NursePreneurs

Kim Ellis is a nurse practitioner who LOVES DIABETES! She has been a Family Nurse Practitioner for nearly eight years and has worked in Primary Care, Medically Assisted Weight Loss Clinics, and currently, Community Health. Her desire with her business and social media platforms is to be a ONE-STOP SHOP for Diabetes Education & Management while encouraging everyone to be LIFETIME LEARNERS! Kim buil...

Yolanda Russell worked as a second career nurse on a medical-surgical unit. While she loved her job, she still felt a yearning for something else and something that would create an impact and spur nurses to action. She decided to start a podcast called Real, Raw and Free, but made the common mistake of not identifying who her audience really was. As she discovered that she enjoyed talking to nurse...

Chris Recinos is the owner and CEO of the Nurse Leader Network. As a nurse executive in a busy and very large healthcare network, Chris saw the need to nurture and network with nurses who want to be leaders. Chris was able to climb the ladder of success through when opportunities arose because she was willing to be flexible and take on roles that she was willing to grow into. Chris served as an ac...

Marsha had a variety of clinical jobs during her nursing career. None of them led her to her first business, which was travel business guiding her clients around the world. Marsha had an unshakeable self belief that the business would be successful and it was! She made the decision to stop traveling with clients and found herself immersed in blogging and sharing ideas with nurses. She came up with...

Naseema McElroy is a nurse who was making six figures for years and still struggling with money. When she finally realized that she couldn’t out-earn her spending habits, she knew it was time for a change. By shifting her mindset around money, being consistent and intentional, she was able to pay off just under $1 million in debt in two and a half years. Extracting from her experience, she now sha...

Sadie is the mastermind behind the Remote Nursing Job board that provides nurses with easy access to finding ideal jobs that allow them to work from home. Sadie founded the Remote Nurse after answering the same questions over and over in Facebook groups. Eventually she moved all her answers to her own website where she curates remote work at home jobs for nurses. Sadie says there are tons of work...

Lisa Hedin is a registered nurse who owns TrainingAMC.com, which is an academy for medical cannabis. She is incredibly passionate about the potential that cannabis has not only to treat disease but to promote wellness as well. Lisa speaks on cannabis around the US and conducts certification workshops to help medical professionals to become educated on this fast growing topic. She also teaches non...

Elena Bensonoff is the founder of Wholistic Inc., Published Author, World Renowned Wholistic Teacher, Clinical Pharmacist, Diplomate in Anti-Aging, Functional and Regenerative Medicine, Award Winning Natural Perfumer, and Creator of the Wholistic Wisdom Program and Masterclass, which have helped thousands of people all over the world harness their inner healing power to end their struggles with Ch...

As a Registered Nurse, Yordis was inspired to create Mijamaz medical-pajama to protect the body privacy of patients in care settings. Multiple studies found that patients experience distress and a weakening in their immunity when their body privacy is repeatedly compromised in care settings. She made it her mission to create Mijamaz when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer which led to fre...

Shemeka Jones worked as an HR professional before becoming a nurse. She loved the role of the nurse and found a lot of satisfaction in traveling as a nurse as well. Her life changed when she met another nurse on assignment who planted the idea that starting a staffing agency would be a good idea. At first Shemeka resisted the idea but slowly started looking into what would be involved in such a ve...

Before Jason Duprat became a healthcare entrepreneur, starting businesses and mentoring other professionals to achieve their full potential, he had multiple obstacles to overcome. From working at a pancake house uncertain of his future to pursuing a career in anesthesia and becoming a business owner. Jason’s story is the perfect example of how anybody can overcome the obstacles in their life and a...

Megan Foltz is a periop nurse who felt a calling to Haiti in 2010 after the massive earthquake that hit the island. Megan was unprepared for what she initially experienced in Haiti, but was determined to find a way to help. When cholera broke out on the island she watched the people die senseless deaths within 24 hours. She ended up making 11 trips to the island to provide assistance. As chance wo...

