1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,100 Doctor nurse podcast, fam. Man, I've got so much to share 2 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:08,000 with you guys. I want to First welcome you to 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,700 another episode of the podcast. I would like to start off by 4 00:00:11,700 --> 00:00:15,600 saying Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, I hope you guys are 5 00:00:15,600 --> 00:00:18,000 enjoying the holidays and getting lots of rest. 6 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:21,700 I sure have being that. I'm in my third trimester I am 7 00:00:21,700 --> 00:00:27,200 just tie your there is that is no joke, the fatigue from the 8 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,900 third trimester. But I wanted to tell you guys, 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,200 Is that this is the last podcast of 2022. 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:38,200 And I am so excited to share doctor Damaris Grossman, who is 11 00:00:38,300 --> 00:00:40,300 your family nurse practitioner with over 18 years in the 12 00:00:40,300 --> 00:00:44,400 medical field, who is passionate about mindful Life Investment as 13 00:00:44,400 --> 00:00:47,900 well as Integrative Health. She has many years in the 14 00:00:47,908 --> 00:00:50,200 medical field and the military and Trauma. 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,400 Rehab College, Health Community Health cute, pediatric care. 16 00:00:54,500 --> 00:00:57,200 She's also a u.s. Navy veteran. 17 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:02,500 She served on the global war against terrorism And she is 18 00:01:02,500 --> 00:01:05,900 also a mom of toddler. So, super. 19 00:01:05,900 --> 00:01:11,400 Relatable as she describes, how, she is very passionate about her 20 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:15,900 career, and helping patients with holistic modalities in yoga 21 00:01:15,900 --> 00:01:18,700 meditation breathing. And she's a board-certified 22 00:01:18,700 --> 00:01:21,900 holistic nurse and she's actually studying together for 23 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:23,600 our functional medicine certification. 24 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,700 So, she's a hustler really hard worker, or you're going to hear 25 00:01:27,700 --> 00:01:29,800 her on the podcast. Share what she's done. 26 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:34,600 To diversify her income streams and figure out how to make her 27 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:39,600 business profitable. How she balances, what she loves 28 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:42,500 to do with what she has to do? I just think it's a great 29 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:44,100 episode. You're going to get a lot out of 30 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:45,900 it. The next episode should be 31 00:01:45,900 --> 00:01:47,400 coming out. I think I'm going to give myself 32 00:01:47,400 --> 00:01:50,300 a couple weeks. Probably mid January is when the 33 00:01:50,300 --> 00:01:53,200 next podcast will come out and then I'll try to line up a 34 00:01:53,208 --> 00:01:57,600 little bit of work while I'm out giving birth, which is just 35 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,500 crazy because it's fast approaching. 36 00:01:59,500 --> 00:02:00,800 I mean, I'm You mean like six weeks? 37 00:02:00,808 --> 00:02:05,200 So, yeah, so that's my due date. So, hopefully, lining up some 38 00:02:05,200 --> 00:02:10,199 podcasts while I'm gone and I'll be back and I want to share my 39 00:02:10,199 --> 00:02:12,800 birth story or dwelling with you guys. 40 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,600 And I think that's how I will kind of transition back into 41 00:02:16,600 --> 00:02:20,200 podcasting. I think you guys know, if you've 42 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:22,800 been listening to the podcast, I'm a pretty open book with 43 00:02:22,800 --> 00:02:25,100 certain things, but my family life and those types of things 44 00:02:25,100 --> 00:02:28,000 that tend to keep to myself. So it'll definitely be a little 45 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:31,900 bit of a me, leading my comfort. Zone to share about my birth 46 00:02:31,900 --> 00:02:33,800 story. But for those of you that are 47 00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,500 faithful listeners, I know you will understand and appreciate 48 00:02:37,500 --> 00:02:39,600 kind of the story and understanding how everything 49 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,400 goes delivering. Our next baby, you keep me in 50 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,400 your thoughts and prayers if you are one of those people that do 51 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:48,400 that, and I hope to be reunited with you guys soon. 52 00:02:48,900 --> 00:02:50,500 I just want to say that I love you all. 53 00:02:50,500 --> 00:02:54,500 Thank you for your faithful listens for the year 2022. 54 00:02:54,500 --> 00:02:57,200 It's been a course, the best year for the doctor nurse 55 00:02:57,200 --> 00:03:00,600 podcast. The most growth most Everything 56 00:03:00,600 --> 00:03:05,400 is just been super encouraging towards me continuing podcasting 57 00:03:05,400 --> 00:03:08,500 in 2023. I just want to thank you guys 58 00:03:08,500 --> 00:03:12,500 because without you, there's no podcast, there's no Community, 59 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:16,500 there's no reason that I do the work that I do. 60 00:03:16,500 --> 00:03:19,300 I want you to hear that for the bottom of my heart that I am. 61 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:22,000 Just so thankful and appreciative for all the 62 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,700 support, all the messages, all the people that said, hey 63 00:03:25,700 --> 00:03:29,800 Sandra, you made me jump out and leap You Made Me Not Afraid. 64 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:32,300 And so, that's the stuff that keeps me going. 65 00:03:32,300 --> 00:03:34,600 I can't talk too much about it because I'm literally so 66 00:03:34,600 --> 00:03:37,800 emotional that probably will start to cry, but I'm just 67 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,500 really thankful. And yeah, I love you guys so 68 00:03:40,500 --> 00:03:42,100 much. It's your guys are the reason 69 00:03:42,100 --> 00:03:45,600 why I do what I do and here's to 2023. 70 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:49,000 I can't wait to see what else is coming down the pipeline, guys, 71 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:53,000 enjoy your Journeys. I want to take this chance to 72 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,800 tell you about another sponsor of the doctor nurse podcast that 73 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,500 I'm affiliated with called NP Hub. 74 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:01,800 I love this company because they are motivated to help Place 75 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:04,100 students. 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Welcome to the podcast. 86 00:04:44,700 --> 00:04:49,000 Today I have on Damaris Grossman doctor Damaris Grossman. 87 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:53,000 She is a family nurse practitioner, And she is focused 88 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 a lot of her doctoral work in Integrative Health, functional 89 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,200 medicine, mindfulness and stress reduction for her patience. 90 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:04,200 And she has got a Litany of side, hustle deals things that 91 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:06,800 she's been working on on her own career as well as her own 92 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,900 business. Working P, RN as a Locum tenens 93 00:05:09,900 --> 00:05:12,500 nurse practitioner. And again, like I said, she's 94 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:15,700 involved in speaking. She's been involved in real 95 00:05:15,700 --> 00:05:18,900 estate deals. She's got a pretty rich history 96 00:05:18,900 --> 00:05:21,500 of different things that she's been involved in for her career. 97 00:05:22,100 --> 00:05:26,000 And she's going to come on and talk to us about how her latest. 98 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:27,800 Her latest thing is to become a board. 99 00:05:27,800 --> 00:05:30,900 Certified functional medicine nurse practitioner and I just 100 00:05:30,900 --> 00:05:33,100 can't wait to hear all her journey and everything that 101 00:05:33,100 --> 00:05:35,300 she's involved in welcome to Marisa podcast. 102 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:37,200 Thanks so much. Also, you're a mom. 103 00:05:37,300 --> 00:05:40,600 So you're above a tublat. So you're a special class right 104 00:05:40,600 --> 00:05:42,900 now. It's like a whole other section 105 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:48,700 where the no sleep, and we're trying to keep up, okay? 106 00:05:48,800 --> 00:05:50,500 Keep our videos. Exactly. 107 00:05:50,500 --> 00:05:53,400 And then keep the kids. Like balance and a good human. 108 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:55,800 So it's just a coffin job. It totally. 109 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:57,200 I mean, you gotta, you know, you can. 110 00:05:58,000 --> 00:05:59,800 Well, let's dive in. I'm gonna shoot day to day. 111 00:05:59,800 --> 00:06:03,000 Look like, and I got not intrapreneurial space, but then 112 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,200 also in that side, hustle realm, that you kind of come in and out 113 00:06:06,200 --> 00:06:10,000 of sure. So my day-to-day is, I work, 114 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,300 Telehealth, work web-based, work, and out of an office, that 115 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:16,600 is actually an acupuncture and wellness centers. 116 00:06:16,600 --> 00:06:19,400 Jennifer leaves acupuncture, Wellness, Group, and I rent a 117 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:21,500 space from her. Well, I've been working out. 118 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:23,200 Her office. They before I was a nurse 119 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,700 practitioner as a nurse and integrating arts. 120 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:27,600 And then I transitioned as a nurse practitioner. 121 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,800 And then I do web-based Telehealth work for patients in 122 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:33,800 two different areas, like prescription wise like those 123 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,900 that are licensed in and then those that I'm not licensed in 124 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:39,300 more of like a functional but even just functional medicine. 125 00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:44,000 But a health advisor God and that's kind of like your bread 126 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:45,700 and butter. That's my day today. 127 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:49,200 Yes to get extra. Obviously if my patient load is 128 00:06:49,200 --> 00:06:51,500 not as high or depending upon that stricken. 