Every day, nurses lace up their shoes to face the relentless pace of hospital wards, often neglecting their own health for the sake of others. We're joined by two healthcare heroes who turned the tables, trading their scrubs for gym shorts to lead by example in fitness coaching. They unpack the gripping reality of their former lives in emergency nursing—where extended shifts and no breaks were the norm, and personal well-being took a backseat. Their transition to fitness coaching isn't just a career shift; it's a crusade to show that those who care for us need care too, and they're here to share how they did it.
Underneath the superhero capes of nurses lie the stark challenges of burnout and obesity, battles that our guests are all too familiar with. Their stories resonate with many in the profession, as they candidly recount the grueling demands of 12-hour shifts coupled with family responsibilities that left little room for self-care. But despair isn't the destination. They present us with a beacon of hope, offering practical solutions like strategic planning and seizing brief moments for exercise to help overworked nurses reclaim their health and vitality.
As we explore the prevention of workplace injuries, we're introduced to innovative strategies like a light-up water bottle for hydration and exercise regimens tailored to combat lower back pain. This episode isn't just about overcoming adversity; it's about laying the groundwork for a health revolution in the nursing field. By providing actionable advice and drawing inspiration from successful fitness initiatives for healthcare workers abroad, we're charting out a roadmap for nurses to embark on a transformative journey towards better health and fitness. Join us for an episode that's not just a call to action—it's a lifeline to a healthier future for our tireless caretakers.
Every day, nurses lace up their shoes to face the relentless pace of hospital wards, often neglecting their own health for the sake of others. We're joined by two healthcare heroes who turned the tables, trading their scrubs for gym shorts to lead by example in fitness coaching. They unpack the gripping reality of their former lives in emergency nursing—where extended shifts and no breaks were the norm, and personal well-being took a backseat. Their transition to fitness coaching isn't just a career shift; it's a crusade to show that those who care for us need care too, and they're here to share how they did it.
Underneath the superhero capes of nurses lie the stark challenges of burnout and obesity, battles that our guests are all too familiar with. Their stories resonate with many in the profession, as they candidly recount the grueling demands of 12-hour shifts coupled with family responsibilities that left little room for self-care. But despair isn't the destination. They present us with a beacon of hope, offering practical solutions like strategic planning and seizing brief moments for exercise to help overworked nurses reclaim their health and vitality.
As we explore the prevention of workplace injuries, we're introduced to innovative strategies like a light-up water bottle for hydration and exercise regimens tailored to combat lower back pain. This episode isn't just about overcoming adversity; it's about laying the groundwork for a health revolution in the nursing field. By providing actionable advice and drawing inspiration from successful fitness initiatives for healthcare workers abroad, we're charting out a roadmap for nurses to embark on a transformative journey towards better health and fitness. Join us for an episode that's not just a call to action—it's a lifeline to a healthier future for our tireless caretakers.
Hello and welcome to Help the Fitness Redefined. I'm your host, anthony Amin, and we got a great episode for you guys today. We haven't talked about this since episode three, when my poor wife came on and did an episode with me and the quality was bad. The audio was bad. If you want to go listen to it, go all the way back and listen to it, but I love this topic talking about something specific, and especially in a profession that everyone thinks is the healthiest at all, when the reality is actually probably the least healthiest, or one of the top five least healthiest industries out there. So, without further ado, let's welcome to the show two nurses, which I'm really excited about. Not only are we going to get one, we get two. So, anthony, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you guys today.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much, anthony. Thank you for having us.
Speaker 1:Really, really excited to do this, but before we get started, we need to learn a little bit about you guys, so I want to let know why you became nurses to begin with, and then what made that transition from being a nurse to going into online fitness coaching.
