I literally clocked in my shift as a nurse and I left the shift as a patient I was physically physically assaulted on it was at hospital I’m not going to say the specifics me as a night shift nurse trying to bathe my patient so you know some patients you can tell nobody’s
Giving him a bath in two days I’m trying to be super nurse I’m trying to be good to you granted it’s neuro like I know who I’m dealing with with my type of specialty I grabbed the CNA hey let’s turn him he wasn’t four point restraints
To be fair we didn’t let him free we just loosened it just so we can get him to turn so we can clean his back and he literally literally went crazy on me and I think outside of the patient because yeah he was sick and you can say
Whatever it was like the lack of support that the hospital gave it was kind of like you know they I was on workers comp so you know they did pay for two weeks while I was healing it was a full thing like I had to see multiple doctors I was
On bed rest I was hemorr in like it wasn’t a casual situation and so yeah it’s like they threw the workers comp at me okay here’s two weeks whatever and it was still like during my healing process it was still very much like are you are
You coming next week or it wasn’t like concern it was just kind of like we need to fill up staff you’re more than a nurse you have more to offer the world than just you know your patient giving them meds and helping them you know you
You can contribute to the world on a on a bigger scale outside of just in the hospital this was April of 2022 I made $30,000 in 10 days and I got I got Paya like all $30,000 on a 10day strike imagine being a nurse and getting
Attacked by a patient to the point where you come into the hospital as an employee and leave as a patient the injury leaves you disabled for months with an inability to work work what would you do how would you support yourself or your family in this episode
I’m going to be speaking with a nurse who was not left with many options after she encountered this very scenario she had several travel assignments as an ICU nurse until this event happened and after months of recovery she hopped back into the scene as a strike nurse who
Made $30,000 in 10 days she used this experience to educate other nurses of the ins and outs of travel strike and PRN nurs she also built a community dedicated to nurses who are seeking Financial Independence we’re going to talk with her about her journey to Financial Freedom in this episode so
With that said L tell us where you’re from and why you decided to become a nurse hi Jason nice to meet you thank you for having me on here so a little bit about myself I’ve been a nurse now for over five years and what really drew
Me into nursing is because my mom she’s actually a nurse practitioner she is my role model so I just kind of like follow her steps so you know she’s been a nurse for years and she loves it and so it was kind of always something that I knew
That I would I would do she’s she’s kind of my role model so I just followed her steps so where did you grow up so I was born and raised in Acra Ghana so I moved to America when I was 9 years old so in 2006 actually on my birthday I’m a
Cancer so July 21st 2006 we relocated to the United States and so that’s where I grew up I grew up with my grandma my mom my dad and my dad is like he’s a genius he’s like the smartest person I’ve ever met so he had a huge job opportunity in
The United States in Florida at that time he was a chemical engineer so we ended up relocating because of his big job and you know we just never went back so so you guys moved to Florida when you first came to the us correct yeah we moved to Jacksonville Florida and that’s
Where I went to like middle school high school college and then after college I relocated to New Orleans Louisiana I wanted a little bit more excitement in my nursing career Jacksonville Florida is not really like it’s getting busier but I wasn’t seeing a lot of crazy
Patients or crazy not saying like I want to see crazy patients but I wanted to learn I’m very big on like getting a lot out of my shifts and so it was kind of like a bunch of casual stuff so I decided to move into New Orleans cuz I
Knew it would be a bigger and busier City I’m also ICU nurse so I knew like I needed to get as much Critical Care actual critical care cuz not all icus are built the same so I was like I need like actual Critical Care my dream at
The time was to be a CRNA now that’s not a thing for me but at the time I was like I need the best ICU so I moved to New Orleans Louisiana and then I started travel nursing my first assignment was New York Co awesome so you said you
Mentioned that your mom is was or is actually a nurse did she get her nurse nursing license in Ghana that’s a great question she actually got it here in the United States so when she was in Ghana so one thing that most people don’t know I would assume is that like nursing
Really only pays this well in the United States like everywhere else it’s not really like it’s not really looked at as like oh you’re a nurse oh wow so nurses in Ghana don’t make any money like it’s not even like a flex if you will to say
You’re a nurse how it is here I have um family and friends in the UK that are nurses is is just not the same so when she was in Ghana she was working at the bank a lot of people in Africa especially in Ghana to be more specific
Banking is a flex so you know when she came here she was like oh like her education in Ghana would have been equivalent to maybe like 30 40K here in the bank so she decided to switch careers and pursue nursing my grandma was also a nurse so I think deep down my
Mom always wanted to be one but the money wasn’t making sense over there so when we came she kind of just started over that’s awesome do you know nanel grisela she’s also from Ghana she lives in the UK she’s a nurse in the UK no I
Don’t know her she has a YouTube channel yeah she has a YouTube channel and she’s got like over 156,000 subscribers right now oh wow I amazing yeah she makes more money from her YouTube channel than she does from her work as a nurse in the UK I believe it yeah like you mentioned
This is the only you this is the only country that pays nurses so well in the UK she’s making like maybe $336,000 a year 36,000 to 40,000 meanwhile she’s making like $9,000 to $12,000 a month from YouTube that’s crazy yeah huge difference huge difference yeah it’s a huge difference
So at what age did you enroll in nursing school so I was in nursing school I was 19 so I went to a community colle college or State College I I kind of took the fast track my program was 16 months so I was able to become a nurse
Within three years so my birthday is in July and I graduated nursing school in August if my birthday was in August I would have been 20 at graduation so I was like freshly 21 and I used to really kind of like be sad about that because I
Always had the grades I had a 3.9 GPA I’m African so like getting C’s and D’s is not an option in my in my household that was options so I always had the grades and I would I got into the big schools I got into you know UCF UF and
Gainesville which is the top school in Florida but we didn’t have the money you know my mom when we first moved here we had to get our citizenship we like At first we had green card then we had to move into citizenship so it’s like we just I couldn’t afford like a fancy
School and I had the grades for it so I remember when we were graduating high school I used to feel so like less than all my peers were going to Miami and they were going to have fun and they were joining fraternities and sororities
And it’s like I had to go to a community college and I had to work at a grocery store I was working at a grocery store called public so we didn’t have the money at that time to you know for me to have that that college experience and so
You know I worked throughout school I was living with my parents throughout school now now that I’m older and more mature I’m glad everything worked out how it did because I don’t I don’t owe anybody any money I don’t have student loans I got done in three years so if
There’s anybody watching this like do not feel less than your peers because you have a ADN I used to I literally used to feel less than a nurse because I didn’t have the fancy BSN but now that I’m older five years later it’s like my peers are still paying student loans
They’re still waiting on Biden to do whatever and it’s just like I don’t have to worry about that I I don’t owe anybody I can I can do whatever I want so and the Beautiful Thing I love about nursing is at the end of the day we all
Have to sit down and take in clex So at the end of day whether you went to you know you got a four-year degree or you you went to State College all these hospitals want to know for the most part I mean you got those hospitals that want
The magnet you know that want the BSN for the magnet but at the end of the day it’s like did you pass inlex or not so I just want to encourage and I feel like there’s not enough people on Instagram encouraging ADN nurses not everybody has
The the 100K ready to go for a fancy school just you know save your money you know stay with Mom stay a dad if you have to work through school do that do what you have to do stay focused I was focused my entire three years I watch
