Speaker 1: One heart at a time, One one heart at a time.
Speaker 1: That is my battle cry against the injustices and the
Speaker 1: inequalities of the world, and Shannon McPeak is answering the call.
Speaker 1: Shannon is a nurse who, even before the coronavirus had
Speaker 1: been heard of, recognized a need in our nursing community
Speaker 1: that wasn't being met. She decided to fix that. She
Speaker 1: didn't wait for someone else to do it, she didn't
Speaker 1: wait for legislation to remedy it. Instead, she started gathering information, people, businesses,
Speaker 1: and knowledge so that she could spearhead a nonprofit web
Speaker 1: based service organization focused on decreasing the stress, anxiety, and
Speaker 1: depression in the nursing profession. It's called Operation Happy Nurse.
Speaker 1: Just hearing this makes me happy, and I'm not even
Speaker 1: a nurse. Shannon is joining us on Love Someone to
Speaker 1: talk about her exciting new project and how she hopes
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Speaker 1: So with me on Love Someone Today is Shannon McPeak,
Speaker 1: who definitely put her her love, her passions, her desires,
Speaker 1: her thoughts into action. You're a nurse. How long have
Speaker 1: you been a nurse, Shannon? I've been a nurse for
Speaker 1: four years. Oh so you are new to the nursing field. Yes,
Speaker 1: yes i am. I'm a travel lerg Right now can
Speaker 1: I ask how old you are? Ticks? Oh my gossh,
Speaker 1: you're a baby. Yeah, I'm I'm a newbie. So tell
Speaker 1: me what led you to the nursing field and why
Speaker 1: you decided to choose a career that is so exhausting
Speaker 1: and has to take such a huge toll on your
Speaker 1: heart caring deeply for others. Yeah. So when I was younger,
Speaker 1: I just had this urge to care for other people.
Speaker 1: I never really was one too not help in certain situations.
Speaker 1: I just always had an urge to be surrounded by
Speaker 1: people and to help them in the best way that
Speaker 1: I possibly could. So I started doing some research, I
Speaker 1: volunteered at some hospitals and found my calling as a nurse.
Speaker 1: And although it's so tough sometimes and it's really exhausting,
Speaker 1: it's also so rewarding. Um. I worked in the neonatal
Speaker 1: in tens of care unit, and these babies I get
Speaker 1: to see grow and it's just an amazing, amazing experience.
Speaker 1: So you were, as Mr Rogers would say, he always says,
Speaker 1: in times of trouble, look for the helpers. You were
Speaker 1: the helper even when you were young. Yeah, that's always
Speaker 1: been my draw. I've always had to urge to help
Speaker 1: those around me. I can't think of a profession that
Speaker 1: is better built for you then, or that you are
Speaker 1: better built for than being a nurse. So you became
Speaker 1: a nurse, you went to school, you became a nurse.
Speaker 1: Did you go directly into working with babies at the
Speaker 1: neonatal Yeah? So during school I kind of realized that
Speaker 1: babies was my forte and I just wasn't really into
Speaker 1: the adult nursing life programs. The adults are just not
Speaker 1: my thing. I can't do it. I applaud all of
Speaker 1: them who do, but I am babies through and through,
Speaker 1: and I just looked for programs where I could go
Speaker 1: directly and finicky and I did. And so that's what
Speaker 1: I've done ever since I graduated. So you you knew
Speaker 1: early on after volunteering at hospitals and doing rounds, Nope,
Speaker 1: I need to behold in me and leving on some
Speaker 1: babies exactly. Honestly, when I was in nursing school, initially,
Speaker 1: I was really worried that I hated it because I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm not into this adult nursing life. And
Speaker 1: I once I was in the babies, I just knew it.
Speaker 1: You know, my heart was in it there. So you
Speaker 1: want to help, but you really want to help babies.
