NursePreneurs

Before Jason Duprat became a healthcare entrepreneur, starting businesses and mentoring other professionals to achieve their full potential, he had multiple obstacles to overcome. From working at a pancake house uncertain of his future to pursuing a career in anesthesia and becoming a business owner.

Jason’s story is the perfect example of how anybody can overcome the obstacles in their life and accomplish their dreams. Several years into his professional career, Jason became a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, a Healthcare entrepreneur and a mentor to thousands of professionals.

Jason is the founder of The Injection & Infusion Clinic of Albuquerque and the creator of multiple online courses like The Ketamine Academy, IV Therapy Academy. Jason has gone from growing up in a town to earning multiple degrees, becoming a Naval Officer and successful entreprenuer. Lieutenant Commander Jason Duprat, MSA, BSN, BS, CRNA is an inspiration for every person who dreams of accomplishing great things in life and not settling for the status quo.

You can find Jason on his website: JasonDuprat.com

HIS SOCIAL MEDIA:

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonduprat

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jasonaduprat

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ How a hot dog stand led to a million dollar business idea

→ How Jason sold his course before he built it

→ The power of demand determines the business concept

→ What Jason is planning to next in his business

Megan Foltz is a periop nurse who felt a calling to Haiti in 2010 after the massive earthquake that hit the island. Megan was unprepared for what she initially experienced in Haiti, but was determined to find a way to help. When cholera broke out on the island she watched the people die senseless deaths within 24 hours. She ended up making 11 trips to the island to provide assistance.

As chance would have it, Megan reconnected with someone she knew from a decade earlier who had recently started a bottle water company whose proceeds went to support clean water around the world. Megan and TJ found not only a common passion in water but in each other as well.

Together the married duo runs Humankind selling beverages, doing fundraisers and traveling around the world establishing trusted partners to help them create sustainable clean water sources that are appropriate for the landscape.

Megan continues to be amazed at the turn her life took, just by following her dreams to help others.

To learn more about Megan on her journey and how to get involved in vision trips, check out her website: www.behumankind.com

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How Megan got inspired to travel to Haiti as an ICU nurse

--> How Megan turned her travel experience into a business

--> How Humankind Beverage is changing lives around the world

--> How nurses can go on vision trips with Megan

Rachel describes herself as a recovering healthcare executive, wife, mother, nurse, and tribe leader. After her second child, she felt completely overwhelmed with a high pressure job and feeling like she was failing in all aspects of life.

A mentor of Rachel’s suggested she reach out to a life coach, so she did even though she didn’t know what they could do. However, this turned out to be exactly what she needed and it helped Rachel to uncover her passion for listening to others.

Rachel quickly saw an opportunity to work as a life coach, so she got certified through the Martha Beck process. She began her side hustle while working her full time job. About a year into the process, Rachel made the decision to transition to full time coaching.

Now Rachel works with clients helping them when they are stuck with her enneagram method and coaching sessions.

To learn more about Rachel and what she does, check out her website at: RachelPritz.com

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ How life coaching found Rachel

→ How Rachel markets her services to attract clients

→ Rachel’s secret client attraction method

→ What it took for Rachel to make the leap to full time coaching

Azella Collins, RN is a Professional Registered Parliamentarian. Azella became a parliamentarian after a PTA meeting that was so poorly organized and ineffective. Azella took it upon herself to learn how to run meetings. A nurse colleague introduced her to the world of parliamentarians, and Azella found her passion.

Beginning with the basic Parliamentarian course, Azella progressed to attain the highest stature as a Professional Registered Parliamentarian. She has now served as parliamentarian for local, national, and international, Kiwanis, nursing, medical and dental groups.

Because of Azella’s unique specialty and flair for speaking, she was invited to join Edge Women’s Speakers bureau, where she and other women are showcased for speaking events.

Azella has served as Illinois Association of Parliamentarians President and has been recycled many times through the Registered Parliamentarians of Illinois Unit. She is a member of the first National Association of Parliamentarians electronic unit and the Lee Demeter Registered Parliamentarians Unit.

Learn more about Azella on her website: www.AzellaCollins.com or find out how to have her as a speaker from: www.EdgeWomenSpeakers.com

Don’t Miss:

→ How Azella discovered the world of Parliamentarians

→ What a Parliamentarian does

→ Why the function of a Parliamentarian is vital to events

→ How Azella markets her services to organizations

Brittany Molkenthin is a nurse who was in nursing school when she took a healthcare innovations class. She was asked to create a device to improve the medical field.

Brittany had a love for babies and children, so she decided to focus on the problem of anxiety and apprehension that new moms have around the newborn getting enough milk in the first 2 weeks of life.

Brittany worked with biomedical engineers at her school to create a prototype of what would later become the Manoula device.

Brittany recently patented this breastfeeding device which accurately measures the amount of breast milk an infant receives during feeding.

While there were so many roadblocks to bringing this device to market, Brittany persisted, found a team to work with and bootstrapped the entire process by working as a nurse.

Today her device is set to undergo FDA approval and possibly become a level 2 medical device that would be covered by insurance.

