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In this episode, Melissa interviews functional nurse Ashley Rangel, founder of Voice of Truth Wellness. Ashley shares how her experiences during the COVID pandemic led her to help launch a Mobile IV business and ultimately inspired her to create a functional health practice dedicated to helping individuals address the root causes of their health concerns. Now serving clients across the country, Ashley utilizes functional medicine principles and a personalized approach to support healing and wellness. Together, they discuss innovative healing modalities, including ozone therapy, bioresonance therapy, and functional medicine strategies designed to support the body's natural healing processes. Ashley also shares her passion for empowering individuals to take control of their health and restore balance, vitality, and hope through a whole-person approach to wellness.

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SPEAKER_01

Hello and welcome to the Functional Nurse Academy podcast. This is your host, Melissa Schreibetter, owner and founder of the Functional Nurse Academy. Welcome everyone. So great to be here with you as usual, and I am honored to have another one of my graduates joined with me today from the Functional Nurse Academy. Joining me is Ashley Rangal, who is the owner of Voice of Truth Wellness. She is a registered nurse with 25 years of experience in women's health surgery, hospice, and home health. A devouted wife and mother, she is passionate about helping people find hope and healing by addressing the root cause of illness rather than simply managing symptoms. During the COVID pandemic, Ashley helped launch a mobile IV business to support individuals outside of the hospital setting. This experience inspired her to open a holistic wellness practice where she focuses on creating the conditions for true healing and wellness. Ashley is a board-certified functional medicine practitioner as well. And she blends science, faith, natural therapies to help clients restore balance, overcome chronic health care challenges, and reclaim the vibrant life they were designed to live. Her mission is to empower others with the knowledge, tools, and support needed to achieve health and wellness. Welcome, Ashley. Welcome. Thank you for having me. Yes, absolutely. So I was reading through your bio and I did not know this about you that you launched a mobile IV business to support people outside of the hospital setting through COVID. Go you. So I wanted to ask, was that we all have just such, I feel like so many of these stories about nurses leaving conventional to go functional. There's so many similarities, but again, there's also so many differing factors or so many different reasons why people choose this route of nursing. Is that was it was it COVID that really kind of drove you to functional medicine, or was it something uh else that happened before?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it actually, it actually was. It was that that was the catalyst because I had actually left the hospital setting probably three to four years prior to that. So thankfully I didn't have to be in the hospital setting during all of that. But my best friend was still in the hospital setting, and she's like, we've got to do something to help these people that are coming to the hospital. We got to get them while they're at home and help them get better. So she inspired me to join her. And I had actually left, like I wasn't gonna go back into nursing and do anything in nursing. I kept my license active, but um, she inspired me to help her um launch that and do do that. And we were able to keep so many people out of the hospital with the doctor that we were working with doing telehealth, he was doing telehealth and um, you know, getting prescriptions if we needed them, and and we were able to be in the home and do vitamin infusions and really helping people, you know, save their lives, not having to um leave their home. And um, that just got me thinking like the people that I was meeting and being able to give some education to about, you know, what was really going on and how if they would, you know, create a better environment for their health, they wouldn't be getting sick. And so I just started thinking about that. Like if people could really, the things that they had health-wise that I was talking to them about, it's like these are things that are preventable. And so there has to be a way to be able to get these people outside of COVID and the pandemic to take a look at their health and educate them more and find out what the root cause is and show them and educate them on different ways of creating better health. And so then that's when I, you know, God just started opening doors for me for mentors, and then um I had um people who crossed my path that just started teaching me more about functional medicine and holistic and looking at root cause. And so I started digging deeper into that and then um just started put getting my feet wet in it, and then I was introduced to your well, I started looking for ways to be able to certify and learn more about this. Actually, I think I met you at the um FLLC's first conference that they had in Florida um in uh was that in 2022, I think.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, okay. Are you thinking because I was at a conference in 20, yes, 2022? I have to think about everything in like time relations of when I've had my last babies. I haven't been able to travel since then. But was that at the Orlando conference? Because I spoke at a conference in Orlando in 2022 that was kind of like, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Well, and I think you were talking about React 19. Don't aren't you affiliated with that? Didn't you start that? Yeah, so Functional Nurse Academy um supports React 19. So yeah, I don't know. I I just feel like I met you there. I don't know. I I'm telling you, God just has been putting all of these little pieces. And now that I look back over it, I met you at something. I I don't remember. I don't even know if we had like a personal conversation. I just remember like hearing from you. And then when Functional Nurse Academy came up and I saw your face, and I'm like, oh, I met her. Like I know her. Like she's she's the real deal. So let me enroll in this. And so um, yeah, and then just getting to be a part of your that just helped, you know, light my fire even more. Um, being able to be a part of that, the functional nurse academy and get that certification.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah. So it's so interesting that you said that really it was the catalyst COVID which kind of drew you into wanting to care for individuals more root cause-based, which again, like this is what nursing should be. But that is the same catalyst. Like, that is literally why I am doing what I do now. Because I, you know, I think that nurses in general, it doesn't make sense when we're, you know, in the hospital and giving someone some chocolate cake after they had a stroke. And we know that that's not a healing environment, but I think that COVID lit a fire under so many nurses. Like, I have never been so embarrassed in my life of the healthcare profession with how terrible that guidance was. And see, you know, so many people in healthcare just blindly go along with it. I mean, I felt like I was living in the twilight zone, but basically how functional Norse Academy was born because like I I'm not I'm not like an angry person, like I'm super chill, but I have never been so angry in my life. I was screaming from the rooftop early treatment, and then I got started on the vaccines, and and that's kind of how I got momentum because I was speaking at events about these things, and then you know, when the COVID vaccines rolled out and the nurses were getting fired, I was like, Well, I will train you guys then. Then you can start your own businesses. So it was really out of like that, my