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Paying Patients for Their Lived Experience w/Health Union's Olivier Chateau

Patients Getting Paid - November 08, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
On the wall of Health Union's offices in Philadelphia is written CEO Olivier Chateau's favorite saying - "If you believe your dreams are achievable, they are too small. Dream bigger." No one could accuse Olivier of doing anything else! Since founding Health Union in 2010, Olivier has been dedic...

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PGP Helps Chronics Keep Hope Alive and Feel Productive w/PGP Member Kathy Chester

Patients Getting Paid - October 25, 2022 11:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Kathy visits with a PGP member to get their take on what has been most valuable about the PGP membership for their business. This time she catches up with Kathy Chester, who was previously heard on Episode 16 (Making Your Passion Your Chronicpreneur Business). A valued member of the PGP commun...

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How to Become a Virtual Assistant with Tawnya Sutherland

Patients Getting Paid - October 11, 2022 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
If you're thinking about creating a new career that can be done remotely, a great option is being a Virtual Assistant (VA). It's certainly something that I've wanted to share with PGP'ers for a long time because it can fit into the chronicpreneur lifestyle perfectly.   But what is a VA, and wha...

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Tech Talk: Scheduling Software w/ the Queen of GSD, Jackie Zimmerman

Patients Getting Paid - September 27, 2022 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
If you know me or have been following these episodes, you'll know that tech is… not my favorite thing, shall we say. But if you're embarking on a chronicpreneur journey, especially one that includes working remotely, you will need to grapple with tech at some point. And believe me, if I can do i...

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PGP's First Anniversary

Patients Getting Paid - September 13, 2022 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
I can hardly believe it, but today's episode marks the first anniversary of the launch of Patients Getting Paid! This community has long been a dream of mine - I've spent years learning how to find work that replaces a regular paycheck, but fits around my health condition. And once I found it, ...

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7-Figure E-Commerce Seller Shares Easy Ways YOU Can Do It Too

Patients Getting Paid - August 16, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
My aim in these podcasts and the PGP Community is to expand the minds of people with chronic illnesses about the kinds of paid work that are available. All of this took me years to learn, so I'm here to save you the time. It isn't solely for people that need to make the leap right now, but some ...

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$4500 For An Hour-Long Workshop About Your Lived Experience? Disability Badasses Lainie and Estela of EmBRACE It Share Their Story

Patients Getting Paid - August 02, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
There's a definite hierarchy of needs when it comes to creating your chronicpreneur lifestyle. First, you want to find a way to work that fits around your health condition. Secondly, you want to get PAID. That's why you're here, right?  As we've seen in the past, a lot of chronicpreneurs end up...

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Patient Advocacy and Charging What You're Worth with Chronicpreneur Jenna Green

Patients Getting Paid - July 19, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Over the course of these podcasts - and within the PGP community - the topic of Patient Advocacy and how to get paid for sharing your patient experience comes up repeatedly. People can be a little shy in naming their price - I know I certainly was! But now I say that you should not be shy about...

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Creating a Nutrition and Lifestyle Business with Autoimmune Wellness Warrior Melody Sapien

Patients Getting Paid - July 05, 2022 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Being diagnosed with a chronic illness is hard at any age. But my guest today was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis at the age of 15! Following her diagnosis, Melody Sapien has been managing her symptoms through nutrition and lifestyle practices. She now views it as her life's mission to teach ...

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Getting Patients Paid with Merakoi

Patients Getting Paid - June 21, 2022 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The medical establishment has finally realized that if you want to know how patients feel about their lives, you need to speak to them! And they recognize that our patient experience is VALUABLE, so they're willing to pay for our time. But it can feel like you're only there to share your compla...

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How to Earn Money From Writing

Patients Getting Paid - June 07, 2022 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The old line is “we all have a book in us." But international fame and a mega-bucks movie franchise notwithstanding, there are other ways that you can earn money through your writing.  Kyle Young is a writer for Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, CNBC, Psychology Today, Forbes, and Business...

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Get Paid for Sharing YOUR Patient Experience

Patients Getting Paid - May 24, 2022 11:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Medical researchers have FINALLY realized something that we in the chronic illness space have known for a while - that the true experts are not necessarily those who have studied a condition but are in fact those of us who live with a condition 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year....

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How to Use LinkedIn to Build Your Personal Brand (and advice on Gin) with Megan MacNeil

Patients Getting Paid - May 10, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
As you build your chronicpreneur business, appearing on social media is one marketing channel that you're going to want to use. How else are you going to get your name out there without throwing money at advertising? Of all the social media channels that are out there, I doubt that LinkedIn was...

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From Wall Street to Medical Medium Work with Kerstin Ramstrom

Patients Getting Paid - April 26, 2022 11:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Kerstin Ramstrom worked on Wall Street and in finance for more than 20 years before brain fog and fatigue started to impact her ability to work. After receiving a diagnosis of Hashimoto's thyroiditis, she quit the high-pressure job that was making her sick. Kerstin is now a chronicpreneur, holis...

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Podcasting And Writing a Book

Patients Getting Paid - April 12, 2022 11:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
This mother and daughter duo were both career Army Officers until they were medically retired - Jean following a Traumatic Brain Injury, Lita with Early Onset Dementia. This gutsy pair started podcasting four years ago and continue to this day. PodcastDX showcases weekly interviews with patients...

