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113. The Hard is Where Flight Nurses Are Made · The Shift Podcast

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  Welcome to Frontline Static, we will get to hear interviews with
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  some of my clients journeys of getting into flight and how they
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  utilize coaching to help them create success of getting hired
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  with less confusion and more ease.
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  Make your dream a reality of getting into flight.
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  Listen in as you hear some of the stories of the people
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  getting there and come join the flight Prep group.
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  Welcome to episode 113 of How to become a Flight Nurse podcast.
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  I wanted to continue on the conversation of the topic that
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  we talked about this week in the Flight Prep Academy because I
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  thought it was just such an important topic that I've heard
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  a lot of people bring up to me and ask me.
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  And so I think for you guys as listeners, it's a good one to
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  just kind of talk about right now.
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  I have to be honest with you, doing these episodes has been
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  something really new for me. I have to get out of my comfort
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  zone. It's been really weird to not
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  see your faces as normally when I'm coaching or I'm teaching or
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  I'm talking to someone about the process of getting into flight,
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  I can see their face. But I just want you to imagine
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  as I'm going to to right now, that we're just sitting at a
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  table having a conversation with each other one-on-one.
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  So whether you're listening in your car or you're going for a
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  walk or a run or you're just getting off shift, I want you to
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  think about we're just sitting across the table from each other
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  having a conversation about this.
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  So one thing that I've been asked a lot lately is what's the
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  easiest way to get to flight? But not from the point of view
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  of what does it take to get to flight, What are the
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  requirements? Because those are easy.
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  Those are the same. It's three years ER or ICU
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  experience and that's it. And that's pretty normal for
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  most of the companies in the United States.
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  But the way that I get asked it is what's the most possible
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  easiest way, simple for me to get there.
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  That isn't going to take a lot of work.
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  And that's how I'm being asked that.
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  And I just want to talk about this for a second, because I
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  think that people don't want it to be hard.
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  They think it's supposed to be easy and they want to take the
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  easiest route to get there. And, and I, and I want to say
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  this out of the kindness of my heart, but if you're that person
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  who wants the easiest route to get there, flight nursing is not
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  for you because there is nothing about flight that is easy.
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  And I want to just let you guys know that it is supposed to be
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  hard. Getting to flight isn't
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  something that everybody does because it is hard.
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  And I want to give you a couple pointers on this and I'm going
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  to bring this up again in the episode, but it's really about
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  the person that you're becoming in the process and in the
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  journey. It's about growing the capacity
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  to do hard things and then reaching beyond that to become
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  the person, the clinician, the, the person you're supposed to be
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  in this world. And that's really, it's about
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  the journey. It's about the process of
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  getting there and becoming that person.
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  So it is supposed to be hard. And the other, the second part
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  of this that I want to reiterate that I'm going to talk about
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  more is and also you can do hard things.
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  I want to start out by saying that the story of how you get to
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  flight is exactly the way it is supposed to be.
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  And I want to say that because I hear a lot of people say I'm too
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  old, I have too many kids, now's not the right time.
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  They give me a lot of excuses that their brain offers them.
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  But I want to offer you this, that you were supposed to get
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  there with the subset of circumstances that you have.
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  And those circumstances and those obstacles will always be
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  there. And they might be different for
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  you than they might be for someone else.
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  So for example, for me, when I was going through a nursing
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  school, I had three kids under the age of 2 and that was a
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  hardship for me. And that continued to be because
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  I had to work full time while I was in nursing school.
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  But it also grew me into a clinician who knew how to have
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  really good time management because I had to.
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  And those subset of circumstances were my obstacles
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  and and maybe someone else doesn't have those.
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  Maybe it's something different for someone else.
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  Maybe they are going through financial hardships or maybe
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  it's really hard for them to study, but that's their
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  obstacle. So I want you to know each and
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  every single person as they're trying to create this journey of
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  themselves getting to flight is facing an obstacle.
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  Now. The people who get there are the
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  people who are willing to take action anyway.
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  The people who are willing to have these circumstances, these
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  obstacles, these hurdles in their life and continue on
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  anyway. This is why not everybody at
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  three years of ERICU know is a flight nurse because not
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  everybody can overcome that in their mind.
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  But I do want to, I do want to offer you that if you are the
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  person who understands that, who gets that and who is willing to
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  take action anyway beyond the obstacles, you will get there.
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  And so I just want to reiterate that this story of exactly where
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  you are in exact moment, in exact timetable, at the exact
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  age you are with the exact amount of children that you
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  have. If this is your second or your
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  third or your 4th career, that this is exactly your journey of
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  getting to flight. And it's exactly the way it was
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  supposed to be for you. I want to start out with talking
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  more about this is 100% about the person that you're becoming
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  in the process because people want to rush that people just
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  want to get to the end result. And I know that by the way that
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  they asked me, they're like, what's the simplest, easiest,
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  quickest way to get there? And I tell them, it's not
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  supposed to be simple. It's not supposed to be easy.
