We recently connected with Lakiesha Simpson El and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Lakiesha, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
I learned the value and dedication of my work ethic from my beautiful and loving late mother. As a young woman my mother instilled in me how to work hard and appreciate any job that you do to earn a living. My mother worked as a phlebotomist for over twenty years, which involved drawing blood samples from patients and preparing those samples for testing. She was dedicated and very proficient in her work duties and was proud to help people in the community. Years later I became a Hemodialysis Technician which also involves helping people and handling blood. I’ve always been inspired to follow in my mothers’ footsteps and appreciate the importance of work ethic and the love for health and science like she once did. These essential qualities has given me the passion and resilience to continue helping others in various capacities. I will always be grateful and thankful for such experiences that has shaped me into the amazing woman I am today.
Great, so let’s take a few minutes and cover your story. What should folks know about you and what you do?
My name is Lakiesha Simpson EI, I am a loving wife, and mother to four wonderful sons. I enjoy spending quality time with my family, scrapbooking pictures, watching sports and listening to jazz and R&B music. I have been a Certified Clinical Hemodialysis Technician for seven years on May 1st. I provide a medical treatment to patients with chronic kidney disease, by filtering their blood through a dialysis machine by safely removing fluid, toxins and waste from a person’s blood from an access on their body. This access is either a catheter in a person’s chest or fistula or graft in a person’s arm. The patients’ blood is filtered through a dialysis machine which performs the functions that a person’s normal biological kidneys would do. This treatment is usually performed three times a week to keep the person alive and it is done at a dialysis unit. Before I became a Hemodialysis Technician or knew what dialysis was, my mother was the first person I ever had an encounter with on a dialysis machine. It was definitely a life changing experience to watch my mother go through such a life altering experience. Seven years later I became a Dialysis Technician in Detroit, Michigan. I was so elated to help others and learn more about the health challenges my mother experienced as a dialysis patient. I’m also an author, My book is titled: Hypertension and Hemodialysis: The Silent Treatment on the Rise! Focuses on my personal and Professional experiences with hypertension (high blood pressure) during pregnancy, my mother and her various medical conditions, and my experiences with the day to day patient’s dialysis treatments at the dialysis units. Also how I explain how the younger generation between the ages of 20 and 50 are on dialysis machines in and around our urban communities. I really appreciate this wonderful yet fulfilling journey providing safe and effective dialysis treatments. I am grateful to continue to educate others about maintaining healthy kidney health and wellness.
There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?
The three most impactful qualities for me are kindness, patience and effective work ethics. The most valuable advice I have for anyone on their journey is to be your authentic self and be patient with the process and timing of your goals and journey. Take one goal at a time day by day and be proactive and dedicated about what you want to achieve. What is meant for you will always be for you!
What’s been one of your main areas of growth this year?
My biggest area of growth or improvement for me is becoming more goal oriented and executing those goals to great lengths. By doing such has given me the mental and spiritual clarity to be able to continue to pursue a variety of opportunities in a positive and impactful way!
Contact Info:
- Instagram: @kieshsimp
- Facebook: Lakiesha Simpson El
- Other: Authorhouse.com Website
Image Credits
Michael Simpson-El, Jr
