Business Innovators Radio - Alpha Queens Rising – Wellness for Any Body with Samantha Rambo, FNP-C

Episode Date: July 20, 2026

Samantha Rambo, FNP-C, did not set out to build a movement. She set out to survive — to protect her daughter, to finish her education, and to show up for patients who were often scared, unheard, and left behind by a system that moved too fast to notice them. What began as a practical decision to work in healthcare became a reckoning with loss, responsibility, and purpose. From hospital rooms marked by silence, to dorm rooms shared with textbooks and toys, Samantha’s path was shaped by the moments when care arrived too late — and the conviction that it didn’t have to be that way. Today, she stands as a healthcare leader and founder of Wellness for Any Body™, committed to empowering people before crisis strikes. This chapter is not just the story of a nurse practitioner — it is the story of a woman who refused to accept a system that fails the vulnerable, and chose instead to rise and rebuild it from the inside out.Read the Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GCVDSRRBWomen Innovators with Tami Patzerhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/women-innovators-with-tami-patzer/Source: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/alpha-queens-rising-wellness-for-any-body-with-samantha-rambo-fnp-c

Women Innovators. Interviews with women with big messages and big missions, sharing their stories to inspire you to live your passion and step up to make the world a better place. Here's your host, Tammy Patzer. This is Dr. Tamara Patzer, and I'm really excited because today I have Samantha Rambo with me. She has contributed to a book that's very near and dear to my heart, Alpha Queen's Rising. And her chapter is called Mint for More, Wellness for Any Body. So that gives you a clue about what we're going to be having our conversation about. And I just want you to know that Samantha's, her story, and you'll have to get the book and read it because her story is really interesting because she didn't start out to be the person that she is today and the person she is becoming.

So this is one of those stories that you just want to lean into and listen to because. it shows you how someone can take their life situation and make a decision and apply it. And I wish that I had known what Samantha discovered about the fact that even if you have a child, you can still go to school and she even had her child live in a dorm with her. And that's not even the big part of the story. But anyway, welcome. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me.

Super excited to be here. So, Samantha, let's start with what you are doing now. I think it's really exciting what is going on with you right now. Yeah. So right now my focus is just growing the wellness for anybody app, which is really help, which is going to help bridge that gap between leaving the doctor's office and then how do I go home and manage my disease. How do I get healthier? So there's, you know, there's always that delay between doctors' appointments and there's really not a lot of resources that providers hand patients

before they leave. So I am that solution that providers are going to be able to hand to their patients before they walk out the door. And I can tell you right now, That is very much needed because I'll just use me as an example. How many times have I sat there and the doctor will say to me, okay, well, this is a situation. You need to do this. You know, eat better. You know, take your vitamins. Here's your prescription.

Or maybe there isn't a prescription, but, you know, there's just instructions. And then you're like, oh. okay, what did the doctors tell me to do and you can't remember, or maybe you're the supportive other in a relationship and you're trying to understand what it is that your loved one needs. So tell me more about this. You said that you've created wellness for anybody and it's an app. So what does that really mean? Yeah. So real quick, the big inspiration for doing that was everything you just said. Patients or even loved ones walk out. They have no idea what's going on. They find themselves stuck, Googling, looking at all sorts of weird things to kind of help support them.

So when I was working in primary care, I saw that. And I really wanted to be that person that was providing more support for my patients because I saw the more support. They got the overall, the better results they were getting. And then I was hearing stories over and over and over again. I felt lost. I didn't know what to do. I had, you know, I just didn't know who to reach out to. So that was really why I started it. And I just wanted to make it accessible and easy for patients and providers. So we all know when we walk out of a doctor's office, usually, though, they're just hand you usually a stack of papers. And it's like, okay, like you said, drink your water. It's all stuff we know. Eat well, sleep better. But it's like how, like, how do I incorporate?

that into my busy life. How do I even talk to my doctor? So it goes beyond just actually teaching people about their chronic disease. I really want to also incorporate mindset, videos on questions to ask your doctor, how, you know, like what your labs are in a very, very easy to follow format. So in addition to the app, there will be live support. So I really just want to be that, that go-to person that providers and patients are both asking for. So people don't feel alone on their journey. I felt not only the app is a really good instrumental tool, but I think live support is also very important to people. Some people do better in person and with live support versus an app. Some people do well with an app. So I have want to adjust to all different types of learning styles.

