Episode 90 - Raising a Child with Congenital Heart Defects with Nurse Practitioner and Heart Mom Sarah Boes
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In this episode, Sarah Michelle Bose shares her journey as a heart mom and entrepreneur, discussing the challenges of raising a child with congenital heart defects and her advocacy work.
In this episode of Wild & Well , I sit down with Sarah Michelle Bose – nurse practitioner, entrepreneur, heart mom, and mental health advocate – to talk about her extraordinary journey navigating the entrepreneurship, becoming a heart mom, mental health challenges, and advocacy work. From experiencing panic attacks as a nursing student to building a million-dollar Nurse Practitioner test prep business during COVID, Sarah shares the highs, the lows, and the lessons learned along the way. We also dive into her personal story as a mother to Meadow, a child born with a severe congenital heart defect, and how that journey led her to advocacy work, including legislative efforts, community initiatives, and children’s book creation. Sarah and I chat about: Sarah’s path from nursing student to nurse practitioner to successful entrepreneur. How she built a business centered on exam day anxiety and community support that grew from $0 to $1M in under a year. Insights into starting a business: why just starting is more important than perfecting your plan. The emotional and logistical realities of parenting a child with tetralogy of Fallot, including navigating multiple heart surgeries and…
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