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Calling Operator with Laura NicolEp 48. Paul Redfern on Growth, Scale and Staying HumanLaura Nicol connects with Paul Redfern, Chief Operating Officer at Big Picture Medical. He’s someone who’s spent most of his career toggling between product and operations, and getting pretty good at living in the grey. And becoming “reasonably okay-ish” in a whole bunch of different worlds.This episode is all about a tension every operator knows too well: the never-ending juggle between growth and scale. Serving today’s customers while building for tomorrow. Every decision has a cost. The real skill is knowing which ones are actually worth it.Inside this conversation:The journe...2025-07-0153 min
Calling Operator with Laura NicolEp 34. From Clinical Medicine to Product: Dr Jackie Rabec’s Journey to Heidi Health and GoogleToday, I'm connecting with Jackie Rabec, Product Manager at Google. Jackie’s product leadership story is all about transitions—from corners of the globe to non-linear career paths and reframing impact beyond just our work. In our conversation, we discuss: The importance of “doing your homework”; Growing up in South Africa and following her mother’s path into medicine; Definitive decision-making versus directional decision-making and how it guided her transition from medicine to tech and product; Visualising your career as a pond of lily pads; Her journey from being the first PM at Heidi Health to a non-health tech product ro...2024-10-2842 min
Creative Careers in Medicine PodcastDr Jackie Rabec on a Career Transition from Medicine to a Product Manager at GoogleIn this episode of CCIM, host Elise Putt speaks with Dr Jackie Rabec about her journey from clinical medicine to prominent product roles in HealthTech and beyond. Dr Rabec, originally from South Africa, started her non clinical journey via an MBA at the University of New South Wales' Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), with an international exchange term in New York. During the COVID-19 pandemic, she grappled with an existential crisis and considered returning to clinical work in South Africa, but ultimately forged on to find her niche and zone of impact in the world of tech. 2024-08-2642 min