March 11, 2025 • 24 mins
Ep. 50 In this episode, Dr. Lendra discusses significant topics including Women's History Month, the measles outbreak linked to misinformation, the removal of Black Lives Matter murals, and the importance of focusing on empowerment and wealth building for healthcare professionals. She emphasizes the need for community immunity and the impact of social movements while encouraging listeners to stay focused amidst distractions in current events. Additionally, she introduces the HW Foundation and the upcoming Health and Wealth Expo aimed at supporting nurses and healthcare professionals in their career development and financial education.
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Takeaways
Women's History Month is a time to celebrate women's contributions.
Misinformation can lead to public health crises like measles outbreaks.
The removal of Black Lives Matter murals reflects ongoing social struggles.
Distractions in current events can divert attention from important issues.
Empowerment and focus are crucial for personal and professional growth.
Healthcare professionals should consider entrepreneurship for financial stability.
Community immunity is essential for preventing disease outbreaks.
The HW Foundation aims to support nurses in their career development.
Building generational wealth is important for healthcare professionals.
The Health and Wealth Expo will provide valuable resources for attendees.
Chapters
00:00 Women's History Month and Celebrating Women
04:12 Current Events: Black Lives Matter and DEI
08:11 Focus on Empowerment and Distractions
12:02 Introducing the HW Foundation and Health and Wealth Expo
18:06 Building Wealth and Business Opportunities for Nurses
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Breaking news without offering proof.
Kennedy links measles outbreak to Poor diet and
health. In a sweeping interview,
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The Health and Human Services
secretary, outlined a strategy for
containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that
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strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on
frank, fringe theories about prevention and treatment. And
I'll just stop here. So this is an article that's in the New York Times,
and I'll just stop reading there. Welcome to Nurses with voices.
Welcome
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back
to another episode of Nurses with voices. I'm Dr. Lyndra,
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and I am going to jump right into our hot
topics. It is Women's History Month, and we
just had Women's International day was on March
8, and this month we should just be really celebrating all
things women and looking at all of the amazing things that
we're doing as women and truly making an impact. And before
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I get into that, I do have to give you guys, you know, we have
to do the hot topics. And I just saw
some breaking news, which I'm not actually surprised, but I'm going to read it to
you. This is actually the same man, and I'm sure you guys may
have seen this on, on other news stations where
he mentioned that there's a measles outbreak every
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year. Were you guys aware of that? So, According to the
CDC, as of March 6th of 2025, there has been
222 cases of measles
reported in 12 jurisdictions prior to this. Now, this is
according to the cdc, so make sure you head over and fact
check me on the CDC's website. And this the.
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The website that has been placed that was, you know, forced to be
replaced. So if you go over to the CDC's website
again, you can fact check me Prior to this.
The measles have been eliminated since 2000. Since the
year 2000. Just. I just want to make sure that I'm clear
on that. Measles was officially eliminated from the
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United States in 2000.
Measles was officially eliminated from the United States in
2000, meaning there are no measles spreading within
the country unless it's contracted from someone
going abroad and then returns to the country. Achieving
measles elimination in the United States was a historic
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accomplishment, so to say, oh, every year there's an
outbreak. I don't know where this information is coming from. Um, but again, you can
fact check me. You can go over to the cdc. Go over to cdc.gov
and look up measles and you'll see all of the information about measles
that you need to know. Measles is prevented by the
MMR vaccine, which is the measles mumps and rubella.
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And it has shown to be very safe and effective, which is
how we were able to eliminate measles
since 2000. What happens is people become
protected through herd immunity, through community
immunity. And people have their own opinions about vaccines
and if they're good for you and like, okay, that may be your choice for
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your child. But what happens is now we're leaving
that exposure and that risk
open for another child to contract it.
