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Welcome to the doctor nurse 21 00:01:03,700 --> 00:01:09,400 podcast with Christy Gil, Bray also known as the minstrel Maven 22 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:12,800 and she is a military veteran and a licensed registered. 23 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:15,800 Nurse who is passionate about women's health below the belt 24 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:18,700 health awareness, and health disparities. 25 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,400 So she started her career working in the military and the 26 00:01:21,408 --> 00:01:25,300 US Navy and she has a background as a floor nurse, and she 27 00:01:25,300 --> 00:01:28,200 decided after earning her MBA that she wanted to take her 28 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:29,800 clinical skill set and marry them. 29 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:32,500 With leadership training for the military, she went into the 30 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:35,900 corporate world, and then has now moved into her latest role, 31 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:40,500 which is Nurse entrepreneur. When she launched flow, where by 32 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:44,500 undies Loft, which is her company that makes underwear, 33 00:01:44,700 --> 00:01:50,500 that absorbs periods, postpartum and Mild bladder leaks. 34 00:01:50,500 --> 00:01:52,700 So, I am so happy to have you on. 35 00:01:52,700 --> 00:01:56,000 Kristi, thank you for coming on. Thank you so much. 36 00:01:56,000 --> 00:01:57,900 Sandra is the pleasure to be here. 37 00:01:58,300 --> 00:01:59,800 I appreciate being here, but yeah. 38 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:02,800 All of those things that you shared about me are true. 39 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,200 I didn't pay Sandra, but but yes, absolutely. 40 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:10,400 I think the one of the best things about being a nurse is 41 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:15,000 the the wide options that we all have to be able to go into 42 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,900 different things. And for me nurse pregnant was 43 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:21,500 definitely a path that I saw for myself. 44 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:24,700 Just based on my my desire to have always been an 45 00:02:24,700 --> 00:02:27,900 entrepreneur. But also marrying that with 46 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:32,200 supporting people educating people In a way that is 47 00:02:32,200 --> 00:02:35,500 game-changing life-changing. When it comes to navigating the 48 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:37,900 Healthcare System, that's really great. 49 00:02:37,900 --> 00:02:42,000 And I get I've described kind of what you do but how do you see 50 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,100 your career? Your job title. 51 00:02:44,100 --> 00:02:46,400 Like what would you say? Like when you introduce yourself 52 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,900 to people? You're like, hi, I'm Christy and 53 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:52,100 I am, I am the what, like, how do you introduce yourself? 54 00:02:53,500 --> 00:02:55,400 Yeah, absolutely. Such a great question. 55 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,500 I'm still working on getting used to saying, I am the 56 00:02:59,500 --> 00:03:02,700 founder. CEO of flow of eyes locked, I am 57 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:05,600 and in, I find that as a nurse's. 58 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:10,900 It's so easy to lead with and I'm a nurse or I work at the 59 00:03:10,900 --> 00:03:16,400 hospital or whatever it is. But no, I am the founder and CEO 60 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:20,100 of flow where and I put in a lot of Blood, Sweat, and Tears to be 61 00:03:20,100 --> 00:03:24,500 able to call myself that as it relates to getting this business 62 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:28,600 off the ground and making a brand name that people recognize 63 00:03:28,600 --> 00:03:32,200 yeah, that's fabulous. - so tell me a little bit about how you 64 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:35,400 got to this specific spot. I know you're a military veteran 65 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,500 right out of sounds like you were told me earlier before the 66 00:03:37,500 --> 00:03:40,700 podcast right out of school, kind of work that career and 67 00:03:40,700 --> 00:03:44,000 then moved into nursing and then yeah, Works into your MBA and 68 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:46,300 then the business. So again, just kind of briefly 69 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:49,000 walk me through that Journey that you went through, to get to 70 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,300 this spot that you are today. Yeah. 71 00:03:51,300 --> 00:03:55,700 So, like it, I went to the military right out of school and 72 00:03:55,700 --> 00:04:00,400 I served five years, active duty, and at the only Terry the 73 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,700 installation of its kind in the world for the United States 74 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:09,100 Navy. Go Navy, beat Army and I earned 75 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:14,600 my MBA at the time. So it was it was during my time 76 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:18,600 in earning my MBA that I realized for sure that I 77 00:04:18,600 --> 00:04:22,700 definitely want to go into business for myself. 78 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,900 I grew up in a family where our manure ship was, was not unheard 79 00:04:27,900 --> 00:04:33,300 of, and having that As a role model to be able to see my 80 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:39,300 grandfather, who was the first person of color on his his own, 81 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:43,200 I'm going to say brand name, but brand name, filling station in 82 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:47,000 town unheard of for me, that that was huge because my 83 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,200 grandfather was an orphan. And then my grandfather at that 84 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,900 time, the unheard of was an orphaned, what to college? 85 00:04:53,900 --> 00:04:57,500 Graduated college started a business with a successful 86 00:04:57,500 --> 00:05:01,800 businessman. And so, Having a legacy like 87 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:08,200 that to tap into and do things with him as it related to 88 00:05:08,300 --> 00:05:12,700 teaching him, build this business and the administrative 89 00:05:12,700 --> 00:05:15,100 part of it. I always thought, man, that's 90 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:19,300 that's so cute your Bachelor's in nursing and then your MBA all 91 00:05:19,300 --> 00:05:21,000 while you were in the military. Yeah. 92 00:05:21,100 --> 00:05:24,900 So I got it was in the military. I got my undergrad, I got an 93 00:05:24,900 --> 00:05:26,900 undergrad in Healthcare Management as well. 94 00:05:26,900 --> 00:05:29,300 So I've got some Healthcare Management BS and then I've got 95 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:34,200 the Then hand the NBA gotcha. And so yeah, yeah. 96 00:05:34,200 --> 00:05:39,300 So it was after I got out of the military, I was told I would be 97 00:05:39,300 --> 00:05:42,600 more competitive for program that I really wanted to get in 98 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:48,400 military wise if I had an MBA. So, I got out and pursued my 99 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:51,600 MBA. And then, as things kind of kept 100 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:54,500 going, I realized it's not bad being out here. 101 00:05:54,500 --> 00:06:01,700 And so, going to expect Years and it was good but I think I 102 00:06:01,707 --> 00:06:03,900 can hang out here in the civilian sector a little a 103 00:06:03,907 --> 00:06:07,700 little while longer and so that's exactly what I did and 104 00:06:07,700 --> 00:06:12,200 I've not looked back but along that path and doing that, I also 105 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:16,900 recognize there are things that innately I could never do in the 106 00:06:16,900 --> 00:06:21,000 civilian sector. One of them is being a working 107 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,500 for someone else and being able to build a business that makes a 108 00:06:25,508 --> 00:06:30,000 difference for other people. And so as it relates to play, Do 109 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:35,200 whereby undies Loft that really came out as a realization for me 110 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:38,200 as an epiphany. If you will as a result of my 111 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:42,000 own personal experience with my own below-the-belt. 112 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:47,600 Hell and I share on my website. My story about uterine fibroids 113 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:53,700 and detailing how one particular and has led to me saying, okay, 114 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:56,500 this is crazy, this is absolutely crazy. 115 00:06:56,500 --> 00:06:59,700 I cannot go into a client's office. 116 00:06:59,900 --> 00:07:03,400 And literally walk in. Okay? 117 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:10,100 And then stand up and have left a literally a CSI situation on 118 00:07:10,300 --> 00:07:12,700 their brand new white leather chair. 119 00:07:12,700 --> 00:07:16,400 And then have somebody pass me paper scrub over a public 120 00:07:16,400 --> 00:07:20,300 bathroom stall so that I can walk out in the high heel shoes 121 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:25,100 to my vehicle in pouring rain, which is exactly what happened 122 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:29,100 and I just I remember feeling devastated and humiliated and 123 00:07:29,100 --> 00:07:31,500 embarrassed. Fast and how can I ever show my 124 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:34,600 face to these people ever in life again? 