NursePreneurs

Robin is the Founder and CEO of Innovate Fast, an award-winning, full service marketing agency based in Dallas, Texas. Their primary objective is helping medical practices, cash practices and aesthetics practices grow by increasing their revenue and exposure in the marketplace through innovative digital and traditional marketing techniques. They work with many clients ranging from small businesses all the way to major publicly traded organizations. They've recently launched Patient Rush, a system in helping medical clinics and practices generating new patients through their platform.

Find out more about Robin at: https://innovatefast.com

or email [email protected]

Don't Miss Moments:

-->Organic vs. Paid Digital Advertising

-->Unique strengths of Google and Facebook Ads

-->Overcoming apprehension and getting your feet wet

-->Building connections & increasing conversion rates

-->Common errors and how to avoid them

-->What is the Process that Innovate Fast use when working with a client

-->How you can get started today.

Robert Hess is a world renowned leader in the Shared Governance model. His instrument has been used around the world. His books, lectures and insight into Shared Governance has been the focus of his career.

And for most of his nursing career he gave it all away for free. Now he is focused on the business of healthcare and how his extensive expertise can actually help more people than ever before by placing a value on it.

Robert's career has been diverse and rich in the world of editing, managing magazines, being a career blogger, an influencer, educator and high level executive.

One of his side projects is empowering nurses in their careers through his website the Career Whisperer.

Check out Robert's website at: http://sharedgovernance.org/

And his business at: http://www.careerwhisperer.org/

Don't Miss Moments:

-->How Robert's career took a turn from the editing manager to the editor of Nurse.com

-->How Robert began to monetize his PhD dissertation

-->Why Robert is busier in retirement than he was a high level executive (and loving every minute of it)

-->How to get Robert to help you in your career.

Nurse Sharena grew up thinking she wanted to be a pediatrician and a mom of 10 kids! However, her life's passion and purpose led her to become a nurse in 2006 (and mom of 3).

She has her MSN degree in Informatics and works as a school nurse in a specialty school for kids aged 4-22 years. Sharena's love of her students, her kids and her nursing career led her to wonder what else she could do. When she realized she was already doing what she wanted to be doing.

All she needed to do was wrap a business model around her passion and purpose. When Sharena looked around to see how kids decided to go into healthcare, she found very few resources. This led her to create the resource that was missing. She founded the Tiny Docs Initiative to teach kids about careers in healthcare.

Sharena does birthday parties, aftercare events, daycare events. Her youngest student was 3 years old! She makes learning fun for the kids and educational/informative at the same time.

Sharena says even the parents have fun and learn more about the healthcare industry.

If you have a group of 6 in the Tallahassee/Georgia area, be sure to look up Sharena and her thriving business: www.TinyDocsInitiative.com

Or find her on Instagram and Facebook under the same brand name.

Don't Miss Moments:

-->How Sharena came up with her idea.

-->What Sharena does with the kids to make the experience memorable and exciting.

-->How Sharena was able to teach a 3 year old about the heart chambers

-->Sharena's business plan and vision for the future of Tiny Docs

-->How Sharena got her big break in the media

Noreen Connolly is a PhD, RN who worked in private duty and patient advocacy for many years. She found that patients just wanted to be listened to and she wanted to do more for them.

Noreen found the hospital system to be very limiting in providing the care that she dreamed of providing for her patients, so she took a leap of faith in herself to design an agency that met her high standards of care.

Noreen's agency bridges the gap by providing patients with the individual care and answers to the questions they deserve.

Dr. Connolly, has a BSN, MSN and PhD. She is an adult nurse practitioner with expertise in caring for patients in hospitals, in the home and teaching the next generation of nurses to do the same.

As Noreen says: "I have personally trained the best to be the best."

Check out Noreen's company at https://www.prohealthnurse.net/

Don't Miss Moments:

-->How Noreen got her business up and running.

-->The first services Noreen invested in for her company.

-->Why Noreen didn't try to learn how to do everything on her own

-->Noreen differentiated her company by focusing in on care for the LGBTQ community, find out why this was important for her to do.

Gwen Jewell is a nurse who saw an opportunity. After leading her hospital initiative to reduce pressure ulcers, Gwen discovered 3 critical factors that were leading to musculoskeletal injuries, ergonomic issues for caregivers and a lack of support of the patient's body. Gwen took home a wedge and a fishing knife and began designing.

For 3 years, Gwen worked on the perfect wedge for patients. Her passion for creating the perfect wedge is a personal one as well. Gwen's brother has a spinal cord injury, and she wanted to find something that was perfect for him.

In all of her research and with the help of her brother, she discovered how to get patients feeling like they were "floating in space" with the perfectly angled wedge.

Find out how she was able to create this company in this episode.

Don't Miss Moments:

--> The triumvirate of critical issues that predispose to pressure ulcers

--> What it took for Gwen to get this company up and running

--> How her perspective of her audience changed with her findings

--> Where Gwen is headed next in her business

Lorie Brown is a nurse and a lawyer with over 30 years of combined experience.

