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This week we are joined by 33 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:52,120 Brianna Jiskowiak. She is an NP with W2 experience 34 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:55,000 and critical care, spending time as a registered nurse in the ER, 35 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:57,240 traveling, palliative, home health. 36 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:00,000 She has done it all. And she became a nurse 37 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,240 practitioner 8 years ago and she is an acute care nurse 38 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,400 practitioner with experience and critical care. 39 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:08,680 And then she began to create courses like sure. 40 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,360 She writes books that help sell to encourage NPS in their 41 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:15,320 career. She does worship and just to 42 00:02:15,640 --> 00:02:18,720 completely put the cherry on top, in 2024, she opened up her 43 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,400 own clinic. It's been a long time dream of 44 00:02:21,400 --> 00:02:24,800 hers to work her own clinic on her own business. 45 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,120 And she's got three babies. She's active on YouTube, 46 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,240 Instagram. She's so much fun to watch on 47 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:31,800 there. We're just so happy to have you 48 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:34,400 on, Brianna, and just to hear about everything that you were 49 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,840 doing in your career. I don't know how you wear so 50 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:38,640 many hat, but welcome to the podcast. 51 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:40,760 Well, thank you so much. I'm so honored to be a part of 52 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,600 your show. One of my favorite things in the 53 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:44,960 world to do is to talk about our profession because I just think 54 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:46,240 it's the greatest profession ever. 55 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:50,760 So I love to share my story and inspire others to hopefully find 56 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:53,400 their own journey on this. Path I liked in one of your 57 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:55,560 YouTube videos that I was watching, you were talking about 58 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:59,520 the nurse practitioner career and how you get kind of brought 59 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,120 down a little bit as far as like your options as a nurse 60 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,720 practitioner from a nurse, But you spin it in a way that's 61 00:03:04,720 --> 00:03:08,320 really positive. And even though, yes, we narrow 62 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:11,800 our scope by becoming NP's, I love that you're just like, 63 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:14,640 there's still so many options even though we're narrowed when 64 00:03:14,640 --> 00:03:17,000 we become NP's. Tell us a little bit about your 65 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:19,480 journey to being an acute care nurse practitioner. 66 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,120 Kind of What inspired you to become a nurse practitioner, 67 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:25,240 especially in acute care? Well, I mean, I always, so I've 68 00:03:25,240 --> 00:03:28,680 been in, I was a nurse IN2000I graduated and I always was drawn 69 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,400 to like acute care roles. Like my first job was at Grady 70 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:33,880 in the emergency room Atlanta, which is level 1, crazy 71 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:35,680 exciting. I love that buzz. 72 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:39,040 And so I've always been kind of drawn to those type of roles and 73 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:42,200 I love them. Like medical mystery of finding 74 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:44,040 a diagnosis. I've just always been fascinated 75 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:46,800 by that. Since around 2015, my kids were 76 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,880 getting a little older and I was like, OK, what do I want to do? 77 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:52,560 Like I've, I'm a job hopper. So at that point, I was like, I 78 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:55,320 think I want to go back to school and like follow this path 79 00:03:55,320 --> 00:03:57,840 towards sort of practicing medicine, but in a different 80 00:03:57,840 --> 00:03:59,600 way. And it has been the most 81 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,080 rewarding thing that I've ever done career wise. 82 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:04,000 It has changed the trajectory of my life. 83 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,920 So I've been doing that and all in critical care entire, the 84 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,960 entirety of my profession as an MP has been in the ICU, which I 85 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:13,280 love. But then COVID hit and I was in 86 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,280 a hot spot. You know, I don't need to rehash 87 00:04:15,280 --> 00:04:17,160 all the trauma of that. You guys know it. 88 00:04:17,399 --> 00:04:20,800 I made this Facebook video kind of explaining to the community 89 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,920 why the parking lots were empty and it went viral. 90 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,760 And then I started doing PR work for the hospital and I kind of 91 00:04:26,760 --> 00:04:28,600 discovered that I like being on film. 92 00:04:28,680 --> 00:04:31,400 So I created a YouTube channel, but I didn't want to be talking 93 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:33,760 about COVID. So like, what is it that people 94 00:04:33,760 --> 00:04:36,360 ask me stuff and it's nurses asking. 95 00:04:36,400 --> 00:04:38,240 I can't even finish rounds. Where'd you go to school? 96 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,680 Like, how'd you choose this? What do you make? 97 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,000 How do you find a job? And so that was just the natural 98 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,040 topic that I segued into and it worked out. 99 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:48,840 I created a lot of content on that. 100 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:51,440 And then I kind of segued into talking about interview skills 101 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:54,480 because that was one of the most requested type of services. 102 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:56,600 And I did that for a number, about three years. 103 00:04:56,600 --> 00:05:00,120 I did mostly content creation marketing through that 104 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:03,560 consulting, wrote some books and did some things there and found 105 00:05:03,560 --> 00:05:05,760 that to be very rewarding. I still enjoy that. 106 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,680 But I realized kind of about a year and a half into it, it was 107 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:10,960 not going to be a money maker. It was not. 108 00:05:10,960 --> 00:05:13,560 It was more of a hobby. It was not going to replace my 109 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:15,120 full time job. And then I had to really get 110 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,160 deep with what what do I want from this. 111 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:20,640 I didn't even start this wanting to be a business entrepreneur or 112 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:22,480 make money. I just started because I enjoyed 113 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,600 it, but with content creation, it can take over your entire 114 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:27,400 life. You start seeing your world 115 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:30,600 through the lens of content and that leads to high burnout. 