Some of my friends go live it up go party in Miami and now you know they’re working at whatever job that that’s not their ideal job so just stay down I stay down we didn’t have the money but I got the money now I got the money now and I
Don’t owe nobody so just stay down absolutely you know I 100% agree with you I had a conversation with Asha she’s one of the nurses I interviewed previously she currently owns a med spa business and she made like the first time or the first year she opened her business she made
$360,000 in the first year this was actually even before the the year was up right and she actually started as an ADN nurse then she worked in hospice she worked in informatics and while she was working she got her employer to pay for her BSN and now she’s working at one of
The highest pain hospitals 20 hours a week while she owns her Med Spa so uh in addition to you know working at the med spa making like $360,000 per year she’s making like an additional $150,000 per year at her current job and she did all of that with
Her ADN initially and when I was in school I remember I was going to school I was in a community college and I tried to get into the ADN program but it was so competitive and that’s one thing about like admr competitive yeah they’re extremely competitive so I at that point
Had no choice but to apply outside of my school and I ended up getting into a private university which was a four-year program but I already had like basic technically like an associates degree in Liberal Arts so I just transferred all my credits to that University and I got
Ended up getting a BSN within like a year and a half or so but what I always tell people now is that if you can get an ADN get it that is the cheapest way to become a nurse it’s the fastest it’s the cheapest and I work with nurses the
Hospital system I working they pay ADN nurses the exact same that they pay the BSN nurses like there’s no differential in our hospital system for degrees so even if you have an MSN or or an you’re an NP working in a inpatient unit you still get the same pay because we’re a
Union hospital as the nurses that have an ADN so just get your ADN and then have your hospital pay for your BSN once you’re working absolutely I can agree with you more I I’ve done 13 travel assignments and I’ve worked I’ve worked in magnet hospitals as a travel nurse
With an ADN and I’ve never had an issue literally never 13 different assignments I’m not talking extensions like 13 different hospitals and it’s never been an issue I’m not saying that’s going to be the case forever or maybe your dream hospital they might be more picky but
For the most part like it’s short staff like you they I feel like nobody could really be that picky anymore it’s like we just need n abolutely and you know the one thing that scared me a lot though when I was in nursing school which pushed me to get my BSN is that
Everybody kept saying oh it’s going to be mandatory to have your BSN no hospital is going to hire you without a BSN that is a complete lie you are going to be hired with your ADN Don’t Be Afraid don’t be afraid you will get a job yeah so you graduated with your ADN
And then what did you do once you graduated absolutely so I graduated with my ADN and then I immediately like I probably took I graduated in August I started my BSN program in December so I took a couple like a couple months off and I I had my job my hospital at the
Time pay for my BSN I was working in Jacksonville Florida which is my hometown I was working there for a couple months my dream like even before I even got into nursing school I was telling everybody I’m going to be the youngest CRNA to exist I’m going to be a
CRNA I’m going to be a CRNA and so five years ago in 2018 hospitals weren’t as open to letting new nurses in the ICU and so my first job and I had that job lined up before I even passed inux I told them I want to be an ICU nurse they were like
Just give us six months in the PCU and then after six months we’ll put you in the ICU I was like okay cool like I’ll take what I can get and so I was working that job for probably about three three four months months probably like three
Months and then I I told them hey like you know what type of ICU do you have open am I going to be neuro am I going to do meu CV ICU what type of Cu at this point we’re like halfway through and you know my six months is coming up and they
Played with me Jason they were like oh I know we told you that but we actually have a job fair and we want to hire experienced nurses in the ICU like I feel like that’s a scam like you scamm me I I only took so that’s kind of what
Forced me to relocate to New Orleans Louisiana and I always tell people like whatever you want to do no excuses if you’re watching this no ex I don’t give myself excuses I don’t sit there and cry about stuff I just think okay what’s next so you guys told me six months then
I see you now it’s a different story instead of me crying about it I’m just going to go online and see what else is out there and so I didn’t want to move I didn’t know anybody in New Orleans I had never even visited that City didn’t know
A so no friend no family but I knew like I wanted to be a CRNA and that requires ICU experience so literally packed my bags accepted the job offer moved to a city that I didn’t know anybody all by myself that was my first time adult in
First time having an apartment um I didn’t have much money like I went out there like probably maybe like $1,200 and I lived in that apartment with no furniture for like three months cuz it was I I mean it’s like I had a mattress um but I was really just
Surviving but I but I had what I wanted I had my ICU job I was like getting the hang of it and so yeah I always tell people no excuses like you gotta do what you got to do period so how much did they start you off in that first job in
The piu OR PCU my PCU job I remember it in Jacksonville Florida it was 2350 this is in 2018 they started me at $23 and 50 cents crazy it just seems like the average that’s typically what all nurses get paid as new grad in Florida absolutely and I was you know
The crazy part is I was excited about it I thought it was good money you know at that time my only nursing is only my second job so I was working well technically my third my first job I was at a grocery store repix for about four
Years like I’m a I’m a cancer so we’re naturally loyal I I loved that job and so you know I was making probably like $10 so to me that was like you know when I was younger I was just turned 21 so I was like oh now I was like I would
Never never yeah that’s an insult now right crazy crazy yeah so when you moved to New Orleans how much were you making there I was making I it was I was under 30 I think I was making probably like 28 probably like 28 I was and that was
Only that was only really because that was also night shift they had like a $3 night shift so if it wasn’t night shift I would have made probably like 25 instead of the 23 but I think I just know I was like right under 30 so I was
Probably making like 2850 or like right at 29 and how did you get that job was it like a job board did you know somebody who worked in the hospital like how how did that happen yeah great question I went online and I it was kind
Of random I just went online and I was looking I don’t know if it was indeed I don’t think it was indeed I I think I just Googled like you know ICU jobs in the area so at first I was looking within Florida like okay maybe Jacksonville Is Telling Me No but maybe
Orlando Miami same thing they were being super super picky about new grads in the IC which I understand and so I was like Wow L are you really willing to move States like isn’t that serious and then I was like it actually is that serious so I started looking in Texas actually I
Had I had two job offers I had a job offer in New Orleans and I had a job offer in Houston Texas and so but the New Orleans job like it I should have knew it was a red flag they were overly nice and sweet to me like they like
Booked me like a three-day flight and hotel every they gave me the full red carpet they were like we’re gonna fly you in for the interview we want to interview you and person they paid for my hotel they paid for my um flight they paid for my rental card they paid for me
So I was like you know my the Houston Hospital didn’t do all that for a new grad so I was like sold on the New Orleans offer I was like oh this means they have money no this means it’s a terrible hospital and they’re they locked me in on a two-year contract I
Had just never experienced such red carpet treatment to me I was like oh this hospital is great and it was actually a red flag cuz that hospital I’m not going to say the name but it was absolutely terrible would would not recommend all right note to self If an
Employer treats you like a celebrity before you’re hired do not accept the job red flag and that’s sad because that should be a green flag but it was oh my God I was like oh my when I signed the contract it felt I was excited I was
Like oh my God I’m going to find an apartment out here my life is getting better and yeah when I started working like literally no staff like I didn’t I’m not even being funny Jason like before I was a travel nurse I didn’t know that like nurses get assistance
Like we I didn’t even know what flot M was like I I only Drew my own blood I was like picking up trash like I was all I knew my standard as a nurse was to do everything and so when I went to my first travel assignment this was April
