NursePreneurs

Natalie Lavelock is a high ticket coach and consultant who helps coaches, course creators and speakers how to find their purpose and build their legacy.

As a nurse Natalie was a clinical educator who was responsible for creating trainings and programs for her unit. When a change of management came one day, they offered to promote her to management before eliminating her position. Natalie declined and has never looked back.

She used this opportunity to do what she always wanted and dreamed about - helping other people attain their dreams. While Natalie’s road to success wasn’t straight and narrow, she did find her unique specialty in creating training programs - something she learned as a nurse.

Natalie used her nursing skillset to help coaches and speakers from all industries to build their own certification programs and to have something to offer from stage.

In this episode Natalie also teaches us how to market without social media, and one of her best performing marketing techniques.

Don’t Miss:

→ How Natalie transitioned from nurse to NursePreneur

→ What skill set Natalie leveraged from 20 years working in the hospital into a profitable business model

→ How Natalie markets off social media

→ Programs Natalie has for her clients

How to start a wildly profitable staffing agency (even if you have no experience). Maybe you’ve been thinking it would be a great business to start a staffing agency. And after all as a nurse you have lots of nurse connections, so why not? Then maybe you started looking into the rules and regulations and setting up operational manuals, getting contracts and hiring staff. All of sudden the idea becomes overwhelming.

Enter in Nicole Caillier. Nicole is a nurse who started her first agency 14 years ago. She has since become one of the top 10% of women business owners in the U.S. She has a program and a method that can take you find idea to NursePreneur owning your own agency. She has students who complete the program and have their first contract within 6-8 weeks.

Could you own your own profitable healthcare staffing firm in the next 8 weeks? Well I will tell you this much… There is no way I would try to do this on my own. Can it be done? Of course, but if you want it done right and fast, let Nicole show you the way. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. Nicole has made a smooth path for you to get started!

Find out more about Nicole at http://robinsonsuccess.com/

Don't Miss Moments

--> What Nicole has to say about creating a micro-niche within this industry

--> How nurses could potentially have their first contract within weeks

--> Why this is a great business for nurses to enter

Suria Sparks is a top influencer in Asia and #1 in Singapore. She is a seasoned TEDx speaker, has been invited to speak at the United Nations, Harvard Business School and the Wall Street Journal.

Suria has her own podcast, TV show and over 100 million fans around the globe, but how did it all start? How does a person go from nothing, which is what Suria started out with to becoming a #1 influencer?

In this episode Suria talks about the bad situation she was in and how she set her intentions to start a business and learn everything she needed to know. But we all know working hard is not the key to success. Suria explains the steps she took to become successful, lose everything and then become successful again.

Suria is one of our guest faculty members at the Speak and Communication Mastery Program occurring in Las Vegas Jan 24-26, 2020. She will be teaching social media and helping nurses to "message their mess" if they have one or just brand themselves and rise to the top.

Register for this event to meet and work with Suria: www.TheNursePreneurSummit.com/speaking-mastery

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How Suria found the courage to start a business

--> What it takes to get 100 million fans

--> What business Suria is really in

--> How to meet and work with Suria

CathWear was founded in order to improve the quality of life for individuals who have undergone medical treatment by restoring their dignity and privacy during recovery.

While working as a specialist in Interventional Radiology, CathWear founder Brian Mohika realized that the standard method of managing leg bags was failing to address any of the complaints patients had been voicing to him for years. He decided to start working on a patent that would address all of these common complaints and eventually created the award winning CathWear Underwear.

Being able to serve society for a greater good is something that both Brian Mohika and Hector Arce (Co-Founder) forged while serving within the US Armed Forces. They each continue to carry this sense of duty with them as they embark on helping as many patients as possible with CathWear.

Check out CathWear Website: CathWear.com

Don’t Miss Moments

→ How Brian went from idea to creation

→ How long it took Brian to bring his dream to fulfillment

→ Brian’s distribution plan and getting the product to market

→ Advice Brian has for innovative nurses with an idea

Dr. Kiiyonna Jones is a Registered Nurse who has been an educator and nurse administrator for more than 5 years. Kiiyonna received her Bachelors of Science in Health Promotion Disease Prevention (2006) from the University of Southern California, and graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a Masters of Science in Nursing (2008) in the first class of the Masters Entry Clinical Nurse (MECN) program at the university.

With a myriad of accolades under her belt, Kiiyonna added entrepreneur to her title in October of 2018 and opened a Permanent Make-up and Beauty clinic in Artesia, California.

Kiiyonna has always had a passion for beauty and under the direction of Dr. Sarat Varghese, she ventured out into the beauty space.

In addition to her professional career, Kiiyonna is a wife, mother of five, and is passionate about being an advocate for teen mothers and nurse entrepreneurship.

Check out Kiiyonna's website: www.luxebeautyandwellness.com

Don’t Miss

→ How Kiiyonna found her business idea

→ What Kiiyonna spent to herself started

→ What Kiiyonna recommends nurses do to build their business

→ How Kiiyonna brings in multiple streams of revenue

Aliya Aaron worked as an IT consultant in nursing when she saw the need to connect nurses and healthcare. Working as a one-woman band show Aliya started AMR Healthcare as an IT consultant company to help firms to create information systems that improved the workflow.

She slowly built up a core team with software developers and engineers so they could tackle bigger issues that her clients asked of her - that is building custom built software.

Her one-woman consulting gig turned in to a team that creates software and solutions. While it’s easy to look at Aliya now and say she was a shoe-in for success from the get-go, there were a few things that she did that were vital (and did not guarantee) her success.

