- If my loved one was sick and that she was on the other foot,
how would I want them to be treated? So that is my motto. I treat all of my patients as if they were my family.
“And that's important when they feel like they're loved,”
it does make a difference. - Tashiba Williams is a compassionate experienced and visionary family nurse practitioner and the founder of Ada Family Health Clinic, a Houston-based practice specializing in primary care
and advanced mobile wound care. Through her work, she provides compassionate, patient-centered care to homes, nursing facilities, and underserved communities, helping patients heal with dignity and improving access to quality health care.
- We get like hits with patients that have like diabetic ulcers, baschler ulcers and we go out to wherever they are. I want to go back to that a more personal relationship with my patients so that they know that we care. - Why is that care for your end user,
your customer? Why is it so important to your business? - It's very important. - It spans the globe, like a super-highest cold, internet Elvis, ready to fire on you.
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“- Welcome back everybody to another episode of The Living Your Legacy Podcast.”
I'm your host for today, Jason Tyler, and I am joined by To Sheba Williams. Welcome to the show, how are you doing? - I'm fine for having me, I'm okay. - Just okay.
- I'm good, I'm good. - And I'm excited. - We gonna get those nerves out of here, we can't have no. - I've got the jittery spit. - Have you podcasted much before?
- No, never. - Okay, so this is a new experience. Don't worry about it. It's just gonna be a conversation between you and I,
but first and foremost, you're about to walk
into your episode of "Women in Power." You mentioned in your little nervous. What are we nervous about? - I mean, something different. Just kind of telling my story,
I really don't share personal things about myself, so everybody is about to know all of my thoughts. - All the dirty laundry's going to be a nonsense game. I'm joking, I'm joking, that's not what we do here. - Right.
- That's right. (laughs) Talk to me a little bit about what the audience can expect to learn about you to Shiva in your episode. - Well, they will learn my struggle with becoming a teen mom,
how I overcame a lot of different obstacles, how my grandmother played a huge role in where I am today, and then my journey with the mobile wonker, and collaborative relationships that I have with business partners with Ford.
- God, it got shot at the grandma. - Yes. - Big shout out there, big shout out there, big shout out there. - Yes.
- Talk to me a little bit first about what is mobile wonker
for somebody out there in the audience that might not know at all. - Absolutely. So what my team does is we get hits with patients that have diabetic ulcers, vascular ulcers, that's hard to want to heal, and we go out to wherever they are.
Their home, nursing facility, group homes, wherever they consider home, and we do care at the bedside for the patient. - So instead of them having to go to hospital, you bring the hospital.
- I bring the hospital to them at that. - See, why is it just now, 2026, that we have this kind of note? That's how it should have been. - Yes, absolutely.
“- I feel like that's how it used to be back in the day.”
- It used to be, but things have changed. I want to go back to that a more personal relationship with my patients so that they know that we care, because a lot of patients can't come to the clinic to be seen. So we're trying to bring that to them.
- Got it, got it. And that's a narrative thread that I've seen through, I've interviewed a ton of people in these chairs or even in the studios. And one of the narrative threads that I see
through a lot of successful business owners is that they care. - Yes.
- The caring is the most important part.
You see a little bit about, you know, why is that care for your end user, your customer? Why is it so important to your business? - It's very important that I treat my patients like family.
So I always look at it this way if my loved one was sick and that she was on the other foot, how would I want them to be treated? So that is like my motto.
I treat all of my patients as if they were my family. So it's important that they get, you know, good quality care, because a lot of times people are nervous
about going to the doctor. They don't want to come in and go to the doctor. They don't want doctors coming to the home because they're afraid. Because there's no personal relationship.
So it's important to build it. - You got to drag me to the doctor. I know. - I know. - If it's not from my regular checkup with my PCP,
there's not really a lot of reasons.
We talked about this a little bit before it showed,
unless I'm severely injured. - Yeah. - Then maybe I'll go to the doctor. - Exactly. I want to catch that before it gets to that stage.
- So it's long too far gone. - It's long too far gone. - Yeah, right. We got to bring you back in. So we try to avoid that.
And just let our patients know that we are here for you. You know, you are family.
“And that's important when they feel like they're loved.”
And you know, their needs are being met. Then it does make a difference. - I talked about this with another client on the show. And we were talking about how, especially here in America,
here in the West as people like to say, like we function as an incentive based society. - Absolutely. - And usually, in 90% of cases, the incentive that people are driving towards is profit.
Right? If profit is the incentive, then care is the opposite of that profit. - Exactly. - Of that profit incentive.