129 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:53,900 Stream of income. And I'll tell you about being in 130 00:06:53,900 --> 00:06:56,300 a business way, when you think about multiple streams of 131 00:06:56,300 --> 00:06:59,000 income, when one of the streams is kind of trickling, and it's 132 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:01,300 not as flowing, you have to find your other way. 133 00:07:01,300 --> 00:07:03,700 So I've had other areas to build that. 134 00:07:03,700 --> 00:07:07,500 So whether a Locum Thames or online work with another company 135 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:11,800 or real estate hahaha, so doing kind of those other things, if 136 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:13,300 you need, if you need extra income. 137 00:07:13,300 --> 00:07:15,400 Yeah. So when one strand is tripled or 138 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:19,300 not, as you always have something to build up upon and 139 00:07:19,300 --> 00:07:22,800 is the best as you can. And getting as much Passive and 140 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:26,300 then thinking of work differently because it's about 141 00:07:26,300 --> 00:07:30,500 trying to build up your time, then build up your time for 142 00:07:30,500 --> 00:07:33,400 Freedom, then it is just about making money. 143 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,800 So you're going to make money when you have the best intention 144 00:07:36,900 --> 00:07:39,100 our. So I found when I was more put 145 00:07:39,100 --> 00:07:41,700 even more giving and more open about the money, and I didn't 146 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:45,800 think of it about making money, and I think about it as this is 147 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:49,500 going to give me more freedom than the work is work. 148 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:52,100 But then, you know, so then you want to figure Her out, what it, 149 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:54,500 what can you do that? All make you happy but also you 150 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:57,100 enjoy and then what's these other parts? 151 00:07:57,200 --> 00:07:59,300 So part of business. I wasn't great at it first. 152 00:07:59,300 --> 00:08:00,700 My husband was really good at it. 153 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:03,200 You definitely taught me some things and I had to learn a lot 154 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:04,600 of things. I felt a ton of time. 155 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:06,600 Yeah. Well, you know what can we all 156 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,400 go through? Like I said, one of the things 157 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:11,600 in my pockets, I say that success is not a linear system, 158 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:14,100 linear line. That it's definitely this like 159 00:08:14,100 --> 00:08:16,900 EKG when I had Tiffany Gibson on the podcast. 160 00:08:16,900 --> 00:08:19,100 She talked about, you know, it's an EKG, right? 161 00:08:19,100 --> 00:08:21,400 You have high to have lows, you need to have those or you don't 162 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:24,500 have Heartbeat right? And so that's kind of like how 163 00:08:24,500 --> 00:08:28,100 businesses and how the nature of running a business running side. 164 00:08:28,100 --> 00:08:31,900 Hustles figuring out how to make more income while getting back 165 00:08:31,900 --> 00:08:35,000 more of your time, right? Because time is your currency 166 00:08:35,100 --> 00:08:38,900 and I started to think that my currency was what I got. 167 00:08:38,900 --> 00:08:42,400 Paid an hour. Oh, my currency is I'm $22 as a 168 00:08:42,408 --> 00:08:45,700 new nurse, that's my current see, my currency is actually my 169 00:08:45,700 --> 00:08:47,900 time, that's not what I'm giving away. 170 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,200 Wish I would have had that mindset from the beginning of my 171 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:53,400 career. That I'm giving away my time to 172 00:08:53,400 --> 00:08:55,700 be at this place. Therefore, I want to make sure 173 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:58,900 it's the most lucrative. It's the most in tune to what my 174 00:08:58,900 --> 00:09:01,600 in heart, enjoys all the different things and then you 175 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:05,400 throw a kid in the mix. And now going to this place is 176 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:07,600 now taking away from time with my family. 177 00:09:07,700 --> 00:09:10,500 One of the things that I like to ask is through owning your own 178 00:09:10,500 --> 00:09:13,200 business. What has been one of the hardest 179 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,300 parts and the hardest aspects of owning your own business? 180 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:19,800 From when you were in that employee mindset from when you 181 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:21,900 decided, okay? Now it's time to Going to go 182 00:09:21,900 --> 00:09:23,400 ahead and start owning my own business. 183 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:26,700 When was that switch for you? So I feel like it took a while, 184 00:09:26,700 --> 00:09:29,400 you know, I was always trying to figure out different things 185 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:35,000 because why starting a business was out of necessity because I 186 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:38,800 you know, I was a veteran and my story came because I learn 187 00:09:38,800 --> 00:09:42,800 Integrative Health and holistic medicine because I had a severe 188 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,400 back injury and head injury, you know, a mild injury that caused 189 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:51,000 me so much pain and suffering that I the conventional. 190 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:53,700 In wasn't bulimic convention my sin. 191 00:09:53,700 --> 00:09:58,300 But one thing wasn't fixing it. So when I started to understand 192 00:09:58,300 --> 00:10:01,500 my healing process, I then realized that there was other 193 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:05,100 ways to be better. So then when I was trying to do 194 00:10:05,100 --> 00:10:09,900 this side, hustle, I realized like my work as a just, as a 195 00:10:09,908 --> 00:10:13,500 nurse at that time and that was a nurse practitioner wasn't good 196 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:15,600 enough. And I was like, there has to be 197 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:17,900 another way. So it was like me trying to 198 00:10:17,900 --> 00:10:21,400 solve this problem for my suffering pain, stress. 199 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:24,200 I was like, I gotta figure this out. 200 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:28,000 So through just the termination of figuring out my own health 201 00:10:28,000 --> 00:10:32,500 journey, I became obsessed with it that they became these little 202 00:10:32,500 --> 00:10:35,200 business part, so it's like, all right, I got to learn holistic 203 00:10:35,200 --> 00:10:37,400 nursing because I can't be a crappy nurse. 204 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:40,200 Not that that's the word. But I want to be the best 205 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,000 nurses. I could be for my patients. 206 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,500 I want to be calmer for them. I want to be more centered. 207 00:10:44,900 --> 00:10:47,600 I know that my life had to learn it. 208 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:51,200 So I leave to learn different modalities because when pillows 209 00:10:51,200 --> 00:10:53,400 and, you know, Fix them, once your app isn't going to fix them 210 00:10:53,500 --> 00:10:56,600 one, you know, one, you know, they need to be hugged and 211 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,900 touched and talk to and listen to you and what happened at 212 00:10:59,900 --> 00:11:01,700 that. So it's like that part for me, 213 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:04,400 had to be learned and then I got so obsessed with it. 214 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:06,600 That, you know, I ended up getting an integrative, you 215 00:11:06,608 --> 00:11:09,200 know, did my VMP, and integrative work for existing 216 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:12,500 society and stress reduction, because I was stressed and 217 00:11:12,500 --> 00:11:14,400 depressed and trying to figure out stuff. 218 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,300 So, it was like, if I have to figure this out, I want other 219 00:11:17,300 --> 00:11:21,000 people to know that there's other ways and then for, as I 220 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:24,300 was talking, About getting the functional medicine part for me 221 00:11:24,300 --> 00:11:27,700 about, it's like a like a whole health circle for me, it's like 222 00:11:27,700 --> 00:11:30,900 the icing on the cake, it's not the full, it's not the full 223 00:11:30,900 --> 00:11:33,300 answer, but it's part of the equation. 224 00:11:33,300 --> 00:11:36,900 And so when I transition now to this business owner, I don't 225 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:39,200 always think I'm a business owner, because I think sometimes 226 00:11:39,200 --> 00:11:43,600 I'm sometimes I love Beyond it sometimes but I look at it like 227 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:46,600 it's a stream of income and I want to make a difference. 228 00:11:46,600 --> 00:11:49,400 So if money comes through it, that's great. 229 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:51,500 I want to, you know, so I do have a little bit different. 230 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:54,300 But I don't, you know, have a primary test per se. 231 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:57,500 I like a direct primary with an integrative. 232 00:11:57,700 --> 00:12:00,200 Yeah, yeah. And I think that that again, 233 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:03,600 like I said owning your own business and why that's so 234 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:05,900 tough. It's just that because again you 235 00:12:05,900 --> 00:12:09,700 have to kind of break out of that mindset of I need my 236 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:13,800 freedom, I need a level of flexibility here that the Health 237 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,800 Care System doesn't really want to seem to give nurses. 238 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:18,800 It seems to Only Want You full time. 239 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:22,200 It seems only once you there all the time and then You're working 240 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:25,900 weekends in your own call. And so again whenever you own 241 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:28,500 your own business and your kind of separate yourself from that 242 00:12:28,500 --> 00:12:30,100 and you kind of pull. Yes. 243 00:12:30,100 --> 00:12:33,400 There's the harder part of. Now you've got to be the 244 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:36,000 business, right? So you're on 24/7. 245 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,700 I was thinking more so than just when you work, your shift. 