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traveling, palliative, home health.
She has done it all. And she became a nurse
practitioner 8 years ago and she is an acute care nurse
practitioner with experience and critical care.
And then she began to create courses like sure.
She writes books that help sell to encourage NPS in their
career. She does worship and just to
completely put the cherry on top, in 2024, she opened up her
own clinic. It's been a long time dream of
hers to work her own clinic on her own business.
And she's got three babies. She's active on YouTube,
Instagram. She's so much fun to watch on
there. We're just so happy to have you
on, Brianna, and just to hear about everything that you were
doing in your career. I don't know how you wear so
many hat, but welcome to the podcast.
Well, thank you so much. I'm so honored to be a part of
your show. One of my favorite things in the
world to do is to talk about our profession because I just think
it's the greatest profession ever.
So I love to share my story and inspire others to hopefully find
their own journey on this. Path I liked in one of your
YouTube videos that I was watching, you were talking about
the nurse practitioner career and how you get kind of brought
down a little bit as far as like your options as a nurse
practitioner from a nurse, But you spin it in a way that's
really positive. And even though, yes, we narrow
our scope by becoming NP's, I love that you're just like,
there's still so many options even though we're narrowed when
we become NP's. Tell us a little bit about your
journey to being an acute care nurse practitioner.
Kind of What inspired you to become a nurse practitioner,
especially in acute care? Well, I mean, I always, so I've
been in, I was a nurse IN2000I graduated and I always was drawn
to like acute care roles. Like my first job was at Grady
in the emergency room Atlanta, which is level 1, crazy
exciting. I love that buzz.
And so I've always been kind of drawn to those type of roles and
I love them. Like medical mystery of finding
a diagnosis. I've just always been fascinated
by that. Since around 2015, my kids were
getting a little older and I was like, OK, what do I want to do?
Like I've, I'm a job hopper. So at that point, I was like, I
think I want to go back to school and like follow this path
towards sort of practicing medicine, but in a different
way. And it has been the most
rewarding thing that I've ever done career wise.
It has changed the trajectory of my life.
So I've been doing that and all in critical care entire, the
entirety of my profession as an MP has been in the ICU, which I
love. But then COVID hit and I was in
a hot spot. You know, I don't need to rehash
all the trauma of that. You guys know it.
I made this Facebook video kind of explaining to the community
why the parking lots were empty and it went viral.
And then I started doing PR work for the hospital and I kind of
discovered that I like being on film.
So I created a YouTube channel, but I didn't want to be talking
about COVID. So like, what is it that people
ask me stuff and it's nurses asking.
I can't even finish rounds. Where'd you go to school?
Like, how'd you choose this? What do you make?
How do you find a job? And so that was just the natural
topic that I segued into and it worked out.
I created a lot of content on that.
And then I kind of segued into talking about interview skills
because that was one of the most requested type of services.
And I did that for a number, about three years.
I did mostly content creation marketing through that
consulting, wrote some books and did some things there and found
that to be very rewarding. I still enjoy that.
But I realized kind of about a year and a half into it, it was
not going to be a money maker. It was not.
It was more of a hobby. It was not going to replace my
full time job. And then I had to really get
deep with what what do I want from this.
I didn't even start this wanting to be a business entrepreneur or
make money. I just started because I enjoyed
it, but with content creation, it can take over your entire
life. You start seeing your world
through the lens of content and that leads to high burnout.
Like I don't know how you keep doing what you're doing.
I mean, I kind of threw in the towel about a year ago on
TikTok. I haven't made a YouTube and
also in about a year because it just if you're not the kind of
person who can set boundaries well between your personal life
and your professional, it can take over your life.
So. I let it do that, and that's why
I segue towards let me do something that's profitable.
And that led me to opening the clinic.
Yeah. And what is your clinic and your
leap into entrepreneurship look like?
So what are you treating? What is your clinic schedule
look like? So I hormones and weight loss.
I'm acute care certified. I am not family so I cannot be
considered a medical home for patients.
So I don't treat hypertension and diabetes.
I send them to a PCP for that, but I narrow my focus and I just
do the specialty work, which is enough in of itself because
hormones are incredibly complex women.
But it is such rewarding work. And I think that when you're
honoring your calling doesn't mean that you have to choose one
thing and do it the rest of your life.