anger and frustration. I just poured that into developing the functional nurse academy. But that's awesome. It is absolutely got. It is absolutely got because he can take the evil things that happen in this world to make beautiful things out of it. Because I think that they're, and one thing I noticed about, you know, so many, not of course, not all of them, but uh what I from the people that I encountered that were really pushing back against COVID and taking the risk, a lot of them were really firm in their faith. A lot, I met so many like just strong Christian believers that were willing to take that risk because um there was so much pushback towards people that were speaking out and telling the truth. And there was a lot of risk. But when you know that like this world that we're living in, this isn't it. We have something better to look forward to. You're more likely to take that risk. Um I did want to ask you. So I yeah, I'm so interested in your work um during during COVID, because I remember I also on the side, like I already had my functional medicine business, but I was just doing free education for people because I had people that would reach out to me that were told by their doctors, okay, um, you know, just just you know, I know you've got COVID, but uh, you know, just go home. And then when you can't breathe, yes, then go to the hospital. And then I had, oh, there was one man who, because we know that people with like multiple comorbidities, especially people who, you know, have obesity and things like that, were way higher risk. And then I was speaking to a man um that he had, you know, multiple comorbidities, high risk category, obesity. And the doctor was like, oh, sure, yeah, you you can you can take some vitamin D. But they were like, just go get something at Walmart. So he was taking like a vitamin D gummy, um probably 200 plus pound man taking a vitamin D gummy from Walmart that was like five, um, that was like, you know, not even 1,000 IUs, maybe like 500 IUs. And um, you were doing the the mobile IV um business, which I think is great because we know for an example that so many people that were admitted to critical care units were vitamin D deficient. And I could not believe that just, you know, conventionally trained, well, I can believe this, but they have no idea about how to dose vitamins. So can you tell me about some of the, you know, infusions that you use to help with immune support during that time?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, well, we had um uh immunity IVs where, you know, we were giving vitamin C, all the B, vitamin zinc, um, you know, even vitamin D and high in injections, like the 50,000 IU injection, so that they get that instant vitamin D. And really just uh doing the IVs also gave me, because it, you know, took an hour to infuse most times. And so that gave you an hour in their most intimate setting, their home. So they're the most open at that moment, also vulnerable because they're feeling they're sick, so they're more open to hearing. So it gave me an opportunity like to really educate people. And I was shocked how many people were just blind to what was going on and what how they could prevent this. And um, so it gave me an opportunity, literally in my phone, in my notes section, I would just save like, I feel like I got a master's degree during COVID just doing my own research. And so I would save all these articles in my um notes, and I probably still have it in there, where I would just send them to my clients, documentaries, um, articles, and because all the information was there. You just had, I mean, there was tons of information online, just Googling, and you could read it um for yourself. But people were searching, they were just looking for answers from the media or their doctor or, you know, the hospital. And so just to be able to keep those people out of that and educate them on a different level was so rewarding. And that's why I was like, okay, I have to do this all the time now, because I never in a million years dreamed that I would have my own practice. But just because of that experience of being able to see people literally wake up from like, oh my goodness, this is what's happening to us. What are you talking about? Like people that never would have thought that and be able to see them take self-take themselves and their families in a different direction, including my dad. My dad was really the catalyst that, because I was kind of hesitant to even start with my best friend with the mobile IV business, because I was like, oh man, you know, I don't need one more thing on my plate. You know, we have all this stuff going on, you know, just all the things. And I saw all the things that were going on, but then my dad got COVID really bad and he has type 2 diabetes, he's overweight, you know, all these different things, all these different comorbidities. And I was like, there's no way you are going to the hospital. So I was like his 24-7 nurse for like three days. Then we were doing the vitamins, we were doing all the things, and he literally got better. And he had O2 SATs of like 80%. Like they were bad. Like I was monitoring him very closely, but I did not want him to go to the hospital. So I was like, we can do this, like we can do this. We just got to give your body what it needs. And when I saw that, I immediately texted my best friend. I'm like, okay, I'm in. Like, I'm in. We're doing this. Let's get this thing rolling. Because if I just saw my dad turn around in 72 hours when I could have taken him to the hospital and he probably, who knows what would have happened to him. Um, I'm like, I want to give this to other people. And so just that experience and then being able to like from that go, oh my gosh, people, if they would just get their environment, their terrain good, like we wouldn't have all the health problems that we have nowadays.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. And yeah, yeah. And it it just, you just cannot. I mean, I feel like it was like, well, no, it's an insult to a fifth grader to say this. I was gonna say it's like a fifth grader came up with our health advice because some of the things that they did, especially with these unnecessary lockdown orders, and then we know that on average people were gaining what, like 30 pounds during that because you're isolating people, they're not going out and getting exercise, all of these things. So then you have people that are more overweight then, and then they're and then they're more at risk. And it was just, it was just so bad. And I I feel like that too, where it's kind of like, yes, I can sit around and complain to my husband about how awful it is, or I can actually go out and do something. Yeah, and it is the best thing ever because I think that so many of that, so many of us nurses, you know, we go into nursing because we we want to help people, but then we see that it really it, you know, and I remember my nursing instructors and clinical, it was my clinical nursing instructors that they would be like big industry bought out medicine and then they would complain about it. And then when I started working in the field, I was like, this is ridiculous. And there are so many things that we do unnecessarily. And again, like if we just knew the basics of how to teach people about basic lifestyle measures and nutrition, we would have so many people that would not have to go in to the medical system. There are so many people that are like repeat hospitalizations that don't need to be if they actually, you know, if they were getting that proper preventative care. And um, so I also wanted to ask. So I know that you mentioned that you are in Dallas. And uh I, when I was at your website, I was like, this is fantastic that you are offering such a variety of service. And something that really piqued my interest is that you are offering ozone mainly via ozone insufflations. And could you tell our audience what ozone is and how it can help support the body?

