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Hi guys, and welcome to another episode of the doctor nurse
podcast. You guys know that every single
week, I interview a nurse entrepreneur or a nurse with a
side hustle and always interviewing nurses, but this
given that it was my 37th birthday.
I really wanted to do a little bit of reflection this week.
I just published the 60th episode of the podcast.
So instead of just moving forward and doing I would
typically always do and just move on to the next piece of
work. I really wanted to spend a
little bit of time reflecting each week, we interview a guest
in the nursing field that has made his or her career choices
pursuing freedom and flexibility with the center.
Focus being on creating joy and moving in mindfulness.
I started the podcast as a call to my desperation, when I felt
like I didn't have any options for my career.
Career knowing I couldn't be the only nurse that had felt the
same way. Had moved through a similar
mindset throughout almost 15 years in nursing with ups and
downs in my career and feeling stuck without options.
I felt the most discouraged. And so, through the pain, came,
the birth of the doctor nurse podcast.
That, like I said, we just finished the 60th episode.
I wanted to go back and spend some time reflecting through the
In interviews that I have done, that have really been some of
the best nuggets that I felt. Like, I can kind of, I could
kind of put together and share with you guys.
So, without further Ado, this is some of the best of the best.
Again, this is not an exhaustive list.
Every podcast guest has really always done their best to share
something about their career. That's been really special, but
these are the ones that as I was kind of reflecting back.
Back through the episodes in the editing and all the work I just
said and these were just really sweet shining stars in the
moment. So, yeah, take a little listen.
Like I remember the first day that I sold, the course my phone
like exploded. Like, I remember my husband, my
phone just won't stop, but I got overwhelmed.
I got through my phone across the room was like I can't even
keep up evolving, so to go from that to like now behind the
scenes, that's it. And a lot of, like, software,
meaning, legal, meetings accounting meeting.
So, now I'm like more on the back end, but I really keep up
with the Is that I truly genuinely love.
So between all those meetings because that has to run for
day-to-day operations of a business, but between all of
those meetings, I'm still doing my life's a group.
So I still teach their, I'm still talking to students and
our private Community, still talking to students.
And Facebook just not nearly as much as it was in the beginning.
So I just craved Community because I couldn't come to my
cohort mates. And be like look, man, there's a
lot of things going on because they couldn't really relate to
my lived experience. I look to my current Current
nursing organizations and they didn't quite have.
What I was specifically looking for.
I wanted something that focus on nurses of color getting their
dnp. And I was like, do you guys just
have a space for just being piece of color and I couldn't
find it. So I ended up launching a
Facebook group organically, it grew beyond my wildest
expectations. And here's the thing about
locums that I'm about to tell you about all of the states that
I'm licensing. I can work in the thing about
locums is that there's two ways that you can get a license.
With locums, they can actually help you get a license and
exchange your work for them for 30 days.
So if I wanted to go to urgent care in Arizona, there's a need
in Arizona. The Locum company will pay for
your license. They will literally reimburse
you back for your license as long and exchange your work. 30
days with, at that Urgent Care, at least 30 days.
And so that license is yours. Then there's something not been
easy. Lots of stuff is coming into my
head. As I was listening to you talk
there and I Ink actually, just in addition to that, we are in a
time in history, we have an opportunity to step into our
lives in the fullest capacity. And as nurses, I think we are we
are primed to be the leaders of the kind of Healthcare System.
We want, it makes me emotional, the kind of Healthcare System,
we want to see and we cannot continue giving away our power
and just putting our heads down and pretending that things.
As bad as they are. I mean there's I'm not saying
there's so many people fighting fighting fighting but I came to
this place just in the last couple weeks actually of being
like I'm done fighting. I'm done.
It's not changing anything it's time to say, if this is what you
want, then you can have it, but I'm done.
And so creating from like creating the kind of healthcare
system that we want to see that we would want to experience that
we would want our family members to experience and our friends.
And allowing us to really step into our Dharma.
If you will or like our with the Dharma Dharma essentially, is
the understanding that each of us here, honor is push here for
a reason and we each have unique needs and unique gifts, and
expression of those gifts. So, we each mmm, we each have
unique gifts and an expression of those gifts.
Are, there are a lot of nurses back in the very unsupportive of
younger nurses going. Right into advanced degrees.
And I always used to think to myself, like you, we all have
the same choices like you could also go do an advanced degree,
you're choosing not to and I can respect that, but don't try to.
This is where nurses. Sometimes can be frustrating,
they were trying to discourage me like you're not worthy enough
and I kept saying, I'll show you the working class the middle
class upper middle class gets screwed.
They just do, you can't lower your taxes.
You're getting Hitler 25, 30, 40 percent tax brackets.
You have a business though, you can lower your Taxes
significantly. I think it might be like 15% or
something like that with all found out because my business is
right. So I'm so I teach nurse
practitioner going to do everything.
Here is a, it's an ancient, it's an ancient emotion.
There's only the fiery, really yummy.
I mean, you're gonna walk out the doors saber-toothed, tigers,
going to take you down, it doesn't happen anymore, right?
Yeah. Well, a lot of the sphere is
just, it's nonsense at your mind playing tricks on.
So you have to overcome that. I need people to understand that
every move that I make. Has been so strategic, I don't
just move, and I go to a different company.
I didn't just work jobs just because I was chasing the money.
I haven't wanted to learn something, or there was a reason
because it gave me some kind of flexibility or some growth or
something. We can go make that dollar
because we can. But at what toll is it a toll on
you? Is it a toll on your family?
At what point, are you going to stop and say, no, I've got to do
it for me when you become a provider.
Although it feels so satisfying to like have that degree in your
hands like your work does not end there.