So what happens is we start to decrease the immunity level at herd
community. We start to decrease that, which is how we start to spread
the virus, and we start to lack that protection. We have a lot of
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parents who have decided, or some parents, I should say, not a
lot, because clearly there was still a lot of coverage. What happens is
we decide we don't want to get the vaccines for our kids because people
are concerned about what's in the vaccines, what they're doing to our children. But what
happens is, at the local level, vaccine coverage
rates vary considerably and pockets of
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unvaccinated people can exist in states with high
vaccination coverage. So when measles get into communities
of unvaccinated people in the U.S. that's how
outbreaks occur. So in other news, I'm not sure if you guys have
heard about. I'm sure you guys have all heard about George Floyd, the gentleman who
was murdered when the police officer was on
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kneeled on his neck for nine minutes and he couldn't breathe
right. So there was a Black Lives
Matter mural that was placed in Washington D.C. near the
White House. And Trump has decided that
this needs to be removed. And I'll just read you, and this is from USA
Today. And I'll just read you this is not the end. Removal of Black
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Lives Matter murals begins in D.C. they were speaking to an area
resident from D and D area. And I'll just read you what she had to
say she had heard about it on the morning news and she needed to see
it for herself. And although disheartened by the effort,
she viewed the mural's removal as part of the long moving
process of change. Black lives, she said,
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would matter regardless of yellow paint on the ground. So there was a movement
and there's still going to be a movement, she said. This is not the end
of it. It's just somebody saying, hey, I don't like that symbol
being there because they feel some kind of way about it, so let them have
it. Another person said when the mural was constructed in
2020, it brought a bit of togetherness to a city that
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saw turmoil during the COVID 19 pandemic and
protests over radical injustice. But Trump and his fellow
Republicans who control the House and Senate, have targeted
diversity, equity and inclusion pushes, many of which were
ushered in during the demonstrations after Floyd's death.
We have ended the tyranny of so called diversity equity inclusion
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policies all across the entire federal government and indeed
the private sector in our military, trump said during his joint
address to Congress last week. And our country will be woke no
longer. Now, if anyone saw that address, I didn't watch it,
but I've seen some recaps. And this to me is yet another attempt
to weaponize the ei. I mean, the writing is
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on the wall, people. No matter how you try
to defend it or justify it or slice it and dice
it, the writing is on the wall. This is just another
attempt to weaponize. DEI has been so weaponized. And
basically what you're saying is, Mr. President, is that
you're racist. And this is my opinion right now. I will give you
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guys facts. One thing about me, I will give you guys facts. But I will
also give you share with you my opinion. And there's a difference between the two.
And in my opinion, what you're doing is you're trying
to basically say DEI
is, oh, well, you didn't earn your merit. So
you're saying that all of these qualifications that I have and all of these degrees
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that I have, they, they basically were given to
me like I didn't have to work just as hard, if not harder,
than other students in my class. Are you saying that
I was just given all of my degrees? I'm just trying to
understand how can you truly explain your removal
of Black Lives Matter from the,
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from the city and from the streets, your removal and being
proud that you've removed DEI from
the federal in private sectors. And
we will be woke no longer. So we'll be
woke no longer. So that means you want to fall asleep. It's what
I'm hearing. So what I'm hearing is you'll rather be
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asleep to why these practices were put in place in the
first place, why DEI was even had to be
enacted. And it, it troubles
me that with all of the distractions that
are going on, because that's what this is, this is, this is.
And I said, I've said this before. And, and this is why
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my word of this month is focus.
Because all of this is a distraction. Now, my word for January was
increase, right? If. So, if you haven't noticed by now, I'm picking or
choosing, you know, words right, to really for
motivation and for empowerment. Like, that's, that's where I come from. I come from a
place of motivation and empowerment and because we
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need it and we needed, we definitely needed at this time
what's going on. Because this is history that's being made. Let's be very
clear, history is being made right now. This is very
unprecedented what's taking place. And history is being made. But a lot of
it are distractions and we have to stay
focused and we have to keep in mind this is a distraction. So my word
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of January was increase. My word for
an increase, increase in your, your mind,
your body, your, your health, your finances
increased. February was position, so that way you can
position yourself for your, your businesses, position yourself for your
careers, position yourself with your finances, position
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yourself, position yourself in the right networks around
the right people for education.
And now my word for March is focus.
Focusing on your family, focusing on building generational
wealth, focusing on, again, career development,
taking that increase that you have, you've already positioned
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yourself and now you can focus, you can focus
on networking, you can focus on
what are you going to do to achieve that next level career.
You can focus on these things now because everything else that you see, hearing
and seeing, it's a distraction. All of these
executive orders, they're distractions. The removal of,
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removal of immigrants from the, from the US It's a
distraction. The removal of the Black Lives Matter,
that's a distraction. That's a distraction from the fact that
our stock market is crashing. It's a distraction from the
fact that these tariffs are causing our
friends in neighbor countries to say, like, oh, you want to put
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a terrorist on us? I'm going to put a tariffs on your lumber. I'm going
to put a tariff on your electricity that we give you in states like New
York. I'm going to put a tariff There,
they're distractions. And we have to stay
focused as people. We have to stay
focused. We have to stay focused as individuals, especially for those who are
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representing the dei, because what has happened is you're saying the
DEI you're looking at, you're. You're correlating DEI with
blackness. So my, my blackness is what
you're saying does not matter. My degrees
do not matter. My education does not matter. You.
