Ask Nurse Mary

Corey Benchop from The Rising Entrepreneur interviewed me as a small business owner. 

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n 2020, the internet is the way we connect with our customers. Period. The only way to truly make that connection is through more personalized marketing.

Mary Howard is a registered nurse with over 10 years experience as a small business owner. She built and sold her website design agency in 2017, and out of her frustration with the medical field and how medication is used on ever-younger people, she’s now focused on helping people find better health through natural solutions like organic foods, supplements and essential oils.

On this episode of The Rising Entrepreneur podcast, Corey and Mary talk about how she went from working at a nursing home to building her first website on dial-up internet, her thoughts on honesty and transparency in business, and her advice on how to use the internet and online marketing to generate business.

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• How to find the right mentor or model for success.
• What a funnel is and why it’s different from a traditional website.
• Why it’s so important to niche down and make a clear choice of who you’re serving.
• And so much more…

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Probably the biggest reward is when something really registers with a client and they start making a change. It can be something little that they initially change, but when there is success, it’s easier for the next change to occur. When little changes add up, it can trickle into having family members start to make changes as well. It’s making a difference.

Everyday Tools for Getting and Staying Healthy:

1. Remove Foods that have Chemicals

2. Move More

3. Stress is a big killer in the USA

4. Positive Affirmations

Kristin Shares a Real Example of How a Health and Life coach can help...

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A Grandmother's Journey to Save Her Grandson

Jo’s Grandson suffered from Eczema and had been to many doctors. The family was frustrated with no real good answers to how to best help this child. They went to Dermatologists and tried multiple kinds of creams and other remedies without good results.

Functional Wellness “Health Detective” Reveals 5 Secrets Linking Food Sensitivity & Inflammation

The world health organization says about 85% of all chronic degenerative diseases has its root in inflammation. Our job even with food is to decrease inflammation and we want to decrease that by - Don't eat foods in a box, remove as much sugar as possible. We eat way too much sugar for example. Many things are going to help but checking the food sensitivity is right up there as very important because if you don't know you had a sensitivity to lettuce (for example) and you're eating salads all day, you're causing inflammation to your body and you may not realize it.

Dr. Christopher Gross is a Chiropractor with close to 400 hours of training as a functional medicine doc. He likes to help people solve Thyroid mysteries and is well versed on the modalities that will help the Thyroid the most. The owner and operator of Ozark functional wellness

“I love it when we can actually do that for you because you can begin to see HOPE! “

Clients are like wow! Someone's actually trying to figure all this out and putting all the things together and coming up with the patterns. As a Doctor that And so that's what I really get excited about - It's the most satisfying thing is to connect the dots for the patient.

• Extensive health histories with people related to food and their environment
• Hashimoto's can have symptoms of both hyper and hypo thyroid issues
• What are some basic things you can do for your body to help the thyroid?
• Allergies vs Food Sensitivity
• Have you heard of the emotional freedom technique?
• Emotions can lead back to sensitivities in the body and inflammation
• if you have chronic stress, you're creating all of these problems chronically

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Dr. Rachael Beverage likes to see people who want to make their health better rather than just get out of pain. Other than that she likes to see anyone that needs chiropractic adjustments.

As Americans, eating better is definitely something we need to do and eating less would be better for us.

Sleep is also very important for better health. Often getting as much as 7 to 9 hours of sleep is beneficial during the healing process. Our body does a lot of healing when we rest at night.

Dr. Rachael feels Chiropractic care is also essential to everybody’s lifestyle.

We talked about: 

• The Nerve Functions
• The Importance of Adjustment
• Dr. Rachael on Improving Ourselves
• Starting her business
• Her story of Why
• and some Words of Wisdom

Personal Trainer Reveals How to Succeed in your Health Journey so YOU can Avoid Fear of Failure. 

Today's episode is with Christopher Blackman and he works with Affirm Health Center located in Springfield, Missouri. He is a Certified Personal Trainer and also a Massage Therapist.

• Remember your WHY

Chris says: My ideal client honestly, will come from every age group. Universally, no matter what age group that you're in, it's going to be fundamentally the same biggest challenge. That is - going to be the mental challenge of this whole process.

They say if you’re doing what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life. Sometimes it can be hard to find what you’re truly passionate about.

Put yourself in positive surroundings – a walk, pleasant places in nature, calm spaces, images that lift you up. We have identified 4 things that may help to inspire you in your day, and in your life.

• Adventure
• History
• Be Inspired
• Journal

Sometimes shortcuts aren't all that short. Learning each step of your business at the beginning is so key in knowing how each piece of your business works so as it grows you will know what processes need to be improved and what steps are important to do in what order.