Published on October 2nd, 2018 | by Darren Paltrowitz
0Maria Menounos On Working With The Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge
An actress, television host, podcaster, entrepreneur, philanthropist and occasional professional wrestler, Maria Menounos is a talented individual who has succeeded in many fields. Her latest project is a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson, the Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge, as launched and announced yesterday. As part of the Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge, nurses located in the United States can submit their ideas to Johnson & Johnson for the chance to receive up to $100,000 in grants, mentorship and other career opportunities from J&J.
I had the pleasure of talking with Maria Menounos by phone following the launch of the Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge. The first 2 questions from our chat are below, while the full chat can be read over at Sportskeeda. More on Menounos and her many projects can be found by following the Medford, Massachusetts native on Twitter via @MariaMenounos.
How did the ability to work with Johnson & Johnson come about?
Maria Menounos: I think our goals are very much in line. They also saw that I also celebrated my nurses so much after my surgery, it all just made sense. Today I was in New York launching the Johnson & Johnson Nurses Innovate QuickFire Challenge. They’re encouraging the empowerment of nurses to develop their incredible ideas. They’re offering this amazing challenge to have nurses submit their ideas to nursing.jnj.com. They’ll pick the top idea or ideas to develop and hopefully change people’s lives and save them.
Even before this partnership was announced you were known to be in great physical shape and living a healthy lifestyle. Was there a particular event or experience that led to that?
Maria Menounos: I think my dad was definitely an inspiration for that, growing up. He’s been a Type 1 diabetic for almost 50 years now, or 45-plus years. I watched him suffer from the disease in terms of low blood sugar attacks, but he’s never run his blood sugar high. Because of that he’s had no complications from the disease for almost 50 years. Part of that was exercise and putting pure food in his body. He never cheated with sugar, was very disciplined, and I see the benefits of that every day. He’s so young and has the body of a 20-something year old, inside and out. The doctors are always amazed by him. He was always my inspiration to always lead the healthiest life I can.