246 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,600 Yeah, yeah. What happened was, as my health 247 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,200 issues were unfortunately not giving me as I wasn't able to do 248 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,300 as much at the full time all the time where I was overworked and 249 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:51,100 that I couldn't and then I would be able like I just kept like 250 00:12:51,100 --> 00:12:53,300 fault. And so it's like the side things 251 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:57,000 kind of help me hold off. You know getting along. 252 00:12:57,300 --> 00:12:58,100 Yeah. I mean in. 253 00:12:58,500 --> 00:13:00,600 Yeah. And so what are some of the 254 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:03,800 aspects that you've been learning throughout your career 255 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:06,400 that you've been finding have been the most challenging? 256 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:09,600 So I think a lot of nurses Nurse Practitioners have started 257 00:13:09,600 --> 00:13:13,100 businesses or starting side hustles or like, how do I get 258 00:13:13,100 --> 00:13:16,400 involved in marketing, advertising financial planning? 259 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,600 All these different things? What are some of the things that 260 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,400 you have marketing was marketing still to this? 261 00:13:21,700 --> 00:13:24,000 I find it to be like the bane of my existence. 262 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:27,600 I am not an amazing marketer Finance is. 263 00:13:27,600 --> 00:13:31,600 So what I initially when I talk about money now, I sucked. 264 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:34,000 I mean, I was really bad at money. 265 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:36,200 I never was taught personal finance. 266 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,400 I was never taught how to save a dollar, I kind of just, you 267 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:41,700 know, like, it was like shopping with therapy, like you spend 268 00:13:41,700 --> 00:13:44,300 your money and, and it was different. 269 00:13:44,300 --> 00:13:47,200 I was told to have a partner that's very good with finances 270 00:13:47,300 --> 00:13:50,000 and he did teach me a lot before I started a business. 271 00:13:50,500 --> 00:13:53,600 But in general, Throughout time, when I started to realize that 272 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:57,000 money was that value and any account interest in a community 273 00:13:57,000 --> 00:13:59,100 support and things could do more. 274 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:04,200 I was like, oh my God I you know it's so I live a lot but below 275 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:09,100 my means meaning I don't I don't have a big car fan seek lie live 276 00:14:09,100 --> 00:14:12,400 without a mortgage. So like in the sense of so, what 277 00:14:12,400 --> 00:14:17,000 this means is that I have a two-family, I have a smaller 278 00:14:17,000 --> 00:14:20,300 apartment, you know, I don't have a big house, you know, that 279 00:14:20,300 --> 00:14:22,500 took out eight bedroom. But I Even one unit. 280 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:25,500 So my husband and I we have the girl yard but we have no 281 00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:27,000 mortgage. So, wait a minute. 282 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:28,900 So going back to stop right there. 283 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,000 So, you're telling me that you own a plaques, or some type of, 284 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:37,100 like, oh my goodness. I don't know if you that's 285 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:39,900 fantastic. So intimate, so you purchase 286 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:43,300 this look at degree and you have everybody, it's full of. 287 00:14:44,300 --> 00:14:47,400 So I'm a veteran. So I was able to get a veteran 288 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:48,500 loan. Okay, got it. 289 00:14:48,500 --> 00:14:50,900 And so you got the veteran loan, you bought this, my initial 290 00:14:51,500 --> 00:14:54,500 Okay. Wow, that's fantastic. 291 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,000 That was my initial pass, my first, the real estate, so it's 292 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:59,700 called house hacking and you'll hear that for people's called 293 00:14:59,700 --> 00:15:01,700 house hacking. And so, it's a different 294 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:04,200 mindset. I didn't think of, like money, 295 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:06,100 like that because business is money, right? 296 00:15:06,300 --> 00:15:09,900 And I think when you start to think of things differently and 297 00:15:09,900 --> 00:15:12,700 you go, alright, I will live a little bit uncomfortable but 298 00:15:12,700 --> 00:15:15,500 it's not even uncomfortable. I have a three-bedroom one-bath, 299 00:15:15,500 --> 00:15:18,700 I have a big yard and you know and then I rent out my spaces. 300 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:22,100 So and then that pays my mortgage Fantastic. 301 00:15:22,100 --> 00:15:26,400 So now you've got that frog out. You've been Freedom, right? 302 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:27,900 So then they're not worrying about it. 303 00:15:27,900 --> 00:15:29,400 Now I'm not worrying about my mortgage. 304 00:15:29,500 --> 00:15:32,000 Okay, so then you got that part, that's done. 305 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:33,800 That's out of the way. So now you're like okay what do 306 00:15:33,800 --> 00:15:35,800 I have to pay for? What do I have to work in page? 307 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:38,700 For my guy looks a huge chunk of our your big chunk. 308 00:15:38,700 --> 00:15:40,900 Yeah. But it's a total different way 309 00:15:40,900 --> 00:15:42,700 of thinking. Instead of me buying the big 310 00:15:42,700 --> 00:15:45,300 house that I might have wanted ten years ago because we bought 311 00:15:45,300 --> 00:15:48,400 about 10 years ago, I bought the big house, then they bought the 312 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,800 nice pool and the, you know, the big rooms and my sons Bill has 313 00:15:51,800 --> 00:15:53,900 this nice room. You know, he still has a place 314 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:55,800 to live and we live in a great. Yes. 315 00:15:56,500 --> 00:15:58,900 But you have to think of it differently as we live a little 316 00:15:58,900 --> 00:16:00,700 bit below. Your mean, I'm not saying I'm 317 00:16:00,700 --> 00:16:04,000 without, I mean, I My Whole Foods food and like everything's 318 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,600 so that's part of the business part that was new for me. 319 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:09,900 So it's thinking of money differently so that when I went 320 00:16:09,900 --> 00:16:12,800 to go want to make a difference. And do my integrative work, I'm 321 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,200 going to stress, it's a different way, it's a different 322 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:17,100 mindset. So the streams of income. 323 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:20,200 This was a learning process for me because I wasn't like I said, 324 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:23,200 I wasn't great at my husband. Splint, and he was teaching 325 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:26,100 along the way and then I started reading, you know, and started 326 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:29,200 like finding mentors and people that were better at it than me. 327 00:16:29,400 --> 00:16:31,900 I mean, even if your husband's great at it, you still had to 328 00:16:31,900 --> 00:16:33,700 get on board, right? Because the two of you were 329 00:16:33,700 --> 00:16:36,100 joined. So if he was with if he was on 330 00:16:36,100 --> 00:16:39,000 board and you were like whatever, I want a big house, 331 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,200 get it for me, he would have had to work against you which would 332 00:16:42,200 --> 00:16:43,100 have been good for your marriage. 333 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:45,700 So, it's good that the two of you came together and we're 334 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:48,300 like, Hey listen, like, what do we both want? 335 00:16:48,300 --> 00:16:50,400 A, my husband and I have those conversations all the time where 336 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:53,600 it's just like, Kind of like you I live in a small house because 337 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:56,000 I didn't I wanted to work part-time and I knew that that 338 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,700 was something that I was probably going to end up doing 339 00:16:57,700 --> 00:16:59,400 and so so important I got my doctor. 340 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:02,700 Yeah, I mean you give yourself margins by not extending 341 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:05,000 yourself to impress people that don't care about you. 342 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:08,800 You impress yourself and so you're just like I made these 343 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,300 calls, I make these decisions with my life so that I can live 344 00:17:12,300 --> 00:17:14,599 my life. And so I think that that is one 345 00:17:14,599 --> 00:17:16,800 of the best lessons that you can learn. 346 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:18,400 As you start a business, is just going. 347 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:21,300 I gotta live below my means because I'm actually living. 348 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:24,400 But what most people are living, which is the rat race. 349 00:17:24,500 --> 00:17:27,800 Tired exhausted. Don't see their families work 350 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,400 until they're 65 and then they die and they're like, wait put 351 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:32,600 it. I just do with my life. 352 00:17:32,700 --> 00:17:36,000 Yeah, and so to look like the Joneses is to look like being 353 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,000 broke and exhausted and tired and not really yeah living the 354 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,600 life that you want at least for me. 355 00:17:41,700 --> 00:17:44,700 Everyone does something different works for you works 356 00:17:44,700 --> 00:17:46,300 for you, but this is what works for me. 357 00:17:46,300 --> 00:17:50,300 And so I'm like I'm not I just I'm not going to chase that 358 00:17:50,300 --> 00:17:51,800 thing. I'm going to chase the Freedom. 359 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,000 Which is what? You're describing beautifully. 360 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:56,800 Yeah, I mean it's a freedom that like when we went made her first 361 00:17:56,800 --> 00:18:00,500 million, it was like that took like so many years took about 362 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:04,400 like 15 years total, you know, and it was like, when you get to 363 00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:08,200 that level then you're like, oh but money isn't really what it 364 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,300 comes down to understanding where what you want. 365 00:18:11,300 --> 00:18:14,200 I can making a difference, so I can't make a difference if I'm 366 00:18:14,200 --> 00:18:16,200 worrying about. I know this is a business 367 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:17,600 podcast, so maybe I'm going. Okay. 368 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,200 Please go. Just think that people have to 369 00:18:20,200 --> 00:18:24,300 understand that it's Like it's not a quick you know it's gonna 370 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:27,500 take your TV stuff. Yeah, it's going to take time. 371 00:18:27,500 --> 00:18:28,500 I took me about 50. Yeah. 372 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,600 So how many real estate properties do you have total? 