116 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,440 Like I don't know how you keep doing what you're doing. 117 00:05:33,440 --> 00:05:35,800 I mean, I kind of threw in the towel about a year ago on 118 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:37,520 TikTok. I haven't made a YouTube and 119 00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:40,360 also in about a year because it just if you're not the kind of 120 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:43,240 person who can set boundaries well between your personal life 121 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:45,400 and your professional, it can take over your life. 122 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:48,600 So. I let it do that, and that's why 123 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,120 I segue towards let me do something that's profitable. 124 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:52,720 And that led me to opening the clinic. 125 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:54,800 Yeah. And what is your clinic and your 126 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:56,760 leap into entrepreneurship look like? 127 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,320 So what are you treating? What is your clinic schedule 128 00:05:59,320 --> 00:06:02,840 look like? So I hormones and weight loss. 129 00:06:02,880 --> 00:06:06,120 I'm acute care certified. I am not family so I cannot be 130 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:08,120 considered a medical home for patients. 131 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,200 So I don't treat hypertension and diabetes. 132 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:13,920 I send them to a PCP for that, but I narrow my focus and I just 133 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:17,040 do the specialty work, which is enough in of itself because 134 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:19,800 hormones are incredibly complex women. 135 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:23,160 But it is such rewarding work. And I think that when you're 136 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:25,360 honoring your calling doesn't mean that you have to choose one 137 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:26,600 thing and do it the rest of your life. 138 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:29,880 It means honoring the space that you're in in that moment and how 139 00:06:29,880 --> 00:06:32,320 you can give back to the world and how you can create impact. 140 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:35,560 And for me personally, I was going through perimenopause and 141 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,000 my husband, my my husband was going through his own version of 142 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,640 that andropause and through the painful course of realizing that 143 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,840 nobody wants to treat this in mainstream medicine for a lot of 144 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:48,320 different reasons, which I will say the rant on that for another 145 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:50,160 day. Yeah, we eventually found our 146 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:52,720 way to a private clinic similar to what I'm doing. 147 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:55,840 And it, it changed his life. And so I saw the power in this. 148 00:06:55,840 --> 00:06:59,000 This is not just like voodoo Wellness medicine. 149 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:02,880 This is legitimate science that truly has the ability to change 150 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 every aspect of your day, your life, your physicality, your 151 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,560 emotionality, everything. So I find it very, very 152 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:10,920 rewarding work. And it gives me that one, I want 153 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:13,320 patient interaction that I I wasn't getting as much when I 154 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:15,000 was spending all my time doing YouTube. 155 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:17,280 So I like to do a little bit of everything. 156 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:19,480 Yeah. And this allows me to do that. 157 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:21,520 So my day-to-day, I mean, I'm pretty busy. 158 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,440 So I still work full time in the hospital. 159 00:07:23,440 --> 00:07:26,360 I'm hoping in the next year that will segue back to just part 160 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:29,880 time or PRN even Nice. But I'm still doing that and I 161 00:07:29,880 --> 00:07:32,480 will always still worked in hospital. 162 00:07:32,480 --> 00:07:35,040 I'm an ICU girl. I love life and death. 163 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,400 I love that buzz. I'm not ever going to want to 164 00:07:37,400 --> 00:07:39,520 give that up. And I think that's to pay. 165 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,120 I think a lot of people who go into business are frustrated 166 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:44,840 with their careers and this is my escape plan. 167 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:46,920 I don't necessarily see it that way. 168 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:50,600 I see it as an addition to my practice and a different way in 169 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:53,040 which I can use sort of a a different focus. 170 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:56,000 It's a different skill set to help people in a different way, 171 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:58,440 and I love that. So I work my W2. 172 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:00,600 I go to the ICU three times a week. 173 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:04,600 I go to clinic most every other day, although not physically. 174 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,360 Some days I'm just doing clinic work from home, just catching up 175 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,160 on charting, putting in orders, that kind of thing. 176 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:11,520 And it's not full time hours either. 177 00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:15,320 You know, I probably spend about 20 hours a week on my clinic as 178 00:08:15,320 --> 00:08:18,560 it is right now because I am single owner, single worker. 179 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:20,160 I am it. I am the entire business from 180 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,880 the front end to the back end until it grows to a point that I 181 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,560 can staff, which I will get to eventually. 182 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:27,720 I'm just not there yet. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 183 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:30,320 Hey, slow process. But I'm telling you, since the 184 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:32,919 day I've opened it, first of all, I didn't use any of our 185 00:08:32,919 --> 00:08:34,760 personal finances. I didn't take out a loan. 186 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,880 I used everything from my consulting business to fund the 187 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:40,280 clinic. And when I started out thinking, 188 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:43,120 well, OK, I'm not going to start out big, I've got a 250 square 189 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:44,920 foot clinic. That's all I need. 190 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:46,880 I don't have a waiting room, have the ability to see one 191 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:49,000 patient at a time. That's all I need too. 192 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:53,480 And so I've, I have low overhead and willing to let it just grow 193 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:56,680 slowly and overtime, most word of mouth, I'm not even doing a 194 00:08:56,680 --> 00:08:59,280 lot of marketing. I'm just letting it grow in 195 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:01,120 God's time because I know that it will. 196 00:09:01,400 --> 00:09:04,080 And I also have to recognize, and this is what I've learned at 197 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:06,560 48 years old, you have to compartmentalize. 