DEI is being weaponizing. We're switching the
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narrative and we're getting rid of history.
Right, but all of these things are distractions. We're getting rid of history. Oh, well,
that shouldn't be the education in the schools
distraction. We know the history and we
know what we had to do to get to where we are. So we keep
doing it, right? We just keep doing what we're doing. And guess
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what? And this is why it's so important that we stay
focused and we focus on our business, we focus on our
children, we focus on our family, and we focus on our bank
accounts. So for those of you who have money in the
stock market, don't get nervous. Don't. Don't
get nervous. For those of you who are wondering if you're going to have
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a job, start a business. And for my
nurses, of my healthcare professionals, you know
my motto, start a business. You have a skill
that you can monetize. Also, on better news and
brighter news. On better news, brighter news.
On a better note, I have created a
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foundation called the HW Foundation. It is a nonprofit
organization. And our mission, and I'm going to, I'm going to
paraphrase, our mission, our mission truly is to
help healthcare professionals, nurses, and specifically
nurses. You guys know I'm a nurse, so it's for healthcare professionals specifically,
particularly nurses. We want to help. We want to help who
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we can, and we want to help you with your career development. We want to
help you with mentorship, and we want to provide you with
coaching. And ultimately, we want to be able to
provide that high school student with that
funding who wants to go to school to be a nurse. And this is
me putting our mission in layman's terms. How? We want to
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help our community. We want to help the nursing and healthcare community.
And this is what the help the HW foundation is all about. We're
all about giving back. And
I'm proud to announce that the HW foundation is going to be
hosting our Health and Wealth Expo Live Summit
that is taking place in Mount Laurel, New Jersey on May
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15th and 16th. And we will be celebrating Nurses
Appreciation Week. Now to me, we should be
celebrating all month anyway, if not all year, but we really should be
celebrating it all month. So we're celebrating Nurses appreciation week on May
15th and 16th. I do recognize that nurses appreciation week
is the 6th to the 12th. We're celebrating on the 15th and
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the 16th with a welcome and meet and greet on May 14th. And
again, this is to celebrate Nurses Appreciation Week and what
I love about what we're doing, this is going to
be our healthcare and wealth building summit where you're going
to really be able to learn and identify what wealth building
looks like. We're going to be talking about and if I
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don't name off all of the topics, please forgive me. I want you to go
to the website healthandwealthexpolive.com and you
can really check out our speakers. Go to the speaker overview page
and you'll see our keynote speakers. You'll see what our speaker is going to be
talking about. We're going to be talking about now, you know, we're going to be
talking about a business startup, a nurse business startup. Right.
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So the, the health aspect, and let me just break this down
for you a little bit. So the health aspect is, comes from
me starting my business, right? Me escaping that
traditional setting, me starting my own wellness business.
And, and that was more about self care advocacy and that
was more escaping the bias and what
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we see now with dei. And you may, without knowing
my story, you may or may not be able to truly recognize what I'm saying.
And maybe you do. And I appreciate if you do because
as you know, as a woman and as a woman of color,
we often we can do all the things right.
We can open units, close units, build programs.
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We, our units can be number one in
the, in the hospital. And you still have to
work that much harder to be recognized and it's
unfortunate. Or to be heard, right?
Or be heard. And you get tired of that. You get
tired. And I know for me you get tired of that and you get tired
of playing the game. And because I like to look at myself as
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an authentic person and when I get to a point where I feel like I'm
not able to be myself, well, let's just
say when I got to that point is when I knew that this wasn't the
environment for me. So I transitioned and I started a wellness business.
And in doing so, it was self care, it
was health promotion for me. So we have to know when to choose us.
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And choosing me was the best thing that I ever did. And
that's why I'm able to recognize what's happening in the administration
and why I'm able to stay focused. Because
what's happening and the things that people are being so
alarmed about right now, I've dealt with that already.
And so this is just, it's just so
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happening to be rearing its ugly head to a nation
now, a nation that this has been
happening. This is why you have organizations like dnps of
Color. And speaking of dnps of Color, our keynote speaker will
be no other than Dr. Danielle McKaney. She is the
founder and president of DNPS of Color. And I'm
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excited to share that she's going to be speaking as a keynote speaker
on May 15th. And again, this is what it's
about. It's all about sharing
information and insights and empowerment in
education. This event is great. Going to be
more than a summit, it's more than a conference.
