Registered Nurse · Founder · Author · Speaker

Joel Polley

Pills manage output. Protocol fixes input.

Joel spent 20 years in the ICU and ER, watching the same patients come back a little sicker each time. Now he teaches everyday people the simple, natural habits that work alongside their doctor's plan, never instead of it.

Joel Polley, RN, in navy scrubs with a stethoscope outside a nursing education center
ICU & ER Nurse, 20 Years Naturopathic Practitioner Founder, BraveWorks RN Cofounder, Everyday Nurse Author of Three Books Keynote Speaker Husband & Father of Six
20+
Years at the Bedside
460K+
Followers Across Platforms
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Books Authored
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Kids at the Table
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Your doctor has 12 minutes with you. This is what you do with the other 23 hours and 48 minutes.

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High blood pressure is not a mystery. It is a checklist: stress, sugar, sodium.

Joel teaches the checklist.

I started IVs on people in hypertensive crisis for twenty years. I kept meeting the same patients again, a little sicker each time. So I left the hospital system to teach people how to be the system: your body, your habits, your doctor, working together. These days that work looks like six kids, a hobby farm, and my wife Annie, a nurse building right alongside me.

Joel Polley in a black shirt standing in his studio office
01 · The Work

He watched the system run out of time. So he built one that doesn't.

Joel spent two decades in intensive care and emergency medicine, stabilizing people in crisis and watching too many of them return worse. The problem was never the 12 minute appointment. It was everything that happened outside it. That conviction became BraveWorks RN: an education company built on the BP Triangle Method, with a 90 second quiz, personalized reset kits, a weekly live community, and a caffeine free tea crafted for the work.

"I did not leave nursing. I took it somewhere the hospital could not go."

He is the author of The Overmedicated Boomer, Be There in 30, and BP Cures, and a speaker for rooms that want plain language and a real plan.

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The Family Ecosystem 420K+ on Facebook 39K+ on Instagram 50K+ on YouTube · Everyday Nurse Minority Possible on the Radio The Weekly Reset on Skool
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Pills manage output. Protocol fixes input. I spent twenty years on the output side, in rooms nobody wants to visit. This is my life's work on the input side, so fewer people ever need that room.

— Joel Polley, RN
Joel Polley and Annie Chitate standing together in navy scrubs
On The Air · With Annie

Minority Possible: the radio show Joel and Annie host together.

Joel and his wife Annie Chitate, both registered nurses, host Minority Possible: a radio show about health, ownership, family, and legacy. Episodes cover the three things that start a health journey, what really runs in the family, the BP Triangle, and eating healthy, in the same plain language they use at their own dinner table.

"You may be the first. You should not have to be the last."

The two also teach Life Beyond the Numbers, a free live masterclass every Monday at 7pm ET, and host The Change My Life Challenge, three live nights that read your health signals as one connected story.

Listen at MinorityPossible.com →
What Joel Is Building

From a free quiz to the family table, one ecosystem.

BraveWorks RN

The flagship. The 90 second BP Triangle Quiz, the 10 Day Reset Kits, and an education funnel serving thousands of everyday people.

bpquiz.com →

Life Beyond the Numbers

The free weekly masterclass. Every Monday at 7pm ET, Joel and Annie teach the BP Triangle live: stress, sugar, and sodium, and how hormones push all three after 40.

bpquiz.com/masterclass →

The Change My Life Challenge

Three live nights with Joel and Annie that read your signals, pressure, sugar, sleep, energy, and mood, as one connected story, and end with a plan you can start the same week.

changemylifechallenge.com →

Minority Possible

The radio show Joel hosts with Annie: health, ownership, family, and legacy, for every family ready to change what gets inherited.

minoritypossible.com →

The Weekly Reset

Joel's private community on Skool. Weekly live group coaching, accountability, and straight answers in plain language.

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SVUTU Steady

A caffeine free herbal tea blended for the Triangle work. Small, dated batches with a 60 day guarantee.

bpquiz.com/tea →

The Engine

Done for you funnel and offer builds for health practitioners: the same quiz, email, and checkout system that runs bpquiz.com, built for your practice.

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The Books

The Overmedicated Boomer, Be There in 30, and BP Cures. Plain language guides for people tired of being told to wait and watch.

About the books →

Everyday Nurse & RestoreHER

Cofounded with his wife, Annie Chitate: hormone health education for women 35 to 60, with a YouTube community 50,000 strong.

anniechitate.com →
Work With Joel

Coaching for individuals, wellness programs for organizations, and partnerships for brands that respect their audience.

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His Full Story

The ICU years, the pattern he could not unsee, the family, and the why behind everything he builds.

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Book Joel To Speak

Keynotes, corporate wellness talks, and workshops, for planners ready to bring him to the stage.

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