I have a dyslexic dad who's also going through prostate cancer. So as you can, can imagine it's very, very hard for him to understand the complexities of health care. And while I personally have not had a significant illness myself, I have dealt or worked with so many people that have that it is complex. And my daughter has her own health issues. And sometimes I sit there and wonder if she would have fallen through the cracks had I not had the background that I have. And I don't want people falling through the cracks because the system, too hard to navigate, their disease is too hard to navigate and just give up because I know what it's like to live a healthy, productive, fulfilled life. And I wish that for everybody. Well, with that, let's go backwards a little bit because obviously here you are someone now with a medical background. You obviously have enough savvy to understand how to get an app made.

And you have a big, big, giant mission to help people who really, really need it. And believe me, again, I know that this is something that people need because anyone who's ever been to a doctor's office, they've experienced everything that you've just created something to solve. Let's go backwards in time. Where did this interest in medicine, in health, in helping? people, protecting people. Like you said, you have a daughter. Where did all this start?

When I was younger, I always wanted to be a teacher. Actually, that was like my primary goal is I just felt like I had a lot to offer. And, you know, it's people need that extra support, which is why I'm a big believer in coaches myself. But anyways, life just kind of threw me through a loop when I was in my early 20s and just felt that being a CNA, getting my CNA was the best choice at that time. And a lot of people, now mind you, I was like so big on being a teacher, but a lot of people were always like, you should go in the healthcare field. You're really good with people. You have a big heart.

Like, you should be in the healthcare field. And I was just like, man, I don't know about being a nurse, blood, needles. It was an intimidating profession, even though people were telling me to do it. And then when I became a CNA, I was working around people in very intimate personal situations too, even as a CNA. And I just, I grew in love with it. And then just kind of wanted to continue to help people at a higher level. Like, you know the higher level you can get the more decision power you have and the more of a leadership role you have. So I knew people would take me more serious as a nurse than they would a CNA in regards to helping them coach through their health. And then when I became a nurse, I knew I'd be taken more serious.

as a nurse practitioner over a nurse. So that's just kind of where my journey started. I was a CNA, loved it, and then just loved being a nurse, was a nurse for a long time before I got my nurse practitioner. But each level got me more experienced and able to make me a better version at the higher level. So I really appreciate all of the experiences I gained at all the different, at all the different levels throughout this health care journey. So I wanted to go a little deeper into that, who you were, were you? I've heard, I personally, if I ever entertained the idea of being any health care provider, my mother was ill when I was a teenager, it quickly dissolved into, you know,

nope, not interested, never would do that. And then I knew people who were CNEs, and that is not a glamorous job at all. That has to be the, you know, doing things that nobody else wants to do when it comes to caring for the basic bodily functions and things that people need help with. So you decided, you know, whatever was going on, here's a dream. journey because of CNA, the training is fairly short, right? Yeah, yeah, it was a month course. Yep. So it was a month course.

At the time, it was a decent paying job. I was a young mom, single mom. So I needed something that was decent, didn't want to work. I had an overnight. I needed to work overnight. Didn't want to work out at gas station. So it would really just kind of a job out of necessity. And then it was just kind of like, well, I guess I'll give it a try.

But like you said, it is not a glamorous job. spent a significant amount of time in a nursing home, my first job, just going up and down the halls, changing people. That, I mean, that's, that's all I did. And I always say, if you want to be a nurse, go be a CNA. Because there's no, if you don't want to be a CNA, there's probably no way you're going to be a good nurse. And I think what happened and what kept me going on my health care journey was really seeing the impact I had in people's lives and hearing how I've impacted their life. And sometimes I didn't think I was, but then when you're told you are, you're like, oh, wow. Or sometimes I would think I'm just doing my job, like what you would expect a nurse to

be. And they would be like, oh, my God, you've been amazing. You've been great. You've been better than some of the other nurses I've had. And you're just like, it's interesting. Because sometimes I literally was just like, oh, I just thought I was just doing my, thank you. I appreciate that. But sometimes you just, when you think you're just doing your job and people are telling you you're really good at it, then you know you're good at it, I think. Because then it really wasn't like, I didn't have to think hard to do it. I just wanted to do it, I guess, if that makes sense. I think the part that you probably didn't recognize is in doing that job, you are helping those people retain their dignity.