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This event is going to be a two day experience. Like this is going to
be an experience for so many of you. And I really, really
want you to join me. I will have all of the information
in the show notes. Well, I'll def. I'll have information about
the, the Expo and how you can join us on May 15th or 16th. You
know we have early registration right now until March 31st. So let me
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just, let me just go back to where before I get too sidetracked and get
too excited about, about the event, starting my
wellness business, that, that was help for me. So we are going to be talking
about topics about self care, mindfulness.
I'm in the process of creating a wellness area
and it's all about wellness and self care, health
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promotion, mental health and so this, so when we talk
about health and starting my wellness business, that was self care
advocacy, that was health promotion for me and it
also introduced me to what wealth looks like. It introduced me
to having passive streams of income. And this is what
I want to do for more nurses, for more healthcare professionals so that
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you too can to be open to thinking
beyond the bedside. Right. Because so many of us, we go into nursing and we
want to help others. We get into these organizations and we see that nursing
has, it has evolved. People are sicker,
people need more help. There are attacks on healthcare right now because
people are frustrated everywhere. From the UnitedHealthcare
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CEO to now. We have healthcare workers
being attacked at work, not feeling safe,
being traumatized. It is time for us to really
focus, take our power back and position ourselves so that we can
have that increase in our lives. So you can take vacations when you want
to with your family, not have someone tell you when you can go on
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vacation, when you can spend a holiday with your family. Start to build that
generational wealth. These are the type of things that we are going to be talking
about at the Expo. And I can't wait for you
guys to be there so that you guys can get an understanding of what true
wealth build, what wealth building looks like within health care
and how you can monetize your expertise. We're going to have
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the American ID association, they're going to be there,
they're going to be talking about how to start an IV hydration business,
how to start a mental health practice as a nurse practitioner. We're going
to have a medical writing expert, right? It's going to be talking about
medical writing, how you can freelance as a medical writer and make an
income. And I, and I always have to go back to say
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no one's saying quit your job and start a business. This we're
saying to remember my word from February, position yourself,
position yourself so that you can start, can start
your own business. Now over the next few weeks, I'll be
giving highlights and sharing how you can get started
and how you can start your business. I'll be talking about these things over
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the next few weeks leading up to the Expo and when you join
the Expo, you'll be able to put it all together. So I'm excited
about that because again, health and this is how
we blend health and wealth. Health and wealth is not a cliche. And
what happens is our theme is it starts with me. And when I
say me, I mean you. It starts with you choosing
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you. It starts with you knowing that you want something better and that you want
something different and that you're tired of being burnt out, you're tired of being stressed
out, you're tired of knowing, not knowing or having
to depend on this. W2 and not
knowing. Okay, are we going to have Social Security, Are we going to have, you
know what is going to be for me in when I'm ready for the retire,
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what is it? We're going to be talking about these things at the Expo. We're
going to be giving financial education, we're going to have industry
experts pouring information just into you. We're going
to have someone talking about a business plan, how you develop a business plan. So
you're going to walk out, leaving with a business plan, right? How about that?
We're going to be talking about real estate, real estate investing. If you
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haven't heard Real estate will change your life. But we need to
know these things. We need to know where to start. We need to know what
we need to do. We need to know how to get funding. We're going to
have a pitch competition which I'm super excited about. So we
are going to have a pitch competition. So bring your business
ideas because we want to help you fund that business. Now
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again, over the next few weeks I'll be talking more about the pitch competition.
So you have to register. So, so you registering for the event
is going to be your entry into the pitch competition. Come with your
pitch could because we want to help you fund your business. So the
grand prize winner will win funding towards their
business that they can use towards marketing,
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branding, however they need to use it towards their business. So I am
super excited to share that with you guys and you know, just so much
more. Log into healthandwealthexpo
live.com to get some highlights so that you
can register for our event. I am so excited about this.
Yeah. And so I'm going to leave it there. So again over the next few
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weeks I'm going to be talking about the Health and Wealth Expo and it's really
talking about helping you to start building your business, what that
looks like. So be on the lookout for different little mini trainings that I'll
do within the podcast and I'll,
you know, and as things develop, you know I'll be doing little
mini interviews with the speakers and
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our and I'll be making more announcements on the speaker. Our other keynote
speaker is Justin Grant. Let me not forget about him. Now if
you haven't heard about Justin Grant, Justin Grant is the author of
Company Men, A Wellness Guy for Black Men in Corporate
America. So he is going to be speaking as well. I can't really
express how excited I am about the upcoming expo with will be celebrating
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nurses appreciation and again two day
event. Join us on May 14th for the meet and greet.
