NursePreneurs

The Flight Safety Network is comprised of everyone who works hard to keep emergency flight crews and patients safe. These include EMTs, RN, Pilots, ED staff, dispatchers, flight communication specialists, chaplains, police, and so many more.

Troy Shaffer founded this network in 2009 when he recognized the need to bring all these people together in place. Since then, he has grown this community to over 200,000 professionals strong.

With no business experience, Troy talks about making every classic business mistake in the book, but one thing he did amazingly well. Troy focused on building a community first and then listened to the needs, wants, and desires of his audience.

As Troy puts it, his audience demanded he provides coaching services and even T-shirts for them to wear! The e-commerce aspect of the business was unexpected but has grown to over 26,000 SKUs (stock keeping unit) and remains to be the dominant source of income of the company.

Troy teaches us in this podcast episode that building a tribe might take a while, but if you provide incredible value for the long game, you will be rewarded.

You can insert almost any micro-expertise in this business model and be successful.

To find out more about how Troy built this community on his downtime at work, to the highly profitable business it is today, listen now.

You can find Troy on his website: https://flightsafetynet.com/.

Don’t Miss Moments:

Every mistake Troy made in business

How Troy built this business in his downtime at work

When the idea began a business

How to become a part of the Flight Safety Network

Georgia Skyers is a Nurse Executive with over 23 years of experience in nursing. She has seen and dealt with some of the biggest issues in healthcare. Having a long history of being praised for successfully running units in the hospital, Georgia started helping other managers and executives to understand how to lead using her system.

Today she is dedicated to developing high quality, resilient nurse leaders who are ready to step into leadership roles.

Georgia believes that nurse managers hold the cards for changing delivery of healthcare inside the hospital system. Unfortunately very little time or attention has been provided to nurturing leadership skills in our nurse management teams, despite the fact, they are consistently the source of solutions for everything that seems to go wrong!

Georgia is on a journey to develop and support nurses in leadership roles, shift the culture so nurses see themselves as change agents in healthcare settings and to encourage nurses to take up roles in management.

Georgia using a 360 degree approach in her leadership programs. To find out more about her leadership style and trainings, listen to this episode.

To find out more about Georgia Skyers go, check out her website at: www.360nurse.com

Don’t Miss Moments:

-->What Georgia thinks about the way nurse leaders are chosen

-->What skill set nurses need to be successful in any leadership role

-->How Georgia helps nurses to be successful in new leadership positions

-->What Georgia is doing to change the landscape of how nurse managers are trained.

Chris Caulfield is a nurse practitioner who saw an opportunity in staffing. From his basement, he came up with the idea of on-demand staffing. Recognizing that his idea would only stay an idea unless he partnered up, he started to look around for synergistic relationships.

Even though Chris has experience in informatics, one of his first partners was someone with extensive experience in that area, who could help forge the technology they would need to create the "uber" of nurse staffing.

Now in multiple states, Chris' business is filling open and last minute shifts quickly for post-acute settings. IntelyCare solves the nursing shortage through unparalleled matching technology that understands the needs of healthcare facilities and nursing professionals at a hyper-local level to improve care by automatically optimizing and augmenting staff.

To find out more about Chris go to his website: www.intelycare.com

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How Chris came up with the idea for the staffing agency

--> Why Chris' idea survived in such a saturated market

--> How on-demand staffing works

--> How to get started with your own idea in healthcare staffing

Amanda Guarniere is an Ivy-league educated nurse practitioner and freelance writer. Since graduating from Yale School of Nursing in 2011 she's been navigating her way through the professional world of medicine, figuring out how to achieve balance and spend her time making the biggest impact.

Amanda was looking to start a business, but wasn't sure exactly what to do. She found that in Facebook groups she was in a lot of nurses needed help with their resumes and job searches. Being creatively inclined, Amanda saw an opportunity to provide a much needed service. She designs templates for nurses who need a stand out resume.

Amanda also provides custom resume assistance and 1:1 support.

Additionally, Amanda is a mother of twin girls and one more one girl on the way!

Find Amanda at: https://www.theresumerx.com

Also be sure to follow Amanda on her Instagram where she started #NurseTakeovers: https://www.instagram.com/theresumerx/

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How Amanda came up with the idea to start the Resume Rx

--> What services Amanda decided were the best for her audience

--> Who Amanda's avatar is and how she found her

--> The idea behind #nursetakeovers

Melinda Chichester is an Energy Practitioner and End-of-Life Doula. She offers transformative support helping people as they encounter death in themselves, family and friends. Melinda provides physical, emotional, energetic, informational and coaching support as you navigate through the final transitions in your life.

Jill Weberding, RN is an oncology nurse consultant. Her passion is helping cancer patients to understand their diagnosis by simplifying the medical jargon we use.