SPEAKER_00

Um, so to keep it simple, layman term, so ozone is basically three molecules of oxygen. And so when you have the oxygen gas that go, uh the ozone gas that goes into your body, then two of the molecules go and uh are O2, so that goes and oxygenase. And the third one looks for a partner to to uh attach to, so that can be to bacteria or viruses or free radicals or things in the body, and then it takes it out. And then I also use molecular hydrogen, and the molecular hydrogen works like an antioxidant to help pull that stuff out too. Um and so, yeah, so we use ozone through the ears, so the gas going in through the ears or rectal insufflation where you're like doing it yourself, putting the um the gas into your rectum. And when you do both, it's uh it has the um potency of doing an ozone IV when you do both of those. Um, so I use them in um I stack a lot of things in my um practice along with nutrition and herbal things. And so this one is a stacking with that, where um we are um adding just adding more oxygen to the body. But of course, you got to clean the cell out first so that it can take in the more oxygen and have create space for that. Um, but we use it in our practice just to help stack it with other um things that we're doing to help get more oxygen in the body. Because that's the only reason that we have disease is when there's not enough oxygen getting to the cell because we need that oxygen to for our cells to have energy, for our mitochondria to have energy. And so that's just one of the tools that I use to help um get more oxygen in the body.

SPEAKER_01

And so I absolutely love ozone. And another thing about just providing this informed consent, health decisions, and things like that. A lot of individuals suffering with several symptoms or chronic disease processes, they're usually told, okay, here are the recommended guidelines, which tend to be the conventional guidelines. They are not told about all these other options. And ozone is something it's I feel like most people in the US don't know about it, but it actually is widely used out in Europe. And it's especially beneficial for things like immune modulation, which is amazing for people who have autoimmune conditions, and also things like, you know, chronic fatigue syndrome, because it helps to support the mitochondrial function. It's also really helpful for infections. And when I was really suffering with Lyme disease, and I talk all the time, like I was so sick with Lyme disease, and ozone is something that really helped me. And what I did is I actually did um 10-paths ozone therapy, which is when they um kind of mix your, you know they mix your blood with ozone and then they reinfuse it. And they will do that like 10 times at each session. And I think I did 10 of those sessions, but it really, I mean, it really made an impact. I would say, like out of all of the things that I did to try to help myself, um, ozone was definitely in that top five, maybe in the top three of things that I did. So I love that you are working to get that information out to people. And then, you know, out of all of the therapies that you are offering, because I know that, you know, you're doing functional medicine, but then you also have all of these additional modalities that you said that you're kind of stacking on to help to improve patient outcomes. What other therapy do you offer that you find especially powerful?

SPEAKER_00

Um, I would say our frequency therapy because it is um using some of the technology from Dr. Royal Reif, um, how how he uh created frequencies or he discovered frequencies, uh, how to um help the body heal faster. Um and so that's one of the things that I think is really powerful that um I use here in my office too to help um give healing frequencies to the body, depending on like you can do it to the organ, you can do it on a specific um pathogen, a bacteria, a virus, a parasite to help destroy them, to break them down. Um, and so repeated um exposures to the frequency cause the tissue to heal faster because it's sending a signal to the organ to say, hey, wake up. This is what you need to be doing. And so using that energy medicine, I think that's the term for it now, um, we see exponential results in that because we're able to target specific organs that are not getting as much oxygen or they have pathogens or pathologies that are happening in there. And then with sending the frequency that's needed for that, then it helps clear out that all of that faster and give the body more of what it what it needs as far as energy-wise.

