your most valuable asset: your people.Each episode dives deep into the data, exposing industry misalignments and inefficiencies that inflate costs while offering actionable strategies for designing financially sustainable, high-value benefits.Through eye-opening interviews with industry insiders, expert analysis, and real-world success stories, hosts Donovan and Chelsea pull back the curtain on the hidden flaws in the healthcare system. The result? An empowering roadmap for employers ready to break free from outdated models and unlock smarter, more sustainable benefits.If you’re tired of the same old sales pitch and ready to rethink benefits, reduce costs, and improve care—this podcast is for you. The truth is out there—are you ready to hear it?Copyright Hi Hello Labs Network マネジメント・リーダーシップ リーダーシップ 個人的成功 経済学 自己啓発
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  • 82. A Panel Discussion with 2 Employer Case Studies w/ Jaimie Jarvis & Stephanie Porrino

    82. A Panel Discussion with 2 Employer Case Studies w/ Jaimie Jarvis & Stephanie Porrino
    2026/07/16
    At SHRM26, moderator Chelsea Ryckis and Ethos Benefits co-founder Donovan Ryckis brought two employers on stage to show what taking control of a self-funded health plan looks like in dollars and cents. Stephanie Porrino (formerly HR Director at Hendry Marine Industries, now Founder & CEO of Empower Healthcare Insights) and Jaimie Jarvis (HR Director at Kalos Services) walk through the plan changes, broker breakups, and multi-year strategy that took their companies from reactive renewals to governed, fiduciary-driven plans, backed by real claims data. We cover the four moving parts of every health plan (PBM, network, TPA, stop loss), why fully funded and level funded plans leave employers with no real data, how reference-based pricing works, and how two very different employers landed in the same place: lower costs, better access to care, and employees who feel it.What you'll learn:
    • Fully funded vs. level funded vs. self-funded, and why most employers never see their real claims data
    • How reference-based pricing works, and why 13 states have already adopted it
    • A 300-employee shipyard's five-year case study: 77% off billed hospital claims
    • How a construction company went from a 37% renewal increase to zero premium increases in four years
    • Why removing cost-sharing on primary care, imaging, and mental health can lower total spend
    • Why more balance bills can actually be a good sign
    • How to tell if your broker or advisor is really working in your best interest
    Get more on our guests at:
    Stephanie Porrino, Founder & CEO, Empower Healthcare Insights
    Website: https://empowerhcinsights.com
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-kochporrino/Jaimie Jarvis, HR Director, Kalos Services
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaimie-nyhuis-jarvis/Patrick Williams, Co-Founder, Fiduciary in a Box
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corporatefiduciary/Whether you're an HR professional, CFO, CEO, or just tired of rising healthcare costs, this is your call to rethink your benefits strategy and finally take control.Connect with Chelsea and Donovan:
    Website: www.businessofbenefitspodcast.com
    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thebusinessofbenefitspodcast
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ethoseffectpodcast/
    Chelsea: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsea-ryckis-8508a192/
    Donovan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donovanryckis/
    The Business of Benefits Podcast:Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts: Apple, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app.
    Ethos Benefits is a fee-only, fiduciary benefits consulting firm. We don't take commissions. We don't represent carriers. We represent you.—-Finished with the content? Claim your CE credit here:https://ideas.ethosbenefits.com/continuing-educationSHRM:Ethos Benefits is recognized by SHRM to offer professional development credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.HRCI:Ethos Benefits is approved to offer HRCI® recertification credits for this program. This program has been approved for 0.5 - 1 HR (General) recertification credit(s) toward aPHR®, PHR®, SPHR®, and GPHR® certification.
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  • 81. Why Your Wellness Program Isn't Working: The Data-Driven Fix for Employee Burnout w/ Dr. Romie Mushtaq