Of 2020 New York City you know even though the the situation at the time was terrible you know I I had never seen sicker patients like that however I was like wow we get photomy like I don’t have to do this I don’t have to like resources resources so yeah that that
New orans hospital even though it wasn’t a great hospital it did prepare me for my first travel and nurse assignment all right so two things what unit were you working in in the New Orleans hospital and then we’ll talk about New York so tell me that first yes so I they gave me
The neuro IU which surprisingly I thought I wasn’t going to like it cuz I feel like everyone hates nuro so I was like uh like I kind of knew they were going to give me nuro but I ended up really loving it the thing about nuro is it’s pretty much the same
Type of stuff you’re going to see it’s either a stroke some type of brain aneurysm a seizure a bleed like it’s only It could only be like five things so you know where it’s like Miku or siku you can get any type of surgery any type of medical stuff like neuro is straight
Up neuro so you know it’s it’s a little hard in the beginning but once you get it down down packed like you are an expert it can only be like five diagnosis so um I grew to really like it that’s cool okay so then after you left
That place did did you work there for two years I worked there for a year and a half so I actually worked there for like a little bit under a year and a half I had a I had probably like four months or three months from my PCU job
And then I had like a year and some change from New Orleans so before when I went into travel nursing I had a total a year and a half of experience but probably like a year of solid a year cuz my assignment was April so probably like
A year and like two or three months of ICU experience so I was nervous going into it because you know everyone says you got to have two years and I knew like I only had a total of a year and a half so I really didn’t even think I was
Going to get the job and God is I I was going to say God was so good he’s always good and I got the New York New York City job I see so I thought you mentioned that there was some sort of contract that you signed with the New
Orleans hospital for two years so how how did that work oh my God that’s a great question so I broke the contract and I was literally terrified I was like oh God cuz what happens whenever for you guys who are not super familiar whenever you’re signing a contract with a uh it’s
Like a Residency program for lack of better terms that’s what they used to call it so you’re pretty much telling them that hey like you’re going to work here for two years now they told us when we were first starting they told us if you break this contract you’re going to
Have to pay them back because I got a $10,000 sign on bonus to so like everything looked perfect about this job I was like oh my God they flew me in giving me 10K like literally and they paid the 10K on like the first check it
Was crazy I was like wow I love it here and so I knew going into it they said said that if you canceled your contract like if you quit before your first year you have to pay the full $10,000 back if you do one year you have to pay the 5K
Back so I was going into New York knowing that I would have to just pay like I had I had did at least a year with them so I knew I was going to like owe the 5,000 I mean I wasn’t calling HR to follow up on the 5,000 they weren’t
Calling me so I was like oh maybe they forgot you know it was 2020 a lot was happening I was like oh forgot they did not forget they called me they hunted me down and so I ended up I ended up having to pay that 5K but that was like
Probably like week 12 of my New York assignment so I was already making like 6K a week so it was just kind of like here you go here here’s the thing you need to understand an employer will never contact you if they underpay you but if
They overpay you they will be on you for life they were on me and you know I think I think April of 2020 was so hectic they didn’t call me until like the very end so it was probably like I want to say like July is when they
Called me I was like oh my God they might nobody was calling me I wasn’t calling them and then they started blowing me up and I got scared I was like am I gonna go to jail let me just give them the 5K okay so how did you get into travel
Nursing then yeah so it was it was actually nothing but God whenever I tell this story people it’s crazy I made a post on Instagram so everyone needs to make social media their best friend like social media is everything and so I made a post I was in my PPE it was nothing
Crazy I was at the nurses station in New Orleans at my assignment oh sorry my staff job at the time and so I posted it was actually March 16th to be exact I made a post it was like a long paragraph and I don’t even do paragraphs and I was
Just saying how like wow like I’ve never seen so many sick patients like it was crazy and really just warning the public to really take this seriously like I’m a nurse I’m in it and I’m because at that time people were partying and it was
Just like so I made like a a call to action post I mean I didn’t even have 10K followers I was just I wanted everybody to know that this is real this is serious and so a recruiter that post got reposted on Facebook pages like big
Huge nurse Pages because it was like me and my PP and then a long paragraph it was very touching I was crying as I was typing the caption and so people were reposting it out of nowhere this is somebody this I I didn’t have I don’t
Even think I had like 6K followers like I just like started seeing my stuff everywhere and I was talking about you know how like bad it is um like the patients are super sick and everybody should stay safe and a travel nurse recruiter saw my post I think she saw on
A Facebook nurse page and she reached out to me she was like have you ever thought about travel nursing and I was like yeah but I only have a year and a half of experience I used to think that two-year thing was very strict I didn’t
I didn’t know you can kind of get away with it with one year so I was like yeah I would love to but I don’t have a I don’t have two years and she was like how much experience do you have and I was like about a year and a half and she
Literally like took my information we jumped on the phone call and literally I she was like cuz my my post was March 16th I probably sign I signed my contract probably like the next week after and yeah and then and I was at a really good Hospital too so like you
Know a lot of people when they were talking about their New York experience it was so horrible and oh my God and not to say that I chilled but I was at the number one Hospital in the entire State I yes nyp I worked at nyp it was not the number
One okay which nyp I was at a Columbia University that’s where I worked I love that hospital they said one in this in 2020 they were number one in New York state and they were like number five in the country listen I know that okay I used to tell everybody this when I
Worked in New York but let me tell you something about nyp the reason the reason they’re number one is because of their doctors okay they hire the top the highest caliber doctors like they’re renowned they’re renowned all over the world that’s why they’re number one in
New York state and number five in the entire country but if you would have gone to the ER you would see that patients are waiting there 8 10 12 hours just to be seen and you know what something about them gave me a red flag
Not in 2020 I was living the dream but like a bunch of nyp nurses went on strike earlier this year and I was like not nyp like I love it there so it must not be that great no because the ICU you actually so I don’t know how it was
During Co but if it’s not during Co you do have your ratios it’s like one to two Max but in the ER there are there were no ratios like I would get 17 patients at times like I just spoke with a coworker of mine um like two years ago
And she told me she had 40 patients to herself are you kid yes okay so that’s that’s just how the ER was and then the impatient units excluding the ICU were not that great either because the nurses hate working there as well the ratios aren’t that good either isn’t this sad
How like one unit can have a completely different experience I will like go ahead sorry no I will say this that I had like the best experience there because of the people that I worked with it’s unlike any other place that I’ve ever worked at till this day like a few
Of my co-workers from nyp are working with me here in California now so like you make these really lifelong relationships with people and the cool thing is is that that hospital is located in an area where you can go out and have have dinner or breakfast with your co-workers after work I really
Enjoyed that that’s crazy you were at Columbia I love that area Washington Heights like it is great are it’s great I love it yeah yeah it’s in a great location it’s funny because a lot of the times when I speak with nurses that have worked for nyp it’s usually like Cornell
Because you know Cornell is like the top really considered the top nyp hospital but colia there they are are they are and they’re not Union they don’t have a union it’s a private insti yeah it’s only well basically every other hospital that’s an nyp Hospital besides Cornell is a union represented Hospital