125 00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:39,900 And as I drove home, which was about an hour and 15 minutes and 126 00:07:39,900 --> 00:07:43,900 pouring rain in between the tears and the Ring Road as well 127 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:47,700 from your eyes. Absolutely, I was absolutely, I 128 00:07:47,700 --> 00:07:53,000 was and praying that I wasn't soaking through the provisions 129 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:56,200 that were provided to me by one of the office staff, who 130 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,700 recognized that I had an accident and thinking To myself. 131 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:05,800 I cannot this is this is not something mentally I can handle 132 00:08:06,100 --> 00:08:10,000 on a regular basis and no one should have to experience what I 133 00:08:10,008 --> 00:08:14,100 experienced ever. And so as a result that was the 134 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:19,000 impetus of flow where my undies law and use that, you said 135 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:22,600 something very poignant to me, which was it's very traumatic. 136 00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:26,200 And it is, I always thought of it as gosh, that was a 137 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:31,600 hellacious experience, but it was, it was Traumatic out of 138 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:34,600 that trauma. As we have discussed out of 139 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:39,200 that, trauma was born when opportunity for me to serve 140 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:44,100 other people and provide a platform to educate other people 141 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:46,400 to still use those nursing skills to talk about 142 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,400 below-the-belt health to support people in advocating for their 143 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:53,400 Healthcare. And hope it hoping the narrow, 144 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:58,700 the Gap in the little bit of, in the smallest amount that I can 145 00:08:58,700 --> 00:09:01,000 do be a, my Form narrow, the Gap. 146 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,700 As it relates to disparities as well. 147 00:09:04,000 --> 00:09:10,200 Women people, born as female people with uteruses, often 148 00:09:10,200 --> 00:09:15,400 times, we talk about our concerns below the belt and they 149 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:20,600 don't get heard. I recall the start of having 150 00:09:20,700 --> 00:09:25,900 heavy menstrual periods, gosh, years prior to this incident. 151 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:30,900 And what I was told by my clinician for Vidor at that time 152 00:09:30,900 --> 00:09:36,600 was oh, it happens as you get older, it's no worry, no worry, 153 00:09:37,300 --> 00:09:41,600 and I knew better as a licensed registered nurse as a clinician 154 00:09:41,900 --> 00:09:45,600 in my mind, I knew better, but there was also a part of me that 155 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:49,700 just didn't want to realize what other possibilities there. 156 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:54,400 Could be in one of those being uterine fibroids and I fit the 157 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,400 perfect framework of an individual who would be 158 00:09:57,400 --> 00:09:59,700 diagnosed with uterine fibroids and sure enough. 159 00:10:00,300 --> 00:10:05,800 I was, and I did not have the great experience having a 160 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:09,000 laparoscopic procedure. I was filleted open look 161 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,400 C-section without a baby type surgery. 162 00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:17,400 Major surgery and woke up and was told hey we didn't get 163 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:20,700 everything. And oh by the way if you want it 164 00:10:20,700 --> 00:10:25,200 to have a baby, it's possible but you may not be able to carry 165 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:29,700 the term and and oh yeah you're going to need a history. 166 00:10:29,900 --> 00:10:33,100 To me at some point. So just so it's devastating to 167 00:10:33,100 --> 00:10:39,500 hear that experiences. Oh gosh, 37 37. 168 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:43,300 And this is, we have been trying, my husband and I have 169 00:10:43,300 --> 00:10:47,600 been trying to have a baby or years and that's what you get to 170 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:51,000 this point of where you're dealing with your below-the-belt 171 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,600 health and your you've got knowledge on your own, right? 172 00:10:55,600 --> 00:10:59,700 Just just I the happenstance of being a clinician. 173 00:10:59,800 --> 00:11:03,400 In your cell but there's a part of you that I think that's just 174 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:05,900 very human that we can all relate to that. 175 00:11:05,900 --> 00:11:09,000 You hold out because you hold out hope for your own patients, 176 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:10,200 right? And why wouldn't you hold out? 177 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,700 Hope for yourself as it relates to something that you want like 178 00:11:13,700 --> 00:11:17,600 so much. And but the reality set in that 179 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,700 okay, we have to make money. We got we got to make some 180 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:24,200 decisions. And so for me IVF was one of 181 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:28,700 those decision and IVF didn't help my issue with uterine 182 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:31,000 fibroids or The menstrual periods. 183 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:35,700 It just kind of added on another layer of complexity for, for me, 184 00:11:35,700 --> 00:11:39,900 and for my husband. But at the end of the day that 185 00:11:39,900 --> 00:11:43,700 that route didn't work for us, the IVF route did not work for 186 00:11:43,700 --> 00:11:50,600 us but I'm a firm believer that everything is ordered anyway, 187 00:11:50,800 --> 00:11:55,800 everything is ordered anyway so things are happening or happened 188 00:11:55,800 --> 00:11:59,500 the way that they were supposed to happen and but it's brought 189 00:11:59,500 --> 00:12:01,800 me. To the point now where I can 190 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:07,200 ensure that other people like myself, have the information to 191 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:11,200 a hate, know how, to Advocate know how to have conversations 192 00:12:11,300 --> 00:12:14,900 that are not adversarial with their, with their provider. 193 00:12:15,400 --> 00:12:20,700 And then, for those who have bio physiological, challenges below 194 00:12:20,700 --> 00:12:24,300 the belt, like, heavy periods, postpartum bleeds. 195 00:12:24,300 --> 00:12:27,800 And while bladder leaks to be able to provide a product that 196 00:12:27,800 --> 00:12:32,000 supports that as well as It's just it's a blessing to be able 197 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,300 to have a platform to do all of that through this brand. 198 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:38,000 Yeah, you mentioned a lot of things that I wanted to touch 199 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,300 on, and I was actually kind of typing it in as you were talking 200 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:43,400 because I was thinking about, I know a lot of women that listen 201 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:46,600 to this podcast are African-American and they are 202 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:48,400 nurses, that are African-American. 203 00:12:48,400 --> 00:12:50,500 I have them. They always write to me like hey 204 00:12:50,500 --> 00:12:51,900 Sandra, what about this? What about that? 205 00:12:51,900 --> 00:12:55,500 And I love it and hearing you talk about the uterine fibroids 206 00:12:55,500 --> 00:12:59,600 made me think like, this is a population that needs someone 207 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:03,200 Advocating for them teaching them because a lot of women that 208 00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:05,900 have fiber especially African Americans don't even know like 209 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:08,100 why is this happening? Because looking at just, they're 210 00:13:08,100 --> 00:13:11,900 saying it's some evidence of diet, history of abuse. 211 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:15,400 Vitamin D deficiency, a genetic component. 212 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,100 So, and then they were saying and again, this is one of the 213 00:13:18,100 --> 00:13:21,400 things that I don't talk about very often, but I find it very 214 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,200 interesting that we tend to be the number one consumer of hair 215 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:28,300 products, hair care products. And yet we are the number one 216 00:13:28,300 --> 00:13:31,300 people to end up having our The rest is have all these issues. 217 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:34,400 And so again, I'm not saying I'm a conspiracy theorist that, I 218 00:13:34,408 --> 00:13:38,500 believe all conspiracies, but I have put the stuff on my hair to 219 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:41,100 help moisturize girls. It needs it right now, but to 220 00:13:41,100 --> 00:13:43,300 help moisturize it, and do all that stuff. 221 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:45,800 And I started going through my own personal health journey 222 00:13:45,800 --> 00:13:48,500 through my own health issues. I have endometriosis. 