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Welcome, welcome. It's your host, Sandra.
And today we are joined by Sierra Wyszynski.
She is an MSNFNP, and she was born in Hawaii, and she was born
to military parents. And she has a master's degree
from Texas Women's University. She's a registered nurse and
she's a nurse practitioner. And her expertise lies in
helping engage firms secure mass torts, mass actions, data
breaches, toxic exposure and personal injury cases.
I know you're wondering how the heck is she a nurse
practitioner? And she does all these things.
Trust me. We're going to piece it together
for you today on the episode. She's happily married, which I
love. And she has a dog child named
Chef and a free rage Bunny named Cookie.
That's hilarious. We are so happy to have you on
today, Sierra and I just cannot wait to share your incredible
journey. Thanks for coming on.
Thanks for having me, Sandra. I'm excited to hear my story
finally and finally tie it all together.
Yes, today, like literally I've been like having the most
incredible conversations with nurse practitioners in non
traditional spaces and it's everything.
I also know that you're a model, which if anyone's like watching
on YouTube, you can tell she is a model and a lifestyle content
creator. I just think you're just
incredible. So let's get started.
Kind of what inspired you to move from clinical practice to
marketing? And I think your journey is
really interesting because you came to this spot in your
nursing career. That was a pivotal moment for
you. And I want you to describe that
to my listeners. Yeah, for sure.
So basically what had been going on is I was working as a
pediatric nurse for a couple years and something that really
bothered me was that regardless if I was working 110% the nurse
next to me, if they had been there longer, they were making
significantly more than me. So to me that meant regardless
of how hard I work every day, I'm never going to make a wage
that is satisfying unless I fully commit for the next 10 to
15 years. And then it's like, what's
what's the price of money then in 10 to 15 years?
And I just going to keep staying at the same level when I think
I'm going upwards, you know, like am I on an Ant and going on
elephants back backwards when you think you're going forward?
Yeah, so I started asking you around opening it up to my
community, just telling them the things I wanted.
So what I knew I wanted was potentially to get into some
sort of business development Wellness role.
I feel like that's every nurses kind of stuff launched into
quote UN quote getting out right.
We we talked about how I got shipped into a couple pyramid
schemes happens to the smartest. So got you a couple of those.
But then my girlfriend who I actually worked with mentioned
that Hurst that I'm football coach on the preventative
Wellness clinic and a nice part of town.
They wanted to hire a lead nurse with a big personality.
So I ended up having a conversation with them in a
couple of weeks. They hired me as a lead nurse
and then a month until I left pediatric nursing.
I was there at a preventive medicine clinic for about 6
months. Conflict with my manager
Sandberg. I was actually fired from that
job, which was really appalling for me because I've never been
fired before and I've been there for six months and honestly had
completely made that job like my life, my personality, and my
satisfaction. Highly do not recommend that you
have to find value of yourself outside of work.
But that was hurtful for me but a really big lesson.
The same owner of that clinic when I had he was the one who
like brought me on but not the one who fired me.
The manager have fired me. Yeah.
And so I knew I'm going to go talk to the owner.
Like, how could you pull me away from PDF and nursing, bring me
on for the Super exciting role, and then just let somebody fire
me over nothing. But he seemed more relaxed about
it, which is surprising to me because I felt like my world was
on fire. And you wanted me to read him
for coffee in the next couple of days to kind of talk things
over. So I met with him for coffee and
he mentioned that he had another business helping around a lot
longer than the clinic. Great group of people that he
always thought he could see me with but just didn't know when
he could offer some sort of transition.
They pretty much offered me a role at his legal marketing
company as an account executive that I could interview with his
CEO and his director of the time and just kind of feel out what
they were doing. But at this point I wasn't super
trusting because I just got hired from another business.
Yeah, OK. Sure.
I believe you. Something a great opportunity to
get like. Like it's to set up.
Yeah, like getting hungry now. That's the result.
So I ended up interviewing with the guys that he had mentioned,
the CEO and the and the director and it went well, but I still
just in general had no idea what they were doing.
