It started the night my son came in code three.
No polished founder story here, just the truth, because the truth is what built this. If any of it lands in your chest, that’s not an accident. That’s your next chapter knocking.
Nineteen years in the ER.
I gave everything to that floor. Then I burned out, got labeled “the sickly nurse,” and was told to cut my hours or leave. I knew I was meant to help more people. I just hadn’t found the door yet.
My son Rohan arrived on the verge of dying.
The whole team was ready for him. Nobody was ready for me. Everyone assumed that because I was a nurse, I could handle it. But when it’s your child, you’re not a nurse, you’re a terrified parent, alone in a hallway.
I saw the gap nobody talks about.
There is no support for the parents, the ones holding it together at work while their whole world quietly falls apart at home. After that night, every time a child came in, I gravitated to the parents, walking them through it moment by moment. I called what they carried the silent struggle.
So I built the thing that didn’t exist.
I created The Silent Struggle Solution, a corporate wellness program built to sit right inside a company’s Employee Assistance Program, as an added benefit for working parents of children with special needs. It gave them the someone-in-their-corner I never had. And it worked.
That’s where CNCA was born.
I realized I wasn’t the only nurse sitting on a mission too big for one hospital floor. There are millions of us. What we’re missing isn’t heart or credibility. It’s the business. So I built the roadmap I wish I’d had. Now I help healthcare experts build a profitable business.