Like if your incentive is to provide quality care for people, the profit will come. - Exactly. - People don't understand that. So talk to me a little bit about like,
“you know, how did you get into the medical industry?”
First of all, I mean, obviously you got to go to medical industry.
That's his own background. - So what happened was my grandmother. She was a very vibrant woman. She ended up getting dementia. And she got really, really sick.
And I felt the disconnection with her health care providers. It felt like it was more of we got to get this done and this done. Just focus on the diagnosis as opposed to my grandmother as a whole. So when I seen that, I was like, you know, we got to do something different about this.
Like there has to be a different way that we could bring in the whole entire patient. Look at the whole patient, holistically. And also work on the things that their ailments, their diagnosis and treatment plan.
So when she got sick and she passed away, that was my goal. I wanted to make a change. - Interestingly enough, you know, I lost my grandfather to dementia as well.
And that was my catalyst for starting my first production company.
My grandfather was, he was a very high ranking attorney in Jamaica. He worked with Bob Marley to pass laws, allowing for osteoferians to smoke. Gonja has a part of their religion. So like the reason why Jamaicans are known as such potheads is thanks to my granddad.
But he was at a level in Jamaica as an attorney that they called Queen's Council where you go and you meet the Queen of England and it's this whole big thing. And so everybody called him QC. So I named my first production company QC studios.
So I resonated with that in your story. I was like, you know what? That's a good catalyst to build on to start a business because it's personal. - Yes. - I want to talk a little bit about creating systems around, like obviously your motive is caring about people.
But in a lot of businesses, what I see is the people who care the most, usually if they're not successful in just that, they'll usually fall victim to not creating profitable systems to be able to continue to care at a high level. - Right. So how are you building systems within your company to account for that?
- So what I do is I collaborate, so I collaborate with other providers, other specialists in order to offset those things. - Yeah. - Got it, got it. Because at the end of the day, yes, I want to provide... - Absolutely. - Great product. I want to provide great care for people.
- But these lights got to stay on. - Yes. - That's very true. - Absolutely. That's true. In order for me to continue to give great quality care,
“you have to bring a team in. You have to collaborate.”
It's just not me by myself. - I'm the same way when it comes to putting a film crew together. I've got 350 videographers, no joke, 350 videographers in my phone, all throughout the state of Florida, that if I can't go work something, I'm going to call up one of my boys, I got somebody for you.
And maybe those who shoot me like a 10% commission off of whatever. Sometimes I don't, I tell them, if I make you any less than a thousand dollars, don't even worry about commission. But if it's 1500 up, don't be 10% for the audience members out there
who are watching this, who are just being introduced to you for the first time,
they're all entrepreneurial, their business minded. What are your main tips for success for somebody out there that wants to succeed at a high level? - I would say don't give up because a lot of times when things don't go the way we plan, we can kind of get discouraged. Although things may not go the way that you expect them to continue to work at it.
Keep pushing for it because eventually that door will open. And when it opens, it will open so wide that you will be like, "Oh my God, you know." - I can let like three more people in mind. - Don't think of business as a job.
I have to do this.
Think of it as I want to do this.
“It changes, it changes your perspective.”
And it makes you want to get up every morning and do the thing that you love. - Gratitude is the attitude like I'm a firm firm believer in that. I'm grateful to be able to get to have conversations like this and to be able to get to be in the city of Miami
and be around people that I love and learn so much from so many different business owners,
so many different successful people. I write down notes, you don't know it, but I have an AI going to my pocket right now. Just write down notes. Guys, if you're still watching at this point in the podcast,
“where can they follow you on all the social medias?”
Where can they find out more about the home care?
- On my website is www.adifamilyhealthclinic.com. That is my website page. I'm also on Instagram at Adifamily Health Clinic and also Facebook. - Got it. So guys, if you're still watching, make sure that you go and check out
to Shiba everywhere she is on the internet, everywhere that her business is on the internet, and also make sure that you stay tuned for her episode of Women Empower, which will be coming out shortly after this podcast episode drops. I know that there's going to be a much deeper dive into your story, the why behind what it is that you do.
So I'm looking forward to it. It's been an immense joy having you on the show.
“Is there any final messages you'd like to give for the audience members out there?”
I just would like to say whatever dream or aspiration that you have in mind, go for a hundred percent. - Jump in with both feet. - Yes. - This has been another episode of the Living Your Legacy Podcast.
Again, I am your host Jason Tyler and I will catch you guys in the next one.
