NursePreneurs

Nicole Mitchell (MSN, CRNP, FNP-C) is a board-certified Nurse Practitioner and the founder of Halo Wellness Clinic. With over 20 years of experience in the medical field, Nicole opened up her own business where she can leverage her skills and passions to help her patients achieve optimal wellness through alternative, natural treatments---medicinal cannabis. Branching out on her own to market her s...

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Jill Canes is a Family Nurse Practitioner and the founder & owner of Face Forward Medical Aesthetics. Starting out in roles such as critical care and surgical subspecialties, Jill took an interest in aesthetics and began working for a chain medical spa where she could care for her patients in a growing, evolving, and stimulating environment. After starting a family, Jill took a break from aestheti...

Fiona Bennett is a Certified Inner Workout, NLP Life Coach, Educator, Energy Healer, and the founder of Life Learning Strategies. Leaving her dreams of early childhood education behind, Fiona stumbled upon a career in nursing that ignited her passion to help others. Experiencing the ins and outs of the healthcare system in various roles (including Public Health roles), Fiona gained knowledge and e...

Jill Stanton and her husband Josh started Screw The Nine To Five business after spending a few years in affiliate marketing. Jill found that she wasn’t fulfilled or happy with what she was working on in affiliate marketing. The opportunity to change arose when she came up with the brain child of helping other people to do what she does - screw the 9 to 5 work schedule. Jill has been passionate abo...

Susan Lunning is an RN, Reiki Practitioner, Certified Brain Injury Specialist, and owner of the Whole Health Way. A long way from her beginnings as a medical secretary, Susan exercises her passion for helping people through transformative health and wellness coaching. In 2011 Susan embarked on her own personal journey to understanding herself and finding her true calling. Through working with her...

Erica Donovan, RN and director of The Paediatric Nurse, accounts her experiences working in clinical nursing in New Zealand and her journey of getting The Paediatric Nurse off the ground. Erica connected with her work partner Brooke Batchelor as a freelancer on her blog The Nurse Path and now maintains the positions of director, social media manager & educator of The Paediatric Nurse. Evolving fro...

Jenny Johnson is a mother, BSN, RN, and the co-founder of Heart Of Gold Nursing. With nearly two decades of experience working in healthcare, Jenny has experienced the ups and downs of nursing firsthand. From Intensive Care, Trauma ICU, Hospice, Homecare, and more, Jenny became disenchanted with the politics of healthcare and the poor quality of care that traditional Critical Care units provide. E...

Melinda Toussaint is a FNP, RN, and the owner & CEO of MariCare Wellness. Using her extensive experience working as a Nurse Practitioner, Melinda launched MariCare Wellness alongside her sister in 2017 to help patients explore the alternative treatment options of CBD and other forms of medical cannabis. Attributing a huge part of her success to her father, Melinda is passionate about helping other...

Valerie Therrien is a nurse from French Canada. When the opportunity arose for she and her family to move to the Mexican Riveria, they jumped on it. That was 7 years ago. Valerie, her husband and her two girls moved without knowing the language. When Valerie's girls quickly became fluent she realized they were staying put, she decided to put some effort into learning the language. Being able to co...

Vanessa Peck has worked as a nurse for more than 12 years. One day during a regular ED shift, a mom and her 17 year old son came in. The son had behavioral issues and was quite agitated. The ED attending ordered medications to calm him down, but the mother asked to give her son his cannabis treatment. Vanessa didn't think much of it till she came back and the boy who has severely agitated 20 minut...

Sheryl Sinico is the Relations Advisor at the InsideOut Institute. Sheryl is the most important part of when a new client gets started with IOI. She walks them through the program, helps answer questions, gets the new person plugged into the system, encourages them and does a complimentary healing session if wanted! After working with many people using the Emotion Code and Body Code that Sheryl di...

