Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe - WoMed with Danielle Maltby and Danielle LeVeck

Episode Date: June 4, 2019

Today, literal life savers join the podcast when nurses Danielle Maltby and Danielle LeVeck, come by to talk about their show The WoMed podcast! Join Kaitlyn in finding out more about the challenges of nursing as well as some of the misconceptions, spoiler alert real life is not like Grey's Anatomy... mostly. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Today on the podcast, I have two Extraordinary. Do you like that I use? I'm like Extraordinary women who are quite literally lifesavers. You know one from her time on The Bachelor and Bachelor in Paradise, and you know the other from her account at Nurse Abnormality. That's correct. Why is that such a tongue twister for me? Big words.

It's a big one. I had a tough time. I was like extraordinary women. I was like, okay, don't write down big words if you can't use them, Kaelin. Which shows the good, bad, and the ugly of nursing. Now the two Danielle's are coming together to start their very own podcast. I'm so excited for you guys. Thank you.

Called WoMed, short for Women in Medicine. Please welcome Danielle Malbby, aka D. And Danielle Levec, aka Danny. Hey. Hey, hi. Okay, this is great. I'm really excited for you guys to start your own podcast. Did you just smash your knee on the table?

I did. But it's a nurse. I can handle it. Oh, my God. Sorry, you're just injuring yourself in my room here. Kay, so excited for your podcast. So tell us everything of what you're going to talk about. It's kind of the same thing as your Instagram, like the good, bad, the ugly of nursing. It's got to be.

Yeah. Yeah. It's got to be real. I, the most important thing, first of all, the podcast was, D's idea. Okay. It wasn't mine. I'm lucky to know her.

But you were the first person that I thought of when doing it. So Danny and I met in Peru. Okay. And we did a like a medical trip with the scrubs company that we both work with. Yeah. And I was like, oh my God, I love her heart. I love her energy. She's like weird and funny.

I just feel like we, this. I love weird. Like you're going to be in my life for a long time. And then as I started kind of thinking about, you know, like I feel like, I feel like, I feel like everyone starts a podcast in the bachelor world. Yeah, yeah. I didn't want it to be just like Bachelor Talk. Like, I didn't feel like that was the right space.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And like, yours is the best. I was like fishing for that. I'm like, yeah. She wanted compliments. Yeah.

Thanks. But I really, I felt like there's a really big need for a space for women, particularly, like, nurses, doctors, like in the medical community. They didn't have a space that really. talked about everything that was going on like um like the me too movement and stuff yeah the medical community is yeah is pretty freaking really yeah yeah for sure and i you know whenever she came to me about it a couple things came to mind i i still work full time so i have this like concept of what professionalism is and i think nursing and medicine in general is going through this because you know

these hospitals and everybody who works in health care, it's a very conservative industry. And because of HIPAA, we can't talk about patients, understandably so. But everyone's so curious about it. Everyone's so curious. And because more and more people have online profiles now, we're being really scrutinized and under the microscope about what we're posting, what we're doing, and how professionalism is defined. And I've always had this internal struggle where we're in a community where we're taking care of people.

And if there's anywhere where you need to be aligned with yourself, it needs to be when you're taking care of other people. Right. You know, because if you don't know who you are or what you're doing, you're not going to care for people as well as you are if you're like, you know, in alignment. So I think that having a place where people could talk and express themselves, and I don't think everyone's going to do that. And learning that balance of, you know, what is professionalism and how you can, you know, be employed full time, but also, you know, have a podcast and have an online community and stuff is also, I think that's, like, really important to you. So, yeah. And we just wanted to highlight all the things that women are doing in the medical community. Yeah.

Like, there's a lot of really badass powerful women. Yeah. And I just, I want to lift them all up. I want to, I want to hear everyone's stories. I want everyone to have a voice. Yeah. I think that's really amazing. I think it's the same thing when I when I tweet something about

airlines like the the community of I always want to call them stewardess which is like the most dated name flight attendants that come together and I feel like you guys could have that same like I feel like there's this community of people women in the medical field that could just come together and have so many stories you will have endless content especially nurses yeah we're for sure a tribe even if we get each other we'll like come back to each we'll back each other up of course irrational sort of way

for real that's like nurses like we're catty like I don't like you but man like if anyone comes after you anyone comes after you all just like really I'll help you cover up the murder and barely that's how nurses are really pretty much oh yeah for sure it is cool it's a we're like blood sisters

yeah and brothers there's something like really great and Alex should be so mad if we Okay, who is this? Our friend Alex. We also met him in Peru, and he's just the most fantastic man. Really? They hate it when you say like male nurse, but he is a male nurse. Why do you, why?

Because that's just... Because they just want to be called a nurse. They don't want to be defined as a male. But it is hard because, which we'll talk about this on the podcast at the point, but we're still 90% over 90% female. Is it over 90%? Okay. So it's starting to grow with more.

male but like there's the term MERS and the term male nurse Yeah people have an issue with that In sexuality's called in question even though I mean like but Man that makes me so mad like We'll get Alex's perspective Yeah for sure We'll get some nice even though he is gay

He's but he's just yeah yeah yeah I have good friends as a nurse he's yeah awesome But will you guys go into like I know you can't ever talk about patients So are you able to tell like horror stories or do that kind of thing Or is that leave out names in any identifying factors yeah I mean I was really important with that too yeah I mean like I'm not gonna talk about a patient I took care of yesterday right but it's that three years ago like maybe

you know I get that so and I've talked about some of um like the patients and stuff that I've had yeah it's with like parental of course I know so and when is the podcast going to start like when is the first episode because you've recorded some right yes okay so the first episode comes out June 3rd. Oh, wait, that's when I get nudes, too. What a big day. It's the best day ever. June 3rd is the best day.

The internet's going to break. Oh, my gosh. That's so exciting. Kim K. She broke the internet. Yeah. It was the day the womet and nudes drop. The moment and nudes.

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June 3rd. Oh, that's so exciting. Okay. And so what? So you're going to have all guests all the time, or is it just going to be the two of you? So the first couple episodes are just Annie and I. Because we're building a rapport. Yeah. We're new to the whole podcast thing. We're trying to figure it out as we go. So, but yeah, we want to have a lot of guests on. And some topics will probably just be us discussing them too. So yeah. I have to ask to have you on too. well of course i'll yeah of course i'll come on your podcast imagine you come on mine like a few times and i'm like nope sorry sorry busy sorry about that um so okay i have to ask do a lot of nurses were scrunchies it's starting to happen more i'm oh my god i've seen i've seen a few um i have some scrunchies for you ladies oh my god because i just got a weave i need it yeah of course i'm so genuinely excited about this the first you know i got a weave because i wanted to be in the Scratch game.

The first thing I said to Danielle was like, she makes scrunchies. I have got to order one, like, immediately. Because even when I looked at myself this morning, I was like, God, I'd love to pull my hair half up with like a scrunchy. Scrunchy. Yeah, I've got a drawer. We can go through some.

Oh, God. I'm so excited. I just feel like I need to make like a nurse line of scrunchies. That would be so cute with like little like pills or like cross-ins. Yeah. Oh, that'd be so cute. My father is like all nurses. So many.