223 00:13:48,500 --> 00:13:50,800 And so, again, we're talking below the belt, you and I were 224 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:52,300 just going to talk about that here today. 225 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:54,800 So if you're a guy and you're uncomfortable, please, excuse 226 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:56,800 us. But yeah, I have endometriosis. 227 00:13:56,800 --> 00:13:59,400 I have all these other autoimmune type things are 228 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:01,800 looking NG at an inn Demetrios has like it's an autoimmune 229 00:14:01,800 --> 00:14:05,400 disease possibly and so what I find is that we put all these 230 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:08,000 products on our skin and out our hair and our scalp and they get 231 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:10,500 absorbed and where did those things go? 232 00:14:10,500 --> 00:14:13,600 And we don't know and black women have not been educated on 233 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,100 these things and yet when you look up the ingredients that are 234 00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:19,700 in these products that we put on our hair and again vitamin D 235 00:14:19,700 --> 00:14:21,300 plays a role, your genetics play a role. 236 00:14:21,300 --> 00:14:23,900 I'm not going to not look at only one thing, but we need to 237 00:14:23,900 --> 00:14:26,600 wake up to what is it that we're putting on our body? 238 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:29,500 If we are the number one consumers of these things, how 239 00:14:29,500 --> 00:14:31,600 is this? Affecting our health and I'm 240 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,900 going to be nappy for some days if that's what it looks like if 241 00:14:34,900 --> 00:14:36,700 I need to. But I have to put this stuff on 242 00:14:36,700 --> 00:14:38,800 my hair to make you comfortable with my hair. 243 00:14:38,900 --> 00:14:41,300 I don't I'm not going to do it, we just need to be paying 244 00:14:41,300 --> 00:14:42,700 attention. If you're going to put stuff in 245 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:45,500 your hair, you need to run it through the ingredients. 246 00:14:45,500 --> 00:14:47,800 Make sure the stuff doesn't cause cancer because what I 247 00:14:47,800 --> 00:14:50,400 found was stuff that I was putting on my hair and in 248 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:53,700 Europe, they link it to genetic defects in your children. 249 00:14:53,700 --> 00:14:56,500 They link it to all these other things and I'm like, no idea. 250 00:14:56,500 --> 00:14:58,700 I'm putting the stuff on my hair for 15 years. 251 00:14:58,700 --> 00:15:01,800 I had no Clue. It could cause these types of 252 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:04,800 health issues and so yeah, I've had to come up with natural 253 00:15:04,800 --> 00:15:08,200 regimens for my hair. I go I spend more money to 254 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,500 invest in companies that create products for your hair that do 255 00:15:12,500 --> 00:15:17,700 not cause cancer and because we don't know and a lot of black 256 00:15:17,700 --> 00:15:19,600 women just want their hair to look a certain way. 257 00:15:19,600 --> 00:15:22,600 They want them to kind of fit in with Society, societal Norms. 258 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,000 But, let me tell you something. We are hurting ourselves, I 259 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:32,100 Believe by doing this to fit a You that is not meant for us. 260 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:34,300 And so again that's where I wear my hair natural. 261 00:15:34,300 --> 00:15:37,800 I hope I do a good job on social media just to show that because 262 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,400 I bought into the lies to a certain extent and feeling like 263 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,800 my hair needed to look a certain way in order to be seen as 264 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:47,900 valuable as to be seen as oral. And I remember, I put in grades 265 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:49,700 one time I wanted to wear braids. 266 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:52,300 I put them in because I wanted to give myself a break from 267 00:15:52,300 --> 00:15:53,900 having to do my hair all the time. 268 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:56,600 I put braids in and I'm going to tell you something, you get 269 00:15:56,600 --> 00:15:59,500 looked at differently, all my life, I just looked at one way. 270 00:15:59,700 --> 00:16:02,900 And then, once I put the braids in, and I came to work, one was 271 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:05,800 like, what is wrong with you? And we was wrong with me, I'm 272 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:08,300 African-American. Like I have braids in my hair, 273 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:11,700 like, I don't understand. And I actually kind of had to 274 00:16:11,700 --> 00:16:14,400 build a fortitude up. And again, this is to you and me 275 00:16:14,400 --> 00:16:16,400 just talking, I had to build a 42. 276 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:20,500 Got to just be like, my worth is not 25 by what's on top of 277 00:16:20,500 --> 00:16:23,000 what's coming out of the follicles, on top of my scalp. 278 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:24,900 Yeah, and more African American women. 279 00:16:24,900 --> 00:16:27,800 Need to embrace this concept because I was putting all this 280 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:32,100 product, brightening it Heating. Pouring it into our systems. 281 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:34,900 I believe that it is contributing to cancer, 282 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:38,100 especially not cancerous growth in the five uterine fibroids. 283 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:40,200 I mean, I can't see how it doesn't. 284 00:16:40,200 --> 00:16:44,200 I don't know how you feel about that but that's my own soap II 285 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:47,300 was natural before. I mean, my hair is actually flat 286 00:16:47,300 --> 00:16:49,700 iron. I got flat iron this weekend 287 00:16:49,700 --> 00:16:51,200 because I need it to have it trim. 288 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,700 But I was natural before. Natural was a thing. 289 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,500 Yeah. Good for over 25 years house. 290 00:16:58,500 --> 00:17:02,000 My birthday. Being out, somewhere visiting 291 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:06,000 visiting a client. And I had a curly Afro. 292 00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:09,200 And I had a physician actually say this. 293 00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,300 To me, he came out and he says, I hope you're enjoying the 294 00:17:12,300 --> 00:17:14,200 episode. I wanted to take a second and 295 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:16,099 tell you what. I've got cooking at the doctor's 296 00:17:16,099 --> 00:17:19,500 podcast, my business partner and I Jackie Cain created an Etsy 297 00:17:19,500 --> 00:17:23,800 shop called success and P. 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So yes, check it out. 313 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,600 Thanks for listening to the episode and thanks for 314 00:18:22,600 --> 00:18:25,800 supporting our Etsy shop. If you do, stop by and let's get 315 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,400 back to the episode, oh my gosh. What happened to you? 316 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,800 You You put your finger in an electric socket, and I've heard 317 00:18:32,800 --> 00:18:39,400 that, and I just remember the, my self-worth and value based on 318 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:43,000 his words alone, just went down right. 319 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,500 It just flatlined, and thank goodness for the crown act. 320 00:18:46,500 --> 00:18:50,200 But I am an ingredient reader as well. 321 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:56,000 Polyethylene, glycol, glycol, sulfates, sulfates all of that 322 00:18:56,000 --> 00:19:02,100 DPA someday the whole bed. I am a Firm firm, believer that 323 00:19:02,100 --> 00:19:07,300 those things do contribute to increase it as health outcomes. 324 00:19:07,500 --> 00:19:12,800 There's there's a part of you genetic wise genetic biomarkers 325 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,300 wise if you will. Will that is that you're already 326 00:19:16,300 --> 00:19:19,900 predisposed for something right. There is a saying out there. 327 00:19:19,900 --> 00:19:23,600 If you live long enough you'll probably have cancer because of 328 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:29,000 the biomarkers but it's the other things that you do to help 329 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,900 stabilize. That off just because you are 330 00:19:32,100 --> 00:19:37,100 predisposed or have genetics, doesn't necessarily mean that 331 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:40,600 you are going to be this. There are things that all of us 332 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:45,000 can actively do to help minimize those risks. 333 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:49,800 So yeah, Hair Care is is Big, the food that we eat. 334 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:54,200 Like I'm a big proponent of Shop Around the perimeter of the 335 00:19:54,208 --> 00:19:57,900 grocery store as soon as you go down the aisles. 336 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:03,400 Well, I mean, Not get it, I think I mess too, but for the 337 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:09,800 most part, if you're good to sell your body will return and 338 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:13,900 like horn, it will be good to you for you. 339 00:20:13,900 --> 00:20:18,700 And so it's one of those things. A lot of the times you don't 340 00:20:18,700 --> 00:20:21,700 know what you don't know but as soon as you do know, it's time 341 00:20:21,700 --> 00:20:23,000 to do better. Yes. 342 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:24,900 Well, said. And that was again, leading me 343 00:20:24,900 --> 00:20:26,400 to the second thing. I was thinking as you were 344 00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:30,000 telling that part of your story and your journey is that Your 345 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:35,100 grandfather Broke Free from generational poverty. 