It means honoring the space that you're in in that moment and how
you can give back to the world and how you can create impact.
And for me personally, I was going through perimenopause and
my husband, my my husband was going through his own version of
that andropause and through the painful course of realizing that
nobody wants to treat this in mainstream medicine for a lot of
different reasons, which I will say the rant on that for another
day. Yeah, we eventually found our
way to a private clinic similar to what I'm doing.
And it, it changed his life. And so I saw the power in this.
This is not just like voodoo Wellness medicine.
This is legitimate science that truly has the ability to change
every aspect of your day, your life, your physicality, your
emotionality, everything. So I find it very, very
rewarding work. And it gives me that one, I want
patient interaction that I I wasn't getting as much when I
was spending all my time doing YouTube.
So I like to do a little bit of everything.
Yeah. And this allows me to do that.
So my day-to-day, I mean, I'm pretty busy.
So I still work full time in the hospital.
I'm hoping in the next year that will segue back to just part
time or PRN even Nice. But I'm still doing that and I
will always still worked in hospital.
I'm an ICU girl. I love life and death.
I love that buzz. I'm not ever going to want to
give that up. And I think that's to pay.
I think a lot of people who go into business are frustrated
with their careers and this is my escape plan.
I don't necessarily see it that way.
I see it as an addition to my practice and a different way in
which I can use sort of a a different focus.
It's a different skill set to help people in a different way,
and I love that. So I work my W2.
I go to the ICU three times a week.
I go to clinic most every other day, although not physically.
Some days I'm just doing clinic work from home, just catching up
on charting, putting in orders, that kind of thing.
And it's not full time hours either.
You know, I probably spend about 20 hours a week on my clinic as
it is right now because I am single owner, single worker.
I am it. I am the entire business from
the front end to the back end until it grows to a point that I
can staff, which I will get to eventually.
I'm just not there yet. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey, slow process. But I'm telling you, since the
day I've opened it, first of all, I didn't use any of our
personal finances. I didn't take out a loan.
I used everything from my consulting business to fund the
clinic. And when I started out thinking,
well, OK, I'm not going to start out big, I've got a 250 square
foot clinic. That's all I need.
I don't have a waiting room, have the ability to see one
patient at a time. That's all I need too.
And so I've, I have low overhead and willing to let it just grow
slowly and overtime, most word of mouth, I'm not even doing a
lot of marketing. I'm just letting it grow in
God's time because I know that it will.
And I also have to recognize, and this is what I've learned at
48 years old, you have to compartmentalize.
You cannot do all the things you want to do in life.
So where do you choose to spend your time?
I'm OK with letting this thing grow slowly and allow me to
still have time to work my W, to be with my family and do things
like this because I still love this as well.
It's all about balance. Yeah, exactly.
I love how people talk about work life balance and women, and
you can have it all and you can do it all and you can't.
You've got to just decide. Like, I can choose this and I
can choose that. And these are the most important
things, and these are the things that float to the top of the
priority list. Everything else just falls in
behind that and it just sounds like your your W2 job right now
is the priority and that you're working on this other thing in
the background and you'll just wait and see as it grows what it
grows into and make adjustments in your work life balance at the
other job. As it grows.
And it will always be there. That's the thing that I talk
about all these podcasts with all these nurse practitioner
entrepreneurs. It's just it will always take
you back. You know, your ICU job in the
hospital isn't, it's always there.
So taking this time to diversify your income through the courses
and the digital products that you create.
And also having this little side hustle thing that you've got
working with your own personal business and then having your
full time job. Again, I don't know how you're
doing it all, but it is one of those things where you are just
choosing and, and picking throughout the day of, OK, we're
going to work on this today. We're going to focus our
attention on these different things.
And then when you have your, your W2 job, not on autopilot,
but you kind of do, right? Like, you know what you're doing
there, It's very kind of comfortable.
It's, there's not a whole lot of new things.
It's easier to expand your brain that neuroplasticity towards
learning something new. You know, it's not that much of
a challenge every single day that something's new.
You know what I'm saying? Cuz that can get really
exhausting doing new stuff every single time in that learning
curve that it takes you to come proficient in something.
So I love how you've structured this for sure.
So what are some of the challenges that you've noticed
from working AW2 job to now kind of owning your own business?
What are you seeing are some of the things that you're having to
grow yourself in between these two kind of sectors of your
world when? You go to work for someone else.