Like I didn't know what SEO was. I didn't know where mass tour
was but I told them I would think about it after the
conversation and so I asked for another conversation a couple
weeks later and in that time I had decided if I hate this and
have no idea what's going on after giving it my best I can go
back to nursing. Right.
It's always kind of your safe out.
So I took the job. I'm more reluctantly since I had
no idea what was going on, to be honest.
I just kind of love the personality and the people that
I loved that they were taking a chance on me.
And I've been with Teesside, the legal marketing company in
Austin, for three years. Wow, wow.
And so one of the things that I think was also super interesting
is that during this time, you kept your nurse practitioner or
your nurse job also working for you, right?
Because I know you were getting, you got your master's degree
during this time, like you were still grinding on your nursing
career while pursuing another career in a completely
different, you know, segment of the industry, the job industry.
I mean, we're talking about like healthcare and marketing.
These are very, they're intertwined, but they're not
especially for a nurse practitioner necessarily
something that we get ourselves involved in.
It's definitely super cool that you still kept what I would like
to call your golden ticket, your backup plan, like whatever it is
that I just, I can go do this at any time.
I'm going to keep investing in me while I'm still learning what
I want to do and not do. I just think that's incredible
and kind of what kept you still fighting for that while you were
pursuing this other industry. So when I started at Teaseg, I
was already almost two years into my master's program and I
had already paid off all my loans from undergrad.
So I decided that I was going to pay for my master's completely
out of pocket with monthly payment.
Go girl. I joined Teaseg and was like, I
want to quit this program. I had already personally
invested like 15 K into my cell and so not to, you know, say
that's the only reason I finished it.
But just from like a personal investment piece, it'd be a
really poor investment to just flush 15K down the toilet
towards an education that was a golden ticket to a six figure
income, which is gives me a lot of security about being in a
sales role is that at any point I could be a nurse practitioner
and still, you know, make my bills.
Exactly. Money for my family.
Yeah, Yeah. One of the things that I like to
tie a lot and and to encourage nurse practitioners is that our
nursing skills translate into so many other jobs.
One of the things that I always like to kind of pull from nurses
that are not do or nurse practitioners that are not doing
traditional stuff is like, OK, so how do your skills translate
into what you're doing right now?
So I hear a COI hear reaching out to law firms like, you know,
law firms figuring out how your business at T sag can help them
in their marketing needs. Kind of what have you found?
You're tapping into your pediatric nursing skills?
Are you tapping into everyday that you do a job in a
completely different field? You know like.
Sometimes I have crazy people I deal with.
I always tell my boss I think I have the pediatric nursing
skills. Finance.
To deal with these babies. But to be honest, I wish that
every nurse or nurse practitioner knew the power and
completing a tough program against all the odds and how you
can apply that to anything in your life.
Like the fact that we could go through some of the toughest
programs, how people fall out around us, listen to directions,
show up to things that we don't even think make sense, but still
do 110%. If you apply that to any program
in your life and just realize, say, if I can get through this,
I can get there. Anything.
Number one, I think that's a nurse's biggest skill #2 I think
the biggest skill that a nurse can bring into any type of
business space is assessment and intake.
The the fact that I have this edge of asking open-ended
questions and providing A thorough assessment, whether
it's a head to toe or your intake process at your law firm,
that is something that has taken me really far and it's the
easiest way for me to apply my nursing skills directly into my
business skills. And three, as a nurse, we have
the hardest conversation on planet earth.
The hardest. So I have no shyness when it
comes to hard business conversations or cold calling 30
people because I've already had life changing conversations with
people. I really don't care if you say F
you and hang up on me, that's still better than my worst day
ever. And treat to what you just said.
I mean, just, yeah, I, I took that abuse for way less.
Like I was doing that for free. I was like one of the things
that wait, oh, you're saying I've had another, I think it was
PP nurse, nurse Papa. He came onto my podcast and he
said, if I can convince somebody crazy to take their pills, like
I can buy anyone into something and it's facts, I can dump
somebody into logging after surgery.