SPEAKER_01

So I know that frequency therapies are becoming so popular right now in alternative modalities. And I am familiar with rife therapy. And again, I just want to say that. You probably used it with your lives. Yeah, yeah. So so I'm like, I've like done everything, you know. Um, but so many of these therapies that are getting promising results, we will see mainstream pushback, okay? Because if we see something that's actually Actually leading to healing of a chronic disease, that modality is then directly competing with big business. And big business does not like that. And big business also has the money and the capability to run sham studies on their competitors. And then they will say things like, oh, it doesn't work. But then you actually look at the study and you see that they underdosed the individual. They didn't use the proper therapy. And we know that it there is a significant problem with uh fraud in the scientific literature. And it makes it really difficult for patients and providers to properly discern because, you know, we uh historically have looked at published literature to help with guidelines. And I wanted to ask about the frequency therapy. So are you using a specific device for this? How are you delivering frequencies to the body?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, it's um a bioresonance device. So a lot of people are unfamiliar with those kind of things. So I liken it to how you, you know, type in on your cell phone a phone number that you're gonna call, and then you actually get that person on the other end. It's like, how does that work? Well, it's all in frequencies. And so that's what this device does. And the software I can put in, you know, their name, their birthday. They have some headphones that they're wearing and holding onto a rod so that creates a field around them to know that this is the person and it reads the autonomic nervous system, which never forgets anything. And so even things that have been going on in the body since conception, if they've had organs removed and it the autonomic nervous system never forgets, it files all that away. So we can see even things that have happened before. If they've had a um organ removed, we can see what was going on in the organ beforehand. Um, but it works to create a field around them and then it reads the autonomic nervous system, lets me know from head to toe. That's usually what I start with as an analysis rather than um I do, I can and do do some labs, but I really um look at this as far as because it will tell me exactly what's going on in the body. Um it's it blew my mind the first time that I was introduced to it. Um I couldn't even believe that there was a something like this. But, you know, Royal Rife, he had created these frequencies that were having like 100% cure rates and things. And I believe that even doctors were using them at the time, but you know, the powers that be did not want that happening, having having 100% cure rates. And those things were, you know, taken away and um dispersed. But I think it's because I think the the world's turning. I think it's it's it's like a ship turning a ship, so it's not fast. But I think COVID escalated it. I think it was stuff that was already around. COVID escalated it. And so people are that I've been able to get more people that normally would never look at anything like what I do. And I'm able to just open them up to listening at least. And then they're like, I don't know how this works, but there's no way that you would know that about me because I didn't tell you that about me. You know, sometimes you'll have people that don't put everything on their intake form just to test and see if the analysis is doing what it's supposed to, and they're like, I didn't even tell you that, and it showed up on there. And so I think it's made more people believers about it that normally would not have been. Um, but basically it reads the autonomic nervous system and it shows everything that's going on in the body from head to toe, in the skeletal system, nervous system, every single organ, um, the lymphatics, everything. It's it's it's amazing.

SPEAKER_01

Is it is this the same technology as bioscan?

SPEAKER_00

I'm not. Is that a particular brand?

SPEAKER_01

I I believe so. So it also has to do with measuring dysfunctions from the biofield. So it has to do something.

SPEAKER_00

It has to do Yeah, I'm not I'm not familiar with that particular one, but I know there's a lot of similar ones out there. Um but this one, yeah, I I was blown away. And I've seen similar ones, like there's the AO scan, like the AO scan does something similar to that. I feel like, because I have that too, but I feel like this has is a little bit more detail because it will actually show you the um the pathology, where it is, and the degree of dysfunction that's in there. So whether it's like a chronic issue or it's just an acute issue, also as the bacterial load, the viral load, it will show you the resonance of it. So I from that I can tell if it's, you know, a heavy load, there's like a heavy um growth of this particular bacteria, molds, it'll show molds that are in there and what organs they're in. So, like if they're just in the parinasal sinuses or the lungs, it's probably a new exposure. Whereas if it's like in the liver, the gallbladder, all of that, that's like, okay, you've been exposed to mold for a long time. Um, and then parasites, too, it'll show, you know, what species, and same thing with mold and bacteria will show what species, what um, what the concentration of it is, what organs they're in. So it's like it's super detailed. It really blew my mind when I was introduced to it by my friend Seth back, introduced me to it, and I he's worked with it for a long, long time, 10 or 15 years, and educated me on um using it. And I'm so grateful because I mean, it literally has changed, you know, how I look at health, how I look at the body and what's going on in the body, and being able to help people so much better because you're able to see exactly what's happening with them. So that's the first step when people come to see me is like we got to do the analysis. But it's kind of like any other functional, they're just using labs instead. And I feel like I get much better um readings from and seeing what's going on in the body with this that correlate. And then I can add additional labs if I need to just um compare and confirm, I guess, that hey, this is actually what's going on.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, so I have used a similar technology before as uh a patient. I've actually had an ACOC on before who does bioscan, which is very similar technology. Okay. And I was also, and again, going into it, I was a little skeptical because I had not heard of it most people are, but I I really am a believer of this now. And I do think that it is a reputable tool to use and holistic healthcare modalities because I have seen it, you know, benefits from the things that I did not list on my consent form, on my intake form that she pulled up. And then this is also, she's actually one of my referrals. Um, sometimes if I'm working with a client that's got mystery issues, it can give us an insight on what type of functional testing to do. But when we talk about the biofield of the body, um, that is basically a measurable energy field surrounding the body. And we actually have established biological fields. This is established in mainstream medicine and the medical literature, that we have uh established fields showing us that there is electrical activity around the heart. That's why we do an ECG. There's electrical activity around the brain. That's why we do an EEG. And then so we know that there are legitimate magnetic fields generated by the heart and the brain. There's cellular electrical signaling. There is so much we do not understand about the human body. And there are so many more of these, you know, sophisticated tools that are looking into these um measurable energy fields around the body. But I I'm very interested in like where this is going to go in Madison. And I think that we're going to end up having more and more validation. And I also think, yeah, I wonder if it's similar, similar to the meridians used.