Speaker 2:Yeah, absolutely. Well, the story of us becoming nurses, you know this, dates back to 10, maybe 15 years ago. So I personally in my story, I was really passionate about the health, the science part of things. I always wanted to take care of, my, take care of others. I remember, you know, my grandma. You know she poor little thing she can, she cannot really walk, she needed a lot of help with self-care and things like that. So I really love the service part of things. So I thought, okay, so nursing could be something that I can look, you know, look into and I'm missing me myself seeing doing this for maybe for the rest of my life. So I got into nursing and then, 10 years down the road, it was a very rough journey. Let me tell you that because we became nurses back in India and then we moved to Canada, I believe 10, 11 years ago, the nursing experience we have back in India is completely different from what we have in Canada in so many different because of so many different reasons and aspect of things. It become a little bit chaotic for us, especially when we were trying to think about family. You know, going back to that full time nursing job was really hard for us. That's one piece.
Speaker 2:Another piece was also because of my health. I was in a very terrible bad health situation years ago due to me trying to look fit and trying to incorporate looking good, having a flatter tummy and things like that into my life. So I went into the rabbit hole of starving myself to death, going on tons of medication, going to the point where my doctor said I'm low key infertile to even can see, so it really messed up my hormones. So I was on medications for over 10 12 years, which is what, what? Literally the wake up call for me. I was like this should not be the way I should be living my life. It doesn't, it doesn't feel good. You know you don't look good.
Speaker 2:And then you work 10 12 hours, three to four days in a row. And our work experience we both are registered nurses and we work in the ER, so it's like it's a fast paced environment where you do not get any breaks. We have had days and nights where we went 12 hours straight without even one sip of water. I'm not even exaggerating this. If your nurses are hearing this, they know that. Yeah, yeah, we hear you've been there. So it really took a toll on my help and fitness. So one of the reasons why we turned into this fitness realm, where we want to educate more women out there who are, you know, working in a fast paced environment like nurses in the health field or even like lawyers and things like that, who does not really have time to take care of themselves, is what actually helped us deviate the path from being nurses now to fitness coaches working with busy professionals. So that's my story of why I became a nurse and why I'm a fitness coach.
Speaker 3:For me kind of thinking about the ability to change or save someone's life, literally like that's what got me into nursing. I started off in my career in cardiac ICU and then we moved to Canada. We started off in ER and it was like five years of experience in ER and like it burns you really fast being full time in ER and 12 hours shifts. Like you get to four days off, but even by the fourth day you're still like really tired. A couple years in, like it's just once you become kind of a senior person in ER, it just becomes really hard. You end up calling in sickers like you're really in a mental break. And then we were having we haven't had kids. It was like too much to wrap our heads around and at the same time we knew basic physiology of our body, how human body works and everything.
Speaker 3:But for myself I was trying to get more in shape at that point but like no matter what I did, I couldn't get the physique I wanted and I figured out it's probably my diet that I need work with and I initially contacted so many fitness nutritionist and dietitian and everything. But the problem was they were like crazy expensive for like a one hour chat once in a while and that was not enough what I felt like. So I decided to kind of study more into nutrition to help myself and then that kind of got me more interested into that. So I studied more about nutrition, got certified, then specialized in macro. Then I figured like there was more people that who needs more help, especially in this scenario, and we kind of teamed up.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and started our coaching. That's why I love that.
Speaker 1:I love that you guys do it together. It's awesome, and you both kind of went that same route, and I want to start off with why you became nurses and just some simple questions and some things that you both highlighted in it, which was one I heard I want to help others. Right, that's a big one. Two, I wanted to hop into a stable career where I could help someone for the rest of my life and be in an industry where you're promoting overall health to get people moving and feeling better. But then, like every nurse or doctor listening to this ever can relate, you get into the industry and it's exactly the opposite of what you thought it was. Am I wrong?
