Nursepreneurs

Tiffany Nichols is a masters prepared nurse in education who saw a need for cannabis education in the community. She would frequently get clients asking her about medical marijuana and whether it was appropriate for them. Even though at the time cannabis was not legal in her state, Tiffany set on a path to learn everything she could about cannabis. What she learned could basically be translated into a Masters in Cannabis! Soon she was finding other nurses and medical professionals wanted to know the information she had gathered. So Tiffany put together workshops to teach everything she knows and to support medical professionals who are learning about this important plant. In addition to her training course, she also does a train the trainer session for curriculum development and she wrote a book on Medical Cannabis dosing. If you would like to learn more about how this business can get off the ground and what it would take, listen up to what Tiffany has to say. And check her out on her website: tk-so

Damion Jenkins is a nurse educator, who found a special niche in helping nursing students pass the NCLEX. What is interesting is that Damion was just naturally good at helping students, and other faculty members noticed. They began referring him students frequently, because he seemed to have a method that was effective. After a few free tutoring sessions, Damion realized that the only way to continue offering his services was to charge for them. He started The Nurse Speak. Damion came to realize the Nurse Speak was going to be more than just NCLEX review, and it has grown to include speaking engagements, consultations and other services. In this episode, Damion talks about how this business evolved, what it took to get it going and how he is going to start all over in the new city he is moving to very soon. Find out more about Damion and his business TheNurseSpeak.com. Don't Miss Moments --> How Damion fell into his business by accident --> How Damion consistently gets clients --> What Damion would d

Mary Chiesa is a nurse who witnessed a terrible occurrence after a C-section. A baby fell out of his mother's arm as her blood pressure cuff went off. That moment made Mary determined to ask some tough questions such as why is baby not restrained to mom, while she is medicated and strapped to an OR table? As she explored more into the questions she had, Mary started to come up with a solution that even blows her mind to this day. Mary created a baby wrap that she describes as the Seatbelt of Maternity. This wrap serves so many purposes in a variety of different ways, but I'll let Mary tell you all about them in this episode of the NursePreneur Podcast. Don't Miss Moments: --> What the first ice bucket challenge really was --> Why babies need to be restrained to mom after birth --> How to prevent baby drops in the hospital --> What it takes to bring a product to market

Kojo Sarfo is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who decided to take his message to masses. He began his entrepreneurial journey while realizing that his most fulfilling moments were the ones where he was helping others. Kojo started working in the mental health field as a nurse and then as a nurse practitioner. Along the way, he also created a clothing brand, Abrantie & Signora, which is a clothing company dedicated to spreading positivity and mental health awareness for teenagers and college students. He then partnered with Mental Health America to spread awareness about mental health. Kojo continues to bring attention to nursing and mental health through his You Tube channel, through his book, and speaking engagements. Listen in this episode to how he does it all... Don't Miss Moments: --> The meaning behind his clothing line --> How Kojo gets it all done! --> Why Kojo thinks teenagers are the right audience to target --> Where he envisions his business going

Bradley Chesham started out as a sommlier. He was dissatisfied working in the hospitality industry, so he switched to a second career in nursing. His nursing career took him around the world including Afghanistan, Antartica, London and other countries. While in London, he became immersed in how virtual reality was changing the art world, an experience that would later define his next adventure. Once Brad went back to his homeland Australia, he wanted to do something more. He started trying to integrate virtual reality with nursing education. He started with a proof of concept using CXR education to test the waters. This concept quickly took hold as students loved the interactive nature of learning in this immersive type experience. This business idea has taken Brad on an absolute whirlwind around the world teaching schools of nursing how to integrate virtual reality into the curriculum. To learn how to utilize virtual reality in a variety of settings in nursing programs and learn more about Brad’s

