NursePreneurs

Barbara Glickstein is a public health nurse, health reporter and media strategist. She is the founder of Barbara Glickstein Strategies, a training company in media, leadership and advocacy skills. She also produces HealthCetera, a podcast that provides evidence-based health news, analysis and commentary; trains national leaders in healthcare on how to be a media maker in both traditional and digit...

Kim Krafft was a clinical educator nurse in a hospital in Southern California when she was approached by a start up in 2015 to help them launch their turning device for patients in the hospital. Dr. Larsen started his campaign to mitigate complications from pressure injury by creating a device that alerts nurses to when tissue is being compromised. The dream of this device started in 2010. It took...

Keith Carlson is an expert career coach with decades of nursing experience. He helps nurses to take their nursing career to the next level. Keith was an early adopter of blogging and podcasting, before they were a thing. Now he is a top go-to person in his niche. He has produced almost 250 podcast episodes and has years and years of blogging that continues to help nurses find their way in the heal...

Lyn McCright and Teresa Walding started Advancing Holistic Health, a nurse coaching certification program. It’s a global program that spans across 3 continents under the framework of resilience. Lyn states the concept of nurse coaching is vital to our professional existence. The Texas Workforce found that the average length of a nurse career after graduation in the last 5 years is only 18 months!...

Cat Golden is the owner of Nine Lives Health. She began her NursePreneur journey as a nurses in pediatrics, but found her true passion helping nurses take care of their soul as they so graciously give of themselves to everyone else. Cat is the self proclaimed Nurse whisperer as she feels it is her life’s purpose to embrace her true BEing and inspire others to do the same. She now provides nurses w...

Natalie Lavelock is a high ticket coach and consultant who helps coaches, course creators and speakers how to find their purpose and build their legacy. As a nurse Natalie was a clinical educator who was responsible for creating trainings and programs for her unit. When a change of management came one day, they offered to promote her to management before eliminating her position. Natalie declined...

How to start a wildly profitable staffing agency (even if you have no experience). Maybe you’ve been thinking it would be a great business to start a staffing agency. And after all as a nurse you have lots of nurse connections, so why not? Then maybe you started looking into the rules and regulations and setting up operational manuals, getting contracts and hiring staff. All of sudden the idea bec...

Suria Sparks is a top influencer in Asia and #1 in Singapore. She is a seasoned TEDx speaker, has been invited to speak at the United Nations, Harvard Business School and the Wall Street Journal. Suria has her own podcast, TV show and over 100 million fans around the globe, but how did it all start? How does a person go from nothing, which is what Suria started out with to becoming a #1 influencer...

CathWear was founded in order to improve the quality of life for individuals who have undergone medical treatment by restoring their dignity and privacy during recovery. While working as a specialist in Interventional Radiology, CathWear founder Brian Mohika realized that the standard method of managing leg bags was failing to address any of the complaints patients had been voicing to him for year...

Dr. Kiiyonna Jones is a Registered Nurse who has been an educator and nurse administrator for more than 5 years. Kiiyonna received her Bachelors of Science in Health Promotion Disease Prevention (2006) from the University of Southern California, and graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a Masters of Science in Nursing (2008) in the first class of the Masters Entry Clinical Nurs...

Aliya Aaron worked as an IT consultant in nursing when she saw the need to connect nurses and healthcare. Working as a one-woman band show Aliya started AMR Healthcare as an IT consultant company to help firms to create information systems that improved the workflow. She slowly built up a core team with software developers and engineers so they could tackle bigger issues that her clients asked of...

Mary McDougall, Vice President of Astia, talks about getting started in the world of venture capital for start-ups. Astia is transforming the way businesses are funded in the here and now, providing capital, connections, and guidance that fuel the growth of highly innovative, women-led ventures around the globe. Astia was founded in Silicon Valley in 1999 as a non-profit organization dedicated to...