SPEAKER_00

And we use I use the meridians too. It will, it will show what's going on in the meridians as well on the device to see if things because it also shows emotional loads as well. That's something that kind of sets it apart, that it shows emotional loads because I look at the body from not only just the physical, but the mind, body, spirit. Um, because 80% of disease is from emotions, not from anything physically that's happening to you. So that's why, you know, during COVID and um, you know, the if we look at the vibrations in the body, like the map of consciousness, the lowest vibrations are fear, shame, and guilt. And what did they keep us in during COVID? That's why people I feel like that's why people, because I don't believe in the germ germ theory. I feel like we bring into our bio field whatever, however we are emotionally. And I feel like the people who had the most fear, the most shame, the most guilt, they're the ones who got sick. Like I feel like that's why so many people got sick, is because they were kept in a a state of fear, shame, guilt. Um and um also, you know, talking about the biofield, that's why they wanted us to stay six feet apart, because that's how big your your biofield is.

SPEAKER_01

I I knew about that as well. That it just happens and it it's the it's measurable. So um, but and it's really different when because they were really promoting, oh, dude, your gatherings through Zoom, and yeah, it's because you gotta keep everybody apart because you don't, then you're not gonna have that.

SPEAKER_00

Well, not only the education part of it, I know that was a big part of it, because when we get together, we all start talking about things that are going on in the world. So if we're not doing that, then we're we're we can't, you know, figure out what they're doing because we're not talking about it. And also the community part of it too is the emotional part of it too. If you're away from everybody, like we were created for community. And if we aren't having that community, that's why I mean the depression like shot up, suicides shot up, abuse shot up all during that time.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, yeah, it's it's really sad. And and again, I really think that we we need to use the nurses to help restore some type of trust in healthcare. Because again, like, you know, it's the nurses that left that model because they stood up and they were like, this is wrong. I'm gonna practice a different way. And I think those are the nurses that are really, you know, regaining that trust level in the system. Well, we're about halfway through the show, so we're gonna cut to break. I do want to remind our listeners if you are a fed up nurse, I can train you at the Functional Nurse Academy. FA is the leading most comprehensive functional training program on the market, specifically designed for nurses. All of our graduates are eligible for multiple board certification titles in functional medicine. They also receive 90 nursing CEs and they get six months of live mentorship with me included. So be sure that you check that out at functional nurseacademy.com. You can also join me at my next live webinar, which you can register for in the show notes. I do want to pause for a moment to remind our listeners. This show is also syndicated on America Out Loud Talk Radio on the Nurses Report Radio Show and Podcast. So you can also find me there on any major app. Hello and welcome back. This is Melissa Schreibfatter. Today I am joined by functional nurse, Ashley Rangal, who is a functional nurse academy graduate, and she is the founder of Voice of Truth Wellness. Welcome back, Ashley. Thank you for having me. Yes, it is always, it is so, it is so fun to connect. I mean, this is one of my favorite parts about doing this show, is I get like an opportunity to be able to sit down one-to-one and then just chat with my students about all of the great work that they're doing. And I know that we were chatting before, and you were telling me about some of these just tremendous success stories that you are seeing with your clients. So uh could you tell us about an individual that you were working with who you helped to really recover from symptoms of chronic illness?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Um, well, one that kind of stood out is um a lady, she was in her 40s and um she had just started um passing out just randomly um in her home. I think it even happened one time when she was um about to drive. And so she had gotten to where she, you know, didn't she was scared to leave the house, scared to go do anything. Um, she was having super like painful periods, really um bad chronic fatigue, um, and just didn't know what was going on. She had gone to, you know, doctors that nobody could figure out what was going on, um, went through, you know, tried some other therapies, um, and nothing was working. And so she met me through, I think through a friend. I think a friend referred her to me. Um, and so when she came in, we did our analysis and come to find out she had a like, well, a huge uh she had mold, uh, parasites. There was like all kinds of pathogens, pathologies going on in her body. And within about a six-month period, she had some ups and downs through the detox process, but um super congested liver, colon. Um, so got all the detox pathways working. Um, I think this was probably a year ago since I've worked with her, but within about six to eight months, um, she was completely within 30 to 60 days, she was not having the passing out anymore. Um, six to nine months after working with me, she was completely fine, no more painful periods, no more passing out. We were able to like rid her body of the mold, the parasites, um, get all her detox pathways working again. And um, she was like a new person. Um, and she's a homeschool mom. So it's like she had too many things going on. She led a lot of different um activities in her community. Um, and so it was so um rewarding just to like kind of give her life back because she didn't know what she was gonna do when she came to me. And I was so grateful to be able to just with using simple things like you know, nutrition, herbal things to help clear out those pathologies. Um she was very easily able, and I incorporate we incorporate colonics and enemas as well to like get the detox pathways working. And just through all of those simple things, like she was so grateful to have her health back.