Speaker 1: That was your calling. Yeah, that's my calling. And honestly,
Speaker 1: I've spoken to a lot of adult nurses too, and
Speaker 1: they said the same thing about babies. It's just you
Speaker 1: know you're calling when you have it. I actually, because
Speaker 1: I get fired a lot in radio, I actually looked
Speaker 1: into a program being a midwife. When I was fired
Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania, I thought, I can't keep getting fired, I
Speaker 1: can't keep doing this, and because I so love babies,
Speaker 1: I thought about going through this midwife program and being
Speaker 1: a midwife. The problem was I was a parent at
Speaker 1: the time with two kids, and I was the breadwinner
Speaker 1: that I didn't have any support. And I'm like, how
Speaker 1: am I going to take the years off to do
Speaker 1: school to become a midwife. I gotta get another job.
Speaker 1: I gotta get back to work right now. And then
Speaker 1: so within a few days I had another job. But
Speaker 1: I love babies, so I get that that is your calling.
Speaker 1: They're just amazing, and they're so resilient and just incredibly
Speaker 1: amazing and pure people, and I just I love them.
Speaker 1: So you became a Nike you nurse, and how long
Speaker 1: into this, did you realize that there is a huge
Speaker 1: gap or a huge void in emotional and mental and
Speaker 1: helpful support for people who choose a nursing as a career.
Speaker 1: So they say it about six months is when you
Speaker 1: hit your lowest point mentally in this thing, and I
Speaker 1: didn't really believe them initially. We had to write a
Speaker 1: diary to ourself and all that, and when I hit
Speaker 1: the six months, it was very hard. It's unbelievably tough.
Speaker 1: I would I feel like I had a chest bake
Speaker 1: almost every day, like I had never really dealt with
Speaker 1: anxiety like this before, and I just knew it was
Speaker 1: slowly eating at my personality. It was just slowly getting
Speaker 1: to me and I was becoming more withdrawn. I wasn't
Speaker 1: acting as happy as I normally was. And it really
Speaker 1: took one of my friends saying that I was different
Speaker 1: for me to realize that something was off and I
Speaker 1: needed to fix it. And I knew that I wasn't
Speaker 1: coping with my stress how I should have been. But
Speaker 1: it was a lot of energy to try to figure
Speaker 1: out how to cope with it, and so I I
Speaker 1: just pushed myself and I started working out a lot.
Speaker 1: I started researching different ways to help my stress, and
Speaker 1: it did really help me. Although I'm not at mycent
Speaker 1: low stress, I am getting there, and I just thought
Speaker 1: I should help other people, like how I struggled how
Speaker 1: the coronavirus affect that stress for you, Like, I know
Speaker 1: that your project and we're going to get really delve
Speaker 1: into Operation happinurs which is your your big project, and
Speaker 1: I really want you to to to dive deep with me.
Speaker 1: But how has COVID Like did Operation Happy Nurse? Was
Speaker 1: that birth in your heart long ago? Was it birth
Speaker 1: at that six month period or did the coronavirus kind
Speaker 1: of push you over the edge to decide to do this.
Speaker 1: I came up with the idea of Operation Happy Nurse,
Speaker 1: and I started working on it around then I did
Speaker 1: some research, I started talking to people. Um and it's
Speaker 1: because my friend said me, this glorious human being asked
Speaker 1: me if I wanted to continue working with nonprofits because
Speaker 1: at the time I was working at March of Dime,
Speaker 1: and I said, I loved March of Them, but I
Speaker 1: really wanted to work for a nonprofit that was focusing
Speaker 1: on the mental hall of the nursing profession. And her
Speaker 1: and I did some research and realized that there wasn't
Speaker 1: really much there and there are some resources, but just
Speaker 1: not enough at the forefront. And so I started developing
Speaker 1: this idea and I really started delving into it when
Speaker 1: I was living in Australia during the winter, and that's
Speaker 1: when I started getting this idea of rolling. So it
Speaker 1: was actually started before COVID nineteen, but we've been pushing
Speaker 1: ourselves more to get it going because of this, and
Speaker 1: we know that there's gonna be such high rates of
Speaker 1: PTSD and anxiety when nurse staying after this is all over,
Speaker 1: so we are now speeding things up to make sure
Speaker 1: that we have this resources available. I have a lot
Speaker 1: more questions, Shannon. I'm so happy, I'm so thrilled that
Speaker 1: you took this on, that you are spearheading this, and
Speaker 1: I want to hear a lot more about it, but
Speaker 1: we gotta pause for a second or two for this message.