Speaker 3:Oh no, you're 100% right. It's like we are health educating our patients on how to eat and drink and stay healthy and everything, our eating habits and everything. But like for doctors as well as nurses, because of our work schedule it's really tight and like overworked, most of the time understaffed, so we don't get enough breaks, we don't get to eat or drink in time and it's just crazy, like whatever we are teaching our patients, we don't get to do that same.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we don't really implement anything, because you might be giving health education to a patient that came through for whatever reason, and then you turn around and grab that pizza that is sitting on the nurse's station, that whoever bought it, just because how tired they are, they want to skip the food, because who wants to eat that plain old salad when you are working over time and not enough breaks and things like that? So it's very convenient to go and grab the pizza sitting on the nurse's station or other chocolate or whatever treats where there is plenty all the time. So the part is that, yes, we are health care professionals, but we are very bad at implementing it in our own lives, which is where I think it is lacking for us nurses or people working in the health care field, that the action taking and implementation is zero. It's non-existent.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I want to ask you both questions of what I hear from my wife all the time, and I used to ask her this when she first started, being totally naive. She's going to laugh when she listens to this episode, but I know, why don't you just take a break? So that's why I asked her. And she gives the same exact smirk, laughing. So what do you guys explain to everyone else listening? I know the answer now, but why don't you just take a half an hour break and eat something healthy?
Speaker 2:You can't. Well, I want to say, yes, I want to take care of myself, yeah, I want to take a break, but I can only talk in perspective of someone working in the emergency, like you always put yourself at the end, because you have a ton of patients waiting. Someone needs a blanket, another one needs a cup of ice and someone else we need to do CPR on, and the other one is coding at the same time on the other bed. So where do we fit the break in? Where do we fit that half an hour in?
Speaker 3:It's like when someone is struggling for their life do you really want to take a break? Go and ask for someone to cover me and I want to go for a break. You're not going to say that right, and it's not a one-off scenario. That keeps happening. And with our health system being overloaded, you see that instead of taking care of, say like set up, four patients at one time, we are mostly taking care of six or even more. There's like hollow patients and most of them are like critically really sick. So it demands a lot of time and care that you're not able to find your time for breaks and most of the time you're understaffed as well.
Speaker 1:That's the situation with ER and from what I hear from my friends, it's pretty same scenario with other ones as well Other departments as well, yeah, I can tell you from all the nurses that we work with and know, including my wife it's every single one that say staffing is supposed to be six patients. They have 10, 12. And then there's no float nurse, which means a nurse coming to cover you. So meaning, if I need to take a break, the other nurse that's on the floor, who also has 12 patients and is overworked, needs to take my 12 patients. So now they have 24, so I can go get a break. Exactly, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, that's just yeah. It's sad that this is happening over and over again, despite of the fact that the healthcare system is over the entire thing and of course, they're training more nurses, but it's not really happening. It's been in the talk for years, but nothing is really happening, so that nurses can take care of themselves and not just others.
Speaker 3:And just eventually nurses get burned out so much that the turnover rate of four nurses is really high, especially in like ICUs and ERs. It's just crazy. You know, you'd really need to find experienced nurses now.
Speaker 1:I would say most units, instead of maybe the exception of post rehab, where people just coming out of surgery that are knocked out when there's no family, but a post-op sorry, not post rehab, so something like that where it's a little more low key. I feel like every other position in the hospital is over-credited and overworked.
Speaker 2:And.
Speaker 1:I know nurses who worked for three years on the left. That's it. They couldn't go back. They couldn't tolerate it anymore. You guys? Okay some important point of that, right? That's a certain amount of time. You can work three, 12 and a half hour shifts in a row. By the time you get home you have to eat, go to bed. If you do the whole thing, you didn't. I found the third day comes around. You maybe had a bottle of water Because you don't want to pee, drink all the water before you go to bed, so I'm gonna be able to like peeing, and then in the morning you're trying to drink water, but then you have no time to go to the bathroom to go pee, so then you're not drinking the rest of the day. And then those just steps on each other exactly.
