Behind The Scrubs: The Travel Nurse Experience

In today's episode, we're joined by Daniel Shaffer, founder of Gratitude Plus, a social wellness app designed to help people experience more happiness and personal growth through gratitude journaling, affirmations, mood tracking, and community support. Daniel shares his personal story of how the loss of his mother led him to discover the transformative power of gratitude and inspired the c...

Hold on to your seats, because this nurse's story is INSANE and you won't believe what this exceptional TRAVEL NURSE has accomplished! Welcome back to Behind The Scrubs, the home of extraordinary healthcare professionals! In today's episode, we're talking with Diana Vega, a registered nurse whose life journey and talents are out of this world! From her humble beginnings in the Phil...

🔥 You won't believe the INSANE power of SOUND! Today on Behind The Scrubs, we're hanging out with the amazing Chelsea Renner! As a travel nurse, sound healing expert, and digital creator, Chelsea has transformed countless lives with her mind-blowing approach to wellness! 🎧✨ Join us as we dive deep into Chelsea's world of healing, travel, and adventure! We'll uncover her secrets...

Passion, Pizza, Purpose - these are the three P's that drive our guest, April Hansen, a nurse, hyper-growth business leader, keynote speaker, and the President of the biggest healthcare staffing organization in the game. In this special 50th episode of Behind the Scrubs, we have a candid conversation with April about her love of pizza, her approach to work-life balance, her TED Talk, and how s...

Get ready for an EPIC episode of Behind The Scrubs that you won't want to miss, as we bring you an incredible conversation with powerhouse nurse Cat Golden! In this game-changing episode, Cat Golden, the inspiring founder of Nurses Inspire Nurses, shares her unconventional journey in nursing and reveals how she transformed her life with just 5% more courage. We dive deep into Cat's amazing...

In this episode, we are joined by Nurse Alice, a mom, nurse, author, and health advocate affectionately known as America's favorite nurse. Nurse Alice has been in the healthcare industry for over 25 years, working her way up from a CNA to becoming a CNS, FNP, and CNO. She has worked in critical care and emergency medicine, served as an adjunct nursing faculty member, entrepreneur, and part of hosp...

HEALING and OPTIMIZING Your Life with Ryan Encinas: Diving Deep into the World of Holistic Health!   Welcome to another episode of the podcast where we explore the depths of human experience and consciousness. Today, we have an incredible guest with us - Ryan Encinas, a community and surgical nurse with over 15 years of experience in the field, including Travel Nursing. Ryan is the founder of...

Lindsey & Jared. Husband & Wife. Travel nurses. Co-Founders. This is a power couple episode guys!! You may know them as the founders of Scrubstr, the Yelp for traveling healthcare professionals, where reviews are anonymous and secrets are safe but allllll the tea is spilled. Not just tea though, you can find loads of great information about facilities too from other healthcare professional...

Join us on an unforgettable Community Care Expedition! In this episode of our podcast, we sit down with Matt, founder of the 4North Project, Ryan, co-founder of MedVenture App, and the team from Lead Media, the most dangerous media team in the healthcare staffing game, to include All-Time, B-rad, McDanger, and Jae to talk about our work in the Dominican Republic.   Our trip to the DR in Decem...

Ladies and Gentlemen, buckle up and get ready to go Behind The Scrubs like never before! This week, on episode #44, Justin and Kyle are taking you behind the scenes of our company retreat! Last year, they delivered a keynote about sweeping the sheds, empathy and giving without expectations. And it sparked conversations and inspired our team, and now we're giving you a front-row seat to the action....

#travelnurse #travelnursefamily #healthcare We want to preface this by saying we are incredibly biased because we love Sir Jason Barnes. However, we aren’t alone; the consensus in the nursing community is that they love him too! With a track record of great reviews and successes, we knew we had to give Jason a chance to show off. As a senior leader and mentor for the Recruiting team at Lead Health...

We love a nurse entrepreneur! Meet Archie Richardson, a nurse turned CEO of Haven Collective, a company that provides contract insurance for traveling healthcare professionals. No one likes a canceled contract, and Haven Collective has you covered with payouts for the unfortunate if/when it happens! An exciting adaptation of a standard business tailored to help traveling healthcare professionals,...