Speaker 1: So now jumping into the big question, tell us what
Speaker 1: Operation Happy Nurse is, what your vision for the future
Speaker 1: of this is And you just kind of told us
Speaker 1: how it was birth, but what is Operation Happinurs? So
Speaker 1: Operation Happiness is a nonprofit. We just got our five
Speaker 1: O one C three status that we're super pumped about
Speaker 1: that um and so we're now officially a nonprofit and
Speaker 1: we are I gotta just jump in and say congratulations
Speaker 1: as somebody that that that has a nonprofit getting that
Speaker 1: nonprofit status, you know it would be easier to give
Speaker 1: birth to quadruple. It's without any anesthesia. Yeah. Yeah, it's tough.
Speaker 1: And we had the most amazing lawyer helping us, that
Speaker 1: Thomas Roebol. He's awesome and he held our hands through
Speaker 1: this process and it was it was hard, but we
Speaker 1: are here. We are a nonprofit. And I was at
Speaker 1: work when I found out and I started trying. Was
Speaker 1: really embarrassing. I'm so glad because we have been talking
Speaker 1: about doing this interview. My sister heard about it from
Speaker 1: a friend, a woman that works with us, and we're like,
Speaker 1: this is so in line with what we a spout
Speaker 1: is what the Delilah Show is all about, people helping people,
Speaker 1: not waiting for someone else to do it. But we
Speaker 1: didn't wanna we waste segua weapon as they say, until
Speaker 1: you had that status. And so when we heard that
Speaker 1: you got it, we're like, okay, great, now we can
Speaker 1: do the podcast and talk to her about operation Happeners. Okay,
Speaker 1: go on, I'm so excited. But we are an online community.
Speaker 1: Are going to be an online community. We currently have
Speaker 1: another team working on this web page because it's going
Speaker 1: to be very intensive. And what you do is you
Speaker 1: join this community, you have to show that you're a
Speaker 1: nurse just by telling us where are your license, just
Speaker 1: so we can, you know, kind of keep an eye
Speaker 1: and make sure that people are actually nurses who are
Speaker 1: joining our community. Once you join the community, we have
Speaker 1: these resources available to you where you can go in
Speaker 1: and you can kind of gear your own stress release
Speaker 1: plan to your own personal needs. Because some people stress
Speaker 1: relievers cause stress for them, So we want to be
Speaker 1: able to make sure what you are provided work for you.
Speaker 1: So we have a bunch of different options and you
Speaker 1: go in and you pick and choose which parts you
Speaker 1: want to be involved in, and we kind of help
Speaker 1: track your process and make sure that you're reliving that
Speaker 1: stress and make sure that it's working for you so
Speaker 1: that we can all go through this together and we
Speaker 1: can all work together. It's better ourselves and better our
Speaker 1: mental health. So it's a community where you kind of
Speaker 1: get to design your own stress really plan and I'm very,
Speaker 1: very excited about it. So tell me, tell me, like,
Speaker 1: what would be some of the menu options? Pretend I'm
Speaker 1: a nurse and I am working in in the NIKI
Speaker 1: because like you, I love babies, and I'm you know,
Speaker 1: pulling the twelve hour shifts three on, four off, whatever,
Speaker 1: and I am so burned out. I can't even help
Speaker 1: my kids at home do their online schooling. I can't
Speaker 1: even I can't even lift my feet once I get
Speaker 1: through the door. Yeah, what are some of the menu options?
Speaker 1: What are some of the things that I will be
Speaker 1: able to access on operation and happy nurse when it's
Speaker 1: built out. Yeah, so a couple of them are. We've
Speaker 1: got a book club. My amazing sister she um, she's
Speaker 1: an author, and she is going to run this book
Speaker 1: club for us, And essentially we haven't decided how often,
Speaker 1: but about book recommendations and you consider on with other
Speaker 1: nurses and talk about the book and answer some questions
Speaker 1: and be involved that way. Reading is a phenomenal way
Speaker 1: to be increased your stress um for many reasons, but
Speaker 1: mainly because you kind of get to escape your own
Speaker 1: life for a little bit and live in the lives
Speaker 1: of others and you get to see that maybe stuff
Speaker 1: that people are stressed out and in the books are
Speaker 1: things that you might be stressed out as well. And
Speaker 1: you're feelings, they're universal feelings. You're not alone in what's
Speaker 1: going on. Another one we are doing in physical fitness
Speaker 1: in yoga. Um, I've got amazing, amazing people who are
Speaker 1: helping me out with that. But we're going to make
Speaker 1: them at home easy workouts because nurses are very busy,
Speaker 1: our hours are very long, and we just want an
Speaker 1: easy reason work for them to be able to do
Speaker 1: some exercises at home that are short and easy to obtain.