346 00:20:35,100 --> 00:20:39,100 And by setting the example for you, he sets his family and her 347 00:20:39,100 --> 00:20:43,000 trajectory of success. And so again, as I was saying 348 00:20:43,000 --> 00:20:47,500 earlier my grandfather, and my father, clearly African-American 349 00:20:47,500 --> 00:20:50,800 on my dad's side and they began that process as well of just 350 00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,800 kind of Breaking Free from the chains of poverty. 351 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,700 And by doing that setting his, the rest of the generations up 352 00:20:57,700 --> 00:21:00,000 for Success later down the road. Road. 353 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:03,100 And so it can start with you. It doesn't have to be oh my 354 00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:04,700 children will be the one to break me free. 355 00:21:04,700 --> 00:21:08,900 Like let it start with you and then you can set the rest of 356 00:21:08,900 --> 00:21:11,800 your family. Often a trajectory of success. 357 00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,500 It just needs to start with one person. 358 00:21:13,500 --> 00:21:17,500 Breaking free from the chains and then you now Inspire future 359 00:21:17,500 --> 00:21:20,100 generations to go. So my grandfather was one of the 360 00:21:20,100 --> 00:21:24,300 first African Americans to own a business and there is no excuse. 361 00:21:24,300 --> 00:21:29,000 There is no reason why I should not cannot will not be just as 362 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,800 successful. And so, you've got to break the 363 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:34,500 chains, right? And I love that, I love that you 364 00:21:34,500 --> 00:21:37,600 are bringing awareness to women of color, and women women 365 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:40,800 without color because women without color also issues in 366 00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,100 health and in do, and PCOS and all these different health, 367 00:21:44,100 --> 00:21:46,900 issues and bleeding problems, below the belt, how that they 368 00:21:46,900 --> 00:21:49,500 need to have a dress. Women of color have things that 369 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:52,800 we need to have a dress that are like, Hey listen, our genetics 370 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:57,400 load this gun, so easy, but if you can work to not fire the 371 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,500 gun, you might be able to stabilize. 372 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:01,900 A level of this off, to save your fertility. 373 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:05,000 And then also again going back to your journey and hearing so 374 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:09,300 beautifully said like we can start breaking cycles of poverty 375 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:14,100 and lack of Education with us that then affects the rest. 376 00:22:14,100 --> 00:22:17,800 And so just start with you, you can't change your parents, you 377 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:21,100 can't change your children, you can only add start with 378 00:22:21,100 --> 00:22:23,900 yourself. So start here and then watch it 379 00:22:23,900 --> 00:22:26,300 trickle down because it will, it has no choice. 380 00:22:26,300 --> 00:22:30,200 It has to go somewhere. So you've got to do the Work. 381 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:33,400 And so one of the other questions I had I like to hear 382 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:37,300 this because nursing triplets so well into entrepreneurship. 383 00:22:37,300 --> 00:22:40,100 And a lot of people don't understand that that are nursing 384 00:22:40,100 --> 00:22:43,000 skills, really helped us to build businesses. 385 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:45,600 What has been one of the things that you found in your 386 00:22:45,700 --> 00:22:49,000 background as a nurse that's helps you navigate business, a 387 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,200 little bit easier and then what's something that you think 388 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:55,400 this has been hard, because I didn't come from necessarily a 389 00:22:55,400 --> 00:22:58,500 business background for say, thanks for the research 390 00:22:58,500 --> 00:23:01,700 component. I remember being in nursing 391 00:23:01,700 --> 00:23:05,400 school and I'm starting anyone who's advanced practice? 392 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:10,400 Can certainly relate to the, the, the times where you had to 393 00:23:10,408 --> 00:23:14,500 do research? And it's not just reading 394 00:23:14,500 --> 00:23:17,500 somebody's blog, right? Is like peer-reviewed research. 395 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:20,300 You need to know where to go to get this information. 396 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:25,900 And so for me starting starting my business and it not being not 397 00:23:25,900 --> 00:23:29,700 like my product is not novel. There are other brands, Out 398 00:23:29,700 --> 00:23:34,500 there that do what I do, but it would have been very much 399 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:38,000 short-sighted for me to just say, oh, well, I'm going to 400 00:23:38,008 --> 00:23:41,900 start manufacturing these underwear because I have uterine 401 00:23:41,900 --> 00:23:46,700 fibroids and bleed all over the place as opposed to stop. 402 00:23:46,700 --> 00:23:50,300 Let's, let's do some research who are the key Market players 403 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:54,200 here in the US and Canada. Because those are the two places 404 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,500 where I want it to focus on for my business. 405 00:23:56,500 --> 00:23:58,600 What are they bringing in annually? 406 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,500 What is their purpose? Whereas Revenue, where are they 407 00:24:01,500 --> 00:24:05,100 getting their, their, their, their products from? 408 00:24:05,100 --> 00:24:07,800 Where are they manufacturing? How are they manufacturing? 409 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:11,300 What products, what Fabrics are they actually using? 410 00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,500 What are their customers saying? So it's all of this, this 411 00:24:14,500 --> 00:24:20,900 reserved on top of the fact of detail being detail-oriented 412 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:22,500 the. One of the things I still 413 00:24:22,500 --> 00:24:26,500 remember to this day is soon as you go into a patient's room and 414 00:24:26,500 --> 00:24:30,100 you see the you see tubes and all of that the first You should 415 00:24:30,100 --> 00:24:34,500 be doing is tracing the line. That's for the patient. 416 00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:39,100 How can I trace? What the success with these 417 00:24:39,100 --> 00:24:43,500 companies are having, how do I trace that line to see as the 418 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:48,000 most finite point or perspective of what they've done and how can 419 00:24:48,000 --> 00:24:53,300 I Elevate that? So, that has played a huge role 420 00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,300 for me as it relates to transferring. 421 00:24:56,300 --> 00:24:59,400 Those skill sets of a nurse into business. 422 00:24:59,500 --> 00:25:05,600 Yes, I would say that my mission in terms of needing more 423 00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:10,500 knowledge and polishing. If you will, is really 424 00:25:10,500 --> 00:25:15,500 understanding the international market, that's not something 425 00:25:15,500 --> 00:25:18,700 that comes by easily. Even if you did go to business 426 00:25:18,700 --> 00:25:24,200 school, even if you were around others who have businesses or 427 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:29,400 were entrepreneurs understanding international business, the guy 428 00:25:29,900 --> 00:25:35,400 I'm doing business outside of your your country. 429 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:37,700 It's a completely different Beast. 430 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:41,100 Whether we're talking about importation and exportation. 431 00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:45,200 Whether we're talking about sourcing products, or or 432 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,000 component of a product to make a widget, whatever it is that 433 00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:54,100 you're making, that is something that is a deficit can be a 434 00:25:54,108 --> 00:25:58,500 deficit for those, for sure. And it was a it was a pretty big 435 00:25:58,500 --> 00:26:02,200 deficit for me. Me starting out but thankfully 436 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:07,200 there was the good old googler out there and then there's SBA 437 00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:10,800 small business administration which is huge. 438 00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:15,900 It's a vault of resources that for the most part primarily of 439 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:19,400 no cost. So I would encourage anybody 440 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:24,100 nurse or otherwise considering the business to look into this 441 00:26:24,100 --> 00:26:28,600 small business administration as the launching pad for getting up 442 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:29,900 to speed. It. 443 00:26:29,900 --> 00:26:33,900 Some of the things that you may not be aware of the gas, the 444 00:26:33,900 --> 00:26:36,800 gaps in knowledge. Hopefully, yeah, I love that and 445 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,500 you're like the third person to recommend the small business 446 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:43,200 administration for nurses because it's just there like 447 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,100 it's free. I mean it's kind of like the 448 00:26:45,100 --> 00:26:47,400 invention of the library. I mean like Michael my son goes 449 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,100 in there. Like there's a place we can go 450 00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:51,200 to print books for free and like free baby. 451 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:54,500 He's like Spain's Gold Everywhere, Legend wisdom and 452 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,300 pick it up and so yeah, there's so again there's so many 453 00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:01,400 Options. And I think, I love how you said 454 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,800 that your, as you were talking, I was hearing like the 455 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,700 assessment and implementation phases in nursing. 