Like you just had your attribute opened up and I can get you up
and get you to walk. Conversations you've had with
Siebel handcuffed to a bed like. Think about it.
I don't think about it, but. Every day I try.
To forget. Yes, exactly.
And so I think that nurses are just always thinking like, I
don't have the skills or I need an MBA before I can go do
marketing. And it's like, no, no, no,
friend, you've been doing it. You've been doing it for a
while. Exactly.
Every time I say hi, my name is Sierra, I'm going to be a nurse
as your first markings. Well said, well said.
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conversation. Are you work from home?
Are you out in a shrinky events like like what are you doing?
Like? What's it look like for you,
Sierra? Most days that I work from home,
I wake up really early every day.
Yeah, sitting for my boards, actually, at the end of April.
So every morning I do my little online course.
For your N keyboards. Yeah, Oh.
My gosh. OK.
So you're like getting in the middle of it?
Yeah, well, I graduate in December.
I take my boards in April. Good for you.
Yeah. So every morning I still wake up
and do school really early just like I used to.
And then I probably work on school for maybe 90 minutes.
And then from 7:00 to 8:00, I work on my lifestyle brand,
which is the already online. And then my first work meeting
every day starts at 8:15. And then after that, I'll
probably have either like some client meetings, maybe do some
preparation to meet with them for I'll have a lunch, which
were I'll always do some sort of like exercise.
And then after that, I might do some cold outreach, post on
LinkedIn, catch up on my inbox, submit any new projects to my
team. So that's what like my typical 8
to 5 would look like. But I do probably once a month
travel to legal conferences for work, can meet lawyers I haven't
met before or connect with current clients because I work
with law firms across the country.
So a lot of my firms that I've worked with, you know, for three
years, I've actually never even met in person.
Wow, so. What?
Training. Have you had to do, if any, to
kind of walk into this space right?
Like, there has to be some type of, I had to brush up on.
I had to buy a, you know, Law Firm for Dummies Buck.
Like something we know what you got.
Yeah, because it's really impressive.
You've got to be able to hold your own.
Like, we got to hold our own with docs and nurse
practitioners. We can have those conversations.
But this is a whole different jargon.
It's a whole different space. How do you navigate?
Yeah, well, I have two weeks of training with I bought before
going out into the field. Whoa, OK, sounds pretty quick.
We did some remote training and really the training was pretty
straightforward. You know, we would only meet for
a few hours in the morning and then the rest of the day I would
whatever they taught me to do that day.
But I would say most of my skill comes from my colleagues who
trained me for making mistakes. But it, but it's the best
training and my bosses will tell you that.
And they always told me don't get too involved in the weeds,
like don't be too concerned on how everything works all the
time because I would say that was my biggest fault as a man.
It's like, I need to know how everything works.
Is it like, well, you're not in operations and that's making too
much of your brain power. We want you to be an account
executive full time. Like you don't, you don't need
to be thinking about how we're doing everything.
You just need to be the account executive.
So that was something that was really hard for me to let go of,
but launch me forward. I think one of the things I'm a
homeschooling mom, so I teach my little one like mistakes or how
you learn because school And the reason why I I'm really
passionate about homeschooling him is because I think school
teaches you mistakes are bad. You make a mistake, you get a
bad grade right. Then what you just said is
tantamount. And I think to a certain extent
makes people afraid to go out and try things that they might
make a mistake in. I might fail.
I might not look like I know what I'm doing.
I'm not like all these different concepts that it's like, no, you
can do it sloppy. You can build the plane as it
flies. Like these are things that
people do, just take action and that action matters.
You'll be above all the people that kind of like what your Co
worker said. I need to know everything about
everything and then I will get started.
It's like, no, you just need to get started.
Focus in on this part and then build the plane as you go.
Make mistakes, pick yourself up from mistakes, don't do them
again and keep moving on. It's here, this really cute
book, it's called Beautiful Oops.
And it's a paper that's been destroyed.
You've either crumpled it, you splattered paint on it, and I'm
literally teaching my 5 year old to take the splatter paint and
to make little bugs like we're take the little splatter paint
and create a tree. These are the things and the
concepts that I think nurses need to hear that it's OK.