198 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:08,680 You cannot do all the things you want to do in life. 199 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:10,720 So where do you choose to spend your time? 200 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:13,320 I'm OK with letting this thing grow slowly and allow me to 201 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,560 still have time to work my W, to be with my family and do things 202 00:09:17,560 --> 00:09:19,240 like this because I still love this as well. 203 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,200 It's all about balance. Yeah, exactly. 204 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,520 I love how people talk about work life balance and women, and 205 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:27,480 you can have it all and you can do it all and you can't. 206 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:30,520 You've got to just decide. Like, I can choose this and I 207 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,760 can choose that. And these are the most important 208 00:09:32,760 --> 00:09:34,760 things, and these are the things that float to the top of the 209 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:36,640 priority list. Everything else just falls in 210 00:09:36,640 --> 00:09:40,600 behind that and it just sounds like your your W2 job right now 211 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:44,480 is the priority and that you're working on this other thing in 212 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,320 the background and you'll just wait and see as it grows what it 213 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,200 grows into and make adjustments in your work life balance at the 214 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,360 other job. As it grows. 215 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:56,640 And it will always be there. That's the thing that I talk 216 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:58,960 about all these podcasts with all these nurse practitioner 217 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:01,760 entrepreneurs. It's just it will always take 218 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:03,760 you back. You know, your ICU job in the 219 00:10:03,760 --> 00:10:06,280 hospital isn't, it's always there. 220 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:10,480 So taking this time to diversify your income through the courses 221 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:12,160 and the digital products that you create. 222 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:15,200 And also having this little side hustle thing that you've got 223 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,080 working with your own personal business and then having your 224 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,240 full time job. Again, I don't know how you're 225 00:10:21,240 --> 00:10:24,000 doing it all, but it is one of those things where you are just 226 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,720 choosing and, and picking throughout the day of, OK, we're 227 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:28,280 going to work on this today. We're going to focus our 228 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:29,520 attention on these different things. 229 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:33,720 And then when you have your, your W2 job, not on autopilot, 230 00:10:33,720 --> 00:10:36,480 but you kind of do, right? Like, you know what you're doing 231 00:10:36,480 --> 00:10:38,600 there, It's very kind of comfortable. 232 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:40,840 It's, there's not a whole lot of new things. 233 00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,000 It's easier to expand your brain that neuroplasticity towards 234 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:47,240 learning something new. You know, it's not that much of 235 00:10:47,240 --> 00:10:50,280 a challenge every single day that something's new. 236 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:51,880 You know what I'm saying? Cuz that can get really 237 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,120 exhausting doing new stuff every single time in that learning 238 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,440 curve that it takes you to come proficient in something. 239 00:10:57,760 --> 00:10:59,840 So I love how you've structured this for sure. 240 00:10:59,920 --> 00:11:02,120 So what are some of the challenges that you've noticed 241 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:06,480 from working AW2 job to now kind of owning your own business? 242 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:08,640 What are you seeing are some of the things that you're having to 243 00:11:08,640 --> 00:11:12,120 grow yourself in between these two kind of sectors of your 244 00:11:12,120 --> 00:11:13,760 world when? You go to work for someone else. 245 00:11:13,760 --> 00:11:15,920 It's sort of like just picking back in on the last thing that 246 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:18,560 you said is that you go to work when you become proficient. 247 00:11:18,560 --> 00:11:21,160 And it does take you a couple of years as an NP, which is why I 248 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,760 think it's, it's a little bit interesting when people become a 249 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:27,040 new grad NP and go straight into business because like, you have 250 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:28,680 all of that, right? You're dealing with the clinical 251 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:30,680 aspect of it as well as the business. 252 00:11:30,680 --> 00:11:33,120 That's a lot. But yes, your, your brain is a 253 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:34,640 little bit on autopilot. You're getting a paycheck, 254 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:36,920 you're getting PTO, you're getting your benefits, 255 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:39,440 everything. When you go into business, you 256 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,320 forfeiting all of that, the protection is gone, which you 257 00:11:42,320 --> 00:11:46,600 can choose based on your mindset to see as incredibly freeing or 258 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,800 incredibly risky and scary. And This is why I think one of 259 00:11:49,800 --> 00:11:52,720 the other questions you, you probably will ask me later is 260 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:55,680 about, gosh, poof, just gone. I'm gonna have to hit one over 261 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:56,920 again. OK, sorry. 262 00:11:57,040 --> 00:11:58,760 That's how it goes. That's how it goes. 263 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:00,960 Same. Girl, mom, brave, you're totally 264 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:02,760 fine. I was going somewhere with it 265 00:12:02,760 --> 00:12:05,440 and it was really good too one. Question you were gonna 266 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:09,280 potentially ask me, and this is in regards to breaking and 267 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:11,160 transitioning to the two sectors of your life. 268 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:14,120 I think where I was heading with this was, OK, the biggest 269 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,440 challenge in breaking off into a business, OK, when you have the 270 00:12:17,440 --> 00:12:20,600 protection from your W2, from your employer, if your benefits, 271 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:22,920 your PTO, it's a sure thing. It's guaranteed. 