From the Bedside to the Keyboard | Janine Kelbach

What do you do when the career you trained for stops working for you? For Janine Kelbach, a registered nurse and labor and delivery veteran, the answer was freelance writing — and eventually, building a whole business teaching other nurses to do the same thing. In this episode, Janine walks through the full journey: the night shifts, the burnout, the pit bull bite that became the last straw, and the $5 Fiverr articles that started it all. She talks about how she built her freelance writing business from scratch with no writing background, grew it into an agency model, and created Savvy Nurse Writer to help other nurses make the same transition. We also get into virtual networking — how the pandemic actually made it easier for Janine to hit her networking goals than in-person events ever did, two free communities worth checking out on LinkedIn (Happy Networking and Lunch Club), and how she uses ClickUp to break her big annual goals down into something she can actually act on every day. If you've ever looked at your career and thought there has to be something else, this one's for you. Timestamps: 0:00 — Janine joins us and the chemo waiting room story 4:04 — What it's really like being a healthcare worker during a pandemic 6:48 — How Janine teaches nurses to start a freelance writing career 7:28 — From labor and delivery burnout to finding her niche 12:09 — Building Savvy Nurse Writer: courses, coaching and an agency model 16:28 — Virtual networking with Happy Networking and Lunch Club 21:06 — Using ClickUp to manage a growing business 24:38 — Breaking big goals into weekly and daily actions 32:33 — Janine's moment of gratitude What you'll take away from this conversation: Why niching all the way down to nurses only made Janine's business stronger How to start freelance writing when you have no writing background and no clients The virtual networking strategy that costs nothing and connects you with people worldwide How to break a big goal into weekly and daily actions so it actually happens Connect with Janine Kelbach: Website: https://savvynursewriter.com Podcast: https://savvynursewriter.com/the-savvy-scribe-podcast/ Full show notes: https://kandasrodarte.com/61 Subscribe and listen: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gratitude-geek/id820738086 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/27dh0T1PbwsWXxfmNWZPy8?si=2303ea26860c436e Website: https://kandasrodarte.com Connect with Kandas: Instagram: https://instagram.com/gratitudegeek LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gratitudegeek Weekly Email: https://kandasrodarte.com/subscribe Support the show: https://kandasrodarte.com/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices