Performance Guaranteed

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Performance Guaranteed is the podcast where First Stop Health CEO Teira Gunlock and Chief Growth & Strategy Officer Elena Gambon sit down with leaders — inside and outside their organization — to unpack what performance actually looks like in the real world. Not what looks good on paper or gets posted on LinkedIn, but the habits, decisions, and disciplines behind results.

Episodes

  1. 1d ago

    Leadership, Bias, and Knowing When to Step Aside | Mary Cain MPH

    What does leadership actually look like as you gain experience, and how much of what we assume about age is just bias in disguise? In this episode of Performance Guaranteed, hosts Teira Gunlock and Elena Gambon sit down with Mary Cain, First Stop Health's SVP of Quality and Population Health, to unpack how the definition of growth shifts over a career, why giving people the stage (and then getting out of the way) is one of the hardest leadership skills to learn, and the implicit biases around age that shape how we lead and who we trust to lead. It's an honest look at leadership that doesn't fit neatly into a LinkedIn post — messy, personal, and full of lessons learned the hard way.

  2. Apr 21

    Episode 1: Dr. Cole Barfield, First Stop Health

    In the debut episode of Performance Guaranteed, Teira and Elena are joined by First Stop Health Chief Medical Officer Dr. Cole Barfield to explore a theme that resonates across every industry: progress is messy. Cole shares how a trip to Sudan shaped his path into medicine, why clarity of mission is his anchor on the hardest days, and what it means to lead with both kindness and courage. Plus, hear why "being clear is kind" is the leadership lesson he wishes he'd learned sooner.

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Performance Guaranteed is the podcast where First Stop Health CEO Teira Gunlock and Chief Growth & Strategy Officer Elena Gambon sit down with leaders — inside and outside their organization — to unpack what performance actually looks like in the real world. Not what looks good on paper or gets posted on LinkedIn, but the habits, decisions, and disciplines behind results.

Information

  • Creator
    First Stop Health
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 First Stop Health