Daniela comes to The Business of Nursing Blog, as the founder, host, and executive producer of The Life & Business Trailblazer Podcast, a community for creatives and innovators desiring to forge a new trail for their life and business. Daniela believes that every individual should get equipped with practical skills and tools that can be leveraged for that individual's personal and professional success, creating this ecosystem for people desiring to experience an amplified life.
Life Resource: Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
Current events involving the killing of unarmed humans, Black Men specifically, have sparked a series of conversations.
The killing of humans is a Public Health matter and I am a nurse.
Beyond being a nurse, watching horror stories that feature people who look like loved ones have taken a toll on me as a human.
My thoughts on this are reflected in the below post, please take a look at choose to follow the law of love.
Because of my perspective, I do not have the energy at the moment to do much more beyond what I have said on this topic so far, as the emotional labor behind the effort of education is a bit much right now.
Let’s keep the conversation going!
Connect with Amelia:
About the business of nursing founder Amelia Roberts RN
Amelia felt invisible in her role as a registered nurse and chose to learn how to use social media for something beyond watching cat videos.
Now alongside other hats, Amelia elevates the voice of nurses and helps her clients get booked as guest experts on live videos, podcasts and/or virtual conferences so that they can grow their audience without feeling the need to “overshare” or document their entire lives on social media.
When she is not slaying obscurity you can find her planning real and imagined food tours.
Feel free to connect with her on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameliaroberts/
Business Story: Corporate Living to Stay at Home Thriving
Beth Gordon is a former Administrator in Corporate America, turned Work-at-Home mom of two sweet kids. She cares a great deal about being present with her family and worked hard to contribute to their family budget, working in the POCKETS of life.
Business Resource: Connect with Purpose
Lori Saitz is a networking strategy coach, author, and speaker with 25+ years of experience in marketing and communications. She teaches in-house workshops, at conferences, and through her private client program. She created the Confident Connections Quick Start video program.
Career Pivots: Brittany Merkle Innovation Demystifier
The Business of Innovation with Nurse Lydel Wright
Why you have to check out today’s podcast:
Learn the “enough is enough” moment of Lydel in his career that made him pivot to another opportunity
Get to know Lydel in the different roles he played in his career, through his invention, and in his advocacy in founding his non-profit organization
What are the key factors that brought immense success in his career?
Summary
Lydel Wright came from humble beginnings which motivated him to innovate to survive. What’s impressive with this accomplished man is he used his disadvantages to turn into advantages leading him to his sought-after success now. Get to know more of Lydel as a professional nurse, an advocate, and as a person. Discover the essential factors vital to his success. More importantly, don’t miss the golden nuggets of wisdom that he will share and will genuinely inspire if you are in the same fate as he was growing up.
“I've always had to innovate in order to live.”
-Lydel Wright
Topics Covered:
00:34 – Who Lydel is and his personality traits as an outcome maker, decision-maker, and manager
07:04 – Lydel narrates growing up lacking in resources and pushed him to innovate to live
08:04 – Sharing the tipping point in his nursing career and he needs to switch and try other available opportunities for him
13:44 – What makes Lydel busy as one of twelve Johnson & Johnson’s Nurse Innovation Fellow, in his invention called SafeWatch, and in his non-profit organization called The Impact Foundation
17:20 – Lydel shares that the amazing opportunities in his career didn’t come overnight and a product of good relationships with key people, hard work, sweat, tears and focus
19:19 – Where to connect and find out more about Lydel
Key Takeaways:
“When it comes to business choices, we have a challenge of making choices for ourselves.” – Amelia Roberts
“People when they think of a nurse, they think we give medications, we hang IVs, and we talked to the doctors, but they don't see the compassion side.” – Lydel Wright
“There has to be a better way for people to stay connected with other loved ones or a more comprehensive approach to what their needs are, filling those needs, and being able to communicate across that barrier that's normally for people who either are living alone or are coming into these facilities needing our support or care.” – Lydel Wright
“Relationships matter.” – Lydel Wright
“All opportunities in life come from other humans.” – Amelia Roberts
“It wasn't overnight. It took a lot of hard work, sweat, tears and focus. But having the right people around you help to make the pathway look a little bit easier.” – Lydel Wright