Speaker 1: My guess is are Tammy Lewis.
Speaker 2: He's a registered nurse with more than thirty years of
Speaker 2: experience in health care money making multifast. You're in a
Speaker 2: success will know he's giving me many occasions in home
Speaker 2: care and business.
Speaker 1: I'm not consulting agents. You know he'll be in c
Speaker 1: I'm a consultant. You didn't make my decisions. Make what
Speaker 1: he recognized.
Speaker 2: Him for my money for company, her expertise in the
Speaker 2: home care industry, you know if you want to know
Speaker 2: more about her, you're going to find out.
Speaker 1: Ideal health Care Solutions, Inc.
Speaker 2: Is a consulting firm for small to mid size and
Speaker 2: startup home care agencies. Please welcome the Money Making Conversations Masterclass.
Speaker 2: Tammy Lewis. How are you doing, Tammy?
Speaker 3: I'm doing.
Speaker 1: How are you pretty good? Where you based at? Tammy?
Speaker 1: Where are you based that?
Speaker 3: I'm actually North Carolina?
Speaker 2: North Carolina one of my favorite states. Or any any
Speaker 2: any particular meal that you like or you like a
Speaker 2: a Southern girl type or menu person or what what
Speaker 2: would you like to eat if you had three pieces,
Speaker 2: if you had to put three things, when would you
Speaker 2: start your dessert? Okay, see I start I eat my
Speaker 2: dessert first, and people said start your desert. They always
Speaker 2: looking at me crazy when I do that. But I
Speaker 2: love my dessert first. So what do you What would
Speaker 2: your r trade look like and what would your dessert
Speaker 2: look like? Being from Raleigh, North Carolina?
Speaker 3: Yeah, see I didn't say I was from Raleigh, said
Speaker 3: I recited Carolina. Well, you would have to take it
Speaker 3: back to Nashville tennis.
Speaker 2: Ticketed ticket now were talking about fried ticket now?
Speaker 4: What are you?
Speaker 3: Fried chicken? And Colgreens now? But like you, I eat
Speaker 3: my dessert first. I actually went out Yeah, I actually
Speaker 3: went out there ate earlier and I had my cheesecake first.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 5: I see.
Speaker 1: What type of cheese toket did you have? What did
Speaker 1: are your? Are your? Are you a person? Who are you?
Speaker 1: Are you a cook or a baker?
Speaker 2: Or you're just a person that goes out and you're
Speaker 2: not one of these just a just a just a
Speaker 2: person that buys stuff and eat it and you just
Speaker 2: enjoy food.
Speaker 3: Listen, I can do it all, but I just enjoy food.
Speaker 1: There you go, you just like me, now enjoy food?
Speaker 2: Did I didn't want to give you all off target
Speaker 2: because I know why you came on the show. This
Speaker 2: is money making conversations, master classes, not uh, it's not
Speaker 2: the food Network.
Speaker 1: This is why people like you, you know, come on
Speaker 1: the show.
Speaker 2: And uh, and and and and and I've never had
Speaker 2: a get I called you.
Speaker 1: Prior to the show. I never had a guess like
Speaker 1: they said, we shout, I don't know how to take that.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, don't take it bad. Don't take
Speaker 1: it bad.
Speaker 3: What you say.
Speaker 2: I'm saying that you know in the healthcare business, you
Speaker 2: know you you you know, you know about hospitals, you
Speaker 2: know about doctors, those nurses, orderlies and.
Speaker 1: All that stuff. That's the part of.
Speaker 2: The the healthcare business that we all know about. Okay,
Speaker 2: now I'm hearing a nurse talking from an entrepreneurial perspective.
Speaker 2: I've never heard of that process, you.
Speaker 1: Know, I know that. Talk to us about how did
Speaker 1: you get involved? What inspired you to get into the industry.
