Life Plan

Stage 1 — Stabilization + Capture Infrastructure (Now)

Primary goals:

• improve financial stability,
• reduce cognitive overload,
• consistently capture ideas,
• begin building audience and body of work.

Immediate priorities

1. Continue stabilizing finances

   • consistent work,
   • stash/emergency systems,
   • CPR income,
   • reduce chaos/friction where possible.

2. Continue building Focus:

   • real-time lived experience,
   • practical systems,
   • audience growth,
   • publishing consistency,
   • affiliate/passive income foundation.

3. Create simple WordPress skeletons for:

   • Heartland Emergency Education
   • The Erudite Medic

   NOT polished websites yet. Just:

   • categories,
   • tags,
   • rough structure,
   • searchable capture spaces.

4. Begin systematic capture for Erudite Medic Especially:

   • secondary assessment frameworks,
   • documentation pearls,
   • “things paramedic school doesn’t teach,”
   • cognition/decision-making,
   • red flags,
   • workflow ideas,
   • field heuristics.

5. Start building the 4x6 secondary assessment field guide This is a strong early product because:

   • useful immediately,
   • directly tied to your practice,
   • aligned with your philosophy,
   • can evolve iteratively.

6. Continue journaling/reflection capture Not necessarily for publication. More for:

   • idea generation,
   • future essays,
   • pattern recognition,
   • preserving authentic voice while you’re living it.

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Stage 2 — Structured Professional Identity (Next)

Primary goals:

• formalize educational identity,
• expand teaching/business infrastructure,
• begin advanced academic trajectory.

Priorities

1. Begin the Purpose:

   • affordable graduate education,
   • teaching framework,
   • educational credibility,
   • research/writing practice,
   • long-term foundation.

2. Expand Heartland Potential directions:

   • CPR business,
   • teaching modules,
   • downloadable materials,
   • simulation products,
   • agency education,
   • subscription-box concepts.

3. Continue expanding Erudite Medic Build:

   • field guides,
   • essays,
   • checklists,
   • complaint-based frameworks,
   • practical clinical-thinking resources.

4. Establish the Erin McBride hub site Connect:

   • AOBB,
   • Heartland,
   • Erudite Medic, while preserving separate voices/brands.

5. Consider targeted adult-learning training Such as:

   Purpose:

   • adult-learning focus,
   • bridge K-12 gaps from M.Ed.,
   • healthcare/professional education concepts,
   • learning science.

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Stage 3 — Advanced Authority + Doctorate Path (Later)

Primary goals:

• deepen expertise,
• expand influence,
• integrate education + medicine + writing.

Long-term possibilities

1. Pursue doctorate at the Potential focus areas:

   • education,
   • learning sciences,
   • adult education,
   • educational psychology,
   • cognition/human performance,
   • healthcare education.

2. Continue practicing clinically while teaching/writing This is important to your identity and strengthens credibility.

3. Expand into:

   • speaking,
   • curriculum design,
   • advanced simulation education,
   • published educational materials,
   • books/workbooks/guides,
   • larger EMS education systems.

4. Fully develop the “hidden curriculum of EMS” theme:

   everything providers actually need to know that paramedic school barely teaches.

That is the connective thread running through almost everything you described today.