Yes, we want to be perfect with administration.
We don't want to make mistakes with giving people drugs, so we
don't want to make mistakes. But in other fields, you learn
through the mistakes. You're not a bad nurse because
you made a mistake. You're going to be OK.
You got to pick yourself up and keep trying.
Make mistakes in nursing. I feel like my personality
completely changed. I'm sure that for you having a
child and realizing that like because the nursing there's no
room for error. You lose your license, you'll
lose your livelihood. Yes.
My girlfriends and I always talk about how that happens day one
you go to nursing school. Do you remember if you didn't
pass your dosing exam before every quarter you couldn't
proceed in your program? Yes, and my program only allowed
you to get 2 mistakes on a 12 question quiz for dosing.
Yeah, it's like it's ingrained on us that you can never make a
mistake. And I don't know if you remember
a nursing if you made a mistake, it felt extremely shameful and
like my entire career could be taken away from me.
Exactly. No, exactly.
And that is the antithesis to, in my opinion, growing level of
confidence and resiliency. Nurses, I think to a certain
extent they get into their minds that like, we could be perfect.
It's like, no, no, the whole system's already making
mistakes. Like Swiss chains model of the
whole where the doctor misses it, the nurse misses it, the
pharmacist misses it. There are multiple layers of
mistakes that can occur because we're that last line between
them, that whole system and the patient.
We feel a super big pressure to not make any mistakes.
And it's just the antithesis of that in the business world.
Your mistakes are how you learn. When you read these books by
Napoleon Hill and, and Stephen Covey and all these incredible
genius minds of people that study business, they talk about
their mistakes, that they learn more from their mistakes than
they ever learned from their successes.
And I think to a certain degree, I don't know how nurses embrace
the mistakes without the shame, or I don't know how we overcome
that because it's so tough. They look at the nurse like,
well, why'd you give it? It's these mistakes that we
make, we learn from, and they're important there to create
systems so that the mistakes don't happen again.
That shame in the business world, you'll never move
forward. Yeah.
You really can't incent carry that same nursing shame into
your career. Yeah, I agree.
I agree with you. By the way, you know what?
The podcast on your Instagram. 100% yeah.
I mean, I, I started that and I'm going to just tell you like
I started that while my son was napping and I'm like, I'm 3334
years old. Like, what am I doing?
Like I have a doctorate in nursing.
Like, what am I trying to like come up with something new?
Like, what are we doing, Sandra? And I'm like, no, like, I
shouldn't have to go someplace to make money.
There should be other options. And just that belief that even
if this fails, even if this doesn't work, like even if I
never make it, the fact that I just put action into something
and made messy action steps and built the plane when it was
flying, I'm never going to look back and regret that.
I think that more nurses and nurse practitioners need to hear
like, it's OK if you try something and it doesn't work.
You're trying something that is above what most people ever a
dream and aspire to do. They don't even dream to do
anything and you've at least given it a shot like.
It's so anti nurse to be creative and to take risk and to
prowl. It's that's literally anti
nurse. I think that there's so many
nurses that have so much creativity bound up inside of
them that never gets expressed. And I had these wonderful
conversations with nurse creators that they were like, it
took getting sick, it took getting laid out, it took some
event in their life where they couldn't work as a nurse that
made them go. I just started doodling, I just
started creating. And then they create these
beautiful things that I'm like, see nurses like we have this
bound up in US already. Like, don't just think that has
to be this one grind, have to just be here.
No, you have so many options. You have so many things.
And I think it's so inspiring that you have carved and created
yourself a career in a field so different from nursing, but you
find your skills translating so perfectly.
What advice would you give to a nurse practitioner who's
interested in saying, what if could I get involved in
marketing? Like, could I give that a try?
Like, what would you tell him or her you know to be thinking
about? Like what to be searching for?
Not not pyramid theme. I have to I never wanted to have
this to stay with her. I'm here with seriously, the one
thing I would do is just start talking to your community and
people that you trust. Even I didn't really even know
what it was going to be for me. I just knew I like business
development. I like Wellness.
