NursePreneurs

Kim Ellis is a nurse practitioner who LOVES DIABETES! She has been a Family Nurse Practitioner for nearly eight years and has worked in Primary Care, Medically Assisted Weight Loss Clinics, and currently, Community Health. Her desire with her business and social media platforms is to be a ONE-STOP SHOP for Diabetes Education & Management while encouraging everyone to be LIFETIME LEARNERS!

Kim built her social media platforms as a way to teach patients first and then found out many medical practitioners were interested in her material as well. So she began to create short, digestible videos about diabetes management and care. She found her platform on You Tube, where Kim gets many subscribers and even more people interested in her educational programs.

To learn more about Kim’s programs, you can visit her on her website at:

www.EllisDiabetes.com

or check out her You Tube channel at:

https://www.youtube.com/c/KimETheDiabetesNP

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ How Kim discovered she was onto a business

→ How following her passion led her to where she is now

→ Why You Tube has been so successful for Kim

→ What Kim plans to do next in her business

Yolanda Russell worked as a second career nurse on a medical-surgical unit. While she loved her job, she still felt a yearning for something else and something that would create an impact and spur nurses to action.

She decided to start a podcast called Real, Raw and Free, but made the common mistake of not identifying who her audience really was. As she discovered that she enjoyed talking to nurses and building up that relationship, she understood that her podcast needed to focus on talking to nurses.

Yolanda rebranded and redesigned her podcast to be called the Unfiltered Nurse. It was an immediate hit with nurses and helped Yolanda curate an audience. By listening to this audience, Yolanda was able to get ideas of the problems the nurses were having and how she could help.

Realizing that she was onto something big, Yolanda recognized that she needed a business coach. She made the tough decision to invest $5000 in a coach to learn how to build something of her very own.

The result was launching her Breakthrough Burnout method, which was her first 1:1 mentorship program.

With the feedback from this initial group, Yolanda made a lot changes to create the Breakthrough and Brand Mentorship program which she quietly and successfully launched to her audience.

Yolanda is full of energy and really enjoys helping nurses get to where they want to go. To learn more about her, check out her website at:

www.YRussell.com

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ Why Yolanda invested so much money into a business coach

→ How Yolanda recognized that her first podcast wasn’t specific enough and what she did

→ How Yolanda chose her audience for her brand

→ What’s next for Yolanda her influencer brand

Chris Recinos is the owner and CEO of the Nurse Leader Network. As a nurse executive in a busy and very large healthcare network, Chris saw the need to nurture and network with nurses who want to be leaders.

Chris was able to climb the ladder of success through when opportunities arose because she was willing to be flexible and take on roles that she was willing to grow into.

Chris served as an acting medical director, CNO and other high ranking positions. However, Chris also found herself always at work and realized she hadn’t aligned her work with her family values. She needed to find what she calls “a life-work” balance, where life and family came first.

Chris wanted to help other nurses to assume leadership roles in institutions without having to give up being present with their families.

So she started the Nurse Leader Network, a site, blog and podcast aimed at inspiring nurses to become leaders. And Chris doesn’t believe a fancy title gives nurses power, she believes that nurses already have the power they need to make a difference. It’s her mission to show them how to leverage it.

The Nurse Leader Network supports nurses through every stage of their leadership journey while helping them to balance life on their OWN terms.

To learn more about Chris and what she is doing, check out her website at: www.NurseLeaderNetwork.com

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ How foster care led Chris to nursing

→ How Chris landed her first leadership role

→ Why Chris believes it’s a “Life-Work” balance we need to maintain

→ What’s next on the agenda for the Nurse Leader Network

Marsha had a variety of clinical jobs during her nursing career. None of them led her to her first business, which was travel business guiding her clients around the world. Marsha had an unshakeable self belief that the business would be successful and it was! She made the decision to stop traveling with clients and found herself immersed in blogging and sharing ideas with nurses. She came up with the idea of The Bossy Nurse and began the process of finding her passion. The more Marsha wrote and spoke to nurses, the clearer her business became.

Marsha recently rebranded and relaunched her business to help other nurses to start their businesses and to help them with the mindset issues that come up with starting a business. She now works with nurses in small groups and 1:1 to set up any type of business they can imagine.

To learn more about Marsha and her programs check out her website: ​www.TheBossyNurse.com

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How Marsha became a travel guide around the world

--> What path led Marsha to become a business coach

--> How Marsha helps nurses to start businesses

--> Types of businesses Marsha recommends

Naseema McElroy is a nurse who was making six figures for years and still struggling with money. When she finally realized that she couldn’t out-earn her spending habits, she knew it was time for a change.

By shifting her mindset around money, being consistent and intentional, she was able to pay off just under $1 million in debt in two and a half years. Extracting from her experience, she now shares simple, actionable tools to set others on the right path, financially.

If you find yourself in a similar situation, never seeming to get ahead of your finances, Naseema is here to help you stop living paycheck to paycheck. You have what it takes to reach financial independence, live the life of your dreams and leave a legacy for your family.

Learn more about Naseema and her financial success programs on her website:

www.FinanciallyIntentional.com

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ How Naseema got out from under $1 million in debt

→ Why Naseema focuses on paying off smaller debt before high interest debt

→ How Naseema teaches people to become financially intentional

→ How to build financial wealth while paying off debt

Sadie is the mastermind behind the Remote Nursing Job board that provides nurses with easy access to finding ideal jobs that allow them to work from home.

Sadie founded the Remote Nurse after answering the same questions over and over in Facebook groups. Eventually she moved all her answers to her own website where she curates remote work at home jobs for nurses.