Speaker 1: And then, um, we've got discussion boards where you can
Speaker 1: talk to other nurses who are going through similar things
Speaker 1: that you are. One of the hardest things for me
Speaker 1: when I was going through my really dark period was
Speaker 1: talking to people. I felt like I couldn't speak to
Speaker 1: people who didn't understand where I was that mentally, So
Speaker 1: when my family tried to talk to me about it, it
Speaker 1: it was really hard for me to tell them about
Speaker 1: my feelings because I didn't think they would really get it.
Speaker 1: So the discussion board is really important for me to
Speaker 1: add in here so that nurses could be surrounded by
Speaker 1: people who they think understand what they are going through,
Speaker 1: so that was a big one for us. Um, we
Speaker 1: want to do help with nutrition. It's really hard to
Speaker 1: figure out what you're supposed to eat on night shifts.
Speaker 1: It's really hard to figure out quick meals that you
Speaker 1: can just heat up at work, but that are healthy.
Speaker 1: And we want to help guide these meal plans through
Speaker 1: people and help them help them figure out how to eat,
Speaker 1: help save foods but also yummy food. So we're more
Speaker 1: working on that as well. Um. We've got hotlines for
Speaker 1: people who, like you said, are having trouble picking up
Speaker 1: their feet when they're walking, having trouble even getting out
Speaker 1: of bed. We want to be having an immediate resource
Speaker 1: for those nurses so that they they can seek help
Speaker 1: right away and seek the intense help that they need. Um,
Speaker 1: we want them to have a resource that they can
Speaker 1: that they can go to. We've got a lot of
Speaker 1: other areas and I can keep going, but I'm really
Speaker 1: those are the main ones. We want to do a
Speaker 1: podcast as well. UM. We want to delve into random
Speaker 1: things that are known to decrease stress, like knitting. Knitting
Speaker 1: is a big one for decreasing stress. Acupuncture, adult coloring books.
Speaker 1: We want to show the research, and we want to
Speaker 1: have one of our members go out and actually try
Speaker 1: each of these and keep a diary so she can
Speaker 1: tell what her personal journey with them was, and so
Speaker 1: people can see that there's other things besides just reading,
Speaker 1: working out about all that stuff. There's other cool things
Speaker 1: that you can try to help you decrease your stress.
Speaker 1: And then also events. We want to have social eventfleence
Speaker 1: we're allowed to do that. Again, how has the COVID crisis,
Speaker 1: the pandemic inspired you to build faster? Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: started speaking to some nurses and it was drawn to
Speaker 1: my attention that not only are we stressed out and
Speaker 1: work because of what's going on, there's also stressors outside
Speaker 1: of work. For a little bit there, some nurses were
Speaker 1: being harassed outside of work by some members of society
Speaker 1: because they were in scrubs and they believe that these nurses,
Speaker 1: somehow we're spreading COVID. So nurses begend to get really
Speaker 1: nervous going into work because they were afraid of being harassed.
Speaker 1: So that kind of pushed me. And now we are
Speaker 1: expediting processes and we are we are working a lot
Speaker 1: of hours to get this out there for nurses because
Speaker 1: they we want them to know that they're not alone
Speaker 1: and that we support them and that we help them
Speaker 1: through this journey and that we can help them with
Speaker 1: their stress. You know what I love most about what
Speaker 1: you're doing, Shannon, is that you're doing it. I talked
Speaker 1: to people all the time who have a dream, have
Speaker 1: a vision, who think, oh my gosh, this would make
Speaker 1: the world a better place, or you know, kids who
Speaker 1: work with foster care. Whatever. You're putting feet on your dreams.
