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Thanks so much!

Thanks for the inspiring video! Enjoyed hearing about Shelly's journey and how much she is enjoying what she's doing both professionally and personally. Also appreciate information on how she has used LinkedIn. Have always had some ambivalence about utilizing LinkedIn. Have an account, just don't do much with it.

How do i get a headstart as a student interested in health writing

Thank you, Beth and Shelly, for this interview! Your stories inspire me to take the leap. I have been a nurse for 47 years and am tired of the institutional stuff. I am close to retirement but still have lots to give through my own writing business, which is in the works. P.S. Shelly just visited your website. I love it. It’s clear and seamless to navigate. Beth, thanks for the link to Shelly's website in the description.

Thank you, ladies, for this wonderfully rich conversation. I took a leave from my medical career of over twenty years to move back into my childhood home to be with my terminally ill father during his last months of life; four months turned into 16 months. That precious time with Dad forever changed me. I never returned to my career, yet the "DNA" of my time as a clinician will always run through me. Watching this brought tears to my eyes. Something clicked. Finally, I am ready to embrace writing!

Thank you for this information. You have inspired me to pursue my interest in becoming a medical writer. I finally walked away from my career as a physician, for which I am grateful, yet it's time for a new adventure! I look forward to your other videos!

Great interview. I learned a lot, thanks!

That's so encouraging that you say you have your credentials and your bedside nursing even if you don't have your freelance writer experience yet. Because I know I am not a good writer or typer, but you're right that bedside experience for a few decades and different facilities has to count for something. I also feel very motivated by how you say the lifestyle is just lounging around and doing what you want and not having to show up. I know it's not exactly like that but it is compared to having to show up 🙂. I'm trying to get the business aspect set up in my space for this writing but at the same time I also want to try case management and would still have to show up but at least I wouldn't be chained to the bedside and answering call lights.

I am at this spot now, I have to do something else. I've been a task oriented nurse now for 37+ yrs!! Time to change!!

Your hair and glasses so cute!

I love this and it’s what I needed to hear today! Thank you.

I BELIEVE THAT 🙏

Thank you so much for this...I thought only RNs could do this. Now I will get busy

So true! Thank you !

I have a side business which is under an LLC. It's called EnFusion Health, LLC. My business name is EnFusion Health and Wellness. I plan to use my LLC already established for my freelance health content writing business, so I wonder if my name is the best thing to use for that? I am leaning towards using the Journoportfolio site for it versus creating another website. What are your thoughts? Thank-you :) Lisa Archer, ARNP

important points, valuable guidance. Thank you, Beth!

Great way to think about value…..my value!

Very clever mind exercise! Love it!

Very very helpful!

Wow! This makes so much sense. I think the concept of negotiating is just unfamiliar….. but I will get comfortable ! As I look back at another business venture I launched, I see how my set fee schedule really probably hurt me. Thank you!

We definitely are not or at the very least shouldn’t be! ❤

This was terrific! I learned quite a bit and really especially was impressed by her humble confidence! Thank you!

Can’t wait to get started writing!

Everyone needs a library…. Books make the world go round!

Thanks, this is great

Thank you so much for this information! Such a great, informative, fun video laid out in an easy-to-understand format. Though I am not an RN, I am a PA and just getting interested in medical writing. This was a nice spring board to hopefully set me up for success.

Wonderful Podcast ladies!. I'm interested in starting to be an RN writer too. This podcast is very helpful to boost my confidence.

Thoroughly enjoyed listening to you ladies talk about your professional and personal lives, not only as it relates to writing but the impetus for your writing. Hearing about how topics came to mind from what was going on in Jennifer's life to actual articles she then used to pitch to clients, sounds like someone who is very impassioned about her writing. I really like hearing that. It isn't really about the paycheck (although a paycheck is certainly a nice incentive). Quite often, it's about having experienced something personally or professionally then researching the topic for some solution or solutions, and then sharing it to help someone else. Nurses are altruistic by nature. I don't think anyone would enter this field of writing for just the $$. Thanks for the chuckle in the very beginning, Beth, where you mention about your cue cards -- "all the big name hosts do that". Laughed out loud on that :)

Thank you ladies! I feel better about where I am going!!

Can you write as a retired nurse? Or would I need to reinstate to active status with my regulatory College?

Hi Elizabeth, thank you so much in sharing this wealth of information. This is definitely a priority that I’m working on as we speak. My biggest hangup would be that I have no portfolio for them to reference in making their decision to hire me. How do I cross this hurdle? I’m sending you this email as I am about to get ready for my 3 to 11 shift as a nursing supervisor at a nursing home. I want to stop dreading going to work. I can’t wait to become a health writer full-time. I thank you for all of this information. God bless.

Great information, Beth. I recognize that I have been spinning my wheels lately. Back to basics!

I think that as capitalism continues to degrade healthcare into wealthcare, the importance of naming an advocate for hospital stays or advice on how to navigate the maze without one is an important new trend that we can expect to see more of in the very near future as well. Even writing about the general degradation of our hospitals is crucial, most lay people don't realize what state our facilities are in these days but nurses do!

Doesn't AI threaten this type of work for humans?

Elizabeth, does it matter what RN degree you have? ADN, BSN, etc.

Excellent, Beth. Thanks so much!

From a budgeting standpoint, I'm loathe to pay to set up a great website when I haven't made a single dime. I'm starting in the hole!

What I'm curious about is how much time/bandwidth Ruth is actually willing to devote to overlapping clients as she considers leveling up. If she's test driving new clients periodically, it's essentially agreeing to take on a fourth client ny default. I almost think marketing for her would look like continuing to maintain an attractive LinkedIn page and be extremely discriminating about which clients she even wants to test drive.

I appreciate the marketing goals. I often think of these as "working," without any goal to inform my activities. Result = busywork and burnout 🔥

Thanks, Beth! You are certainly still on the "pulse" of what's on and can really help us folks interested in starting content writing as a career venture. Knowing about these unique niches is so useful going forward. 💪

Thanks for answering this Beth. I was just wondering about this last week. You must have read my mind ☺

Thank you for sharing this! I have your course and have just retired last month. I look forward to starting it soon!

This is a great video. I can tell you it hits all of my goals for the kind of day I want.

I'm so glad you sent me the email with the TH-cam clip in it because I didn't think of looking there to see some of these. And now that I have some Wi-Fi, I'm binge watching a few of these and I definitely find it intriguing, especially anything that doesn't involve me having to answer a frivolous call light or sending me unaware, into a room of a patient they just made angry and I'm not even their nurse. I like this content because, and I find it intriguing because I am bad with time management on the floor and always leaving late and trying to do too much. To sum it up, I had one patient tell me after I introduced the new nurse coming on, that is very well quaffed, says the right things, smiles and calls you baby all the things I don't seem to be like have flow unless I'm like really of the same mind with the patient I'm not good at being fake, anyway that patient said to me when I went back to do something else, said, I can already tell I'm not going to have the same kind of care today.

I like how cerebral this job and the conversation is. I feel like the hospital or nursing home job after a few decades has just become a series of interruptions, complaints and demands. Like a handmaiden enabler. I think in one of the pieces, mentioned about how those jobs are really not in favor of the worker and their health and their sanity. I don't know how well I can do this but I'm interested in checking it out I'm still reading the ebook that I just got. My only thought on this financial aspect is if I go from writing for free until I get the skills and prove myself shouldn't I be taking some of these low-ball jobs initially to cut my teeth on?

curious on your thoughts of a care aide having enough credentials to be accepted as a nurse writer

Thank you for this amazing video. I LOVE IT