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The RN2writer Show
by Elizabeth Hanes, BSN RN
Each week on The RN2writer Show, you'll find inspiration, tips, and strategies for helping you launch and grow a freelance writing career. Whether you're an RN, LPN, LVN, NP, APRN - or even a different type of clinician (PA, LCSW, MD, etc.) - you'll find lots of tips, strategies and advice for launching or growing a freelance writing career.We'll be airing a variety of episode types to help you learn the writing industry, launch your business, and much more. Each week you can expect: • Interviews with successful nurse writers to inspire you and help you see the possibilities for this career path• Interviews with experts – editors and content directors – to demystify the writing industry and share their secrets for what makes someone their “go-to” freelance writer• 10-minute coaching sessions, where Beth sits down with a nurse writer via Zoom and blasts through any obstacle that’s impeding their progress• Tutorials that walk you through common freelance tasks• Occasional glimpse
Episodes
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Marketing Goals for Freelance Writers - How to Effortlessly Market Your Writing Business
We see FAR too many beginning writers come into this profession with a vague idea of what they “should” or “need to” be doing regarding marketing, and they end up wasting their time doing all sorts of things that aren't strategic and likely won’t lead to the desired outcome, which is clients and...
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What Are Your Client Goals?
In this episode of The RN2writer Show, Beth talks all about clients goals! We see a lot of people plunge into freelance writing with the idea that “everyone” is a potential client. Their notion is that getting writing work is hard, and so they should take on any company or individual that is...
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3 Financial Goals to Consider for Your Writing Business
In this episode of The RN2writer Show, Beth talks about several types of financial goals you can set for your writing business. All business success starts with goal-setting. Without goals, you can’t create action plans for achieving those goals, you can’t measure your progress, and you can’t...
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3 Types of Goals to Level Up Your Health Writing Business
In this episode of The RN2writer Show, Beth talks about having specific, measurable goals for your health writing business. Remember: writing is a BUSINESS. All businesses need goals. You can’t hit a target you haven’t bothered to set up. So let’s talk about three common writing business goals…
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Avoid THESE MISTAKES When Naming Your Business
In today’s episode of The RN2writer Show, Beth discusses what details you should consider when naming your business. Host Elizabeth Hanes, BSN RN, built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she coaches other nurses on how to become freelance writers through the RN2writer…
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Knowing Your Worth with Dr. Steve Marshall
On today’s episode of The RN2writer Show, Beth talks to Dr. Steve Marshall, DNP, MSN, BSN, RN, about the value you bring to your clients, finding the right clients, and more! About Steve: Steve Marshall is a Registered Nurse who began working in healthcare back in the late 1980's. He holds a...
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How Health Writing Works
Health writing is not about publishing research papers or writing about your experiences as a nurse. Professional health writing involves creating a wide variety of content that’s generally published on the web. A few examples of the types of health writing that nurses and other health...
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Top 5 Best Niches for Nurse Writers in 2024
Nurses sometimes limit themselves to writing only about things they know, but that can be a mistake it can put you in competition with a large field of less-qualified writers who cover the same general, evergreen topics. To separate yourself, you should stay ahead of the trends in healthcare so…
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What the #$!*# is Freelance Writing?
You’ve probably seen our advertisements on Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube. But, what the #$%@! is freelance writing anyway? Learn more about this hidden career! Host Elizabeth Hanes, BSN RN, built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she coaches other nurses on how to become...
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Why There Will Never Be a Glut of Nurse Writers
Recently, a Facebook commenter asked me: If everybody hops on the RN2writer bandwagon, won’t this just result in a glut of nurse writers with work for nobody? The answer? No, absolutely not. And the reason why not can be summed up in a single word: Volume. Host Elizabeth Hanes, BSN RN, built a...