It's sort of like just picking back in on the last thing that
you said is that you go to work when you become proficient.
And it does take you a couple of years as an NP, which is why I
think it's, it's a little bit interesting when people become a
new grad NP and go straight into business because like, you have
all of that, right? You're dealing with the clinical
aspect of it as well as the business.
That's a lot. But yes, your, your brain is a
little bit on autopilot. You're getting a paycheck,
you're getting PTO, you're getting your benefits,
everything. When you go into business, you
forfeiting all of that, the protection is gone, which you
can choose based on your mindset to see as incredibly freeing or
incredibly risky and scary. And This is why I think one of
the other questions you, you probably will ask me later is
about, gosh, poof, just gone. I'm gonna have to hit one over
again. OK, sorry.
That's how it goes. That's how it goes.
Same. Girl, mom, brave, you're totally
fine. I was going somewhere with it
and it was really good too one. Question you were gonna
potentially ask me, and this is in regards to breaking and
transitioning to the two sectors of your life.
I think where I was heading with this was, OK, the biggest
challenge in breaking off into a business, OK, when you have the
protection from your W2, from your employer, if your benefits,
your PTO, it's a sure thing. It's guaranteed.
You're set. When you open your own practice
or your own business of any sort, you forfeit that and you
forfeit that protection. And you can choose to view this
as too risky, too scary, not enough stability for my
financial and family needs, and therefore I'm not going to do
it, versus you can see this as this offers me the opportunity
for freedom that I would never have otherwise.
And this goes back to the question of should you open a
business and should you be an entrepreneur or not?
And should everyone do that? No, everyone should not do that
because it depends on who you are as a person.
If it's going to create the amount of stress in your life
that that risk brings in, it's not worth it.
It can affect your marriage, your, your family, your
everything. So you really have to get to the
root of that before you take this kind of adventure.
Yeah. And it's different seasons too,
right? So like if you're maybe a parent
with like little young kids and you know, that might not be the
season for that. It's I feel like women in
particular were seasonal even within the month that you're
talking about hormones, right? Like women's hormones are highs
and lows and ups and flows and they're all the different
nuances. I think sometimes too, it may
not be the right season for that, right?
And so really. You know.
It might be a good season just to kind of work at this job for
a period of time. We are so.
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But what I, what I do find, I do want to challenge and push, push
back on is always be looking for holes and looking for gaps you
can fill even when you are in other jobs.
Because I think just like there's risk with doing the
entrepreneurial role, I think that there's also a lot of risk
with just putting your eggs in one basket and just depending on
your W2, right? And so finding little things
that you could do, even if it's not in nursing.
I mean, I've met so many nurse nurses that have gone into other
fields like real estate, creating products like nursing
products. They're very creative.
So they doodle or they do little things like always be looking
for something that you can fill. Even if you have a solid U2
because I've been fired for my W2.
It like out of the blue like, hey, come into my office.
We're so sorry. We just don't have funding for
you next year. Your job is it in three months
And it's like whoa, like luckily had no children and was not
married. Like nobody was depending on me
when this happened. But like, I can't imagine if I
had a family and these were things that I was dealing with.
And so now with the other things that I've curated and adopted
through just that grind effort of realizing no one's coming to
save me. No one's coming to rescue me.
I need to be able to set up something for myself either.
If you needed to get back on and start Youtubing, you could.
If you needed to get back on TikTok, you could if you needed
to go. These are very viable ways to
make money. I have made them and I am not
special. I have made money for my
Instagram. I've made money through
different things that I'm like, if I would have never tried
this, it would have never been an option.
And so I agree, entrepreneurship is not for everyone.
But do you also have to be a nurse specific entrepreneur?
There's so many things that you could do and you can get your
foot in. And so invest your money wisely
so that you can go part time if you're getting burned out,
Invest your money wisely, look into real estate, invest your
money wisely, figure out what you like and what you enjoy is a
hobby. And maybe you could actually, it
starts to make money around that even if it's not involving
nursing, right? Yeah.
I mean, I think that's a great point.
And it also kind of goes back to like, are you replacing your job
with something else or are you adding to it?
And how much time is that going to take?
