What happens when you stop treating patients as isolated individuals and start caring for entire families in their homes, especially those on Medicaid?

In the 91st episode of Simply Business, John Jennings sits down with Mike Meador, Chief Financial Officer of Nest Health, a home-based primary care company serving lower-income families in Louisiana and Arizona. Mike shares how Nest Health is building a whole-family, preventive-care model designed to reduce ER visits, improve outcomes, and create real value for Medicaid plans and the people they serve.

Mike unpacks the realities behind the buzzwords of “value-based care” and explains why Medicaid is both incredibly complex and full of opportunity. He walks through how Nest Health chooses where to launch next balancing payer partnerships, geography, population density, and operational constraints while resisting the temptation to “serve everybody” and instead staying laser-focused on the families they can help most.

You’ll also hear how Nest Health runs as an early-stage, venture-backed company with a leadership team spread across the country, and how Mike’s own journey from teaching math, to Medicare Advantage analytics, to in-home care ultimately led him to Nest Health’s simple but powerful idea: care for whole families, not just individuals.

If you’re interested in healthcare, leadership, or what it really takes to build a mission-driven business in a broken system, this conversation is for you.

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This week on the Simply Business podcast, host John Jennings is joined by Mark Lewis, Founder and CEO of Advanced Business Solutions (ABS) the largest IT services provider in the Louisville region.

Mark shares the remarkable 30-year journey of ABS, from humble beginnings to a team of 120 employees and over $20 million in revenue. Hear how his leadership style evolved from doing it all himself to empowering a team to lead with purpose.

We explore the power of timing in business, how to build lasting client relationships, and what it takes to grow and sustain a successful service-based company.

🎧 Tune in for valuable lessons on scaling, staying relevant, and leading with vision.

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In this Simply Business conversation, host John Jennings sits down with Jamie (James) Fender, Partner at Grimes Pools in Bloomington, Indiana. Jamie shares how a third-generation family business has sustained momentum for 50+ years moving from a franchise “kit pool” start to a full-service, white-glove operation.

You’ll hear how Jamie earned trust by listening first, learning the craft (even hand-drawing designs at ¼-inch scale), and then translating that craft into standards the whole team can live by. We get practical about leading on jobsites in the era of Ring cameras, holding people to a higher bar, and doing the hard succession work—mapping roles and expectations before emotions take over.

What you’ll learn

• The mindset shift from “helping out” to owning standards
• Why process matters (and how to build it without losing craft)
• Tactics for jobsite professionalism when customers are always watching
• How to approach family-business transitions with clarity and care

If you’re growing a trades or service company or navigating a family transition this episode will give you simple, actionable ideas you can use this week.