272 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:25,640 You're set. When you open your own practice 273 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,680 or your own business of any sort, you forfeit that and you 274 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,640 forfeit that protection. And you can choose to view this 275 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:36,200 as too risky, too scary, not enough stability for my 276 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:38,760 financial and family needs, and therefore I'm not going to do 277 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:42,960 it, versus you can see this as this offers me the opportunity 278 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:44,880 for freedom that I would never have otherwise. 279 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,760 And this goes back to the question of should you open a 280 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:49,480 business and should you be an entrepreneur or not? 281 00:12:49,480 --> 00:12:52,080 And should everyone do that? No, everyone should not do that 282 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,120 because it depends on who you are as a person. 283 00:12:54,320 --> 00:12:56,840 If it's going to create the amount of stress in your life 284 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:00,400 that that risk brings in, it's not worth it. 285 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,840 It can affect your marriage, your, your family, your 286 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,200 everything. So you really have to get to the 287 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:07,960 root of that before you take this kind of adventure. 288 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:10,160 Yeah. And it's different seasons too, 289 00:13:10,160 --> 00:13:12,560 right? So like if you're maybe a parent 290 00:13:12,560 --> 00:13:15,640 with like little young kids and you know, that might not be the 291 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:18,040 season for that. It's I feel like women in 292 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:21,200 particular were seasonal even within the month that you're 293 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,680 talking about hormones, right? Like women's hormones are highs 294 00:13:24,680 --> 00:13:27,160 and lows and ups and flows and they're all the different 295 00:13:27,320 --> 00:13:30,040 nuances. I think sometimes too, it may 296 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:31,920 not be the right season for that, right? 297 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:33,640 And so really. You know. 298 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,080 It might be a good season just to kind of work at this job for 299 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:38,480 a period of time. We are so. 300 00:13:38,480 --> 00:13:41,680 Excited to announce the newest sponsor of the Success NP 301 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:45,520 podcast, Picmonic is a. Quick and effective aid to. 302 00:13:45,520 --> 00:13:50,080 Help you pass your NP boards. 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Check them out today if you're 316 00:14:34,280 --> 00:14:36,960 preparing for board link in the show notes. 317 00:14:38,280 --> 00:14:41,320 But what I, what I do find, I do want to challenge and push, push 318 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,800 back on is always be looking for holes and looking for gaps you 319 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:49,600 can fill even when you are in other jobs. 320 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,520 Because I think just like there's risk with doing the 321 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,640 entrepreneurial role, I think that there's also a lot of risk 322 00:14:57,640 --> 00:15:00,720 with just putting your eggs in one basket and just depending on 323 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:03,680 your W2, right? And so finding little things 324 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:06,120 that you could do, even if it's not in nursing. 325 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,520 I mean, I've met so many nurse nurses that have gone into other 326 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:15,600 fields like real estate, creating products like nursing 327 00:15:15,600 --> 00:15:17,040 products. They're very creative. 328 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:20,400 So they doodle or they do little things like always be looking 329 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,640 for something that you can fill. Even if you have a solid U2 330 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:26,840 because I've been fired for my W2. 331 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:30,160 It like out of the blue like, hey, come into my office. 332 00:15:30,160 --> 00:15:32,040 We're so sorry. We just don't have funding for 333 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:34,400 you next year. Your job is it in three months 334 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:38,560 And it's like whoa, like luckily had no children and was not 335 00:15:38,560 --> 00:15:40,000 married. Like nobody was depending on me 336 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,400 when this happened. But like, I can't imagine if I 337 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:44,480 had a family and these were things that I was dealing with. 338 00:15:44,480 --> 00:15:48,960 And so now with the other things that I've curated and adopted 339 00:15:48,960 --> 00:15:53,120 through just that grind effort of realizing no one's coming to 340 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,320 save me. No one's coming to rescue me. 341 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,280 I need to be able to set up something for myself either. 342 00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:00,680 If you needed to get back on and start Youtubing, you could. 343 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:03,440 If you needed to get back on TikTok, you could if you needed 344 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:05,840 to go. These are very viable ways to 345 00:16:05,840 --> 00:16:07,680 make money. I have made them and I am not 346 00:16:07,680 --> 00:16:09,280 special. I have made money for my 347 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:11,400 Instagram. I've made money through 348 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,160 different things that I'm like, if I would have never tried 349 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:16,080 this, it would have never been an option. 350 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:20,840 And so I agree, entrepreneurship is not for everyone. 351 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:24,400 But do you also have to be a nurse specific entrepreneur? 352 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:27,120 There's so many things that you could do and you can get your 353 00:16:27,120 --> 00:16:29,800 foot in. And so invest your money wisely 354 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:32,240 so that you can go part time if you're getting burned out, 355 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,120 Invest your money wisely, look into real estate, invest your 356 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:38,320 money wisely, figure out what you like and what you enjoy is a 357 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,320 hobby. And maybe you could actually, it 358 00:16:40,320 --> 00:16:43,840 starts to make money around that even if it's not involving 359 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,280 nursing, right? Yeah. 360 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:46,640 I mean, I think that's a great point. 361 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,720 And it also kind of goes back to like, are you replacing your job 362 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,640 with something else or are you adding to it? 363 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:53,120 And how much time is that going to take? 364 00:16:53,120 --> 00:16:56,200 But yes, diversifying your funds, even just what you're 365 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,200 getting from your W2, like you talked about, you've got a 366 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,400 little bit in, you know, an S&P got a little bit in a crypto, 367 00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:03,600 you got a little bit in golden. Like it's, it's never good to 368 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:07,319 put your eggs all in one basket. What happens if the FDIC goes, I 369 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:10,160 mean, you know, where are you putting your funds, your time, 370 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,160 your energy? And I think it's very, very good 371 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,440 to move things around in different places for sure. 372 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,280 Yeah, I agree. And I love that's what you've 373 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:18,760 done with your career. I mean, you are doing that right 374 00:17:18,760 --> 00:17:21,839 now in so many ways and so many nurse practitioners need to take 375 00:17:21,839 --> 00:17:25,720 notes because again, you wouldn't put all your out, all 376 00:17:25,720 --> 00:17:28,160 your investment funds in Apple. You wouldn't be like Apple's 377 00:17:28,160 --> 00:17:28,880 hit. That's the only thing. 