SPEAKER_01

That's so wonderful. And, you know, one of the case studies that I have in Functional Nurse Academy was kind of a similar situation. You know, a young woman passing out from such painful periods, severe chronic fatigue, unable to function, and then within four months, over 90% recovery of all of these symptoms, and they're outliving their life again. And again, it is you can help people like this through again, basic interventions, but also working with them. There, there's a reason why the body has all of these symptoms. What is going on? And on that on the case I had that was similar, uh mold, uh, mold was also a factor. She was living in a home with very toxic mold. And in the conventional medicine system, they are not, there's so much evidence about this being an issue. It is not something that is recognized unless, for example, someone maybe is living in a home that was affected by a significant flood and there may be water damage in the home, and then they're immune-suppressed. They are not recognizing that the way that homes are built today. I mean, there are so many red flags with the way that homes are built. Sometimes homes are already built with moldy materials. Sometimes they are building a home in the rainy season and then they're not possibly going in there and cleaning that up. And then people just people, it's not common knowledge to know that if you have a basement, if you have a crawl space, that you need to control the humidity. And there's so many different measures that you really need to do to ensure that the air quality in your home is healthy. So I think that's amazing. And I also tell, you know, my students, I'm like, you will never, you will never know everything. Okay. But like if you can just help with some of these puzzle pieces, you know, and again, like helping someone to discover something like mold to where they can remediate that and then live in a healthy healing environment. A lot of times the body can take it from there when you help with some of those major factors and then give them support. And um, do you have another story that you'd like to share? I know that you mentioned you worked with someone who had psoriasis that had a lot of.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, she was actually one of um the my first few clients as well, too. So she had uh she was a mom as well, had had several kids, and um, she just had this debilitating psoriasis. Um, she was having debilitating cramp cramps. She went to so many different things. She um went to the hospital for it, she went to doctor after doctor and um psoriasis that would sometimes like leave her bedridden because she would get it everywhere, like in her hair, on her neck, like even in, you know, down in the in in that area. She would be sitting on ice packs sometimes. I just felt so bad for her when she came in. But hers, again, so she had uh really bad parasite infection when she was um like three or four years old. And I don't know that she ever completely got it eradicated everything. Um, and so she had some of those same parasites going on. Um, and you know, always whenever you see things happening on the skin, it's usually the some um dysfunction with the liver. And so um just helping her get her liver working well again, be able to detox those parasites out, um, and just helping her get the nutrition. She literally was psoriasis-free in the middle of summer, which she said never ever happens. Um, she said, I'm always walking around because of the heat, it makes it even worse. She said, I was always walking around with ice packs on me. Um, she wrote like a great review because she was just like so um blown away how her psoriasis went away. We she actually used some of the ozone therapy too as part of her treatment to help more get more oxygen. Um, but just yeah, she her not having the debilitating periods anymore, her psoriasis completely went away. Um, she did have some ups and downs with that where it got like worse before it got better. Um, but then for it to see it completely go away, um, just with her giving her body, creating, you know, giving your body the right environment, the body will heal itself. And that's so cool to see that happen for so many clients when they get the right nutrition. We get out the pathogens, we get all the detox pathways open to see them just completely reverse that.

SPEAKER_01

So, and to our listeners that are non-medical, psoriasis is on that immune, like inflammatory immune spectrum. And typically, if someone goes to the medical system with psoriasis, they usually are going to be prescribed medications such as, you know, topical steroids or even medications that will then suppress the immune system. So, of course, they could do things that will help with the symptoms, but then long term, that's not really healing. What is causing it? And we have so many of these cases through functional medicine that we're able to help people to resolve these situations, of course, doing like the, you know, nutrition, lifestyle, and also some other targeted therapies, helping them to get answers. And I wanted to ask you know, as a registered nurse, not as a nurse practitioner, um, you're getting you're getting these results. And when your uh clients are going, say, for an example, the patient who had really severe psoriasis, and you helped that person. Are the providers that are working with your clients are they supportive of these interventions? Are they curious about what you're doing to help?

SPEAKER_00

I have had some uh that were very um appreciative and really uh even kind of questioning, like and and not in a bad way, but just like a curious way of like, oh, because uh I do find that at least half of them are like no alternative, holistic, you know, none of that stuff works. I have a lot of clients that come, but I do love, and I learned through your functional nurse academy just like how to work with providers, which I never even thought, you know, about doing that, but I love opening that door because it's it's education for them. And if they are open and they um are willing to learn outside the box, um, I find that it helps their practice even. Um, but yeah, I've had several clients that I've worked with, with them and their doctor to do, to do things. They're like, yes, please, like whatever you're doing with her, like keep doing it because it's working. Um, and but I have had some that were not. They're like, no, you shouldn't be doing that. That's not gonna, that's not gonna help you. You shouldn't do those things. And it's and I'm not doing anything other than education and teaching them how to better eat and what to put in their body, what not to put in their body. Um, so I am surprised sometimes when some of them are closed off to just those simple things.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Well, and you know medication. Well we have individuals in the healthcare system who are open-minded. They love their patients, they want their patients to get best. So when they see their patients working with a functional nurse and their patient gets better, that is gonna be a whole nother referral source for you because they really truly care. But then, and and again, I think that any of us working in the healthcare system, yeah, we know there's different providers. So there are the physicians that are amazing. They're great to work with, um, they're great to collaborate with, they love their patients. And then we have other ones that I call a run-of-the-mill. They are set in their ways. They don't think that there's anything else that they need to learn because they already know everything. And that's one of the reasons when I am, I, you know, because since I don't have the prescription pad, um, I um do require that they're established with a PCP because I'm not a replacement for their PCP. But if um I I tend to, I think I have a list of, you know, referral providers, like say that the PCP that they're working with is telling them that none of that's gonna work. What does that do to that individual that is working really hard on the nutrition and lifestyle changes? And then their person that they go to that they respect in the white coat is saying that none of it's gonna work. Only do what I tell you to do. Whereas you can refer them to a provider who is open-minded and is willing to learn and willing to collaborate because I do think we need to work together, you know? And totally believe, totally believe that. Yeah. And that is one of the reasons why because I had people ask me, they were like, you know, are you gonna go to get your NP? And I'm like, no, no, no. I had enough of, you know, conventional education/slash indoctrination. There were so many things that I was taught in nursing school that I now know are not correct and are outdated or are based on really faulty literature. So I've and and for me, um, I have zero desire. I don't want to prescribe medication because I know that there are so many, there's so many tools to help people to heal. And then if someone needs a medication, if they absolutely need a medical therapy, I can collaborate with the healthcare provider who can prescribe. So I love that, I just love that you're doing this. I think it's absolutely amazing. And I also wanted to ask you. So you did go through Functional Nurse Academy. You said at the beginning of your functional medicine journey, and I wanted to ask, how did FA help you with your business?

