# Uplift: Provides financial, emotional and career support for healthcare workers.

An episode of [Money Making Conversations Master Class](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1264705641), 7 Dec 2024, 27 min.

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[0:44] Speaker 1: Let's get this show rolling. My guest is a dynamic
[0:47] Speaker 1: advocate for healthcare professionals, entrepreneur and founder of Help for
[0:52] Speaker 1: Healthcare Professionals HHCP. She recognizes the immense pressures faced by nurses, doctors,
[1:00] Speaker 1: and frontline staff. H HCP offers tailor resources, financial literacy programs,
[1:06] Speaker 1: and career guidance to help healthcare professionals regain control of
[1:10] Speaker 1: their lives. Please welcome the Money Making Conversation Masterclass. Shelley
[1:14] Speaker 1: Ann McKenzie. How you doing, Miss mackenzie.
[1:18] Speaker 2: Hi, Rashan, thanks for housing me. How are you?
[1:20] Speaker 1: Should I call you Nurse mackenzie? That sounds like you.
[1:23] Speaker 1: That sounds like somebody on TV. Nose McKenzie.
[1:26] Speaker 2: No, no, I go by Shelley.
[1:29] Speaker 1: Okay, Now this is Shelley Anne. Now are you Shelley
[1:31] Speaker 1: or Shelley An? I say I'm Shelley Okay, cool. You know,
[1:35] Speaker 1: because Shelley Anne's country. You know that's country. I'm gonna
[1:41] Speaker 1: tell you Some'm Shelley Anne or Shelley. I hear a
[1:43] Speaker 1: little accent there, my friend. Can you give me a
[1:46] Speaker 1: background on that accent because it is distinctive when you
[1:49] Speaker 1: communicate that. Say, this is a bad thing. But where
[1:52] Speaker 1: are you from? Originally born and raised?
[1:54] Speaker 2: I am. I originally hail from the island of Jamaica,
[1:58] Speaker 2: island of all.
[1:59] Speaker 1: Islands of Jamaica. Now the next question is, because this
[2:03] Speaker 1: accent is very distinct, when did you come over to America?
[2:08] Speaker 2: Okay, I came from America when I was twelve years old,
[2:11] Speaker 2: and I went straight to New York.
[2:13] Speaker 1: New York. And you still have this very beautiful accent.
[2:17] Speaker 1: You just won't give it up? Are you are? Like
[2:19] Speaker 1: you know, some people they are you know, like you
[2:21] Speaker 1: know you're an English actor. When they act, they can
[2:24] Speaker 1: talk real clear English. But then when you interview, like uh,
[2:29] Speaker 1: interests elbows like that, you know, he always blows me away.
[2:31] Speaker 2: Where you go?
[2:32] Speaker 1: What the brother that? The brother I saw on a
[2:35] Speaker 1: wire and the brother I saw wire? Where you come from?
[2:38] Speaker 1: And so so now you're not putting on a Jamaican front?
[2:41] Speaker 1: Are you right here?
[2:42] Speaker 2: Are you not? Not? At this time? Good?
[2:46] Speaker 1: I just want to have fun with yourn. My wife she's
[2:49] Speaker 1: from the Island area, belife down there and belief in
[2:52] Speaker 1: so it's America. So oh yeah, you know she she
[2:56] Speaker 1: brags about it all the time every time she sees
[2:58] Speaker 1: the commercial. I told you, tells you and h and
[3:02] Speaker 1: so it's really good. But did the nursing profession. I
[3:05] Speaker 1: have a sister in law season in the nursing profession,
[3:09] Speaker 1: and so tell us about the pressure of being a nurse,
[3:14] Speaker 1: because sometimes we take you guys for granted. You come
[3:18] Speaker 1: in and we look at the doctor in a certain way,
[3:21] Speaker 1: and we look at the nurse in a certain way,
[3:23] Speaker 1: and then you have somebody called a nurse practitioner, which
[3:27] Speaker 1: is kind of like a new role. If you got time,
[3:29] Speaker 1: doctor don't have time for you, you can see the nurse practitioner.
[3:32] Speaker 1: So tell us the difference between a nurse, a nurse practitioner,
[3:37] Speaker 1: and then the doctor.