What does that look like for me? So I just started calling out
entertaining and whatever me who even and my husband introduced
me to somebody he's working with.
I would say I'm a pediatric nurse, but I'm looking to get
into sign of like Wellness business development is more my
interest. And then I was going to, you
know, marketing events saying these are the things I'm open
to, not marketing events, just networking events in Austin in
general. Like I would just go Google
Austin networking events and if there was one that looked cool,
I would go show up and just talk to everyone about what I'm doing
now and what I want. And so I would just urge every
nurse. I know you guys have crazy
schedules, but just start talking to the people around
you, your roommate, your neighbors.
You never know whose ears they're going to be.
And if you just start speaking life into what you want, you
might find yourself at a legal marketing company three years
later. And and I feel the mother good
soft transition spot that people like to land in as any type of
like medical cells. Yeah, yeah.
You know what I think a really important thing to touch on and
just stop at real quick is about speaking life into something.
I think that when you keep bringing up and you keep saying
it's just like I kept putting it out there and like you'll be
kind of surprised how what I like to call the laws of
attraction, you can call it like, you know, if you have
faith, like if that goes against your faith beliefs, like fine,
you know, whatever that is that you just start putting that
energy out there. Things start kind of finding
you. It's because you're putting out
that energy and it's starting to attract back to you.
Kind of interesting how when you start to believe in yourself,
others around you begin to believe in you too.
And so they end up kind of pushing you towards the things
that you're saying that you're wanting because other people
start to get on board with what it is that you're hoping for.
And so I remember when I'm. People who are on board, they
got off the train. I mean, I used to know those
people fall off and like I remember when I went part time
as a nurse practitioner and there was no part time like
nurse practitioners. They were like, you can't have
this. And I was like, hold this, I'm
going to go find it. You know, So like went and found
a part time nursing job as a nurse practitioner.
Everyone was like, how'd you find this?
And I'm like, I just put it out there like, you got to go, you
got to go try and, and like, now another nurse practitioner went
part time at my job. And she was like, this was easy.
I think because you've already done it.
Like we need other nurse practitioners in these spaces to
show us what we can do to break the mold, to kind of hit that
glass ceiling, to bust it through and just be like, you
don't like, did it, you can do it.
Because I feel like a lot of people put degrees on what they
think below and you'll meet small minded people who try to
put boundaries on yours. But I'm telling everyone
listening to completely deny and disregard anyone who puts
boundaries on you. Yeah, it doesn't matter how
crazy or you have to be deletional.
Yes, right. Like you have to be crazy.
Well, we're like we. You have to be crazy crazier.
I mean, it's again like I, there's so many things that I
think on my mind, I'm like, this is a Sunday, right?
We're doing this on a Sunday. Other people are grinding, doing
like, or maybe doing nothing. Like, hey, hear our voices.
Like you got to be crazy about it.
You got to be. There's 1000 things that could
be doing. But no, this is important to me.
I enjoy this. I enjoy putting my heart and my
soul into this. Find the thing that does that
for you that you're like, I just I want to talk about this for
forever or I want to encourage other nurses because I remember
that feeling of being like, I have to go kind of like what you
were saying on the on the floor, like I have to go back to work
and leave my baby, but with a stranger, like, wait, what?
Like no, no, that can't be. I've got to start attracting and
finding those things that are different for me.
And every nurse has those moments.
Every nurse that breaks out of the mold has a moment of this
cannot be how this continues. What are some of the challenges
that you find in this career that you're that you're in?
I know things are new. I know it's not what you spent a
lot about it a lot of time learning about.
So what are some of the challenges that you find in this
in this space? I mean, it kind of feels like
maybe a little bit of like a like a bro world that you're
kind of in. I mean a lot of lawyers or guys.
So like I'm in like you're this like model nurse.
Like how do you overcome the challenges?
Well. Let me think about my challenge,
Jared. I would say, OK, I love that.
You remember, think about them. That's that's great.