Rhonda Crowe, MBA, BSN, RN is a corporate nurse leader who worked as a bedside nurse and worked her way through the executive ranks. She began working with a wound care company in the role of recruiting physicians to work in the wound care clinics. Through her extensive conversations with physicians, she found that the majority of physicians who applied to work for the clinic were burnt out and lo...

Dr. Candy Campbell started her career as an actor and flight attendant. Then during one truly harrowing flight, she discovered her call for nursing. Like many nurses she worked in various specialties finally settling into the neonatal ICU. While working there she discovered a problem that she wanted someone to focus on. That someone became herself. Candy wanted to document the life of micro preemi...

Brad Ferris, RN worked at the bedside for many years. One of the things that frustrated Brad was the focus on the rhetoric of patient centric care, but working in a provider centric environment. Brad noticed that the way we speak to our patients is very transactional. Our interactions tend to lack warmth and empathy mostly due to the time constraints we've been placed under. Brad worked extensivel...

Heather Manus, RN is the founding member and CEO of the Cannabis Nurses Network. It is a network of hundreds of nurses globally who are committed to educating themselves and the public on cannabis use for a variety of health conditions and for overall health and wellness. The purpose of the network is promote and provide quality education, opportunity to connect with like minded individuals, recog...

Ananya Datta is a pediatric nurse practitioner who discovered a love of processes. After being asked to sit on several task forces, she knew she had found her passion for putting all the puzzle pieces together. While she knew she could help Emergency Departments with process flow, she didn’t know exactly how to set up her own business. She joined a program to learn the ins and outs of nurse consul...

Mercedes Thomas is an advanced practice nurse practitioner. She is experienced as a pediatric NP, doula and certified lactation counselor. So it came to a huge surprise to her when she struggled with so many challenges with her own baby when she became a mother. She son had tongue tie and food intolerance, which required her to remove dairy and soy from her own diet. Mercedes had to figure out the...

Sara Fung started the Gritty Nurse podcast with her partner Amie after several frustrations within the nursing profession. They felt like they needed an outlet and soon found out other nurses needed it too. Sara’s has background as obstetrics nurse who also worked in the neonatal unit. She worked bedside for over 8 years and then transferred into nursing leadership. She wanted to be able to share...

Jamesha Ross is a nurse and certified health coach who works in occupational health. She found that many of her corporate clients were really “stuck” in their lives and didn’t know how to make the change they needed. She began working with them to achieve their best version of themselves and found out she was really good at it! Through word of mouth, Jamesha’s coaching program began to grow. Her c...

Renee Davis, MSN, RN, NPD-BC has worked extensively in education in both academia and professional development for over 10 year. Her passion in instructional design and Design Thinking framework, is the core of how she believes education should be structured in nursing. Rene believes that if nurses are engaged in their education and professional development we will see decreases in error and incre...

Mary Turner is a veteran of the Air Force who started her own business in the Medical Staffing Agency business in Houston, TX. She quickly grew to be the third largest agency in her area and was the envy of other small businesses. Except for the fact that her instant success and uncontrolled growth came with a heavy price tag. Unable to sustain the growth, Mary went back to nursing as a recruiter....

Deanna Gillingham transitioned to case management as a nurse after an injury that prevented her from doing any heavy lifting. Like most nurses she wanted to be good at her job and wanted to take the certification exam to prove it. The problem was, she only had the blueprint or the exam, but nothing to actually study from. There weren’t any good books out there that could help her to pass the exam....

Starshema is a registered nurse who found her passion in helping others after the loss of her child. She wanted to share her knowledge and expertise with other women by helping them to start profitable 6 figure businesses based off her own experience of running a successful event planning business. Starshema successfully runs Indelible Milestones, an event planning business. After hearing about st...

John Modica is a Registered Nurse who was working as a travel nurse in Alaska when he got frustrated with trying to keep all his documents with 5 different staffing agencies in order. When he lost a dream travel position due to not having his documents in order, he began lamenting to his friend Dave. Dave just so happened to be an entrepreneur and healthcare data migration expert. When he listened...