But yes, diversifying your funds, even just what you're
getting from your W2, like you talked about, you've got a
little bit in, you know, an S&P got a little bit in a crypto,
you got a little bit in golden. Like it's, it's never good to
put your eggs all in one basket. What happens if the FDIC goes, I
mean, you know, where are you putting your funds, your time,
your energy? And I think it's very, very good
to move things around in different places for sure.
Yeah, I agree. And I love that's what you've
done with your career. I mean, you are doing that right
now in so many ways and so many nurse practitioners need to take
notes because again, you wouldn't put all your out, all
your investment funds in Apple. You wouldn't be like Apple's
hit. That's the only thing.
I'm investing my money and that's it.
Like, no, you're like invested in Amazon two days a week.
I'm invested in Apple three days a week.
And then on the side I'm invested in, I don't know, Figs,
shout out to Figs anytime you want to support us and give us
some scrubs, that'd be great. No, but just, you know, one of
those things where it's like I'm investing in all these different
companies because it's important that it's just not a singular
focus thing that I've got multiple things running so I'm
not just dependent on one source for your income.
And like I said, Rihanna, you're doing an excellent job.
And I know that's hard, but I mean, again, I just keep going
back to you. It's a journey.
You don't do it all in one day. It's the consistency over time.
And then you could grow your intensity.
That's what you just said. You're like Sandra, I'm
consistent. I do this three days a week.
I do this two days a week. And then over time, you're going
to figure out where your intensity is going to go, right?
And your intensity is going to go towards your business as that
begins to grow and take up more time and energy.
And then you will let this, your W2 job be less intense.
And so consistency and intensity are the two things that play
hand in hand as you're growing This so also helps A.
Burnout, right? You get burned out at your W2
because you're like, I'm I'm frustrated by little things.
I'm cranky with my coworkers. OK, we'll cut back on that some
and spend more time in something else that's filling you up in a
different way. I'm definitely a believer and
you can do all the things that you want to do.
Just know your limitations physically, emotionally, for
yourself personally, because you cannot think.
Most of us in healthcare are, we are benevolent people.
We are in paths. We desire to help other people,
oftentimes to the extent of our own health.
And so we have to know our limitations, but use all the
resources available to you to build a beautiful, happy life
for yourself and impact others. And sometimes that does look
like a lot of pivots along the way.
And that's OK. Nobody defines us.
You define your life and your career.
Yeah, I agree. I talk a lot about dials having
different dials and turning up, turning down, turning up,
turning down, and so all the different things.
I think sometimes we just get so focused in on turning up the 1W2
dial and that one job. And another thing that you
describe is the ability to control certain things, right?
Like you go to your W2 job and you know you have really no
control, right? You just go do what you need to
do, take care of your patients and that control of the
day-to-day, the operations, that's somebody else's job,
right? And so there's a freedom in
that, but there's also a constriction in that.
There's freedom and constriction because you can't really change
certain aspects of your job. You can't change your manager.
You can't change your boss. When you go to your
entrepreneurial job, if you're upset with your manager, it's
you. You're upset with yourself.
Right. So that growth that.
You've got to be a different person, you've got to
metamorphosis into somebody different.
So that this thing is successful is such a good growing
experience, but it's also such a good change from being in that
other spot of I'm really restricted here.
I really can't do everything I want to do because it's just,
this is not the nature of this job.
So I think it helps with burnout because it's like that's part of
what is exhausting from burnout is just like, you feel stuck,
right? And then that other job, you
have such freedom that you're like, OK, so if we're stuck,
it's because I'm stuck. And so that's the part you've
got to work on that I think is a really fun challenge.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right. I heard you say that what were
your was what was the mere first steps that you took to get your
entrepreneurial business off the ground?
And you said I use, I didn't even get funding from like a
loan. And I've had nurse practitioners
on here say they've gotten funding.
They took out a second mortgage on their house.
I mean, they are just risking it all.
So how did you get started with, you know, starting your business
and what were some of the first steps you took?
Well. Like it, it happened in waves,
right? You know, I started the YouTube
not intending to have a business and then it segued into a bit.
I just followed the pivots wherever they came to me.
I mean, I, I'm, I'm a believer in fate and things will be the
way they're supposed to be. And so you follow the
opportunities as they come to you.
So when I launched my clinic, I mean, I had the idea to launch
the clinic about two years before I did.
