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Hi there. 
My name is dr. 

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Presenta, and I'm the host of 
the doctor nurse podcast. 

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I'm an advanced nurse 
practitioner and I want to be 

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your guide into the world of 
nursing professions. 

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This podcast is a platform for 
nurses to share their Journeys 

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as they made their way in the 
diverse field of nursing as 

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either entrepreneurs, Academia 
private, practice or even the 

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corporate world. 
I think we should celebrate just

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how diverse the field of nursing
is through mentoring one. 

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Another, with the stories of our
career. 

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Our Journeys, nothing is too 
mundane because each journey is 

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unique. 
This podcast will showcase 

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career options to encourage 
nurses to view their degrees 

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with a business mindset. 
After all we work in the 

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healthcare business and 
ultimately I hope I might 

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inspire you to make a change. 
If you're looking for something 

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different, I am motivated to see
you live, your best, nursing 

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life and that looks different 
for everyone. 

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Thanks for joining me on today's
podcast. 

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And let's get started with 
today's guests. 

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Hi Beth, welcome to the doctor 
nurse podcast. 

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So happy to have you on today. 
Oh Sandra, thank you so much for

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having me. 
It's such an honor. 

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I so admire what you're doing 
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So thank you for our listeners. 
Elizabeth is a BS n RN and who 

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has built a six-figure writing 
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she became a nurse at midlife. 
And you primarily worked in the 

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perioperative nursing setting 
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you've decided to go ahead and 
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Coaching nurses to become 
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blown my mind. 
Also, the host of there are n to

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writer show, which I have been 
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to. 
It is so interesting for our 

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listeners, guys check her out. 
She is on the mission to have 

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nurses, take over the health 
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So I really, really, really 
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I'm so happy to interview you. 
Welcome, welcome, welcome and 

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let's Dive Right In. 
Thank you so much. 

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Let's do it. 
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So Scribe to our listeners. 
What use your current role? 

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What's your job title? 
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every day, Beth? 
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I call myself the CEO of this 
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courses and coaching to other 
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to become freelance writers. 
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office enthused and energized to
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these nurses get started and And
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We've had a lot of success 
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program telling about their 
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gratifying, that's awesome. 
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does, what is that? 
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other nurses to do, right? 
It's a very unknown career 

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option for nurses. 
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journalism and Or marketing 
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freelance writers to produce 
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web pages or, you know, all of 
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You sign up for something and 
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either explain what you bought 
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stuff. 
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wrote that. 
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demand for nurses to do a lot of
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under the byline of a nurse and 
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clinician mdp a social worker 
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some search engines view that as
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boosts Pages rank in the search 
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So there's been a massive uptick
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to do this kind of writing and 
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that. 
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Are they looking for RNs? 
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incredible writing history? 
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nurses coming into this is as my
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It does not require any 
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tell nurses. 
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nursing paper, you're writing 
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about pursuing a writing career,
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Were and punctuation and all of 
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editors are going to provide you
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And so back to my point, if you 
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c then congratulations, you can 
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So we're boils down to, that's 
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And that's pretty simple. 
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So tell us about your journey 
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stepping into freelance writing.
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note and I'm always very 
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was a writer before, I was a 
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So way, back in the dark ages of
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public relations and marketing 
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releases, Has and marketing 
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become a nurse which was my 
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a lot of people and Adolescence 
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that. 
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became a nurse and within a few 
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was not a good fit for me. 
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a lot of my energy to do high 
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People all the time. 
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my shift and I was honestly 
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how I love doing patient 
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nurse and he said to me you need
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nursing NG with your writing, 
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millions of patients all at 
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five a day at the bedside and I 
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went off. 
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husband. 
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my biggest champion all through 
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making it. 
He was always like just keep 

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plugging and he was correct. 
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How sweet. 
That's how that came to pass. 

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Gotcha tummy throughout your 
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What was something that you kind
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success in your career? 
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you say this was this was the 
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for me as a writer. 
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happened right out of the gate 
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part-time on the side while I 
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and I was saving up the meager 
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I was making at that time as a 
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Her. 
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a conference, the association of
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conference. 
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was an opportunity to meet with 
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them. 
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meet with two editors from 
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And I write like that would be a
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Yeah. 
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Google right right, right. 
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there because I did not have the
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unimpressed with my article 
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by the fact. 
I was a nurse like this was kind

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of new to them to that. 
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How they make right in front of 
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came away with a contract, a 
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them. 
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to have like a core Type thing 
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WebMD answers and I was their 
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That allowed me to quit my 
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foundation of money, you know? 
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there. 
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having the again. 
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go for it and look like, it's it
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Thing to get you out of a job 
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that you let fear hold you back 
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fear of change, right? 
The fear of something, unknown 

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that is the key to fear holds us
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It keeps us locked in, and I 
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your audience to think about the
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irrevocable like you can, there 
are many alternative nursing 

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careers like writing that you 
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they don't work out that's fine 
then go try something else. 