The summit will be taking place May 15th and
16th and you don't want to miss it. So we do have vendor opportunities
available as well. I'll put the information in the show notes. I'll see you guys
next week definitely and hope to see you at the summit.
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You don't want to miss it. So until next time make sure that you stay
inspired, stay educated and stay empowered.
Breaking news without offering proof.
Kennedy links measles outbreak to Poor diet and
health. In a sweeping interview,
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The Health and Human Services
secretary, outlined a strategy for
containing the measles outbreak in West Texas that
(00:21):
strayed far from mainstream science, relying heavily on
frank, fringe theories about prevention and treatment. And
I'll just stop here. So this is an article that's in the New York Times,
and I'll just stop reading there. Welcome to Nurses with voices.
Welcome
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back
to another episode of Nurses with voices. I'm Dr. Lyndra,
(01:19):
and I am going to jump right into our hot
topics. It is Women's History Month, and we
just had Women's International day was on March
8, and this month we should just be really celebrating all
things women and looking at all of the amazing things that
we're doing as women and truly making an impact. And before
(01:42):
I get into that, I do have to give you guys, you know, we have
to do the hot topics. And I just saw
some breaking news, which I'm not actually surprised, but I'm going to read it to
you. This is actually the same man, and I'm sure you guys may
have seen this on, on other news stations where
he mentioned that there's a measles outbreak every
(02:03):
year. Were you guys aware of that? So, According to the
CDC, as of March 6th of 2025, there has been
222 cases of measles
reported in 12 jurisdictions prior to this. Now, this is
according to the cdc, so make sure you head over and fact
check me on the CDC's website. And this the.
(02:26):
The website that has been placed that was, you know, forced to be
replaced. So if you go over to the CDC's website
again, you can fact check me Prior to this.
The measles have been eliminated since 2000. Since the
year 2000. Just. I just want to make sure that I'm clear
on that. Measles was officially eliminated from the
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United States in 2000.
Measles was officially eliminated from the United States in
2000, meaning there are no measles spreading within
the country unless it's contracted from someone
going abroad and then returns to the country. Achieving
measles elimination in the United States was a historic
(03:10):
accomplishment, so to say, oh, every year there's an
outbreak. I don't know where this information is coming from. Um, but again, you can
fact check me. You can go over to the cdc. Go over to cdc.gov
and look up measles and you'll see all of the information about measles
that you need to know. Measles is prevented by the
MMR vaccine, which is the measles mumps and rubella.
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And it has shown to be very safe and effective, which is
how we were able to eliminate measles
since 2000. What happens is people become
protected through herd immunity, through community
immunity. And people have their own opinions about vaccines
and if they're good for you and like, okay, that may be your choice for
(03:54):
your child. But what happens is now we're leaving
that exposure and that risk
open for another child to contract it.
So what happens is we start to decrease the immunity level at herd
community. We start to decrease that, which is how we start to spread
the virus, and we start to lack that protection. We have a lot of
(04:16):
parents who have decided, or some parents, I should say, not a
lot, because clearly there was still a lot of coverage. What happens is
we decide we don't want to get the vaccines for our kids because people
are concerned about what's in the vaccines, what they're doing to our children. But what
happens is, at the local level, vaccine coverage
rates vary considerably and pockets of
(04:38):
unvaccinated people can exist in states with high
vaccination coverage. So when measles get into communities
of unvaccinated people in the U.S. that's how
outbreaks occur. So in other news, I'm not sure if you guys have
heard about. I'm sure you guys have all heard about George Floyd, the gentleman who
was murdered when the police officer was on
(05:01):
kneeled on his neck for nine minutes and he couldn't breathe
right. So there was a Black Lives
Matter mural that was placed in Washington D.C. near the
White House. And Trump has decided that
this needs to be removed. And I'll just read you, and this is from USA
Today. And I'll just read you this is not the end. Removal of Black
(05:22):
Lives Matter murals begins in D.C. they were speaking to an area
resident from D and D area. And I'll just read you what she had to
say she had heard about it on the morning news and she needed to see
it for herself. And although disheartened by the effort,
she viewed the mural's removal as part of the long moving
process of change. Black lives, she said,
(05:45):
would matter regardless of yellow paint on the ground. So there was a movement
and there's still going to be a movement, she said. This is not the end
of it. It's just somebody saying, hey, I don't like that symbol
being there because they feel some kind of way about it, so let them have
it. Another person said when the mural was constructed in
2020, it brought a bit of togetherness to a city that
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saw turmoil during the COVID 19 pandemic and
protests over radical injustice. But Trump and his fellow
Republicans who control the House and Senate, have targeted
diversity, equity and inclusion pushes, many of which were
ushered in during the demonstrations after Floyd's death.