    81. Why Your Wellness Program Isn't Working: The Data-Driven Fix for Employee Burnout w/ Dr. Romie Mushtaq
    2026/07/02
    In this episode of The Business of Benefits, host Chelsea Ryckis sits down with Dr. Romie Mushtaq, triple board-certified physician, national bestselling author, Chief Wellness Officer at Great Wolf Resorts, and founder of the brainSHIFT Institute, to have the workforce wellness conversation that the benefits industry has been missing.
    Dr. Romie pulls back the curtain on why burnout has become one of the most overused and misunderstood terms in corporate America, and what's actually driving the crisis. From her personal story of near-fatal burnout in 2010 to building science-backed, data-driven wellness programs for 14,000+ employees, she brings the clinical receipts to a conversation that most "wellness influencers" simply can't.Chelsea and Dr. Romie also dig into what burnout really looks like in claims data and it's probably not what you think plus how organizations of any size can build a culture shift that drives measurable ROI without jump ropes, Pelotons, or wellness apps nobody uses.

    The 45th Annual Employee Benefits Symposium (Aug. 23–26, Phoenix) is where benefits professionals go to connect, learn, and level up. Register by July 21 for early bird pricing: www.iscebs.org/symposium

    What you'll learn
    • Why burnout is being misdiagnosed and what employees are actually asking for
    • How the Busy Brain Test gives organizations a data-driven snapshot of workforce mental health
    • What burnout really looks like in claims data (hint: it's musculoskeletal injuries and metabolic syndrome, not just mental health claims)
    • Why trust is the pathway to actual utilization of every benefits program you've invested in
    • How Dr. Romie's three-pillar framework Protect Your Brain, Protect Your People, Protect Your Business, applies to companies of 25 or 25,000
    • What happened when one plan sponsor removed every barrier to mental health access (the cost result will surprise you)
    • Why wellness dies when it lives solely with the benefits director
    • How empathy and accountability coexist and why caring cultures still have high expectations
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  • 80. Built Different: The Ethos Story w/ Chelsea Ryckis & Donovan Ryckis

    80. Built Different: The Ethos Story w/ Chelsea Ryckis & Donovan Ryckis
    2026/06/18
    The benefits industry is broken. $37,824. That's the average cost of a family of four on an employer-sponsored health plan in 2026 and it's growing at 9% a year. So how did we get here, and what does it actually look like to fight back?


    In this episode, host Austin Townend sits down with Chelsea Ryckis (President) and Donovan Ryckis (CEO) of Ethos Benefits for the origin story nobody asked for but everyone needs to hear. From Donovan's background as a fiduciary securities advisor who saw the same conflicts in healthcare and couldn't look away, to Chelsea getting hit in the head with a softball and learning the hard way that you can run but you can't hide from medical debt... this is the story of how Ethos was built different on purpose.


    Take the next step in your career. Start your CEBS journey today at CEBS.org.
    https://bit.ly/48k4aeZ


    What You'll Learn
    Why Donovan left a lucrative securities career to fix a bigger problem in healthcare
    Chelsea's personal experience with medical debt and how it shaped the Ethos mission
    The real definition of fiduciary — and the three things it actually requires
    Why there is zero fiduciary standard in insurance (and what that means for you)
    The $37,824 number every employer needs to hear
    A claim is a dollar, not a condition — and why that distinction changes everything
    The four things you can do with healthcare risk: reduce, avoid, retain, or transfer
    Why brokers go straight to the transfer (and how that lines their pockets)
    How to vet whether your advisor is actually living the fiduciary standard — not just marketing it
    Where the industry is headed over the next five years, including PBM legislation and litigation
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    Connect with Chelsea Ryckis:

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsea-ryckis-8508a192/
    Connect with Donovan Ryckis:
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donovanryckis/


    Connect with Austin Townend:
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austintownend/


    Connect with Ethos Benefits:
    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ethosbenefits/
    Website: https://www.ethosbenefits.com


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    Finished with the content? Claim your CE credit here:
    https://ideas.ethosbenefits.com/continuing-education


    SHRM:
    Ethos Benefits is recognized by SHRM to offer professional development credits (PDCs) for SHRM-CP® or SHRM-SCP® recertification activities.


    HRCI:
    Ethos Benefits is approved to offer HRCI® recertification credits for this program. This program has been approved for 0.5 - 1 HR (General) recertification credit(s) toward aPHR®, PHR®, SPHR®, and GPHR® certification.


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