This is Everyday Wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.

And now, here is your host, Nurse Practition practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.

I'm really excited today to have Rachel Varga

here with us.

She's a board certified aesthetic nurse specialist trainer,

speaker, and academically published award-winning author in the field of plastics and

aesthetic nursing. And to her credit her credit she got extra early because she

lives on the West Coast. Thank you so much for joining us this morning.

Thank you so much for having me Cynthia. It's such a pleasure to see you and every time I've seen you in person is like you're just a glowing

beam of light and it's just a pleasure to connect. Thank you for having me on. Yeah, absolutely. I was saying before we even started recording that I love seeing nurses and entrepreneurial nurses

existing and thriving in the health and wellness space.

And so super excited to bring you on and I've been asking

my tribe what are some of their questions that they have a strong desire to learn

more about but let's dive into, which I found really interesting.

Dive into your background.

How did you get to where you are today?

Where did you first start when you started in your nursing career?

I first got into nursing, actually, when my grandfather had a stroke at home and we ended up my mother's a nurse as well.

She was a geriatric nurse for many years, a night nurse nurse learned a lot of health tips during my youth with you know how to look after yourself and

We had the palliative response team come into the home,

and I just saw the care that they were able to provide

not only my grandfather who was passing,

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