The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups
For Clinicians Navigating Startups
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups
For Clinicians Navigating Startups
About The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups
For Clinicians Navigating Startups
Most clinicians who join early-stage healthcare startups are expected to operate in complex business environments they were never trained to navigate. The Early Hires, hosted by clinician executive and healthcare leader Helen Tanner, is the only podcast dedicated to clinician leaders in healthcare startups, not the founders, but the early hires who build these companies alongside them.
Why Join The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups as a Guest
Healthcare Startup Decision-Maker Reach
You speak directly to clinicians already leading in healthcare startups or actively planning the jump, primed for conversations on clinical leadership and innovation.
Clinician-Hosted, Structured Interviews
You’re guided by a host who has been a first clinical hire, with a detailed prep guide and question clusters that keep your story focused and practical.
Credibility With Operator Peers
You position your work alongside CMOs, clinical product leads, and first clinical hires, showcasing how you navigate risk, growth, and organizational change.
Social-Ready Clips Across Channels
You receive carousels and short clips from your episode, ready to share on LinkedIn, Instagram, and with your own teams and partners.
Episode Angles & Guest Pitches
Your Path Into Healthcare Startups
Walk clinicians through how you moved from traditional practice into an early or mid-stage startup—and what you wish you’d known before saying yes.
Building Clinical Systems Inside Startups
Show how you designed onboarding, quality, or learning systems that helped your startup scale safe, effective care.
Leading Through Risk, Change, and Growth
Unpack how you’ve handled inner critic, visibility, and tough calls as your startup scaled or pivoted.
Designing the Future of Clinical Work
Share how your work in digital health or education is reshaping how clinicians learn, practice, and innovate.
How You'd Contribute to the Show
Audience Takeaways
Your episode helps clinicians see what startup leadership really looks like—so they can make better career decisions and lead with more clarity inside their companies.
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Why Trust Me
The Ideal Guest
You’re a strong fit if you’re a clinician leader in or adjacent to startups—CMO, medical director, NP/PA leader, clinical product lead, founding dean, or first clinical hire shaping healthcare innovation.
Recent Episodes
What Clinicians Actually Do in Product, and When Clinical Input Changes the Build with Caitlyn Tivy, PT, DPT
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Sep 23, 2026
Once You Are Inside: 5 Things Clinician Leaders Need to Know about Startups
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Sep 9, 2026
Five Things Every Clinician Should Know Before Joining a Healthcare Startup with Helen Tanner, PA-C, MPH (Solo Mini-Series, Part 1 of 2)
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Aug 26, 2026
Inside a Startup Acquisition: A Clinical Leader's Perspective with Hannah Lowe, DNP, FNP-C, RDN, CDCES
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Aug 12, 2026
What Gets You Promoted: A Health Tech SVP on Leadership, Red Flags, and the Leaders Who Rise - with Laura Demuth, MSN, NP-BC
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Jul 29, 2026
Building Onboarding, Quality, and Learning Systems in Healthcare Startups with Anna Ballard, PA-C
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Jul 15, 2026
How a Founding Dean Is Rethinking Clinical Education at the Edge of Silicon Valley with Dr. Amy Bronson
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Jul 1, 2026
From the ER to Zero Gravity: How Space Medicine Teaches Clinicians to Build in Startups with Dr. Marsh Cuttino
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Jun 17, 2026
What It Looks Like to Join a Series A Healthcare Startup as One of the First Clinical Hires with Andrew Shiflett
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Jun 3, 2026
"Is It Just Me?" The Inner Critic of Startup Leadership with Executive Coach Lupe Prado
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • May 20, 2026
Healthcare Executive Tim Talbert, NP: Leading Through Startup Growth and Organizational Change
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • May 6, 2026
Raise Your Hand Before You Feel Ready: From the Clinic to the Startup to the Classroom | Dipu Patel, DMSc, MPAS, ABAIM, PA-C
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Apr 22, 2026
Family Physician and Executive Leader, Dr. Neil Patel on The Cheat Code to Innovation Is Starting Over
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Apr 8, 2026
From Risk-Averse to Risk-Ready: Katie Davis, MS, RN, AGACNP-BC on Learning to Say Yes in Healthcare Startups
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Mar 25, 2026
Navigating Early and Mid-Stage Startups: Clinical Leadership Realities with Dr. Adam Perry
The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Mar 11, 2026
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The Early Hires: Clinicians in Startups • Mar 4, 2026
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