Speaker 1: You know, you had a dream in the clouds, but
Speaker 1: now you're building the foundation under it, and you're doing
Speaker 1: it despite the fact that you're exhausted, despite the fact
Speaker 1: that you're working. Now, how long are your shifts that
Speaker 1: you work at the Nikio? I do three tallve hour shifts?
Speaker 1: Do you do the three on four off that sort
Speaker 1: of thing? Um? Honestly, it depends on the week. You
Speaker 1: don't know because you don't know if you're coming or
Speaker 1: going a lot of times because it's so crazy and
Speaker 1: you saw this need and you felt this need in
Speaker 1: your own life, and you realize this was a huge
Speaker 1: void the lives of the nurses. Tens of thousands of
Speaker 1: nurses who gives so much to everyone else and nobody
Speaker 1: is there to fill up their cup so to speak. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: nurses are known to take care of other people but
Speaker 1: not really take care of themselves. Um, we spend all
Speaker 1: our energy caring for others and we kind of put
Speaker 1: ourselves at the wayside. And it's kind that we took
Speaker 1: that because honestly, nurses me helped to There's a beautiful
Speaker 1: illustration about Um. A father that kept big glass jug
Speaker 1: in the refrigerator, you know, like a mason jar, and
Speaker 1: he would fill it up with water and he would
Speaker 1: put it in the refrigerator with a couple of slices
Speaker 1: of lemon in it, so that when somebody was thirsty
Speaker 1: they would go to the refrigerator in the hot summer
Speaker 1: and there would be cold, cool, crisp clear water to drink.
Speaker 1: And throughout the day, his kids and whoever came over
Speaker 1: would go get the water out of the jug, but
Speaker 1: they wouldn't refill it. And so when dad came in
Speaker 1: from working all day, the jug was empty. And that's
Speaker 1: such a beautiful illustration of visual illustration. I think for
Speaker 1: what nurses do, They fill up the jug everybody drinks
Speaker 1: from the fresh water that they provide day in and
Speaker 1: day out, night in and night out, and then when
Speaker 1: they get off their shift, the jug is empty. There's
Speaker 1: nobody there and it sounds like Operation Happy Nurse is
Speaker 1: there to fill their their jug with cool, fresh love
Speaker 1: and an infusion of goodness. Yeah, that's our goal. We
Speaker 1: really we just really want them to know that we're
Speaker 1: there for them. It's it's been really hard when people
Speaker 1: have come to me and said that they they didn't
Speaker 1: know other people were going through this, They thought they
Speaker 1: were going through it alone. And I just think that
Speaker 1: it's so important for us to start that because it's
Speaker 1: so important for people to know that they aren't alone,
Speaker 1: that we are here with them, that I went through
Speaker 1: with a ton of other nurses went through it, and
Speaker 1: that's why I like to tell the stories at different
Speaker 1: nurses on my social media because I just want people
Speaker 1: to know that again, that they're not alone and that
Speaker 1: we're here to support them. And when do we think
Speaker 1: do we have a launch date when all this is
Speaker 1: going to be curated, put together and ready to to fly.
Speaker 1: We don't have an exact date yet. We just want
Speaker 1: to make sure everything so perfect for when it when
Speaker 1: it flies. But we do have our social media right
Speaker 1: now to help give little taste of what's gonna be
Speaker 1: on our web page. So for those looking for resources
Speaker 1: right now we can. We are posting some things on
Speaker 1: our social media and we are also doing giveaways for
Speaker 1: working with amazing companies right now to do weekly giveaways
Speaker 1: for nurses UM, just to show appreciation for them during
Speaker 1: this time. So what does Operation Happy Nurse? What does
Speaker 1: it need right now? What can we do? What could
Speaker 1: I do to help you to push this move went forward?
Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by nurses. Uh, my daughter in law, my
Speaker 1: son married a woman. They have a large family, and
Speaker 1: her love, like yours, is for caring for people. And
Speaker 1: she's so amazingly freakishly good at it, like she's not
Speaker 1: even human. She's like a superhuman. She's like super mom, superwoman.
Speaker 1: And and I know that it takes a huge toll.
Speaker 1: What can I do to help Operation a Happy Nurse
Speaker 1: find its wings to fly? It sounds like it's already
Speaker 1: found its wings about to take off. And yeah, we
Speaker 1: definitely need help taking off right now. We really need funding, UM.