It's pretty much all nurses, and it's almost all women. I have 89% women. Okay, tell me about your Instagram. Oh. She's so funny. Yeah, okay. So basically, I don't know what I was doing. You can have to make some memes for the woman to at least like show me how.

So you do so you do memes. I do some and then some of it's like writing. So basically I write heavy things like a lot of heavy things. I'm very in my feelings. And I just like write about my life. And that's so that's when I've been a little. down on content lately because I've been hiding my boyfriend, my boyfriend, my partner, my partner, yeah, for a long time.

Yeah. I felt, because I didn't know what to do with him. Yeah. As far as, like, all I would do was write about my life. And he was such a huge part of my life, but I like, wasn't ready to share. I didn't feel confident enough to share him yet. Now I do. So things are getting better.

But for the last, like, you know, almost year I've been, my, my writing has not been as good because I think I was trying to, like, suppress that part of myself. Yeah, of course. However. so I would write like parts of my life people could really identify because it really picked up through grad school and when I was working like multiple jobs and going to grad school a lot of nurses do that and I just had like I just put in the time I don't I don't know what else to say other than I just like killed myself like putting in the time to do it but I realized like you can't read that heavy stuff all of the time and nurses in general are very emotional people or like deep feelers so not only which makes us able to feel for our patients

right yeah exactly and so not only was like the writing very good and like helped people identify with me but the memes were just funny you know yeah yeah like like we have like senses of humor right and I because of that like I've had to tone down on how snarky I am with my memes like they're pretty PC now in the beginning they weren't PC and I went back

and like tried to delete them and I'm praying they don't like come back and bite me but yeah so it's that so we're in like little like sayings and stuff but the writing's what I enjoy the most if I had like the brain power to write every day like I used to I would just do that so right you've always been passionate about writing yeah yeah I started writing when I was like I my parents gave me my first journal when I was like probably four really yeah and I would just write my day I'd just write I went you know oh my gosh went to school and like Danny's my best friend Carrie my friend Carrie did this and blah, blah, blah.

Yeah, I know. I take my journal to school. I, like, have my friend sign it. That's a door. I was never, I, I like writing, but I never have the patience to do. I feel like you have to be a very patient person to be a writer. I love it, though. You do.

I could sit down forever. Word vomit. Really? Yeah. Even if there's no clear direction of what I want to write about, like, I'll know it's in there, but I'll just start like stream of conscious. And then it just all starts flowing out. Do you do pen and paper or do you do?

Pen and paper. Yeah. It's so much. clearer for me like there's something about inking your thoughts down onto paper and do you go back and read them i do sometimes really yeah and then i get angry and then i'm like okay but like this is something you're feeling and then i look for patterns and then if you've written for a long time my favorite thing to do is to like look back on this day a year ago two years ago yeah four years ago it's uh really profound because at the time you know like you could be writing and just feel like

your world is going to end. And then a year later, you look back and you're like, oh, that wasn't so bad. Right. I do think that's important for people because a lot of people think, you know, in that time that there's no light at the end of the tunnel and like there's no. And then you see and a year goes by pretty quick. And you see how much you grow in that year. And then you kind of get motivated to go through something else.

Like I can get through anything. Look at where I was at a year ago. And yeah, I think that's why I want to write so that I can look back on it and see how far I've come. And I think my girlfriend who everyone knows Cleo. I love Cleo. Cleo's the best. Cleo's a bomb.com. She's just, there's no one like her. And when I was going through the breakup and going through a really hard time, even before the breakup, I was just really in a low place. And I think she was writing things down for me because like, well, eventually I want to write a book. And I think it's good to go back and do that kind of stuff. But I just thought, I don't know if I'm even

and mentally ready to go back and read it now just because I'm like, wow, I was really dark, like, you know, seven months ago. And now I'm like, I didn't, I can't, I don't think I could get happier than I am right now. I love that so much. And then you don't want to go back to that dark no, exactly. I'm like, I don't want to revisit that. I just love it. And you know, like, that's why people probably love you is because you just talk about stuff so openly. Like, people are so, they hide so many parts of themselves. And I will say I've always been as much as I could understand about myself, which at times it was far less than I understand now. I've always been talking about it since I was a kid. And people will, people are kind of scared of you. Whenever you talk

so openly, like I talk very openly about my divorce. And, you know, every feeling that I had through that entire relationship. And that's where people seem, women in particular seem to identify the most. Like, they just completely get it. And so I think a lot, you know, there's, memes will, humor will like grow your account like you will by no doubt a meme account will have like you know obviously like a billion followers yeah you're like take sinatra you're like a million followers in a day yeah but the comments that I really love are the ones after I write something because they're so meaningful so yeah so that's my favorite part of my account but the writing yeah you got to do it yeah that's a good person to write all that down for you I do want to eventually go back

can read it just to see but right now I'm like what but you're just like so happy I'm just like so happy somebody wrote the funniest comment under my when I said I was getting um nudes somebody said I'm so glad you leaked these nudes and I was like damn it why didn't I think of that's so good well let's get to a little Bachelor in Paradise talk okay um can you walk us through your journey up until the bachelor and what you've been doing since? Up until the bachelor? Yeah. Oh, okay.

I mean, like, I was working as a NICU nurse. I worked in Wisconsin for about four years. I took some time off and did a little, like, travel nursing stint. But that wasn't really for me. I didn't enjoy it. And I went back to the same hospital, Children's Hospital, Wisconsin, but they were voted, Time Magazine announced him as like the best NICU in the... Really?

Yeah. Oh, that's cool. It was a couple years ago. But, I mean, like, there's, there's... are so good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a really great hospital. Yeah. Um, and then I moved to Nashville and, um, had been working. I don't want to say where I work in Nashville. Oh, you know. Um, um, but I, uh, went to, well, I had one of my friends submit me for the Bachelor and stuff. Yeah. So I didn't know that that was all happening until I got a call from ABC and I was like,

what the fuck did you do? Yeah. That was happening. Yeah. Yeah. And then, and then when you came back, from bachelor you went back to work again to work wow um and then paradise came along and i decided i was going to take a little bit more time off of work because i got the opportunity to go to kenya yeah and i basically left paradise to go to kenya and work with um kids and um mothers and stuff there Wow. Oh, that's so cool. I actually went back there last fall again, too. Amazing. Oh, that's such a big pole on my heart. Like, I'm aching to get back there. Really? Yeah. It's a really beautiful place. Do you have plans to go back?

I was just talking about this the other day. Like, I need to, I need to make, I need to set like my next trip. Yeah. Up to go back. Just because I love, I love everyone there so much. They would come up and they're just like, do you remember this face? I was like, I could never forget this face. Oh, that's so nice. And they invite you into their homes. And they're like, I just want to cook all this food for you. And I was like, please don't make a ton of food. I can't eat it all.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. All this food because you don't want to go to waste. They're just so loving and happy and giving. Yeah. So loving. I want to go somewhere like that.

Yeah, exactly. You can come with me. Okay. Yeah. Okay. When are we going? Um, I don't know. We'll set it up.