To learn more about Brittany on her journey and the Manoula device, check out her website: www.LactationInnovations.com

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How Brittany designed the prototype

--> How long it took Brittany to bring the device to market

--> How Brittany found funding for the device

--> Next steps for the device in the marketplace

Maggie Brown is a nationally Board Certified Advanced Holistic Nurse, a nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Nurse Coach, a Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide and a Reiki Master.

Maggie had a vision of helping nurses who are burnt out by bringing awareness to the issues. She met a woman who owned an RV and was inspired by the idea of creating what she calls The Compassion Caravan.

Maggie says the year 2020 is the perfect time to have this event as the confluence of energy that is focused on the nurse is ideal. In 2020 Florence Nightingale is celebrating her 200th birthday, the WHO has announced it to be the Year of the Nurse and it is the American Holistic Nursing Assocation’s 40th anniversary.

Maggie began organizing a multi-city event that will go from Rhinehart, NY to Albuquerque, NM. The caravan signifies the widening circle of compassion as the team goes city to city bringing awareness. 2 day events will be held in Rhineback, Philadelphia and Austin, plus a camp out in Albuquerque.

CE credit hours, activities and fun are planned in each location.

More information about how you can get involved is on the website, which can be found at: www.CompassionCaravan.com

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ How Maggie came up with the idea of the Compassion Caravan

→ The significance of the Caravan

→ Why nurses should attend the workshops

→ How you can get involved

Nursing Brains is the brain child of Dr. Cindy Bautista, Associate Professor. Cindy fell into this business when she attended a business class with a colleague. She wrote out a business plan for a program that was something she loved talking about - Neuro.

Cindy went on to create a speaking career and providing workshops for hospitals, local, regional, national and international conferences and chapters. She now does one day workshops and is booked for the entire year.

Cindy built her reputation through speaking in any venue she could and practicing her art of teaching. Through her experience and exposure in these various venues, Cindy's business began to grow.

She is now frequently asked to be a keynote speaker at conferences around the world.

You can find out more about Dr. Bautista on her website: nursingbrains.com or email her at [email protected]

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How Cindy found her business idea

--> How Cindy markets her workshop

--> How long it took Cindy to get her business profitable

--> Cindy's recommendations for nurses looking to get started in the speaking business

Roz Lindsay is a veterinarian turned Heathcare leader. While she enjoyed working with her animals, she found she was truly drawn to leadership and consulting.

She worked for many years in a consulting business doing management, team development and sales. However she found that her roots were still in teaching.

Roz began to evaluate her skill set and found that she was the best at helping others to become leaders. She now helps practice managers, healthcare administrators and nurses become the healthcare leaders they are striving to be.

Roz built a membership where she is curating an international group of healthcare leaders who are learning, growing and connecting with each other.

To learn more about Roz's membership program for healthcare leaders, check out her website at: EngageYourHealthcareLeadership.com

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How Roz went from veterinarian to healthcare leadership

--> How Roz set up the framework of her membership site

--> How the members in the membership are helping each other internationally

--> Ways for you to get involved as well!

Gina Wilson is a family nurse practitioner who had an experience while doing work in Tanzania that would alter her life forever.

After working in the Labor and Delivery unit, she witnessed a situation between a mother and baby, where the healthcare workers took care of a hemorrhaging mother, and didn’t have the resources to care for a baby who was struggling to breathe. That scenario literally haunted Gina for years and drove her to pursue doctoral studies in births in Africa.

Gina’s research led to her finding a program by the American Academy of Pediatrics called Helping Babies Breathe. Gina took it upon herself at her own expense to take this program back to Tanzania and implement it.

Gina’s dream is to open a non-profit agency that will fund this cause and help her expand it across the country. She has been lucky to have a nurse practitioner job that allows her to spend extended periods of time doing train the trainer scenarios for midwives across Zanzibar, an island off the coast of Tanzania. She also works as a clinical instructor for Duke University.

Gina also takes students overseas with her to help her implement the program and learn from the healthcare system in Africa.

To connect with Gina, you can email her at: [email protected]

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ Gina’s story that compelled her to do research in the area of birth aphyxia

→ How Gina developed a solution to the problem

→ What it took for Gina to implement the solution through the Ministry of Health

→ Gina’s vision for what this program can become in the future

Also, learn how you can get involved in this program.

Ashley Hay is a registered nurse, freelance writer, editor, and consultant.

She found her business niche in an unexpected way. Due to some health conditions, the demands of a 12 hour day or night shift did not allow Ashley the freedom of pursuing her love of oncology nursing.

Then she found out about the business of freelance writing in the healthcare space and began her journey into this business.

Ashley started out with some free pieces that she did for high profile sites, which led to many new and paid opportunities. Two years into her journey, Ashley has found her happy place and is making more money than she would as a staff nurse.

This type of business takes effort to get off the ground, but there is significant income possibility and a seemingly endless list of opportunities.

Ashley is available for a large array of freelance healthcare writing needs including original content, copywriting, ghostwriting, and patient education material.

You can find out more about Ashley on her website: ahaynursing.com

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How Ashley found a way to replace her nursing income by writing

--> How Ashley finds clients who are willing to pay her

--> How long it took Ashley to get started

--> What a typical day looks like for Ashley