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Journey To Launch

Episode 474: How Two Nurses Built a Thriving Med Spa Business in Brooklyn w/ Wendy Jules & Carla Nelson

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Business, Investing

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2026

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

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 prompts, exercises, and action steps
  • Updated corrections from the original hardcover
  • Exclusive bonuses when you purchase the paperback, including:
    • The Fire Starter Course
    • The Find Your FIRE Number Worksheet

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    Transcript

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    0:00.0

    Having conversations and knowing that people are the one that makes things move.

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    Yeah.

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    But be pure and honest with what you really need and what you can do.

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    Yeah.

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    And people will meet you where you got to go.

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    Don't be a jerk.

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    Yeah.

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    Don't be a jerk.

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    Yeah.

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    Welcome to the Journey to Launch podcast

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    With your host

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    Jamila Sufran

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    As a money expert who walks her talk

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    She helps brave journeyers like you

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    Get out of debt, save, invest

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    And build real wealth

    0:36.3

    Join her on the journey to Launch to Financial Freedom in five, four, three, two, one.

    0:49.0

    If you want the episode, show notes for this episode, go to Journey journey to launch.com or click the description of

    0:56.0

    wherever you're listening to this episode. In the show notes, you'll get the transcribed

    1:00.6

    version of the conversation, the links that we mentioned, and so much more. Also, whether you

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    are an OG journeyer or brand new to the podcast, I've created a free Jumpstar guide to help you on your

    1:13.3

    financial freedom journey. It includes the top episodes to listen to stages to go through to

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