Rachel describes herself as a recovering healthcare executive, wife, mother, nurse, and tribe leader. After her second child, she felt completely overwhelmed with a high pressure job and feeling like she was failing in all aspects of life. A mentor of Rachel’s suggested she reach out to a life coach, so she did even though she didn’t know what they could do. However, this turned out to be exactly...

Azella Collins, RN is a Professional Registered Parliamentarian. Azella became a parliamentarian after a PTA meeting that was so poorly organized and ineffective. Azella took it upon herself to learn how to run meetings. A nurse colleague introduced her to the world of parliamentarians, and Azella found her passion. Beginning with the basic Parliamentarian course, Azella progressed to attain the h...

Brittany Molkenthin is a nurse who was in nursing school when she took a healthcare innovations class. She was asked to create a device to improve the medical field. Brittany had a love for babies and children, so she decided to focus on the problem of anxiety and apprehension that new moms have around the newborn getting enough milk in the first 2 weeks of life. Brittany worked with biomedical en...

Maggie Brown is a nationally Board Certified Advanced Holistic Nurse, a nationally Board Certified Health and Wellness Nurse Coach, a Certified Nature and Forest Therapy Guide and a Reiki Master. Maggie had a vision of helping nurses who are burnt out by bringing awareness to the issues. She met a woman who owned an RV and was inspired by the idea of creating what she calls The Compassion Caravan....

Nursing Brains is the brain child of Dr. Cindy Bautista, Associate Professor. Cindy fell into this business when she attended a business class with a colleague. She wrote out a business plan for a program that was something she loved talking about - Neuro. Cindy went on to create a speaking career and providing workshops for hospitals, local, regional, national and international conferences and ch...

Roz Lindsay is a veterinarian turned Heathcare leader. While she enjoyed working with her animals, she found she was truly drawn to leadership and consulting. She worked for many years in a consulting business doing management, team development and sales. However she found that her roots were still in teaching. Roz began to evaluate her skill set and found that she was the best at helping others t...

Gina Wilson is a family nurse practitioner who had an experience while doing work in Tanzania that would alter her life forever. After working in the Labor and Delivery unit, she witnessed a situation between a mother and baby, where the healthcare workers took care of a hemorrhaging mother, and didn’t have the resources to care for a baby who was struggling to breathe. That scenario literally hau...

Ashley Hay is a registered nurse, freelance writer, editor, and consultant. She found her business niche in an unexpected way. Due to some health conditions, the demands of a 12 hour day or night shift did not allow Ashley the freedom of pursuing her love of oncology nursing. Then she found out about the business of freelance writing in the healthcare space and began her journey into this business...

Tiffany Nichols is a masters prepared nurse in education who saw a need for cannabis education in the community. She would frequently get clients asking her about medical marijuana and whether it was appropriate for them. Even though at the time cannabis was not legal in her state, Tiffany set on a path to learn everything she could about cannabis. What she learned could basically be translated in...

Damion Jenkins is a nurse educator, who found a special niche in helping nursing students pass the NCLEX. What is interesting is that Damion was just naturally good at helping students, and other faculty members noticed. They began referring him students frequently, because he seemed to have a method that was effective. After a few free tutoring sessions, Damion realized that the only way to conti...

Mary Chiesa is a nurse who witnessed a terrible occurrence after a C-section. A baby fell out of his mother's arm as her blood pressure cuff went off. That moment made Mary determined to ask some tough questions such as why is baby not restrained to mom, while she is medicated and strapped to an OR table? As she explored more into the questions she had, Mary started to come up with a solution that...

Kojo Sarfo is a psychiatric nurse practitioner who decided to take his message to masses. He began his entrepreneurial journey while realizing that his most fulfilling moments were the ones where he was helping others. Kojo started working in the mental health field as a nurse and then as a nurse practitioner. Along the way, he also created a clothing brand, Abrantie & Signora, which is a clothing...

Bradley Chesham started out as a sommlier. He was dissatisfied working in the hospitality industry, so he switched to a second career in nursing. His nursing career took him around the world including Afghanistan, Antartica, London and other countries. While in London, he became immersed in how virtual reality was changing the art world, an experience that would later define his next adventure. On...