Intro
In this episode of White Coat Black Sheep, Dr. Civelli sits down with Mary Rose Gutierrez, a healthcare business development professional, aspiring actress, and luxury wellness travel expert who has spent her career selling five star escapes to the Maldives while quietly working through a reset of her own. They cover everything from her surprise role in a new Filipino-American series to the fifteen pounds she has lost since an IVF process last year, and what a gut microbiome test taught her about the way she eats.
Topics Covered
- Splitting her career between healthcare business development and luxury resort sales
- Her background role in the new Filipino-American series Nurse the Dead
- An upcoming short film headed to the California Film Festival
- A modeling blooper from a cigar commercial shoot during her med school years in Chicago
- The biggest luxury travel booking of her career, a $400,000 stay, six nights
- Building a business around wellness travel, not just vacations
- What actually happens once you land at a five star Maldives resort
- Cultural rules she had to learn quickly doing business in Saudi Arabia and the UAE
- Years spent living and working in Malaysia, Singapore, Grand Cayman, and St. Kitts
- Why she stepped back from full time nursing to focus on the business side of healthcare
- Her current skincare and supplement routine
- Why she believes Bakersfield is ready for its own medical grade wellness destination
- Her IVF process and the fifteen pounds she has lost since through intermittent fasting
- What a Viome gut microbiome test revealed about her personal food list
- Her scuba certification story, including a scary boat dive
Mentioned in Episode
- Nurse the Dead (iWant series)
- California Film Festival
- Sun Ventures
- Recovering Co, a Bakersfield sauna and recovery studio (worth confirming exact spelling before this goes out)
- Viome gut microbiome test
- Dior foundation
- A collagen supplement discovered through a Facebook ad (brand name not confirmed on air)
- Spoiled Child gummies
- Flame and Skewers, a Bakersfield restaurant
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