And so the first steps I would say were, OK, let me hone in on
practically, how do I do this? Again, I think I need this much
money. So I started really doubling
down on my consulting business and my YouTube to try and earn
the funds to do that because my partner and I decided that we
were not going to use our personal finances to do this,
which I think was the right decision for us.
For others, it may not be. I tend to be like a like when I
went to NP school, I went to the accelerated program because
like, I'd rather have 18 months of hell than three years of slow
burn. You know that either way, let's
just get it over with. Yeah, I'm a little bit different
when it comes to business because there is more risk
involved with it. I'm OK with going slow and
letting it build over time and as it comes because that allows
me to create, you know, to keep things in those boundaries,
those buckets, so I don't burn out.
So it was slow, painful process, to be honest.
It started with the funding. And then once I kind of was
building the funding, I was doing a lot of education.
Oh my gosh. I believe in the power of
finding mentors, paying them for their courses and their time
because learn from the failures and the successes of other
people and literally just copy everything they're doing.
They've already done it. They've already built a
successful practice. You trying to reinvent the wheel
so. What?
Course. Did you take?
I took a lot of the elite NP courses.
Anybody who's interested in entrepreneur, you are going to
know this man Justin Allen has changed the face of modern
medicine in regards to NPS and practice owners.
He was on the podcast last week. Yeah, he's amazing, absolutely
amazing. And that's when I first
realized, OK, here's somebody who's being transparent about
his process, which nobody had done to that point, and had the
vulnerability to share all of this with us.
And now there's so many others who are sharing this too, you
know? So I took a lot from him.
I took a lot of courses. Hormones are very, very
complicated. I took a lot of courses to
develop my education over time. I wanted to be able to provide
the best practice, the safest practice possible because I
think when you lead with value, with safety, with expertise,
people see that and they share it amongst the communities was
priority number one for me. I did that slowly over time and
then things just fell into place.
Yeah, yeah, consistency and intensity are the two things I
just keep coming back to. It's going to take time.
You have to be consistent, but that's growing the resiliency in
you, right? And that's what you're saying.
Like I've, I'm just going to keep going.
It's arduous, it's hard, but you have to keep going.
And it's through the consistency and the struggle that it builds
you up as a person and you appreciate the journey and where
you get to at the end. A lot of people see the end and
they just think, oh, Sandra has this podcast and she's making
money from this and that. And it's like, no, man, this is
me giving up Saturdays where I could be doing other things.
I could be sitting on the couch doing nothing.
And it means that I am changing who I am to be this person.
And so it's the same journey for you as you are pursuing that.
I think nurse practitioners need to see more MP's that are like,
girl, it's a grind. That's exactly what this is.
I'm in it for the long game. I'm not in it to, you know, to
be done or I'm not in it just to get to some spot.
Like I'm in it for it to change who I am.
And that's an incredible, I think, experience and journey.
And it's one of the things that you look back on your life on
and you think like, wow, I can't believe I did that.
Like I can't believe that I just took that risk or I took that
time or I invested that. And that's what this has grown
into. I think that's really neat.
How do you regulate your your nervous system after a day like
that? Or do you find that your job,
your entrepreneurial space, allows you that kind of
different rhythm that allows your nervous system to come
back? I feel like it would just be
incredibly exhausting to do that job.
I think it comes down to understanding yourself and what
your personal triggers are. Mine is the decision fatigue.
So recognizing that if I've done it all day long and I come home
and I have to make another decision, it's going to be a
problem. So you got to get to the root of
like what you're capable of handling and what it is that's
going to send you over the edge. And again, like establishing
those boundaries and the ability to self regulate, performing the
self-care that you need in order to handle those problems.
I'm very converted, so I handle the decision fatigue, but I'm
not making any more decisions for half hour.
When I get home, I'm taking a shower, taking a shower, and I'm
washing off all the trauma, emotional and physical, and then
I can make a decision for you. Yeah, that's really good.
That representation of like getting into the shower and
literally washing off the day is something that I've heard a lot
of nurses say 1. Because you feel like you're
covered in germs. So let's just go.
There, but then two. It's just that moment.
Like I feel the same when I come home from work.
Like I tell my husband, like it's important for me to go or
like take care of myself even for just 30 minutes of just a
hot shower, just being like, get up, get up, get up, wake up, get
into this other role that you've got to get into as like mom,
you've been gone for the day. And so you've got to step back
into that, that second role of caregiving.