373 00:18:31,900 --> 00:18:35,300 So now I'm at a passive sector sponsor way. 374 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:39,900 So initially I like to three but now I do passive and passively 375 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:43,000 mostly I was like, GP and active initially. 376 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:46,700 But now we are because we pretty much some of my business and to 377 00:18:46,700 --> 00:18:49,300 put into passive feel. So now we're at a point where 378 00:18:49,500 --> 00:18:51,300 you'll hear people say it's more on. 379 00:18:51,400 --> 00:18:53,900 Like from syndication so that one bit. 380 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,200 Yeah one business literally does passive apartments and like you 381 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:00,200 know it'll be pending on the sponsors. 382 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,600 We have like a whole team I don't have a team of we have it 383 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,000 we have people that will look at something and say hey can you 384 00:19:06,000 --> 00:19:08,600 put money into? So now I just use an invested, 385 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:11,500 maybe angel investor so I'll Angel Investments are real 386 00:19:11,500 --> 00:19:13,100 estate. Angel Investors with it so that 387 00:19:13,100 --> 00:19:15,900 it gives me dividend nice very good. 388 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:18,900 Yeah it was so I had Savannah overall Yoshi is the net worth 389 00:19:18,900 --> 00:19:20,800 nurse. Yes she would. 390 00:19:21,500 --> 00:19:23,800 What I mean but I'm alike at an even different level I do 391 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:26,500 believe like now more, I wasn't like that before. 392 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:28,800 Yeah, yeah, no but that's what she does. 393 00:19:28,800 --> 00:19:30,800 She has people in her Health Care Professionals pooled their 394 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,900 money together by deals together. 395 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,900 She manages the party. So she does all the legwork but 396 00:19:36,900 --> 00:19:39,900 then there are people that are passively making money off on 397 00:19:39,900 --> 00:19:40,900 the side. Yeah. 398 00:19:40,900 --> 00:19:44,000 Sometime in the past aside at this point, I did operate and I 399 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,800 did manage like to, and it's just too much. 400 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:48,700 I was Sweden. I'm, you know, I'm going to be 401 00:19:48,700 --> 00:19:50,900 an integrated, that was not my business. 402 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:54,600 Goal, my husband really loves doing most of that stuff, but he 403 00:19:54,600 --> 00:19:57,900 has, it's still a W-2 job to. So, we don't do that fully. 404 00:19:57,900 --> 00:20:01,000 So most of it is our big Investments think, you know, we 405 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:06,000 put in around 25 to 100 thousand per deal and depending upon the 406 00:20:06,008 --> 00:20:09,300 need, or what we have available in our, but we don't, like I 407 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:13,400 said, we live below your means. So we do this because we choose 408 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:19,500 my, so my income most of the time or extra will go into those 409 00:20:19,700 --> 00:20:23,900 because we look at it as We can retire early, we can become fire 410 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:26,100 or my son. I can have more time with him or 411 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:29,200 I could do more for him and so it's totally different way of 412 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:31,500 thinking instead of everything controlling. 413 00:20:31,500 --> 00:20:33,900 And so even my business, I don't want it to control it. 414 00:20:33,900 --> 00:20:35,900 Just I think it's incredible and it's what I want. 415 00:20:35,900 --> 00:20:40,000 More nurses to embrace is the the mindset of Freedom, like, 416 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:42,800 don't I used to look at like oh that's just an extra shift 417 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:45,200 instead of looking at it. Like, that's 10 hours of my 418 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,500 life, that's 12 hours of my life I'm giving away. 419 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:51,200 It's not an extra shift, it's not just a little extra. 420 00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:53,800 Pick up again, unless you're shooting for a goal. 421 00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,100 Like, I'm doing this because I need to get to this spot 422 00:20:57,100 --> 00:21:00,200 debt-free or I'm doing this because I'm trying to get here 423 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:03,100 or we have this purchase coming up and I want to make that goal 424 00:21:03,100 --> 00:21:05,500 sooner. Again keeping that in the 425 00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:08,200 Forefront of your mind is working differently than I just 426 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:11,400 want a pair of like, you know, x amount of depreciating asset. 427 00:21:11,400 --> 00:21:12,800 That's not going to bring any money. 428 00:21:13,100 --> 00:21:16,500 I lived that way for years. I lived that way I was just like 429 00:21:16,500 --> 00:21:19,400 I was fine just give them a knife or hours of your time 430 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,300 where I was like I could have been in. 431 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,200 Learning how to do another side hustle. 432 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,600 I could have all this other time that I gave to the hospital, for 433 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,600 their pennies and put my license at risk, because I might have 434 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,600 been more tired picked up. Put my health at risk because I 435 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:34,900 was just working extra, all these different. 436 00:21:34,900 --> 00:21:38,200 Things are sacrifices that you lay down at that altar that I 437 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:40,500 want. More nurses to realize, invest 438 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:44,800 in yourself, let that job be the thing that allows you to put 439 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:48,700 that money back into you, into whatever your priorities are 440 00:21:48,900 --> 00:21:51,200 time, Freedom, Travel, whatever it is. 441 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,400 Let that be what you can do it, you know. 442 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:58,100 And I think it's not that you can but now it's like I also try 443 00:21:58,100 --> 00:22:01,600 to make a difference to so it's like yes I have a little bit 444 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,300 more but then it's like, well what can I make sure that I'm 445 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:08,200 not with out of anything but it is differently. 446 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,900 I'm would like, you know, when I'm working in my business I 447 00:22:10,900 --> 00:22:13,700 want to you know I try to take it like this is super important 448 00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:16,700 because I want people to have a better you know, what their 449 00:22:16,700 --> 00:22:18,800 health be better. So of course if I make it, you 450 00:22:18,800 --> 00:22:22,200 know, more Uncommon that but the different Is of income, like I 451 00:22:22,200 --> 00:22:25,600 said, are really the, that's really that was the lesson that 452 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,400 I had to learn. I think me as a business owner, 453 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,400 I love it because I'm passionate about that part. 454 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,000 I'm not really passionate about real estate. 455 00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:36,100 No, it's just if not straight up, it's like it's just it's a 456 00:22:36,100 --> 00:22:38,200 tool in your toolbox which is Feliz. 457 00:22:38,500 --> 00:22:41,100 It's just it just is a tool. The other stuff is like my 458 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:43,200 integrative that's your mindfulness all that stuff. 459 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,700 I'm super passionate. That's yeah I will do that for 460 00:22:46,700 --> 00:22:50,500 free Price forever but I do still like to make some income 461 00:22:50,500 --> 00:22:53,900 on that and it's only Maybe because you know, if spend hours 462 00:22:53,900 --> 00:22:57,800 of time but the other times I feel see plenty of free things 463 00:22:57,800 --> 00:22:59,200 from me. Yeah. 464 00:22:59,300 --> 00:23:02,000 That is so cool. So it was something. 465 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:04,400 Yeah. So how have your nursing skills? 466 00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,700 I'm sorry. Go ahead, go ahead, you got it. 467 00:23:06,700 --> 00:23:08,300 I need to let you talk know how her mind. 468 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,900 No, no, I was gonna say I want you to finish that Doc's. 469 00:23:10,900 --> 00:23:12,800 I didn't catch it. Finish your thought, oh no, I 470 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:16,300 just want to always be no BS like in tune or give like the 471 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:18,300 best, you know, for individuals. You know that. 472 00:23:18,300 --> 00:23:21,200 Yeah. So how have your nursing skills? 473 00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:25,300 Helped you with developing, or in your business? 474 00:23:25,300 --> 00:23:28,500 Like, one of the things I always find very interesting is that we 475 00:23:28,500 --> 00:23:31,700 learn delegation, we learn how to implement interventions. 476 00:23:31,700 --> 00:23:34,700 We learn all these things in our nursing professions. 477 00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:38,200 And so how have those skills kind of helped you as you've 478 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:41,700 been managing your business and kind of working on the 479 00:23:41,700 --> 00:23:44,300 functional medicine, side of things, oh, on the functional 480 00:23:44,300 --> 00:23:47,500 medicine, holistic, and that. And yeah, yeah. 481 00:23:47,500 --> 00:23:51,900 So I would say, you know, build a team that was The newer. 482 00:23:51,900 --> 00:23:54,500 I really didn't have as much of a team before that was, that was 483 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:56,100 helpful. So I learned that kind of that. 484 00:23:56,100 --> 00:23:58,500 Delegating. I'm very big on like you do 485 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:01,200 really putting a whole approach to almost everything. 