Sadie says there are tons of work at home jobs for nurses but they were scattered everywhere without any pattern or logic to finding them. With her skill set and love of searching for opportunities, Sadie began using everything she learned about job searching to streamline the process for not just nurses but NPs and PAs.

If you are looking for a work at home job as a nurse, check out Sadie’s website at the Remote Nurse. If you are interested in starting a business like Sadie did, keep searching for problems that present themselves all around you (and then check out Sadie’s website for great ideas!)

Sadie's website: www.TheRemoteNurse.com

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ How Sadie came up with the idea of starting a business

→ How Sadie had to pivot on making money in her business

→ What Sadie plans to do in the future for nurses

→ Different partnerships Sadie has with other companies

Lisa Hedin is a registered nurse who owns TrainingAMC.com, which is an academy for medical cannabis. She is incredibly passionate about the potential that cannabis has not only to treat disease but to promote wellness as well.

Lisa speaks on cannabis around the US and conducts certification workshops to help medical professionals to become educated on this fast growing topic. She also teaches non medical professionals what they need to know to become knowledgeable enough to speak about cannabis.

This is an ongoing conversation that needs to happen to encourage people to understand that cannabis isn’t for “junkies”, it is a plant with incredible potential to provide a better quality of life, to treat health conditions and to help us in ways we haven’t even yet discovered.

To learn more about Lisa’s training programs, check out her website at:

www.TrainingAMC.com

And sign up for one of her courses if they are available. They sell out quickly.

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ Why Lisa uses CBD oil every day

→ How cannabis can improve quality of life

→ Why cannabis is so complicated

→ The difference between hemp and marijuana

Elena Bensonoff is the founder of Wholistic Inc., Published Author, World Renowned Wholistic Teacher, Clinical Pharmacist, Diplomate in Anti-Aging, Functional and Regenerative Medicine, Award Winning Natural Perfumer, and Creator of the Wholistic Wisdom Program and Masterclass, which have helped thousands of people all over the world harness their inner healing power to end their struggles with Chronic Illness once and for all.

Elena started her career as a clinical pharmacist but quickly found that she was not fulfilled with this career path. During a health crisis in her life, doctors told Elena that she would need to stay on multiple different medications. Elena was determined to find a different solution. She discovered that diet, stress and environment were playing a large role in her health, so she became determined to change it.

She also started exploring healing modalities. She was invited to attend an American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine conference. This conference was her first real introduction to traditional holistic practices. Elena became captivated by the research and case studies supporting natural healing techniques and it confirmed her beliefs about how toxic many of the ingredients in Western medicine are.

The most powerful realization Elena had on her path was that true healing doesn’t come in a pill bottle. It comes from within. Every person holds the key to their own healing.

All they need is a guiding light to empower them with love, wisdom, and support. Thus, Wholistic, Inc. was born, and this is what Elena has herself to for over 20 years. Now, her only career goal is to expand the network of empowered self-healers and lightworkers all over the world through infusing light, love, and wisdom into her books, meditations, and internationally renowned Wholistic courses.

Don’t Miss Moments

→ Elena’s mission for Wholistic.com

→ How Elena approaches clients with her work

→ How Elena trains professionals to do the work she does in energy healing

→ Why Elena started a perfume line and what’s unique about it

As a Registered Nurse, Yordis was inspired to create Mijamaz medical-pajama to protect the body privacy of patients in care settings. Multiple studies found that patients experience distress and a weakening in their immunity when their body privacy is repeatedly compromised in care settings.

She made it her mission to create Mijamaz when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer which led to frequent hospitalizations. On many occasions when she visited her mom, her frail body was exposed and cold - even the most private parts of her body. Of course, she was wearing the notorious ill-fitting one size fits all backless hospital gowns.

Yordis decided to do something about it. She started sketching out hospital gown designs. When she finally was happy with a design she sent it to a seamstress to sew. Yordis came up against many obstacles in bringing this product to market which we discuss in this episode.

To learn more about Yordis and Mijamaz, visit her website at: byyor.co

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ How many years it took Yordis to go from idea to production

→ How Yordis got her Mijamaz manufactured

→ Some of the major obstacles for Yordis

→ The marketing techniques Yordis is using to bring attention to Mijamaz

Shemeka Jones worked as an HR professional before becoming a nurse. She loved the role of the nurse and found a lot of satisfaction in traveling as a nurse as well. Her life changed when she met another nurse on assignment who planted the idea that starting a staffing agency would be a good idea.

At first Shemeka resisted the idea but slowly started looking into what would be involved in such a venture. She discovered quickly that the first step into the hospital system was to get insurance coverage and work with the vendor management systems.

Each step of the way Shemeka found information was not freely available and good advice was hard to come by. She and her business partner lucked out on their first contract and were able to make the business grow. Though Shemeka still remembers struggling with uncertainty in those earlier days.

Now that Shemeka’s staffing agency is doing well, she has turned her attention to helping other nurses get their staffing agencies up and running. She created a group call NOSA (nurse owned staffing agency), where she mentors for free and provides tools and resources. For nurses who have taken the initial steps to start the agency, Shemeka also offers a paid accelerator program that jump starts their success.

To find out more about Shemeka or how to start your staffing agency, go to her website: https://thenosagroup.com or follow her on social media @thenosagrp

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ The steps Shemeka had to take to set up her staffing agency

→ Why there aren’t enough staffing agencies out there to fill the need

→ How nurses can be single member agencies and give themselves a much deserved raise

→ How to get all your answers to staffing agencies answered