378 00:17:28,880 --> 00:17:30,280 I'm investing my money and that's it. 379 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,400 Like, no, you're like invested in Amazon two days a week. 380 00:17:33,400 --> 00:17:35,960 I'm invested in Apple three days a week. 381 00:17:36,120 --> 00:17:39,440 And then on the side I'm invested in, I don't know, Figs, 382 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:41,880 shout out to Figs anytime you want to support us and give us 383 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:44,880 some scrubs, that'd be great. No, but just, you know, one of 384 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:46,960 those things where it's like I'm investing in all these different 385 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,000 companies because it's important that it's just not a singular 386 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,000 focus thing that I've got multiple things running so I'm 387 00:17:53,000 --> 00:17:55,960 not just dependent on one source for your income. 388 00:17:56,280 --> 00:17:59,400 And like I said, Rihanna, you're doing an excellent job. 389 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,840 And I know that's hard, but I mean, again, I just keep going 390 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:04,160 back to you. It's a journey. 391 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:07,640 You don't do it all in one day. It's the consistency over time. 392 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:10,080 And then you could grow your intensity. 393 00:18:10,120 --> 00:18:11,720 That's what you just said. You're like Sandra, I'm 394 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:13,760 consistent. I do this three days a week. 395 00:18:13,920 --> 00:18:17,120 I do this two days a week. And then over time, you're going 396 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:20,320 to figure out where your intensity is going to go, right? 397 00:18:20,560 --> 00:18:23,480 And your intensity is going to go towards your business as that 398 00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,160 begins to grow and take up more time and energy. 399 00:18:26,360 --> 00:18:29,920 And then you will let this, your W2 job be less intense. 400 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:34,320 And so consistency and intensity are the two things that play 401 00:18:34,320 --> 00:18:37,240 hand in hand as you're growing This so also helps A. 402 00:18:37,240 --> 00:18:39,800 Burnout, right? You get burned out at your W2 403 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,160 because you're like, I'm I'm frustrated by little things. 404 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,400 I'm cranky with my coworkers. OK, we'll cut back on that some 405 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:47,680 and spend more time in something else that's filling you up in a 406 00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:49,920 different way. I'm definitely a believer and 407 00:18:49,920 --> 00:18:52,040 you can do all the things that you want to do. 408 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:55,680 Just know your limitations physically, emotionally, for 409 00:18:55,680 --> 00:18:57,720 yourself personally, because you cannot think. 410 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,120 Most of us in healthcare are, we are benevolent people. 411 00:19:00,120 --> 00:19:03,240 We are in paths. We desire to help other people, 412 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:06,200 oftentimes to the extent of our own health. 413 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,560 And so we have to know our limitations, but use all the 414 00:19:09,560 --> 00:19:12,160 resources available to you to build a beautiful, happy life 415 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:15,000 for yourself and impact others. And sometimes that does look 416 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:16,360 like a lot of pivots along the way. 417 00:19:16,360 --> 00:19:18,000 And that's OK. Nobody defines us. 418 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:19,320 You define your life and your career. 419 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,120 Yeah, I agree. I talk a lot about dials having 420 00:19:22,120 --> 00:19:25,320 different dials and turning up, turning down, turning up, 421 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,520 turning down, and so all the different things. 422 00:19:27,760 --> 00:19:30,960 I think sometimes we just get so focused in on turning up the 1W2 423 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:33,480 dial and that one job. And another thing that you 424 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:35,960 describe is the ability to control certain things, right? 425 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:39,120 Like you go to your W2 job and you know you have really no 426 00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:41,400 control, right? You just go do what you need to 427 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:44,520 do, take care of your patients and that control of the 428 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:47,440 day-to-day, the operations, that's somebody else's job, 429 00:19:47,440 --> 00:19:50,000 right? And so there's a freedom in 430 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:52,200 that, but there's also a constriction in that. 431 00:19:52,280 --> 00:19:55,640 There's freedom and constriction because you can't really change 432 00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:58,240 certain aspects of your job. You can't change your manager. 433 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,240 You can't change your boss. When you go to your 434 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:03,200 entrepreneurial job, if you're upset with your manager, it's 435 00:20:03,200 --> 00:20:04,840 you. You're upset with yourself. 436 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,600 Right. So that growth that. 437 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:10,960 You've got to be a different person, you've got to 438 00:20:10,960 --> 00:20:13,400 metamorphosis into somebody different. 439 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:17,360 So that this thing is successful is such a good growing 440 00:20:17,360 --> 00:20:21,240 experience, but it's also such a good change from being in that 441 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,720 other spot of I'm really restricted here. 442 00:20:23,720 --> 00:20:26,600 I really can't do everything I want to do because it's just, 443 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,440 this is not the nature of this job. 444 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,280 So I think it helps with burnout because it's like that's part of 445 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,840 what is exhausting from burnout is just like, you feel stuck, 446 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:36,800 right? And then that other job, you 447 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:40,120 have such freedom that you're like, OK, so if we're stuck, 448 00:20:40,120 --> 00:20:43,040 it's because I'm stuck. And so that's the part you've 449 00:20:43,040 --> 00:20:45,400 got to work on that I think is a really fun challenge. 450 00:20:45,480 --> 00:20:46,240 Yeah. Yeah. 451 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:48,280 All right. I heard you say that what were 452 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:51,800 your was what was the mere first steps that you took to get your 453 00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:53,840 entrepreneurial business off the ground? 