456 00:27:07,700 --> 00:27:09,200 I mean, that's what we do, right? 457 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,600 We're trained to just assess, ask questions, figure out, trace 458 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,300 it back. Look at the full picture. 459 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:17,800 Look at the forest, through the trees, and to really go back and 460 00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:19,600 try to piece all those parts together. 461 00:27:19,600 --> 00:27:21,900 It's what we do every day with our patients, when they're like, 462 00:27:21,900 --> 00:27:25,100 I haven't been taking my meds. And you're like, why I haven't 463 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:27,600 talked to you all the way back to the very well. 464 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,600 I've been you find out like their Is just the one that 465 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:32,900 they're sending it to is just too far or like that. 466 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:35,700 Matt is just too expensive and so we need to switch it up and 467 00:27:35,700 --> 00:27:39,600 like we just find that that's what we do every day in our jobs 468 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,900 and that's the same process trillions so well into business 469 00:27:43,900 --> 00:27:48,000 and we just need to embrace that like this is just what we're 470 00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,200 able to do. Hey listen, you are not limited 471 00:27:51,300 --> 00:27:54,700 to just jobs in the hospital, you can come up with ideas, you 472 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:58,000 can a change people's lives. You can not only raise your 473 00:27:58,000 --> 00:28:00,800 knowledge and your understanding Standing of Health with a 474 00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:03,700 product and then, you can pinpoint it at a group of people 475 00:28:03,700 --> 00:28:07,300 that probably feel like they're not being there, not being 476 00:28:07,300 --> 00:28:09,900 marketed to. Like, the stuff is not marketed 477 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:11,700 to us. And so, we don't really think 478 00:28:11,700 --> 00:28:13,300 it's a big deal. But now I see an 479 00:28:13,300 --> 00:28:17,200 African-American woman who is broken free from the chains of 480 00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:21,000 feeling like I have to be a certain way or I have to do 481 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,100 anything else besides just be myself. 482 00:28:23,100 --> 00:28:25,700 And I believe that this is what I've been called to do because 483 00:28:25,700 --> 00:28:29,300 of what traumatic events that have led me up to them planning. 484 00:28:29,300 --> 00:28:33,700 This Seed and growing this tree out of my manure out of my 485 00:28:33,700 --> 00:28:37,100 really bad experience. I was able to build something 486 00:28:37,100 --> 00:28:40,200 this beautiful tree out of this by planting those seeds. 487 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:44,000 I just think it's such an incredibly inspiring story and I 488 00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:47,400 think that when you see what African Americans can do, people 489 00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,000 of color could do. It's inspiring. 490 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:53,900 We are some of the most resilient incredible people, and 491 00:28:53,900 --> 00:28:56,800 we just need to step in that. We need to move in that and that 492 00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,000 is for everyone. People of color people. 493 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,600 Not of Color. I want anyone to see themselves 494 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,500 every nurse to see themselves, as I have so much cup 495 00:29:05,500 --> 00:29:08,400 capability. I have so much potential in this 496 00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,400 brain. And in these hands that I just 497 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,700 need to go after it. It's just have like, absolutely. 498 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:19,100 I will say, if I could add one additional things for anyone who 499 00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:24,700 is especially for clinicians for nurses for bringing 12 looking 500 00:29:24,700 --> 00:29:29,300 to get into business or anything at all, whatever. 501 00:29:29,500 --> 00:29:35,100 Is business or or otherwise start with the end in mind, it? 502 00:29:35,100 --> 00:29:38,700 Because that's another thing you learned in nursing. 503 00:29:38,700 --> 00:29:42,300 As soon as that patient is admitted, what are you doing 504 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:44,400 you? It's gosh. 505 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,100 The, the term has literally escaped me but this charge 506 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,300 starts at it. Mission success starts at the 507 00:29:52,300 --> 00:29:56,900 beginning and you have to start visualizing the success that 508 00:29:56,900 --> 00:30:00,900 you're looking to have with your business, or Or whatever your 509 00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:05,400 new career, you have to Envision that if you start from the front 510 00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:09,200 and work or start at the end and work yourself backwards, you can 511 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:13,300 always almost figure out what your pit holes are going to be 512 00:30:13,300 --> 00:30:17,000 what your gas are going to be. You get that patient that comes 513 00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,800 in to the E. They've coded several times 514 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:22,800 while in the ad. Now, they're stable, they're 515 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:27,000 bringing them up to the floor and your task to get the room. 516 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,000 Ready, I worked in a 12-bed. Acute care hospital. 517 00:30:31,100 --> 00:30:34,900 So was not giving. So it's kind of like you did a 518 00:30:34,908 --> 00:30:38,200 little bit of everything, but you get that room together but 519 00:30:38,400 --> 00:30:42,200 because that, that patient is already coded several times, but 520 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:45,100 there are certain things you need to have ready to go in 521 00:30:45,100 --> 00:30:47,600 order to support that patient. It's the same thing when it 522 00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,000 comes to business. If you're starting from the end, 523 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,400 you're starting to get discharged. 524 00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:55,900 And what is discharged look like what is success look like and 525 00:30:55,900 --> 00:31:01,500 work yourself back to the start you can Say okay I'm missing. 526 00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:06,200 I'm missing the know-how for XYZ okay, I know I need to have this 527 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,000 in place because at some point I'm going to come across this 528 00:31:10,100 --> 00:31:14,800 and there is no forgiveness in getting ready. 529 00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:17,900 You don't get ready. You need to just be ready. 530 00:31:18,100 --> 00:31:21,400 There's no time and so it's the same thing. 531 00:31:21,400 --> 00:31:25,300 We don't get ready to save a patient, we need to just be 532 00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:28,200 ready for your business. You have to have that same level 533 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:33,500 of Of mental fortitude, knowing that I need to do everything 534 00:31:33,500 --> 00:31:37,200 that I need in terms of learning and and that can be overwhelming 535 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,500 for people. But the best way to eat, an 536 00:31:39,500 --> 00:31:43,200 elephant is one bite at a time, so you learn one element the 537 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,200 day. You create a calendar for 538 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,600 yourself and you say, all right, I'm going to learn everything 539 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:53,100 that there is to know about my specific product that I am 540 00:31:53,100 --> 00:31:56,400 importing. I'm going to now, two days 541 00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:59,200 later, I'm going to learn everything that there is to 542 00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:00,700 know. You know, about having the 543 00:32:00,700 --> 00:32:04,000 thing, let's return process. When someone says that they want 544 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:08,500 to return a product and, and you work at that way, it's this. 545 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:14,300 I think can be overwhelming. Sometimes as a clinician because 546 00:32:14,300 --> 00:32:19,500 we want everything to go, right? It's I don't think innately. 