Speaker 2:It's really challenging, anthony, for someone that is in the health and fitness. You know health industries especially like nurses and doctors to really take care of their health, even if they want to, there is no, there is no support. You know there is no support. They need to take care of their kids when they get home, right? Most of us do not really have the time and I don't think people are making excuses here when they say I don't really have time. They literally don't have time. You know 12 hour shifts comes home. Then they want to take care of their kids. It's already 9, 30, right? Then didn't you want to prepare for tomorrow, get the lunch ready and everything Whatever you need to do, and then it's six or seven hours of sleep and then you're getting up and going again. So where does fitness fit into all this? That's where the challenge comes in and and it is challenging we cannot really, you know, brush that off. It's, yeah, it's, it's sad.
Speaker 1:So I want to tie this into now a solution and what you guys think the solution to this is, because I can tell you this is a stat from five years ago, so it's probably more but, they said half of all nurses are obese and to give you a global average back then, it was 31% back then.
Speaker 1:So you're saying that nurses are 20% higher rate of being obese, and not. This is not even including drug issues, where nurses have one of the highest rates of Getting involved in drugs or one of the highest rates of having heart attacks, or there's so many stats that are stacked Against them and I think it's all to blame of how their day goes. So what do you guys think needs to be done in order to combat this? Because shouldn't we take care of the people that take care of us?
Speaker 2:Absolutely Well. What I would say, what we have done with our lives in, in becoming really fit by still working on the floor and managing everything at the same time is being it is going to take a little bit of work. Okay, I know people listening to me, I'm not going to love this. It is going to take some kind of work from your end. But I would say, being intentional is going to be the best tip that I can give you.
Speaker 2:Being intentional and do the best you can on A daily basis. It doesn't have to be all or nothing. You know that is not, unfortunately, going to work, especially for us nurses. So, for example, if you are doing a four day shift or on four off, what we used to do is that on the day shifts 12 hour day shift and another till our day shift we don't really work out. Okay, it's not really possible for us to go to the gym after 12 hour shift, especially when you have kids. That's not going to happen.
Speaker 2:But how do we compensate for that is when we hit the day three, meaning we're going into a night shift on Day three and day four. So in the morning we go out and do the same thing Before. So in the morning we go and get a quick 30 minutes workout done, okay, and day four would be a night shift. Again, we take a day off, but then, if you get three or four days off between your shift, we make sure that we go to the gym. We would not get tiredness. Get in the way, right, because activity creates more momentum. Right? The more you're active, the more energy your body is wanting to produce, so, which means you will feel more energetic, will you know? Feel equipped through through the next four shifts that you're going to have and you don't feel exhausted and tired, right? So this has to end somewhere.
Speaker 2:So I would say is that do some kind of workout. It doesn't have to be one hour long workout, one hour cardio and then a lot of weightlifting, whatever you can 15 minutes, 20 minutes on day three, and then, on your days off, go to the gym or work from home, go for a walk, do something that is going to create that momentum. That's what I would say in terms of exercise. Now, in terms of food, what we have done and work for us is the old, plain old meal prepping Be prepared, be prepared on the days that you want to work. Pack your lunch. Please. Do not make an excuse, because the day that you're going to make the excuse is going to be the worst day, where you're going to eat 10 pizzas of pizza and a big cake and then feel guilty about it about it the next day. Um so meal prepping is one of the biggest thing that saved saved me from binge eating.
Speaker 3:That's one of the biggest thing because, like, if, if you're full enough, you, even if you are getting a donut, or If you don't have energy, you might eat a half a donut and stuff a whole donut if you're hungry. So that does really change things. And also other things could be like munching on, like Uh, since we don't get enough breaks or get to take breaks in correct time, munching on snacks is a really uh Go to method. Um, we can use to do um, even the main thing that what we used to do is like having uh nuts or Like protein balls. Used to make protein balls at home. Uh, pretty easy. Uh and Mr Take that with with us to work and sometimes are, instead of having lunch break at 12 o'clock, we might be even having lunch at three. Uh, so to keep ourself going, instead of having reached for that donut, we used to have reached for that protein balls. Or keeps you, it's really healthy and uh, so that you're not having headaches from not eating having your lunch.
Speaker 1:How do you work in the water situation?
