one more bump for this i'm picking tomorrow :)

Hiiii! This isn't really related to nurse coaching (or is it???) but I need to state that I am not okay after the Stranger Things finale!!! Like what a sweet and tender ending to such a kickass show!? 🥹 The only parallel I can really draw between nursing and the ST world is that working in the traditional bedside RN role in U.S. healthcare is like being in the Upside Down and I feel like the main ST cast represents the Nurse Coaching movement and the badass nurse coaching community behind it! Maybe this is unhinged, but really just some honest thoughts and truly just so sad the show is over 😪 and this was a fun way to process/conceptualize what a better healthcare world can look like. Curious to hear y'all's thoughts 👀🫶 I also may or may not have taken a lil bit o 🍄 the other day hehe

I had the pleasure of connecting with @Micah Walker today! ♥️ Here's my biggest takeaway from the call: I’ve been stuck in a really painful loop: I'm all-in on building my dream business, but the financial pressure to make it work right now is intense. I felt like getting an interim job meant I was "failing" or giving up on the dream. My biggest takeaway from Micah is this: You can't build a sustainable business from a place of desperation. She pointed out that it's almost impossible to "detach from the outcome" when your survival brain is screaming about paying the bills. People can feel that desperate energy. And even worse, if you force your passion to be your only lifeline, it will quickly turn into the very thing you resent. The reframe that changed everything for me was so counterintuitive: The people who often succeed the most are the ones who don't need the business to work right now. Getting a job isn't failing the mission. It’s a powerful, strategic move to protect your passion. It creates the stability to show up from a place of service, fun, and true alignment, not from a place of "I need to make a sale or I can't pay my bills." I'm feeling so much lighter and more hopeful. It's the permission I needed to build this thing sustainably, not desperately. Has anyone else felt that conflict between your passion and the pressure to make it "work"?

Aloha! Name is Leslie. I live in Hawaii with my partner and my fuzzy nugget. I quit my job in cardiac surgery (well, I told them to kiss my ass and shove it) and started the journey to finding my joy again. I was diagnosed with Autism and ADHD (which explained my whole confusing existence) That led me to become a holistic nurse coach, start using plant medicine to wake the fuc* back up and I started writing… and writing and writing. I became a published author, learned the publishing world and now I coach people how Story is Medicine, how to write books and I own a little boutique publishing house that caters to marginalized voices. Favorite Nickelodeon show was rugrats. super stoked to find some real humans on the intrawebs. Can’t wait to connect with you lovely HUMANS

Thanks to Micahs guidance I’m up to 77 members but I’m feeling a little overwhelmed with connecting with them all and getting them to get and stay engaged! I’m thinking I need to reach out to each of them individually and encourage them to post and such which I’ve done with a few… just trying to hype myself up and execute. Thoughts?