She has been a dedicated nurse for twelve years, she practiced in medical-surgical nursing, gynecology, urology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, general surgery and home health care. She maintains her license and is a camp nurse every summer.

After law school, Ms. Brown was employed at the Department of Insurance defending the interests of the Patient’s Compensation Fund. For the next six years, Ms. Brown defended physicians and hospitals for medical malpractice. Ms. Brown now focuses her practice on assisting plaintiff attorneys with medical issues in their cases.

Lorie Brown formed Empowered Nurses to help nurses protect their licenses, so they can do their jobs with confidence, focus on serving their patients, and regain the joy in the profession they love. She also wanted to give nurses a forum to exchange ideas and change the practice of nursing for the better.

Check out Lorie's website at www.EmpoweredNurses.org

Get Lorie's free gift - A legal checklist for nurse business owners

Lorie's course for nurse business owners: http://empowerednurses.org/nurse-business-owners/

Don't Miss Moments:

--> How Lorie got into law from nursing

--> Lorie's tips on getting started in a business

--> Which legal entity Lorie recommends

--> The basic services every nurse needs before starting a business

--> Lorie's FREE Gift!! It's a Legal Checklist. A MUST HAVE! I already downloaded mine..

Dr. Hooper is no stranger to work. As an Air Force officer with 4 boys and a husband, she is a talented multitasker.

So when she was living in Maryland and got advice to move to Georgia to start a nurse practitioner run clinic, she thought no big deal... Well no big deal for NPs in Maryland, where they have independent practice, but it is certainly a big deal for NPs in Georgia who have to find a supervising physician.

Dr. Hooper literally asked 50 doctors to work with her so she could start her dream of creating a psych pediatric clinic, so she could treat autism, adolescents, anxiety and so much more. The clinic was desperately needed in her community.

Dr. Hooper persevered and found the perfect alliance.

Find out how she did it and what it took in this episode of the NursePreneur Podcast.

Check out Dr. Hooper's clinic at: AxisHope.care

Don't Miss Moments:

-->How Dr. Hooper decided to open her new clinic

-->What Dr. Hooper did first after she decided to start a clinic

-->Funding the clinic

-->What Dr. Hooper thinks is a realistic timeline to start a business

Cara Lunsford was working as a pediatric oncology nurse when she got burnt out. She knew there were lots of other nurses who felt burnt out by their jobs and became obsessed with creating a supportive environment for them.

Her obsession to create a supportive environment led her to creating an app. The app took on a life of its own and led her down a path she never imagined! Cara started throwing around terms like seed investment, valuation, series A and foreign investors.

She never imagined when she started that this is the direction she would go. But now, she sees an entirely new focus for supporting nurses in a variety of ways.

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Connect with Cara on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caralunsfordhb/

Don't Miss Moments:

How Cara found and solved her problem

-->Cara's advice for any nurse who wants to start an app

-->How to develop your team and why choosing your friend isn't the best idea

-->Cara's profound advice on why you should start a business.

Becky Rui is a personal branding photographer who strives to create authenticity with inspired entrepreneurs. She helps people find the truth in what they are doing and get clear on their personal brand.

I can personally attest to the beautiful soul of Becky. She is gentle, caring and visionary. I brought Becky over from the U.K. to do my own personal branding shoot because I believed she could really help me to overcome my fear of being seen.

And she not only succeed in helping me to be more visible, but she inspired me to help other nurses to do the same.

Becky does her shoots in a joyful, intuitive way, beginning with a grounding meditation, honouring the entrepreneur in that space, and creating a powerful variety of images for her clients' marketing.

Check out Becky's website at www.BeckyRui.com

Don't Miss Moments:

--How Becky helps her clients overcome the fear of being seen.

--Becky's journey at such a young age to becoming an entrepreneur

and how she believed in what she was doing.

--How Becky inspires such authenticity in everything she does

--How to get Becky for your next shoot (it's worth every cent!!)

Winifred “Windy” Carson-Smith, attorney and chief operating officer of Carson Company LLC, a health care consulting policy concern, brings over 25 years of senior association, legislative and policy experience at the state, federal and national levels to her consultancy. One of a select few, Windy worked in legislative positions at the state, federal and District during her career. She has lobbied, testified and/or developed legislation or regulation on contemporary health policy issues. And, she has worked on major policy/ national and state initiatives to include organizing and codification of the D.C. health occupations licensing statutes, national health care reform, legislative and regulatory barriers to APN practice, AIDS, telehealth, nurse informatics, antitrust, insurance and antitrust issues. Melding policy with advocacy, Windy designed the grassroots campaign which led to DEA recognition and regulation of nurse prescribers. Windy also initiated the ANA amicus brief and association litigation policy and strategy; and authored the first United States Supreme Court brief submitted to the courts on behalf of the American Nurses Association.