Speaker 2:Well, I've seen so many people do so many crazy things when it comes to the water. I specifically remember this one person. She was so into fitness and she bought this water bottle and it lights up every half an hour one hour. You remember her.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It literally lights up. So that is her cue that she need to drink water. I mean it's crazy, but that works, because every time I see her bottle lighting up, she's like, oh, this is my time to drink water. Right, that's funny, but it works.
Speaker 3:You can also make a reminder on your. If you have a smartwatch or something you can make reminder on your smartwatch to actually drink water Like every, it has to be like one or two sips. That's pretty good enough and that works too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, carry a water bottle everywhere. Do not go to work without your water bottle, right? Because then you have another excuse of not drinking water. Of course you're going to have the water fountain and everything sitting next to you, but you're not going to go there. Trust me, you're not going to go there. You're too busy for that. But you already have the things prepped and ready your water bottle. If you want a shining water bottle, go get it and put a reminder on your watch. Or some people like take sticky notes and paste on their computers you know it's a visual cue as well that okay, drink water every two hours or whatever, every one hour or something. So we show cue verbal cues or like hearing flashing cues. Whatever you need to do to get that water intake is so important because as nurses, you know how bad kidney stones can be. It's not pretty, it's not pretty. So we got to avoid that and also sorry that watch picking that up, but yeah it's pretty funny.
Speaker 1:The small words threw me off. You just mentioned it and she's right on cue, is right there for you. I want to go into a little more specific of types of exercises to do when it comes to common complaints you get from nurses. So, for example, my wife complains all the time about her lower back. Pushing the crate around she's caught patients falling in bed because they just get up when they're not supposed to. So little things like that. Are there any types of specific exercises Regimens you can help prevent injuries from nurses and or maybe help get over the lower back pain or whatever the case maybe they may have or anything you guys experienced?
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure. When we work with people, especially having back pains and back injuries and things around, then this applies to nurses as well. As you know, your form is very important, right? Depending on what exercise you're doing, or even changing patients back and forth in the bed or moving patients around, your form is so important. And, anthony, you are specialist in workouts and exercise and correct me if I'm wrong is that you know you don't need to do any kind of crazy exercises to stay fit. You only need the basics, but then the consistent. But where the magic happens is is in the consistency, right. So what I would say is when, if you're building a workout program for your own, then I would just stick with the four basic exercises that we do.
Speaker 2:Technically, it is derived from the movements that we do on a day to day basis. So, for example, your squats is literally you sitting down and getting up. So if you, if a pen falls down, you're literally going to a squat position rather than bending all the way back to get that 10 from the ground right, use a proper form. So, when you're figuring out your workout, practice more squats, or add more squats into your routine so that that is becoming a second nature for you, not just bending down. Even if a syringe falls down, you don't have to like bend over to get this syringe. You know simple little movements like this, which is done over on overconsumption and then you're going to work on over consistently on a daily basis, is what is going to help you prevent the injuries right.
Speaker 2:Another one would be your lunges. We attack it's technically you walking, but the exaggerated motion of walking is technically what lunges are right. So practicing your lunges to make your lower body more stronger, and that practice with the correct form and done in a consistent basis, even you know, in cooperating that into your work settings when you're working with patients, you know is going to help prevent a lot of back issues. Another one would be your push and pull exercises. Right, it's again to write from you pushing things away, opening the door, pulling, so those are like regular movements that we do on a regular basis. So when we practice those movements with intention while we are working out, it is going to help us, you know, correct our form when we are not doing it intentionally While we are at work, where we do not really have control because we are moving around everywhere, but then when you practice it intentionally, when we are doing the workout, it is going to automatically happen to you when you're not working out and when you need at work, which is going to again prevent injuries from happening due to improper form.