Yes. And that is an invisible thing. Yeah. And thank you for saying that because that is huge and that is one thing I was big on as a nurse. I did not. You can ask my mom. My mom used to work with me. I did not mess around with people making jokes or just doing off the off the wall things or, you know, these are very vulnerable moments for people, especially in the hospital, which where I spent a lot of my time as a nurse. it's very vulnerable. So I used to take that, or still do, take that very, very serious. You're going to see people in the worst of worst situations. And it's incredible to see people in the worst of worst situations and come out just big and strong. Like you see it in the hospital, you see it in the clinic. And it's just like, wow, like in three months in a rehab, you went from, I didn't know you were going to actually make it out the door. stories to they're up and walking around to even in the clinic where people are coming in with really bad diabetes, really bad symptoms. And then six months, they just turn it around. It's,

it's incredible to be a part of that journey too. Yeah, part of the recovery journey. So like I said, you did something that I thought, wow, if I had known that that was even a possibility, I could have done something like that. You actually somehow decided to go to school and you had a child. How in the world did you find a program where you could actually live in a dorm and have your child with you? I didn't even know that was a possibility. The funniest thing is it must have been fate because I didn't know that that was available when I enrolled into the school that I did. I literally was just like, okay, I want to be a nurse.

And I'm one of those people that are very like, if I decide something, it's quick action. Like, it's like, I'm not going to sit around. If I'm firmly in a belief that I'm going to do something, I just, what do I need to do to get there? So it was very like, okay, I want to do this. I want to be a nurse. How do I go to school? I Googled College of St. Mary came up. Fortunately, it was like towards the, it was in summertime.

So luckily I had just made it into the program before the deadline, but went in, took her test, scored high, high enough to get into the program pretty much right away, which was good. But then it was funny because then two months later is when I found out that they had this dorm available. Now, mind you, sometimes I make decisions without really thinking through some of the consequences. Like it is. It's like sometimes it's a good thing. Sometimes it's a bad thing. So it's like, okay, I have this apartment.

I'm working as a CNA. And then all of a sudden it's like, oh, shoot, I got this school schedule. I got like, I got this. How am I going to do this? How am I going to keep working, take care of and and go to school? Luckily, two months later, some people, you know, after talking to people and they found out I had a kid, found out they had the dorm living situation, looked into it. And then I just left my apartment. You guys, I left everything.

Like, you know when people are always like, hey, why would people leave? all of their stuff in their apartment. That's what I did. I just, I left it all. I left, I left, maybe, yeah, I left, except for like clothes and stuff, but literally left like everything and moved in, like, within three months and stayed there until I was done. So it was a, it was a great opportunity. And I don't, I would have probably made it, but it was just easier for me. And there was more structure. There was more support. The college was amazing. My daughter had more support. She was around kids, her age. So it was a great, it was a good thing for me.

Well, I just, the reason why I wanted to bring that up, because I want other people to know that even if, you know, you don't have any money, even if you have children, no matter where you are, you need to, like you said, you take action and then it's like everything unfolds for you because I think about that. and I would never have ever dreamed that if I had a child, that I would even be able to live in a dorm situation like that. And I don't know why, because I know that they have student housing and everything at different universities, but I guess maybe I never saw it like a dorm situation. I know they have like off-campus apartments and things. Oh, yeah. But I didn't ever think about it in that way. but I just think that that just proves that if you want to do it, there is a path. And you represent that path. And then the same thing with helping people, you've created this recovery path for people who maybe they don't have any advocates for them.

It's like you become this advocate in an app, right? Right, yeah. They can get these questions answered. and like you said, you have the live support. And it's funny because when you first said live support, I heard life support. Oh, well, life support too. But it matches.

Yeah. It matches. And so I thought, oh, wow, I misheard it, but it still makes perfect sense, you know, live, like you're going to be there. Explain that component of this program that you have because I think that's, that human connection could be the big secret of why your app is so successful is because of that human connection. Yeah, I hope so.

That is my ultimate goal. So prior to this, I did run. I did have a lot of weight loss clients. And my big focus was weight loss. And so we used to do weekly Zoom meetings. And it was fun. We had an app for that too, for the weight loss. The women absolutely loved the meetings.