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The Best Work from Home Nursing Job You’ve NEVER Heard Of
Many nurses are looking for work-from-home gigs, but have you noticed how many of those are…boring? Reviewing patient records for lawyers? Boring! Filing reports to insurance companies regarding the appropriateness of healthcare expenditures for an insured? Yawn. Why not use your CREATIVITY to…
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Freelance Tips for Juggling Deadlines, Clients, and Family
Succeeding as a freelance writer requires the ability to juggle clients and deadlines along with family commitments. Fortunately, nurses excel at juggling! You can use those skills to help you manage your business with ease while still finding plenty of free time to enjoy your life. Host…
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How to Stay Consistent: 4 Steps for Getting Stuff Done as a Freelance Writer
Being consistent is a given when starting your freelance writing career. But what EXACTLY do you stay consistent with? In today’s episode, Beth talks about her four-step system for staying consistent. Host Elizabeth Hanes, BSN RN built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she...
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How to Manage Your Bandwidth, with Ruth Mielke DNP, APRN, CNM
Find Ruth at: https://rmielkernwriter.contently.com/ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-ruth-k-mielke-dnp-aprn-cnm-5b198525b/ About Ruth: I'm an RN and Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM). I have 22+ years of experience as a midwife and additional years as a labor and delivery nurse. I have a BA in...
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How I Diversified My Income Streams as a Nurse Writer
Nursing school doesn’t give you a business degree, but then again running a freelance writing business doesn’t require an MBA, either. Nonetheless, nurse writers should familiarize themselves with common business concepts – and one of those is understanding how (and why!) to diversify your income...
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A Day in the Life of a Nurse Writer
When nurses ask me about freelance writing, they often want to know what a typical “day in the life” looks like. I can tell you one thing: It looks nothing like the chaos of bedside work! As a freelance nurse writer, I rose when I wanted in the morning, lingered over coffee and breakfast, worked…
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I Quit My Nursing Career to be a Writer | Make 6 Figures | Work from Home
In about 2011, I did a bold – some would say “foolish” – thing: I left behind the security of nursing for a career as a writer. Say what? Yes, I became a professional writer. And eventually I ramped my business up to $100,000 a year while never working more than 24 hours a week. On this episode…
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Do This One Thing to Instantly Improve Your Writing
You don’t have to be a Margaret Atwood to make great money as a freelance health writer, but you do need a fundamental grasp of grammar, composition, and voice. It’s the latter item we’re talking about today on The RN2writer Show. “Voice” can refer to a brand’s standard for the style in which it...
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Why Are You on Social Media as a Freelance Writer?
Do you hate the idea that your success as a freelance writer depends on your ability to post pithy content every day on…Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, and your business’ Facebook page? Doesn’t just reading that sound exhausting?? How exhausting will it be to actually DO it?? Well,...
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The Hidden Costs of Writing Gig Newsletter Subscriptions
In RN2writer courses, we teach nurses and other clinicians how to prospect for writing gigs using techniques like sending article queries, sending Letters of Introduction, and using LinkedIn. One technique we don’t teach (or recommend)? Paying a subscription fee to have lists of writing gigs...
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Nurse Writers: Let’s Take the Dread Out of Negotiation
Does the mere word “negotiation” fill you with a frisson of anxiety? Are you worried that there’s no way you can succeed as a nurse writer if you suck at negotiating? Well, you can relax! In today’s episode of The RN2writer Show, we’re dispelling myths about negotiation so that you don’t fear it...
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Freelance Writers: How to Build a Steady Income Stream
As nurses, we understand the importance of financial stability and the desire for a fulfilling career. Freelance health writing offers the perfect opportunity to combine our passion for healthcare with the flexibility and financial potential of a freelance business. The key to achieving financial...
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The Art of Balancing Freedom and Discipline as a Freelancer
As nurses, we're used to adhering to strict schedules, protocols, and deadlines. In fact, we’re often expected to put our employment first and to work above and beyond anything that’s expected of workers in any other industry. But then, when we start freelancing, we often find ourselves faced…
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How do nurses find writing clients?
Because freelance writing is such an obscure career, many nurses misunderstand the process of finding clients. First of all, they don’t understand WHO a prospective client is, and then they fear that this process is going to require lots of sleazy outreach and strong-arm tactics to accomplish.…
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No, AI is NOT Taking All the Writing Jobs
Why should you become a nurse writer right now, when AI tools like ChatGPT® are poised to take all the writing jobs? Well, because everything you’re hearing about this is wrong when it comes to nurses and writing! Maybe you just found out about writing as a nursing career and thought, “Dang! I…
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What is a Pitch in Freelance Writing?
When you begin to explore health writing, you may quickly feel as if everyone is speaking a foreign language. In this respect, freelance writing is not much different from healthcare. As nurses, we may be fluent in ABGs, CABGs, JP drains, and Code Browns, while freelance writers are fluent in…
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The Secret to Finding Time to Write as a Freelance Nurse Writer
You launched your freelance health writing business, but then…life intervened. Weeks have gone by, and you haven’t been able to work on your business at all. Frustrating!! How can you find time to write?? If you want to make money as a freelance writer, you need to devote time to connecting with...
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Do NOT Write for Free!
Stop devaluing your work, fellow freelance writers! Before you take another low-paying gig, watch this episode to discover how damaging working for cheap can be to your business – and the writing industry as a whole – when it’s actually OK to work for free, and the exact dollar amount you should...
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Freelance Writers: How to Effectively Repurpose Your Content
Learn how to repurpose your content as a freelance writer. In this episode, Beth and Rebecca discuss exactly how to do just that. About Rebecca Myers: Rebecca earned her Master of Science Nursing degree from the University of Texas at Arlington. Rebecca is a nurse with a passion for educating and...
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Will ChatGPT Replace Freelance Writers?
About Jennifer Goforth Gregory: Jennifer Goforth Gregory has been writing about artificial intelligence for more than 8 years and freelancing for 15 years, putting her in a unique position to help other writers with ChatGPT. Her clients include IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, Verizon, IEEE, Google, Meta,...
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The Secrets of Video Scripting, with Sharleen Lucas
About Sharleen Lucas: Sharleen Lucas is a registered nurse who worked at the hospital bedside for eight years. She now enjoys combating her addiction to health news and research by passing it on as a freelance health writer from her dream home in the Colorado Rockies. You can find her at...
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How Do I Plan a Vacation as a Freelance Writer?
In this episode of The RN2writer Show, Beth talks about how to plan your vacations as a freelance writer and communicate this with your clients. Host Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she coaches other nurses on how to become freelance writers...
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Everything You Need to Know About Finding Expert Sources with Dan Collins
About Dan Collins: Dan Collins is the Senior Director of Media Relations at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, MD, serving as the downtown hospital’s media liaison since 1996. A former journalist with stints at The Washington Times, the Times Publishing Group, and The Baltimore Examiner, Dan...
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Should You Use a Pen Name as a Freelance Writer?
Nurse writer Elizabeth Hanes RN discusses when it is appropriate to use a pen name, or pseudonym, when you are pursuing freelance writing. Host Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she coaches other nurses how to become freelance writers through the...
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Intro to Medical Editing, with Meredith Gordon Resnick
About Meredith Gordon Resnick: Meredith Gordon Resnick, L.C.S.W., worked in healthcare for two decades and maintains a strong interest in the expressive arts. She is the creator of ShameRecovery.com and The Writer's [Inner] Journey. Her work appears in the Washington Post, Newsweek, JAMA, Journal...
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Exploring Entrepreneurship as a Nurse with Dr. Sandra Pagenta
About Sandra Pagenta: Sandra Pagenta is a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner, host of the Doctor Nurse Podcast, nursing influencer, and content creator. Her podcast features RNs and NPs using their degrees and certifications with a business mindset. She is a part-time Urologic Nurse Practitioner and...
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Branding Yourself as a Nurse Writer with Liz George, RN
About Liz George: Nurse Liz George believes storytelling is integral to health and well-being because it is how we shape and make sense of our world. Liz’s goal is always to present scientific information in a way that is factual, accessible, and engaging. Liz has a Bachelor of Science degree in...