We have ended the tyranny of so called diversity equity inclusion
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policies all across the entire federal government and indeed
the private sector in our military, trump said during his joint
address to Congress last week. And our country will be woke no
longer. Now, if anyone saw that address, I didn't watch it,
but I've seen some recaps. And this to me is yet another attempt
to weaponize the ei. I mean, the writing is
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on the wall, people. No matter how you try
to defend it or justify it or slice it and dice
it, the writing is on the wall. This is just another
attempt to weaponize. DEI has been so weaponized. And
basically what you're saying is, Mr. President, is that
you're racist. And this is my opinion right now. I will give you
(07:14):
guys facts. One thing about me, I will give you guys facts. But I will
also give you share with you my opinion. And there's a difference between the two.
And in my opinion, what you're doing is you're trying
to basically say DEI
is, oh, well, you didn't earn your merit. So
you're saying that all of these qualifications that I have and all of these degrees
(07:34):
that I have, they, they basically were given to
me like I didn't have to work just as hard, if not harder,
than other students in my class. Are you saying that
I was just given all of my degrees? I'm just trying to
understand how can you truly explain your removal
of Black Lives Matter from the,
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from the city and from the streets, your removal and being
proud that you've removed DEI from
the federal in private sectors. And
we will be woke no longer. So we'll be
woke no longer. So that means you want to fall asleep. It's what
I'm hearing. So what I'm hearing is you'll rather be
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asleep to why these practices were put in place in the
first place, why DEI was even had to be
enacted. And it, it troubles
me that with all of the distractions that
are going on, because that's what this is, this is, this is.
And I said, I've said this before. And, and this is why
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my word of this month is focus.
Because all of this is a distraction. Now, my word for January was
increase, right? If. So, if you haven't noticed by now, I'm picking or
choosing, you know, words right, to really for
motivation and for empowerment. Like, that's, that's where I come from. I come from a
place of motivation and empowerment and because we
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need it and we needed, we definitely needed at this time
what's going on. Because this is history that's being made. Let's be very
clear, history is being made right now. This is very
unprecedented what's taking place. And history is being made. But a lot of
it are distractions and we have to stay
focused and we have to keep in mind this is a distraction. So my word
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of January was increase. My word for
an increase, increase in your, your mind,
your body, your, your health, your finances
increased. February was position, so that way you can
position yourself for your, your businesses, position yourself for your
careers, position yourself with your finances, position
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yourself, position yourself in the right networks around
the right people for education.
And now my word for March is focus.
Focusing on your family, focusing on building generational
wealth, focusing on, again, career development,
taking that increase that you have, you've already positioned
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yourself and now you can focus, you can focus
on networking, you can focus on
what are you going to do to achieve that next level career.
You can focus on these things now because everything else that you see, hearing
and seeing, it's a distraction. All of these
executive orders, they're distractions. The removal of,
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removal of immigrants from the, from the US It's a
distraction. The removal of the Black Lives Matter,
that's a distraction. That's a distraction from the fact that
our stock market is crashing. It's a distraction from the
fact that these tariffs are causing our
friends in neighbor countries to say, like, oh, you want to put
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a terrorist on us? I'm going to put a tariffs on your lumber. I'm going
to put a tariff on your electricity that we give you in states like New
York. I'm going to put a tariff There,
they're distractions. And we have to stay
focused as people. We have to stay
focused. We have to stay focused as individuals, especially for those who are
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representing the dei, because what has happened is you're saying the
DEI you're looking at, you're. You're correlating DEI with
blackness. So my, my blackness is what
you're saying does not matter. My degrees
do not matter. My education does not matter. You.
DEI is being weaponizing. We're switching the
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narrative and we're getting rid of history.
