It’s the end of Season One!

It’s not where you go, it’s what you see once you’re there. Travel slowly and experience more.

Ivette Palomeque didn’t run from Covid, she ran towards it. As an RN with 10 years of ICU experience, she took her knowledge and worked as a traveling ICU nurse in some of the hardest-hit hotspots of the pandemic. Listen to her story of what it was really like and the toll that it’s taking on the people delivering care to the sickest of patients.

Katie Walker saw the gap in mental health care and decided to take matters into her own hands. In today’s episode, Katie is going to tell us how she helps people with mental health problems and how she reaches out to the often-overlooked frontline workers, including nurses, physicians, law enforcement personnel, and veterans. Katie also focuses her efforts on athletes that sometimes need help with the stress and pressure they are under in performing at the top of their game.

Ashley Hughes realized that her career wouldn’t always be as a bedside nurse. She found her passion in becoming a Legal Nurse Consultant. Ashley will inspire you to find what you love to do and then go all in. Are you ready to take a new direction in your nursing career? Ashley may have the answers for you in today’s episode.

Maureen Osuna chose nursing as a career later in life than most traditional students do. She believes that has helped her become the amazing mentor that she is today for students in nursing school. In this episode, Maureen shares her story of how she came to be a nursing educator in a non-traditional way – and why her followers love her!

Eboni Gee is a RN that found she has so much more to give as a nurse that doesn’t necessarily have to do with patient care. Eboni took her knowledge and passion and turned them into a goldmine of information to help others. Listen as she recounts her time from when she was part of a busy dialysis unit to now as someone transforming the lives of countless people with her skills as a nurse entrepreneur and podcast host.

After working in the OR for years, Tammy Jacobs finally decided that she had had enough of its hierarchy. How did she find the courage to leave her job? She’ll tell you it wasn’t easy but that it was the right thing to do. Tune in to listen to her story of making the leap from hospital nursing to entrepreneurship.

What do you do when you’ve had enough of bedside nursing? You turn to teaching other nurses. That is what Shane Slone decided to do. Listen to a great conversation about the toll that his experience as an ICU nurse took on him and how he chose not to leave nursing but to use all of his knowledge to help others.

Denise Crawley works for all nurses by helping them to understand their basic rights. She developed the Nurses’ Rights Association in Canada and is now working with nurses around the globe to change the culture of nursing so that our basic rights are recognized and respected.

Haley Bretl learned early in her life what burnout was all about. After working in many different nursing roles, Haley began to realize that she wasn’t who she wanted to be. Is there life after burnout in nursing? Yes there is, and Haley will tell you how she changed her life and now wants to be Your Biggest Fan!

Keeonna Williams knows first hand what it is like to suffer from burnout and come out better on the other side. From being in the ICU after suffering from a TIA, to a locum assignment on a Pacific Island, Keeonna will share her healing story and inspire us all to make the change now to care for ourselves.

Rachel Smiddy has spent the majority of her nursing career working in a fertility clinic. She decided that she wanted to do more for nurses and worked towards a certification in Life Coaching. Rachel will talk about her journey to becoming a coach, and how she is helping nurses work through their own burnout.

Kelley Anaas has been an RN for 12 years, starting out in med/surg and transitioning into ICU. Hear her tell the story of what it was like to be working in an ICU, taking care of Covid patients, at the beginning of a pandemic and how they made it work despite the unknowns, exhaustion and fear that came with each shift. You’ll find out that it’s all about teamwork and resilience.

Emily Mazurak realized that she was burned out during a job interview. As the hiring manager listed symptoms of burn out, Emily realized she had many of them. So what do you do when you are feeling burned out in nursing? Emily will discuss how she started to turn things around and is now helping others do the same.

Mary Buffington is somewhat of an expert on burnout, unfortunately it took her own burnout to realize just how bad it can be. Mary speaks candidly about her experience, even confessing to her own instance of being the bully. Can we heal once we’ve hit that breaking point? Mary did, and she’ll tell you what worked for her and hopefully she can prevent it from happening to you.

Deanna Tikhonov had a passion for women’s health but found that the conventional method for treating women’s issues did not resonate with her. She decided to become a Women’s Health NP and start her own way to educate women about their bodies and share her knowledge to help others.

Lois Hollis is a pioneer in nursing, blazing the trail for all of us that have come after her, in the 56 years that she has been in nursing. With her leadership and forward-thinking attitude, she is tackling what many nurses struggle with, shame and guilt.

Casie Lamp has been a nurse for nearly 20 years. She has been working in the ICU at a Seattle hospital through the pandemic and will discuss the toll that it is taking on herself and her colleagues. Casie talks about the burnout that she has faced, what it took to overcome that and now she is helping to prevent other nurses from getting to that point. There is even an enema story in this episode!

Kim Klein, an RN and Functional Medicine Practitioner, moved from nursing school, straight into a job in the OR. Was that the right move for a new grad? It turned out to be for Kim, but it was met with a lot of stress and eventually feelings of burnout. The OR is a different animal and isn’t for everyone. Kim talks about how she made it through the first couple of years, and came out on the other side as a sought out mentor for new nurses.