MYVEGAS TOP 100 WOMEN OF THE YEAR
DR. JANET FRANCO OF IMAGINE N.O.W. WHY WE ARE VEGAS STRONG! Dr. Janet Franco, aka Soulful Rosie, began her life as a
tumbling-acrobat with hopes of going to the Olympics. As time had it, she danced professionally until her injury at the age of 17, then began her second love as a mother. A caring mother of four boys and ten grandchildren, with three of her sons who suffered from traumatic health issues. She dedicated her life to
her family and healing her sons, one of which suffered a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). Her passion was to find answers for these debilitating conditions haunting her sons. Her discovery of Squalane oil
“With gave her youngest son a miraculous the normal stuff recovery. So that comes with a single early on, this mother raising four boys, coupled very personal with navigating the major injuries and mission nearly fatal illnesses that three of the became a life-long four of us suffered, we understand that search for natural solutions to the many what she was able to do is nothing health issues that affected so many around her. This soon encumbered mental health short of Superhuman!” Janet’s four sons
issues faced by Veterans returning from recent conflicts, first responders and victims of violence including those affected by the Las Vegas shooting.
Janet’s ultimate goal is to set the stage for health reform by exploring the greatest breakthroughs in wellness and self-help. She played a leading role in the 1994 grass roots effort to “I derail an FDA proposal to control supplements in cannot say the manner of prescription drugs. Working with enough about her work and Citizens for Health, they helped lead millions our friendship. Congratulations in a campaign to persuade Congress to on this well-deserved award and modify the proposed DSHEA Bill (Dietary recognition of your body of work Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994) to keep wellness supplements for your fellow man.’’
Fielding West, Las Vegas Magician/Comedian
available and out of regulatory hands. It became the most successful grassroots bill in history!
Janet’s outgoing personality quickly found expression in radio in 1989, with a well-known health food chain. She shared her ‘Story of Faith and Miracles’ that was featured on Nevada Woman in 1996, along with a couple television shows. During which she shared her innermost thoughts and feelings with hundreds of interviews with experts on health. While outgoing, Janet is also an introspective, modest person. She eschewed attention
and deflected it from herself onto those around her. She desired to show less about her and more about listeners; during meditation she was inspired by the rose. The term “Soulful Rosie”
“Janet is the most caring, compassionate and tender sought to be, out front as the performer person I have ever known. Those and still deflect the focus from Janet around her see how her optimism, Franco, the person. faith and indomitable spirit power After the horrendous shooting at through every obstacle life brings no Sandy Hook, while watching the matter how difficult. Janet is in was born. Using Soulful Rosie as her radio personality gave Janet the fun character she
news, she sat in tears. In that moment
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was committed to do something to Barry Meuse Presidentbring answers to help reduce mental Imagine N.O.W. health and addiction issues. Of the two causes of mental health issues (physical injury and disease), Janet saw that a combination of hyperbaric oxygen therapy, neurofeedback and stem cells, was an extraordinary trio, she then coined them the ‘Triple Crown of Health.’ She partnered with Barry Meuse, a retired U.S.A.F. Colonel and combat pilot. Earlier in her radio days, Janet established Imagine N.O.W. as a brand and together, she and Barry formed Imagine N.O.W. (Nurturing Our Warriors) as a Nevada corporation 501c3 to treat Veterans, first responders, battered women, anoxic (near-drowned) babies, contact-sport athletes and civilians involved in home and auto accidents. Imagine N.O.W. is proud to have Dr. Ram Singh and Dr. Matt Okeke as medical directors for the up coming centers. Janet launched “Pay it Forward Network International” (P.I.F.N.) to provide state-of-the-art healing modalities and to serve as a nexus of information and healthy awareness to provide by donating up to half its profits to Imagine N.O.W. P.I.F.N. provides outstanding health and nutritional products to domestic and international markets. The collaboration of P.I.F.N. and Imagine N.O.W. fulfills Janet’s life-long vision to heal her children, promote healthy life styles and help those in need.
“Janet you are so deserving of this recognition as I know you have worked tirelessly for so many years for your goal of helping our combat veterans to heal with HBOT therapy. Your vision is now a reality.” Charles Spillar-Healing Arizona Veterans.
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