Are you in need of a kidney transplant? Are you hoping to find a living kidney donor so you can end your wait for a transplant? Transplantfirst understands your urgent need to find a living kidney donor and secure a transplant before you require dialysis (or as soon as possible). That's why we exist.
We not only understand the challenges that stand before you, our founder, Risa Simon, lived them and successfully conquered them all. Risa is a kidney patient just like you. She understood that in order to get a transplant before she required dialysis, she'd need to find a living kidney donor. Her hope, like many of you reading this, was to avoid dialysis all together. She was terrified by this assignment. Fortunately, her fear became a powerful motivator for attracting a handful of potential living kidney donors. This is what she wants for you.
So, if you are feeling confused, intimidated and overwhelmed, know that you're not alone. And, if asking someone for a kidney is an unthinkable ASK, know that it is perfectly normal to feel that way. That's how Risa felt, and she agrees that "Asking someone outright for a kidney is not only an unthinkable task, it's completely off-putting!" As Risa discovered, the only thing you need to ask for is help in sharing your story. Risa's goal is to help you courageously tell your story and attract potential donors from a place of human need awareness and compassion for others, not just self.
Risa even published a book on this very topic to help you better understand the process. Her powerful kidney patient self-help book In Pursuit of a Better Life: The Ultimate Guide for Finding Living Kidney Donors is a pocket-guide for strategic messaging, communications and engagement. In this book, you'll find empowered insights, inspiration and pearls of wisdom to help you attract potential living kidney donors, just like Risa did.
Best of all, this book will help you discover how to find living kidney donors without ever having to ask anyone for a kidney! In Pursuit of a Better Life: The Ultimate Guide for Finding Living Kidney Donors was written to empower kidney patients to share their story and expand awareness in their need for a kidney transplant. This one-of-a-kind guidebook is for anyone seeking a kidney transplant from a living donor. Inside this book, you'll find loads of messaging examples and sample letters for social media updates with family and friends. You'll also find story sharing ideas, talking points and tons of valuable outreach ideas.
This powerful book also serves as the perfect Rescue Guide for dialysis patients hoping to end their wait for a kidney transplant.
In Pursuit of a Better Life: The Ultimate Guide for Finding Living Kidney Donors is a must read for anyone hoping to find a living kidney donor, and for those who care about someone in need. Available in Paperback, Kindle and Audible off Amazon's website. You can also download the E-Book and Audio Book from the links below, or purchase an author's signed Paperback Book directly from the author, by clicking the paperback link below.About the Author
Jolted by her own concerns, she discovered an opportunity to help herself and others. This serendipitous swing empowered her to step away from her speaking and consulting career to advocate for a better tomorrow for all. Following the belief: "To Advance Forward is to Give Back," Risa actively volunteers for kidney patient organizations like the PKD Foundation's Peer Mentoring Program, NKF’s Peer Mentoring & Advocacy Programs, ATF’s 1+1 Life Mentorship Program, and as an AAKP Ambassador Advocate.
In addition to her volunteer roles, Risa is the founder and CEO of TransplantFirst Academy, The Proactive Path and Simon Says Seminars, inc., where she proudly emboldens kidney patients to visualize their new North Star; a better and longer life. Her thought-provoking seminars, action-oriented workshops and motivational keynotes offer both patient and professional healthcare-provider audiences highly-relatable content, with visually-stimulating graphics and animations. For more information on these programs, online webinars, mentoring, coaching and support group facilitation, email: Risa@TransplantFirst.org.
Role-Play Videos & Stories
Patients need to increase awareness in their need for a living kidney donor, but they aren’t sure what to say or how to say it. In this role-play video you’ll observe a transplant candidate sharing her story (and hope) to find a living kidney donor before requiring dialysis. Never once does the patient ask her friend to consider donating a kidney. Instead, she asks for help in sharing her story. As the conversation grows, a thoughtful shift occurs when her enthusiastic friend starts to contemplate whether she might be able to be her friend’s donor. This role-play was created to illustrate good communication practices by demonstrating how “positive story sharing” can lead to more favorable responses.
What Transplant Centers Are Saying: “Authentic and inspirational patient role-play videos on “how to tell your story and ask for help.” These videos were captured from the speaker’s heart—and connect to the hearts of all viewers. Thanks for taking the heavy-lifting out of our never-ending wish list!” – Michelle Sturges BSN, RN, CCTC, Living Donor Transplant Coordinator, UC Davis Transplant Center
Role-Play (Transplant Candidate Updates Friend) Donor’s Heartfelt Message
What Transplant Centers Are Saying
“This book is a tremendous resource for hopeful transplant candidates. We purchased several hundred copies for our annual nephrology conference to get this information disseminated to dialysis professionals. Now we need to figure out a way to get this book into the hands of all our waitlisted patients. Best thing in print on this subject!”– Michelle Sturges, BSN, RN, CCTC, Living Donor Transplant Coordinator, UC Davis Transplant Center
“A rare gem—there’s nothing like it out there! I’ve highlighted just about every page. I’ve shared the book with our transplant coordinators and support staff, and they’re using it too! The book includes conversation tools and template letters that take the “heavy lifting” out of helping patients find potential donors. It’s become an invaluable “go to” resource for our transplant center.”-Charlie Thomas, LCSW, ACSW, FNKF, Social Worker, Transplant Institute Banner University Medical Center -Phoenix
What Dialysis Educators Are Saying
Wonderful book! A great resource for those in need of a kidney transplant. Well written in a positive, empowering style. As a professional nurse educator of kidney patients, I have purchased several copies for our lending library.” – Christa Lawson, RN, BSN, Care Coordinator / Transplant Coordinator, Reach Kidney Care
What Kidney Patients Are Saying
“We’ve been told to talk to family or friends, but never given specifics on what to say. This guidebook offers scripts, communication tips and several letter templates! I feel excited about my future again. What a gift!” – D. Patton
Shift Your Fate: Life-Changing Wisdom for Proactive Kidney Patients
Disheartened Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) patients who fear a life-sentence tethered to a machine, now have an opportunity to bypass dialysis and live a more fulfilling life. This kidney patient self-help book offers proactive strategies and life-leaping advantages over standard trajectories. Author and preemptive (live-donor) transplant recipient, Risa Simon, is living her best life ever. She tells her story with dauntless candor and offers “behind-the-curtain” gems to empower better outcomes. Risa and her many book fans and followers are living proof that this wildly successful patient empowerment system works!
Even if you’re years away from ever needing a transplant, this powerful book will set you on a proactive path that will give you the advantage you’ve been striving for. Start securing your best future today! Shift Your Fate: Life-Changing Wisdom For Proactive Kidney Patients.
In Pursuit of A Better Life: The Ultimate Guide for Finding Living Kidney Donors
Proactive patients get your copy of “In Pursuit of A Better Life: The Ultimate Guide for Finding Living Kidney Donors” . This book is an educational resource and “tour guide”to help you create your outreach campaign to find a living kidney donor. The content in the book will catapult your path to transplant. Inside this book you’ll find powerful communication strategies, inspiration “done for you” template letters, art layouts and much more
Patient Empowerment Journal
Use this Empowerment Journal to set goals, reflect on your progress, document your journey and inspire your path to transplant. While this journal was designed to be used by proactive patients who are on a path to empower their road to securing a transplant with a living kidney donor, it can be used as a planner and victory log for just about anyone seeking to record their journey.
A great adjunct to the author’s book: In Pursuit of A Better Life: The Ultimate Guide For Finding Living Kidney Donors.
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