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Like it's not like you have to 
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I quit my job and give up all 
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blah blah blah and it's such a 
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It's like no keep that and then 
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till you find something that 
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from a different angle. 
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to overcome and your career that
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could have let that hold me back
but I didn't like you know what 

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was something that you did have 
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What was a fear maybe? 
Well let me tell you I spent 20 

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So there were a lot of things to
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syndrome like feeling what does 
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you are certain? 
You were going to be found out 

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for not being who you are or 
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At what you do. 
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I had impostor syndrome 
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When I was a new graduate nurse,
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certain at any moment, the 
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me and go your no nurse you May 
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really doing this. 
And that happens with writers to

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you just lack confidence in your
ability, your certain that every

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time you turn something into a 
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back, horrible red ink. 
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never working with you again 
because clearly you suck and you

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should not be a writer. 
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people. 
You know, it's not it has never 

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How have you overcome impostor 

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syndrome? 
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lovely comments. 
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your next piece out, it gets 
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publication whatever that is. 
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accept your pitch, and then at a
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You know, I am good at this. 

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I'm getting validated, I guess 
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I'm kind of shocked at how many 

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session and I'll ask, you know, 
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I only finished my website and 

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I'm like, that's not nothing. 
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Yeah, moving. 
That's good bath. 

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So, tell me. 
Was there anybody that men? 

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Did anybody introduce you to 

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I mean it sounds like your 

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husband was super inspirational.
I just kind of putting the two 

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the way? 
That's been a big help to your 

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career, the short answer to that
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that person for other nurses. 
I like I say took almost 20 

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As a nurse writer, I did connect
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person or even a group to sort 
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I can't think of one figured it 
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It was all trial and error, but 
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much of a community is what 
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Are there a lot of nurse right? 
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question, I'm not positive 
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writer, I'm not aware of any 
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That's not my strength and so I 
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nurse writers. 
I think that there are quite a 

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small. 
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What do you and Mark is 
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everything going digital right 
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computer-based. 
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The markets going to look like? 
We are in the information age 

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and that is not going to end in 
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There are currently 400 million 
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question. 
A lot of people say well are you

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that's a scarcity mindset, the 
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there's a limited number of 
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Production is there's pizzas 
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love it. 
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like let's, let's pick the 
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Cleveland clinic alone might put
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This is hypothetical, I don't 
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and they're just a provider. 
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technology at. 
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content that has to be produced 
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So there's never going to not be
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And that's not only my opinion, 
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your podcast that it is a 
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You had someone from a writing 
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with, you had her on your 
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describing kind of where she 
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the oven, we don't need to ask 
for a slice. 

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You got a whole pizza, there's 
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And there's going to be space. 
And so if you're interested in 

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this, check it out as a side 
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Like you said, if it doesn't 
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But at least you gave it a shot 
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fits your lifestyle. 
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you said you were working on the
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We're not all made the same way 
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something different. 
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Thank you. 

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and really expand your impact as
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That's really great. 
So Al our last question is what 

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advice Ice. 
Do you have for a nurse who's 

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starting off on her career? 
Maybe she's like you, she's been

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on the floor and she's like this
blows and she's like something 

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new. 
Or she's like I have no idea 

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like what Beth is even talking 
about like where can I where can

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I even get started? 
What advice do you have for a 

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new nurse starting off? 
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First is be patient with 
yourself because when you start 

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to explore freelance writing or 
any alternative career, you're 

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talking about need To learn in 
an entire industry like writing 

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and content production and 
journalism our Industries and 

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you're a nurse. 
So it is going to there is going

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to be a learning curve involved.
Persistence is key be 

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systematic. 
As you start exploring this, I 

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will say that, our inter writer 
offers lots of free resources to

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people. 
We have, I do a Blog every week.

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We have a newsletter that has 
external links to tips. 