Speaker 3: Well, when I was five, I decided to become a
Speaker 3: nurse after watching how they cared for my grandmothers who
Speaker 3: both passed away from cancer, and I saw how they
Speaker 3: took care of them. So that was really when I
Speaker 3: decided to become a nurse. But after working in the
Speaker 3: healthcare industry for a number of years. I saw a
Speaker 3: lot of things that I didn't like and how things
Speaker 3: were being run right, So I started working for agencies
Speaker 3: and one of the agencies that I worked for was
Speaker 3: a registry and basically what we did was since caregivers
Speaker 3: out into the homes. And I liked it, you know,
Speaker 3: I you know, because at that point you kind of
Speaker 3: make the rules. You know, you set the standards. You know,
Speaker 3: you choose the workers, you know, you make the rules,
Speaker 3: you set the times. You know, you get to cater
Speaker 3: to the clients. And I kind of liked the structure
Speaker 3: of that. And because I worked in geriatrics for so long,
Speaker 3: in the nursing facilities and I saw, you know, how
Speaker 3: administration was, you know, handling things. I saw how the
Speaker 3: caregivers abuse the clients and they were trying. Yes, I
Speaker 3: saw a lot of abuse. I was reporting the abuse.
Speaker 3: Nothing was being done about it because you know, they're
Speaker 3: working short so they don't want to lose their workers,
Speaker 3: so they're continuing to let these caregivers work on the floor.
Speaker 3: So that's when I decided that I was going to
Speaker 3: start my.
Speaker 2: Own business further because I want to really get a
Speaker 2: clear understand because because my mom who's now passed, you know,
Speaker 2: we had somebody a home care for her. You know,
Speaker 2: it's hard getting somebody that was in Houston, Texas. Hard
Speaker 2: getting somebody that you trust or you know, because you
Speaker 2: know you're leaving basically a stranger at your at your
Speaker 2: at an elderly person's multi vulnerable state. You know, she
Speaker 2: had to be helped to shout, she had to be
Speaker 2: helped to the restroom, you know. And and so how
Speaker 2: does one because I'm sure somebody else who's listening to
Speaker 2: this this show is in similar situation I was or
Speaker 2: in currently, how does one vet a quality home care
Speaker 2: person on an agency is?
Speaker 3: It's really, honestly, it's experienced. Once you do the interviews,
Speaker 3: the multiple interviews, once you do the background checks, once
Speaker 3: you do the personality test, once you do the drug screens.
Speaker 3: It's really listening to your gut once you cause you
Speaker 3: still have to check references. But one of the things
Speaker 3: that I encouraged the families to do was to get
Speaker 3: nanny cams. We actually with my agency, we partnered with
Speaker 3: a company sold nanny cams. So we always encourage the
Speaker 3: families to do that and we let the workers know, hey,
Speaker 3: these families, they're going to be using nanny cams. So
Speaker 3: when you go there, you know, you don't be on
Speaker 3: your phones, you know, don't be on social media. Do
Speaker 3: what you're supposed to do. But the other thing is
Speaker 3: you have to make sure that you get experienced workers.
Speaker 3: A lot of and I hate to say this, but
Speaker 3: it's true, a lot of the younger people they just
Speaker 3: didn't work out because they don't have anything in common,
Speaker 3: you know, with a geriatric patient. So when you're sending
Speaker 3: people to the homes, you really want to make sure
Speaker 3: that you're matching them. And one of the things that
Speaker 3: we did at my agency was we would choose three
Speaker 3: different workers and to take the workers to the homes
Speaker 3: at separate times, and also let the family members be
Speaker 3: a part of the interview process because at that point,
Speaker 3: it's like they're choosing the worker as well. So you
Speaker 3: want to you know, involve the family members and give
Speaker 3: them a say so.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, it's really interesting when I hear this,
Speaker 2: because you know, we have to you slow it down.
Speaker 2: You know, this is a business. Let's remember this.
Speaker 1: You know a lot of.
Speaker 2: People making a lot of money in this business. People
Speaker 2: are getting paid salaries, you know, in these business staffing
Speaker 2: agencies that that that that UH employ people to fill
Speaker 2: these positions that out there. And that's a fear factor
Speaker 2: when I say that, in the fact that, like you said,
Speaker 2: screen and you can screen you, you know, because the
Speaker 2: thing that really blows me away.
Speaker 1: Is that is it more older it's people? Is it
Speaker 1: more older people now than it is when I was
Speaker 1: a kid? Of what is going on here?
Speaker 4: Because it.
Speaker 1: Seems like it's like it seems like it's just an outbreak.
Speaker 1: I'm just community exploded. What's going on here?
Speaker 3: People are living longer. You know, back then people live
Speaker 3: to what maybe seventy eighty.
Speaker 1: These people are a.
Speaker 3: Hundred years old.