I have always wanted to do a trip like that. Yeah. It'll change your life. Yeah. Yeah. It makes you, it makes. And they would love to have you there too. You come back and you think like,

like there is like good in the world like there's something right you know I don't know it did it for me I didn't even think that I was going to be able to start my nurse practitioner job I was so worn out like after school and in nursing and healthcare in general and then when we went to Peru I came back and I was like all right well I'm ready to go we had some really tough days in Peru too like really you and Michelle were yeah I mean I was really we went to an orphanage and we weren't like ready. Like we didn't know that we were going to see. First of all, we didn't really know that we were going to see a whole bunch of patients in general. We thought that it was more like a, we're going to show you what we do from this. And maybe like some like wellness checks. Right. Yeah. Yeah. And it ended up

being like really serious stuff. Like girls from an orphanage that had been sexually abused and they were like 10. Yeah. Wow. Raging. Wow. Uterine infections. Yeah. It was so sad. Oh my gosh. Yeah. So like My, I mean, yeah, that's heavy stuff. Hats. I feel like I can't even say hats off to you. Like, I literally was just, like, wanted to be on my knees and just be like, you guys are, like, you were, like, in the freaking trenches. Wow. I mean, Alex and I were sitting out there just doing, like, the wellness baby checks, and they're like, okay, well, you guys are.

Yeah, I know, Michelle did more than me. Wow. Michelle did more than me. She, but it was a hard day. Yeah. Yeah. But it was, but in the scheme of things, you feel like you're really. helping people. Right, of course.

Really good, like the purest form, helping people. So that's great. Yeah. A lot for you. Yeah. I want to go to Kenya, too. I told Dee, I was like, I would love to make a big, I would love to go. I would love to make a big trip of it and just bring everyone down there.

They would love it too. And just to have, we could do it as like a big fundraiser and stuff. Yeah. You know? I think that would be amazing. Mm-hmm. Okay. You would love the parties.

Really? Yeah. They have like family parties and like, I don't know where are these. like big speakers come from but really yeah you have like these cement buildings with like no floor and then these speakers and like PA systems come out and it's just the happiest like drum and like music oh I would love that it's so much fun that's how long do you go for at a time um I usually go I try and go for at least like two weeks yeah just to make like all the travel worth it yeah is I mean to hit to where I um the village that I work with you fly into Nairobi it's another like

hour flight yeah to Kusumu and then it's like a two and a half hour drive from there out to like the middle the middle of nowhere yeah yeah okay but it's you guys you're so inspiring you would just love it so much it's so funny I don't I'm not obviously a nurse in any way and I'm like I can't wait to listen to your guys podcast I just feel like you have good stories and like you're uplifting and you know yeah you're welcome we feel the same way about you yeah yeah you didn't even know who I was so hard research that I did in five hours, I probably know more about you than 90% of the people that listen.

She goes and she goes, well, I know your birthday's you're a 19th. You're a Gemini. I'm like, okay. That's what I was season 11. Yeah. I know all about your relationship history. You're a Gemini. So by default, I love you.

You like golden retrievers. You have a scrunchy line. You like wine. I could go down the list. You're like small but mighty. People used to make fun of you for your. hair and said you were too skinny or something like that's so untrue by the way I could just go on I could go and I'm forever if just because I learned who were like a couple days ago you know what

I'm so impressed with you I'm so impressed never watched The Bachelor either I don't I haven't but like obviously if like D goes on paradise or whatever I will have throw a party when I'm in something yeah she's in it she's like number one hype girl I love that Yeah, I can see that. Like, if D goes on it, I'm having parties every night. Like, I am 100% in it. Like this, I'm coming on your podcast. I will find out every little fact about you.

You impress me. I'll dig back. Yeah, and I'm excited. Like, I love it. I think it's great. I just don't have enough brain power to do it for everyone. And so, like, don't take any offense. I mean, like, the only movie star I know is like Oprah.

I do not take offense. I was totally teaching you. And you proved me wrong. And I felt the passion while you were telling you. I'm like shaking over that. I can't wait to show you them. All right, let's take a quick break and talk about my new favorite rom-com on Netflix.

It's so great. It's called Always Be My Maybe, and it was written by Anne starring comedian Ali Wong. She's so funny. Anne fresh off the boats, Randall Park. It's a refreshing take on rom-coms. So it's super hilarious, sweet, but not too sweet.

I remember back in the day, I did a podcast with Canaan Smith, and we talked about how rom-coms, like are always so cheesy this one is perfect sweet and not too sweet just the way i like it two childhood friends reconnect and realize old sparks are there as well as some new ones will they end up together i want to know if any of you have ever experienced this that you guys you know start off as friends childhood friends and then you fall in love cute what do you do when you realize that you love your best friend um i don't know you make a move from seattle

that's what i did keanu reeves makes an appearance and it's unlike any Any Keanu Reeves that you've ever seen. So watch Always Be My Maybe. Now on Netflix or in select theaters, this film is rated PG-13. You said something about D-Going on Paradise. Are you going on Paradise? Can you confirm or deny? I mean, I don't think I can do either.

I mean, you know how it works. Yeah, I do. I just try and do my part because if I don't ask people, if they call me and want me to come on, hell yeah. I had a great time on Paradise. yeah um it's a really fun environment yeah you get to you get more time yeah everybody absolutely you know and and you're like the biggest problem is trying to battle the crabs in the shower so oh my gosh i don't

know how i would do with that yeah i would you have to watch for you stop there's really they're like mountain crabs i don't i you're gonna have to tell me how this show works yeah okay so sometimes i don't even know how it works yeah so one week like the girls will have the power and by that means girls are handing out the roses like they're all the bacheloretts and there's more guys so and then they'll keep bringing in more guys to try to shake things up and then like two or three guys will go home and the next week the guys will have the power so they'll be bringing on more ladies you guys all just hang out yeah we're like a bit pool yeah there's like drink minimums now so people can't get too litty which also i figured out in mexico the percentage and the proof of alcohol is lower so

it takes even more everyone was complaining that they couldn't like catch a bunch yeah so drink drink like wine or beer not yeah a tequila but also you know hydrate because i mean i spent a lot of i'm such a mom down there i'm just taking care of everybody that's so cute but like i nerd like i'm like i'm like i go into nurse mode like poor ray got really sick yeah when i was on and like she'll tell this story all the time like they were about to give her like a steroid shot but they like broke this glass vile and they did not use a filter needle and they were going to use the same needle that they were going to use the same needle that used to draw the test up and I was like you're going to get glass charged her ass change that god damn

needle wait really yes that is not okay no oh that's why I'm just like god you're there you got to watch you got to watch you got I know Ray could have had a glass ass freaking tetanus or something wait who's Ray Raven oh Raven oh god oh I like calling to Ray I love Raven she's one of my favorite I friggin love her okay I didn't know we call her Ray I know I know I'm gonna call her Ray but that's because like my cat's name is Ray and actually funny story

