Q3 Is Wrapping Up 🍂 Here's What You Need to Know!

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Subject: Q3 Is Wrapping Up 🍂 Here's What You Need to Know!

September 15th, 2026

For over 40 years, the NNBA has supported nurses in breaking free from traditional bedside roles and building meaningful, life-changing businesses. Our community and annual conference continue to set the standard for nurse entrepreneurship.

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Maureen Metzger, RN PhD, CPC, ELI MP
COR.E Leadership Dynamics Specialist

Maureen built a 40-year career as a clinician, researcher, and educator, caring for patients through cancer, heart failure, kidney failure, and the early years of HIV/AIDS.

After the pandemic, Maureen hit a wall many nurses will recognize: disconnection, compassion fatigue, and the sense that she no longer mattered to her organization. Instead of pushing through, she retrained as a professional coach and rebuilt her career around it. Her programs give formal continuing education weight for other nurses.

Now she coaches health care leaders on getting out of reactive "fix-it" mode and back into leadership that actually holds up.

For NNBA members building their own practices, Maureen's path is proof that a clinical career and a coaching business aren't separate tracks: they build on each other. Her work shows what it looks like to turn decades of clinical expertise into a leadership consultancy.

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A Note From Nena

Hi Nurses,

We're nearing the end of Q3, and that shift always brings a certain kind of energy: half looking back at what got done, half looking ahead at what's left before the year wraps. If you're feeling that pull right now, good! Let it push you forward.

Q4 is coming fast, and how you close out this quarter often sets the tone for how you start the next one.

Sometimes the biggest shift in a business doesn't come from a grand plan, it comes from watching someone else rebuild theirs and realizing you have permission to do the same. Keep that in mind as you read through this one.

And a quick reminder if it's not already on your calendar: Virginia Beach, September 16-18, 2027, for the Nurse Entrepreneurship & Career Alternatives Conference! More details coming, but I didn't want it to slip off your radar.

With gratitude,

Nena

Timing Your Touchpoints

A lot of entrepreneurs give full attention while a project or session is active, then go quiet the moment it wraps. That's exactly when a client decides whether to come back or refer you.

Your challenge is to build one follow-up touchpoint into every engagement, timed after the work ends, not just during the project.

Here's how to make it easy:

Set a reminder for 2-4 weeks after a project closes, not just at the final session
Ask one specific question: "How's [the thing you worked on] holding up?"
Use the reply as an opening, not a pitch: let them bring up what's next
Log the date so follow-up becomes routine

A good follow-up shows often what turns a one-time client into a repeat one.

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Subject: Q3 Is Wrapping Up 🍂 Here's What You Need to Know!

Maureen Metzger, RN PhD, CPC, ELI MPCOR.E Leadership Dynamics Specialist

Maureen Metzger, RN PhD, CPC, ELI MP
COR.E Leadership Dynamics Specialist