486 00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:05,600 So say like in a big carrying and you know, listening 487 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:08,000 listening is huge. I mean, listening above 488 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,700 everything is like a big part and then organizing like, you 489 00:24:11,700 --> 00:24:13,800 know, when you have to organize your day like you know, like 490 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:17,400 that, here's your brain, your brain, your brain goes a certain 491 00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:20,500 way, you got to kind of have, I mean I was in ICU nurse and a 492 00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:23,200 are so it's like I You kind of have to have organized thought 493 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,400 like when you're super scattered, we better find a 494 00:24:25,400 --> 00:24:28,200 business that will help you bring that together. 495 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,400 So yeah, it helped me, you know, bring it up that and then a lot 496 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:34,500 of my mindfulness training really helped when with my 497 00:24:34,500 --> 00:24:36,900 scattered - and my anxiety stuff. 498 00:24:36,900 --> 00:24:42,200 So I utilize that a lot because, you know, we all have different 499 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,600 flaws or different things that went on or things that were 500 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:47,400 really not good at and finding the people. 501 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,700 This is one new part that I learned in businesses, finding 502 00:24:50,700 --> 00:24:53,200 the people When things that I don't laugh. 503 00:24:53,300 --> 00:24:56,700 So, this was huge for me and this has been more recent in the 504 00:24:56,700 --> 00:24:59,700 past year or two is finding the people to do the things that I 505 00:24:59,700 --> 00:25:03,500 don't really love doing. So adjust, for example, hoobler. 506 00:25:03,500 --> 00:25:05,900 Hey, guys, and thanks for listening to another episode. 507 00:25:05,900 --> 00:25:08,900 The doctor nurse podcast. Unscripted, I would like to take 508 00:25:08,900 --> 00:25:11,700 this time to let you guys know about the doctor nurse podcast, 509 00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:15,100 website on this website. I have free resources for nurses 510 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:17,400 that are looking to up their career, maybe start a side 511 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,500 hustle. I also have my Etsy shop where 512 00:25:20,500 --> 00:25:23,900 I've created, The cute digital downloads for nurse 513 00:25:23,900 --> 00:25:28,200 practitioners in regards to life, pregnancy planning, as 514 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:32,200 well as portraits guys. Check out my resources at the 515 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:36,500 doctor's podcast.com and let's get back to the episode. 516 00:25:36,500 --> 00:25:39,700 I have a medical biller now. Yeah, yeah, someone to help me 517 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:42,200 with my writing. I'm not a great writer but I 518 00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,700 have so I have an editor. Yeah, I have an editor. 519 00:25:44,700 --> 00:25:47,000 I people help me out it. I'm not an amazing writer. 520 00:25:47,300 --> 00:25:50,600 I also have a disability so I had to learn with men. 521 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,500 I was written. My doctorate, I do voice texting 522 00:25:53,500 --> 00:25:56,600 so I'm a voice wrecking it. I do a ton of voice recognition. 523 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,200 So when I'm writing and you'll see something, it's usually 524 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:02,100 voice transcribed. Who how? 525 00:26:02,300 --> 00:26:04,300 And then it said it. So what what happened? 526 00:26:04,300 --> 00:26:06,000 What was your injury? We do in the military, were you 527 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,000 injured? It's a military about my 528 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,200 military was a military trauma. It a mild TBI in effect injury. 529 00:26:11,300 --> 00:26:14,600 Did you really? Yeah, I was in during 9/11 and 530 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,900 it was, you know, so that is there is thank you for your 531 00:26:17,900 --> 00:26:20,000 service. Yeah, but I mean, I Grew From, 532 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:21,200 you know, that's why I was so upset. 533 00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,900 With Integrative Health because it really had that I had, you 534 00:26:23,900 --> 00:26:27,200 know, fix my health issues, so training and stuff. 535 00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,500 I was like at the side, hustle was just more because I couldn't 536 00:26:30,500 --> 00:26:34,200 work as this is a triangle. So I was doing these little 537 00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:36,700 thing, he's income coming in, worked out really well, like I 538 00:26:36,700 --> 00:26:39,500 did a lot of yoga nursing in the beginning, this area 539 00:26:39,500 --> 00:26:41,700 implemented, because yoga was a big part of my life. 540 00:26:42,900 --> 00:26:45,700 So what it was, as I was one of the founding members with this 541 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:48,900 yoga nurse and she's been around for years, but basically, it was 542 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,500 implementing yoga and then yoga became my Passion and then yoga 543 00:26:52,500 --> 00:26:55,900 therapy training in mindfulness training and so taking those 544 00:26:56,300 --> 00:27:00,200 areas to help my back and help my anxiety and my yeah, because 545 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:03,100 I really didn't. So then I started just using 546 00:27:03,100 --> 00:27:04,600 them with the patients. Yeah. 547 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,900 You know and so in your career and kind of walk me through so 548 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:10,000 you were in the military, you don't know you were in the 549 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:12,300 military and then did you become a nurse or where you were 550 00:27:12,300 --> 00:27:14,100 nursing the milk. So I was not a nurse in the 551 00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:16,400 military. I was, I was military trained in 552 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,100 them and so military, trauma training. 553 00:27:18,100 --> 00:27:23,100 So I was in as an Electronics. Mission and I taught people. 554 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,900 My job is really high-stress intelligence and doing I'm 555 00:27:25,900 --> 00:27:28,100 friendly. And for some of that terrorism. 556 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:29,300 Yeah. Yeah. 557 00:27:29,300 --> 00:27:31,500 At that time. And then I was like during 9/11. 558 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:34,300 So when we were deployed, we were always trying to different 559 00:27:34,300 --> 00:27:37,000 Target is so stressful, learned a lot, you know what? 560 00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,900 It's like, all of those struggles, those failures like 561 00:27:39,900 --> 00:27:42,900 and when I was at Rock, Bottom kind of things when you learn 562 00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:45,200 them, then it's like growing from it. 563 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,500 So, I think I still wanted to help people. 564 00:27:47,500 --> 00:27:49,400 So I'm going to nurse, you know, I had the military trauma 565 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:51,100 training. So I became an Alpina Corso. 566 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,400 So, as I saw it showed you my vile, like I was now pan because 567 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:57,700 I have military trauma, trance. When I was deployed, I did my 568 00:27:57,700 --> 00:27:59,700 job and then I did military trauma work. 569 00:27:59,700 --> 00:28:03,300 So that training helped me, become an LPN right away. 570 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,400 So as soon as I got out, I was even coming up yet, was my 571 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:07,800 health? Good, not great. 572 00:28:07,900 --> 00:28:10,100 I needed to work. So I was now. 573 00:28:10,100 --> 00:28:14,700 Pan first, then I did I did that route of LPS and you know then I 574 00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:18,400 went to RN BSN RN and BSN and MSN 20. 575 00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:23,200 I never stopped going to school. I'm Her like like I specially 576 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,300 when people come back and do something I was the opposite, I 577 00:28:25,300 --> 00:28:29,000 was like, okay no you're a total Hustler is what you're 578 00:28:29,300 --> 00:28:33,100 describing to my guest is that you just are always looking for 579 00:28:33,100 --> 00:28:36,800 ways to supplement. What you need, get what you need 580 00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,300 work for what you need. When you have free time, you can 581 00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:42,900 spend time with your family. Can be a part of what's going on 582 00:28:42,900 --> 00:28:44,800 around. You can be present, you've had a 583 00:28:44,808 --> 00:28:46,800 TBI, but you got a doctoral degree. 584 00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:51,100 Like, it doesn't, these things are not holding you back. 585 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,300 The things that limitations quote-unquote with the world 586 00:28:54,300 --> 00:28:57,200 would look is like, okay. You're just like, no, I'm going 587 00:28:57,200 --> 00:28:58,600 to go figure out how to side hustle. 588 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,500 Because I'm not so good at these things and I don't know how much 589 00:29:01,500 --> 00:29:03,700 I can carry. And I need to be able to find 590 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,100 ways to handle my money and make it work for me because, you 591 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:09,600 know, all these other things that I've got going on that make 592 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:11,400 it more, that make it more difficult for me. 593 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:14,400 So when it wasn't always perfect here, I mean, like there was a 594 00:29:14,408 --> 00:29:16,700 ton of failures, you know, there was a ton of times when I felt. 595 00:29:16,700 --> 00:29:18,800 So tell me about one of those times I want to hear about one 596 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,900 of those times that you struggle and you were like, that's it. 597 00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,300 Throw the towel in girl ain't gonna make it. 598 00:29:24,300 --> 00:29:28,300 Yeah, I mean, so the part was kind of, actually, as I was 599 00:29:28,300 --> 00:29:31,100 getting my masters in as a nurse practitioner. 