I don't know if I told this already I might have so whatever I'll tell you if you have or not actually I won't remember I repeat myself all the time so when I adopted my cat Raven and when I adopted her her name was Astrid and when I got into the house on the bachelor first person I met was Astrid I was like oh my God funny story

when I adopted my cat her name was Astrid but I changed it because she just didn't look like an Astrid Then I turn around and like Raven comes in and I was like hi I'm Dean she goes hi I'm Raven and I'm like oh my god funny story meet Astrid wait that's really weird I know Universe shit right there I know love the universe that that's crazy Okay well who would you be interested in if you did go on Paradise You know I don't know I feel like we don't know these new guys as well yet And I just

I don't know I feel like there's maybe some gems in the Bachelor franchise that we haven't really seen too much of lately My hope would be like they bring like some people on From like further back maybe This is like Pilot Pete man Who's Pilot Pete owes this season? This season Oh my gosh I keep we need to sit down and just watch

He seems like a gem of a human He's super cute Yeah Yeah so I'm like I'm like okay I mean like maybe join the Mell High Club I get it that's so funny so like if he was on that would be pretty cool and if i went on um but no i just i just want to be surprised by somebody yeah you know i don't really care i just want to be very open

do you think that's the way to go into paradise is no expectations yeah and just see what happens yeah and see what i hate when i hear that people talk before they go on the show yeah and like they're like it's a set up and they're like okay i'll see you when i get there blah blah blah like i i want things to happen organically i don't want anyone to like push anything, just go and see what vibe is happening there. Yeah. And just let it naturally blossom. Yeah. But if I do go back

on, like, I really hope that they keep Wells as a bartender because I need like a friend there just to be like Danny, you're freaking dictumatized or something like that. Did it just be like, yeah. Why have I not heard this term? Oh my God. You can use it. Digmatized. Yeah. And then you can like, you can

strict them from the Vigenda. Oh. I'm sorry. Where? Yeah. I am so. I need an urban dictionary Wait, say that again Digmatize. Yeah, and then Vigenda. Vigenda. So use Vigenda in a sense.

Yes, please. He was on my Vigenda, and then he f***ed up, so he is, like, stricken from the Vigenda. Like, I'm not making time for him in my Vigenda. I love that. Virginia. Virginia.

Does Virginia have a Vigenda better? Wait, that's so good. Yeah. I watched a comedy series on HBO and God bless I need to find her freaking name but it was so funny and she like busted out with the Vagenda talk and I was like yes yeah that's good to me yeah I like that a lot yeah I'm trying to think of who I could even picture you with I can't picture myself with anybody well in there okay well I love tall men yeah of course you know yeah um tall drink of water yeah I get it

But I feel like totally just lost my train of that. Welcome to my world. Who is who you would be with? I'm saying I can't picture who you would be with. I've already resigned myself to the fact that I'll be like one of the older castmates

if I go on. You know, I'm 33, but man, I know I look good. Yeah, you look great. I know who I am. I've taken really good care of myself. And age does not matter. No.

So whatever. especially these days especially these days i have never felt more alive and young and like yes i feel like i look better i feel better than i did in my 20s so much better oh yeah so much better now yeah i'm also 33 yeah we're all 33 yeah my birthday's only a month away from yours really as july 29 oh perfect so i'm months amazing yeah what does that make you a leo what does that mean uh i'm very sensitive but very like outspoken yeah uh big big personality yeah yeah uh i don't like people there can only be one leo in a room yeah i don't like people well it's getting my fire yeah you and i get along oh yeah you're outgoing but like we get along with what's a libra what are there we try and like

balance situations we're an air sign we're just like super lovey yeah yeah but like we're like the compromises she calls me i'm really high strong well everyone that's one thing like I always get, yeah. Yeah, you are calm. Even in, like, code situations and stuff, like, nurses will come up and, especially, like, the new nurses, and they're just like, how did you just do that? Like, I was like, oh, y'all don't even know. I'm, like, freaking out on the inside, but, like, I, like, I'm just on the outside, you're calm. Yeah, I'm like, okay, I need you to go do this.

You're going to do this right now. I need you here. And, brop. I mean, I praise you guys for what you do. I can't even see, like, a scrape. Like, I'm not, I don't know how you do. I get used to it. Okay, but one thing I cannot get used to, anything that gets stuck under nails, like, things that like...

That's what bothers you? Yes. Or, like, broken bones, like, sticking up out of skin. I'm getting like... Okay, so you still get those. Oh, yeah. Okay, I was going to say, does anything phase you as a nurse? Oh, yeah.

Like, I've had to, like, really compose myself before and, like, smells. I was going to say, I'm not as good with smells anymore, because I'm not a bedside nurse anymore. Yeah. So I'm not right up in the stench is I used to. be now I'm one step away from the patient as a nurse practitioner and so when I smell something it's intense really definitely intense yeah I would say that bothers me now more than anything but I can't really think of anything that really like gets me anymore yeah I don't know I don't I just feel like seeing people like I'm not calm like you if there's an emergency or something

bad is happening to somebody I like freeze yeah and I just want to like drop to the ground and cry that's when I perform at my highest level yeah same The higher the intensity, the better I perform, which says something a little messed up about myself, which I'm fully aware, and I have been through therapy for. But the higher the intensity, like, the calmer I am. Yeah, that's where I feel like I'm at the best. Yeah, exactly. It can't really be tough in your personal life.

Yeah. Right. Like, I'm bored in like a safe, and not like a safe and like a healthy baby assignment. Like I'm bored. Which sounds bad because it's like, well, why are you wishing for like a super sick high acuity assignment it's like because i thrive in that environment because you're you're going to help yeah yeah yeah i get that what do you guys think is one thing you wish people understood about nursing and being a woman in medicine that we're not doctors in the call rooms yeah i mean it's not gray's

anatomy right yeah yeah something that we talk about which i've talked about on my blog for a long time and that dan dan you can you can dan my dad we have me dan But Dan and I have talked about on one of our podcast episodes is that nursing is just so insanely hard to understand. People don't know what we do. It's a silent profession. It's one of those things that you don't know what we do, but you know if we're not there. Right.

You know, like things start to fall apart if we're not there. What we don't do. Right. It's easier to define what we don't do. Yeah. So it would be really nice if people could just like realize that like sort of take our words for it. Yeah. We're working hard. This is what, you know, just because you can't define something with numbers and statistics and whatever doesn't mean that it's not happening. Yeah. So it would be really

nice if more people understood that. And if more, if we were able to work on a level, or like a level playing field all the time with everyone else. And that's changing. I will say, I've been a nurse for seven years. She's been a nurse or almost eight years. You've been a nurse for like 12. to something like that. So I will say like that's definitely changing. I really want that and I really want women to be nicer to each other. That is like a huge part of this podcast.

Like I just want to get along. Yeah. Because a lot of women say they empower other women and then they just don't. Yes. I totally agree with you on that. Yeah. Yeah.

And it's sad. Like we just really want an environment where everyone actually is supportive of each other and wants each other to thrive. Especially in an industry where it's over 90% women and the impact that could have if people did that, you know? That's crazy. Think about the world, like if we all actually supported each other. Yeah.