454 00:20:54,120 --> 00:20:57,440 And you said I use, I didn't even get funding from like a 455 00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:59,200 loan. And I've had nurse practitioners 456 00:20:59,200 --> 00:21:00,800 on here say they've gotten funding. 457 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,560 They took out a second mortgage on their house. 458 00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:04,920 I mean, they are just risking it all. 459 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:08,720 So how did you get started with, you know, starting your business 460 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:10,640 and what were some of the first steps you took? 461 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:13,000 Well. Like it, it happened in waves, 462 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:14,320 right? You know, I started the YouTube 463 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,240 not intending to have a business and then it segued into a bit. 464 00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:20,520 I just followed the pivots wherever they came to me. 465 00:21:20,520 --> 00:21:23,320 I mean, I, I'm, I'm a believer in fate and things will be the 466 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:25,680 way they're supposed to be. And so you follow the 467 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:26,920 opportunities as they come to you. 468 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,880 So when I launched my clinic, I mean, I had the idea to launch 469 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,000 the clinic about two years before I did. 470 00:21:33,120 --> 00:21:36,600 And so the first steps I would say were, OK, let me hone in on 471 00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:39,240 practically, how do I do this? Again, I think I need this much 472 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,240 money. So I started really doubling 473 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:44,280 down on my consulting business and my YouTube to try and earn 474 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,040 the funds to do that because my partner and I decided that we 475 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,320 were not going to use our personal finances to do this, 476 00:21:49,320 --> 00:21:51,320 which I think was the right decision for us. 477 00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:55,240 For others, it may not be. I tend to be like a like when I 478 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,320 went to NP school, I went to the accelerated program because 479 00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:00,280 like, I'd rather have 18 months of hell than three years of slow 480 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,240 burn. You know that either way, let's 481 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,480 just get it over with. Yeah, I'm a little bit different 482 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,480 when it comes to business because there is more risk 483 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:08,760 involved with it. I'm OK with going slow and 484 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,080 letting it build over time and as it comes because that allows 485 00:22:12,080 --> 00:22:14,560 me to create, you know, to keep things in those boundaries, 486 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,040 those buckets, so I don't burn out. 487 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,560 So it was slow, painful process, to be honest. 488 00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:22,680 It started with the funding. And then once I kind of was 489 00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,200 building the funding, I was doing a lot of education. 490 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:27,440 Oh my gosh. I believe in the power of 491 00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:30,560 finding mentors, paying them for their courses and their time 492 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:34,000 because learn from the failures and the successes of other 493 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,480 people and literally just copy everything they're doing. 494 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:38,960 They've already done it. They've already built a 495 00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:41,920 successful practice. You trying to reinvent the wheel 496 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:42,480 so. What? 497 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:43,480 Course. Did you take? 498 00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,840 I took a lot of the elite NP courses. 499 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:48,840 Anybody who's interested in entrepreneur, you are going to 500 00:22:48,840 --> 00:22:52,560 know this man Justin Allen has changed the face of modern 501 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,520 medicine in regards to NPS and practice owners. 502 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:58,920 He was on the podcast last week. Yeah, he's amazing, absolutely 503 00:22:58,920 --> 00:23:00,240 amazing. And that's when I first 504 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,840 realized, OK, here's somebody who's being transparent about 505 00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,960 his process, which nobody had done to that point, and had the 506 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,240 vulnerability to share all of this with us. 507 00:23:08,240 --> 00:23:11,160 And now there's so many others who are sharing this too, you 508 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,000 know? So I took a lot from him. 509 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,680 I took a lot of courses. Hormones are very, very 510 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:18,400 complicated. I took a lot of courses to 511 00:23:18,480 --> 00:23:22,760 develop my education over time. I wanted to be able to provide 512 00:23:22,760 --> 00:23:26,280 the best practice, the safest practice possible because I 513 00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:31,600 think when you lead with value, with safety, with expertise, 514 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,840 people see that and they share it amongst the communities was 515 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,240 priority number one for me. I did that slowly over time and 516 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:39,720 then things just fell into place. 517 00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:44,040 Yeah, yeah, consistency and intensity are the two things I 518 00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:46,120 just keep coming back to. It's going to take time. 519 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:49,200 You have to be consistent, but that's growing the resiliency in 520 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:50,840 you, right? And that's what you're saying. 521 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:52,680 Like I've, I'm just going to keep going. 522 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:56,000 It's arduous, it's hard, but you have to keep going. 523 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,800 And it's through the consistency and the struggle that it builds 524 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:02,440 you up as a person and you appreciate the journey and where 525 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,160 you get to at the end. A lot of people see the end and 526 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,200 they just think, oh, Sandra has this podcast and she's making 527 00:24:08,200 --> 00:24:11,280 money from this and that. And it's like, no, man, this is 528 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,680 me giving up Saturdays where I could be doing other things. 529 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,720 I could be sitting on the couch doing nothing. 530 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:21,240 And it means that I am changing who I am to be this person. 