James Preston, Matt Staub
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Human leadership for complicated healthcare days.
Experiencing Healthcare is a conversational leadership show built around Matt Staub, Jamie Preston, and the everyday problems inside care delivery. It moves from weather, Disney trips, golf, or dental work into questions about focus, decision fatigue, patient trust, and serving people well.
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Experiencing Healthcare is a healthcare leadership show with the shape of a workday conversation. It is relaxed, but not aimless. Matt Staub and Jamie Preston move through small talk about weather, holidays, illness, golf, Disney, and root canals before arriving at questions with real professional weight. That looseness is part of the point. The show makes leadership feel like something that happens between meetings, in patient conversations, and in the decisions people make while tired. Its recurring concern is the gap between healthcare systems and human care. Processes matter. So do apps, reminders, data, and operational discipline. But the episodes keep asking how the person inside the system remains visible. A conversation about patients with chronic issues turns into a reflection on proactive care, hospital visits, and the difference a healthcare partner can make. A discussion of systems becomes a warning against letting efficiency drain the humanity out of the experience. The leadership material is practical and plainspoken. Focus is treated as different from motion. Solving problems starts with asking whether the team has named the real problem at all. Decision-making is not presented as a clean spreadsheet exercise; ego, fear, vulnerability, fatigue, and consensus all have a way of entering the room. The show also has a habit of turning personal examples into management principles. A fitness goal becomes a way to talk about progress. A bad day can become a lesson about service. A busy calendar becomes a test of priorities. Matt Staub often supplies the longer reflection, while Jamie Preston frames the questions and keeps the conversation moving. The tone stays warm even when the subject turns grave. For healthcare leaders, team members, and people making decisions who want grounded reminders about trust, attention, and serving people well, Experiencing Healthcare offers steady, human-sized counsel.
Made for: For healthcare leaders, team members, and decision-makers who want practical reflections on patient experience, team focus, and service. It also suits listeners who prefer leadership talk grounded in stories rather than slogans.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by letting ordinary banter lead into serious healthcare questions without losing warmth. Its best material connects personal stories, operational discipline, and patient trust in a way that feels lived rather than packaged.
Welcome to the Experiencing Healthcare Podcast with Matt Staub. Our goal is to provide you with experiential healthcare information and leadership ideas that you can learn from.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Practical conversations connect healthcare leadership decisions with focus, accountability, patient trust, and the human consequences of organizational systems.
Experiencing Healthcare turns leadership into a series of decisions that can be examined and improved. Jamie Preston uses direct questions to draw Matt Staub into conversational discussions of focus, problem definition, patient relationships, and the tension between clinical…
A cornhole boast leads to patient trust; your leadership reset comes with a sense of humor.
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A plainspoken look at proactive care for patients with chronic, costly needs.
Opening on Easter weekend banter, food, fellowship, and a little cornhole, the episode settles into a plainspoken look at the small share of patients with chronic, costly, recurring needs.
A loose Monday conversation that lands on why healthcare still depends on human attention.
Jamie and Matt keep the focus on healthcare as something lived, not just managed. The Monday morning check in gives the episode its shape, but the real thread is the pressure on the people doing the work and the routines that either help them or get in the way.
A plainspoken reset for anyone confusing motion with progress.
Experiencing Healthcare turns a familiar leadership problem into something concrete: being busy is not the same as being focused. Matt Staub and Jamie Preston keep the point anchored with the brick-wall image, the reminder to know your resources, and the Arnold Schwarzenegger…
A plainspoken reminder that solving the wrong problem wastes time.
This episode opens with winter chatter, then settles into a clear, practical look at progress, root-cause thinking, and the cost of solving the wrong problem.
The strongest care balances evidence, autonomy, and trust.
The piece frames health care as a steady tradeoff between what a person asks for and what they actually need. It stays on the practical work of care, where providers, administrators, and support staff weigh long-term outcomes, stewardship of resources, risk mitigation, and…
Leadership balance before burnout takes over.
A midweek reset for school leaders.
Host Jamie Preston and Matt Stob discuss Your Health's remote patient monitoring (RPM) program, which began in September 2019 after CMS pushed for physiological vital sign data.
Matt Stobb connects a Tesla’s hesitation at a busy turn with the leadership choice to “take back control” when outcomes diverge from intentions.
Matt Stobb says recurring “detours” in healthcare work require backup plans, not just quick fixes.
A day after Easter, things start easy.
Monday starts easy.
The hosts discuss extreme weather and tornado warnings while introducing the podcast, but do not yet address the topic of whether American healthcare is a commodity.
This episode discusses the importance of intentional positive reinforcement in healthcare settings to improve employee performance and workplace culture.
This episode discusses productivity dysmorphia, exploring why feeling busy can still lead to feelings of failure and its impact on mental health.
Matt Staub and Jamie Preston open with winter weather and a little South Carolina one-upmanship.
Jamie and Matt open with a winter check-in and a bit of banter about the cold.
This episode explores the emotional drivers behind decision-making, focusing on how ego, fear, and vulnerability impact leadership and hard choices in healthcare.
This episode of Experiencing Healthcare discusses the importance of teamwork in healthcare, using holiday weekend emergencies like burns and dehydration as examples.
The hosts open with their familiar easy rhythm and a quick joke about a familiar sign-on.
This episode explores how constraints can foster innovation and creativity, using examples like Deadpool and Green Lantern to discuss thinking differently in healthcare and other industries.
This episode features an interview with CEO Matt Staub discussing Your Health's innovative programs, including the Community Health Initiative, and how they are revolutionizing patient care in 2025 amid changes in Medicare and new business expansions.