Like the number one challenge that I had is that I don't get
warm fuzzy feelings at work. I don't meet new parents and
help them build their confidence and feel connected with their
families. I remember going to a football
game in my neighborhood and have a mom come up to me and said,
like, you are my pediatric nurse.
I remember I was so low and I had the lowest amount of
confidence. And you made me feel like I
could take over the world every time I came and saw you.
And like for me, like I don't get those type of compliments in
my job anymore. So sometimes it's hard for me to
feel like I'm not using God's gift to my fullest advantage to
care for others. That I would say is like largest
insecurity of Christian. But you know, with the
insecurity, there's things that make me secure and what I'm
doing now and give me people. We're talking about the
challenges. Is that the first one?
I actually get that comment a lot about the bro world and
working with a lot of math. In fact, I probably get the
question every time people find I work with lawyers and to be
honest, it's something that someone would no likelihood on
me at a conference. I wasn't going to be blind to
that people things like that. But I've never been in a
business meeting and felt undermined or not respected
because I demand it. Oh come on, girl.
And if people even try to edge towards any type of joke that I
think it's disrespectful to me as a woman, I will correct them
really fast and then it never happens again.
So to be honest, I don't have any situation for you know, I
was like super uncomfortable and didn't know what to say.
I that my brown juice really fast and I talked about my
husband really quickly to other men.
Yeah. Oh, interesting.
I didn't even think about that aspect.
I think I was thinking more along the lines of just
commanding authority, just feeling like you're an expert in
this area, you know, just the different things related to the
job. I feel like I noticed that
female physicians that it's tough.
It's tougher because, you know, physicians are mostly male
dominated. And so I know that there's a
struggle in that space to show your competency, to show how
serious you are about the career when like there's a, there's an
element where I feel like I'm like, we're still with like we
still want family. We still want things that I
think could make it hard for us to be career drivers per SE
forever. But it sounds like in, in
regards to, you know, having those interactions, they're
pretty positive. I mean, it sounds like in
general you have, you know, no real big issues outside of
inappropriate stuff that just comes with walking down the
street as a woman, you know, like it's got a.
You can work for the surgeon. You can work for the lawyer.
Exactly. I see you're coming from in
terms of like leadership and feeling like, yeah, he had to go
through that after my first year.
Legal marketing is like, I work with this and my boss is that I
have to demand and make a seat for myself at the table, he
says. I was starting to get invited to
bigger dinners with big industry leaders and I thought like I I'm
not. I wasn't making space for
myself. I was trying to keep my volume
as small as possible because I knew I was half the age of
everyone at the table. No one time expect me to be an
expert but I decided I'm going to make room for myself by being
genuine regardless as I'm acting like a female in my 20s.
I am a female in my 20s and I am an expert on this.
It made me feel better because I don't act like I'm an expert
personal injury lawyer. I'm an expert legal difficult
marketing. Yes, OK.
That's an important distinction. I definitely think that you
answered that question very well because it's it's multifaceted.
It's not just in one area and then tell for.
Yourself though, make room for yourself at the table.
Don't. Don't make yourself small and
make room. Scoot over.
Yeah. No, I think that's really good
here. Yeah.
And to cultivate that confidence in your 20s is tough.
I mean, I feel like I'm still struggling with that a 39 years
old. It's like whoa.
And with the skill and the time that I've had, I think it takes
time to cultivate that. I think it's really inspiring
that you've been able to just kind of go like I felt that.
I noticed it in myself, the self-awareness and I was just
like, I don't need to be cocky, but I just need to be confident.
And that's, that's different. Well you feel the dislike, like
I have sat at a table and felt the dislike from people near me
thinking I'm not an expert. And I used to make myself quiet.
But then I decided if I hear something that's incorrect you
should say that because they would correct you as well.
And I noticed by being genuine saying hey like that's not
right. Like that's not a real diagnosis
that you're talking about. That made room for me at the
table. How do you see the role of nurse
practitioners in the marketing world growing?
Do you see this is something that more M PS can crack into?
I really do think that any nurse practitioner or nurse who wants
to get in a marketing or sales role should 1000% take the
opportunity if they're interested.
