Her Story
About Marina
Marina Andreas is a healthcare operations and administrative professional with 27 years of experience. She currently serves as an Operations Manager at a hospital, where she supports her staff amid challenging conditions by handling scheduling, payroll, equipment ordering, meetings, and difficult conversations while maintaining focus on patient care for underserved individuals. Her passion for helping patients stems from a family background in healthcare, and she has shifted toward greater support and mentorship roles as she prepares to retire in three weeks. In addition to her hospital work, Marina holds a degree in Christian Counseling and biblical theology from Bible college, is a licensed chaplain and member of Chaplain International, and has extensive volunteer experience teaching the Hannah's Gift program at McFarland Prison to support incarcerated women through healing and forgiveness processes. She attributes her success to her faith in God, having overcome a challenging personal background including addiction and early parenthood to pursue education and a career dedicated to compassion and service.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Marina
01What do you attribute your success to?
I contribute my success to God. I'm a believer, and I contribute that to Him because I had a really traumatizing childhood. I'm a recovering addict. I was in and out of jail, and in my younger years, I had my children at a young age. I had 3 kids at a young age. And I changed my life around. Even in the middle of that process, of all of that, I went to school. I knew there was something better, I just didn't know how to get there. So, when I learned that and had the confidence in myself, and got the therapy that I needed, and the healing, I just went the direction I was supposed to go, and I'm very grateful for that.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
Best career advice I received is from one of the directors, and she said, never take anything personal, never cry at your job. If you want to cry, go home and cry. And she taught me, you have to have 3 different categories. And this is how you tackle your day. You do first, what's important? Second, if you can distribute what can be distributed to others, you do that. And then third, whatever's not as important, you do last. So that really stuck to me and helped me so much.
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