It would just be. Do you think that's getting better? I think it is. But at the same point, I feel like it's also threatening to some women. Yeah. To see other women like rise up. That's so true. I think we're at like a breaking point.

I think we're at like a major turning point in this country and this world. I think that we have the potential to either go the complete wrong direction or the complete right direction. So I think now that every I think right now everything matters, honestly, that women are doing and who is putting out the message and what the message is is extremely important. Yeah. So, you know, fingers crossed. Well, that's, I mean, a podcast is a big platform to be able to help with that. So good for you, ladies. I hope we do it justice.

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Okay, so how are you going to record a phone? Yeah. Okay. Oh, yeah. Mostly remember. I love Nashville. Yeah. So this is now my second time here.

And I'm just like, I'll just come back. I know. It's the best. So I think we'll probably do both. And maybe when you get too hot, you can come to Cleveland. Yeah. Because it's fine. God, it's getting hot here.

I know. is really hot. Cleveland's like 65 degrees right now. Really? Yeah. Oh my gosh. Yeah. It's it gets so gross hot here. Like don't you don't even want to walk outside because you're like, no. It's not like that. You can bake cookies in a car in this summer. It's true. It's yeah. It actually gets ridiculous. That's why I go to Canada for a month every year. And obviously being a nurse can be super demanding on both your time and energy. So what are things you ladies both do to kind of unwind and recharge your batteries? I love hot yoga. I love sweating all the badness out Yeah Hot yoga would probably be really good For your mind as well Yeah And dance classes

And dance classes Yes If you're in I love that I like I want to plug it And be like if you're in Nashville Well I'm I definitely need to go dancing with you

Well it's so much fun And it's like My friend Joy teaches his heels class And it's like sexy And empowering Yeah yeah Yeah just feel like You are in yourself

And you're like Hell yeah Take it any any like issues you're having that's what dance has always been for me it's always been super therapeutic like absolutely let it out like yeah love moving I love moving my body and just and it helps that there's like so many mirrors in front of you to feel yourself in like I look in the mirror and I'm like work yes yes work it's that like inner sexy confidence and then that starts coming out on the outside and then you're like nothing can stop me yeah I'm a bad bitch

I'm the same way and then I come home and I practice it by myself in my house and I'm like, God, I'm hot. Can everybody dance that goes there? I can't dance that I want, though. It's so many different, like, levels. It's an open class. I dance like the early Taylor Swift. Oh, good. Early Taylor Swift. I'm like, no, I mean, it's not good. No, but like here's the thing. Like, you keep going. I just want to do it anyway. Yeah, that's the thing. And you start watching everybody else and you start like, you just, you learn. And you become and you like, you grow as a dancer. You grow as a human. it's awesome yeah what about you dance it up oh I don't know I really struggle I struggle every day with

relaxing I have to start yoga I hate yoga but I have to do something for my brain and I think that that's going to be what it is I like to run if I work out I usually like run yeah so that feels good but it's also another like high intensity something so I'm trying to do something that's lower intensity as far as activity but otherwise um what what do I honestly like to do for fun I just like to come to Nashville yeah yeah travel I really like to something new that I'm trying is to like watch a TV show all the way through I don't watch TV so my boyfriend really likes like TV series yeah I'm really trying to like focus on TV and relax which sounds so stupid but you're in a very high intense makes me relax yeah just watch somebody do something maybe I'll be watching The Bachelor soon I don't know but somebody like do something that's not my life so i do like to do that i like to just be out i am i'm i like to socialize social yeah i do so that's about it i mean it sounds so sad right now i think i did

more during grad school but i just haven't cut a i can't i haven't cut a break in like the last year which is fine it's totally fine hey you know what you have a boyfriend it's probably nice to just spend time with him so that's basically what i've been doing that's why i'm like oh i watch tv yeah but but we don't get a lot of but that's what i'm talking about some together that's what i I was asking like what makes you just unwind like yeah yeah probably that just being with him he's very calm yeah he's he's like Danielle I said something to him this morning about you how like I was like we gotta go in my head I'm like we have to go we're gonna be late Danielle doesn't even have pants on yet she's like me and I was like yeah because he's just so calm like he's you know everything's gonna be okay yeah I was gonna come over my sweats and then I'm like it's 85 degrees I can't put sweats on I know I'm always so freezing because I keep the AC just cranked in here. I was like, yeah, but Cam will probably have the AC on.

I know. That's my ongoing problem in Nashville where you step outside and you sweat and then you step inside somewhere else and you're like an icicle. What advice would you have for women who are interested in getting into the medical field? Is there anything you wish you knew back when you were getting into it that somebody didn't tell you just to help you prepare? I think just kind of lean on each other Like my nursing school friends We're all still friends

And like we spent many late nights Like making up games To study But But be Don't Don't walk in and think you know everything Just because you got top grades in your class

Because it's a whole other field Once you get into Like onto your floor You start learning ways that like things are actually done um it's it's completely different from clinicals versus actually being and working and having your own patient and you're just always be open to learning something because that's one thing I love I learned something every freaking day and if I don't understand something I ask I ask the team yeah I'm like

okay and I I just want to know where your thought process is I'm making this decision for this patient because it seems like this, this, and this is counterintuitive. So I just really want to understand. And if you approach things like that, it's not as threatening. People aren't like trying to defend themselves. It's more of a learning environment. So if you can create that environment for yourself, it's better for yourself, it's better for the docs.

It makes the team work a lot better. Yeah. I have two small things. I completely agree with you, by the way. One would be to stay out of the gossip as much as possible because it's so toxic. So toxic. And it's, I haven't worked in a lot of environments where it doesn't exist. It just seems to be a constant that you have to learn how to navigate.

And the best that you can stay out of it, the better you will be. And like just realize that it really, really hurts people on a level that I don't know that a lot can comprehend. It's hurt me before, like in very serious ways. And I, so I think it's super important to hold on to that and not become mean because of it. Yeah. So that's super important. And then the second thing would be particularly in relation to working with women, no matter whether you're a nurse, a doctor, respiratory therapist, whatever. Recognize certain things within yourself where, you know, I was just telling Dee yesterday.

