Topic: If You Drop Your License, Can You Still Survive?
Venue: Growing Embryo Nurses Mind Forum. (GENM)
Guest Speaker: Adenike Olakunle ( The Sent Nurse)
Anchored By: STN Ojo Justinah
Convener: Olanrewaju Femi AROWOSEGBE (The Spirit Nurse)
My goal today is to open your mind to countless of opportunities that lies ahead of you beyond the beside and I hope that you would launch out with full force to make the sky your beginning.
You are on your way to become a Registered Nurse; I congratulate you for making this decision because it is one of the decisions that I have not regretted making in my life. No matter your reason, I believe that it is not a waste.
All over the world, Nursing and nurses are always in high demand because no hospital can run without them. Hence, you will always get a job as a Nurse!
However, you might get the one that will pay you less than you desire or not enough to cater for your needs, the one that will ridicule you or throw you into an uncertain situation
Shocker: Nursing is not the Highest Paying Job.
During this pandemic, a lot of Nurses have lost their jobs (even as a hot puff-puff that they are) just because they refused to work without adequate protection, they refused to be lodged at their places of work and demanded that their employers should provide a means of transport. Others are now receiving half salary because their facility is not having a high influx of patients, some are still not certain about what will happen if this situation continues
Even in the USA, UK, Canada, Nurses have lost their jobs (it is not a Nigeria problem only)
Imagine that you are in one of the situations mentioned above what would you do?
If I was in any of the situations, I would resign with immediate effect! Yes! Do you know why I would be able to do that?
So tell me, if you are one of the Nurses in any of these situations, what would you do?
I told you, I would resign, here is the reason.....
Because, I have something else that I can fall back on which I will be sharing with you if you stay tuned
Apart from the pandemic, a lot of nurses are broke, unfulfilled and sad due to the low wages, lack of professional regulation, and support, ill-treatments from patients and members of the healthcare team, quackery and so on.
I dropped my license as a Registered Nurse when I was in Nigeria for 4 years because I couldn’t tolerate the depth of quackery and malpractices going on in most private hospitals in Nigeria (after working in 3 private hospitals) and I made up my mind to stop practicing at the bedside until I get out of the country.
So, what happened after I dropped my license?
I went into the corporate world as a client service executive, I became an Emotional intelligence coach and trainer, I became a life coach, health coach, a beautypreneur (selling cosmetics), a YouTube content creator, blogger, a thought leader and speaker.
How was I able to do so many things, making money and making impacts without my nursing license?
I invested in my personal development and began my journey to having multiple streams of income!!!
you may be wondering How do I get started on my personal development and multiple streams of income beyond nursing?
1. Self-awareness: Get to know yourself (in terms of who you are, what are you capable of doing, I mean, know your strengths, what problem do you have strong passion to solve?
You can get a free tool to help you discover your hidden strengths from me ( you have to follow me on IG: www.instagram.com/thesentnurse and send me a DM.
2. Gain Clarity: What problem are you going to solve, will you be able to fulfil purpose/make impacts as much as making money? Who will your service/products be serving? How will you reach them? Will they be willing to pay you? How will you get started? Who are the people already in this industry that can put you on the path?
3. You will need strong determination/focus: To fully go into what you want with a strong believe that you can do it, that you will learn whatever it takes to do it, and you will persist in the face of adversity.. because the truth is, there is no perfect situation/job/career we need FOCUS to persist.
4. Invest in your personal development: While working at the places I didn’t like, I made up my mind to leave bedside so I started making plans, I went online to search for the things I could do, when I discovered, I saw that I would have to do several certifications so I started saving up my little salary to pay for my certifications and I am glad I did. I read books, I attend webinars like this, and several online courses and I have not stopped doing this.
5. Get a business coach/mentor: They will open your mind to limitless opportunities either by giving you advises or by asking your thought provoking questions (I can also help with that)
6. Leverage on the power of social media and the technology: This is no longer a news, people are cashing out through social media, you can too. I currently run my businesses online, you can too.
What are the benefits of having multiple streams of income or a side hustle?
- It is your own, running at your pace.
- Ability to learn new things.
- Offers constant self-awareness and personal development.
- Gives you a sense of purpose.
- Opens door of new opportunities.
- Peace of mind (no employer is threatening you).
- Improves your confidence level.
- Ability to achieve work-life balance.
