meet the founder

I’m Carmen Stansberry, WHNP-BC, FNP-C

Double Board-Certified Nurse Practitioner. Business Strategist. 7-Figure Brand Builder.

Before I ever taught business, I was a clinician trying to figure out how to deliver the kind of care I knew patients needed. Like many clinicians, I spent years working inside traditional healthcare systems where appointments were short, schedules were full, and success was often measured by volume. I can still remember sitting across from patients knowing there was more work to be done than could fit inside a single visit. The gap between what patients needed and what the system allowed became impossible to ignore.

When I opened my own private practice, I assumed better care would naturally lead to a better business. It didn't. I quickly realized that simply leaving insurance-based medicine wasn't enough. If I built my practice around appointments alone, I would recreate many of the same limitations I was trying to escape. The breakthrough came when I stopped thinking about visits and started thinking about outcomes. Instead of selling access to my time, I built care around transformation, accountability, and long-term patient relationships. 

As other clinicians watched what I was building, they started asking questions. Not about hormone protocols or treatment plans, but about the structure behind the practice itself. They wanted to know how the offers were designed, how patients stayed engaged, how pricing was positioned, and how the business supported better care instead of competing with it. Over time, I realized the challenge wasn't a lack of clinical knowledge. Most clinicians already had that. The challenge was knowing how to build a profitable modern practice around that expertise.

That's what became The Advanced Practice, and it's why I'm still in the room with members today, building alongside them.

Women’s Health & Longevity Clinician | Educator | Founder | MENTOR