I told her about a situation that I've encountered and how, you know, a friend. of mine was achieving something that I wasn't achieving. And I could recognize within myself that I instantly felt jealous. You know, it's not that I was like mad at her. I was jealous. I like, I wanted what she had. But at the same time, at least I could recognize that and be like, you're being ridiculous. Like, you're being ridiculous. She earned it. Or whether or not she earned it or she got lucky, it's hers. It's not yours. You know, so like you need to support her in what she's doing. And I think that's just a life lesson in general, but it becomes very important whenever you're working in a hospital setting or in medicine

because there will always be people achieving things that you're not achieving. You know, there's so much jealousy and so many egos. And you have to just be so secure within yourself. And so I think that's extraordinarily, extraordinarily important to realize that. I think that in just in life. yeah like in anything you do career wise like even in the instagram world you know you can't i find myself and this clio will always say that she goes you can be so crazy but you're so self-aware when you're being crazy that it's like okay that's that's exactly right yeah i'm i'm very self-aware

and i'll realize immediately when i'm being out of control or outrageous or and i'll always be like god i'm being so crazy right now yeah and then i'll tone it down and i'll reel it in or have a little reality check, but I'll do that same thing. I'll be like, well, they're going to come out of this world and have more followers and they'll probably get a podcast. And I'm like, shut up, Caitlin. Like, because really at the end of the day, I'm very secure in what I'm doing. I love what I do. Yeah. And I don't care about, I don't even look at the downloads for my podcast because I don't want to care about numbers. Yeah. But sometimes, you know, you can't help but let your brain go there. And I think people do that in all industries and you have to just kind of be

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Yeah, I can confess. Okay. Yeah. I'm ready for it. Because I have to think hard about these things because I'm just like, I want it to be like funny you know and then I'm like oh but oh I know I know I hear you this isn't anything like happened like recently but it's one of like the funnier moments I think I've experienced yes I was cuddling with like a boyfriend like in the past and like fall asleep and I farted so loud

like my leg was like up and over yes and like I farted and it woke both of us up and he was like what was that i was like nothing nothing is fine i just like i don't know i think it was you're like uh it was my leg on the leather couch this couch isn't leather okay yeah yeah so he never knew you farted no or he didn't say or he just didn't say oh my gosh that's so funny it was just the position i was just like god damn it woke my woke i woke right up okay you know what that's funny I find that if you wear Were you wearing underwear?

No Yeah It's extra loud Extra loud And I feel like I feel like the underwear is a buffer For even like I feel like it holds in your tooth sometimes Yeah

Yeah Have you seen those charcoal underwear They have like charcoal filters What? I think it was like on shark tank or something It was these like old I don't even know what to say about that I'm just

Wait It was like a panty liner That you should do you shot Yeah, it's like a charcoal filter. If you have to have a charcoal filter on your anus, you seriously need to see a medical professional. That is ridiculous. You need to take some digestive enzymes or something.

That's like on the lady gang, they had like a muffler, a fart muffler. When you go to the bathroom, they were trying to pitch it to Shark Tank as well. It's so funny. Oh, my goodness gracious. So you needed charcoal panties is what you're... No, it didn't smell. It was just the normal. But I will say in Japan, they have these buttons and the bathers that like make flushing noises.

So anytime like you're pooping or like you're farting, you just hit the flesh noise. Oh my gosh. That is so smart. Brilliant. Their toilets. They are. Why are their toilets so advanced? Why don't we have them here?

I was in South Korea. Polite luxuries of a flush button noise. Well, and they have like music in the bathroom. Yeah. So you can't. I always. So you can have a moment to yourself. Yeah.

I always wonder that when I'm in airport bathrooms or certain things. I'm like, why is there, why don't they play music in bathrooms? Why do we all need to listen to each other, like, do our thing? We got to take back the toilet. We got to take back the toilet. I am so into the flushing noises. Right? Yeah.

It saves water, you know, because like, some, like, you might just do the courtesy flush, but then it's like, you're wasting all that freaking water. That's true. And I always, I'm a big courtesy flusher. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just for the, yeah.

Okay. Okay. But, you know, if you had that button, that noise. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, poopery goes a long way. Poo-a-ri does go a long way. Okay. My gosh. So my confession.

Good confession, by the way. That's a great one. I just was not sure how gross I should go with this. The gross or the better. So I was going to start by saying that I'm just a really gross person. Like, when I'm by myself, like, I pick my nose. I may not shower for two to three days. I just like to do gross things.

Like, clean my ears out, like, everything. That's not gross. that's necessary. Yeah, but like, then I like, you know, you like look at it. Like, it's like, I'm gross too. Not polite. Like, I'm not polite. You don't have to be when you're alone.

No. Well, I'm not always polite when I'm with people either. But not polite. So then I, then I started thinking and I transitioned to, like, D and I sort of talked about our confessions before. Yeah. I was like, well, if you're going there, uh, one time long, long ago. Yeah.

I was the ripe age of 19. Yeah. So I was very easily embarrassed. And I was this hot little. number wearing this hot little like string bikini on the beach in Turks and Kekos. Yeah. And, uh, I had just gotten off the plane. I was with a man on a trip. I cannot believe my parents let me do that, but they did because they couldn't stop me and like a wild child. So what was the point? Me too. So they, um, so we get off the plane and I'm, we go to this bar

and I'm eating fresh fruit and something about the, and I'm like, oh God, this is the best fresh fruit I'd ever have. Something about the fruit like had a bug or something. And I, in I had IBS. I still have it, like, sometimes. I had it really bad back then. And I instantly was like, oh my God, like, I have to go to the bathroom. Like now. Yeah. And I'm just, I'm thinking, like, what am I going to do? And I look up. I had this moment where I was like, I'm with him. And I like, look up and I'm like, I can't run to the villa. Like, I'm not going to make it back to the villa to go to the bathroom. And then I look at the ocean. I'm like, all right, that's what I'm going to do. So I just looked at him and I was like, you know, I'm just going to, I'm getting really hot. I'm

just going to go swim out. So I swam out in the ocean and the water there is like crystal clear blue. Oh my gosh. I swam out and I just took my bikini bottoms off and I just diarrheaed in the ocean. The current just like took it away. And I just sat there and I was like, I'm embarrassed but I feel so much better. Just put my bottoms back on and like swam back like nothing happened. That's amazing. It was one of my finest moments. One of my finest moments. It's really stellar. I would be really proud of that. Thank you. I was so embarrassed. I couldn't talk about it until like five years later, but now I talk about it all the time because I'm just like, people have to have done this at some point. Oh, I'm sure. You just got to, I don't know, but I did it with the current, so it just took it away.

Like, it never happened. That's what they did. It never happened. Erased it from my mind. So that's hilarious. It's always funny. It's always funny. And it always will be. It's always. You know what? I don't care what people say. Just laugh me now. mine is not poop related because i've told enough of those but i kind of told you guys earlier because i'm having just a bit of a day today with functioning yeah because okay i don't know if people are going to like get mad at me for this but i don't think so because it was legal so i was in seattle visiting jason and we were like outriding bikes yesterday and i he had to make a couple phone calls

like work calls and so I we rode past this this place that had edibles like it was because it's legal there now yeah and I'm like yeah right you can just walk in a store and buy like delicious gummies that get you high and it's all fine and so he was doing his calls and doing a little work stuff and so I went and got these little blue candy ribbons which are weed gummies and and I was like and I've heard so many stories so I've never done edibles before I've never I'm I don't do this. I just was like, I don't want to try it.

I'm in Seattle. It's legal. Yeah. It's from the ground. It's fine. Right. And so I had half of one. And then I was like, I heard horror stories about how girls or guys have half and

then they think they're not high. So they take the other half. And then they're like, whoa, why'd I do that? Yep. And you got to let it kick in. So that was me. So I took half and I was like, no, I don't really feel anything. And so I took the other half.