We were getting really good feedback. They were able to come, ask questions, and just feel supported. And now, mind you, what I like about today's technology is it's instant and nobody needs to, you know, spend extra time traveling to get somewhere. So I decided to do the live Zoom. So initially at first, because I'm only one person right now, is we're going to do once a week, three hours. It's going to be on a Tuesday, so it's going to just be open. So you can hop in, hop out. That's it. I'm planning on maybe doing, offering a few classes throughout the week,

about an hour, half hour long or whatever. But just that time to where maybe you just were diagnosed with something that day and you have a question or maybe you have just questions on your medication list or you watched a video and have questions. I think with that support, though, it just gives them like an extra person to bounce ideas off of two and just feel validated. Like, okay, I'm not alone. And it's just like with any journey, health journey, if people feel alone, they feel overwhelmed, they feel like they can't do it, they're not going to. But if somebody, but if somebody has someone in their corner rooting for them, someone that they know they can trust, they can confide in, I think they have a higher possibility of showing up. Now, I, I,

I have patients that it took a little while for them to kind of make some changes. But I think one thing, feedback that I always got in the clinic was like, you never gave up on me. You were always there. Even though I was like screwing up, you know, it might have taken six months for them to just finally be like, you know what? I am met for more. I can do this. I do got it. But there always had to be someone in the background for them.

And I had plenty of people in my life doing that too. otherwise, I might have just given up in school. So it's like any journey, health journey, school, career, anything like I really feel you need support. Anyone can look on an app. We all know that. But like the same reason why I work with Carissa. Like I work with, I am a huge believer in coaches because the support.

It's literally support. And so the goal is, as the business builds, is to have live. Monday through Friday, 9-to-9 support. So when people are walking out in an office, they can literally go home, log on, and talk to someone right away. That is the ultimate goal. I like that because, again, right now we live in this high technology environment and people really need that human, even if it's through Zoom. Even if it's through a doctor. A lot of them, because of whatever reason that, you know, you're lucky if you, you know, you sit for two hours, but you get 15 minutes.

Yeah. You're lucky. And, and yeah, they're in and out. And they don't always explain everything in great details. They might say, oh, here you go. Here, here's your prescription. And then there you are. And you mentioned Carissa Atkins, who's your coach mentor.

and she's the reason that you were featured in Elva Queen's Rising. And tell me a little bit about when you speak March 19th at the live event in Omaha, Nebraska. What will you be presenting on that day? Yeah. So for any of you that have read the book or going to read the book, the event speaking will be what happened, the story behind that story. So what led up to the moment I did go to college and what choices and what things I was faced with that.

And then it just goes over the rise framework that I've kind of created when I was doing the book and doing a lot of self-reflection. It was like, you know, what did I learn from this journey? And how can that help me moving forward? And how can that help other women move forward? And it's the rise framework that I'm going to address and kind of give some steps on, you know, kind of what to do from there and how to stay on track and overcome those really, really hard times.

Because everyone has hard times. It's interesting to me. I love people. I love studying people. It's interesting to me how different people respond to the same situations. And I really feel like after I've been doing this journey and working with people in their health, I really have come to believe that a lot of health situations is probably not so much diet and not so much food. It's probably more overwhelmed, stress, not being able to handle curveballs when life is thrown at, like curveballs.

And so I really want to teach people that framework that, you can use in like any situation, whether it's health, whether it's financial, whether it's, it's relationship. So, because remind, you know, like, like I said, I've never really had this big huge health journey. I've had to go on myself. But like, how do you keep people from self-sabotaging themselves? Because self-sabotage would have been very easy for me to do while I was on my journey even before I got to the college. There could have been two paths. And there's always two paths, but you know that. Or, yeah, or even more than that.

But generally, you do come to a Y in the road. Always. And you have to, you know, determine which path to take. And you take one and there you go. Yeah. You're on the journey. So go ahead. Oh, I was just going to say, and people need to remember that's always going to be life.

Just because you picked this journey doesn't mean there's not going to be. and it sounds like the best and it's a great journey doesn't mean there's not going to be another crossroads. Doesn't mean you're not going to be hit with all these surprises that you just were not, some good, some bad. And I think people need to just remember how to stay on track. Because one little incident can destroy people. It could destroy progress, whether it's business, whether it's health.