Right, but all of these things are distractions. We're getting rid of history. Oh, well,
that shouldn't be the education in the schools
distraction. We know the history and we
know what we had to do to get to where we are. So we keep
doing it, right? We just keep doing what we're doing. And guess
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what? And this is why it's so important that we stay
focused and we focus on our business, we focus on our
children, we focus on our family, and we focus on our bank
accounts. So for those of you who have money in the
stock market, don't get nervous. Don't. Don't
get nervous. For those of you who are wondering if you're going to have
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a job, start a business. And for my
nurses, of my healthcare professionals, you know
my motto, start a business. You have a skill
that you can monetize. Also, on better news and
brighter news. On better news, brighter news.
On a better note, I have created a
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foundation called the HW Foundation. It is a nonprofit
organization. And our mission, and I'm going to, I'm going to
paraphrase, our mission, our mission truly is to
help healthcare professionals, nurses, and specifically
nurses. You guys know I'm a nurse, so it's for healthcare professionals specifically,
particularly nurses. We want to help. We want to help who
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we can, and we want to help you with your career development. We want to
help you with mentorship, and we want to provide you with
coaching. And ultimately, we want to be able to
provide that high school student with that
funding who wants to go to school to be a nurse. And this is
me putting our mission in layman's terms. How? We want to
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help our community. We want to help the nursing and healthcare community.
And this is what the help the HW foundation is all about. We're
all about giving back. And
I'm proud to announce that the HW foundation is going to be
hosting our Health and Wealth Expo Live Summit
that is taking place in Mount Laurel, New Jersey on May
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15th and 16th. And we will be celebrating Nurses
Appreciation Week. Now to me, we should be
celebrating all month anyway, if not all year, but we really should be
celebrating it all month. So we're celebrating Nurses appreciation week on May
15th and 16th. I do recognize that nurses appreciation week
is the 6th to the 12th. We're celebrating on the 15th and
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the 16th with a welcome and meet and greet on May 14th. And
again, this is to celebrate Nurses Appreciation Week and what
I love about what we're doing, this is going to
be our healthcare and wealth building summit where you're going
to really be able to learn and identify what wealth building
looks like. We're going to be talking about and if I
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don't name off all of the topics, please forgive me. I want you to go
to the website healthandwealthexpolive.com and you
can really check out our speakers. Go to the speaker overview page
and you'll see our keynote speakers. You'll see what our speaker is going to be
talking about. We're going to be talking about now, you know, we're going to be
talking about a business startup, a nurse business startup. Right.
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So the, the health aspect, and let me just break this down
for you a little bit. So the health aspect is, comes from
me starting my business, right? Me escaping that
traditional setting, me starting my own wellness business.
And, and that was more about self care advocacy and that
was more escaping the bias and what
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we see now with dei. And you may, without knowing
my story, you may or may not be able to truly recognize what I'm saying.
And maybe you do. And I appreciate if you do because
as you know, as a woman and as a woman of color,
we often we can do all the things right.
We can open units, close units, build programs.
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We, our units can be number one in
the, in the hospital. And you still have to
work that much harder to be recognized and it's
unfortunate. Or to be heard, right?
Or be heard. And you get tired of that. You get
tired. And I know for me you get tired of that and you get tired
of playing the game. And because I like to look at myself as
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an authentic person and when I get to a point where I feel like I'm
not able to be myself, well, let's just
say when I got to that point is when I knew that this wasn't the
environment for me. So I transitioned and I started a wellness business.
And in doing so, it was self care, it
was health promotion for me. So we have to know when to choose us.
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And choosing me was the best thing that I ever did. And
that's why I'm able to recognize what's happening in the administration
and why I'm able to stay focused. Because
what's happening and the things that people are being so
alarmed about right now, I've dealt with that already.
And so this is just, it's just so
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happening to be rearing its ugly head to a nation
now, a nation that this has been
happening. This is why you have organizations like dnps of
Color. And speaking of dnps of Color, our keynote speaker will
be no other than Dr. Danielle McKaney. She is the
founder and president of DNPS of Color. And I'm
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excited to share that she's going to be speaking as a keynote speaker
on May 15th. And again, this is what it's
about. It's all about sharing
information and insights and empowerment in
education. This event is great. Going to be
more than a summit, it's more than a conference.
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This event is going to be a two day experience. Like this is going to
be an experience for so many of you. And I really, really
want you to join me. I will have all of the information
in the show notes. Well, I'll def. I'll have information about
the, the Expo and how you can join us on May 15th or 16th. You
know we have early registration right now until March 31st. So let me
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just, let me just go back to where before I get too sidetracked and get
too excited about, about the event, starting my
wellness business, that, that was help for me. So we are going to be talking
about topics about self care, mindfulness.