531 00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:24,680 And so it's the same journey for you as you are pursuing that. 532 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:27,960 I think nurse practitioners need to see more MP's that are like, 533 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:30,760 girl, it's a grind. That's exactly what this is. 534 00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,720 I'm in it for the long game. I'm not in it to, you know, to 535 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,080 be done or I'm not in it just to get to some spot. 536 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,120 Like I'm in it for it to change who I am. 537 00:24:38,440 --> 00:24:41,600 And that's an incredible, I think, experience and journey. 538 00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,720 And it's one of the things that you look back on your life on 539 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:45,960 and you think like, wow, I can't believe I did that. 540 00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:49,120 Like I can't believe that I just took that risk or I took that 541 00:24:49,120 --> 00:24:51,360 time or I invested that. And that's what this has grown 542 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:52,960 into. I think that's really neat. 543 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:01,560 How do you regulate your your nervous system after a day like 544 00:25:01,560 --> 00:25:03,400 that? Or do you find that your job, 545 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,680 your entrepreneurial space, allows you that kind of 546 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,440 different rhythm that allows your nervous system to come 547 00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:10,360 back? I feel like it would just be 548 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:12,280 incredibly exhausting to do that job. 549 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:14,880 I think it comes down to understanding yourself and what 550 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,800 your personal triggers are. Mine is the decision fatigue. 551 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,040 So recognizing that if I've done it all day long and I come home 552 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,720 and I have to make another decision, it's going to be a 553 00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,640 problem. So you got to get to the root of 554 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,760 like what you're capable of handling and what it is that's 555 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,880 going to send you over the edge. And again, like establishing 556 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:33,760 those boundaries and the ability to self regulate, performing the 557 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,240 self-care that you need in order to handle those problems. 558 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,600 I'm very converted, so I handle the decision fatigue, but I'm 559 00:25:39,600 --> 00:25:41,280 not making any more decisions for half hour. 560 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,720 When I get home, I'm taking a shower, taking a shower, and I'm 561 00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:47,240 washing off all the trauma, emotional and physical, and then 562 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,080 I can make a decision for you. Yeah, that's really good. 563 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:53,080 That representation of like getting into the shower and 564 00:25:53,080 --> 00:25:55,840 literally washing off the day is something that I've heard a lot 565 00:25:55,840 --> 00:25:57,880 of nurses say 1. Because you feel like you're 566 00:25:57,880 --> 00:25:59,280 covered in germs. So let's just go. 567 00:25:59,280 --> 00:26:01,760 There, but then two. It's just that moment. 568 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,560 Like I feel the same when I come home from work. 569 00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,160 Like I tell my husband, like it's important for me to go or 570 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,040 like take care of myself even for just 30 minutes of just a 571 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,240 hot shower, just being like, get up, get up, get up, wake up, get 572 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:17,200 into this other role that you've got to get into as like mom, 573 00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,680 you've been gone for the day. And so you've got to step back 574 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:22,040 into that, that second role of caregiving. 575 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:24,960 And again, like you said, This is why this job can be really 576 00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:28,640 exhausting for especially women in this caregiving role that 577 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:31,320 we're in where we're just giving and giving and giving. 578 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:34,680 You feel like you don't really have a way to fill yourself up 579 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:36,600 and it's really easy to get empty. 580 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,080 I want to hear kind of about your future goals for your 581 00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:41,840 business and kind of your career. 582 00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:42,920 Any projects? You have on the. 583 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,040 Horizon for where you are going, or are you just going to keep 584 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,720 the pots burning that you've got right now and just keep going 585 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:50,720 with what you're doing? Yeah, that's exactly it. 586 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,240 That's the season I'm in right now of letting things grow 587 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:56,360 naturally the way it is. I do intend to kind of double 588 00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:58,920 down on the clinic here soon, probably summer. 589 00:26:58,920 --> 00:27:01,240 I'm going to put more of my energy and focus into that and 590 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,720 growing that. I'm looking at staffing it. 591 00:27:04,120 --> 00:27:07,160 I've got to do some numbers, but that's kind of my focus. 592 00:27:07,160 --> 00:27:09,960 But I also, I'm still open to whatever the universe brings my 593 00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,360 way. I mean, this opportunity for 594 00:27:12,360 --> 00:27:14,120 the, the podcast came across my desk. 595 00:27:14,120 --> 00:27:15,400 I was like, absolutely, I'd love to do that. 596 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,800 That's a side of me I haven't expressed in a creative way in a 597 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:20,080 while. And I welcome you because I'd 598 00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,640 love to talk about this stuff and inspire others. 599 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:26,640 So it's whatever comes my way. I am not looking to build 600 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:29,480 anything else right now. And I'm trying to focus on what 601 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,040 I got and just make it all keep going forward and, and creating 602 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,600 that perfect balance of life and enjoying life and, and making 603 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:38,000 impact on the world. Yeah. 604 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,360 What would you give to another nurse practitioner that's maybe 605 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:45,920 she's an acute care MP and she's like, how do I get started? 606 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,840 What what, what do you think I should do? 607 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,760 What advice would you give her that you feel like this is solid 608 00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:54,160 piece to take to the bank? I think it comes back to being 609 00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:57,880 open, being open to pivoting in your career and in all the 610 00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,000 different ways that you could see it going forward and what 611 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,840 opportunities come your way. Yeah. 612 00:28:03,120 --> 00:28:06,240 Yeah, no, I, I think that's great advice because I think you 613 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:09,320 get really focused in on something as an MP and you kind 614 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:12,040 of like hunker down and you don't see much else. 615 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:13,680 Like you get blinders on like the horse. 