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Why Your Website is Important as a Freelance Writer, with Vincent Wondra
About Vincent Wondra: Vincent has been working with web technologies since 1996. Over the years, he has worked for a variety of consulting companies, spent a few years with IBM, and has served as CTO (Chief Technical Officer) for several internet companies. Vincent founded The BBS Agency in 2013....
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Freelance Financial Planning with Guest Robby Scholes, CFP®
About Robby Scholes: Robby Scholes is from Conway, South Carolina. He is a graduate of the University of South Carolina in Economics and Finance. He is also a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®). Robby understands the intricacies of the capital markets and helps clients make smart investment...
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Your Ultimate Gift-Giving Guide as a Freelance Writer, Part 2!
Beth answers more questions about cultivating relationships with clients this holiday season on The RN2writer Show! Host Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she coaches other nurses how to become freelance writers through the RN2writer project....
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Your Ultimate Gift-Giving Guide as a Freelance Writer! Part 1
It’s that time of year nurse writers! Should you send gifts to your clients? When is it appropriate to send a gift to a client? Beth gives her insight on this week’s episode of The RN2writer Show! Host Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she…
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Interview with Accountant Jason Deshayes, CPA/PFS, CFP®
About Jason Deshayes, CPA/PFS, CFP®: Jason is the is the Director of Tax Planning at Cook Wealth in Raleigh. Cook Wealth helps clients with; everyday finances, family legacy planning, tax planning, debt management, investment management, cash flow optimization, business transactions and basically...
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Why I Don’t Charge a Set Rate as a Freelance Writer
Could set rates be detrimental to your freelance business? Elizabeth goes over set rates, productization, and negotiation in this week’s episode of The RN2writer Show! Host Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she coaches other nurses how to become...
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Your Ultimate Guide on LOIs in Freelance Writing
What is an LOI, and why does it play a major part in freelance writing? In today’s episode of The RN2writer Show, Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN discusses what an LOI is and shows you how to write one! Host Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she coaches...
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How to Avoid Over-Researching When Writing
Is it possible to do too much research when writing for a client? In today’s episode of The RN2writer Show, Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN lists 3 things to think about when researching for your written pieces. Host Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she...
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Do you have to be an RN to be a health writer?
In today’s episode, Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN answers one of RN2writer’s most frequently asked questions: Do I have to be a nurse to do this? Find out the answer to that popular question and more. Host Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN built a six-figure writing business in her spare time. Today, she coaches...
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Query Letter Critique with Sarah Steensen
In today’s episode, Sarah Steensen shares her pitch for a dynamite article idea. What makes a query letter stand out? How much information should you share with a potential editor? Find out what the best practices are when pitching an article! Host Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN built a six-figure…
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How a Freelance Nurse Writer Makes OVER $100,000 a Year
Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN cracks open the books on this week’s episode of The RN2writer Show to reveal how she made over $100,000 a year as a freelance writer. Check out how many clients, projects, and hours it takes to make six figures as a freelance writer. Host Elizabeth Hanes BSN RN built a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Each week on The RN2writer Show, you'll find inspiration, tips, and strategies for helping you launch and grow a freelance writing career. Whether you're an RN, LPN, LVN, NP, APRN - or even a different type of clinician (PA, LCSW, MD, etc.) - you'll find lots of tips, strategies and advice for launching or growing a freelance writing career.We'll be airing a variety of episode types to help you learn the writing industry, launch your business, and much more. Each week you can expect: • Interviews with successful nurse writers to inspire you and help you see the possibilities for this career path• Interviews with experts – editors and content directors – to demystify the writing industry and share their secrets for what makes someone their “go-to” freelance writer• 10-minute coaching sessions, where Beth sits down with a nurse writer via Zoom and blasts through any obstacle that’s impeding their progress• Tutorials that walk you through common freelance tasks• Occasional glimpse
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Each week on The RN2writer Show, you'll find inspiration, tips, and strategies for helping you launch and grow a freelance writing career. Whether you're an RN, LPN, LVN, NP, APRN - or even a different type of clinician (PA, LCSW, MD, etc.) - you'll find lots of tips, strategies and advice for...
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