Interesting yeah yeah but yeah but how long did you work there for then I my contract was for 13 weeks so I started my start date was April 20th 2020 and I probably ended like right before my birthday probably like two weeks before my birthday and then so yeah I was there
For 13 weeks I loved it cuz at that time New York was shut down so like I didn’t deal with the traffic and like the homeless everyone was locked up I mean not locked up but you know locked up in the house that’s why you loved it so much
Okay I loved it there there was nobody on the subway I was taking the subway two and frw it’ be like two people this was like you know like around one Co it was a beautiful time in New York man I loved it and so now when I go back or
Now when I tell nurses like I love New York they’re like what you love New York nursing I’m like yes it was the best they’re like no well I then I guess you should tell nurses who are ICU nurses to go to nyp because otherwise they’re not going to enjoy
It that’s good to know yeah I’ve been telling everyone oh my God go to nyp so there’s there might be some Ed nurses who probably hate me okay so how much were you getting paid as a traveler in that position you said about 5,000 a week I was making
Right under 6,000 probably like 58 or 5900 a week and for how many hours of work I was doing 48 hours I see okay well that’s not bad yeah that’s not bad yeah I thought it I thought it was great because at that time there was a travel
Agency that was super popular called crucial and so a lot of nurses were in New York but they were doing 20 21 days straight I’m like that is listen I don’t care I know they were paying $10,000 a week but it’s like I’ve always been very
Big about my time and that’s one thing that I teach nurses and my mentees now is that like from from the beginning you can’t get me to work 21 days straight as a nerd I don’t care how much money’s on the table that is absolutely crazy and
So you know shout out to the all the ones that did it but you got to work smart not hard and so yeah I was I was doing 48 hours and I don’t know if it was adrenaline it didn’t feel it didn’t feel that miserable at that time it’s
Funny because you say that uh I don’t think you know about the nurses that I work with because in our hospital system these nurses are working 30 40 50 60 days in a row yeah what and then one of them one of them Works 365 days a year
Yeah you’re kidding Kidd I’m not kidding I’m not who would do that like why well here’s the thing our hospital system has uh great benefits for nurses who want to pick up extra shifts so they have this thing called sixth day premium so on the
Sixth day you get paid time and a half regardless of how many hours you worked before so like you could have worked four hours per day every day of the week until the sixth day and then you work the sixth day you get time and a half
The seventh day you get double time and then every day after that you get time and a half until you stop working and also got yeah and also every seventh consecutive day you know if you continue working you get paid double time on the seventh consecutive day so yeah that’s
Why and and then you don’t have to work 12 hours you don’t have to work 8 hours you could just work four hours on your days off nice yeah that’s still crazy though it is pretty crazy it is it like the most that I worked was 18 days in a
Row I believe yeah that is crazy but you know so I normally only work I was only working like 24 hours a week normally like 8 hours but I would I was coming in for four hours on my days off so it’s technically
Not that much but yeah I I mean I I hate it because I’m still away from my family you know and I don’t like that feeling so now I’m I’m only working 20 hours a week I have n days off the other week
You know so I get a lot of time off yeah that’s nice I love that for you I love that okay so you worked there how was the pandemic though while you were working there because you got there at the beginning of the pandemic at the
Beginning yeah so how was that it was absolutely crazy and I like and this is coming from somebody who I take risks I moved to random States I don’t know like I thought I was gonna be able to handle it and I actually thought you know
Before I actually went out to New York I was like I was watching the news I’m like they have to be being a little dramatic like it can’t be this bad because they were like oh you know like the morgs are full and patients are in
You know in trucks and I was like probably being a little dramatic when I got there I was like no freaking way it felt like I was in a movie it felt like I was literally in a movie especially in the ICU the hospital at the time was
Some units were doing team nursing some units were doing regular like you get your your patient and so like everyone was every traveler at that point was float poool like I was floating everywhere they were throwing me in the Ed throwing me in the O I was just like
Oh my God and it was it was really really crazy it was the first time as a nurse outside of like being a fresh first fresh fres new grad it was my first time as a nurse that I left my shifts crying like legit tears I was crying after literally after every shift
And I’m really even though I’m a cancer I’m like almost a Leo so like the next day is like or two days later is a Leo so I’m not really a crier I probably cry like three times a year not that I’m some you know hard person but takes a
Lot for me to really like feel like deeply and so I was literally crying after every single shift it was so bad and I was getting like super attached to the patients because at that time there was no family and this was New York so like I would leave work I was working
Night shift I would leave work and like people’s families people’s wives people’s husbands people’s daughters and kids were outside with pictures of their patients like have you seen my dad I thought it was in a movie do you have my dad you’re a nurse I’m like oh my God
People literally because they couldn’t they couldn’t come in we weren’t doing any visitors and so sometimes especially when I was down in the Ed downstairs people would literally be like right on the window trying to peek trying to it was CRA it was honestly crazy and so I
Just saw so much I actually begged my mom my mom my mom is a psych NP and she had just finished MP school she was excited to go on her NP journey and I was like I know you’re like done with life but I need you to please come
Takeing come like take this assignment with me so probably about a month into my assignment my mom she took her first travel assignment she came out to New York she was in Brooklyn though but it was nice to like have my support system so it it was it was crazy wow to have
Your mother you know just be there by your side that’s amazing like not many people have that it was she’s literally my my rock and my mom is like she’s cool like she’s she’s African obviously both my parents were all African but my mom has Americanized a lot a lot of her
Friends are like healthc Care Professionals and so she’s like a a cool mom like you know I still respect her and I still like I’m scared of her but she’s like she’s cool like you know when she came her hospital was in Brooklyn she was having a completely different
Experience than I was but it was nice to like oh she’s like 10 minutes away not obviously by train but you know at that time there was no traffic so like her we were in hotels also another thing during that time is we were actual Heroes now
We’re like back to normal uh I mean I think nurses are still Heroes but you know at that time that was the time when when you were going to work they were like clapping for you like I don’t know if you remember they were like clap
Royalty so um you know it was a great experience and we also got free hotel at that time you know that was the time where you know the governor at the time he was very big on nurses or Healthcare workers in general doesn’t it didn’t matter if you were see any whoever um
New York was very big on healthcare workers not going back home after their shift so we all I was I was literally in New York for free like my hotel was absolutely free they had a program where every 30 days you were in a hotel so I
Was in Time Square at a Marriott for free so I I I mean everything outside of the tragedy it was a great it was a great experience this is why you loved nyp so much I had a great time honestly let me tell you something if
They would have been paying for me to stay at the Marriott while I was working there I would have never left I loved it so much like I literally and the doctors maybe because I’m also like from the south like Florida New New Orleans like you mentioned earlier the
Doctors at nyp were great they like you guys were spoiled man I had never as a nurse you got you get an iPhone to like page I’m like what to me it felt like futuristic and you know the the doctors actually responded in the chat they actually did rounds yeah free hotel and
Nyp had meals so we got free breakfast free breakfast and free like lunch I always ate for free you know you’re gonna make everybody think it’s always like this at nyp they should they should they should cut me a check after yeah they should okay I got to do a PSA guys it’s
Not always like this at nyp it was only like that during the [Laughter] pandemic’s so what did you do after your contract was over so after my contract was over I kept travel nursing so when I took that New York assignment I actually thought I was going to do just like get
It out my system I thought it was going to be a onetime thing and then I was just going to go back to newor Orleans and so I mean I had such a great experience I was like I want to keep doing it and then I found out real quick
That this is not how it goes so my my second assignment was in Phoenix Arizona that was my second assignment and my mom she her Hospital wasn’t nyp she was at a she was at a hospital I don’t care I’ll say the your name in Brooklyn called Brookdale and they have a horrible
Reputation it’s like terrible she said so I was telling her all about our iPhones and the doctor she was like where are you at that’s not that’s not like at Brookdale at the time they were she was like I’m literally having to fight with nurses and CNAs about like
Glucometers they had nothing like not even the actual glucomet like the strips like they would literally count how many they had no resources no money and she was like yeah so she must have been like why did you drag me over cuz when I was telling my mom about
My New York experience I was like you know outside of the tragedy it’s great and so I did I didn’t sell her a dream it was my reality but she was like girl this is not this is terrible okay so how was Phoenix Arizona I loved it I loved it I
Didn’t love it as much as nyp but Phoenix Arizona I think I loved it more so for the city you know that’s not really a city this is in 2018 I feel like now it’s starting to get popular I see Phoenix or Arizona Scottdale on my
Timeline a lot but in 2018 it wasn’t something that I was like oh Phoenix Arizona and so I didn’t have high expectations going into that assignment but I loved it as far as like the city now I did go up on my hours for that second assignment I was doing 60 hours
My contract was 60 hours for 7200 so I was making like 7K a week on 60 hours and my mom was like oh I’ll come to the like she like she was hating on her New York experience but she was like I’ll do another one so we did that assignment
Together we were placed at the same hospital system but not the exact same facility but it was nice because we we got a Airbnb together it was like a two-bedroom two bath my mom was cooking for me it was great so the actual everything else was great but that
Assignment is when I knew like I’m a soft life nurse type of girl I cannot do 60 hours like I I just cannot and so if I didn’t have my mom on that assignment I would have late to a lot of shifts because she’ll
Be like get up we have to get up I’m like oh my God I’m a kid again I I can’t do 60 hours it’s so funny you’re an adult and you still have your mom waking you up for work my mom was still waking me up for
Work that is so funny so you were working in what type of ICU there um that when I was in the mku I was in the mku they would I was float po so I would do some nuro but my like home was mchu
It was man I don’t know if it was that time or maybe that area a lot of those a lot of those patients were like psych patients I was like what like a lot of them were like they came in with all types of Psych like psych stuff not even
Neuro like psych and then we got a lot of like alcoholics in Phoenix I was like I don’t know if and I was also there like Prime Time heat like that assignment started in July so it was like 120 degrees so all the PTI were like I just remember
Like of all 13 assignments that was like the most crazy patience like it was always screaming and restraint and oh my alcoholism and with withdrawals and oh my God it’s crazy that sounds like the ER I work in now he’s like that sounds like my life
Yeah oh man okay so did you end up staying in Phoenix or did you end up going somewhere else after that contract was over so I did Phoenix for eight weeks and I moved so I was literally on the run so when I tell I’ve done 12 I’ve
Done 13 assignments in about two years they’re like how I was literally on to the next like I would literally end an assignment on a Friday and then start being in Texas Monday like literally no breaks and I was take I was doing a lot of eight week assignment and some like
13 weeks so after Phoenix I went to San Antonio Texas that was my third assignment and then after St Antonio I went to Atlanta and then I went to Iowa I think that was my my most weird assignment Iowa I was like what am I doing here it was like December of
2020 I it was like probably like five degrees and I’m a Florida girl first of all I’m African so I don’t do cold or snow and then I’m a a Southern girl and you know they were paying like 6K a week and I was at that point Jason I was just
Going wherever they were paying honestly like I was wherever had the rate I don’t I was I almost took an assignment in North Dakota I was like at this point I don’t care like wherever and so I actually canell my Iowa assignment that’s when I knew like money really
Isn’t everything cuz I was making 6K a week but a it was December 2020 I didn’t want to be away from my family and you know that part of the us and I would I mean I guess I should have knew but that part of the US is not colored people
Friendly to say the least so it was it was like my first time seeing it very like it’s it was so obvious they were very direct with it too right very direct with it right I feel like you know racism is everywhere and you experience it subtly but that was very
Like wow like I landed I had to fly into an airport in Nebraska it was Omaha Nebraska and it was about like an hour away from I was working at a hospital in soue Falls Iowa and so omal was only like hour and a half away and when I
Landed in Omaha Nebraska and I know that’s kind of a big city I’m not even exaggerating like when I landed I was literally I swear I didn’t see anybody who looked like me like nothing and it was just like I didn’t even feel like I
Was in the US I was like what and I you know was getting stairs it was so weird it was super super weird and I remember everyone like I stuck out like a sore thumb and it was just like wow there’s there are really states and cities where
We’re not there and I’m not just talking about black people like I didn’t see anybody who had a a drop of color and I was just like oh God and I remember praying because I had to order an Uber it was G to be an hour and a half ride
To Iowa and I was like oh my God I hope I don’t get like a crazy and so long Serv for my Uber was actually he was black he was African-American and I was like you live here like how is it living here he was
Like he did say like you know it’s a lot of racism but he likes like the quietness and blah blah blah and I really experienced a lot of racism on that assignment like with the nurses with the nurses they were literally going out their way not just me because
You know at that time everyone was travel nursing so you know there were some colored nurses that were coming in from other states and it was always something it was always something with the staff nurses even The Travelers who didn’t look like us you know multiple multiple instances where they were
Literally like doing stuff manipulating like drips in the ICU like like evil evil stuff manipulating stuff to make you look crazy to make you like get fired lose your license and so that was the first contract I cancelled I cancelled my Iowa nurse travel nurse assignment man that’s that’s hard like I
Mean when I came to California from New York for me it was personally an eyeopener because I imagined uh California to be very Progressive but there’s there’s like lots of pockets of extreme right Wingers here in California even in like the progressive cities within the progressive cities like
Because I’m more like of an in in the- Middle type of person I used to be Progressive but I realized like I just don’t want to be extreme in either side on either side so I’m just like in the middle and here though I’ve noticed there’s like extreme to the right a lot
Of extreme to the right and it it seems like people when you have share a different political opinion to someone else they don’t associate themselves with you anymore they don’t like you and I didn’t feel that when I was in New York because in New York it’s it’s a
Pretty Progressive city right New York City but when you have a coworker who shares a different political opinion than you you guys just agree to disagree and you have conversations about it I don’t feel that here so it’s it’s much harder to like socialize with someone who doesn’t share the same political
Opinions as you do or ideology yeah I I I can see that I can see that and I think that like we’re all human we all have different opinions I I I’m I’m just like you like I want to be somewhere in the middle I I believe in respecting
Each other like if you let’s say even religion or political like I love everybody for who they are because people have had to accept me for who I am and so I like I’m very agree to disagree typee of person and it’s so crazy to me that so many people aren’t
Like it’s l it’ll literally be a a deal breaker for the Friendship I’m just like wow that is that is crazy and I I worked in a hospital here it’s called Sutter Roseville it’s oh I know about okay so it’s like a few minutes uh 20 minutes
From Sacramento and that was the first hospital experience that I had in California and it was for me it was terrifying already to come from New York City to California because I didn’t know what I was expecting but when I started working there it was me and one other
Nurse that were the the only minorities in the entire department wow but I will say this thankfully thankfully my co-workers were awesome that I will say we all got along really well together and with my co-workers I did not experience racism but with the patients
I did like every now and then I would get a patient that would call me boy or that would yell like the nword yeah so that happened now and then but me I’m I’m like words never like really hurt me I’m not that type of person so
Regardless of what people say to me I just it just goes in one ear and out the other and I’m like overly nice to you because I know that will irk you even more if you’re being mean towards me or you know racist towards me in any way
Like that’s how I just get past it but yeah I ended up leaving that hospital and I’m in Sacramento now and it’s extremely diverse where I work now there’s we have black Indian Asian yes very diverse I love it I love working with diverse group of people and
It’s actually very sad that I feel like as healthcare workers especially minorities we’re we’ve gotten to the point where we’ve heard the N word and so many other racial slurs so often then now we just brush it off but it’s it’s a it’s a problem it’s really really bad
I’ve been called the nword multiple multiple times and it’s not okay and sometimes you know the especially I’m nuro they’ll be like oh he’s not their his right mind I’m like yes he is he knows like you know exactly what you mean like you might not be neurologically who you are but that’s
Inside that’s who you are that’s who you were before you were sick and it’s it’s so bad it’s so bad the type of abuse emotional abuse that healthcare workers go through not not just nurses right so many CNAs are insulted by patient so many nurses whether it’s racial or
Whatever and it’s like there has to be something that that holds these patients accountable I feel like whenever a patient is getting admitted they need to watch a course of something about respect because it is it’s it’s crazy it’s like I’m here to help you I’m here
To serve you I’m not here for you to call me the nword I’m not here for you to you know I’ll tell people I’m African and then they’ll like crack little jokes or you know did you have a pet this did you have a pet line and it’s just like I
I want to fire you like I don’t want you as a patient and so I feel like there needs to be a little bit more H like a little bit more training for patients they need to understand that there has to be a mutual respect right like yeah
You’re not at work but these people are here to help you you should treat them with respect and it makes me sad when I hear you know people who’ve encountered racism at the bedside and it’s become so normal it’s like oh whatever and it’s like no it’s it’s not whatever it’s it’s
Crazy it’s crazy the stuff we go through I think patients need to have a little bit more accountability I don’t know who’s gonna make that happen that sounds like a you know higher up thing but there needs to be more accountability for patients um and it’s very close to
Me because I was able to quit my full-time job as a nurse last year so November 1 is going to be my oneye anniversary of retiring from full-time nursing like I haven’t I haven’t swiped a badge in a year and what did it for me is that I literally clocked in my shift
As a nurse and I left the shift as a patient I was physically physically assaulted on it was at a Kaiser Hospital not going to say the specifics it was at a Kaiser Hospital me as a night shift nurse trying to bathe my patient so you know some patients you can tell nobody’s
Giving him a bath in two days I’m trying to be super nurse I’m trying to be good to you granted it’s neuro like I know who I’m dealing with with my type of specialty I grabbed the CNA hey let’s turn him he wasn’t fourpoint restraints
To be fair we didn’t let him free we just loosened it just so we can get him to turn so we can clean his back and he literally literally went crazy on me and I think outside of the patient because yeah he was sick and you can say
Whatever it was like the lack of support that the hospital gave it was kind of like you know they I was on workers comp so you know they did pay for two weeks while I was healing it was a full thing like I had to see multiple doctors I was
On bed rest I was hemorrhaging like it wasn’t a casual situation and so yeah it’s like they threw the workers comp at me okay here two weeks whatever and it was still like during my healing process it was still very much like are you are you coming next week or it wasn’t like
Concern it was just kind of like we need to fill up staff and that’s when I really realized like I need to get some type of passive income because you know I don’t know if people say Healthcare has changed like it used to be better like my mom even says like it didn’t
Used to be this bad but it’s like I really realized as a nurse You’re just another you’re just another person on payroll like they don’t really care hair you know that was the most up until now like at 26 years old that was the most traumatic experience of my entire life
When I was injured I was in the Ed I was admitted I had to be on medications I had to see a 100 doctors you know I was hemorrhaging you would have thought I was having a miscarriage for the first time in my life at 25 I was like am I
Able to even have kids later and so just to the lack of the lack of like respect and support it really turned me off about Healthcare and you know I’m not here to bash nursing I love being a nurse you know I might pop in for a PRN
Shift here and there but I can like I I really can’t you know it’s not the same the patients don’t respect you the hospital system the CEOs half the time your your charge nurses you’re just you’re just there you’re just a number and so I always encourage people you
Know it doesn’t matter how much you love your job you should have something I feel like everyone everyone is not meant to be entrepreneu but I feel like everyone should do something entrepreneurial to where if they did cancel your contract tomorrow if they did say oh the census is low you have
Something else you have something else even if it’s I’m not saying that something else needs to be a six six figure business but you have something else that you can tap into that can generate you income so yeah I’m sorry to hear about your your racial experiences
I think it’s very very serious and I think it’s something that patients need to be held to a a higher level of accountability for how they treat not just nurses everyone one in healthare you know at I like what you said though because I tell this to everybody that at
The end of the day as long as you’re an employee you’re nothing but a number to your employer like because I’ve been laid off twice so I know what it feels like when you think your employer doesn’t care about you because the reality of the matter is they don’t they
Really don’t they don’t they just care about their bottom line and as long as the hospital system or not even the hospital system like I worked corporate before I got into the into nursing and as long as their business is earning money that’s what matters and if you are
Responsible for them losing money or uh and in your case you know they had to give you workers comp then they might not need you any longer because you’re just a liability at that point right absolutely so that’s exactly why I’ve always been like very adamant about like
Starting my own business or or getting into some kind of side hustle to protect me from the from like losing my job again because if I ever get laid off again I want to have at least some sort of backup that will provide me a decent
Amount of income so that I can use that as a like you know as a harness to protect me in the case that I don’t have like regular W2 income coming in I love it it’s it’s so important it’s so important I think so many nurses you
Know and I speak about nurses cuz I’m a nurse but this really applies to anybody especially in the Health Care System we’re so comfortable especially as a travel Nur it’s like you know you can go make 100K you know that you can make 70k and you know the the con about
Entrepreneurship is that it’s not stable so I think that’s what turns a lot of people off from starting a business you know it’s like they like that security but at the end the day like your job is not even secure honestly like I know everyone says job security is huge with
Nursing and I used to say that too but it’s like no job is secure I don’t even I don’t care if you’re even in the because people always say oh in medical field it’s secure because people are always sick yes and no you can listen outside of you know workers comp or
Something like a patient hitting you or something like one Med error you can get sued I listen I know people in real life who cannot practice as a nurse because a patient sued them they made one Med error and at this point if you’re a nurse you made a med error like youve
Big or small new grad or OG you’ve made a med error and it’s like you can have that one patient who’s really gonna sue you right you can have that one job who’s really gonna fire you and so yeah as a nurse you can get a job anywhere
But that license it could be here today gone tomorrow you can you can literally lose it in one instance you can I never thought at 25 I was going to be on workers comp and so I always like to tell people like it’s not even optional that you find something else to generate
You income so what I do on this well it’s actually not even on the side it now it’s like my full-time thing I own my own life insurance agency and Company I have about 95 people that are on my team that I literally train help make
Sales the whole N I also do stuff with nurse coaching I have my my mentees I have a nurse community and so I always tell people your your route might not look like you know a podcast it might not look like YouTube it might not look like life insurance it might not look
Like options trading but you do need to have something you need to have something to where you know like like you said it’s like it’s like a a harness it’s like a a shield you know if if something even if it’s not even that deep maybe the census is low you can go
You know harder in this other Venture so I’m very huge on passive income I love to see all the things that you’re doing I think I think it’s starting to get a little bit more normalized nurses like you’re more than a nurse you have more to offer the world than just you know
Your patient giving them meds and helping them you know you you can contribute to the world on a on a bigger scale outside of just in the hospital I agree so how did you stumble upon the business that you have now um you know what it was actually an accident so my
First like literally it was an accident my first my first like shot at entrepreneurship was very very much unplanned so and I know like I feel like this is going to get a little controversial so I did a strike nurse assignment this was April of 2022 and I
Know so many nurses are against strike nursing so many nurses are for strike nursing I support nurses who want to go on strike I feel like most nurses who take a strike assignment they actually support the nurses who are striking however I mean at the end of the day
It’s like they’re going to pay you 10K for three days for four days at the end of the day like I’m I always tell people I’m the honest nurse I’m not for everybody but I’m a keep it real with you nurse so many nurses do strikes so
Many nurse influencers I see them on strikes they’re in my strike Community but they don’t want to speak on it because they don’t want to lose followers and all that I don’t care about followers and so I did a my very first strike this was April of 2022 I made
$330,000 in 10 days and I got I got P up like $30,000 on a 10day strike this is it it was a Stanford strike I think the week the week before Suter was on strike so that was my first strike I didn’t even know strike nursing was I guess I knew
It was a thing but I didn’t know like strikes really happen like every month or every potential strikes happen like every month or every other month and so you know nobody talks about strike nursing it’s taboo and so I went on stagram live keep in mind I didn’t even
Have 10K followers I just went on Instagram live after the strike because you don’t want to post while you’re on the strike there’s so many you’re gonna have you already got haters but now the haters know where you’re at it could get dangerous and so I was like I
Disappeared from Instagram for two weeks so I think people were wondering like where are you because I post on my stories kind of like every day not about nursing just about normal life so when I popped up I don’t know if it’s the algorithm when you go away for a while
You pop up like you get a lot of views and so I went on so I posted on my story my pay St up like I made like 30k in 10 days I had the start date the end date they could see it clear as day that I
Made 30k in 10 days my strike contract you know granted that I’m out I’m ICU my strike contract was 13.6k for 60 hours so first week was 13.6k for 60 hours no covid and then the strike went into round two so it ended up ending on like a Monday or Tuesday
But with strike nursing those hours are guaranteed so as long as you’re in week two you’re still guaranteed that 13.6k if they want to call it off on a Monday so now I’m up 20 what 26k 27k they paid us to do modules orientation blah blah
Blah so I posted my pay stub on my story and then oh my God this one I knew like oh wow like it it really like nobody talks about strike nursing or you know they’re talking about how they’re in support of it but nobody really talks
About like you know the money you can make working a strip and so so many people were asking me do you do coaching calls I was like I’m a nurse at this point I mean I’m still a nurse once a nurse I always a nurse but I’m like
Coaching calls I don’t know nothing about coaching calls like what and so I was like I don’t do any of that but I’ll go live that was probably like my second time in life going live on Instagram I’m like I wasn’t an influencer at all and
So I went on Instagram live man Jason I had so many people on my live I was like wow and they were just asking me questions like how was it at the time I didn’t disclose the hospital but now especially now that I’m retired I don’t
Care and so I was like you know you know was this hospital I was in South sorry I was in North California they were like oh my God how did you make the so many people had questions so I was online for about 40 minutes and then I got off of
Live my DMs people at that point had sent my page to other people now it’s like they’re calling me the strike Queen I had only done one strike at that time so people were like just begging me for stuff do you have a course do you have a
EBook do you do coaching calls and I was like so the guy I was with at the time he’s an entrepreneur he was like you got to do like coaching calls like you got to do something and so my very first digital product was coaching calls about
Strike nursing and Jason when I tell you I was like literally I was doing like seven eight calls a day like I a lot yeah it was crazy I didn’t even have 10K followers that’s why I always tell me when you if you have that thing like
The people will come if you have the idea you have not even the idea because all the business is is that you’re solving a problem and so the problem was a lot of nurses didn’t know about strike nursing and so me solving it I was doing
Seven eight calls a day and it was exciting in the beginning and it’s like oh wow it’s a lot of talking too much talking so I recorded a strike nurse course and the people would would do the call do the course but they were like what about the strike next month what
What if there’s a strike in June you know at this time it’s April and so I created a community and that’s how like my business started like on the nursing side it was it was unintentional I I didn’t plan to like start a business I was just providing solutions to you know
What people wanted to know and so now I have I have three nurse communities one that is closed and then I have two that are open we have over 560 nurses combined one of the communities called highest paid nurse it started off as just strike nursing but
You know in order to do a strike like a strike is not a travel assignment like you need to be experienced you don’t get a preceptor there’s no orientation whoever would have trained you is outside protesting so you don’t get training and so it’s not like new nurse
Friendly it’s not even like rookie nurse friendly I always tell people at minimum two years is what two like solid years and you’re going to need that solid like and ideally you want to have some travel nurse experience before you do a strike because you don’t get a preceptor it’s
Not like oh day one you follow this person around day one you are on the unit you know you’re ready to go and so highest paid nurse that Community is started off as just strike nursing but then so many people you know I’ve done 13 assignments different recruiters I Am
The Plug when it comes to travel nursing so in highest paying nurse Community we there’s a tab for strike nursing so all the girlies and all the meres who want to do strikes they have like literally daily updates you know this strike is canceled this strike is still happening
And then we have another category within highest paid nurses for travel assignments so you can’t do strikes yet or maybe you’re against strikes that’s cool I love everybody but you want to do travel nurse assignments we have a place for you and then we also have a place
Within that same Community for PRN nursing people don’t know that there are PRN agencies that will literally pay you $1,200 a shift $1,500 a shift $900 a shift depending on your location I’m not going to sit up here and say you’re going to be in Florida making you know
$1,000 a shift but depending on your location there are agencies the same way that they are agencies for strikes they are agencies for travel they are also agencies for PRN and so you know for nurses who don’t want to do the 13 week thing anymore they don’t want to be up
And down the country right in your city right locally you can create a profile with an agency and literally on the app you can pick your shift so we have a a category for PRN nursing and then we have another category for pretty much like nurse entrepreneurs so I don’t do