[3:39] Speaker 2: All right, So there are different levels, as you know,
[3:43] Speaker 2: and there are a number of roles that make up
[3:45] Speaker 2: the healthcare ecosystem. Right, So I am a registered nurse batrade.
[3:50] Speaker 2: So registered nursing nurses can have an associate's degree or
[3:53] Speaker 2: a bachelor's degree, or you can even have LPNs, right,
[3:57] Speaker 2: so that's a licensed life professional nurse. So you have
[4:01] Speaker 2: LPNs and you have RNs. But then on the master's level,
[4:04] Speaker 2: so that's a second degree. So on the master's level
[4:08] Speaker 2: you have your advanced practice nurses. Nurses that hold a
[4:10] Speaker 2: master's degree. The master's degree can be as a nurse practitioner.
[4:16] Speaker 2: You can have my master's. I have a dual master's
[4:19] Speaker 2: in nursing administration and informatics for that software and system design.
[4:23] Speaker 2: You can have a nurse educator, you could have forensic nursing.
[4:28] Speaker 2: So there are a number of different master's level master's
[4:34] Speaker 2: level role you can hold with you know, on the
[4:38] Speaker 2: same level with a nurse practitioner, including clinical nurse specialists, okay.
[4:43] Speaker 2: And then you also have a terminal degree as with
[4:45] Speaker 2: every career, you have a terminal degree in nurse and
[4:48] Speaker 2: so that's where you end appearing that some nurses might
[4:51] Speaker 2: have their doctorate, so they have a Doctorate of Nursing
[4:54] Speaker 2: practice degree or a PhD in nursing, So that's essentially
[4:58] Speaker 2: just a terminal degree for that nurses can hold. You
[5:02] Speaker 2: can have a doctorate in business administration, you still call
[5:05] Speaker 2: the doctor, right, But then a physician is a medical doctor, right,
[5:10] Speaker 2: So that's your traditional medical doctor that specializes in diagnoses
[5:15] Speaker 2: and treatment, okay. And the nurse practitioners are trained as
[5:20] Speaker 2: well to be able to provide quality keyer along those
[5:25] Speaker 2: same lines as providers and often function as an extension
[5:30] Speaker 2: of the provider as you previously mentioned. So there are
[5:33] Speaker 2: lots of opportunities to leverage nurse practitioners in different different settings,
[5:40] Speaker 2: whether it's in the clinic or in rural So there
[5:42] Speaker 2: are lots of opportunities to leverage nurse practitioners to be
[5:45] Speaker 2: an extension. Why because nursing is the largest health profession
[5:48] Speaker 2: there is globally.
[5:50] Speaker 1: Now, let me ask you this, Shelly. First of all,
[5:54] Speaker 1: I have to look at a nurse from a different perspective.
[5:56] Speaker 1: You threw up bout twelve titles set, and I've always
[5:59] Speaker 1: I just loved everybody who came in my room nurse, nurse,
[6:02] Speaker 1: and that's really kind of disrespectful. So I got to
[6:04] Speaker 1: pull back. Now, how can I be more respectful to
[6:08] Speaker 1: the nurse who comes in my room other than because
[6:11] Speaker 1: because each one brings a certain amount of knowledge, and
[6:14] Speaker 1: also each one has a title that amount of wherever,
[6:17] Speaker 1: Why isn't that distinguished a lot more? Because I do
[6:20] Speaker 1: know about the nurse, which right now I've realized is
[6:23] Speaker 1: like a dozen different nurses, and then I know about
[6:26] Speaker 1: the nurse practitioner by about fifty. So you even up
[6:29] Speaker 1: the ma I got a math degree, so you just
[6:31] Speaker 1: blew me out the water. So why is it?
[6:35] Speaker 2: Then?
[6:36] Speaker 1: Can I say that the nurse position is not respected?
[6:41] Speaker 1: Am I saying? Am I saying the wrong things? Because
[6:44] Speaker 1: of the fact that you say there are fifty different
[6:46] Speaker 1: positions that you can call nurse, But the salaries and
[6:51] Speaker 1: the respect for the roles that y'all play, I think
[6:54] Speaker 1: it's being underserved at least through this interview based on
[6:58] Speaker 1: the information you're giving me.
[7:00] Speaker 2: Yeah, So I wouldn't say we're one hundred percent disrespective
[7:04] Speaker 2: because there are a number of us in the nursing
[7:08] Speaker 2: profession that are held in extremely high esteems. There are
[7:13] Speaker 2: some some things that we advocate for that that's one
[7:16] Speaker 2: of the things that advocacy is not middle name, but
[7:19] Speaker 2: there's some things we want to be seen as quality
[7:23] Speaker 2: care providers, right right, So that's one of the that's
[7:28] Speaker 2: every now and again it can be interpreted as a
[7:31] Speaker 2: low disrespect. Why because we want to be able to
[7:34] Speaker 2: practice to the highest level of what we were trained
[7:38] Speaker 2: to do, right, to be able to provide access to
[7:41] Speaker 2: care for so that Georgians and and just the people
[7:45] Speaker 2: that live in our communities can have better access to healthcare.
[7:49] Speaker 2: So at times there can be some disrespect there, but
[7:54] Speaker 2: we just want to make sure that we're working together
[7:56] Speaker 2: because as part of the interdisciplinary team, we all have
[7:59] Speaker 2: our roles to play and there's no need to you know,
[8:04] Speaker 2: put up barriers and roadblocks the kere if we can
[8:09] Speaker 2: help as nurses, if that makes sense. Well, just like
[8:11] Speaker 2: you mentioned, there are different levels of nurses. So one
[8:15] Speaker 2: of the things you said initially was how can you
[8:18] Speaker 2: put more respect on it? It really just depends on
[8:20] Speaker 2: the setting that you're in, right, right, So if you're
[8:22] Speaker 2: in a clinic and you might have a medical assistant
[8:26] Speaker 2: you as part of the team. You may have a
[8:28] Speaker 2: medical assistant, a registered nurse, and you might have a
[8:32] Speaker 2: nurse practitioner. So just just be respectful and kind. I mean,
[8:36] Speaker 2: it really just depends on the setting that you're in,
[8:39] Speaker 2: is what i'd say. Because in the hospitals, as we know,
[8:42] Speaker 2: the nurses provide more care time on the midside than
[8:47] Speaker 2: do any other health profession. But we work collaboratively as
[8:52] Speaker 2: an interdisciplinary team to here for the patients and you know,
[8:56] Speaker 2: try to keep the story straight and make sure the
[8:57] Speaker 2: communication is there so that you're in going on with
[9:01] Speaker 2: your here and you know, we can streamline some things.
[9:05] Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, nurse, I'm gonna tell you,
[9:07] Speaker 1: I gotta see you now, you got me. I gotta
[9:09] Speaker 1: respect you now. So I'm sorry, I'm sir, I'm sorry.
[9:12] Speaker 1: I gotta call your nurse mackenzie now, okay, Nurse McKenzie.
[9:17] Speaker 1: When we talk about is there a shortage of nurses?
[9:20] Speaker 1: Because I've always heard that rumor that there's a shortage
[9:22] Speaker 1: of nurse in the trafficer. Why is there a shortage
[9:24] Speaker 1: of nurses? Isn't it a well paid job?
[9:28] Speaker 2: Well, again, it depends on the setting that you're working.
[9:32] Speaker 2: The hospitals play different from nursing homes. Nursing homes pay
[9:35] Speaker 2: different from clinics. If you're an academia and you're a
[9:38] Speaker 2: professor in an institution, that pays a different salary as well.
[9:42] Speaker 2: But there's a shortage of nurses because as people get older, right, so,
[9:47] Speaker 2: there are people leaving the profession, and we don't have
[9:50] Speaker 2: enough younger of the younger generation trained and skilled to
[9:55] Speaker 2: essentially take over. It's a high stress job. We work
[9:58] Speaker 2: extremely long hour this high level of burnout and turnover
[10:02] Speaker 2: and so many things that come with it. So it
[10:06] Speaker 2: is a challenge and it remains a challenge. If we
[10:08] Speaker 2: don't have enough professors in nursing in academia to train
[10:12] Speaker 2: the students, then you have to put a cap on
[10:14] Speaker 2: how many nursing students you can accept, right So it's
[10:18] Speaker 2: pretty cyclical. So we want to make sure that we're
[10:20] Speaker 2: doing everything we can, not just as individuals, but as
[10:24] Speaker 2: a community to be able to sustain that healthcare workforce. Pipeline.
[10:30] Speaker 1: Now, Nurse McKenzie, Now you said, hi, burnout rate, you
[10:35] Speaker 1: say physically challenge, you said it stress. I'm trying to
[10:41] Speaker 1: figure out how brought you to hype up nurses and that. Yeah,
[10:46] Speaker 1: you got to start hyping up the nurse the nurse
[10:48] Speaker 1: program over here, go ahead, because of the fact that
[10:52] Speaker 1: you know, I'm playing with you as well as gaining information.
[10:57] Speaker 1: Because of the fact that I have a sister law
[11:00] Speaker 1: I've seen this, I've seen her. You know a lot
[11:03] Speaker 1: of people come into hospitals who are overweight. You have
[11:06] Speaker 1: to deal with that. You know a lot of people
[11:09] Speaker 1: are physically challenging when they're coming. You got to deal
[11:12] Speaker 1: with that as a nurse, moving bodies that you aren't
[11:16] Speaker 1: capable of moving, that you have to move with certain times,
[11:19] Speaker 1: and people who are bedridden, and then building dealing with
[11:22] Speaker 1: honorary patients and things like that. What attracted you to
[11:26] Speaker 1: the nursing business, Well, I.
[11:31] Speaker 2: Was volunteld to try nursing. I was a pre farm
[11:34] Speaker 2: major previously, so I actually wanted to become a pharmacologist.
[11:39] Speaker 2: I wanted to make the drugs, and you know, when
[11:43] Speaker 2: that didn't work out, those early morning classes and those
[11:46] Speaker 2: organic chemistry. My mom said, don't feel bad.
[11:50] Speaker 1: Don't feel bad. Physics stopped me from being an engineer.
[11:53] Speaker 1: So to understand, we have a club. Something turned us
[11:56] Speaker 1: a way, and guess what, we're still successful, all right,
[11:58] Speaker 1: don't feel bad, speak to worth.
[12:00] Speaker 2: No, no, no, I definitely don't feel bad because it
[12:03] Speaker 2: was shows before me. So I was in and I've
[12:05] Speaker 2: tried it, and I think for me, the most rewarding
[12:09] Speaker 2: part of nursing has always been the privilege for showing
[12:12] Speaker 2: up for people in their most vulnerable moment. Right It's
[12:15] Speaker 2: like on the scared when they're hurting, when they're unsure
[12:18] Speaker 2: of what's going on, and being able to be that
[12:20] Speaker 2: translator for what does the doctor just say? Did he
[12:24] Speaker 2: just did he just tell me I have so and so?
[12:26] Speaker 2: That type of thing, and just being the steady voice
[12:29] Speaker 2: of hope, and being there to advocate for the patients,
[12:33] Speaker 2: you know, even when they didn't even know that they
[12:35] Speaker 2: needed an advocate. Right. So it's all about humanity and
[12:38] Speaker 2: the human connection. So even though it's a high stress job,
[12:43] Speaker 2: it's extremely rewarded. I knew where you would go with that,
[12:47] Speaker 2: but it's extremely rewarding and I can't see myself doing
[12:51] Speaker 2: anything else. So I'm here to help champion and continue
[12:55] Speaker 2: to enhance our career, our profession. My ENIMI is necessary.
[13:02] Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this. I spent thirty days in
[13:04] Speaker 1: the hospital in Los Angeles, nineteen ninety thirty days. So
[13:08] Speaker 1: when I talk about the hospital experience, you know, you
[13:11] Speaker 1: spend telling everybody. When you spend thirty days in the hospital,
[13:14] Speaker 1: you start making up your own hospital food, you know,
[13:17] Speaker 1: because they bring it and you start mixing up. So
[13:20] Speaker 1: now can you give me the apple sauce with the
[13:24] Speaker 1: strawberry ice? You can you mix that up?
[13:26] Speaker 2: Now?
[13:26] Speaker 1: When you spend thirty days.
[13:28] Speaker 2: In the house, you know, telling the truth, you really can.
[13:30] Speaker 2: You start to concoct somethings right.
[13:34] Speaker 1: And I would tell you from a nurse perspective, you know, people,
[13:40] Speaker 1: people need to understand there's a journey in the process
[13:44] Speaker 1: of fear when you walk in, when you go in
[13:46] Speaker 1: the hospital, there's the fear is attached to that because
[13:50] Speaker 1: nobody wants to be in the hospital. No I don't know,
[13:53] Speaker 1: nobody saying, you know, I'm volunteered to go in the hospital.
[13:55] Speaker 1: Nobody does that. And so the person that I always
[14:00] Speaker 1: felt relaxed, always felt championed me. Always felt were more
[14:04] Speaker 1: of a straight shooter in their way. They could straight shoot.
[14:07] Speaker 1: What's the nurse? Now? The doctor come through that door?
[14:11] Speaker 1: I said, okay, what you about to say? Brother? Come
[14:13] Speaker 1: on now?
[14:14] Speaker 2: What you what?
[14:15] Speaker 1: What news you about to tell me?
[14:17] Speaker 2: Now?
[14:17] Speaker 1: Okay? Because I stayed in Osford thirty days, so you
[14:19] Speaker 1: stay in Ostford thirty days. You know that doctor came
[14:22] Speaker 1: through that door with a lot of stuff I didn't
[14:24] Speaker 1: want to hear. Oh, we wanted to keep you a
[14:25] Speaker 1: couple of but the nurse. The nurse kept me up
[14:29] Speaker 1: and kept me motivated, kept the right medicine, looked at
[14:32] Speaker 1: my charge, making sure that I was there. So I'm
[14:35] Speaker 1: a big advocate of it. And when I had an
[14:37] Speaker 1: opportunity to bring because you're the I've had nurses on
[14:40] Speaker 1: my should today, but none like you. Because you're an
[14:43] Speaker 1: advocate and you put together an organization that the health
[14:47] Speaker 1: for Healthcare Professionals. Why was it important to put together
[14:51] Speaker 1: the HHCP.
[14:54] Speaker 2: Well, simply put, I thought that no one else was
[14:57] Speaker 2: coming to save us. So during COVID and knowing that
[15:04] Speaker 2: I've lived the burnout, I've walked in their shoes, I've
[15:07] Speaker 2: had the mental strain, and I've watched I was literally
[15:10] Speaker 2: watching the healthcare system crumble in real time. But I
[15:15] Speaker 2: also saw it as an opportunity to be able to
[15:20] Speaker 2: create some type of intentional program to care for the
[15:24] Speaker 2: healthcare workforce.
[15:25] Speaker 1: Right.
[15:26] Speaker 2: So it's a huge feat. But when I started, I
[15:28] Speaker 2: simply wanted to just mobilize people and the community to
[15:31] Speaker 2: help the healthcare workforce because working in the healthcare workforce
[15:35] Speaker 2: for probably almost two decades at that point, we didn't
[15:41] Speaker 2: get anything like the benefits, right. It just depends on
[15:45] Speaker 2: again the setting that you work in and so on.
[15:50] Speaker 2: But we didn't really qualify. We didn't qualify for a
[15:53] Speaker 2: lot of stuff. So there are about forty percent of
[15:55] Speaker 2: healthcare professionals that twenty four percent of healthcare professionals that
[15:59] Speaker 2: live in poverty and they struggle from day to day
[16:03] Speaker 2: making ends meet. You also have registered nurses that things
[16:07] Speaker 2: happen right life life, You know how the kids say
[16:10] Speaker 2: life be lifing and they struggle with different things. So
[16:15] Speaker 2: I just had the opportunity to be able to create
[16:18] Speaker 2: the nonprofit to not just react to crisis, but design
[16:23] Speaker 2: a revenue generating program that could solve a more systemic problem.
[16:27] Speaker 2: So these aren't just charity cases. It's a business imperative
[16:30] Speaker 2: when you look at things like workforce shortage, mental health
[16:34] Speaker 2: and equity.
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[17:02] Speaker 1: My guess is a dynamic advocate for healthcare professionals Let's
[17:05] Speaker 1: be real entrepreneurs. She's founded a health for Healthcare Professional
[17:09] Speaker 1: organization because she recognizes the immense pressures faced by nurses, doctors,
[17:13] Speaker 1: and frontline staff HHCP, which offers tailor resources, financial literacy programs,
[17:20] Speaker 1: and career guidance to help healthcare professional regain control of
[17:24] Speaker 1: their lives. Right there, when you say regain control of
[17:27] Speaker 1: their lives, helped me understand the overall culture that that
[17:35] Speaker 1: allows you to make a statement like that in that profession.
[17:38] Speaker 1: Because you mentioned the nurses, doctors and frontline staffs, sometimes
[17:43] Speaker 1: the stress and the burnout so high that they lose
[17:47] Speaker 1: control of their lives. Please explain tomorrow. This is what
[17:49] Speaker 1: you're talking.
[17:49] Speaker 2: About, all right, So there are a number of different
[17:53] Speaker 2: things we do to be able to provide comprehensives support
[17:57] Speaker 2: to healthcare professionals. So when you have that mental wellness aspect,
[18:02] Speaker 2: or you know, you might feel down or depressed, different
[18:06] Speaker 2: things like that, we have a referral program where we
[18:08] Speaker 2: could get you the mental health help that you need.
[18:13] Speaker 2: If you have someone that passed away and you've you know,
[18:17] Speaker 2: facing some hardships financially and so on, we provide grocery
[18:21] Speaker 2: gift cards, reprovide gas and different things like that to
[18:25] Speaker 2: help support you while you're facing your hardship. So I mean,
[18:28] Speaker 2: you can't be insurance, just different things, and we call
[18:32] Speaker 2: you to screen you and we're able to provide some
[18:35] Speaker 2: help in that arena. But under our education programs, what
[18:40] Speaker 2: we're able to do is provide professional development opportunities as well.
[18:43] Speaker 2: You may have practicing healthcare professionals that aspire to become entreprenurs,
[18:49] Speaker 2: but they don't know the first step on how to
[18:51] Speaker 2: do it. So what do we do. We come out
[18:53] Speaker 2: and we provide training and workshops and a series of trainings.
[18:57] Speaker 2: If necessary, we can customize something and then we're able
[19:01] Speaker 2: to provide that training for those particular healthcare professionals to
[19:06] Speaker 2: be able to become entrepreneurs and understand the nuances and
[19:11] Speaker 2: how things are different. And I've been there right clinical. Oh,
[19:16] Speaker 2: I'm just a nurse. I'm not a business person, you know,
[19:19] Speaker 2: initially is what I used to say, because I'm trained clinically.
[19:22] Speaker 2: But then how do you look for opportunities where you
[19:26] Speaker 2: can learn and then become both, right, so that you
[19:30] Speaker 2: can be successful in your career. So are some of
[19:32] Speaker 2: the things that we do to be able to provide
[19:35] Speaker 2: support to healthcare professionals, including scholarships, providing internship opportunities for
[19:40] Speaker 2: aspiring healthcare professionals and first responders. Nurse.
[19:46] Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, So do you base Atlanta correctly? Yes, sir?
[19:50] Speaker 1: Now do you obviously funds are needed based on what
[19:54] Speaker 1: you just said, gift cards and services and educational platform.
[19:59] Speaker 1: How do you raise money?
[20:01] Speaker 2: Well, we are federal grant recipient, so we are registered
[20:04] Speaker 2: five O one see three nurse owned nonprofits and we
[20:08] Speaker 2: receive federal grants. So a primary source of funding, either
[20:13] Speaker 2: grants or individual donations. So we've been around for April
[20:17] Speaker 2: first is actually our fifteen year as impact in this
[20:21] Speaker 2: state that we're placed to continue to grow up programs.
[20:25] Speaker 2: But federal to answer your question, federal grants and individual donations.
[20:31] Speaker 1: So you have any programs like any award show or
[20:33] Speaker 1: any receptions or any galos that you throw annually that
[20:38] Speaker 1: you can tell our audience about. And you know a
[20:40] Speaker 1: lot of people, you know, they're type people. They hold
[20:42] Speaker 1: on to that money. But if you tell them you
[20:44] Speaker 1: go get a free or supply it tied to a
[20:46] Speaker 1: chicken dinner, they might show up. So are some dance
[20:50] Speaker 1: music or somebody singing? They might show up. So let's
[20:54] Speaker 1: talk about that because you know from Jamaica. And now
[20:56] Speaker 1: I know you got it going on. Now see. I'll
[20:58] Speaker 1: just telling you something I'm getting going on for you.
[21:01] Speaker 1: Now see. Because we've been at this little level, I
[21:03] Speaker 1: gotta get up to that Bob Marley level with you
[21:06] Speaker 1: out there. Let everybody know and we want to take
[21:08] Speaker 1: it all the way. We gotta know that because we
[21:10] Speaker 1: try to raise some money for you. We try to
[21:11] Speaker 1: get people to understand that you know, their nurses out
[21:14] Speaker 1: there walking through that door and pain. Sometimes sometimes they
[21:17] Speaker 1: might need to get in bad with you and you
[21:19] Speaker 1: get out the bed, and that a lot of people
[21:21] Speaker 1: don't know that. But the more importantly you have events
[21:25] Speaker 1: that are raising Monday their events out there, we hear that.
[21:29] Speaker 1: You know, the current administration is cutting back on all
[21:32] Speaker 1: kind of challenges, so you the grant you might have
[21:35] Speaker 1: in twenty four might not be available in twenty five
[21:37] Speaker 1: or twenty six.
[21:39] Speaker 2: So that is a very true statement.
[21:41] Speaker 1: So how can we help?
[21:44] Speaker 2: All right? So one of the first things that needs
[21:45] Speaker 2: you to do is donate and tell your friends to
[21:48] Speaker 2: donate and tell your neighbors to donate. We have to
[21:53] Speaker 2: piggyback on what you were saying. A night of grind
[21:56] Speaker 2: and gratitude. It's our Charity Awards. It's a healthcare getting
[21:59] Speaker 2: law that hosts annually and this year's theme is building
[22:03] Speaker 2: the Pipeline for healthcare Future.
[22:05] Speaker 1: I love it.
[22:06] Speaker 2: So it's our most important night of the year because
[22:10] Speaker 2: it's real purpose needs power, and we're calling on businesses,
[22:14] Speaker 2: health care, tech, education, community leaders to invest in what
[22:18] Speaker 2: really matters because every dollar that we raise fuels our
[22:22] Speaker 2: education programs, like our Youth Med program for youth ages
[22:26] Speaker 2: thirteen to twenty that want to join the healthcare workforce.
[22:29] Speaker 2: We have a Physician Pathway, Nursing and Allied health and
[22:32] Speaker 2: we even have a health tech academy that's set to
[22:35] Speaker 2: launch this year as well. And yeah, so donate, donate, donate,
[22:41] Speaker 2: And it's just a strategic investment in the future of healthcare.
[22:45] Speaker 1: But I like the fact that you are out there
[22:47] Speaker 1: seeking young people and educating them and then engaging them
[22:51] Speaker 1: in the process of saying this is a very viable
[22:54] Speaker 1: option for you to look at and move forward on.
[22:59] Speaker 1: And because of the fact that when you have these
[23:01] Speaker 1: events like that, they're important for us all to participate
[23:04] Speaker 1: because that nurse that might come to this event might
[23:08] Speaker 1: be the nurse that saves your life or be a
[23:10] Speaker 1: part of your life saving process ten years from now,
[23:13] Speaker 1: twenty years and now thirty years and that or it
[23:15] Speaker 1: might be in a nursing home forty years from now
[23:18] Speaker 1: which you are going through a life crisis. So it's
[23:22] Speaker 1: really important. I've always looked at life, you know, as
[23:25] Speaker 1: you go old, that's a gift that you want to
[23:27] Speaker 1: have in your life, to grow older. I never run
[23:30] Speaker 1: from people tell me. I never hide my age because
[23:33] Speaker 1: I figured, in order for me to do something in life,
[23:35] Speaker 1: nurse begins, I gotta get older. So for me to
[23:38] Speaker 1: sit up in trying to be frozen at twenty nine
[23:41] Speaker 1: or frozen at thirty nine. How am I gonna look
[23:43] Speaker 1: at somebody? Guys going look at it. There's a whole
[23:45] Speaker 1: lot of experience over here. But I'm only thirty nine,
[23:48] Speaker 1: but you look older, mister McDonald's eah, keep that to yourself.