Speaker 1: A lot of it is coming out of our pockets
Speaker 1: right now to make this a reality. So we need
Speaker 1: help with funding. There's a lot of stuff that goes
Speaker 1: into making the web page. All of our people who
Speaker 1: are working for in our volunteer basis right now, we
Speaker 1: just need we need help funding this project to keep
Speaker 1: it rolling, to not just have it start up and
Speaker 1: then fall, you know. And then we also really need
Speaker 1: help spreading the word. We want this to be a
Speaker 1: resource for all nurses. We want all nurses to know
Speaker 1: about it. It's just hard to get that going, you know.
Speaker 1: So that's a big one that we need help with.
Speaker 1: So how do I get the word out there? Where
Speaker 1: do I tell people to go If somebody is listening
Speaker 1: to this podcast right now and they're like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: my daughter is a nurse. So we currently have LinkedIn
Speaker 1: Facebook and Instagram it's um all at Operation Happy Nerves.
Speaker 1: And we also have a web page that talks about
Speaker 1: our project where you can email us if you want
Speaker 1: to help and volunteer because we could use all the
Speaker 1: volunteers in the world. It's www dot Operation happinurs dot com.
Speaker 1: That will be the same and we will have a
Speaker 1: dot org as well for when the nonprofit and online
Speaker 1: community is live, and that's where we will past all
Speaker 1: the updates about our progress. Give me that address one
Speaker 1: more time. Www dot Operation been Happy nurse dot com.
Speaker 1: That's easy enough, Operation Happy nurse dot com. I'm going
Speaker 1: to send everybody I know there who is a nurse
Speaker 1: who loves a nurse who's thinking of becoming a nurse. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's burning the word is the biggest thing we
Speaker 1: can do right now is that there are any nurses
Speaker 1: out there listening to this. Please help us spread the word.
Speaker 1: It's going to help a lot of people, and we're
Speaker 1: really excited about it and we just need all the
Speaker 1: help we can get. I will do my part to
Speaker 1: get the word out there for you, Shannon, And I'm
Speaker 1: so proud of you. Like I said, the thing that
Speaker 1: thrills me is that you saw this need, an idea
Speaker 1: was birth in your heart, and instead of waiting for
Speaker 1: federal funding or somebody else to pick up the ball
Speaker 1: or to to run with it, you said, this is
Speaker 1: this is the dream that was put on my heart
Speaker 1: and I'm going to see it through. And I know
Speaker 1: it has cost you money. It's cost you hours, it's
Speaker 1: cost you tears, it's cost you anxiety, it's cost you
Speaker 1: being vulnerable. And yet you're not letting anything stop. You know,
Speaker 1: it's pretty funny because that's really stress out about it.
Speaker 1: At one point and my friend she was like, isn't
Speaker 1: this supposed to help stress? Like you're getting stressed out
Speaker 1: about it? I was like, I know, but I'm stressed
Speaker 1: because I want people and their stress, and it's causing
Speaker 1: you stress to want to help them with their stress.
Speaker 1: So I gotta ask, what's what is your What have
Speaker 1: you found works for you for stress release? For me,
Speaker 1: it's reading and painting. When I can read a good
Speaker 1: book or paint, my stress level goes down tremendously. But
Speaker 1: but covid, I've turned to sour dough bread baking, which
Speaker 1: is not good for a lot of reasons. But it's
Speaker 1: so good though. But my mine is working out. It
Speaker 1: really decreases my stress. If I don't work out, I
Speaker 1: can notice my my anxiety starts old a good run
Speaker 1: really just I can just feel a struslating my body.
Speaker 1: So work out like you go to a gym and
Speaker 1: pump iron, you go do cross fit? What does that
Speaker 1: workout look like for you? Who is doing twelve hour shifts?
Speaker 1: So I normally would go to a gym, but because
Speaker 1: of COVID. I can't right now. So I've been running
Speaker 1: and I've been using um some apps to try to
Speaker 1: find different at home workouts that can do, and I've
Speaker 1: been talking to the people who are doing them for
Speaker 1: me and doing the ones I've posted on our social
Speaker 1: media as well well. I can't wait for Operation Happy
Speaker 1: Nurse to take off, because, like I said, I'm surrounded
Speaker 1: by nurses and my my niece is in a program
Speaker 1: in high school so she can get her associates so
Speaker 1: she can go straight into the nursing program UM. Her
Speaker 1: aunt is kind of her hero, my daughter in law
Speaker 1: I was telling you about. So I'm I'm excited to
Speaker 1: share this news with so many people that I love that.
