Benes Companies

09/09/2026

She Lost Her Doctor to Su***de | Physician Advocate on Mental Health and How to Fix A Broken System

The Question That Can End a Career... or More. There's a line on a form that most people never think about. A checkbox, a few words, easy to skim past. For Kim Downey, that line is the reason someone is dead. Kim didn't start out as a physician advocate. She started out as a patient. Three cancer diagnoses in two years, a surgical complication, a vocal cord scare, radioactive iodine, and through all of it, one radiologist who got her through the worst of it with skill and with care....

We sat down with Kim Downey, a physician advocate who lost her own radiologist to su***de and has spent the years since working to change how the medical system supports its doctors. We talk burnout, moral injury, and the licensing barriers that keep struggling physicians from seeking help. A conver...

08/26/2026

Big news! We're throwing a virtual launch party for The Care We Need.

It shouldn't take forever and a fortune to find the right professional for your care needs. We built The Care We Need to make sure it doesn't, a free directory connecting you with the right provider, western, eastern, holistic, or somewhere in between.

Join us September 1st to learn all about it. Come see what we've built, ask questions, and help us make it better.

RSVP here to receive the details: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTQk7XVQdgFvNY1SuY-x10juyvXbtNZEFgprdpiT5OSPFzUQ/viewform?usp=header

Learn more at thecareweneed.com or benescompanies.com

with Tenay Benes and Brett Benes

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08/25/2026

You are cordially invited to LTC Tenay Benes's Virtual Retirement Celebration on Saturday, September 12th, 2026 from 8:00 AM PT to 9:30 AM PT (that's 11:00 AM ET to 12:30 PM ET) via Google Meet.

Please join us as we gather online to celebrate LTC Benes's retirement from the U.S. Army. Feel free to share and forward this invitation to others who may be interested.

You can RSVP on the Evite at https://www.evite.com/event/01DCIIAE4SKDAATZCEPRRFSYFEYCRA to:
~ Get details about the celebration
~ Upload photos of your service together (or view her photos)
~ Write a favorite memory of your service together (or read those from others)
~ Sign up as a guest speaker
~ Donate to her retirement gift

Uniform is Army OCP or civilian casual. Point of contact for inquiries is Mr. Brett Benes at (971) 439-5845 or [email protected].

07/15/2026

We recently sat down with The Business Journal to explore collaboration opportunities and talk about what we're building at Benes Companies. We discussed our fight to win the war on complex illness in a healthcare system not built to treat it. How the U.S. is 4x worse than its near-peer countries, and how a more collaborative, integrated, and synchronous care system is necessary to address these complex illness trends. Learn more on what we're building below!

A busy newsroom with anchors, staff, and a panoramic view of Denver’s downtown We recently had the chance to sit down with The Business Journals, which operates local news networks, including…

07/14/2026

Too many people in chronic pain are met with the same answers everywhere: medicate, inject, or operate, often before anyone has looked closely at what's actually driving the problem.

Dr. Fawad Mian, a board-certified neurologist and regenerative medicine specialist, experienced that same cycle firsthand and discovered that the steroids meant to relieve his pain were quietly damaging the joints and tissue underneath.

For health and wellness professionals, his story is a call to build practices that preserve and heal, not just ones that treat the symptom in front of them.

I’ve had a lot of doctors on this podcast. Dr. Fawad Mian is the first one who spent most of our conversation talking about being a patient. He’s board-certified in neurology and regene…

07/08/2026

"We built this company because we've been through it."

Our founders, Tenay and Brett Benes, have spent over a decade navigating complex illness — ADHD, C-PTSD, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and ASD — alongside their child, who is also healing from ADHD. They know firsthand what it means to face a care system that wasn't built for you, in a workplace that wasn't built for you, without a community that truly understands what you're carrying.

That experience became the foundation of Care Curation Coaching — private coaching, group coaching, and real peer community for people navigating complex illness and the families who love them.

Our first group cohort is open now, focused on neurodivergence, with five founding seats at 25% off. More cohorts are coming: trauma, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, and undiagnosed disorders. (No official diagnosis necessary.)

If you know someone who has been navigating this alone, please share this with them. The flier has the full details. Please also consider sharing this on your socials, printing and posting it, or sending it to anyone who might be interested!

If you or they simply want to learn more first, the signup link below includes a free excerpt from Tenay's book Heal or Die and access to our Care Coaching newsletter. (https://lnkd.in/g9anvbmT)

Already know you're in? Schedule a free 15 minute consult or sign up at benescompanies.com/coaching.

Flier: https://lnkd.in/gMuMHXMG

06/29/2026

Good providers leave healthcare not because they stopped caring, but because the system doesn't let them!
Siva Penna is a hospitalist who believes compassion isn't something you're just born with — it's something you can teach, train, and build into your culture.
This is the conversation your leadership team needs to have.

There is a version of this conversation that healthcare organizations have been having for years. It usually goes something like this: providers are burned out, patients feel unseen, and the soluti…

06/29/2026

When our frameworks have blind spots, our solutions are flawed. That's why we built a better whole-person health model that we call the Seven-Part Health framework. Our model includes the best of 50 years of academic research plus two additional domains that few care professionals address directly.

If you want to learn more, check out the second edition of "Heal or Die" by Tenay Benes.

The article discusses the limitations of existing health frameworks in addressing whole-person care, highlighting overlooked domains like financial resources and life purpose. Brett Benes introduce…

06/22/2026

Every family deserves a provider who refuses to stop looking for answers!
Zach Dancel watched his mom go from specialist to specialist, bedridden and without answers, until one functional medicine provider looked at the full picture — and she got better. That experience inspired Nava Health.
This is what it looks like when compassion and operational excellence build a system together.

There is a moment in every complex illness journey where the system runs out of answers. For Zach Dancel’s family, that moment came at Johns Hopkins. His mom was bedridden. She had seen speci…

06/16/2026

We've got one more opportunity to join our summer internship program opening up: Healthcare Transformation Services Marketing Intern

As a member of our intern team, you will support the communication of the value proposition offered by Benes Companies, a U.S. care ecosystem transformation company offering keynote speeches, care curation coaching, and health intelligence consulting to help people and organizations improve whole-person health outcomes. You will get hands-on experience and one-on-one mentorship while helping an entrepreneurial marketing team conduct market research, cold outreach to prospective clients, attend networking events, support speeches at Veterans and civic organizations, create podcast mids, write blogs, run social media marketing campaigns, and more.

As this is an unpaid, part-time, remote, hyperflexible internship, no U.S. work authorization is required. International students are welcome!

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