- Of course, more money in your account
So, what are the obstacles to having a side hustle?
What are the barriers Having multiple streams of income /starting a side hustle?
The barriers to having a side hustle have disappeared thanks mostly to mobile digital technologies.
I don’t believe that anything can stop me or should stop anyone from starting a side hustle, I basically see them as excuses. Here are some of those excuses I have heard from clients I have helped in the past:
• I don’t have money or support to start
• Self-doubt, what if it doesn’t work/fear of failure
• Lack of ideas on what to do and how to start
• I don’t know how to sell
How can you deal with these seeming barriers?
• Service based hustles/businesses need little or no money to get started. However, if you want to do a buying and selling business you can do either of these:
1). Know how much you need to start, give yourself a time frame to save towards it or get people to invest in your business.
2). Make enquiries if you can start by helping someone to sell while you take the profits then save the profits.
3). Ask if you can get the items on credit and pay when you make sales.
• For fear of failure or what if it doesn’t work: The best way to overcome fear is to get adequate knowledge and making plans! Are their people who are already doing something like this and they are successful? How are they doing it? And you need to imagine, what if it works? What if I blow doing this
• To overcome lack of ideas, You can use my tool on discovering your hidden strengths, get coached/mentored to dive deeper, look through your environment, what is missing, what service are the people in your community needing but its not available or not many people are into it. When I was in school, I saw that we usually go on a long journey to buy recharge cards, I didn’t like it, it was too stressful, so I started selling it, guess what? I became popular, made so much money and became friends with many people (senior and juniors included)… of course, this is not a good business again because you can buy recharge cards at the tips of your fingers by using your bank’s USSD. But there are still many opportunities and you don’t have to do something new
• To overcome the “I don’t know how to sell” excuse: It is a limiting belief and you will need to either attend a course, work with a coach or a mentor to break it because it is only an excuse, no one was born to sell stuff, we all learn it. If some people are doing it, everyone else can do it if they are willing to learn.
What are some of the side hustles/business that you can start without your Nursing license:
The list is endless, they are things you already know but I will still share with you:
• Sell medical equipments
• Become a BLS/ACLS instructor
• Become a Nurse coach/mentor
• Blogging/YouTube content creation: teaching people how to do something or basically sharing your knowledge on any platform (WordPress and YouTube are my go to).
This needs consistency to eventually bring money.. You will make money when your blog has many viewers/readers, you can make money from brands adverts or from YouTube itself.
• Become an affiliate marketer: You will work with brands, they will give you commission based on how many sales you bring
• Become a social media brand influencer: this takes a long term to work, you will need to build an audience by giving out valuable information on your platforms
• Become a Health Coach (a shocker, even non-medical persons are doing health coaching business), so you don’t need to show your license
• Life Coaching
• Create digital products (on how to do anything that you really know how to do)
• Become a virtual assistant
• Hair styling/hair dresser (I remember paying #50,000 for a hair stylist during my wedding)… This is not about gender anymore (my favorite hair stylist is a man0
• Make up artistry: it is no longer news, your pay is dependent on how good and flawless your works are
The list is endless, you can get a tailored business that is right for you in a one on one session with me (send a DM on Instagram)
In conclusion, the majority of self-made millionaires have a similar approach to earning money, making impacts and finding fulfilment. They generated their income from many baskets!
Having multiple income streams makes a lot of sense. When one stream is negatively affected by systematic economic downturns, of which you have no control, or ill treatment from employers, uncertainties and lack of work-life balance, the other streams can come to the rescue and help you survive the downturn, without seeing your lifestyle dramatically affected.
Remember, entrepreneurship is a different ball game entirely and it will require continuous personal development.Thank you.
For more details write me on : growingembryonursesmind@gmail.com
WhatsApp Chat or SMS on :+2347065236277.
Guest Speaker:
Nurse Adenike Olakunle.
aka The Sent Nurse
From United Kingdom.
You can follow the Guest Speaker on social media
IG: www.instagram.com/thesentnurse
Twitter: www.twitter.com/thesentnurse
Youtube: https://bit.ly/AdenikeOlakunle
Website: https://thesenturse.com
Email: adenikeolakunle@thesentnurse.com for further questions
Anchored By:
STN Ojo justnah.
University of illorin teaching hospital, school of nursing.
Nigeria.
Convener:
aka The Spirit Nurse.
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State.
Nigeria.