I'm in the process of creating a wellness area
and it's all about wellness and self care, health
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promotion, mental health and so this, so when we talk
about health and starting my wellness business, that was self care
advocacy, that was health promotion for me and it
also introduced me to what wealth looks like. It introduced me
to having passive streams of income. And this is what
I want to do for more nurses, for more healthcare professionals so that
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you too can to be open to thinking
beyond the bedside. Right. Because so many of us, we go into nursing and we
want to help others. We get into these organizations and we see that nursing
has, it has evolved. People are sicker,
people need more help. There are attacks on healthcare right now because
people are frustrated everywhere. From the UnitedHealthcare
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CEO to now. We have healthcare workers
being attacked at work, not feeling safe,
being traumatized. It is time for us to really
focus, take our power back and position ourselves so that we can
have that increase in our lives. So you can take vacations when you want
to with your family, not have someone tell you when you can go on
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vacation, when you can spend a holiday with your family. Start to build that
generational wealth. These are the type of things that we are going to be talking
about at the Expo. And I can't wait for you
guys to be there so that you guys can get an understanding of what true
wealth build, what wealth building looks like within health care
and how you can monetize your expertise. We're going to have
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the American ID association, they're going to be there,
they're going to be talking about how to start an IV hydration business,
how to start a mental health practice as a nurse practitioner. We're going
to have a medical writing expert, right? It's going to be talking about
medical writing, how you can freelance as a medical writer and make an
income. And I, and I always have to go back to say
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no one's saying quit your job and start a business. This we're
saying to remember my word from February, position yourself,
position yourself so that you can start, can start
your own business. Now over the next few weeks, I'll be
giving highlights and sharing how you can get started
and how you can start your business. I'll be talking about these things over
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the next few weeks leading up to the Expo and when you join
the Expo, you'll be able to put it all together. So I'm excited
about that because again, health and this is how
we blend health and wealth. Health and wealth is not a cliche. And
what happens is our theme is it starts with me. And when I
say me, I mean you. It starts with you choosing
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you. It starts with you knowing that you want something better and that you want
something different and that you're tired of being burnt out, you're tired of being stressed
out, you're tired of knowing, not knowing or having
to depend on this. W2 and not
knowing. Okay, are we going to have Social Security, Are we going to have, you
know what is going to be for me in when I'm ready for the retire,
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what is it? We're going to be talking about these things at the Expo. We're
going to be giving financial education, we're going to have industry
experts pouring information just into you. We're going
to have someone talking about a business plan, how you develop a business plan. So
you're going to walk out, leaving with a business plan, right? How about that?
We're going to be talking about real estate, real estate investing. If you
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haven't heard Real estate will change your life. But we need to
know these things. We need to know where to start. We need to know what
we need to do. We need to know how to get funding. We're going to
have a pitch competition which I'm super excited about. So we
are going to have a pitch competition. So bring your business
ideas because we want to help you fund that business. Now
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again, over the next few weeks I'll be talking more about the pitch competition.
So you have to register. So, so you registering for the event
is going to be your entry into the pitch competition. Come with your
pitch could because we want to help you fund your business. So the
grand prize winner will win funding towards their
business that they can use towards marketing,
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branding, however they need to use it towards their business. So I am
super excited to share that with you guys and you know, just so much
more. Log into healthandwealthexpo
live.com to get some highlights so that you
can register for our event. I am so excited about this.
Yeah. And so I'm going to leave it there. So again over the next few
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weeks I'm going to be talking about the Health and Wealth Expo and it's really
talking about helping you to start building your business, what that
looks like. So be on the lookout for different little mini trainings that I'll
do within the podcast and I'll,
you know, and as things develop, you know I'll be doing little
mini interviews with the speakers and
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our and I'll be making more announcements on the speaker. Our other keynote
speaker is Justin Grant. Let me not forget about him. Now if
you haven't heard about Justin Grant, Justin Grant is the author of
Company Men, A Wellness Guy for Black Men in Corporate
America. So he is going to be speaking as well. I can't really
express how excited I am about the upcoming expo with will be celebrating
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nurses appreciation and again two day
event. Join us on May 14th for the meet and greet.
The summit will be taking place May 15th and
16th and you don't want to miss it. So we do have vendor opportunities
available as well. I'll put the information in the show notes. I'll see you guys
next week definitely and hope to see you at the summit.
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You don't want to miss it. So until next time make sure that you stay
inspired, stay educated and stay empowered.
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