Own Your Era

If you consider yourself a high achiever, but struggle with keeping good habits--this is for you! Tune in to learn how a long time friend of mine that is a very successful entrepreneur and a high achiever struggles to maintain their self-care habits in times of hustle and stress.

Can you relate?

In this episode, I'll help you shift your view from habits to intention.

Is it time for you to set an intention of slowing down to speed up and create the momentum that you need?

I'm also sharing why I'm doing a social media detox--you're invited to join me!

Do you feel like you're trapped in the box of your career? The letters behind your name?

Tune in for an Ivy-league prepared nurse practitioner's story of how she has added entrepreneurship to her list of accomplishments.

Amanda Guarniere, MSN, NP-C shares how being home raising twins and working night shift found her searching for a way to add income to her family and have more flexibility in the clinical setting.

During this time she discovered that nurses and nurse practitioners needed help to building their resumes and finding what they truly wanted from their careers.

She helps them stand out with strong resumes and land the career of their dreams.

Amanda Guarniere, is an Ivy-league educated nurse practitioner and entrepreneur, having founded The Résumé Rx in 2018. She is also the host of The Nurse Becoming Podcast, where she has conversations about personal and professional growth through the lens of nursing.

Her ultimate goal is for all nurses to find their purpose and fulfillment in both their professional and personal lives.

Today I'll share five (actually seven) tips to find balance between working full time as your build your business.

Tune in to learn:

1. How to create your role identities to create clear boundaries between your job and your business.

2. Setting goals without overwhelming yourself.

3. How to schedule your time and my favorite app Calendly.

4. The importance of setting your priorities with your loved ones.

5. How to apply productivity sprints to get more done.

Bonuses: Figuring out what you may need to sacrifice and a reminder to take care of your health.

Enjoy! Don't forget to tag me in your stories when you listen today: https://www.instagram.com/xo_yolandarussell/

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"Entrepreneurship is different and not everyone that you've been around for all your life—your parents, or partner, or your siblings, or whomever it is; is going to understand why you want to step out and be your own boss."

A few updates that I share today:

• We just made it to episode number 60.
• The podcast has hit 10K downloads, since we switched platforms.
• The investment I'm making to become a better coach.

In this episode, 16 truth bombs about entrepreneurship!

Some people sweep things under the rug, but that's not what I'm here to do. Tune in for an unapologetic viewpoint of entrepreneurship. Including these 16 truth bombs:

1. Building your business is not only about strategy—you need a SOLID mindset as your foundation. This journey will have the things you struggle with rearing their heads. I'll give you my tip when it comes to hiring a coach to start your business.
2. This journey is lonely. Not everyone is going to get it.
3. You must find a circle of friends that are where you are on the journey and AHEAD of you. This will help you expand and grow faster.
4. There is no measure of success—and you need more than money to define what is making you successful.
5. Stop looking for validation. You need to take action and ask questions later because you make the rules. As long as the choices you make are for the greatest good of those you serve, you don't need to ask questions.
6. Energy is everything and people are attracted to higher vibrations than lower, unconfident energy. Protect your energy at all costs.
7. Working harder doesn't mean making more money. This is something that you must break out of when shifting from an employee mindset to an entrepreneur mindset. This requires footwork up front, that will have a lasting impact.
8. You must be your own biggest cheerleader! There will be days where you feel completely misunderstood. Your mission and vision has to be at the forefront of your why every day.
9. You're going to fail. You must rewire how you perceive failure and use it to your benefit. Mistakes are simply lessons—lessons are a measure of your growth.
10. You can not help everyone. Your messaging, your way of doing things…do it in the way that works for your ideal clients. Try this mantra: "I am not for everyone, but those that I am for, I serve deeply." Attracting ideal clients and repealing non-ideal clients is your JOB. Do this with NO apology! Lowering your prices to make it fit 'everyone,' is not the name of the game. Serve your audience, unapologetically.
11. Don't ask people to invest in you, if you haven't invested in yourself. Be sure that you know what it's like to be on the receiving in of an offer and the price tag. Put skin in the GAME!
12. You are going to sell your services. Love what you sell, be obsessed with what you sell and have a belief that what your product/service is will 100% change someone's life.
13. You don't need to share everything on your social media in order to be authentic. In fact, you may be confusing potential clients and putting yourself in the friend zone and not the zone of authority. This doesn't make you fake. Be the LEADER that your potential client is looking for to help them. Don't be afraid to mix it up from time to time and show different parts of you, but on occasion.
14. Stop following and interacting with people that you can't support or be able to support you in this journey. It's a waste of time and distracting to you. Filling your audience with your ideal client base is a game changer.
15. Your brand as an entrepreneurship is you, but it's not about you. You need to focus on solving a problem for your ideal client, so they have something to invest in. If you make all about you, people won't see the value of investing in you.
16. Separating your identities, so that you can create boundaries between yourself and your business.

