Meet Candis Layton | FNP-C, Master Aesthetic Injector

We had the good fortune of connecting with Candis Layton and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Candis, how do you think about risk?
I started out as a Labor and Delivery nurse. I worked in women’s health for about 16 years. I found that the long hours and heavy lifting took a toll on my body and family. In 2017 I went through a pretty messy divorce and found myself a single mom of 5 beautiful children. I did a good bit of soul searching and with the help from a friend who was a plastic surgeon I changed career paths and entered plastics/aesthetics and went back to graduate school. As you can imagine this was a huge burden for me and my already burdened children. We decided, as a family, that long term this was the best path for our family. We knew, I especially knew, that it was going to be a tough two years. I knew that the extra schooling and career field change would be short term pain for long term gain. My children and I went from a very lucrative life to a very financially stretched and anemic life. Now that we are years out of that, life is very stable and comfortable for all of us. I think it was important for my children to see me work hard, for us all to sacrifice so that long term we didn’t have to. Working that hard for my career has made me so appreciative of the journey and where I have landed. I hope that my children see that and embody that kind of drive and hard work in their individual journey’s. Now I have opened a MedSpa with my medical director and I am again back grinding. Every client, every day we break even is a gift. The light at the end of the tunnel is there and I keep moving towards it. My children and I are excited for this new journey and we all work towards success because we are in it together and we all benefit. In my life, the greatest risks have created the greatest rewards. I have been blessed with such amazing cheerleaders and such an amazing support system as well as opportunities that have allowed me to take risks.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
My careers has been mainly women’s health and then transitioned to aesthetics. The beauty of that transition is that I’ve spent many years in the same kind of dynamic. Helping my patient’s, developing long term relationships and building bonds.

I have been very lucky professionally. Most of my career, I have known the right people and been in the right place at the right time. I hate to say my career has been easy because that seems like tempting the universe! In all honesty I’ve worked very hard to get where I’m at but have been very lucky along the way with opportunities presenting themselves. The way my career has evolved has always felt very natural. Like there was a plan for me and I was just following it. When one door closed, another door opened.

There are always challenges in our careers. If work was easy, it wouldn’t be called work, and we wouldn’t get paid to do it! However you can still work very hard and love every minuted. I’ve spent many years working for other people and being subject to their ideas and their visions of my career path. I think that has been my greatest challenge; getting to a point in my career path where I had control. Where my medical director and I had the same vision and we work together seamlessly.
One of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is that you have to step into the dark and walk for a bit, trusting the process. The light always comes, even if you walk in the dark for a bit.
At MedSpa of North Georgia, we pride ourselves in caring about our patients. Listening to them and treating them like we would treat ourselves or our families. We are not looking to shuffle patient’s in and out at rapid fire pace, focusing on the mighty dollar. We want to build long term relationships with them, knowing their desires and their health, their journey. We aren’t a conveyor belt med spa that treats patient’s the same, as many as we can. We individualize every plan, tailored to that patient.

Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Favorite places: Halcyon, Roswell, Truist Field (braves), Lake Lanier, Vickory Village

The food in Atlanta, well you can’t go wrong. The above places are our most frequented placed. Depending on if I have kids with me or alone most all of them cater to everyone. When weather permits we spend a lot of time on the boat on Lake Lanier. The most important thing to me is making memories and spending time with those I love. The lake is the perfect place for that!

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
There are so many. Other than my children and family and significant other..

Neil McMullin MD (Plastic Surgeon)
Michael Decherd MD (Plastic Surgeon)
Boyi Gao DO (Anesthesiologist, medical director and owner of Med Spa of North Georgia)

Website: https://Www.medspaofnorthgeorgia.com

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