RedCircle VERIFY_TOKEN_a54524ab-7b30-4008-b1a0-41366ba19075 -- Rendered At Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:07:41 +0000 Good Work Shouldn't Be This Hard https://redcircle.com/shows/good-work-shouldnt-be-this-hard en-US © 2026 Good Work Shouldn't Be This Hard Jenn Gray Good Work Shouldn’t Be This Hard explores what happens when good people try to do important work inside a system that makes it harder than it should be. Host Jenn Gray talks with executives and operators navigating complexity, growth, and change in education, healthcare, legal, and anywhere else a broken system is getting in the way. Together, they unpack where existing systems create unnecessary friction, who pays the price, and what possibilities emerge when we rethink how the work is designed. To connect with Jenn, visit https://jenngray.com e63dcfea-e3c1-5050-940b-f860953c948a Good Work Shouldn’t Be This Hard explores what happens when good people try to do important work inside a system that makes it harder than it should be. Host Jenn Gray talks with executives and operators navigating complexity, growth, and change in education, healthcare, legal, and anywhere else a broken system is getting in the way. Together, they unpack where existing systems create unnecessary friction, who pays the price, and what possibilities emerge when we rethink how the work is designed. To connect with Jenn, visit https://jenngray.com

]]> episodic no Jenn Gray noreply@getredcircle.com https://feeds.redcircle.com/a54524ab-7b30-4008-b1a0-41366ba19075 false full Protecting Healthcare Access Through Physician Recruitment with Tammy Hager Protecting Healthcare Access Through Physician Recruitment with Tammy Hager Jenn Gray What if the hardest-to-fill physician roles aren't recruitment problems at all?

In this episode, healthcare operations and physician recruitment leader Tammy Hager shares why recruitment and retention have to be thought about together and what it really costs when a specialty goes unfilled. She explains why she doesn't start with recruitment when she's recruiting and names the one metric healthcare leaders should check before they ever look at time to fill.

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]]> <p>What if the hardest-to-fill physician roles aren&#39;t recruitment problems at all?</p><p>In this episode, healthcare operations and physician recruitment leader Tammy Hager shares why recruitment and retention have to be thought about together and what it really costs when a specialty goes unfilled. She explains why she doesn&#39;t start with recruitment when she&#39;s recruiting and names the one metric healthcare leaders should check before they ever look at time to fill.</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/tammyhager2008/" rel="nofollow">Connect with Tammy</a></p><p><a href="https://jenngray.com/" rel="nofollow">Connect with Jenn</a></p><p><a href="https://app.notion.com/p/jenn-gray/URL" rel="nofollow">Hager Healthcare Solutions</a></p> cfec5f3f-c8a4-42a0-8567-a353a0119657 http://www.jenngray.com Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:00:36 +0000 2502 false full Business Model Barriers to Justice with Ryan Hurley Business Model Barriers to Justice with Ryan Hurley Jenn Gray What if hiring a lawyer didn't mean handing over a blank check and hoping for the best?

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]]> <p>What if hiring a lawyer didn&#39;t mean handing over a blank check and hoping for the best?</p><p>In this episode, Ryan Hurley, founder of Litix Legal, pulls back the curtain on how the billable hour turned inefficiency into a business model, how Arizona&#39;s new Alternative Business Structure rule made his transparent, flat-fee pricing possible, and what&#39;s still making the legal system harder than it should be.</p><p><a href="https://jenngray.com/" rel="nofollow">Connect with Jenn</a></p><p><a href="https://www.litixlegal.com/" rel="nofollow">Connect with Ryan</a></p> d0118c7b-2b78-4e4c-8c8d-5ed0eb8d2256 http://www.jenngray.com Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:51:31 +0000 2338 false full Perverse Incentives In Education and Healthcare with Aaron Bare Perverse Incentives In Education and Healthcare with Aaron Bare Jenn Gray If a system keeps producing outcomes nobody actually wants, is it broken, or is it working exactly as designed?

In this episode, incentives strategist Aaron Bare joins Jenn to unpack the hidden and perverse incentives in the education and healthcare systems – and why chasing test scores and billing codes so often pulls us further from the outcomes we actually want.

Aaron shares what two decades of facilitating strategy inside hundreds of organizations taught him about incentives, why he believes AI will accelerate whatever is already broken inside a system, and what it actually takes to become a creator instead of a consumer in a world engineered for your attention.

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]]> <p><span>If a system keeps producing outcomes nobody actually wants, is it broken, or is it working exactly as designed?</span></p><p><span>In this episode, incentives strategist Aaron Bare joins Jenn to unpack the hidden and perverse incentives in the education and healthcare systems – and why chasing test scores and billing codes so often pulls us further from the outcomes we actually want.</span></p><p><span>Aaron shares what two decades of facilitating strategy inside hundreds of organizations taught him about incentives, why he believes AI will accelerate whatever is already broken inside a system, and what it actually takes to become a creator instead of a consumer in a world engineered for your attention.</span></p><p><a href="https://aaronbare.com" rel="nofollow">Connect with Aaron</a></p><p><a href="https://jenngray.com" rel="nofollow">Connect with Jenn</a></p><p><br></p> fb8a48e1-fb41-4449-9748-d657bd56c589 http://www.jenngray.com Thu, 17 Sep 2026 13:00:39 +0000 3023 false full You Can't Fix the Margin You Can't See in Cannabis with Jake "The Ginger" Anderson You Can't Fix the Margin You Can't See in Cannabis with Jake "The Ginger" Anderson Jenn Gray If you're bleeding margin every single day, what would it take to fix it before it's too late?

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]]> <p>If you&#39;re bleeding margin every single day, what would it take to fix it before it&#39;s too late? </p><p>In this episode, Jake &#34;The Ginger&#34; Anderson takes us inside the cannabis industry&#39;s biggest blind spot: businesses running on Excel spreadsheets and assumptions instead of real data — including the magnitude of losses operators take if they scale a broken system instead of fixing it first.</p><p><a href="https://jenngray.com/" rel="nofollow">Connect with Jenn</a></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaketheginger/" rel="nofollow">Connect with Jake the Ginger</a></p> e57e3301-5fc5-4f2a-9e77-9dbd432cf257 http://www.jenngray.com Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:48:34 +0000 1841 false full Human Capital Investments in Education with Dr. Renita Miller Human Capital Investments in Education with Dr. Renita Miller Jenn Gray If you could change one thing about education tomorrow — without contending with the bureaucracy, red tape, or "how it's always been done" — what would you fix first?

In this episode, Dr. Renita Miller pulls back the curtain on what's really holding good educators back, who pays the price, and why change is so much harder than it should be.

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]]> <p>If you could change one thing about education tomorrow — without contending with the bureaucracy, red tape, or &#34;how it&#39;s always been done&#34; — what would you fix first?</p><p>In this episode, Dr. Renita Miller pulls back the curtain on what&#39;s really holding good educators back, who pays the price, and why change is so much harder than it should be.</p><p><a href="https://jenngray.com/" rel="nofollow">Connect with Jenn</a></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/renitamiller/" rel="nofollow">Connect with Renita</a></p> 54bed93a-e935-47f7-aa87-329a194ca0a5 http://www.jenngray.com Thu, 03 Sep 2026 13:00:56 +0000 2814 false