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To help understand this industry
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We have the our enter writer 
show on YouTube and of course, 

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Spotify and apple podcast. 
And yes, we also sell courses 

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and coaching that. 
So, I've had people who got 

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started and found success only 
using our free resources, the 

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purpose of doing courses in 
coaching, is to shorten that 

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learning curve to get quicker 
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It's not about, you can only 
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If you buy my courses and 
coaching, I That I believe you 

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mentioned the mission of our 
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and we are mission driven like I
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coaching because my goal is for 
possibly Healthcare 

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Communications to even become a 
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journalism content marketing, 
internal Communications PR and 

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health care. 
But I can't do that if there's 

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not nurse writers. 
So we had to start by teaching 

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people how to be writers. 
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invade this and take it over. 
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learn about the industry, use 
our resources, if that's helpful

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and be persistent because slow 
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Is what will get you to your 
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Yeah, that's really good the 
consistency over time, everyone.

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Just, I hear that constantly in,
and the Book of James Clear 

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Atomic habits. 
He talks about the consistency, 

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right? 
And he's like, just do it 

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everyday repeatedly, even if 
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Consistent. 

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And when you get into that 
mindset, it really does begin to

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change the environment around 
you and things. 

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Start to show up how I'm just 
being in minimally consistent 

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and this stuff's kind of coming 
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It's kind of crazy How the 
Universe works this way. 

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It's like a secret hack for the 
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It's just stay consistent. 
So that's really good. 

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Advice that. 
Can you tell people how to find 

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you where can I know you're on? 
Like you said, you're on 

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Spotify. 
You're on YouTube. 

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You are on Apple podcast again. 
Subscribe to her show. 

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It's just so great, and she's 
just to the point there. 

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The Saudis are just jam-packed 
of just knowledge and 

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information. 
And how can they find you on 

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your website? 
Thank you. 

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So we're all renter writer.com. 
It's a numeral to its rn2 

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writer. 
I do want to emphasize that all 

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clinicians are welcome. 
When I launched that website in 

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2014, it was a Blog about me. 
I'm the RN going to writer. 

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I just kept that name but it 
confuses some people because 

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they're like oh it excludes me? 
No, no, we don't. 

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Flute, anyone. 
If you're a clinician, by all 

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means join us. 
I wanted to put in a little plug

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to for the success society, 
which is the only online Forum 

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Community for nurses. 
And other clinicians who, right?

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I did not want to go on Facebook
because of privacy concerns. 

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So we have a private community 
on the website, but you can find

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us there are into writer and 
that links out to all our other 

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resources. 
Very cool. 

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So for the last part of the 
interview is the rapid fire 

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questions. 
I'm ready? 

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Are you ready? 
So, our first question is, 

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what's your favorite drink 
coffee? 

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Or tea? 
Coffee coffee? 

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Yep. 
Yep. 

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Who is your inspiration and why?
Gosh, my inspiration. 

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That should be an easy one. 
Shouldn't it? 

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You know, the first thing that 
comes to my mind is my mother. 

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I take care of my mother. 
She has dementia now, but she 

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has overcome a lot of obstacles 
in her life and that's been very

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inspiring to me. 
Wow, that's incredible. 

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And are you a summer winter 
fall? 

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Spring, what's your favorite 
season? 

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I am a spring person. 
I really, I love the. 

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I love Point. 
Everything is coming out. 

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It's like, filled, with promise 
the spring. 

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I just love that. 
It's like we're leading into 

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summer and I love the summer and
I love the fall. 

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But spring is what inspires me. 
I love that. 

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I'm such an Autumn person. 
Like I guess. 

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Maybe I'm like opposite. 
I'm like everything's going. 

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It's just got, like this. 
Like different vibe of like new 

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things are coming. 
Maybe it's like a reverse. 

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Verse reverse of what you're 
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It's just something about 
pumpkin spice lattes that I love

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anyway. 
Thank you for coming on to the 

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podcast. 
Thank you for your time today. 

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It was so great chatting. 
Thank you so much for having me.

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Truly, it's an honor to be on 
and I really appreciate all 

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you're doing for nurses. 
I appreciate you. 

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Letting me get the message out 
to nurses about this fabulous, 

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career alternative, and maybe we
can chat again on my podcast. 

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I would love that. 
I'd be honored to be on. 

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Thank you. 
Thanks guys for listening. 

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We are at the end of our time 
together. 

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And as always thanks for 
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Kevin prior for your support of 
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the information should not be 
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The information. 
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medical or other professional 
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