Sep 8, 2020
It goes without saying that wearing comfortable shoes not only keeps your feet happy but also ensures good posture, prevents injury, and maintains optimal foot care!
For nurses and healthcare professionals, comfort is NOT the best way to describe their work. With constant movement, long hours spent standing, and wearing a comfortable shoe is essential for their productivity, physical health, and wellbeing.
But finding the right one that supports all their needs can be quite a challenge.
In this episode, I invited one of the very few female designers in the footwear industry and the wildly popular personality behind the Nurse Life RN Instagram Channel to talk about the shoe brand that’s revolutionizing nursing footwear.
Find out how BALA footwear is working together with nurses to provide them with the shoe that is a perfect fit for their work and lifestyle! And if you're a nurse or a medical professional, treat your feet with some of BALA footwear’s comfy kicks today!
Episode Highlights:
• What inspired Caprice to create performance footwear for nurses.
• Caprice's journey as a footwear designer, how she got into footwear design, and how she started BALA footwear.
• Taking the risks and going for it.
• What drew Ebi to the field of nursing.
• What kind of shoes nurses are wearing.
• How Ebi’s platform is helping nurses share their voice.
• The difference between BALA footwear and other shoe brands nurses mostly use.
• What the notion of creating or finding something better in your life entails for Caprice and Ebi.
About Our Guests
Caprice Neely
Caprice Neely has been designing performance footwear for the leading brands in the world for the past 25 years. As a CoFounder at BALA, she has focused her experience on nursing. I had the opportunity to sit down with Caprice for our weekly “3 On” interview series to talk about her experience getting to know nurses before building this company and what the design process was like.
Connect with Caprice
Caprice LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/caprice-neely-41b8a27
BALA LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/we-are-bala
Ebi P. RN
Originally from Nigeria. His family moved to Chicago when he was 9. EBi went to Malone University and he's an ICU nurse at UCLA.
Connect with Ebi P., RN:
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nurselifern/
Resources mentioned in this episode:
BALA footwear https://www.wearebala.com/
NurseSpeak website https://nursespeak.com/
NurseSpeak podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nursespeak/id1503421427
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