SBP#51 Emily Albers on Healthcare, Wellness & Entrepreneurship

Emily Albers spent more than 20 years working inside healthcare before her experiences as both a healthcare professional and a patient began changing the way she viewed the system.In this episode of the Stay Broke Podcast, Emily joins Randy to talk about her journey through nursing and healthcare leadership, the frustrations that led her to start asking harder questions about traditional healthcare, and why she eventually began exploring holistic and alternative approaches to wellness.Emily shares the story behind her What the Healthcare podcast and what she has learned from interviewing patients and healthcare professionals about chronic illness, patient advocacy, informed consent, and the gaps people experience within the traditional healthcare system.We also dive into entrepreneurship and the creation of Health House with Lori Webb, including the vision behind the business, the challenges of building in the rapidly growing wellness industry, and Emily’s thoughts on where healthcare needs to go next.It’s a conversation about healthcare from someone who has experienced it from multiple sides: provider, administrator, patient, entrepreneur, and podcast host.