And I'm telling you. like I can't believe I didn't have a panic attack I started I was so anxious I was so high I couldn't even walk like I actually couldn't walk and I had to go that worth it no and Jason was like I told him and he was like oh my gosh what are you doing and I had to go to the airport and fly from Seattle to Nashville which is a five hour flight oh my god and so I was freaking out and I'm like okay I'm just going to get to the airport I'm just going to get through And I'm going to get like a massage and that'll calm me down. And so I go and get this massage. I didn't even know where I was. Oh my God. I didn't. It was like I blacked out too.

I was like, I don't, I don't even know what would happen. My mind would just shut down. Like I wasn't sleeping. It was just there's nothing going on. And then I'd be like, where am I? And then I was like, okay. And I paid and I left and I go to get on the plane. And I honestly couldn't, I couldn't talk.

I couldn't walk. I could just sitting there was a big job for me. I was so high. I couldn't even talk to Jason on the phone because I would panic. Like I didn't want him to be like, oh my God, you're high. Like I couldn't even talk to him on the phone because I just needed to calm myself down and get through it. And then I just, thank God, I had nobody sitting beside me on the plane. And I just slept to the whole flight.

God, yeah. And I got home and I just went, oh, I can't believe I'm made it home. I've never doing that again. Well, you just, your confession was. like the biggest PSA ever yeah like don't get to be careful yeah or like be really careful with those things yeah

they are no joke because I kept thinking how crazy could gummies be like they taste delicious it doesn't feel like it's just a little eat like eight of them I would have died you seriously would have had to be in hospital I don't know what I would have done because that was I can't imagine being more

high than I was yesterday and I'm just like don't do drugs kids, okay? It's all that I'm getting out. I'm like, should I even be telling nurses this thing? Well,

it's, we don't care. Okay. So here's the thing. I really, it's going to be legalized. Yeah. And I think it should. There's so many medicinal purposes for it. There's even medicinal purposes for, um, like mushrooms and stuff.

Right. Doing like microdosing and stuff with that. Yeah. And it's helping people with depression. Yeah. It's a more natural way. Um, so you know what? I'm just, I'm fascinated to learn.

learn more about in general. It's fascinating. I don't know about your last facility. Like if it was legal, even if it was legal, I still can't. Yeah. I don't know. I can't smoke pot. I'm curious what it's like in Colorado. Like, do they

drug test and stuff? Like, are you allowed because, oh, okay. The hospital can drug test you. Even if it's legal, the hospital can drug test you and if you turn up positive, you can get fired. Wait, am I going to get in trouble for like flying and going to the airport and crossing a border park? No. No, no, no, no. This is just institution.

I think it would be the same thing as like you know you can't go to work drunk right you know yeah so that's true I mean I go to work drunk all the time well I mean your work is here yeah it's called off off the vine yeah we get drunk here okay that's part of the job that's a job requirement

actually okay I have a fun little never have I ever nurse edition game for you ladies ooh let's do it okay never have I ever had crush on a patient or a patient's family member oh i haven't she has she definitely has some of my friends yes okay i'm just good i mean i've seen some really hot dance i mean i yeah like it's hard not to say but then i'm like oh good job girl that's funny yeah yeah i just haven't i'm really hard

girl to turn on i really am it depends on the time of the month you could put the hottest man in front of me And I'd be like, whatever, like, you just don't impress me. I'm not hard to impress. I mean, I'm hard. It's hard for me to be impressed. Okay. Yeah. So, no.

I wish I worked with Josh Jamel. Then I would. Oh, my gosh. What? That guy's like, yeah. Oh, he's so hot. Yeah, but he, 10 years ago. Yeah, so I was going to say, no.

I think he's still hot. He's still smoking. I mean, he's like, got some, like, gray. And he's just like. Wait, I want to Google a picture of him. you're going to recently is he still with fergie no no oh how long you go it's he's still hot oh yeah he is hot yeah i told you i told you yeah he okay yeah he's actually quite good looking oh oh yeah i love how you're like you know what

you can put the hottest guy in front of me i'll be like you don't impress me i show you a picture of josh too well after and you're like she's like the most attractive picture on the planet i mean also there's the first one that came up yeah he is hot I told you told you still like aging like a fine one fair fair he really is all right okay never have I ever had a crush on a doctor that you work with oh I have I have I have been worked an extra shift oh yeah just to like a doctor I work with oh it was bad don't do it don't ever do that never do that it was it was a mistake I was I was like I had just been divorced yeah so I was like, oh, I'm going to go on a date with this guy.

So I did. And it was just not a good idea. But yeah, no, I've had crushes on all sorts of doctors. I used to go to I used to go, you know, EP doctors, electrophysiology. Like doctors that, they're super nerdy. So there's cardiologists and then there's doctors that deal

with the electrical activity in your heart only. Oh, wow. So I had this crush on this EP doctor and I used to go to the EP educational dinners. Oh. just to sit at the same table Oh, that's pathetic. No, that's cute.

Yeah, I had crushers on all sorts of things. I get crushes on people's brains. Yeah, I mean, they're so smart. That's the thing. Like, they have to be, it's always somebody super intelligent that I'm like, ooh. Yeah. I thought you meant like their actual brains. Like the physical.

Yeah. Like they're physical. I was like, that is the weirdest you've ever said. That's your confession. Not right there. Okay, like they're intelligence. They're intelligence. Okay.

And like how they're. brainworks how they see things how they like yeah me too okay i could see that i like yeah i have crushes on people's brains too yeah that's the most important part i agree um never have i ever done something other than sleep in an on-call room true yeah i've only ever well i've never been in an on-call room but i have like you said true that's not the game it's never ever like false you know what i can't play this game though i have foregone my lunch break to take a nap because I was so tired at work I was like I'm not going to I need to like take a nap but you've never like used that room for something else no well we're not even allowed in them yeah we one like that's another misconception like if you're working she works in the NICU I work in the cardiac surgical ICU you we can't leave oh there's not fair yeah so stupid and if there are some nurses who do and I just don't know how they do it I can never leave my patients I just sit there and stare at them nonstop I honestly like I'm very obsessive I can't leave so I'm I'm a numbers watcher yeah oh me too I'll just sit there and watch the monitor if I'm not like doing anything I'll just watch for changes and stuff so no I could never leave I don't I don't promote that either I'm very serious about I'm not always a serious person but I don't promote that but you are supposed to take a break you are I'm not good at that either yeah wait I was just saying if have you done something other than sleep in the on call like when you are in the room yeah no I'm not

ever been in the room oh you don't even go there oh you don't even take a break i mean we get a we have a room where we're but you're a stupid question i take it back you're supposed to be able to sleep you're supposed to be able to take like a sleep we're not supposed to sleep nurse practitioners doctors can sleep at night nurse practitioners i mean not but like they have a room where i mean our nurse practitioners have room where they can go and like lay down and then like we have all the pagers and stuff on we have an office but we don't have like an area to sleep I have an office with a desk Yeah

But that's crazy We don't have that Okay well I take it back I immediately regret that question I don't regret it It's a good question It's a great question I'm just a stickler for the rules

Apparently that's what I sounded like I basically like shamed you for that No I like it You're very committed to your job As you should be As you should be I love my job Never have I ever

eaten food off a patient's tray Definitely done that you have still do it yeah i have yeah they have these briars ice cream cups now oh what am i supposed to do about that yeah and then patients don't eat and they're just delivered and then they just sit there yeah it's a waste it's actually rude if you don't yeah yeah okay fair totally eat um okay i always do i always i sometimes do can you not uh can you not segments on the podcast so i figured a nurse can you not would be Probably very easy for you guys to come up with.