Speaker 1: I know we're exhausted before it hit. We're stressed before
Speaker 1: COVID hit, but now have to just be paralyzed with
Speaker 1: all the stuff going on. Yeah, it's something I'm really
Speaker 1: happy about that we can get this going because honestly,
Speaker 1: my stress bubbles were out of control when I first started,
Speaker 1: and from when I was talking to other nerds that
Speaker 1: that was the same for them. And I'm really lucky
Speaker 1: that I have such an amazing team work game with
Speaker 1: me to get this going because they've supported me since
Speaker 1: this is the start, and they're the reason, honestly that
Speaker 1: this is happening because they pushed me and we're excited
Speaker 1: about it, which got me even more excited about it.
Speaker 1: So I'm I'm very grateful that I have them, and
Speaker 1: we're very grateful we have you, Shannon, and that you're
Speaker 1: doing this, that you you're giving birth to this wonderful,
Speaker 1: wonderful project. So thank you, thank you, thank you, and
Speaker 1: thank you for agreeing to be a part of love
Speaker 1: someone with Delilah, because you exemplify everything I talk about.
Speaker 1: Everything I talk about on my right your show, everything
Speaker 1: I talked about on this podcast is taking your dream,
Speaker 1: taking your gift, taking your passion, and using it to
Speaker 1: change the world for good. And you were already doing
Speaker 1: that working with babies. You were already doing that, but
Speaker 1: you saw a need outside of the baby's needs, that
Speaker 1: being the need of the nurses, and you, you're you
Speaker 1: gave birth. You're giving birth to this beautiful project that
Speaker 1: I know, I know in my heart and my soul
Speaker 1: and my spirit that this is going to be a
Speaker 1: blessing to thousands, thousands of people, which is like the
Speaker 1: ripple effect if a nurse is a mom has four
Speaker 1: or five kids at home, like my my daughter in law,
Speaker 1: and she finds a way to handle that stress, those
Speaker 1: five kids are then blessed, her husband is then blessed,
Speaker 1: the the neighborhood is then blessed. So the ripple effect
Speaker 1: of this is going to be phenomenal, and I'm really
Speaker 1: really hoping it helps the birth and out as well, because, um,
Speaker 1: right now, there's high turnovers in the nursing profession because
Speaker 1: people aren't staying it as long as they used too
Speaker 1: because of burnout. So I'm just really hoping that we
Speaker 1: can all come together and help these nurses because they
Speaker 1: need us as much as we need them. Shannon, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you for doing this, thank you for being with
Speaker 1: us today, and good luck with Operation Happy Nurse. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I was so excited to be on here. You are
Speaker 1: just so amazing and I love your mission and everything
Speaker 1: you stand for it. So thank you so much for
Speaker 1: having me on this podcast because it has been honestly
Speaker 1: so well wated to speak to you. We're going to
Speaker 1: do everything we can to help you spread the word. Okay,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Let means the world and get
Speaker 1: my listeners because you know, my listeners are pretty awesome. Uh,
Speaker 1: get them engaged and involved and uh and see how
Speaker 1: big we can grow the stream of yours. Oh, you
Speaker 1: are just such a beautiful woman. Thank you so much.
Speaker 1: All right, thank you, honey, God bless you. Thank you
Speaker 1: you too, Shannon. I love that you took the anxiety,
Speaker 1: the frustrations, the stress of being a nurse, the stress
Speaker 1: that that role had created within you, and instead of
Speaker 1: letting it devour you or drowned you, you turned it
Speaker 1: into hope and love for others, others like yourself who
Speaker 1: are a nurse. Shannon isn't a therapist. She's not a
Speaker 1: fitness instructor. She isn't a social director, a librarian, a
Speaker 1: business owner, or a web developer. She's just someone who
Speaker 1: felt all to personally a deep need and a calling
Speaker 1: in her heart to do something about this deep need.