[23:54] Speaker 2: Yeah. Just one more thing though, that youth med program,
[23:58] Speaker 2: it's about youth opportunity for unpower training in healthcare, medicine,
[24:03] Speaker 2: education and development. So we designed it as a literal
[24:06] Speaker 2: answer to that pipeline building. So when we designed it,
[24:09] Speaker 2: we wanted to remove the barriers, not just by inspiring
[24:12] Speaker 2: the students to walk them through the industry. We provide
[24:16] Speaker 2: exposure in one on one experience with neurosurgeons and different
[24:20] Speaker 2: types of healthcare professionals, and provide transportation and workshops and
[24:26] Speaker 2: TPR certifications and just a bunch of different things. Because
[24:29] Speaker 2: our team is into disciplinary so healthcare future is broad.
[24:33] Speaker 2: So this program is one hundred percent tuition free and
[24:36] Speaker 2: we like to keep it that way. So we're designing
[24:38] Speaker 2: it to be a year round program that we can
[24:40] Speaker 2: scale anywhere in the country. Applications are even open right now,
[24:44] Speaker 2: so you could just go to our website Www. Dot
[24:47] Speaker 2: help forhealthcare Professionals dot org and donate, buy a ticket,
[24:52] Speaker 2: register for the program this year. And the gala is
[24:56] Speaker 2: just to raise fund so we could keep the programs
[24:58] Speaker 2: one hundred percent tuition free.
[25:00] Speaker 1: And the day for the gall again is when.
[25:03] Speaker 2: April five, twenty twenty five.
[25:05] Speaker 1: All right, my friend, that's a Saturday. See boy, got
[25:07] Speaker 1: them dates on lockdown. You know what I'm saying again,
[25:10] Speaker 1: Thank you to date.
[25:11] Speaker 2: Right Atlanta Mariot.
[25:14] Speaker 1: Marquis just downtown.
[25:15] Speaker 2: You better know it, not the Markey, the Atlanta Marriout
[25:19] Speaker 2: north East right about em.
[25:22] Speaker 1: I know exactly what they're saying. Okay, you just got
[25:24] Speaker 1: a straight out your brother to give them that bad information. People,
[25:27] Speaker 1: Marque's going.
[25:28] Speaker 2: Where's the where's the gala? Shot? Say it? All right?
[25:33] Speaker 2: So one more time on April five, twenty twenty five,
[25:36] Speaker 2: join us for our Night of grim and Gratitude Charity
[25:39] Speaker 2: Awards Healthcare Gala at Atlanta Marriout North East every area
[25:44] Speaker 2: at six am.
[25:45] Speaker 1: Loved, I appreciate you taking the time to come on
[25:47] Speaker 1: the show, and please thank you for allowing me to
[25:50] Speaker 1: be honest in my conversation now and you as a
[25:52] Speaker 1: nurse has been a blessing to me because I'm telling you,
[25:55] Speaker 1: thirty days in the hospital you learn to respect nurses,
[25:58] Speaker 1: doctors and people of all the medical profession because when
[26:01] Speaker 1: I went in there, I did not expect to be
[26:04] Speaker 1: in there thirty days and they tried to check me
[26:07] Speaker 1: out two three times and they told me you got
[26:09] Speaker 1: to go back. And mister McDonald and I want to
[26:11] Speaker 1: thank you for coming to my show and then educating
[26:13] Speaker 1: us about the life and your program and what you're doing.
[26:16] Speaker 1: Nurse mackenzie, stay safe and then come on my show
[26:20] Speaker 1: anytime because I know you're gonna be busy. You're gonna
[26:22] Speaker 1: be busy. I'm gonna need you in the summer time.
[26:25] Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
[26:25] Speaker 2: Okay, we honor.
[26:29] Speaker 1: I appreciate you. As we close out the show, remember
[26:32] Speaker 1: to always realize that I put this show together for you,
[26:35] Speaker 1: and putting the show together for you, it's it's really
[26:38] Speaker 1: how you have to live your life. And this has
[26:41] Speaker 1: been another edition of Money Making Conversation Masterclass hosted by
[26:45] Speaker 1: me and Rashaan McDonald. Thank you to our guests on
[26:47] Speaker 1: the show today and thank you listening to the audience now.
[26:49] Speaker 1: If you want to listen to any episodes and want
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[26:57] Speaker 1: us next week and remember to always lead with your gifts.
[27:00] Speaker 1: Keep winning

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