You will know by now that I am a registered nurse, and that around 10 years ago I started to dabble in the world of business.
I had started to see aesthetics clients privately on the side of my normal NHS job. I did that for around five years, and then in the last five years I have actually opened a premises and it has become my full time ‘baby’.
I have gradually moved away completely from doing NHS work just because it naturally evolved that way.
I am very happily running my own business, which is doing really, really well.
What I have found is that over the past five or ten years I have been approached by a lot of nurses who ask me how to get into aesthetics, how to be successful in aesthetics and tell me that they are really keen and interested in the sector. I know that this is not just my experience. I have discussed this with a number of colleagues who work in the aesthetics field and they say the same thing.
There is a lot of interest.
This tells me that there are other nurses out there who are in that headspace where they are looking around and thinking about other ways to supplement income, or simply to have a project that is slightly different from their normal day to day work.
I need to point out at this stage that I am not at all here by any stretch to tell people to leave their jobs or to negate the NHS and to put down the incredible work that is being done by nurses.
That is totally NOT what I am here for at all.
I think the fact that lots of people do ask about aesthetics does tell me that there is a curiosity out there. I also think that there is very little in the way of resources for helping nurses with this interest specifically.
So being a very proud nurse, I felt that I wanted to create an entity like that.
The concept for Entreprenurse is really to help nurses to work out what their skill set is and to come up with ideas that would work in business, and then to help formulate a viable business plan together.