600 00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:34,600 So, I was really struggling with trying to see if I needed to go 601 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,000 get my Master's, bring it to become a nurse practitioner to 602 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,900 push to make a difference. And I was like, what do I need 603 00:29:38,900 --> 00:29:42,100 to prescribe to make a difference for my patients and 604 00:29:42,100 --> 00:29:46,400 also like mentally study wise? I didn't know if I could do it. 605 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:50,000 I'm not that I couldn't because I was high IQ but struggled you 606 00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:53,500 know silly so on I had to learn a different way of practicing so 607 00:29:53,500 --> 00:29:55,600 that was where. So when my writing I have to 608 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,300 write a lot all the time and then I took great for doctorate, 609 00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:02,200 I struggled with thinking tuber teachers and professors were 610 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:05,500 like, oh, you know, you're waiting is kind of a Enlighten, 611 00:30:05,500 --> 00:30:08,400 your like oh but I know what I'm talking about. 612 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,200 So until I learned a new way of learning and change my 613 00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,700 behaviors, I wasn't able to realize that I could help 614 00:30:15,700 --> 00:30:18,700 someone, the reason I went for the MSN and the DMV was, it was 615 00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:20,800 part of the equation. It was part of like, what they 616 00:30:20,800 --> 00:30:21,700 want. To do. 617 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,400 But I knew that the private wasn't necessary this win but it 618 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,900 was it might give more credibility to the conversation 619 00:30:28,900 --> 00:30:32,900 of Integrative Health. So it was that for me that was 620 00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:34,500 just what I felt. I was my ego. 621 00:30:34,500 --> 00:30:36,300 My thoughts doesn't mean everybody. 622 00:30:36,300 --> 00:30:38,100 Sure. And so that yeah. 623 00:30:38,100 --> 00:30:41,100 The struggle was like, I was at home, trying to go, I think I 624 00:30:41,108 --> 00:30:44,800 need this Masters, but I didn't know if I was going to pass or I 625 00:30:44,808 --> 00:30:47,200 didn't know if I was going to be able to write the things, and 626 00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:51,000 write this dissertation and and and then having that struggle of 627 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,200 life, Like sitting on the computer and my neck was hurting 628 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,900 my back was hurting and that not thinking like right well and 629 00:30:56,900 --> 00:30:58,700 teacher saying you were okay how's that? 630 00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:02,900 I know I'm not just okay. And then when I learned and 631 00:31:02,900 --> 00:31:07,200 overcame that feeling when I was at Rock Bottom again thinking 632 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,700 depressed like I'm going to get this masters with it and his 633 00:31:09,700 --> 00:31:13,400 doctor and I'm just it's not going to happen, I sat there and 634 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:16,200 I you know, went back to my mindfulness, went out to my my 635 00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,500 prayer and spirituals and said, there's gotta be a way of doing 636 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:22,000 so then I went and searched had a Looking at how to learn 637 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,600 different ways. So then that's when I learned 638 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:25,700 texting and thank God for technology. 639 00:31:25,900 --> 00:31:28,700 So then that's when I learned like speech text, and then I 640 00:31:28,708 --> 00:31:31,300 learned that I could get an editor and then I learned that I 641 00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:32,900 have, you know, I could read more. 642 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:35,600 And so then I have things highlighted for me and I and so 643 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:39,100 it's just a different and so then I take that and learning 644 00:31:39,100 --> 00:31:44,200 behaviors and style into my press because you can't teach 645 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:46,700 someone that this is a, for example than that, struggle was 646 00:31:46,700 --> 00:31:49,000 me learning. I struggled there so then I 647 00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,000 ended up doing it even when someone said no. 648 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,100 No. And now I tell that to my 649 00:31:53,100 --> 00:31:55,900 patients, when they say, you can't do it, you can. 650 00:31:55,900 --> 00:31:58,700 But you have to take a difference, then you also have 651 00:31:58,700 --> 00:32:01,700 to change your behavior, then you have to learn, learn a new 652 00:32:01,700 --> 00:32:06,000 learn, like so those things. So it's like my past struggles, 653 00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,600 have helped me become a better. Oh, that's so good. 654 00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:13,100 I love that question, because when people share what they are 655 00:32:13,100 --> 00:32:17,200 struggling with it allows people to realize, wait a minute, I'm 656 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:21,000 not alone in my own issues. I like I think we like to think 657 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,100 that Nobody has a better than we do and when you start to hear 658 00:32:24,100 --> 00:32:27,100 people's Journeys and you start to realize like that means she 659 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:29,800 was dealing with like pain every single day. 660 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:33,400 I think it's very inspiring. When people share like, these 661 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,800 are my struggles because then you start to go a, we're all 662 00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:39,800 struggling in some way. Nobody is exempt. 663 00:32:39,800 --> 00:32:42,100 From excuse me. No one's exempt from the 664 00:32:42,100 --> 00:32:45,300 struggle. So just get out there because 665 00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:48,500 we're all doing this broken, we're all doing this with our 666 00:32:48,500 --> 00:32:51,300 problems. We're all doing this with With 667 00:32:51,300 --> 00:32:54,600 the things that we're told, we can't do it and we're doing it 668 00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:56,900 anyway. So just proven wrong, you know, 669 00:32:56,900 --> 00:32:58,300 just proven wrong. Yeah. 670 00:32:58,900 --> 00:33:02,500 So and it and then if you need to pause, like, I'm not like my 671 00:33:02,500 --> 00:33:05,700 lamb in it all the time, if you need to picture her head and 672 00:33:05,700 --> 00:33:08,400 then learning that, you know, that is so good. 673 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,500 I always not. Always got it all figured out, 674 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:14,800 but sometimes so I just steady, I'm just very yeah, that's so 675 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:16,500 cool. So I wanted to ask just for 676 00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:19,000 people that are out there that are like possibly interested in 677 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:21,000 what you're doing and what your practice is like. 678 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,100 Can you tell me a little bit about kind of how many patients 679 00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:26,000 you see? What are some of the things that 680 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,600 you treat and you diagnose and the Telehealth space and in your 681 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,500 office door? I'm not a big Crystal, I take a 682 00:33:31,508 --> 00:33:33,800 lot, I think a lot smaller and more than that. 683 00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,900 I'm not sure of primary but I'm more on the smaller end. 684 00:33:37,900 --> 00:33:41,100 So I don't have like the patient side under under of like five 685 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:43,800 hundred give or take, but not even I would say most of the 686 00:33:43,808 --> 00:33:48,100 time my week is like 6 to 20 patients depending upon the week 687 00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,700 on Telehealth versus and that could be anything from from, you 688 00:33:51,700 --> 00:33:53,400 know, just needing to talk to them. 689 00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:56,800 So my patients I give them access to my text messaging and 690 00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:01,000 wow and then they assume it's more time we more time on my 691 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:03,600 end. And the first visits are because 692 00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,900 I take that functional medicine. Integrative approach, my visits 693 00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:09,699 are longer. So when I was a primary 694 00:34:09,699 --> 00:34:13,100 provider, don't get me wrong, I love primary, I did like primary 695 00:34:13,100 --> 00:34:15,900 care, but it was missing and it was very, there's some very 696 00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:17,300 successful. I mean, you've had people on 697 00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:19,600 their very successful in primary, but you have to have 698 00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,500 very high volume. Be successful, I'm not that 699 00:34:22,500 --> 00:34:24,699 person and I think ethically, I love it. 700 00:34:24,900 --> 00:34:27,500 I will do it for someone else, but I don't love it for my 701 00:34:27,500 --> 00:34:29,500 business. You have to have high volume to 702 00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:33,100 do primary on a regular picture with them, 10 minutes, I like 703 00:34:33,100 --> 00:34:35,000 love being with the people to talk to them. 704 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:38,400 So, I mean, that's pretty funny. The real stuff like, so a half 705 00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:41,800 hour, at least an hour of the first visit and the functional 706 00:34:41,800 --> 00:34:43,900 medicine side. I learned because I there's even 707 00:34:43,900 --> 00:34:47,500 more of that needs to be added. But when I learned on that, oh, 708 00:34:47,500 --> 00:34:48,800 there's got to be another element. 709 00:34:48,800 --> 00:34:52,000 Like, so, for example, someone comes in, In even like a 710 00:34:52,007 --> 00:34:54,199 headache headaches, never a headache. 711 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:56,699 It's just not. It's never like here start yours 712 00:34:56,699 --> 00:35:00,100 to tripped in and here is your whatever your Quick Med. 713 00:35:00,100 --> 00:35:02,400 Or here's your head. No headaches, never headache. 714 00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:05,500 It's you know, is it muscle tension? 715 00:35:05,500 --> 00:35:08,800 Did you sleep last night? Do you have enough magnesium? 716 00:35:09,100 --> 00:35:10,700 What? What's going on in your stress 717 00:35:10,700 --> 00:35:12,900 in your life? How much water you're drinking? 