SPEAKER_00

Um, well, first of all, the knowledge base that you have is incredible in the Functional Nurse Academy. I wish I would have had that in nursing school because I probably would have done a lot better in some of my classes. But I um, yeah, I'm like you. I had looked, I actually did about a year of working on my nurse practitioner way back in the day. And then I was like, I don't know. And then I know now if I try to do that, there's no way I'd be able to sit through those classes because I'd be going, that's a lie. That's a lie, that's a lie, you know, because uh because what we know now. So I, yeah, the same thing. I feel the same, same way. Um, but I I feel I loved your um functional nurse academy because it's at first, it's un, it's at your own pace. Um, the knowledge is incredible. Um, I felt like I was in nursing school again, learning stuff. Um, because I'm a lifelong learner. I love to learn. I'm always researching stuff, always looking for stuff. Um, and then I also um still use some of the knowledge base. Like I'll go back because you have it in categories as far as like whatever is going on, you know, like hormonal or digestive. And so sometimes if I have someone and I'll go back through your course and just kind of fast forward through some of the spots and go, okay, let me listen to what she had to say about this. So I actually still use it as a reference sometimes. So I love that you give us the lifetime access to that. And then the priceless thing is like the business part of it, like setting up the I use a lot of that. Thank you so much for that part of it because you know, we know how to educate, we know how to help people get better. But as a nurse, like I I've never run a business like this. So I don't know how to do that. So I love um that you have have that. I was able to create a program where, you know, clients feel better because it's a comprehensive program. They're not just, I don't feel like I'm nickel and dime and I'm here and there. Um, so I do love that part of it. Um, and then I loved how easy it was too, because I could fit it into my schedule because it's at my own pace. Um, so it didn't matter where I was at in the program. Um and I love that I made some notes here, so I'm gonna put on my glasses so I can see this better. Um, and so I loved um learning how to work alongside the clients' doctors, like we just talked about, because that was not something I really thought about until I did the functional nurse academy. Um, and so I did love learning about that and just being able to open their eyes and have that collaboration that you're talking about. Um, and then I do love the ongoing mentorship program that you um have for us and the community that you've created um in the Facebook group group. And, you know, even though I'm not always able to get on live, I'm able to go back and watch the replay. And it just makes me more confident as a practitioner, knowing that I have this community of people and even you, you know, with with the mentorship program, that if I have, you know, a case or I have things that come up, that I have a community. I don't know, because I think that's the thing as nurses that we that I don't know, I loved the most in the hospital. Like we would bounce stuff off of each other, you know, like if we got this client or this patient and they came in and they had this and we're trying to communicate with the doctor and like this isn't working and that's it. What would you do? You know, we could bounce things off of each other. I think that's the thing that I missed most. And I your program brought that back into me because I had some other practitioners to collaborate with and just kind of bounce things off of. And so I love the community that you've developed with that too. Not only, you know, us going through the academy, but even after the academy, we have this community of people, so we don't feel like we're all alone, even if we're doing a practice by ourselves.

SPEAKER_01

Awesome. Well, I'm so glad that it helped you so much. Cause again, and like when I went and I created the program, I I remember when I started my functional nurse business, I did not know. I think I knew of maybe two other nurses in the country doing this. I didn't have, I didn't have a community of functional nurses. And again, back to the fact that we don't know everything. And the best practitioners are the ones that realize that they don't know everything and they are willing to collaborate and bounce ideas off of other people because we can all help each other. So, so yeah, I'm so glad that you're part of our community and that you're in the mentorship. Because again, like even with the ongoing mentorship, there are so many topics, guys. I mean, there are so many things I can continue to teach you. And then again, just having that, I think having that resource in your toolkit, I also think helps a lot with the confidence that you guys are working to see clients. And then um also I'd like to speak to, I usually like to ask this as well because you know, with FNA, I also wanted to design it to be a program that essentially pays for itself because I was hearing from nurses that were like, I spent 10, 15K. Like I've heard all kinds of crazy stories about nurses that went to these really expensive programs and then they're not prepared, and then they end up at FNA. So could you speak to your return on investment after completing the program?