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Multiple Streams of Income w/Holly Bertone

Patients Getting Paid - March 29, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Holly Bertone was busy climbing her career ladder when she was derailed by debilitating fatigue caused by breast cancer and autoimmune disease. She dealt with this by turning her hobby blog into a thriving healthy lifestyle community for other chronics. After writing her Amazon.com bestseller, ...

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Turning A Community Into A Chronicpreneur Business

Patients Getting Paid - March 15, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
So far all the chronicpreneurs we’ve featured on the PGP podcast have been solopreneurs. But today we’re featuring two friends who have combined teaching Pilates with a thriving community into a business.  Cassie and Chelsea met teaching Pilates before joining forces to form a chronic illness s...

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Making Your Passion Your Chronicpreneur Business with Kathy Chester

Patients Getting Paid - March 01, 2022 12:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In a "former life", Kathy Chester was a corporate travel agent with a passion for being active, when she was hit by a double diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis. Against the advice of the time, her instinct was to keep moving! She became a certified trainer, and after worki...

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Your Career Is Not A Straight Line with Kelley Tredwin

Patients Getting Paid - February 15, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
My guest today, Kelley Tredwin, says that your chronicpreneur career does not have to be a straight line. And you don't have to stop changing. As if to prove the point, since this interview was recorded she has changed her business focus!  After what she calls a "wake-up call" in 2013, Kelly le...

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Do You Need a Lawyer for Your Chronicpreneur Business??

Patients Getting Paid - February 01, 2022 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
It can be an exciting time when you begin your chronicpreneur journey. But you can find yourself in trouble if you haven’t thought through the potential legal issues of owning a business. Joel Ankney is a lawyer who has been helping freelancers start and run businesses for over 25 years. AND - ...

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Do You Need a Lawyer for Your Chronicpreneur Business??

Patients Getting Paid - February 01, 2022 12:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
It can be an exciting time when you begin your chronicpreneur journey. But you can find yourself in trouble if you haven’t thought through the potential legal issues of owning a business. Joel Ankney is a lawyer who has been helping freelancers start and run businesses for over 25 years. AND - ...

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Working From Home, Wherever That Might Be with Christina Mathers

Patients Getting Paid - January 18, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
If you have a chronic health condition, there are many benefits of working from home. You can choose your own hours, you can take time to recuperate when you need to, and your commute is no more than a minute! But it also means that, if required, you can pick up and relocate in a second. My gue...

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Get Google to Work for YOU with Efficiency Expert Dara Sklar

Patients Getting Paid - January 04, 2022 12:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
When you’re starting on your chronicpreneur career, you’ll know that you need to get organized. And if you’re anything like me, and you have “shiny box” syndrome, you’ll look around at what other people are using and buy a plethora of productivity tools and subscriptions, each of which will prom...

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Podcast Editing with Steve Woodward

Patients Getting Paid - December 21, 2021 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
This is a special one, as my guest is not only my podcast editor and friend but also an actual Patient Getting Paid, who I helped to get started! Steve Woodward from the UK is a self-confessed audio geek and musician who has been involved with home and studio recording projects since he was at ...

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Photo Organization as a Career with Cathi Nelson

Patients Getting Paid - December 07, 2021 12:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maybe you have boxes of old photos in your house. Or maybe you’re a digital native. But whichever you are, you can’t deny that people are taking more and more photos every day. And who is going to sort them out? I only became aware that a Photo Manager was a *thing* when I became overwhelmed de...

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Affiliate Marketing 101 With Jay Clouse

Patients Getting Paid - November 23, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
What’s not to love about affiliate marketing? If you get it set up correctly, it’s a way to make a little extra money without having to do a whole lot of anything. In the past, it had a bit of an unethical reputation, with people promoting whatever products would get them the most money. But as...

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Making Her Disability An Asset - Suzy Web

Patients Getting Paid - November 10, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Susan Wheeler-Hall was born with a progressive physical disability and worked hard to build a career where her disability was an asset, not a problem. So, for over twenty years, Susan was a professional counselor and therapist, specializing in disability, alongside working as a disability advoca...

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Websites 101 - Do You NEED One??? With Chronicpreneur Jackie Zimmerman

Patients Getting Paid - October 26, 2021 11:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Jackie Zimmerman works HARD. After receiving not one but two chronic illness diagnoses in her 20s (Multiple Sclerosis and Inflammatory Bowel Disease), she turned to the internet to find a way to cope and build a support system. She became a professional blogger and public speaker, and later form...

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Aqua Yoga Helped Christa Fairbrother, and now it’s her Chronicpreneur Business!

Patients Getting Paid - October 12, 2021 15:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
For Christa Fairbrother, living with arthritis and teaching yoga are closely linked. She has had arthritis and lupus ever since she was a child, even though she was only diagnosed with mixed connective tissue disease at the age of 41. Mixed connective tissue disease (MCTD) is sometimes called an...

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Speaker, Influencer, Coach: How Whitney West is Slaying Chronicpreneurism

Patients Getting Paid - September 28, 2021 11:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
When you listen to this interview with Whitney West, you might find yourself wondering, “When does she nap?!” A born overachiever, this inspirational chronicpreneur was born into a family of teachers. So she didn’t want to go down that route. When she was diagnosed with Fibrosing mediastinitis,...

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