Speaker 2:So I would say, if you are coming up with a workout regimen, or if your you know your coaches is coming up with a workout regimen, make sure you incorporate these basic movements into your workout. And of course I don't want I'm not saying that you shouldn't have any variety. You can create variety of workouts from these basic form movements but make sure that you incorporate these basic movements into your exercise. Practice it consistently so that you can implement it in the work settings and avoid injuries and back pains and things like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I would just add. So like particularly lower back pain, your glutes aren't firing properly. So making sure that you're doing things top active, your glutes, like glute bridges for example, are phenomenal. This is all controlled movements to make sure you can get the muscle fired up and especially your core, because a lot of people and I know especially just nurses that I'm, I know in my life posture is not there, so it's probably partially to blame.
Speaker 1:You're constantly bending over right and when you're changing a patient, I always think putting in a catheter. I don't know why that's the person that comes to my mind. You're bending over. You're not thinking about oh, let me sit back into a little squat to get it. You're just growing your spine in a really awkward situation to take care of the patient whatever they need, and that just taking a little mindfulness and understanding. I need to keep my core engaged and if there is a way I don't know if this is possible, probably not probably made fun of for this just do like three crunches, like every 10 minutes, wherever you are. Keep your core fired up can help solve so much back pain. I don't know if you can or if you'd want to go on a hospital floor doing something like that. But it just a really simple squat, just a little squats. Get your lower back warmed up before you go and turn a patient that weighs 250 pounds and you're a 90 pound girl Like yeah, things like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, another thing that I used to do and I still do to this date is, really, and then I use the traffic signals while you are driving to work as as my cue for doing this is, I intentionally engage my TVA.
Speaker 2:So that was the inner core muscle right, the tighten that up until the traffic signals turn green. So while we are in the stop sign, I intentionally hold my TVA. So that's a core workout that you're doing while you're working out. It doesn't really take any time, right, you can do it, and then you can use cues like this to really help you do it more intentionally. You know, traffic light is one thing, and then you can also do this when you're at at your desk charting. You can use that, use that during the charting time as well. You're literally sitting down and documenting what the care that you provided to the patient, and you can use that as a cue to okay, it's time to engage my TVA, let's engage my TVA and do some core workout while I'm, while I'm still working. So a few things, you know, simple things like this. I feel like it's going to help.
Speaker 2:There's standing desks at hospitals there are not many, though, but there are.
Speaker 1:So if you have access to one, something like that, as opposed to carding in front of your computer with one hand, the other ones doing this and whatever, just little practical things like that help a lot. Is there anything else you guys have for tips and tricks that could help out all of our nurses?
Speaker 3:listening. One of the main concerns they have is a caffeine. Most of them have like what do they call it? It's the combustion stockings on. It's not that comfortable but better. It would be like leg, like carp races. You can do even like, especially if you have a standing desk. That's pretty easy and it's really effective, helps raise the swelling and everything. And they know the problems of that pulling in your legs. They know the theory and everything. They know what happens.
Speaker 3:And they treat them on a daily basis, but they don't do anything about it. Just a simple thing as a carp race is good, avoid those scenarios.
Speaker 1:I'm laughing in my head. I literally had this conversation yesterday with the doctor and I was like how do you get blood pumping to the body better? What muscle would you engage? And they looked at me and blanked your gastronomious muscle. Great answer Like oh yeah, a calf muscle. You got it. It pulls in your legs. Come on, get them engaged. So little things like that, especially when you're standing all day like get your calves pumping Staircases right. Can you like sneak out and just do a couple of calf races off the staircase?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that's not going to sit them and do it. Yeah, you know, one has to know it. You know you can just do it whenever or when you're taking a bathroom break. You can maybe do 10 calf races.
Speaker 3:Or like chatting while you're chatting, chatting something.
Speaker 1:Just get a move in your blood pump a bit. I love that. And then I just want to ask two more quick questions. The first one would be what would you like to see change in the healthcare industry as far as the employees go, specifically nurses or CNAs, like? What do you think needs to change in order to fix what I think is a huge epidemic like that? The stats I said earlier mind blowing. So how do we fix this as a whole?