Jill teaches that when a cancer diagnosis is given, very few people can listen to additional incoming information. Patients start grieving for a potentially shortened life span, a difficult journey ahead, loss of hair, potential of stomas. Until we can answer some of these questions that our patients have in their minds, any additional information can be confusing, or even just unheard.

Jill helps nurses and cancer centers to connect with patients at the point of diagnosis to provide information in stages, and at the stage where the patient is currently at. Learn more about what Jill is doing with training healthcare providers in this episode.

You can connect with Jill by email at: [email protected]

Don't Miss Moments:

How Jill has started her company based on a passion she has for serving her patients

What drives Jill to do more for her patients

How Jill is able to sell cancer information to facilities

Jill’s vision for her business and the care of cancer patients

Angel Boyce, MSN has a lot of knowledge. She is a student of life and has so much to offer. I worked with Angel for several months trying to help her find her purpose in business and the answer was right in front of her the entire time.

Angel excels in helping patients with concussion. She has a process and a system that helps them to recover during the post-concussive phase. This type of business model can easily be replicated by nurse experts in the field and it’s highly encouraged! Learn more about what Angel is doing in this episode.

You can connect with Angel by email at: [email protected]

Don't Miss Moments:

--> Angel’s business model to help patients with concussion

--> Why the concussion clinic isn’t enough

--> How Angel helps patients with rage

--> Angel’s vision for her business

Rita Kluny has been a nurse for a very long time. Her traditional nursing experience began in the Neonatal Intensive Care. She explored many modalities in the healing arts, and became certified as a Holistic Nurse and Healing Touch Instructor. She brings the past of both worlds into her practice by teaching moms, nurses, midwives and grandmothers to understand the world of the infant and seeing life from their point of view.

Rita runs the Healing Touch for Babies workshops for anyone who spends times with babies. She also offers ANCC approved continuing education for nurses and doulas.

She teaches nationwide – often in hospitals and also out in the community. You can check out her website for the latest listings. Rita promises no less than to provide a transformational experience into understanding your own beginnings, and tools that will help you to bring forth the most authentic version of YOU

Finally Rita's book “Your Baby Remembers: Parenting with a Deep Heart from the Start” is a simple yet profound guide for moms that describes how self care, prenatal bonding, and understand pre and perinatal psychology will make an extraordinary different in their babies for the rest of their lives.

Don't Miss Moments:

--> Why Rita had to practice energy medicine in secret for many years

--> What Rita does that helps patients to heal

--> How can help babies before birth and all the way up through a person's lifetime

--> Where you can find Rita and what she is doing next

Ersilia runs a production company called Rogue Nurse Media. She has done 1-person plays and teaches nurses how to find a creative outlet. This podcast was a little different as we got 'real' about what nurses are doing and what we *really* think.

In her twenty year Nursing career, Ersilia has held a variety of nursing roles which include: Pediatric Nurse, Charge Nurse, Registry Nurse (PICU, NICU, Mother Baby, and Nursery), Disneyland Health Services Nurse (yes even Mickey Mouse needs a nurse), Strike Nurse, Baby Nurse On Set (Hollywood Studio Nurse), Pediatric Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Consultant, Nurse Professor/Educator, and Freelance Nurse Writer/ Author.

She wrote and produced her solo show “The Nurse And The Hypochondriacs,” And currently produces: “Nurses And Hypochondriacs,” a storytelling show.

Her upcoming projects include: “The Nurse On The Street” on Youtube, “Nurses And Hypochondriacs Podcast,” “The Well Written Nurse: Writing courses empowering nurses,” and Rogue Nurse Media.

Find out more about Ersilia on her website: http://roguenursemedia.com/

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How Ersilia got started in her production company

--> What Ersilia teaches nurses how to do

--> What Ersilia thinks of the "stuffy-ness" of nursing

--> Finding creative outlets for nurses and using story to express it

--> What is next for Ersilia with her production company

Kimble Walters, MSN is no stranger to the surgical world. She has been in perioperative services for over a decade. She has seen first hand the problem of same-day surgery and patients who are going home who are ill-equipped to care for themselves (or be cared for by a friend).

Kimble knew she wanted to create a concierge nurse business but struggled on how she should focus, price her services and network with potential partners. Once she was able to navigate the business + marketing aspect, she was ready to start accepting patients.

You can find out more about Kimble on her newly designed website: https://eliteconciergenurses.com/

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How the idea to start a concierge nursing business came to Kimble

--> Why she believed that this model would serve her patients better

--> How focus and determination helped build her path to starting a successful company

--> Marketing techniques Kimble used to get appointments with surgeon offices

--> Kimble’s vision for her business