547 00:32:19,500 --> 00:32:22,500 We don't want to see anything go wrong. 548 00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:27,600 We want the best and that that bleeds into our personal lives, 549 00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:31,100 and as it speaks for - it bleeds into that as well. 550 00:32:31,300 --> 00:32:34,500 We want it to go, right? But you have to realize at some 551 00:32:34,500 --> 00:32:36,200 point. It's going to go wrong, but it's 552 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:40,200 not the wrong, that's the issue. It's the not being prepared. 553 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:44,500 So yeah, discharge starts admission success starts with 554 00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:48,200 the end in mind with your eats like Yeah because it allows you 555 00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:49,300 to work back. A plan. 556 00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:52,200 I've been in the operating room with surgeons and let me tell 557 00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,400 you something, when I'm with a physician that is laser focused 558 00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:58,900 doing his procedure, there is one thing they have all told me 559 00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:01,200 repeatedly. Idli, I need the room ready. 560 00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:05,000 I need to have my tools ready. I need to have my stitches, 561 00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,800 ready? I need to have my everything has 562 00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:10,100 to be prepared. He's like 90 percent of this 563 00:33:10,100 --> 00:33:12,600 game. Sandra is getting this part, 564 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:15,000 right? Then the 10% is where I go and 565 00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:18,200 do the thing that I'm going to do because I have gotten 566 00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:21,700 prepared. I have that step, one staple 567 00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,500 gun. I have that one thing that I 568 00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:29,200 need that allows me to operate the orchestra seamlessly, right? 569 00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:32,300 And so if you don't do that part, what you're describing 570 00:33:32,300 --> 00:33:35,100 getting prepared doing the hard work on the front thinking 571 00:33:35,100 --> 00:33:38,600 about, where am I shooting? Because where's my goal, where's 572 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,000 my trajectory? What am I aiming for? 573 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:42,700 Because if you don't know where you're aiming, you're going to 574 00:33:42,708 --> 00:33:44,000 have, you're not going to hit anything. 575 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,100 But if you, if you've got to go, you've got some that you're hit, 576 00:33:47,100 --> 00:33:49,900 you're trying to hit, even if you're off by a little bit, 577 00:33:49,900 --> 00:33:53,800 you're still closer than you would be then if you had no plan 578 00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:55,800 at all and no idea what you were doing. 579 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:58,300 Yeah. Wonderfully said I think that is 580 00:33:58,300 --> 00:34:01,500 fantastic advice. Vice that the work that you do 581 00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:05,100 the quiet work, the Deep work. It's the stuff that's not 582 00:34:05,100 --> 00:34:07,500 glamorized. It's me at this thing. 583 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,400 It's mean. Missing going to the beach this 584 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,100 past weekend because I needed to do the little work of the 585 00:34:12,100 --> 00:34:14,800 podcast. It's, this is the hard stuff, 586 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,500 nobody wants to talk about. Nobody wants to do we all just 587 00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:20,400 want to go and have fun and, and, and make, and make this 588 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:23,100 stuff look glamorized on Instagram and all this stuff. 589 00:34:23,100 --> 00:34:28,500 But yeah, really the stuff that builds and grows and I believe 590 00:34:28,500 --> 00:34:31,000 it's for a reason. That it's like in the quiet in 591 00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,300 the dark and spaces. Nobody sees that this stuff. 592 00:34:34,300 --> 00:34:36,600 Grows people look and go, how'd you get here? 593 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,699 Oh, you got lucky. Oh, it was handed to you. 594 00:34:38,699 --> 00:34:46,900 It's like, no, because I was reading about how this one 595 00:34:46,900 --> 00:34:50,100 material is breathable more. So than this material is. 596 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,199 It's more absorbent, but it doesn't do as good of a job and 597 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:55,100 it doesn't suck. So as well. 598 00:34:55,100 --> 00:34:57,300 And that's what I was doing, that's the work. 599 00:34:57,300 --> 00:35:01,600 I was doing the quiet assessing That we do as nurses every day 600 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:03,800 in day out that make people look at a patient. 601 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,300 You go, he can't get a bed store because we got to get him to 602 00:35:06,300 --> 00:35:08,600 discharge and he won't be discharged who's got a bed sore. 603 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,900 So not only do I know that he's not able to get up and move, but 604 00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:14,100 now I got to make sure I'm turning him every two hours and 605 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:17,400 I got to be putting the spots and so you're thinking ahead, 606 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:21,600 you're prepared, you're us. What we do on a daily basis and 607 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:25,800 it is perfect for that same implementation phase assessment 608 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:30,000 implementation interventions. It's what we do and Dad Jobs, 609 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,800 it's just translates perfectly and you talked a little bit 610 00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:35,600 about the small business administration. 611 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,000 We've got some help, it's anybody mentored you along the 612 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:42,200 way or has it just been just even a wolf pack of water. 613 00:35:42,500 --> 00:35:48,400 Which I found everything started out as a pack of one for a very 614 00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:50,700 long time. So interesting, Lee enough, this 615 00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:54,000 is not my first business, this is not my first foray into 616 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:57,500 business probably 12 13 years ago. 617 00:35:57,500 --> 00:36:01,600 I started in business and I had my own brand again, Aroma Chef 618 00:36:01,600 --> 00:36:04,200 bath and body. All natural, handmade 619 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:09,000 handcrafted body care that was personalized which is as we were 620 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,100 talking earlier about ingredients. 621 00:36:11,700 --> 00:36:15,800 Really got me to the point of realizing what's healthy and 622 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,500 what's not. But I had a lot of that that 623 00:36:19,500 --> 00:36:23,300 ground that I was a lone wolf and as well that I had tapped 624 00:36:23,300 --> 00:36:27,600 into to pull this this business. Well we're by and he's blocked 625 00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,000 forward. However, as a Right? 626 00:36:30,300 --> 00:36:36,000 I also have resources available to me and it wasn't until this 627 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:41,000 past spring want to stay march/april timeframe that I 628 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:47,000 partook in a woman's veteran. This event that was a 3-day 629 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,900 immersion if you will. And to business that literally 630 00:36:50,900 --> 00:36:54,900 opened my eyes to what is available, not only through the 631 00:36:55,300 --> 00:36:59,000 veterans division or supporting people in getting started with 632 00:36:59,000 --> 00:36:59,800 this. Business. 633 00:36:59,900 --> 00:37:04,100 But also through the SBA and as a result of that, I did link up 634 00:37:04,100 --> 00:37:07,900 with a mentor. So I would say start with your 635 00:37:07,900 --> 00:37:12,400 local SBA chapter it is, it's free. 636 00:37:12,500 --> 00:37:16,000 It is free. And I had a mentor that I was 637 00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:19,300 connected with and she and I had standing appointments every 638 00:37:19,300 --> 00:37:23,600 Friday, she look at my books. She would look at the she would 639 00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,300 look at everything. She would tell me. 640 00:37:25,300 --> 00:37:28,700 Okay, this is what are you able to find this? 641 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:35,100 Shannon, who assist people in learning usable skills, like 642 00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:38,300 sewing. And so we can look at China, get 643 00:37:38,300 --> 00:37:43,200 your manufacturing done and we can employ some people who 644 00:37:43,500 --> 00:37:46,200 didn't necessarily have options before. 