And I see more healthcare people moving into the industry.
I've met other nurses in similar roles, so I know that marketing
companies are open to hiring us and love to have people who
care, have high emotional intelligence, and like I said,
you have the power to complete a Critical thing program.
You have the power to complete self raining.
That's so good. And where can listeners connect
with you? Meet you, Sierra, you're so
wonderful. And your content is so great
online. I just was like, scrolling.
I was mindlessly scrolling. I was like, oh, my God.
Our wedding was like, I love her bride.
It's her dog. Like, it's just such cute
content. You also work as a model.
Where can people find you, Check you out?
How do you find how to? Yeah.
Everyone can find my more candid lifestyle stuff on Instagram.
It's Sierra D online, but if you're more interested in my
career type of content, I'm on LinkedIn as well.
You can find me under my name Sierra D Rosinski or I believe
after LinkedIn back slap it's legal marketing expert.
OK, great guys. I'll put all of her links in the
show notes. And so before we close the
episode, I do a rapid fire question.
OK, excellent. What book would you give to
someone? If you're like this book, this
is the book, Read it. What would it be?
I'm like Med surd can our saying bye Lewis.
I'm limping if you never want to read again.
What's your goal? To never read Med Search Nurses.
Volume funds. OK, so the book I recommend
anyone read is called The Defining Decade.
Using your 20s to their full advantage to have tools in your
tool belt for the future. Oh, and I'm going to put it down
and I'm going to read it myself. That sounds great.
You don't need to be in your 20s to read it.
OK, good. Excellent.
Hopefully I don't apply it. I can make my 30s in the last
year, my 30's the best ever. OK.
And then the first couple. Times.
OK. Got it.
Thank you. Thank you.
Yeah, Big threw heads up. OK, so if you had to pick
someone to play you on TV, who would it be?
I mean, you might say yourself because you're about, but who
would you? Who would you pick?
Aubrey Plaza. Wait, do I?
Oh, she's funny. She's a funny girl.
She's, like, weirdly funny, Yeah.
I love her. You love her spirit animal like
you think like part of her is inside of you and you feel like
that would be expressed. Like that she's genuine and dry.
I feel like I am also dry so I think she'd be a good for me.
Yeah, that's really funny. OK.
And then what was your first job?
Emperor. Like under the age of 16, like
before I could legally. Work legal, illegal.
What was your first one? My first job ever I've door to
door to my neighbors and they were older so like they needed
any help going the house so hold up like come on the trash out
for 5 bucks or whatever they want to pay me.
And for my first job on AW2 I have bus tables.
Bus tables stop underneath like behind like underneath the table
was like, I don't know, like very nursing like it was very
good kind like it's like for sure to nursing or.
Something, I mean, I wish so little.
My dad was like standing. Thanks Sir.
OK, don't snatch her, but she's offering to help you with her
do. We have to say yes, like you're
done. The Success MP quote of the day
is they succeed because they think they can.
By virtual and again Success MP, we are all about what it looks
like to make your life successful as a nurse
practitioner for you. And this is just another
conversation about what it looks like to create and carve the
life that you want. And I think Sierra is so
beautifully put that there's a moment that you decide what your
life is going to look like and you decide if that's successful
or not to you, and you determine that doesn't look like success.
Me being here for 20 years and chasing after inflation and not
feeling like I'm getting compensated, that was not it for
her. And so she changed it.
And every nurse has that capacity to build that for
themselves. She did it because she thought
she could. And look at her.
And I just think it's so incredible.
And thanks for coming on today, Sierra.
Having me it's just such a pleasure to just meet with
another like minded nurse. Nothing like minded delusional
person. Another crazy.
But I think it's great and it's super inspiring.
The fact that you mentioned you're a mom, you have your
doctorate's degree. You knew you didn't want to
leave your cadet home full time. And now you get to home school
like you are living the life that you imagine and spoke into
this world and like you are a reflection of that success.
So I it has been an honor to be honored with you.
Thank you. Thank you, Sierra, for saying
saying all that is so kind. All right, guys, thanks for
hanging out and join us next week.
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