Speaker 2:Well, unfortunately, there is like no one single answer to that question, right? It's a combination of so many different things. So just fixing the working hours is not just going to fix it. Educating nurses more about being healthy, and things like that it's happening, it's already there, but that just not one thing, is not going to, unfortunately, fix anything. What can we do?
Speaker 2:Rather, thinking about fixing is that how can we provide more resources to the nurses or healthcare professionals so that it becomes easy for them to implement these things into their daily routine, into their daily life, into their daily practices, so that they start to take care of their? Because I know I'm not sure if it is here in US and Canada, but we worked recently with the nurse in the UK but they have a particular fitness program that they tie up with fitness coaches, the doctor, the hospitals and, yeah, health regions. They tie up with fitness coaches and what they do is they bring on certain programs that nurses can join and work with. So that is their way of promoting more fitness and it's really covered by the health region, so they don't even have to spend any penny. The health region colors it. So I would.
Speaker 2:I don't know if that's available here in Canada or US, but that would be like a great opportunity where you know the hospital itself, the health region itself is is, you know, taking that first step for their nurses, because they're really working hard on a pretty much on a daily basis not just the nurses, but the doctors as well. So why don't you do something to help support them when we already know that they need that support? You know, let's take that first step. Any health region whatever listening to this, please take that first step, because nurses need you guys to support the doctors needed. They're not able to do it on their own. They have been spending their entire lives taking care of others. Why don't we do something to help them take care of themselves?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you pretty much know that on the head. I'll give you just employee statistic. If there's any hospital employers listening to this, your employers will work for you longer. They'll be more productive. They showed that employees that exercise 25% more productive than those that are you know be able to stay in the job longer, as far as like like up to a longer age in life to help you out. Be happier. If someone's happier, they're going to refer more people to work for you. So you know more people coming back is just like a win-win across the board and it's to me it's a simple investment a hospital can make. I think they're doing the amount of money they make to help you guys out. I really think that nurses are used and abused in hospitals more than any position across the board.
Speaker 1:And you guys get the brunt of everything. I mean here in the US nurses can be sued so they're just as liable as doctors, but they get a tenth of the pay and they work a lot more hours and they get told to do everything and everything falls back on them. It doesn't even matter if it's not their fault, it's your fault. So little things to help that industry will maybe help solve the staffing shortage everyone has and people wouldn't look for jobs outside. You guys only lasted like six, seven years, you said right.
Speaker 1:And that's industry average.
Speaker 2:It's yeah, it's, it's challenging, but if anything that can be done, do it for the nurses, do it for the doctors. You know they need it more than anyone at this point in time. I feel like it's one of the most neglected feels when it comes to personal health and fitness.
Speaker 1:Yeah, which leads me to the next question. So if someone were to reach out to you guys, what are some things you would do to help them and get them on the right track?
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure. So if someone wants to reach out to us, first of all, I, I really want to take this time to give something to you guys. If you are a nurse, if you're a healthcare professional and if you're really struggling to take that first step, you know, doesn't really know what to eat during breakouts Okay, they say, hi, protein days, a low carb, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. What like? What do I do? So what I have done is that I've created this kit, which I call is the midlife metamorphosis kit, but what this has is, you know, this information cannot be found anywhere in the internet.
Speaker 2:I'm doing this because I really want to help you guys out, because I've been in that place before and you know this is something that I want to do to give it back to where I came from.
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Speaker 1:I love that. That's so nice of you. So it's help redefined, that's correct. Follow her guys. We'll have it in the show notes, all the links and stuff like that, and I want to hear from you guys listening to the show. So please go ahead and comment wherever you're listening to this. I would love to know a little bit more about what you think of these two. We've done any personal stories because, like they're talking about and like I've said every single day, I talk on the show I much I love my wife and I care about nurses. So I want to hear from you guys. Please share this. Thank you guys for coming on and thank you guys for listening to this week's episode of hopefully finished redefined. Don't forget, hit that subscribe button and join us next week as we dive deeper into this ever changing field and remember this is medicine. Until next time.