The State of Health Tech Venture Capital, with Tamar Rudnick
A Brave New Podcast
Tamar Rudnick is a healthcare executive who has spent 10+ years in leadership roles across early-stage, public company, and PE-backed businesses. She is currently an Operating Partner at Define Ventures, one of the largest early-stage digital health VCs with ~$800M under management and $22B in exited value. At Define Ventures, Tamar leads strategic growth initiatives. Based in Silicon Valley, Define invests in early-stage companies from Seed stage to Series B, and has backed and built some of the category-leading companies such as Livongo, HIMS, and Evolent. Define differentiates itself by...
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Brand Architecture Basics with Josh Dougherty
A Brave New Podcast
Josh Dougherty is a brand strategist, speaker, and the founder and CEO of A Brave New, a Seattle-based branding agency that crafts bold & memorable healthcare brands. They have specific expertise in healthcare technology, employee health & wellness programs, and hospitals & providers. Josh has 15 years experience building new brands from scratch, refreshing existing brands and building strategies to bring those brands to life in the market. What you’ll learn about in this episode: What brand architecture is and is not Why brand architecture is an essential part of your...
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Branding Fundamentals, Part 2 with Josh Dougherty
A Brave New Podcast
Josh Dougherty is a brand strategist, speaker, and the founder and CEO of A Brave New, a Seattle-based branding agency that crafts bold & memorable healthcare brands. They have specific expertise in healthcare technology, employee health & wellness programs, and hospitals & providers. Josh has 15 years experience building new brands from scratch, refreshing existing brands and building strategies to bring those brands to life in the market. What you’ll learn about in this episode: The basics about brand drivers We’ll do a deep dive into three specific brand drivers ...
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HubSpot for Healthcare & Sensitive Data, with Hank Lander
A Brave New Podcast
Product Management and innovation enthusiast, Hank Lander, currently serves as a Group Product Manager at HubSpot, focusing on Customer Data Protections. Hank's expertise lies in launching new products and building product pipelines. Prior to his current role, he was the Director of Product at ZoomInfo and worked at multiple early-stage startups. Hank holds an MBA in Entrepreneurship from MIT Sloan School of Management and a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology. In this episode Josh and Hank have a conversation about HubSpot’s Sensitive Data Management functionality...
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Insights from the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer for healthcare brands
A Brave New Podcast
Josh Dougherty is a brand strategist, speaker, and the founder and CEO of A Brave New, a Seattle-based branding agency that crafts bold & memorable healthcare brands. They have specific expertise in healthcare technology, employee health & wellness programs, and hospitals & providers. Josh has 15 years experience building new brands from scratch, refreshing existing brands and building strategies to bring those brands to life in the market. What you’ll learn about in this episode: In this episode we take a deep dive into the 2025 Edelman Trust Barometer. Specifically, Josh...
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Unpacking the Intelerad Rebrand, with Jordan Bazinsky
A Brave New Podcast
Intelerad recently completed a rebrand in May 2024. In this episode Josh and Jordan spend time unpacking the reasons Intelerad decided to pursue a rebrand, the process they followed to get there, as well as the outcomes in terms of brand essence and strategy, visual identity, and market impact. Here’s a little more about Jordan. As CEO of Intelerad, Jordan Bazinsky is committed to improving global human health through advanced imaging technologies. He is entrusted with ensuring that Intelerad’s vision aligns with their clients, and ultimately patients, in supporting their unique healthcare...
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Branding Fundamentals Part 1, with Josh Dougherty
A Brave New Podcast
Josh Dougherty is a brand strategist, speaker, and the founder and CEO of A Brave New, a Seattle-based agency that builds bold & memorable healthcare brands. Over the last 15 years, he’s worked with clients to develop unique brands and accelerate business growth using human-centered strategies and smart execution. What you’ll learn about in this episode: The basics about brand drivers We’ll do a deep dive into four specific brand drivers Essence Promise Core attributes Brand positioning statement For each of these brand drivers Josh explores: What the brand driver...
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Strategic Software Selection, with Rachael Radford
A Brave New Podcast
Rachael Radford has supported organizations in software strategy, selection and implementation across North America. Rachael and her team sit alongside their clients as they evaluate software needs and options to ensure they make the best choice for their business. Rachael is passionate about knowledge transfer and ensures that clients walk away not only with a successful project, but with the tools and methodologies they need to make informed strategic decisions. Her organization, Meira Consulting, is an independent software advisory firm. Clients work with Meira to evaluate systems and...
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Eight mistakes to avoid when rolling out your brand, with Josh Dougherty
A Brave New Podcast
Josh Dougherty is a brand strategist, speaker, and the founder and CEO of A Brave New, a Seattle-based B2B branding, content strategy, and design agency specializing in helping tech and healthcare brave, bold, and memorable brands. Over the last decade plus, he’s worked with clients to develop unique brands and accelerate business growth. What you’ll learn about in this episode: In this episode Josh discusses the importance of a well-managed brand rollout and eight mistakes to avoid during that rollout. The mistakes he discusses include: Rolling out your brand with legal issues unresolved...
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Building Big Bold Brands, with Karley Cunningham
A Brave New Podcast
Creative Strategist & Growth Accelerator Karley Cunningham develops brand leaders by taking businesses from overcrowded, competitive spaces into blue ocean territory, where they can confidently stand out and thrive. Her international client base benefits from accelerated growth, profit and stability as her innovative Surefire Method™ provides them with an infallible business strategy and brand toolkit to stand out in the sea of sameness, attract the people their business needs to thrive, and become a brand leader in their industry. Karley’s entrepreneurial success story is featured in...
info_outlineNora Marsh, Director of Marketing at CareMessage, leads strategy development for communicating product value as well as efforts to generate demand among new customers and support customer retention. Nora's background in healthcare marketing is broad and deep. She spent 15 years in advertising and communications for pharmaceutical products, medical devices, and over-the-counter health products before pivoting to product marketing for healthcare technology tools. Currently, Nora is focused on bringing her expertise and knowledge to help improve access to healthcare and equitable health outcomes.
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How CareMessage is using technology to help safety-net organizations meet the needs of underserved populations
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The challenges we face as a society as we strive to reach all patients with the information they need
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The importance of providing healthcare navigation and guidance to people who do not necessarily know how to get the care they need
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Nora’s experience shifting from agency to in-house roles and how it’s impacted her approach to marketing
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Tips for successfully partnering with an agency
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How to stay on track and focused as a small marketing team
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The importance of market research and competitor research in marketing
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Nora’s principles for content strategy
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Powerful- Don’t waste anyone’s time- everything should be worth reading
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Affinity-Building- Our content moves us from being a service to being a strategic partner, as I mentioned before, and consistency builds trust, and
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Efficient -“Create once, repurpose forever”
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