616 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:14,360 That has the. Blinders. 617 00:28:14,360 --> 00:28:16,760 They're just focusing on this. And so I love that. 618 00:28:16,760 --> 00:28:20,440 Advice to just over time, just really keep remembering and 619 00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,680 reminding yourself that I need to be looking around. 620 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,720 I need to be figuring out where what gaps need to be filled at 621 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:28,480 this job that nobody's filling that I could go fill with my 622 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,960 skills or what is it that I enjoy doing outside of this 623 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,760 place that I need to go do Because if I don't, I'm just 624 00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,560 going to get super burned out from all this. 625 00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:40,480 Be open and be aware of the fact that there are options all 626 00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:44,040 around you and don't get so focused on on, I'm just going to 627 00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:46,160 do this. Get proficient, spend your time, 628 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,640 but then start to kind of see what else is available. 629 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,280 I think that's really good advice. 630 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,240 Thank you so much, Brianna, for coming onto the podcast today 631 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:55,480 and sharing your journey with my listeners. 632 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,680 Where could they find you? Where can they check you out get 633 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,880 your mentorship things I know you're super into like helping 634 00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:04,920 people prepare for interviews and getting into a secure jobs. 635 00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:06,840 So how is it like? Where can they find you? 636 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,240 Where can they? Where can they reach out to you? 637 00:29:08,240 --> 00:29:10,440 Thank you so much for. Having me, all that you do for 638 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:13,080 the NP profession, it just means the world to everybody out 639 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:14,560 there. So I speak on behalf of them. 640 00:29:14,800 --> 00:29:19,320 You can find me at brenp.com, that's Breen p.com. 641 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:22,120 All of my offerings and my socials you can watch from. 642 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,240 There So for the success NP quote of the day, try to become 643 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,280 a man of success. Try not to become a man of 644 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,360 success, but rather to become a man of value. 645 00:29:31,360 --> 00:29:34,080 Albert Einstein, That just goes back to what we were talking 646 00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:35,520 about. Looking for gaps, looking for 647 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:38,360 things that you can do that you could add value to those around 648 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,760 you is pivotal in your career. And we have a rapid fire 649 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,960 portion. It's super quick, 3 seconds, 650 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:45,560 three questions. Are you ready, Bree? 651 00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:47,000 Yes, let's do it. Bree is nothing. 652 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:49,040 I want to give you a rapid fire. What is one book you would give 653 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,440 to somebody that you're like, This is the book. 654 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:54,240 What book would you give? Not going to a job interview? 655 00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,560 Do not go to a job interview unless you have read this cover 656 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,640 to cover. This is your secret path to 657 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:00,400 winning. That job changed my life. 658 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,520 OK, perfect. Second question. 659 00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:04,680 What was your very first job ever? 660 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,120 Bree, you do everything. You are a serial job hopper, but 661 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:10,320 this was my very first job. You never forget your first. 662 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:12,920 What was it? I was an ER trauma nurse at 663 00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,880 Grady at a level 1. I was 22 years old in the world 664 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:18,400 just opened up for me in so many ways that's. 665 00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:20,640 Cool. That's a great first job and 666 00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:24,120 then 3rd question, if you had to pick someone to play you on TV, 667 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,600 who would she be? Right now I'm super obsessed 668 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:28,920 with Mel Robbins, so I feel like even though she's not an 669 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,480 actress, she should be me. I see it. 670 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,720 You actually kind of like she's like an older version of you. 671 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:35,320 Like I see it. I love it. 672 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,920 Well, again, Brie, thank you for coming on the podcast, guys. 673 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:39,440 We'll have all her information in the show Nuts. 674 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,400 Just check her out, reach out to her, get into her mentorship if 675 00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,640 you need it. Check out her business if you're 676 00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,640 interested. It's so good to meet you. 677 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:49,200 So much fun. Thank you so much for your time 678 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,120 today. Thanks for tuning in to another 679 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,960 episode of Success and P. We hope today's discussion. 680 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,240 Has shed some light on the diverse career options or 681 00:30:57,240 --> 00:30:58,400 taught. You how to improve your 682 00:30:58,400 --> 00:30:59,720 clinical. Practice as a nurse 683 00:30:59,720 --> 00:31:01,720 practitioner. Remember, whether you're 684 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:04,240 considering a specialization, pursuing advanced 685 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:07,800 certifications, or exploring non traditional roles, there's a 686 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,000 wealth of opportunities out there waiting for you. 687 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:13,440 Be sure to subscribe to the show so you don't miss an episode and 688 00:31:13,440 --> 00:31:16,040 leave us a five star review. It helps the podcast grow. 689 00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:19,960 The Success and Peace Podcast is on the World Wide Web, YouTube, 690 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:23,840 Instagram, Facebook, and X, so subscribe to our newsletter for 691 00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,720 updates on new podcast episodes and other information to help 692 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,640 you on your own NP journey. 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