Eliseo Tajanlagit is a nurse who worked in the ED. He saw so many patients coming into the ED with the wrong insurance. As a bedside nurse he didn’t notice it so much, but when he transitioned to case management, he better understood the issue. Eliseo wanted to better understand the problem, so he delved into the world of insurance. So much so that Eliseo actually took the national insurance exam,...

Victoria Randle is a nurse practitioner who teaches nurses and business owners how to start a certified nursing assistant (CNA) school. Victoria has been helping nurses (and non-nurses) to set up schools. She spent 2 years learning all the ins and outs of opening a school on a very tight, shoestring budget. But all her sweat and tears have paid off for you, because now you don't actually have to f...

Have you ever thought about earning extra money as a freelance writer? How about your entire income? That’s precisely what Gee Nonterah is doing. Gee is a former nurse who went back to school to become a microbiologist. While she was researching a post-doc in San Diego, she found she needed some extra income. The West Coast is not post-doc income friendly by any stretch of the imagination.

The Flight Safety Network is comprised of everyone who works hard to keep emergency flight crews and patients safe. These include EMTs, RN, Pilots, ED staff, dispatchers, flight communication specialists, chaplains, police, and so many more. Troy Shaffer founded this network in 2009 when he recognized the need to bring all these people together in place. Since then, he has grown this community to...

Georgia Skyers is a Nurse Executive with over 23 years of experience in nursing. She has seen and dealt with some of the biggest issues in healthcare. Having a long history of being praised for successfully running units in the hospital, Georgia started helping other managers and executives to understand how to lead using her system. Today she is dedicated to developing high quality, resilient nur...

Chris Caulfield is a nurse practitioner who saw an opportunity in staffing. From his basement, he came up with the idea of on-demand staffing. Recognizing that his idea would only stay an idea unless he partnered up, he started to look around for synergistic relationships. Even though Chris has experience in informatics, one of his first partners was someone with extensive experience in that area,...

Amanda Guarniere is an Ivy-league educated nurse practitioner and freelance writer. Since graduating from Yale School of Nursing in 2011 she's been navigating her way through the professional world of medicine, figuring out how to achieve balance and spend her time making the biggest impact. Amanda was looking to start a business, but wasn't sure exactly what to do. She found that in Facebook grou...

Melinda Chichester is an Energy Practitioner and End-of-Life Doula. She offers transformative support helping people as they encounter death in themselves, family and friends. Melinda provides physical, emotional, energetic, informational and coaching support as you navigate through the final transitions in your life.

Jill Weberding, RN is an oncology nurse consultant. Her passion is helping cancer patients to understand their diagnosis by simplifying the medical jargon we use. Jill teaches that when a cancer diagnosis is given, very few people can listen to additional incoming information. Patients start grieving for a potentially shortened life span, a difficult journey ahead, loss of hair, potential of stoma...

Angel Boyce, MSN has a lot of knowledge. She is a student of life and has so much to offer. I worked with Angel for several months trying to help her find her purpose in business and the answer was right in front of her the entire time. Angel excels in helping patients with concussion. She has a process and a system that helps them to recover during the post-concussive phase. This type of business...

Rita Kluny has been a nurse for a very long time. Her traditional nursing experience began in the Neonatal Intensive Care. She explored many modalities in the healing arts, and became certified as a Holistic Nurse and Healing Touch Instructor. She brings the past of both worlds into her practice by teaching moms, nurses, midwives and grandmothers to understand the world of the infant and seeing li...

Ersilia runs a production company called Rogue Nurse Media. She has done 1-person plays and teaches nurses how to find a creative outlet. This podcast was a little different as we got 'real' about what nurses are doing and what we *really* think. In her twenty year Nursing career, Ersilia has held a variety of nursing roles which include: Pediatric Nurse, Charge Nurse, Registry Nurse (PICU, NICU,...

Kimble Walters, MSN is no stranger to the surgical world. She has been in perioperative services for over a decade. She has seen first hand the problem of same-day surgery and patients who are going home who are ill-equipped to care for themselves (or be cared for by a friend). Kimble knew she wanted to create a concierge nurse business but struggled on how she should focus, price her services and...