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The Unfiltered Nurse Podcast, formerly the Real, Raw, and Free Podcast is officially A YEAR OLD...June 18, 2020!

I want to say THANK YOU! I do this for you.

Today, I unpack:

The journey of starting the podcast.

The tearful moment that I decided I was going to start a podcast.

The technical difficulties of recording with my first guest.

The story of how my addiction to sharing stories of other women became my addiction.

Inside of this episode:

Feeling your fear and doing it anyway.

The most important thing you can do once you do whatever it is that is scaring you.

What to do when you feel uninspired.

Trust in your mission and the fact that you're guided by something higher and you MUST take action and honor that.

Thank you for being on this journey with me, I am honored to continue to serve you with my voice and gift for sharing the voices of other powerful women too!

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The Brand Confidence Masterclass

Privilege. A word trending in height of the mass awareness of racial injustice that exists even in 2020.

In this episode, I sit down with Nicole, a nurse and a beautiful person of color adopted by a family and into privilege.

Nicole, a fan of hitting others with a dose of "unpopular opinion," gets raw and unfiltered in this episode.

Tune in for insight of how the tone of her skin and growing up in a white household has been the oxymoron of her life and the racism she's faced as a nurse.

Nicole is an ER Nurse in Atlanta and a graduate of Georgia Southern University and Georgia Perimeter College. She is also a bodybuilder, powerlifter, and lover of lifting heavy.

Her primary mission is to challenge others to look deeper within themselves for meaning and perspective. More from Nicole: https://www.instagram.com/holnicstic/ More from Yolanda: https://www.instagram.com/xo_yolandarussell/

Join The Brand Confidence Masterclass: https://yrussell.thinkific.com/courses/the-brand-confidence-masterclass

Considering being a Travel Nurse? Know someone that is? This episode is for you.

This episode features The 6 Figure Travel Nurse, Sarah Gaines, MSN, RNC-OB and she unpacks her journey into travel nursing and her mission of educating and empowering nurses to maximize their income so they can work less and travel more.

Her infamous 6 Figure Travel Nurse Course does just that!

Sarah is a Labor and Delivery Nurse, Nurse Mentor, educator and entrepreneur; she is passionate about travel nursing with over 20 completed contracts and counting.

For insider tips, expert advice, group support, and even 1:1 mentoring follow Sarah on her Instagram (@Sarah_Gaines) and learn more about her online course for travel nurses at http://www.SarahGaines.com More from Yolanda: https://www.instagram.com/xo_yolandarussell/ Sign up for the FREE course: The Brand Confidence Masterclass

Chandra Dodson, MSN, BSN is a Labor & Delivery Nurse that is full of spirit and passion. In today's episode, she shares her journey from teen Mom to nurse Mom. Chandra gives a candid glimpse in overcoming being the victim of her circumstance as a young Mom. She shares the sacrifices and struggles she had to make to go from a teen Mom to becoming a Master's prepared nurse and educator. Chandra is from Maryland and currently on assignment as a travel nurse while building her brand online.

More from Chandra: Follow her on IG: https://www.instagram.com/iamnursechannie/ Subscribe to her YouTube Channel: youtube.com/channel/UCIYJSAUTFuu9duenMACWYuw

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In today's episode, I chat with Jazmine Green, RN, BSN about her journey from Mother-Baby/Nursery RN to FULL-TIME entrepreneur. Jazmine discovered early on in her nursing career that she wasn't one to punch the clock for someone else's dreams for the rest of her life.

Tune in to hear how an incident after one of her night shifts made her quit her job to protect her family and start her journey as an entrepreneur.

Jazmine is the owner of Nurse Life Brand, an online nursing boutique and a BLS Instructor.

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Shop Nurse Life Brand: https://www.nurselifebrand.com/

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So, you want to build your brand, be consistent AF, and show up with confidence, BUT...building your brand feeling harder than nursing school.

What's holding ya back? Failure, judgement, imposter syndrome, perfection, no flexibility in the vision of how you can make your impact?

Tune in today for a quick overview of Yolanda's signature framework for building your brand and the 5 things holding you back from taking messy, inspired, and confident action.

Remember, awareness is necessary in order to create the momentum needed to execute.

Join The Brand Confidence Masterclass

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