Meet Lisa Crites

 

We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Lisa Crites. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Lisa below.

Lisa, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

My father. I watched him work like a machine my entire life on the family farm. Up until the time his body gave out on him a few months ago, he was still working, being productive, consistently, at 86 years old

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I am a health/medical print columnist, guest lecturer, journalist, soon to be author, and patented inventor of The SHOWER SHIRT™, a water-resistant garment to protect chest surgery patients while showering. The garments inception was derived from my own experience as a breast cancer/mastectomy patient being required to shower in a plastic trash bag.  I wanted to support the dignity of women after mastectomy surgery and why the product was created. Over the years our team has been featured in FORBES Magazine, the Huffington Post and Readers Digest; on FOX News, NBC, CNN online, and Lifetime TV’s, ‘The Balancing Act.’ The SHOWER SHIRT company was also featured in Women Inventors & the Top 7-Percent, by Author, Robert Bear, and a television feature produced by Ivanhoe Broadcast News for ‘Women Inventors,’ airing in 72 television markets across the United States.”  Sadly, only 7 % of women in the United States own patents, where 93 % are owned by men. I am proud to be in that 7 % of other women innovators.

I am excited to announce that my book, “Beautifully Unbroken,” will be published in the May 2026.  I had not ever thought about writing a book until being approached by a publishing house in Los Angeles. The team created an outline based on my years of blogging, speaking engagements, and media features to eventually bringing a patented, Class 1 Medical Device to market. The publishing team made me realize that the Shower Shirt invention was just the beginning of my story, and it was important to share the inspiration behind the person I’ve become because of that invention.  So, I acquiesced and have been working on my book ever since. Of course, lots of emotions are being excavated from my brain into the storyline which is cathartic. I’m like my father, I work like a machine and never thought about all the emotions which came out of being a breast cancer patient, and the many clinical complications.  I just threw my mind and work into helping other patients with the Shower Shirt product, but not sure I ever dealt with my own feelings.  This book is making me do that, years later.

When I brought the Shower Shirt to market, I promised myself that if I sold only 1 shirt, to help another breast cancer patient, then all the blood, sweat, and tears, would have been worth it.  Fourteen years later, we have sold thousands of shirts to women all over the world. So, in moving forward, that theory has become my mantra with Beautifully Unbroken, that if the book can help one person, one breast cancer patient, one innovator, one inventor, give one person inspiration, then I will be thrilled to have told my story.  We are a product of our experiences and upbringing, both good and bad, and it’s important to share inspiration whenever we can, to help others.  And KUDOS to my publishers who have been AMAZING throughout this process.

Please join the Beautifully Unbroken journey and stay tuned for the book launch date.

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Website: https://lisashowershirt.com/

What is your Education?

I earned my Bachelor of Science (BS) in Journalism from Murray State University, Murray Ky; my MS, in Digital Marketing & eCommerce, and MBA, from the European Business School (ENEB – Universidad Isabel I), Barcelona, Spain. In 2025, I was awarded an honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Media Communications from Kennedy University for my thirty years of work in both media strategy and journalism. I’m also excited to announce I was nominated as an inductee into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame and present on patent innovation strategies for the United States Patent & Trademark Office.

If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?

The three qualities in which I believe to be the most important are work ethic, resilience, and research for entrepreneurial initiatives as the most impactful aspects of my journey. Medical journalism has carried me through a 30-year career. The news genre took me from reporting to anchoring in the Orlando television market, to media strategy roles in the corporate office of two hospital systems. Reporting for the news networks during the Natalie Holloway missing person’s search in Aruba, to becoming a patented inventor of a medical device, ghost writing medical journals for doctors across the United States, and a health/medical print columnist for a national magazine.

What was the most impactful thing your parents did for you?

My parents taught my three brothers and I to have strong work ethics while being altruistic and philanthropic.

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