Episode 474: How Two Nurses Built a Thriving Med Spa Business in Brooklyn w/ Wendy Jules & Carla Nelson
About this episode
Wendy Jules and Carla Nelson share their journey from nursing to founding a successful med spa in Brooklyn, discussing the challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship.
What does it really look like to build a business from the ground up while balancing family, finances, and faith? In this episode, I sit down with sisters Wendy Jules and Carla Nelson to talk about their journey from nursing careers to founding a thriving med spa in Brooklyn. They share how they started with limited resources, leaned on community support, and turned a single machine in a basement into a profitable, purpose-driven business. We also talk about the financial realities of entrepreneurship, the flexibility and power of nursing as a career, and why relationships are often more valuable than money when building something meaningful. In this episode, Wendy and Carla discuss: How nursing can be a pathway to financial freedom and flexibility What it took to start and fund a med spa with limited capital The role of relationships, community, and trust in building a business Why customer experience and connection are key to long-term success What's New in the Paperback Edition of Your Journey to Financial Freedom: A bonus chapter: When Life Happens: Staying on the Path to Financial Freedom Through Setbacks, Shifts, and Uncertainty A book club and discussion guide with…
People in this episode
Host: Jamila Souffrant
Guests: Wendy Jules, Carla Nelson
Topics covered
- entrepreneurship
- nursing
- med spa business
- financial freedom
- community support
- customer experience
Keywords
- med spa
- nursing careers
- financial realities
- entrepreneurship
- community support
- customer experience
- business building
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Journey To Launch
Places: Brooklyn
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