645 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:50,300 And when you do that, there's actual money to that the 646 00:37:50,300 --> 00:37:53,700 government provides because you're supporting the sector of 647 00:37:53,700 --> 00:37:57,200 people who didn't necessarily have a skill set and so they 648 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,400 learn the skill set. Now you've employed them And 649 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:02,600 this is not portunity, this is another Avenue to get money, 650 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,300 working with her, I learned that when you have your business 651 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:12,100 operation in a particular place based on the SV a map, if it's I 652 00:38:12,100 --> 00:38:16,900 forget the word that they use to coat it but if your place of 653 00:38:16,900 --> 00:38:21,600 business it's within that map there's money or that there's 654 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:26,500 subsidies for that so you wouldn't know any of this. 655 00:38:26,500 --> 00:38:32,900 I wouldn't know any of this had Had it not been for the SBA so I 656 00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:38,000 highly, highly recommend that if someone is even considering 657 00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,700 starting a business. So look into the SBA, the 658 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:47,300 government is the largest purchaser of goods and they have 659 00:38:47,300 --> 00:38:52,500 tracks available for everything. Literally everything right down 660 00:38:52,500 --> 00:38:55,600 underwear for prisons. Everything, right? 661 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:59,700 So you can get yourself a government, whether you Our 662 00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:05,700 teaching, how to breastfeed to women in lower socioeconomic 663 00:39:05,700 --> 00:39:10,300 areas as a licensed registered nurse or whether you're going 664 00:39:10,300 --> 00:39:12,600 into schools and teaching health. 665 00:39:12,600 --> 00:39:16,300 Because we all know that the school I come from my parents 666 00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:20,100 are Educators. So I know all too well that the 667 00:39:20,107 --> 00:39:23,500 schools don't have money, they certainly didn't have money. 668 00:39:23,500 --> 00:39:27,200 When I was growing up, the teachers were operating very 669 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,100 lean and they're still operating very. 670 00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:33,500 Elaine and it's terrible. So they're getting rid of a lot 671 00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:37,500 of programs at the school level but as a clinician as an 672 00:39:37,500 --> 00:39:40,200 advanced practice or licensed registered nurse, there's no 673 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:45,000 reason why you you people watching, can't take your 674 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,400 knowledge and your know how go to canva, okay? 675 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:51,800 I'm dropping gems at this point. So did not come. 676 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:55,900 Get you an account its free, put in the search. 677 00:39:55,900 --> 00:40:00,300 I'm canva workbook. It'll pull up a It and you start 678 00:40:00,300 --> 00:40:05,800 building your workbook to teach whether it is 6 to 10 year olds, 679 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:14,300 the basics of eating well or whether it is 11 to 14 year old, 680 00:40:14,300 --> 00:40:19,000 the basics of help and whether it's 15 to 18 year olds at the 681 00:40:19,000 --> 00:40:23,700 high school, level below the belt, help create workbooks, get 682 00:40:23,700 --> 00:40:26,900 you, some business cards may go to go to. 683 00:40:26,900 --> 00:40:29,100 I use a company, it's called gr print. 684 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:31,500 But this department is another one. 685 00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:32,900 Geo-print. You actually have to have a 686 00:40:32,908 --> 00:40:38,800 business so grr but this stuff print.com go there, get you some 687 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:43,300 business cards and then make a list of schools, and you start 688 00:40:43,300 --> 00:40:46,200 going to these schools. And this is coming straight, 689 00:40:46,200 --> 00:40:49,500 from my, my parents, both of whom were administrators in the 690 00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:52,300 education. You don't call you need to show 691 00:40:52,300 --> 00:40:54,200 up. You asked to speak with the 692 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:58,700 principal or the vice principal and you have your 60 seconds, 693 00:40:58,700 --> 00:41:01,700 feel Down. Hello, I'm a licensed registered 694 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:03,300 nurse. I'm wanting to give back to the 695 00:41:03,300 --> 00:41:05,900 community. I am aware that there is title. 696 00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,200 I think it's Title One or don't quote me on the title. 697 00:41:11,100 --> 00:41:13,200 I don't want. I understand that there's Title 698 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,300 One money to in order to for enrichment programs. 699 00:41:17,300 --> 00:41:20,800 I'd like to provide an enrichment program or your 700 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,200 school to support your kids and understanding their health. 701 00:41:24,300 --> 00:41:28,400 Get you a little 15-page workbook, have a contract ready 702 00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:31,500 to go. Go and what that looks like. 703 00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,600 And now you are serving the community because now, you are 704 00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:40,800 informing and educating the next Generation on how to be healthy, 705 00:41:40,900 --> 00:41:44,900 how to understand their body, how to Advocate, when within the 706 00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:49,500 health system, all these things. That most people do not get 707 00:41:49,500 --> 00:41:52,600 clinicians nurses, Advanced Graphics providers. 708 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:58,000 Most people don't understand that and you get paid for it. 709 00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,900 You're welcome. Guys, thank you very much, guys. 710 00:42:01,900 --> 00:42:04,600 That's literally at this is she just admitted right there on the 711 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,400 spot? Go do it tomorrow. 712 00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:07,900 If you're like, I don't have anything to do. 713 00:42:07,900 --> 00:42:12,000 I want to do this or that just again dark work in the dark 714 00:42:12,100 --> 00:42:13,600 figure out what needs to get done. 715 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,200 You've got to build that canva booklet, right. 716 00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:20,800 You've got to do that work that work and then let it work for 717 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:23,400 you again. It doesn't have to necessarily 718 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:26,300 be. This drudgery work of I don't 719 00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:29,700 want to go to the hospital or I've got this in a Addition to 720 00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:32,300 my work at the hospital, I'm doing both for a period of time, 721 00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:35,500 and then whenever your educational booklet that you've 722 00:42:35,500 --> 00:42:37,900 worked on, it's getting a little bit more traction, you've 723 00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,700 improved it. You've worked a couple more 724 00:42:39,700 --> 00:42:42,500 hours late Into the Night, a couple of nights out of the week 725 00:42:42,500 --> 00:42:44,700 to make the booklet or, and you figured out what the people 726 00:42:44,700 --> 00:42:48,000 need. You're actually able to now make 727 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,600 something that can work for you. And again it may not necessarily 728 00:42:51,600 --> 00:42:55,700 bring in millions but even if it brings in a little bit over time 729 00:42:55,900 --> 00:42:58,900 that money starts to add up and so it can allow you to do other 730 00:42:58,900 --> 00:43:00,700 things. I just think that is such a 731 00:43:00,700 --> 00:43:03,800 great tip and again, you just mentored everybody. 732 00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:07,300 That was listening. No excuses, way like a champion. 733 00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,300 And then, for the last question, the podcast, I like to ask. 734 00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,800 If you could go back and give Christy one piece of advice, she 735 00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:17,200 is just finishing up her military to time serving, she's 736 00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:19,300 just becoming a nurse, she's starting to go about, she just 737 00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:21,200 became a nurse. She's getting her MBA. 738 00:43:21,700 --> 00:43:24,700 What would you go back and tell her that you wish you would have 739 00:43:24,700 --> 00:43:27,000 known sooner based on what you today? 740 00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:32,900 I told my then sell. It's okay to shine. 741 00:43:34,100 --> 00:43:37,200 It's okay to shine. Yeah, being in the military, 742 00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,200 which is such a male-dominated field. 743 00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,800 This is Madison. I mean, I think nurses that's a 744 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:47,100 little carve out right, but generally speaking, as soon as 745 00:43:47,100 --> 00:43:50,600 still a very male-dominated field. 