Speaker 1: True that you used to be like, oh yeah, just
Speaker 1: the big thing can now now go down the streets?
Speaker 1: Ye hundred two hundred two.
Speaker 3: No, Seriously, I have taken care of cling who are
Speaker 3: over one hundred years old. They are living longer, and
Speaker 3: not only that, they are bank rusting the long term
Speaker 3: care insurance kind of be These companies are going under
Speaker 3: because they only expected them to live to sixty seventy
Speaker 3: and a half to seventy years. Now these people are living,
Speaker 3: you know, thirty years longer. And that's how they're paying
Speaker 3: for this this care. So yeah, that people are just
Speaker 3: living longer.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to say that then I wasn't trying
Speaker 2: to be funny, you know, Shine, It's just funny anyway.
Speaker 2: But I'm going like, Okay, Now, when I was a kid,
Speaker 2: you know, Grandma and Grandpaul, you know, they went on
Speaker 2: by their business. You know today, Oh yeah, Grandma about
Speaker 2: out there of me?
Speaker 1: Okay, And so.
Speaker 3: So it is even day is it is it diet?
Speaker 1: Is it is a diet? What is what is?
Speaker 3: What is?
Speaker 1: Cause of day?
Speaker 3: It is? It's diet, it's exercise. You can go out
Speaker 3: to the track at any given day and find a
Speaker 3: ninety year old woman walking five miles and you're trying
Speaker 3: to keep Oh my god. You know, I'm telling you
Speaker 3: they are. They're taking better care of themselves. But you
Speaker 3: had to understand that the healthcare system, you know, it's
Speaker 3: a lot better than it it was back then. There
Speaker 3: are a lot of things that we know now that
Speaker 3: doctors know now that they didn't know back then. The
Speaker 3: nurses know now that they didn't know back then. So
Speaker 3: so the healthcare system has evolved, right right right. You know,
Speaker 3: they had medications for things that they didn't have back
Speaker 3: when our grandparents, you know.
Speaker 2: Was probably now I know that I know that you had,
Speaker 2: you know, I know shifting gears because I'm a cancer survivor,
Speaker 2: you know, and I remember when I was announced fifteen.
Speaker 2: I not always to people, you know, I'm all I
Speaker 2: always got to get checked up every year, every six
Speaker 2: months because you know, cancer is that great. You don't
Speaker 2: want him knocking on your door, you know, surprise you. Okay,
Speaker 2: so you want to make sure that there's an issue.
Speaker 2: And I know you you suffered the loss in your
Speaker 2: family due to cancer. How did you How did you
Speaker 2: deal with that? And it was your husband?
Speaker 3: Correct, yes, it was it was my husband. Grieving wise,
Speaker 3: I'm still dealing with it because he just passed away
Speaker 3: last year. Right now, as a healthcare professional, it's kind
Speaker 3: of hard because as nurses, we know too much, you know,
Speaker 3: sometimes you can know too much. And the type of
Speaker 3: cancer he had was a brain cancer called gulio blastoma.
Speaker 3: And there really are no tail tale signs for glio.
Speaker 3: Most of the time. By the time they find it,
Speaker 3: it's because that person has a seizure. You know, There's
Speaker 3: not a lot that leads up to it. And that's
Speaker 3: basically what happened to him. He had a seizure. You know,
Speaker 3: I took him to the hospital. They couldn't find anything,
Speaker 3: you know, brought him home. He had another seizure, took
Speaker 3: him to a different hospital. You know, they had to
Speaker 3: do the catskins the MRI and that's how they found it.
Speaker 3: And when they did the biopsy, you know, it came
Speaker 3: back and it was level four, which is like the
Speaker 3: last state. So he you know, they were giving him
Speaker 3: a matter of months because glio blastema is the most
Speaker 3: aggressive cancer there is. Is so aggressive and even if
Speaker 3: they had caught it earlier and he would have been
Speaker 3: a candidate for surgery, it still grows back. It's just
Speaker 3: that aggressive and he comes back with a vengeance. But
Speaker 3: he actually I kept him at home in chear for
Speaker 3: him and he actually lived two years in a month.
Speaker 1: Congratulations.
Speaker 3: You know. When we found that out, I'm like, oh
Speaker 3: my goodness, you know, because yeah, they were only giving
Speaker 3: him a matter of months. Wow, And the doctor said,
Speaker 3: you know, maybe a year, but they weren't anticipating, you know,
Speaker 3: him living that long. But listen, we have some major
Speaker 3: prayer warriors. And I was on my knee because I'm
Speaker 3: like you know, you.