SPEAKER_00

Oh, absolutely. I made my return on investment within as soon as as soon as I finished it and started like actually implementing my program within like the first month I had my return on investment. So um, yeah, no, it's a great program for people who are even thinking about it. I I've I have been a part of a lot of different programs. So I've been one of those serial um doing a let me try this program, oh let me try this program. And so I'm I was so grateful to have found I did a lot of research too, looking into yours, but um just doing doing your program, I'm so grateful because I I think I I'm not I don't think I know it is the most complete where you are getting not only the you know education part of it, um, but also the business part of it. That's what's so important because you can have all this knowledge, you can know how to do everything, but if you don't know how to put it into practice and actually make money with it, then it's not gonna do any good. And I think that is one huge factor for yours that you we can immediately not, you don't have to wait months and months and months. It's like as soon as you finish the program, you have it completely set up for us that bam, I mean, everything down to how do I do my LLC? How do I do this? How do I do that? How do I set up my program? How much do I charge? Because I don't even know how much to charge. Um, and so I love that you were you just you have all of that outlined for us. And so you can immediately step into a role of bringing money into for your family. And I will say that, you know, as a nurse, you know, with our income was good, you know, working in the hospital and being a nurse, but this has um, I would say tripled my income from what I had making as a nurse.

SPEAKER_01

So awesome. Yay! And and again, like when we do this, when we do this kind of work, right? We are souls helping other souls. But if you are able to make a nice income doing this, there are more people's lives that you can transform. Because again, it's not something that you're just like doing on the side as a volunteer. Once you have a thriving practice, there are so many people you can help. And and again, with functional medicine, I know it is one of those things where going outside of insurance. So it's typically direct pay, but when you just zoom out bird's eye view, that individual is going to spend less money working with a professional nurse than if they decided to go the conventional medical route and possibly do lifelong dependency on medications that we know cause more complications. So well, um yeah, this makes me so happy to hear that you're having such good success. And again, um, you know, I went to your website. Website looks beautiful. It's very clear like who you are, what you do, what you offer. And I am sure that we will have listeners that will want to work with you. And can you tell me about your access? Like, are you doing virtual visits? Do you see individuals just in Texas or are you multi-state? How does that work?

SPEAKER_00

So I can work with anybody anywhere. So even with the analysis, I can do it remotely with a like a hair and nail sample. Um, but I do actually have several clients that I'm working with right now remotely that don't live here in Texas. So I can work with people in person if they like that. Um, or if you don't even live here in the area, I can work with people virtually as well. Same exact, same exact program for both. Great.

SPEAKER_01

And you have a lot of social proof on your website, which which again, you know, in functional medicine, we have amazing practitioners that are changing lives. We also have other individuals that may not have the best intentions, you know, maybe they are more focused on pushing wellness products. And then we also have other individuals that they just may not have that proper skill set. So I love that you have the social proof to show for the the you know type of results that you're seeing. And then um also say if one of our listeners is interested in working with you, um, do you offer like discovery calls? Like I see a an initial consultation.

SPEAKER_00

Um, I do offer free discovery calls. And um, if I didn't send you, I think I sent you a link, but if not, I can send you a link where people, you can just do a free discovery call with me, see if I'm a good fit. I could see if you're a good fit for for what I do. Um, yeah, because I I just love to peep meet people where they're at. And so if I'm not the right fit for you, then that's okay. Um, but that's why I like to do this free. But yes, they can book a free discovery call with me. We can do just a quick like 20 minute and you can tell me what's going on with you, and then I can tell you what I see happening from that point, and you can see if I'm a good fit for you, and then we can go from there. But yeah, it can book a free discovery call with me.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, wonderful. Because again, I'm a big believer of that too, because as someone who and again, I I I don't need I probably should just go through one day and just count how many practitioner practitioners that I went to when I was really sick until I found somebody to help me. Yes. But I'm probably gonna be embarrassed by that number. But I just love it when practitioners again are offering that free discovery call. I do think, I just think it's important that if you want to work with someone that you can talk to them first without charge. And also, I do want to mention, guys, so I look at a lot of websites, professional nurses, because we've had so many go through the program. I've seen amazing websites. This, I think, is one of the best ones that I have seen, if not the best one that I have seen. So for our nurses that are listening to this and say that you're working on getting your business up and running, make sure that you take a look at Ashley's website. I mean, it is fantastic. And also remember, when we're offering functional medicine services, a can a confused consume consumer is not gonna work with you because they don't have time to look at your website and try to figure out what you do. So she clearly lays everything out. Um, like I can look at this in a couple of minutes and learn who you are, what you do, how you can help. So this is just fantastic. Well, um, I will be hosting all of Ashley's links in show notes that way you guys can follow her. They says, Are you are you active on social media with your business?

SPEAKER_00

I am. Um you can go, I I will be better. Voice of truth wellness um or my personal Ashley M. Rangell, you can go there too and have some things. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01

Okay, awesome. Well, it's like Facebook or Instagram. Yeah, so I will post all of those links. So uh yeah, it was so nice to have you on the show. Yes, yes. To our listeners, thank you so much for tuning in. If you want to learn more about the Functional Nurse Academy, please feel free to register for our next live webinar. And you will see that link in the show notes. You can also check out Functional Nurse Academy on our social media platforms or on our website at functional nurseacademy.com. Until next time, be safe, be well, and God bless.