If anything it's where it begins because your patients will help
inform you. Or tell you what you need to
continue to dive into and of in both your practice and the way
that you think and it's so much a two-way street at least with
the Since that I've partnered with where I help them and then
they also really helped me to hone my skills and to to learn
Always Forever, a student. And not just like in that
moment. It just like I almost fell to
the floor because Like what is a better example of what it means
to be a parent, you know get your kids do what you want, you
get to where you want where you kids want to be and you'd be
that mentor and you'd be proud of them for what they are not
for what they could be not for what they were.
And that just killed me. It just killed me and that's
most important thing I've ever learned nursing.
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back to the episode, that is the end of the Montage that I put
together of some of my favorite. Moments over the last year and a
half guys. Check out those episodes.
If any of those are something you're like, I don't remember
where that was. I've never heard that episode or
whichever check them out. They're all there on the podcast
list and they're really really great content in regards to
reflecting back. I felt like I needed to spend
time celebrating the wins, right?
And celebrating those little moments.
I feel like my birthday is tend to be a little Reflexive.
I don't know if you can relate to that, but I tend to kind of
go back and look over and my life and in my, you know, am I
am? I, where I would like to be and
all these different thoughts, kind of fill my head.
And so I said, you know what? I'm just going to spend some
time today on the podcast, just saying like, hey guys, we did
it. Like, we are creating these
conversations. We are starting these these
chats and we are progressing. We're getting Better.
We're we're improving and we're sharing our lives together,
which I just think is really cool and deep.
And I really wanted to just spend a little time focusing in
on that. I love this saying that life is
what happens to you when you're busy making other plans by John
Lennon and and Proverbs 16:9 kind of echoing that same
thought process. We can make her plans.
But the Lord determines our steps and in both sets of words
of wisdom, Learning that we aren't in control of the
journey, right? And I love celebrating Journeys
on my podcast and journeys of nursing careers and telling
those stories because I want people to see that the plans.
We make, don't always work out, but that doesn't mean.
We stop dreaming, we can sit back and relax knowing that
there is something greater that's directing us despite our
missteps and mistakes, and it's to remind you nurse take.
Take heart, don't get discouraged.
Don't think that you screwed it up.
Don't think the show is over. When you hear the journeys of
these nurses, and the nurse practitioner is you start to see
like it works out and it's to encourage you and to uplift,
you, and to inspire you, to lean into the journey with the
restful knowledge. That if we plan and things do
not always go as planned. We're still on the path.
That's meant for our lives. The podcast is so much more than
just career advice, its life advice and I wanted to talk
briefly on what I am processing for the podcast and kind of the
goals of the podcast. Because I think that's something
important that we kind of set a vision at least since I'm the
host of the podcast. I set vision for what I see and
where I see the podcast going and I want to continue providing
career Journeys and stories as well as the content on the
doctor nurse podcast unscripted episodes.
I've really been enjoying those episodes.
I hope you have bent and that you feel like that content is
valuable not just from a career standpoint but then also from
the standpoint of your life, right?
So we talked about Wellness nutrition profitable, side,
hustles and finances and I'm going to keep growing that
library of knowledge. I'm wanting to provide more
content for nurses on how to Market grow your Learn how to
sell yourself and products. I want to help nurses.
Understand. Not just for others, but also
for myself. Like this is not coming from a
place of I understand everything.
This is just my genuine curiosity behind.
How do you grow this thing that you are trying to Market and
sell? I'm going to be finding speakers
and individuals that can speak to that that genre.
And I'm I want to provide content from nurse.
Noor's on specific topics that they use to conquering grow
their businesses as well, as well as some of the struggles in
the failures and the things that that shaped their, their careers
and their success along the way. So, I'll be bringing back some
of these older guests. If they'll come back onto the
podcast to chat with me about different topics in regards to
Growing your business. I will, of course, provide my
own research and knowledge, but I just feel like we can learn so
much more from one another and lastly, my Day weekend was so
full and I got to spend so much time being present with my
family and I, yeah, I just wanted to not be focused in on,
putting out fresh content and all the marketing.
So I said, you know what? We are just going to just kind
of speak to the heart this week, so that's kind of what this is
next week. We're going to have a guest on
talking about her business flow whereby undies Loft, her name
was Christian. And we had an absolute blast on
the podcast and she just has such a heart that she spills on
the episode. I think you're going to guys are
going to get a lot from it and it was through her pain.
That she also built something for herself.
I hope you guys enjoy. Yeah, I can't wait to share that
with you guys. And she also gives me a promo
code so that I can show the promo code.
You guys can support a nurse entrepreneur, so that's really
cool. And I know I had posted on
Instagram that I had an exciting announcement so I will get to
it. But the doctors podcast will be
slowing down in February and March, and maybe April, I'll
still be putting out content, but I will be slowing down for
these months because I will be taking care of a brand new
little addition to our family. Lord willing, I will still be
posting, like I said, as much content as I can get out, giving
myself a lot of Grace, as it, become a mom of two, but you
heard it here first, I have not posted this on any other social
media site or Like that. I just I wanted my listeners the
people that spend the time every week investing in the podcast.
And what I'm trying to build here, I wanted you guys to hear
this from me first that I am going to be having a little baby
and I'm so excited but yeah just figuring out how to manage the
podcast and everything else is going to be a little bit of a
challenge. So challenge accepted and we
will see how it all works. Works out.
But guys, just be patient with me.
As I figure it out. I won't be going away.
I'll just be attempting to balance it also, thank you for
your support. And again, if you're a Praying
person, be praying for the little one, and our delivery.
And yeah, just thanks for being my people.
So I wanted to share that good news with you guys here on the
podcast. And again, as always, thanks for
listening, thanks for supporting the podcast and have an amazing
week. Stay tuned for next week.