Speaker 2: Find you find God and you find God and these
Speaker 2: moments where.
Speaker 3: Where you will. But yeah, he passed away last year
Speaker 3: and thank you. I started in an organization of a
Speaker 3: foundation called the Anthony Lewis Foundation.
Speaker 2: Hey, I want to go to break and I want
Speaker 2: to I don't want to rush through this the foundation.
Speaker 2: I want to hear more information about that, The Anthony
Speaker 2: Lewis Foundation for Brain Tumors Incorporated. We were right back.
Speaker 2: I'm talking with Tammy Lewis. He's a she's a registered nurse,
Speaker 2: you know in there thirty years of business and healthcare business.
Speaker 2: And now she's consulting and advising people who want to
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Speaker 2: Thank you and welcome back to Money Making Conversation Masterclass, Tammy.
Speaker 2: When we ended our call the first half, Wood went
Speaker 2: to break. He was telling us about your foundation that
Speaker 2: was created because of the passing of your husband, the
Speaker 2: Anthony Lewis Foundation for Brain Tumors Incorporated. Tell us about
Speaker 2: that and if any way that one could make donations
Speaker 2: to the nonprofit?
Speaker 3: Sure sure so yeah. So, after Tony passed away last year,
Speaker 3: I actually decided to help other individuals who were suffering
Speaker 3: with the same disease process because one of the things
Speaker 3: that I learned in going through it is that it
Speaker 3: was very expensive, very expensive.
Speaker 5: And there was a.
Speaker 3: Time when there was a gas and insurance and his
Speaker 3: job dropped and so we had to go over to Cobra.
Speaker 3: But during that time we still had to do the treatment,
Speaker 3: and it was anywhere from twenty thousand to thirty thousand
Speaker 3: dollars every two weeks that we had to pay out
Speaker 3: of pocket. So I asked the nurse, I'm like, hey,
Speaker 3: you know, if people can't afford this, you know, what
Speaker 3: do they do? And she said they die? That was
Speaker 3: the answer, you know that she gave to me. So
Speaker 3: it was in that moment that I decided I was
Speaker 3: gonna set up a foundation, you know, for individuals to
Speaker 3: help with the copains and the medications, the caregivers, the
Speaker 3: transportation because when you go to the hospitals for the treatment,
Speaker 3: it's an all day thing. You're you're literally there six
Speaker 3: to eight hours. You have to pay the park, you
Speaker 3: have to eat, and it can get really expensive and
Speaker 3: a lot of people you know, aren't prepared for it.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 3: And the foundation will help them with some of those
Speaker 3: costs that it will also educate them about the disease
Speaker 3: process as well as connect them with other community resources.
Speaker 1: Now, this is the Anthony Lewis Foundation for Brain Tumors.
Speaker 1: Is their website?
Speaker 3: Yes, it's a l f BT dot org, a l
Speaker 3: f B dot org.
Speaker 2: Awesome, thank you for sharing us the information. Thank you
Speaker 2: for sharing your story, because these are the stories that
Speaker 2: empower people to let them know they're not alone, because
Speaker 2: sometimes that's what defeats people, you know, that they feel
Speaker 2: their story. Who could they tell their story to? Who
Speaker 2: could they turn to? Who can they cry with? You know,
Speaker 2: cry with you know this this guiltiness of this pain
Speaker 2: and suffering.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 2: But again, the reason I primarily brought you on the
Speaker 2: show was about your your consulting business, Ideal Healthcare. Please
Speaker 2: tell us about their Ideal Healthcare and how can you
Speaker 2: help people pursue entrepreneurship under your umbrella.
Speaker 3: So with with Ideal Healthcare, Uh, basically what we do
Speaker 3: is business startups. So we help new businesses decide you know, structure,
Speaker 3: We help them set up their businesses. But we have
Speaker 3: a focus on home care businesses since that was my
Speaker 3: expertise for about ten years. So if they reach out
Speaker 3: to us, basically what we do is we assign them,
Speaker 3: you know, to one of our representatives and they find
Speaker 3: out what it is that they need. But we also
Speaker 3: have a network of friends because I've had other people
Speaker 3: reach out to me because I think they get home care,
Speaker 3: which is personal care services, and home health which is
Speaker 3: more like a skilled service like a physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech.
