Giuliana Vann, 39

Giuliana Vann’s unusual career transition began at the beach, on an otherwise normal day in 2017 when she was playing paddleball with friends and family. Vann was running and accidently fell into a deep hole, suffering a devastating ankle injury.

At the time Vann was a registered nurse, working in the oncology department at Manatee Memorial Hospital in Bradenton. A native of Peru, Vann had been with the hospital for five years, after she earned her RN degree from State College Of Florida. But being laid up for a year, with a grueling rehab, forced Vann to consider an alternative source of income. “I had to find something to do,” she says.