You probably already know Nurse Kelly, but for good measure, she’s a nurse, Miss America Runner Up, and Wanderly Chief Nurse Advocate! Famously known for her nursing monologue on the Miss America pageant that she was subsequently mocked for wearing a stethoscope by an ignoramus; it just goes to show how little the public knows about what nurses do! This is why we’re so excited to have Nurse Kelly...

You are neither drunk nor delirious (or maybe you are, no judgment), but you’re reading this right; Emilie and Hannah have joined us for our 40th episode of Behind the Scrubs!! Hosts of an already successful podcast, Drunk or Delirious: A Nightshift Podcast, these travel nurses can be found each episode chopping it about various topics and issues in their work and life, such as self-care, nursing...

Courtney Aragon, nurse, wellness advocate, and transformation coach, she’s on a mission to spread positivity during this time when the voice of negativity echoes the loudest. If you need of good vibes, then turn up the volume! Learn how she uses manifestation, the law of attraction, and visualization to guide her actions and get what she wants! It’s a balance that you, as the curator of your thoug...

Anthony Swain is a travel nurse turned financial guru and is now a published author! His new e-book The Travel Nurses Guide to Personal Finance is available now. He has personally paid off over 115k of debt all while having a full-time traveler's schedule. Tune in to learn how Anthony went from traveler to financial entrepreneur in this week's BTS episode.   @financiallyfit.rn

Founding member of NurseGrid, Zach Smith, BSN, RN, joins host Justin Allison on Behind The Scrubs! NurseGrid is an app for organizing work schedules and personal events while staying in touch with nursing pals and is used by 1 in 8 nurses!  This was a powerful conversation on the state of the travel nurse market, the future gig economy in healthcare, and creating apps that nurses want to use...

Meet Sierra! A currently Austin based Travel Nurse Takeover gal, Sierra has had world traveling in her life since she was a wee one. Her mother was a travel agent and she spent a good chunk of her childhood exploring for her moms jobs and its something that stuck with her as she chose her career and built her life! Ambassador for Eargasm earplugs, this woman knows all the hacks to travel, tune in...

In this episode, we feature the exceptional Joscel James! As a travel nurse and YouTuber, JJ brings a unique perspective to the healthcare industry and shares his experiences in a relatable and comedic way. From creating viral videos as his alter ego Nurse Chad, to sharing tips for fellow travel nurses, this episode is a must-listen for anyone in the healthcare field or anyone looking for a good l...

In this episode of Behind The Scrubs, we sit down with Emily and Ryan, the co-founders of MedVenture, an innovative app revolutionizing the travel nurse experience. This is their second time on the show, and we're excited to hear about their recent growth and updates to the app. MedVenture is making the impossible, possible by connecting healthcare professionals with unique and exciting opportunit...

Join host Justin on an epic adventure as he takes you on a tour of the TravCon conference in Las Vegas! See the sights and sounds of the conference as Justin visits the Lead Health booth and shares insights from his conversations with some of the top traveling healthcare professionals in the industry. Don't miss this exciting episode of the BTS podcast!

Please join us in fangirling over Holli as she fangirls over us!! Some of our executive team sat down to be interviewed by Holli from SIA as we were again awarded the honor of "Fastest Growing US Staffing Firms 2022"!  Holli asks us about our past, present, and future as Lead Health grows and evolves each year by maintaining our core values of kindness, authenticity, and transparency (also kn...

Travel Nurse, CEO of Med Travel Hub, and owner of a phenomenal beard, meet Jonathan Pierre! This episode of BTS, host Justin Allison chats with another successful nurse entrepreneur who wanted to help nurses band together and travel the world!! Sometimes for fun and sometimes educational, but always memorable, Med Travel Hub was born and Jonathan at the helm is steering the business to Ireland, Ic...

We will start by saying we are ENDLESSLY IMPRESSED but Lumify and its founders. You probably already know this duo and company, their nurses turned CEOs and creators of Lumify Care uLights!   This episode of Behind The Scrubs gives us a great insight into the world of nurses who became entrepreneurs (they say their work hours are very similar to when they were at the bedside, who knew!?)...

Originally from Traverse City, MI, this impressive human was a nanny until she was 28 when she discovered occupational therapy. While in OC school she learned about the traveling lifestyle and couldn’t resist! Despite being discouraged by college professors about taking a travel assignment, she decided to yeet that advice and jumped right in! After a few years thriving in the travel world, she had...