746 00:43:50,900 --> 00:43:55,500 And I was so fortunate in my military career to have strong 747 00:43:55,500 --> 00:44:00,800 mentors who were actually women. My, my chief was female, my 748 00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:05,200 commander was female. And there were times when I 749 00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:09,300 would say, I don't want to do this and there would be a 750 00:44:09,300 --> 00:44:12,000 conversation with both of them in front of me. 751 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,300 While we didn't ask you, what you wanted, you will be doing 752 00:44:15,300 --> 00:44:21,400 this and thank God, thank God. But I felt so much pressure from 753 00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,900 my peers at that time because I was doing so much more than they 754 00:44:25,900 --> 00:44:29,400 were. I was being slotted to do things 755 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,800 that were not necessarily congruent with my rank was 756 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,800 probably, I was doing something that was a couple of ranks 757 00:44:35,800 --> 00:44:38,900 higher than what I, what them what I was at the time. 758 00:44:39,100 --> 00:44:42,800 And so I felt I felt some kind of way about it because I wanted 759 00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:47,100 friends and I lost friends. And for sure, I would look back 760 00:44:47,100 --> 00:44:50,700 and say, it's okay to shine. It was okay to shine in the 761 00:44:50,700 --> 00:44:52,700 military. It's okay to lose friends 762 00:44:52,700 --> 00:44:57,300 because if you're losing People based upon, you've been great, 763 00:44:57,500 --> 00:44:59,400 guess what? It's all they weren't your 764 00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:03,000 friends anyway and it's the same thing. 765 00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,400 Even in a nursing career, you're going to have people who are 766 00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:10,800 going to give you a hard time who are going to wonder. 767 00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:14,800 Well, why are you, why aren't you satisfied with just being on 768 00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,100 the floor? You're always talking about 769 00:45:17,100 --> 00:45:20,800 business and nobody wants to hear your ideas. 770 00:45:20,900 --> 00:45:25,200 This that the other, it's okay to shine like you if you want to 771 00:45:25,207 --> 00:45:28,000 stay in your corner, that's cool. 772 00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:30,400 Cool. But I'm going to go ahead and be 773 00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:34,700 a beacon of light and just kind of opened my light up for 774 00:45:34,700 --> 00:45:40,600 everything that I'm do. And I think more of us as women 775 00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:44,900 need to recognize that it's okay for you to take up space. 776 00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:47,800 Yes, I love that. I knew that's what you meant. 777 00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:50,700 When you first said it's okay to shine because it's true. 778 00:45:50,700 --> 00:45:52,900 There's this idea that you just want to blend in. 779 00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:57,100 You just want to fit in, you don't want to be this awkward 780 00:45:57,100 --> 00:46:00,600 thing, you just I kind of fit in here just like everybody else, 781 00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:05,200 but that is not how you move into positions of leadership or 782 00:46:05,200 --> 00:46:08,600 move into positions of Entrepreneurship by trying to be 783 00:46:08,600 --> 00:46:10,700 like everybody else. Nobody else is broke, mr. 784 00:46:10,700 --> 00:46:13,400 Galan burned out. Everybody else is broke 785 00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:16,500 miserable and burned out. Please shine, please shine. 786 00:46:16,500 --> 00:46:20,500 Please stand out. Please be different because it 787 00:46:20,500 --> 00:46:24,300 sucks being normal. Normal sucks and we need more 788 00:46:24,300 --> 00:46:28,400 people saying, Hey listen, I'm not going to be like like the 789 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:30,700 rest of y'all because this is not fun. 790 00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:33,200 Yeah, and that's okay. If you I mean that's what we 791 00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:34,600 need and I talk about all the time. 792 00:46:34,600 --> 00:46:37,700 I podcast. There is no other Christie. 793 00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:40,100 There's no other Sandra. Like, there's not like we're 794 00:46:40,100 --> 00:46:42,300 never replicated, awful it. What was it? 795 00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:45,100 Like often duplicated, never replicate every replicate, 796 00:46:45,900 --> 00:46:47,600 something like that. Another saying, don't quote me 797 00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,300 on the saying, but yeah, it's just kind of like what it seems 798 00:46:49,300 --> 00:46:53,600 like you're an individual and like to do what is individually 799 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:55,800 for you. And if all of us were shining, 800 00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:58,200 it doesn't take away from my shine when you shine it as Take 801 00:46:58,200 --> 00:47:01,400 away from my shine. And so you've got to do you and 802 00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,400 let me do me and we all could just do aren't because it sounds 803 00:47:04,400 --> 00:47:07,700 kind of strange, but let's all just be ourselves and that's 804 00:47:07,700 --> 00:47:09,000 really kind of what he's going to say. 805 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:20,200 We all need to do ourselves but I just hope that more and more 806 00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,900 people hear that and I love what you've created and I think it is 807 00:47:23,900 --> 00:47:26,500 fantastic that you are marrying, all these different things in 808 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,200 parts of your career together. So, for the last part of the 809 00:47:29,200 --> 00:47:30,800 interview, I do rapid fire question. 810 00:47:30,800 --> 00:47:32,900 Are you ready for your rapid fire questions? 811 00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:34,000 Okay. Okay. 812 00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:39,900 I think so, I love Family Feud, so it's going to be like, does 813 00:47:39,900 --> 00:47:44,000 okay? What is your favorite food, 814 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,000 Mexican? Mexican. 815 00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:50,200 What time of day are you? Most inspired, 10 p.m. 10 p.m., 816 00:47:50,300 --> 00:47:55,500 and what was your first job ever, Taco, Bell 5? 817 00:47:58,200 --> 00:48:01,000 From there, I think that from Cracker Barrel, I love you, I 818 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,300 love it. Well, I can't give a Shameless 819 00:48:03,300 --> 00:48:06,800 plug for your company if you had to give a 30-second pitch so 820 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:10,700 that people will buy your undies and what you offer, shoot it, 821 00:48:10,700 --> 00:48:13,600 shoot it to my audience. Now I want to hear my shot 822 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:17,500 absolutely what Andy's Loft, you can find us at undies lock.com 823 00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,100 our underwear or breathable made of bamboo. 824 00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:23,700 They absorb menstrual periods postpartum in my bladder leaks, 825 00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,700 definitely made for Comfort but you look fantastic wearing them. 826 00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:32,000 And you can find me he's locked and at, hello, we're on 827 00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:35,100 Instagram. If you have any questions and I 828 00:48:35,107 --> 00:48:38,000 think that was less than 30 seconds but that's the fact of 829 00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:42,200 it and it has been a true pleasure being here with you 830 00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:44,100 Sandra ugly. I could do this all day. 831 00:48:44,900 --> 00:48:47,200 Obviously, we're Kindred Spirits for sure. 832 00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:50,500 So thank you for coming on and sharing your wisdom, and your 833 00:48:50,500 --> 00:48:53,500 knowledge, and your experience and just being super vulnerable 834 00:48:53,500 --> 00:48:56,600 with all your struggles in life. And again, trauma and taking the 835 00:48:56,607 --> 00:48:59,500 trauma and creating Beautiful from it. 836 00:48:59,500 --> 00:49:04,300 That is I think the the sign of a life truly well-lived is by 837 00:49:04,300 --> 00:49:08,600 taking the things that happen to us that are hard and and using 838 00:49:08,600 --> 00:49:10,900 those things to create things that are beautiful. 839 00:49:11,100 --> 00:49:14,300 So thank you. Thank you, I appreciate it. 840 00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,100 Alright guys, don't forget to enjoy the journey. 841 00:49:16,100 --> 00:49:17,900 Thanks for listening to this week's episode. 842 00:49:24,600 --> 00:49:27,900 So that's a wrap, be sure to subscribe to the show so you 843 00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:30,500 don't miss an episode and leave me a review. 844 00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:33,300 If you like the show, I would love to get 5 stars. 845 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,800 The doctors podcast is all in the world, wide web, YouTube 846 00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:41,100 Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, patreon, and Tick-Tock subscribe 847 00:49:41,100 --> 00:49:45,300 to my newsletter for updates on new podcast episodes and other 848 00:49:45,300 --> 00:49:48,100 information to help you on your own nursing Journey. 849 00:49:48,100 --> 00:49:50,800 You can always message me at the doctor nurse podcast at 850 00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,100 gmail.com with any career. Is that you're interested in 851 00:49:54,100 --> 00:49:56,100 hearing about and just a friendly. 852 00:49:56,100 --> 00:49:59,400 Reminder, the information on this podcast is for educational 853 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,400 purposes only and the information should not be used 854 00:50:02,400 --> 00:50:05,500 in substitute for Professional Care by a medical provider. 855 00:50:05,900 --> 00:50:09,400 The information in this podcast does not represent medical or 856 00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:16,000 professional advice or services. Jean mom back.