Like we all know people could be on a really good health journey. everything's great. And then all of a sudden, something comes and knocks them down on their butt. They stay down for way too long. And then they're back right where we started. I think we need to shorten that. Always shorten that. Like, yeah, it's okay to get knocked down sometimes. Just don't stay down. Just don't stay down. Well, I think that's the perfect place for us to wrap it up. And it's so interesting to me because not only are you a perfect representative of Alpha Queens rising, but you're also very reflective of the journey of becoming, because no matter where we are in our journey, we become, but we're always growing. We're always expanding. We're

always becoming. So that's a really perfect, you're that person who represents that. So everyone, Alpha Queens Rising is available on Amazon. Alpha Queens Rise live event is March 19th and Samantha Rambo will be one of the speakers. So if you can make it to Omaha, Nebraska, check that out. definitely read the book every chapter, every person who contributed, their story is just phenomenal. And of course, make sure that you find out how to get this app because this is a game changer. This is for anybody, wellness for anybody. Think about it. if you have somebody can explain to you what the heck to the doctor tell you, or how do I talk to my doctor to get straight answers or that personal one-on-one

or the open office hours where you can go say, what does this mean? I mean, how many times have you gotten instructions? Number one, you don't even know, well, why did they choose this method over this method. Is there another way? Maybe I should look at something different, you know, or, oh, I'm facing surgery. What should I do on this journey to prepare? Or is surgery the only way to deal with this? Sometimes the answer is, sometimes the answer is no, you could try this first. I mean, there's so many directions with health, but I firmly believe that we all need to be our own health advocate.

But if you can get that support system, like what you're offering, Samantha, I think, whoa, how cool is that? And what's great is we really want to focus on providing it to the providers who then will turn around and provide it to their patients. So I'm really hoping to provide enough support to providers as well to where they feel this product is what their office needs. So then it's free to patients. And I think that that's super important too because, you know, everyone's,

um, everyone's accessibility is a little bit different. And I think, you know, doctors just, and any provider actually, they can share that with people. There will be a opportunity to personally buy the app for people that doctors who may not offer it or they want it on their own. But ultimately in five to 10 years, I just really want so many doctors to see the value of this and so many lives have you changed, that that's where people are able to get that from is personally from their providers. Yeah, I think that that is definitely the way to go because then the provider has a tool that they can say, here you go. This will, you know, help you to understand everything that we've discussed today and give you this support system. And then the doctor,

it almost closes that the conversation, a perfect way. So the doctor now is talking as a patient educator, helping them, and here's a tool that you can use so that you can understand things more clearly. I think you're absolutely right that wellness for anybody is that missing link that doctors probably are just, or doctors, providers are craving. Yeah.

They can provide better care because isn't that why they're in the medical profession? They're trying to help patients feel better. They want to help people, you know, on the recovery path. They want patients to feel confident in the decision-making process. Yes. And this will just be that support to help them get there because they are very overwhelmed. I just find people that. Yeah, I see that and I know I work with doctors.

Yeah, they know their main thing is I want to help people. Yeah, it might not see. I mean, thank you. And I know we're going to wrap up real quick, but thank you for saying that. Because as a provider myself, like, people have got to remember providers in it go into this to make people wait in a waiting room for two hours or only talk to them for 10 minutes about their condition and make them feel scared or nervous when they walk out of the door. They invested their time, their money, everything they've had into helping people.

And I really hope that provider offices that work for me really see how it can strengthen that relationship even between the provider and the patient, where the patient's coming back with better results, with a better understanding of what they're saying. and it can just, I'm hoping to strengthen that relationship. And we can start to rebuild some of that trust between providers and patients that we're losing because the health care system is so broken right now. It's how I want to end that. Well, again, everyone, Samantha Rambo, wellness for any body, read about Samantha and everything she's doing now

and get the rest of the story in Alpha Queen's Rising. If you can go to the Alpha Queen's Rise event in Omaha, Nebraska, March 19th, 2026, go get the information. I'll provide it in the show notes. And again, Samantha, thank you so much. Beautiful story and beautiful, the mission. Oh, my goodness, it is needed. people need this. So thank you.

Yes, thank you for having me. Everyone, this is Dr. Tamara Patser. We'll talk to you soon. You've been listening to Women Innovators with Tammy Patser. To learn more, please go to womeninnovatorsradio.com. And please do subscribe and share to spread the big messages and big missions to change the world.