Anything with IV hydration that’s not my thing but a lot of like popular nurse influencers they’re actually a part of my community so they’ll like go in and teach a class on Med spas and blah blah blah so it’s like it’s like the ultimate home for all things nurses it’s kind of
Like the happy nurse community and then um I have another Community which is kind of the burnt out nurse Community they ha it here they’ve been there done that they don’t want to do any they don’t even want to touch a strike they are done and that Community we really
Just help nurses build out their passive income stream whether that’s a digital product whether that’s starting a business whether that’s just education you just want to know about business credit business funding business grant you want to do options trading you want to do life insurance you want to tap
Into real estate and so that Community is called passive income Community it’s not just me like I feel like highest paid nurse is kind of like my expertise and my connection but with passive income nurse Community I bring in my millionaire multi-millionaire mentors it’s kind of
Like I paid 15K I paid 30k for their mentorship so that you don’t have to and so what they do is they come into the community and then they educate nurses about their like their thing one of my my first Mentor his name is Dion cwood
He is the king of all things credit and so now nurses are starting businesses nurses have Ein they have llc’s they have escorts they’re getting funded like so many things a lot of nurses want to do Airbnb but they never had the capital and so now that they’re starting
Businesses they have access to all those things so really just like normalizing whatever whatever stage of nursing that you’re in if I don’t know it I know somebody who knows it and they they’re gonna take you so yeah okay so two things is this community on Facebook Discord where is it located actually
This community is on Telegram and I’m probably going to move it from telegram but it is on an app called telegram it’s set up kind of like a kind of like a WhatsApp or like a group me but better it’s like got you know it’s like I feel
Like WhatsApp is set up to where it’s like one big group chat I like telegram but because we can all be in one Community but they’re like different tabs so like if you don’t care about strikes you can just click on the Travel nurse Tab and then see like oh 4K a week
Or 5K a week so yeah I’m on telegram right now awesome and then secondly how did you find your Mentor Ah that’s a great question so my very first and I say he’s my first I technically have another Mentor his name is Serge but Serge was free I didn’t even know people
Like charge for mentorship until you know I started getting into the entrepreneurship space and I was like wow my first Mentor unofficial first Mentor was free but um my first paid Mentor which at this point he’s like everything to me like he’s been a very
Big help in my year I was introduced to him through a mutual friend she was in another mentorship and they were in that mentorship together and so I initially thought that oh I’m G to you know be in your Mentor stuff and she was like save your money like maybe you should you
Know get in this guy’s mentorship so we got on a zoom call and he was pretty much explaining to me what it would entail he was asking me you know what am I trying to do cuz he doesn’t Mentor everyone so he wanted to make make sure
That it would be a fit because nursing is so Niche he does credit he’s a credit guy and he’s also a business Mentor so he is used to like helping all niches build out their business but one thing I I liked about him is that he was very
Intentional he was like listen I could just sit up here and say yeah I’ll take you but I want to make sure I can actually help you so he I hired him in March it was supposed to be a eight-week mentorship but at this morning we are in
For a lifetime so mentorship has been a game changer for my year for sure so are you paying him like an is it like a one-time fee now or is it like a recurring fee that’s a great question so his price I think it’s higher now so you
Know don’t be mad at me if you go to him and it’s like 10K more but as of March 2023 his price was $115,000 for eight weeks and I was like I’ve never in my life spent $155,000 on like a person like what and so for me
That was very scary and mentorship is not a thing in nursing like I thought the closest thing to a mentor in nursing is your preceptor if you think about it your preceptor is really your Mentor for those eight weeks or 12 weeks however long your orientation is because they’re
Literally teaching you the ropes they know that nursing school did not do its due diligence clinicals did not do its due diligence and so the concept of mentorship actually shouldn’t be new to people like your preceptor is your Mentor they are assigned to you and
Their job is to get you from week one to week eight however long it is to get you from Rookie to I mean you’re still going to be a rookie when you’re leaving them but like way better off you know just think about your first preceptor week
One you were scared to do your IB and then by the time it’s time to graduate you’re like stop coming with me everywhere I got it so that’s kind of the same concept as a mentor especially when you’re entering something new like business for me I didn’t know I didn’t
Listen my when I was doing those coaching calls I was accepting payments on freaking zel and cash app I didn’t know anything about payment I didn’t know anything I was just I was just out here you know we don’t know anything about business and so I knew like I
Needed a website I needed a funnel I needed to structure my business I don’t know what EI I don’t even know at this at this point I didn’t know what Ein stood for I’m like I don’t even know what that is like if I’m trying to run
An actual business I need help and so yeah his price was was $115,000 for8 weeks I haven’t paid him since um after the eight weeks I thought I was going to get kicked out and I mean we did build a bond where super close and he’s just
Kind of kept me kept me around so I that so how does he guide you through every step does he tell you what to do and then you have to go out and do it or does he actually is he actually like following along and saying okay this is
The website that you need to go on this is how you need to like build the website did he do all yes yeah he does all of that that so every single week we have a mentorship call at that time it was probably like me and like seven
Others now when I log into his calls I’m like wow you’ve gotten popular because that I was his first like group of mentees so yeah you get weekly calls I’m super close with him now so I can just call and text him as I need I actually
Was in Atlanta two days ago and I was just with him so he’s super super Hands-On he knows nothing about nursing but now he’s an expert he knows all things about strike nursing travel nursing sometimes when he’s explaining business I’m like wow I’m proud of you
He’ll like come in and sit in on my classes and he’s used to nurses you know he’s in my community a lot helping them fix their credit and so yeah he’s great he’s super super super super handson and then I got a second Mentor this year his
Name is Damon Dillard he’s he’s very big on sales and he’s very big on mindset because anyone can really start a business but you need to what people don’t realize about business especially as nurses or any any really any nine to fer you have it involves sales like you
Have to sell like whether you’re selling consciously or unconsciously you have to pitch you have to bring up what you have going on and that was so weird for me I Jason I didn’t know how to like tell somebody oh I have a community it was so
Weird like you know as a nurse our clients are already there I didn’t have to Market to get you in the ICU you’re already here you know what I mean and so for me I knew I needed help like with sales and as a nurse you don’t sell you
Know like take the medication don’t take the medication I get paid by the hour and so now when you’re in business it does matter if they take the medication or not and so medication for you know I’m just using that as an example and so my second Mentor he’s very big with
Sales in a natural way and then he’s very big on mindset so every single Monday at 800 pm he has mindset Mastery calls and people don’t realize mindset is everything mindset is everything mindset is the reason you start something and you stop it mindset is a
Reason that you’re not going as hard as you need to mindset is a reason why you feel like Jason is special or L is special mindset is a reason why you feel like your favorite nurse entrepreneur special like it starts right here once you realize that these people that that
You love and admire they’re not that even these multi-million millionaires that are my mentors I I I admire them but now they G like mentally they’re going to sound horrible they’re not that special it’s like I still admire them they’re great but it’s like oh I can do
It like you know and I feel like I had a shift in my mindset this year you know I used to look at people and be like oh my God like I can never do that you know that’s great for them but I couldn’t do
That and it’s like yeah you can I don’t care if you’re an introvert I don’t care if
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