Barbara Glickstein is a public health nurse, health reporter and media strategist. She is the founder of Barbara Glickstein Strategies, a training company in media, leadership and advocacy skills. She also produces HealthCetera, a podcast that provides evidence-based health news, analysis and commentary; trains national leaders in healthcare on how to be a media maker in both traditional and digital media to advance the health of the public and public policy and serves on the Board of Project Kesher, a global Jewish feminist women’s advocacy organization. Barbara is the type of nurse who is comfortable pioneering new forefronts in nursing. She decided to create a documentary on nursing in the 1980s, which spurred her love of media, broadcasting and radio. She is a fierce advocate of nurses and allowing them to shine in the media. As Barbara says, the stories of nurses move us forward and elevate the profession. Journalists who use nurses as sources say their news pieces are better, more interesting

Kim Krafft was a clinical educator nurse in a hospital in Southern California when she was approached by a start up in 2015 to help them launch their turning device for patients in the hospital. Dr. Larsen started his campaign to mitigate complications from pressure injury by creating a device that alerts nurses to when tissue is being compromised. The dream of this device started in 2010. It took Dr. Larsen 5 years to get the device FDA approved and to the point where venture capitalists could see the value of the device. In 2015, 5 years later, Kim was hired onto the team to help with the marketing strategy. As with any business, your business is only as good as who you know and the opportunities you can find to get in front of the people who are paying. Kim routinely sat in meetings with CNOs and hospital administrators. In this unique episode, Kim talks about what it was like to be part of start up, what kind of effort was needed to succeed and what her next steps are now that the company was bough

Keith Carlson is an expert career coach with decades of nursing experience. He helps nurses to take their nursing career to the next level. Keith was an early adopter of blogging and podcasting, before they were a thing. Now he is a top go-to person in his niche. He has produced almost 250 podcast episodes and has years and years of blogging that continues to help nurses find their way in the healthcare system and in their careers. How Keith helps his clients is by helping them to identify what’s most important as they create and manifest their own unique life vision. Keith does 1:1 coaching with his clients, hosts private retreats for clients nearby his home in Santa Fe New Mexico and can help nurses optimize their LinkedIn profiles, which is an absolute must in this day and age! In this episode Keith also teaches us how to start a business just by having conversations. Find out more about Keith Carlson on his website: www.NurseKeith.com Don’t Miss: → How Keith’s brother launched his journey into b

Lyn McCright and Teresa Walding started Advancing Holistic Health, a nurse coaching certification program. It’s a global program that spans across 3 continents under the framework of resilience. Lyn states the concept of nurse coaching is vital to our professional existence. The Texas Workforce found that the average length of a nurse career after graduation in the last 5 years is only 18 months! And nurses with more than 20 years of experience are having unprecedented burn out. Advancing Holistic Health seeks to improve self-care for nurses as well as transform care provided to our patients. Their program is a self-paced program that leads nurses through self awareness, insight into resilience, provides CE credit and gives nurses 60 hours of coaching experience, which is what they need to sit for the national boards. To find out more about become a nurse coach, you can check out their website: NurseCoaching.com Don’t Miss Moments: → Stats around where nurse coaches are working → Legal status of nurs

Cat Golden is the owner of Nine Lives Health. She began her NursePreneur journey as a nurses in pediatrics, but found her true passion helping nurses take care of their soul as they so graciously give of themselves to everyone else. Cat is the self proclaimed Nurse whisperer as she feels it is her life’s purpose to embrace her true BEing and inspire others to do the same. She now provides nurses with a centralized community of support and provides structure for their day and mindset. Cat founded the Leap, Land, Live method, which is her signature mentorship program that helps nurses find routine and stability in the chaos of nursing. Her 3 pillars of her business are Mentorship, Community and Offering merchandise to expand the Nurses Inspire Nurses movement. Cat’s community holds monthly meetups around the country. If you want to get involved in one of her meetups, her mentoring or just grab a really cool t-shirt, check out Cat’s website at: www.NineLivesHealth.com Don’t Miss Moments: → How Cat bui

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: → H

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 Nic

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

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 distrib

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 id

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

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/co

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,

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 profitab

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.