Oh, boy. I feel like we did a couple of these last time. A nurse, can you not? Like it could be about patients, other nurses, like something that happens at the hospital that you're like, can you not do that? Can you not put in a surprise order and then come and tell me that like you need.

needed it done an hour ago and you did not tell me you did not come and tell me that you needed this down to me hope I don't do that I don't do that it's good to hear that yeah because these new computer systems don't always come through very well yeah they like if it's an important thing like just come and just come and tell me what you need to do yeah yeah yeah yeah oh man why can you not wear perfume of any kind oh oh yeah and women I don't want to smell it Well, sometimes, I love smells, sometimes, like, I, I mean, I would rather you smelled, like, fresh than, just, right. Just wash yourself. Yeah.

So, just wash yourself. That's it. Like, but some people will come on, like, really is offensive. Okay, okay. Really? Yeah. And I might get shamed for this, but, like, working nights, can you not come in with a full fucking face of contoured makeup for your shift? I agree.

Oh. Like, who are you, like, who are you trying to, who are you trying to impress? The doctors that their crushes on. Yeah. half the time I like I don't I don't I don't I don't I would never wear makeup to work yeah I wear I have to wear I have to wear I've been wearing it every day since I was like 15 yeah yeah have to wear it but other than that yeah I just I look homeless but especially I just look straight up homeless if it weren't for my nice scrubs like that's it I'm too tired I don't yeah you know

nobody wants to I'm not there to impress anyone I already locked down a man yeah I got no one to impressed. And in an emergency situation, when I tell you I need something ASAP, can you not walk slowly and then to go grab something that I need? And on the flip side, can you not scream and obnoxiously run when there's not something wrong? When it's not a life and death there is no running. Unless somebody is dying, stop running. It's like a false alarm. And that'll make other people panic. For sure. Yeah. Yeah. It's just bad. Gosh, we could go on for forever. I have other questions.

So if you like think of one, you can just interrupt me with the can you not. Would you rather give up coffee or alcohol? Alcohol. I don't really drink coffee, so I'm going to give up coffee. Okay. I like whiskey. Best piece of advice you've ever received. Always have a job.

Always be able to take care of yourself. my dad. Tom LeVak. He always, Tom, always says to me, you always need to be able to take care of yourself. Whether you marry somebody that can afford to take care of you or whatever, you never know what could happen to that person

and you never know what could happen to you. So you always need to have a way to take care of yourself. And it makes you feel good. Yeah, I've never forgotten that. Yeah, self-worth too. Self-worth. Yeah. That's my Tom's advice.

Thanks, Tom. And men everywhere. I love it. And men everywhere. Yeah. Minds to always challenge yourself. And even if something seems scary and uncomfortable, that's when all the change and growth happens. So lean into the discomfort.

Yeah, lean into the discomfort. Cheryl Sandberg was on with that lean-in business. Who's this? Cheryl Sandberg. See, I thought that was Brunea Brown. Yeah, I thought it was. Yeah. Oh, sorry.

Cheryl Sandberg's another one. That's really great. But you're right. It was Brayne. Yeah, that's my plan today. I'm going to watch the Brunee Brown thing that she did on Netflix. Oh, what? Yeah.

Yeah. Netflix. I didn't know she had that. I don't know what it's called. Probably lean into the discomfort or something. Or shame. I really messed that one up. Okay, if you both weren't a nurse, what would you be doing?

I always kind of said I'd go back to be like a historian because I love history. history but yeah I love history but I also really love doing hair so I might be like a cosmetology very different things I know I'd probably I'd be you'd be a writer I'd be yeah I'd be an artist yeah I'd either be I'd be a writer slash like painter I'd like live my like Andy Warhol or uh Georgia O'Keefe or something yeah I do love to write I want to be an author too you can help me write my book when I do it. I want to be able to write it myself. I don't want to get somebody to do it for me. But I just feel

like I'm not. I'm good at thoughts. I can talk out thoughts and I can talk about all my feelings and things that have happened and I can have humor to it. But the actual writing for me is what I struggle with. My last question is what is something you think everyone should do at least once in their lives? Skinny dip. I love skinny dipping. It's so much fun.

Yeah. It's like high. I would love it. Yeah. Get naked. Get in that water. If it's a full moon, even better. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. Or it will be a full moon because you puts out. Where did you do it? Where have it, I? I love it too.

I'm jealous. Yeah. I love being naked in the water. I love being liberated. Yeah. It really is. I remember coming home from being out one night and it was when I was staying in Canada on a lake. And I went skinny dipping. And I remember saying out of my friend, I feel like somebody put something in my drink. because I feel so high, but it was really just the act of skinny-dicking. Yes. Yes. That makes you feel so high on life. Yeah.

Yeah. I want to do it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If we haven't encouraged you, I don't know what. Like that was, yeah. Okay.

Yeah. It's on my list. Okay. Always take a topless pick, man. I mean, like, from, I mean, like, I feel so much better about myself these days. Like five years ago, I wouldn't have ever done that. But now I'm just like, I would totally do it.

Yeah. Yeah. That sounds great. Yeah. Yeah. It is. Mine is travel by yourself. I think you should go by yourself somewhere.

I agree with that. You've learned so much traveling. And you know you have to just figure things out for yourself and that in itself is empowering. It really is. It really is. It's amazing what you can do. Yeah.

You're like, oh, wow, I just did that. And you just figure it out for yourself and then you're like, I can do anything. Yeah. For sure. It's a good one. I like that. All right.

Well, I'm like looking at the time. I'm like, we've gone way over. So great. Lots of content. Well, good luck to you both on your podcast. Thank you so much. definitely be a guest yes you can use this you can come here and record them in this it's not a recording studio there's no it's not soundproof we will we will come to you yeah yeah

absolutely that would be great what you so much i you're just i just love you i know i wasn't even on my a game today i've got like my edible hangover over here you you guys need to come back when we podcast next time and we all have wine. That's what I usually do. Yeah, I can do that for sure. I'll have whiskey, but that's fine. I'll have wine. Right. Right. Okay, wine and whiskey. I have some here, but it's a little early. It is a little early. I get it. I get it. Okay, so tell us also your Instagram again. Mine's at Nurse abnormalities. My website's nurse abnormalities.com. Everything's nurse abnormalities. Okay. Basically, yeah. And I'm at DM Mulpe and we are at the WoMed on Twitter.

and Instagram. That's awesome. Oh, I'm so excited for you guys. And I'm excited for if, if you go on Paradise. Yeah, me too. Yeah. You can't wait to party and, like, have my friends over and stuff to watch. I mean, I feel like a lot of people are riding on.

Make it happen, ABC. Come on. Bring that Big D energy to Paradise. Thank you in advance. Big D. Energy. Okay. That's my clone myself. Big D. Energy.

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