Aliya was a nurse first and foremost. She had some background in information technology and she worked with frontline nurses to create solutions to workflow. She listened to what her clients were telling her - that they wanted custom solutions. Aliya didn’t have a background in software development, so she took classes to build up her understanding. Because she was strategic in gaining specific knowledge, she was now able to translate the medical jargon and IT jargon so it produced an outcome everyone wanted.

You may have an idea of what you want your business to be, but being flexible and always listening for the core problem is essential to growth and sustainability.

Aliya also started the Nursing Innovation Hub, which is an international collaborative effort to connect nurses with software developers. Aliya’s vision was to give nurses a safe place to pitch their ideas and become empowered to create the solution by giving them the guidance they need to see their ideas come to fruition.

If you have any ideas of how to improve technology, it’s worth joining this free innovation hub and getting paired up with a software developer. There is no harm in pitching an idea, and who knows unless you try…

Aliya’s consulting firm for custom software solutions for startups and major healthcare organizations: www.amrhealthcare.com

Nursing Innovation Hub: www.innovatenursehub.com

Aliya’s email address is [email protected]

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ How Travel Nursing led to IT consulting

→ How a good mentor can change your life and the direction of it

→ What an IT nurse consultant does and how you can become one

→ How you can pitch your technology ideas and collaborate with software developers for free

Mary McDougall, Vice President of Astia, talks about getting started in the world of venture capital for start-ups.

Astia is transforming the way businesses are funded in the here and now, providing capital, connections, and guidance that fuel the growth of highly innovative, women-led ventures around the globe.

Astia was founded in Silicon Valley in 1999 as a non-profit organization dedicated to identifying and promoting best-in-class women high-growth entrepreneurs.

Astia’s model is designed to change the way our ecosystem looks at and evaluates high potential organizations, increasing the recognition of, and investment into women entrepreneurs and their teams.

We identify high potential companies through our personalized referral system, move them through our multi-step Astia Expert Sift™ towards possible investor presentation, link them to advisors and resources as needed, and share them with our Astia Angels.

Find out more at: www.Astia.org

or submit an application at https://astia.force.com/connect/s/raiseapplication

Mary even provides a template for the process after your application is accepted

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (writing an executive summary)

The Executive Summary is the key document for the next stage of our review.The document should be a 1-2 page PDF and less than 1 MB Attached are some suggested layouts.

Content should include:

-->Customer Problem

-->Product & Services

-->Revenue Model/How you make money

-->Target Market & Market Size

-->Sales & Marketing Strategy

-->Proof of Concept (customers & traction)

-->Competitors and Competitive Advantage

-->Management team and experience

-->Financial snapshot including revenue & EBITDA forecasts

-->Previous investors

-->Advisors

-->Capital Seeking

-->Contact info

Don't Miss Moments:

--> Why women are not highly resourced in venture capital

--> What Astia is doing to change this situation

--> What types of ideas Astia is looking to promote to venture capitalists

--> The easy process for pitching your idea

Eliseo Tajanlagit is a nurse who worked in the ED. He saw so many patients coming into the ED with the wrong insurance. As a bedside nurse he didn’t notice it so much, but when he transitioned to case management, he better understood the issue.

Eliseo wanted to better understand the problem, so he delved into the world of insurance. So much so that Eliseo actually took the national insurance exam, so he is able to underwrite insurance plans.

He currently works with insurance companies to help clients understand what it is that they need in their insurance plans. For instance, do you need supplemental insurance? He is able to explain in plain, everyday language what it means if you add this into your plan vs leaving that out of the plan.

Eliseo markets himself through thought leadership. He takes every opportunity he can get to talk to elders, corporations, communities and families about how to choose the right insurance plan. Being a nurse who has seen the consequences of choosing the wrong plan, Eliseo is in a unique position to help so many people. Not many nurses have their insurance license or can underwrite an insurance plan.

Eliseo’s community outreach has been the lever of his success in this area. He recently started his own company called Medicare Nurse Navigator, which I have a feeling will do very well considering how effective Eliseo is in communicating insurance details in lay person terminology and with his expertise as a nurse.

Website: www.medicarenursenavigator.com/

Don’t Miss Moments:

→ How Eliseo became passionate about helping clients with insurance

→ Why Eliseo decided it was important to take the national insurance exam

→ How Eliseo is able to help his clients with his Medicare Navigation skills

→ The type of business Eliseo is able to create with his knowledge

Victoria Randle is a nurse practitioner who teaches nurses and business owners how to start a certified nursing assistant (CNA) school. Victoria has been helping nurses (and non-nurses) to set up schools. She spent 2 years learning all the ins and outs of opening a school on a very tight, shoestring budget.

But all her sweat and tears have paid off for you, because now you don't actually have to figure anything out. Victoria is knowledge about all the state regulations in all 50 states + federal regulations, and she can just tell you what you need to know. She even helps you through inspection and then marketing.

If you are looking for a business idea but not yet sure what you want to do, or you have heard about CNA schools but don't know where to get started setting one up.... Look no further than Victoria Randle.

Check out Victoria's Facebook page to learn more at https://www.facebook.com/thesecretcocktail/

Don't Miss Moments:

--> What is involved in opening a CNA school?

--> Can it be profitable to run a CNA school?

--> Victoria discusses in depth how CNA schools are regulated and what is needed to start one

--> Learn how you can get Victoria to do all the project management to open your CNA school or she'll tell you how to do it yourself

Have you ever thought about earning extra money as a freelance writer? How about your entire income? That’s precisely what Gee Nonterah is doing. Gee is a former nurse who went back to school to become a microbiologist.

While she was researching a post-doc in San Diego, she found she needed some extra income. The West Coast is not post-doc income friendly by any stretch of the imagination.