Speaker 3: You know, I think people kind of get those mixed up,
Speaker 3: so we do have a referral source to where we
Speaker 3: can refer people out as well. But because I have
Speaker 3: so many nurses coming to me to start businesses that
Speaker 3: I didn't have the expertise in that, the Nurse Boss
Speaker 3: Summit was kind of born. And actually I have an
Speaker 3: event coming up this weekend in Greensboro, North Carolina. It's
Speaker 3: called the Nurse Boss Summit, and it's going to be
Speaker 3: about three hundred nurse entrepreneurs at this summit and we
Speaker 3: have breakouts, keynotes, panel discussions, and the breakouts are set
Speaker 3: up with nurses who are entrepreneurs and they're teaching people
Speaker 3: how to start businesses in the industries that they're in,
Speaker 3: such as home care, home health, CNA, schools, finances, whatever
Speaker 3: industry you know.
Speaker 5: That they focus in.
Speaker 3: That's what they'll be talking about in their breakout.
Speaker 2: Session, so they can go there and learn where they
Speaker 2: want to take their talents right exactly.
Speaker 3: But there are also some leadership breakouts because not all
Speaker 3: nurses want to be entrepreneurs, but they still want the
Speaker 3: leadership skills. So we do have leadership breakouts for you know,
Speaker 3: staff nurses as well, and we are giving contact hours
Speaker 3: the CEUs and we're doing thirty four CEUs so the
Speaker 3: nurses can come to this two day event and get
Speaker 3: all of their contact hours for two years. So that's
Speaker 3: more about that for two years.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah to me ask you this question because I've heard
Speaker 2: about teachers union all the type of is there a
Speaker 2: nurses union?
Speaker 3: There are lots of nurses association.
Speaker 1: Right, but there's no like, no no union.
Speaker 3: There is a union that's being formed right right.
Speaker 2: Right, right right right, because because when I hear that
Speaker 2: Boss Summer, you know, it feels like there's there's a
Speaker 2: place where where nurses male and female can come there
Speaker 2: to become educated, the bond, to talk and convent, to
Speaker 2: share recommendations or referrals. Because that's what this is all about.
Speaker 2: When the nurse boughts and you say this in Greenville,
Speaker 2: what we're about.
Speaker 1: In North Carolina.
Speaker 3: It's going to be in Greensboro, North Carolina at the
Speaker 3: Sheraton four season.
Speaker 2: Okay, is there a website that a website that they
Speaker 2: could reach your information?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: What is it?
Speaker 3: Sure? It's Nurse Bosssummit dot com and it's Nurse Boss
Speaker 3: Summit on all of the social media platforms as well.
Speaker 3: But again the website to purchase the ticket it's Nursebosssummit
Speaker 3: dot com and the summit is also a fundraiser for
Speaker 3: the foundation. Part of those proceeds will go to the
Speaker 3: foundation as well.
Speaker 4: Well.
Speaker 2: I'm gona tell you Sometamy. I want to thank you
Speaker 2: for coming on my show. First of all, you took
Speaker 2: me on the journey with the levity, levity, with the
Speaker 2: You know, you're a great personality. That lets me know
Speaker 2: that you're as a Your bedside manner is fantastic. You
Speaker 2: understand the business, you understand your role, understand the need
Speaker 2: for education, because we need to be educated. I'm talking
Speaker 2: about me as a person who is getting older, who
Speaker 2: has whose parents were passed away. But my mom did
Speaker 2: home health care, and I know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Interview interview, interview, and then we in a large family. Yes,
Speaker 2: the baden who's gonna take there, who's gonna visit all
Speaker 2: these days? Wow, it can be a journey. But I
Speaker 2: want to thank you for taking your time to come
Speaker 2: on my show. And please, please don't don't be as
Speaker 2: stranger as they say when I call you. Please come
Speaker 2: back because because idea healthcare is a brand that needs
Speaker 2: to be need to be more and more aware about it.
Speaker 2: But again, the Nurse Ball Summit is this weekend in Greenville,
Speaker 2: North Carolina.
Speaker 3: Correctorobly Greensboro, North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 2: I want to thank you for coming on the show
Speaker 2: and be safe. Okay, I appreciate thank you again. This
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