And again, like you said, This is why this job can be really
exhausting for especially women in this caregiving role that
we're in where we're just giving and giving and giving.
You feel like you don't really have a way to fill yourself up
and it's really easy to get empty.
I want to hear kind of about your future goals for your
business and kind of your career.
Any projects? You have on the.
Horizon for where you are going, or are you just going to keep
the pots burning that you've got right now and just keep going
with what you're doing? Yeah, that's exactly it.
That's the season I'm in right now of letting things grow
naturally the way it is. I do intend to kind of double
down on the clinic here soon, probably summer.
I'm going to put more of my energy and focus into that and
growing that. I'm looking at staffing it.
I've got to do some numbers, but that's kind of my focus.
But I also, I'm still open to whatever the universe brings my
way. I mean, this opportunity for
the, the podcast came across my desk.
I was like, absolutely, I'd love to do that.
That's a side of me I haven't expressed in a creative way in a
while. And I welcome you because I'd
love to talk about this stuff and inspire others.
So it's whatever comes my way. I am not looking to build
anything else right now. And I'm trying to focus on what
I got and just make it all keep going forward and, and creating
that perfect balance of life and enjoying life and, and making
impact on the world. Yeah.
What would you give to another nurse practitioner that's maybe
she's an acute care MP and she's like, how do I get started?
What what, what do you think I should do?
What advice would you give her that you feel like this is solid
piece to take to the bank? I think it comes back to being
open, being open to pivoting in your career and in all the
different ways that you could see it going forward and what
opportunities come your way. Yeah.
Yeah, no, I, I think that's great advice because I think you
get really focused in on something as an MP and you kind
of like hunker down and you don't see much else.
Like you get blinders on like the horse.
That has the. Blinders.
They're just focusing on this. And so I love that.
Advice to just over time, just really keep remembering and
reminding yourself that I need to be looking around.
I need to be figuring out where what gaps need to be filled at
this job that nobody's filling that I could go fill with my
skills or what is it that I enjoy doing outside of this
place that I need to go do Because if I don't, I'm just
going to get super burned out from all this.
Be open and be aware of the fact that there are options all
around you and don't get so focused on on, I'm just going to
do this. Get proficient, spend your time,
but then start to kind of see what else is available.
I think that's really good advice.
Thank you so much, Brianna, for coming onto the podcast today
and sharing your journey with my listeners.
Where could they find you? Where can they check you out get
your mentorship things I know you're super into like helping
people prepare for interviews and getting into a secure jobs.
So how is it like? Where can they find you?
Where can they? Where can they reach out to you?
Thank you so much for. Having me, all that you do for
the NP profession, it just means the world to everybody out
there. So I speak on behalf of them.
You can find me at brenp.com, that's Breen p.com.
All of my offerings and my socials you can watch from.
There So for the success NP quote of the day, try to become
a man of success. Try not to become a man of
success, but rather to become a man of value.
Albert Einstein, That just goes back to what we were talking
about. Looking for gaps, looking for
things that you can do that you could add value to those around
you is pivotal in your career. And we have a rapid fire
portion. It's super quick, 3 seconds,
three questions. Are you ready, Bree?
Yes, let's do it. Bree is nothing.
I want to give you a rapid fire. What is one book you would give
to somebody that you're like, This is the book.
What book would you give? Not going to a job interview?
Do not go to a job interview unless you have read this cover
to cover. This is your secret path to
winning. That job changed my life.
OK, perfect. Second question.
What was your very first job ever?
Bree, you do everything. You are a serial job hopper, but
this was my very first job. You never forget your first.
What was it? I was an ER trauma nurse at
Grady at a level 1. I was 22 years old in the world
just opened up for me in so many ways that's.
Cool. That's a great first job and
then 3rd question, if you had to pick someone to play you on TV,
who would she be? Right now I'm super obsessed
with Mel Robbins, so I feel like even though she's not an
actress, she should be me. I see it.
You actually kind of like she's like an older version of you.
Like I see it. I love it.
Well, again, Brie, thank you for coming on the podcast, guys.
We'll have all her information in the show Nuts.
Just check her out, reach out to her, get into her mentorship if
you need it. Check out her business if you're
interested. It's so good to meet you.
So much fun. Thank you so much for your time
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