718 00:35:12,900 --> 00:35:16,200 Are you exercising? Like those conversations are way 719 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,700 longer you pregnant. You've not. 720 00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:21,000 You like do you have like did you have a nice? 721 00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:25,900 Injury like the ex never had it. So every illness were so in the 722 00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,300 small side they want to just do root cause which I definitely 723 00:35:29,300 --> 00:35:30,900 do. I want to get to the root cause 724 00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:35,200 but that unfortunately is not the full equation because I can 725 00:35:35,200 --> 00:35:36,500 get to the root cause of a headache. 726 00:35:36,500 --> 00:35:39,500 So say you've a neck tension, but are you going to fix that 727 00:35:39,500 --> 00:35:40,600 neck, tension? Hmm. 728 00:35:40,700 --> 00:35:42,300 Are you going to go to acupuncture? 729 00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:43,900 Are you going to go to physical therapy? 730 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:47,000 Are you going to go do the stretches that I need you to do? 731 00:35:47,400 --> 00:35:49,400 What can we do to make sure we get into that. 732 00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:54,300 So these conversations are long. After my initial assessment to 733 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:55,600 get, I would love to do like, you know. 734 00:35:55,600 --> 00:35:59,000 So if I do lab work on a functional approach, yeah, I'll 735 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,200 go. Look in micronutrients will do 736 00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,700 so initially for some patients. So insurances will cover. 737 00:36:04,700 --> 00:36:07,600 I'll do it out of network. I'll do like a wellness exam, so 738 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:12,500 we'll try to see what we can get under the basic umbrella, but 739 00:36:12,500 --> 00:36:16,100 I'll do an expanded panel. So, most people like a lot of 740 00:36:16,100 --> 00:36:20,000 people I see are in metabolic health issues, stress issues 741 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,300 hormone imbalance, Okay, so, but it's a good percentage of the 742 00:36:24,300 --> 00:36:27,300 population you see about 20 Pages a week with these common 743 00:36:27,300 --> 00:36:29,000 issues. Yeah. 744 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,900 That's that's, that's pretty good and again because you don't 745 00:36:32,900 --> 00:36:36,300 have mortgage you don't have these Unity is other things. 746 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:38,100 I mean, it's not a lot. I mean it could be more. 747 00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:40,000 It could be less. No, I think that's good. 748 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:42,400 And one of the things I was thinking is like, whatever, 749 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,800 you're seeing the patients, and you're working your weeks, 750 00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:47,400 you're doing, you have these other income side streams that 751 00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:50,100 you're doing. Then give the podcast which give 752 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:53,200 another You know, another, both stream of income is from the 753 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,800 podcast and I didn't fully strain that. 754 00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:56,900 I mean, you're probably better at sponsor. 755 00:36:56,900 --> 00:36:59,800 Yeah, yeah, I know, but you just got to dive in again, with 756 00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:02,700 depending on whatever your load is, somebody told me this advice 757 00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:05,500 and I'll give it to you because it was so helpful for me, he got 758 00:37:05,500 --> 00:37:09,500 a sponsorship with 40 listeners and I was like, we talked about 759 00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:11,900 40 listeners and he's like, that's all that half of this one 760 00:37:11,900 --> 00:37:15,000 podcast, I got a sponsorship and I was like, okay, I have more 761 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,000 than 40 listeners. Like, that is crazy. 762 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:21,700 And so once he told me that he was like, you have to ask And so 763 00:37:21,700 --> 00:37:24,400 again, I'm giving you this piece of advice because it was super 764 00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,200 good for me. But he was like, you need to ask 765 00:37:26,200 --> 00:37:29,700 people to sponsor your podcast. That's how you get sponsorships. 766 00:37:29,700 --> 00:37:33,500 And I was like, okay, I'm going to ask and so that's what I did. 767 00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:36,000 I just started asking and justify. 768 00:37:36,100 --> 00:37:39,100 Yeah, even put that into my, I haven't even put that. 769 00:37:39,100 --> 00:37:41,100 If you don't ask, you won't get it. 770 00:37:41,100 --> 00:37:44,800 And so, Damaris my challenge to you today is to get out there 771 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,000 and have someone to sponsor your podcast. 772 00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,400 Because again, companies are looking for people to talk about 773 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,100 their It's so find something that you're passionate about 774 00:37:53,100 --> 00:37:54,900 that. You like, you think is very good 775 00:37:55,100 --> 00:37:57,400 and sponsor. It ask him say listen, this is 776 00:37:57,400 --> 00:38:00,200 something that I naturally use and I would love to have you 777 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:02,900 sponsor my podcast and so, boom, just like that. 778 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:04,500 And what's the worst thing going to tell? 779 00:38:04,500 --> 00:38:06,500 You know, and you're in the exact same spot you're in. 780 00:38:06,800 --> 00:38:13,000 So get your podcast sponsored General and yam and well you're 781 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,700 doing the work, right? You doing the work? 782 00:38:15,700 --> 00:38:19,400 Yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah. Oh and that I'm writing a book, 783 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:20,700 right? So then I want to let you know 784 00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:23,700 is Writing right? So I never thought I could write 785 00:38:23,700 --> 00:38:25,800 because I'm telling you and that's another business. 786 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,300 So, like whatever you're going to do to add in the streams of 787 00:38:28,300 --> 00:38:31,100 income, whether it's a digital product, whether it's a small 788 00:38:31,100 --> 00:38:33,700 book, they have a small ebook. I look a little coloring books. 789 00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:36,700 I did from whatever you got to do to add those. 790 00:38:36,900 --> 00:38:39,000 Yeah you never know I'm not a big thing. 791 00:38:39,500 --> 00:38:41,600 Keep trying. Yeah but patient lies. 792 00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:43,800 I mean I just want to make a difference. 793 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,300 So like I said to you before I probably give most of my patient 794 00:38:47,300 --> 00:38:51,500 care for free if I could most I mean like you a lot It's all 795 00:38:51,500 --> 00:38:54,600 about trying to make a difference for them and I felt 796 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:58,200 like I wasn't doing enough. 10 minutes of my time for a patient 797 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:00,700 is just not enough. I mean I have done differently, 798 00:39:00,700 --> 00:39:03,700 go to local terms, like I was 24 to work to a lake if I can the 799 00:39:03,707 --> 00:39:06,600 like for them for the people I will but for me, I like my 800 00:39:06,600 --> 00:39:08,400 heart. It's like, no, yeah, no. 801 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,000 You've got to do what your heart tells you is the right thing to 802 00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,600 do. I totally agree with you and if 803 00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,500 you could go back to Damaris, you know, just getting out of 804 00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:20,500 the military starting her LPN. If you could give her a piece of 805 00:39:20,500 --> 00:39:23,600 advice, And you would tell her hold onto this piece of advice 806 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,700 throughout your career, right? It just hold onto this like it's 807 00:39:26,700 --> 00:39:30,100 a lifeline and this piece of advice is garbage. 808 00:39:30,100 --> 00:39:32,500 Don't listen to it, it's not true. 809 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,400 What would be a piece of? I should we tell her to keep and 810 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,100 a piece of advice? Should we tell her to toss? 811 00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:40,200 Hmm. That I used to sew a piece of 812 00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:43,900 ice that would toss is I used to listen to everybody's like, 813 00:39:43,900 --> 00:39:47,100 negativity like oh you can't do that, you can't do that. 814 00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:51,000 And I would sometimes let that fester in there with me. 815 00:39:51,300 --> 00:39:56,600 And then, if I let a piece of advice that I would keep would 816 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:57,900 hold my gosh. Hmm. 817 00:39:58,300 --> 00:40:01,100 Be okay with not being. Okay, with being okay, with 818 00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:02,100 liking. What do you mean? 819 00:40:02,200 --> 00:40:04,900 Just if it's not finished, it's okay. 820 00:40:04,900 --> 00:40:08,400 If it's not perfect. And I remember being okay, like, 821 00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,500 in the, like, finishing as the all pianos. 822 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:14,200 I call them just an LPN. We're like the just like, I'm 823 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,400 just this, at this time, if that's where you're at. 824 00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,100 That's it, just because I got a doctor. 825 00:40:18,100 --> 00:40:20,200 Does not mean you're going to make money you can make money 826 00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:24,000 without having all these Education is one lesson is you 827 00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,400 can you can now the technology you can make side houses and 828 00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,700 yeah when you know you're telling everybody. 829 00:40:29,700 --> 00:40:32,200 Yeah no exactly. That's exactly what I'm telling 830 00:40:32,200 --> 00:40:35,000 people that have all this education to make a difference. 831 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,000 That's the other big thing don't, I don't need that. 832 00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:38,900 You don't have a lot of Education to make a difference. 833 00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:42,800 And I think if you go forward with a positive heart and like 834 00:40:42,900 --> 00:40:46,400 with good intention, the intentions will ya like that? 835 00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:50,600 Carmen that energy? Yeah if your intentions are not 836 00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:52,600 true. It will come back, like one of 837 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:54,800 my favorite books is leader without a title. 