HelloHealth Team Member Spotlight—Meagan Davies
Welcome to the new HelloHealth blog series where we will get to know the team members who make HelloHealth such a dynamic, healthy alternative to conventional medicine practices. For our first feature, we’re talking with HelloHealth Chief Relationship Officer (CRO) Meagan Davies. Meagan also happens to be one of our partners who works closely with HelloHealth founder and CEO Dr. Carmen Mohan.
Meagan has had three distinct careers in her professional life. She began as a marketing strategist in the media industry. Helping companies build and create a brand or solve pain points was rewarding, and Meagan enjoyed the work. But after the death of her sister, she took stock of her life and decided she needed to make some changes. Specifically, she needed to feel like she was making a meaningful impact. Enter career number two: nonprofit executive. Convincing a nonprofit to take a chance on someone who came from the for-profit world wasn’t easy, but 17 interviews later Meagan landed at the American Heart Association. Nonprofits where her professional home for 15 years. Still, even after that many years, Meagan missed connection. She wanted relationships with the actual beneficiaries of the programs and services she oversaw. Thus, she made the courageous leap to quit her job, go back to school full-time, and earn her master’s in clinical mental health. The rest, as she says, is history.
Today, Meagan’s duties as HelloHealth’s CRO keep her busy both on the executive front and with our clients. She runs our business operations, manages finances, and oversees marketing and HR, but she also carries a full caseload of clients. At any given time, she’s seeing 30-40 clients, co-creating plans with them that enable them to balance their competing demands. She also works hard to create safe spaces for all our clients to be authentic and vulnerable, something executives are all too often not allowed to do in their professional roles. This balance between the executive duties she’s spent her adult life perfecting and the ability to have meaningful, positive impacts on those we serve is why Meagan feels she’s finally found her professional “forever home.”
Working in leadership positions at HelloHealth is a dynamic, ever-changing experience that Meagan says she 100% loves. “I love knowing I am working with a partner who cares about me as a human being just as much as I care about her. We align on our vision for the company.” More importantly though, finding [in Dr. Mohan] someone who truly has her back—who allows Meagan to “feel seen and valued” and who has helped her become a better human being—falls in that “priceless” category. It was a natural progression for the two women to go from colleagues who referred clients back and forth for several years to business partners and visionaries.
Creating the HelloHealth team along with Dr. Mohan and being intentional in making sure employees understand and embrace the HelloHealth vision has helped Meagan to identify her own self-help needs. “Calendar defense” is the biggest thing she’s learned through her time at HelloHealth—the idea that you can’t take care of others if you don’t first take care of yourself. Having the motivation to do so as an example to clients is extremely helpful, but modeling what it looks like to “get off track” and to redirect your efforts toward your goals is truly beneficial.
“I’m passionate about helping all our clients, but especially about trying to model healthy relationships for other women,” Meagan says. She references the Harvard Business Review’s compendium that talks about inherent biases against women in the workplace as a prime example. “We don’t need to make it harder by not showing up for each other,” she says. “Establishing these healthy relationships where we’re not mentors but sponsors is crucial,” she continues. It’s one of the ways HelloHealth is hoping to revamp how we look at health-care needs.
“I would like to see the model we’re building duplicated all over the East Coast,” Meagan says. “We are working on taking the next big leap by codifying our training curriculum and tinkering with some of our core programs offerings.” It’s a promise HelloHealth stands by: to create the services and programs necessary to ensure safe spaces and give you the tools not just to survive but to thrive in the world.
Learn more about the HelloHealth model and how we can help you thrive by visiting our website or contacting us to set up a consultation.