I interview Randi Bates, a PhD student at the College of Nursing. I first met her though my research mentor Jodi Ford. Randi caught my attention because she is not only a PhD student but has her Nurse Practitioner degree and has been a nurse abroad, things that I professionally aspire to do. Randi graduated with a bachelor of science in nursing from the College of Nursing at Ohio State. Her senior year she met someone who traveled and was inspired to do the same. The Peace Corps caught Randi’s attention because it offered travel, helped with health insurance and great work and life experiences. In 2007 Randi applied and was accepted to serve in the Peace Corps. There were three months of intensive training where she learned about project planning, Spanish, cultural competency and how to apply for grants. Randi was sent to the Dominican Republic for two years where she worked with a community leader who helped her learn more about the community and gain their trust. Randi’s project focused on teaching sexual education to teenagers, as well as teaching young girls art (her favorite focus). Through her favorite focus of teaching young girls art, she saw how there was psychomotor and social development in this specific population. Randi expressed how working in the Peace Corps was one of the most wonderful and hard times she has ever experienced. She also was able to be a first responder in the Haiti disaster in 2008 expressing how she felt new and felt that she couldn’t contribute a lot by just being a nurse, something that inspired her to get her nurse practitioner degree when she returned. Randi is now an NP in outpatient nephrology, she told me how much she liked being able to be more independent in her work and has gained so much great clinical experience through it. As a PhD student, Randi is interested in early childhood education and policy, more specifically how childhood stress and the relationship with a mother affect long-term stress, expecting to graduate in 2 years! I was and still am so impressed with all of Randi’s achievements and aspirations. I told her this and she said that she loves just going above and beyond and challenging herself; she advised me that if there is something that I have the slightest interest in, that I should absolutely go for it. Randi was also an SNA for 3 years before going to the Peace Corps and encouraged me to keep that job in order to gain more hospital experience, patient interaction and network. My interview with Randi Bates was incredibly fruitful and motivational in my dreams to be a nurse, travel and get my nurse practitioner degree.