838 00:40:54,800 --> 00:41:00,200 I love that book because it is a book about, you can be a made 839 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,800 bed you know in a hospital. Not a hospital and made and like 840 00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:07,300 a hotel. And yeah, and be a leader. 841 00:41:07,300 --> 00:41:13,800 You can go outside of your way to show and care for whatever 842 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,200 job you're doing with a with without a title. 843 00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,500 You don't need title of CEO to now all of a sudden become this 844 00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:23,000 person that servant And make sure to think about others 845 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,200 before themselves. Like, if you're just doing that 846 00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,800 as a nurse at the bedside nurse, which is why I athlete so much 847 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:33,700 because nurses do this work, we do just pour from our hearts on 848 00:41:33,700 --> 00:41:36,700 our patients. And so that's why I'm like no 849 00:41:36,700 --> 00:41:39,600 nurse should be broke. No nurse should be, you know, 850 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:43,900 financially destitute or tired, or exhausted and just retire. 851 00:41:43,900 --> 00:41:47,300 Like because we give so much that I'm like study needs to be 852 00:41:47,300 --> 00:41:49,100 out there. Advocating for us to kind of 853 00:41:49,107 --> 00:41:51,200 have this mindset. We take care of ourselves. 854 00:41:51,300 --> 00:41:53,000 Elves. Because if not, we're going to 855 00:41:53,008 --> 00:41:56,100 burn ourselves out because we just naturally are people that 856 00:41:56,100 --> 00:42:00,700 go into the profession to give and to pour in others. 857 00:42:00,700 --> 00:42:02,500 I mean, just hearing you talk about your passion for 858 00:42:02,500 --> 00:42:05,800 Integrative Health and emotional medicine and what to provide 859 00:42:05,800 --> 00:42:07,700 your patience, your like I would do this for free. 860 00:42:07,700 --> 00:42:12,000 I just love when people come into this space of wellness and 861 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,300 health and like, that's what nurses do. 862 00:42:14,300 --> 00:42:17,700 I mean, I remember when I was a nurse, I had a patient who loved 863 00:42:17,700 --> 00:42:20,700 Corn Pops, which now from a, from a health standpoint, I feel 864 00:42:20,700 --> 00:42:23,800 terrible that Of a box of popcorn pops, but corn Puffs, 865 00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:27,100 but like he loved that I made, but it made him happy because I 866 00:42:27,100 --> 00:42:30,500 went through a shift one time and I went and bought this kid 867 00:42:30,500 --> 00:42:35,000 corn Puffs and took them to work and I was just like I'm not 868 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:37,900 saying that to like to my own horn but it was just like I know 869 00:42:37,900 --> 00:42:39,900 that's what we did. Like why wouldn't I go? 870 00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:43,500 That brought him Joy like and so he's sitting there eating Corn 871 00:42:43,500 --> 00:42:46,700 Pops getting, you know his medicines and that's that's the 872 00:42:46,700 --> 00:42:50,800 joy of what we did as nurses. And what we do is Nurses and why 873 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:54,200 I think It's so important that again, we have this mindset of 874 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:58,300 like, hey nurse you're you're you're pouring at this Hospital, 875 00:42:58,300 --> 00:43:00,500 you're pouring on your patients, whatever it is. 876 00:43:00,500 --> 00:43:03,400 Make sure to take care of yourself because at the end of 877 00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:06,700 your life, again, kind of like we're saying if you just burn 878 00:43:06,700 --> 00:43:10,000 yourself out, you're not going to be happy with necessarily the 879 00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:13,600 outcome. So just fix change that mindset 880 00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:16,200 a little bit and put a little bit of care of yourself. 881 00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:18,800 So I love that. And so, for the last part of the 882 00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,200 interview Damaris is the rapid fire questions where I search. 883 00:43:21,300 --> 00:43:22,900 Ask you questions? You were not able to prepare 884 00:43:22,900 --> 00:43:26,800 for, are you ready? Okay, sure, thanks so much. 885 00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:31,100 What is your favorite board game play Monopoly? 886 00:43:31,100 --> 00:43:33,500 Of course, you like Monopoly mr. Real estate. 887 00:43:33,500 --> 00:43:38,500 Yes, thank you. And did you man with your son? 888 00:43:38,500 --> 00:43:41,300 That's a good one. And I like this question, if you 889 00:43:41,300 --> 00:43:44,300 would have, you would give a book to someone to read, what 890 00:43:44,300 --> 00:43:45,600 would be? That was the title of the book, 891 00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,400 if you could just do that, well, okay, they're two different 892 00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,900 area. So, so the who not the How not 893 00:43:51,900 --> 00:43:55,200 the, how I just read because that one was Tommy. 894 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,400 I can't do everything because I like to have control things and 895 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,300 I thought I have to do a lot. You need to learn how to 896 00:44:02,300 --> 00:44:05,300 delegate you do, because you can't do everything because then 897 00:44:05,300 --> 00:44:07,300 you're going to burn out. So instead of burning out 898 00:44:07,300 --> 00:44:10,100 nursing I'll burn out as a business owner and you got to 899 00:44:10,100 --> 00:44:12,400 learn your. It was good, that one was a big 900 00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,800 one and then mindset was I'm not like a Cheesy moment for me. 901 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,900 Anything by hand because I'm very much so about trying to 902 00:44:18,900 --> 00:44:20,900 really come back to Center and your mindfulness. 903 00:44:21,300 --> 00:44:26,400 So I'm really realizing that you are enough so they'll anything 904 00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:29,900 from tick not Han books like Appling the step and there's a 905 00:44:29,900 --> 00:44:32,500 lot of good things of that nature because you're really 906 00:44:32,500 --> 00:44:36,400 coming back to within uh yeah. You know it's so funny on my 907 00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,500 Etsy shop I'm launching a mindfulness journal and it's the 908 00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:44,700 purpose of it is to keep nurses just to kind of like come home 909 00:44:44,700 --> 00:44:49,400 from a day and just like detox your and so yeah, I love that. 910 00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,100 I love exactly what you're describing there. 911 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:55,300 Because again, the heart of mindfulness is an awareness that 912 00:44:55,300 --> 00:44:56,600 the world is going on around you. 913 00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,600 You can take it in but it doesn't necessarily the storm 914 00:44:59,600 --> 00:45:02,900 doesn't necessarily affect you. The storm is around you but it's 915 00:45:02,900 --> 00:45:06,100 not affecting you. And so or if it is affecting 916 00:45:06,100 --> 00:45:09,800 you, you're able to process the storm to where you don't, ya, 917 00:45:10,100 --> 00:45:11,800 what are you gonna do? What are you going to do to 918 00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:14,600 like, yeah, exactly, I love that. 919 00:45:14,700 --> 00:45:17,100 And again, with all the jobs that you've been describing all 920 00:45:17,100 --> 00:45:20,700 the things that you're involved in, what was your very first job 921 00:45:20,700 --> 00:45:22,700 at the gate? When you were like, I don't 922 00:45:22,700 --> 00:45:25,200 know, however, old, what was your very first job as nursing 923 00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:26,700 just in general? How many could be like 924 00:45:26,700 --> 00:45:28,500 Chick-fil-A? Could be like, you know, I 925 00:45:28,500 --> 00:45:33,000 worked at Ross. So I babysat the except for 926 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,800 years and then after that, I did I wanted a grocery store the 927 00:45:35,800 --> 00:45:39,500 grocery store checkout. You notice so funny. 928 00:45:39,500 --> 00:45:42,800 As a kid, I Remember Loving to do that job as a child like 929 00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:46,200 she's being like click click, click like you know like the the 930 00:45:46,200 --> 00:45:48,600 noise from the machine. Anyway, that's probably TMI. 931 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,200 But yes, I am my son loves it. When we go to like the 932 00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:55,300 self-checkout he will cry if I don't let him hit like do the 933 00:45:55,300 --> 00:45:57,600 barcode bleep. I'm like, okay, so we're showing 934 00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:00,000 out in the store because I won't let my kid do the barcode. 935 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,600 Okay, get up here to the back. We literally, who were at the 936 00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:04,100 grocery store and we were like, holding up. 937 00:46:04,700 --> 00:46:09,800 Sorry. Yeah, thank you so much for your 938 00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,600 time today. Thank you for coming on the 939 00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:14,500 podcast and sharing all the stuff that you're involved in 940 00:46:14,500 --> 00:46:16,700 and kind of how you gotten started in business and dropping 941 00:46:16,700 --> 00:46:18,800 nuggets. For nurses that are like, Hey 942 00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:21,000 how do I do this? What do I do in any way? 943 00:46:21,100 --> 00:46:23,400 Do it scared. Do it with your disability. 944 00:46:23,500 --> 00:46:28,600 Even has a my last Go Thomas my gosh is Veera patients where 945 00:46:28,600 --> 00:46:31,200 they are. What do you mean be okay with 946 00:46:31,200 --> 00:46:33,000 that? Not always doing the 947 00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,800 prescription of what you want them to do or whatever their, 948 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:38,400 you know, if you're seeing patients be okay with that 949 00:46:38,500 --> 00:46:39,900 because you know what? They're not ready. 950 00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:42,900 Whoo, that's so good. They may be eventually, so be 951 00:46:42,900 --> 00:46:46,600 there when they're ready. That's good, that's good guys, 952 00:46:46,700 --> 00:46:49,500 check out some areas. Check out our podcast, check out 953 00:46:49,500 --> 00:46:51,400 everything. She's involved in again, reach 954 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,400 out to her. If you are interested in what 955 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,500 she's doing, if you want to hear more about her, she's super 956 00:46:56,500 --> 00:46:59,800 open, I mean, she's just she's all over the, you know, she 957 00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,900 always has her stuff. 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