About the Rest

About the Rest

— SERIES PREMIERES JUNE 22, 2026 —I'm Joe Rodriguez, CRNA. After co-hosting the podcast Anesthesia Deconstructed for years, I kept running into the same problem. I was told that if I stayed clinically excellent and kept my head down, the rest would take care of itself. If you're reading this, you know all too well… IT DOES NOT.Unfortunately, time and time again, I discovered that the most impactful tools to leverage throughout my career in anesthesia (e.g. money, influence, deal negotiations, power) are never taught to us in school or in practice. I had to pick it all up at dinners, off the record, wherever the valuable conversations take place but go unheard.Honestly, my issue with every other podcast in our field is that clinical teaching and polite leadership talk are…are a little boring. I figure if it bores me, it bores you. So then, where can we learn how groups do or don't make money? How do hospital deals get structured? Why do subsidies keep climbing? What separates a holding company from private equity? What does it take to build leadership that holds up under pressure? The list goes on.Which brings us here. I present to you the show I've been wanting to see and got tired waiting around for. About the Rest is a twice-monthly inside baseball podcast for the people who run things. Join me as I sit down with fellow anesthesia business leaders Randy Moore and other key voices from the field to take real positions and hash out the big questions, warts and all.If it's in the public record, it's on the table: announcements, policy changes, lawsuits, the big RFP nobody will explain, the conference moment everyone clocked.If you want to learn how to get into the OR, this isn't it. About the Rest is about, well, the rest!Learn More: www.abouttherest.comAbout the Rest is a Human Content Production

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June 16, 2026

Here’s What Nobody Talks About

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Along life’s winding roads we’ve each worked tirelessly to hone our skills and ultimately become the excellent clinicians we are today. But what happens when being great in the OR isn't enough? Each week on About the Rest, Joe Rodriguez, DNAP, CRNA, gets into the weeds on the definitive podcast for fellow CRNAs and MDs who want to understand how our profession actually works behind the scenes… warts and all. The spiritual sibling of the award-winning podcast Anesthesia Deconstructed, About the Rest takes a commentary-driven approach to facing the infrastructural obstacles that keep holding us back. Because the hard truth is… although our clinical skills are essential, the business of healthcare far too often treats them as commodities. Unapologetically inside baseball, join the podcast where together we become leaders, gain influence, and hone the skills nobody taught in our programs to take control of our careers. To Learn More Visit: ww.abouttherest.com Got a Question? hello@abouttherest.com

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Joe Rodriguez (0:26): Hi, everybody. It's Joe Rodriguez. You might know me as the former co host of Anesthesia Deconstructed or perhaps from my national CRNA advocacy or as Chief Growth Officer at Guide Anesthesia. Or you might not know me at all and you're going to find out that I have a problem and I think you have this problem too. No one told us in our programs that being a great clinician is not the whole job.

Joe Rodriguez (0:50): The stuff that moves our career, the money, the politics, the leverage, how deals really work, You only pick those things up at dinner behind closed doors if you're lucky. And every podcast in our field, while there's a lot of good ones out there, they focus on the more polite side of things or it's just clinical or it's just it's not the heavy things that we really want to know. It can feel boring. And so many of us were fed up with waiting for someone else to share these conversations. So welcome to About the Rest.

Joe Rodriguez (1:21): This is a show I think we all need and obviously it's the one that I wanted. So join me twice a month for a round table chat with industry professionals where we really hash out the business, how to be a high performer, and the leadership that's required to succeed in this field. If it's in the public record, it's fair game for our discussions. Lawsuits, RFPs, policy fights, non compete, scope, supervision, all the things and the conversation that we normally only have off the record. And if you want to stop getting instead of being able to take control of your career, you should tune in because we're gonna get into these things.

Joe Rodriguez (2:00): So you can enjoy about the rest wherever you're getting your podcasts or join the conversation on YouTube. So spread the word, please share the podcast and these ideas with that one colleague that you know is clearly tired of finding out last.