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  It is supposed to be hard. But if you are up for that
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  challenge, you will be a different person at the other
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  side of this. And I want you to know that it
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  is going to require you to put in the work to get there, but
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  you can do it. It's supposed to be hard for two
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  reasons. One, it's about the journey and
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  the person that you become in the process, The adversity you
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  learn to face and what you learn about yourself because that is
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  the person who will be so good as a flight nurse or so good as
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  a flight medic. I say time and time again to the
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  people inside the flight Prep Academy, the problems that you
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  are facing right now, when you get hired, you will face those
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  exact same subset of problems. And you don't want to rush this
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  because when you, if you can learn now the tools to bring
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  yourself out of it and to work through that obstacle, then when
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  you get into flight and you have the exact same problems, you
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  will have those tools readily available for you and your tool
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  belt. You'll know exactly what to do
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  because now these obstacles are going to be 10X.
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  So I want to give you an example.
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  I had a client who I only wanted to work for, excuse me, one
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  flight company. And so that gave her a lot of
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  obstacles and it wasn't impossible.
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  It just made it a lot more difficult.
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  If you've heard of what I've talked to you about getting to
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  flight in the past, I really it it increases your chances of
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  getting hired when you're willing to date a bunch of
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  companies. Well, she only wanted to date
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  and and work and quote UN quote bury one company.
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  So we worked the one company that she wanted to work.
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  And in the process, it created a lot of doubt about herself, a
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  doubt about who she was, about her value, about her worth when
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  she got told no a couple times and she had to keep going at it
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  and going at it and going at it with the same company.
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  And I told her, don't speed up this process of trying to get
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  rid of the doubt. Don't speed it up this process
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  of trying to get rid of the imposter syndrome.
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  Allow it to be there. Allow yourself to experience it.
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  Allow yourself to work through it and get wisdom through it and
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  process and feel those emotions. Because if this is your obstacle
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  right now, once you get into flight nursing, this is going to
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  be your same obstacle. And lo and behold, she got hired
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  with this one company. And as she started to make the
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  transition into the from the offer to the orientation and
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  into the role, she started to have extreme imposter syndrome.
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  And what was so good about this is that she had already created
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  now a process for herself to work through that, to have the
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  imposter syndrome, to have the doubt and still show up
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  confidently. And so This is why the people
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  inside the flight Prep Academy are doing so well in their
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  transition after their flight, right?
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  Is often times you guys are only thinking about getting hired.
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  But as your coach, I'm most concerned about how well you're
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  going to do afterwards. Because I just saw so many
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  people get hired in flight and then quit because they, they
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  didn't understand that the work really began afterwards.
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  And so I, I want to offer you don't rush these obstacles that
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  you're having because this is going to help you So clearly
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  afterwards be able to have the tools in your tool belt to be
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  able to grab them and do really well afterwards.
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  So I want to offer you this second part.
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  No, it's not going to be easy. I'm not going to sugarcoat that.
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  But here's the kicker. You can handle the hard.
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  I'm going to say that again, you can handle the hard.
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  You are already the person who's overcome the hard and you will
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  continue every single time you do to grow the capacity to be
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  the person who can handle more and more and more.
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  But you have to be willing to put yourself in those hard
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  moments so that you can grow that capability, You can grow
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  that capacity. I want to give you like a
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  personal example because sometimes it's easier as you
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  like, step away from examples of yourself.
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  I went through a lot of childhood trauma.
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  I faced a lot of adversity with alcohol and with alcohol abuse
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  inside my family. And, and I, I realized that this
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  childhood trauma and going through nursing school, it being
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  my second career and having three young kids and being older
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  going through that was the thing that really helped me overcome.
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  Because I knew what it was like to work full time in nursing
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  school and do nursing school at the same time and have basically
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  2 full time jobs and study all night during the night.
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  And because I knew what it was like to work hard, I didn't
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  expect it to be easy. I also grew the capacity to
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  become the person who didn't fear it.
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  Yeah, it was uncomfortable and yeah, I was afraid, but I didn't
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  fear that I would overcome it. And so you got to be willing to
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  push play though. You got to be willing to grow
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  yourself. I really have this belief that
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  we are not stagnant creatures As human beings.
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  We can be feel burnt out and we can feel unfulfilled if we are
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  not willing to push ourselves to the hard, if we're not willing
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  to grow. And I really think that this
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  flight goal really requires people who are willing to do the
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  hard and requires people who are willing to become the person who
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  continues to grow into that and pushes themselves, who's willing
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  to say, hey, I don't feel fulfilled.
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  It's time for me to grow. And I know it's going to be
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  uncomfortable. I know I'm going to have fear
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  and I'm going to keep at it. Decide that you want flight now,
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  start towards it now, not later, not tomorrow, not next month,
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  not next year. I hear that so many from people,
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  I they say, Oh well, I'm going to start this next month.
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  I'm going to start this next year.
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  I'm going to start this in a couple years.
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  If you want flight, it's about becoming the person in the
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  process and becoming the person in their process requires you to
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  start as soon as you know you want it.
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  I knew I wanted it in nursing school and it took me the whole
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  4 years to become that person. And because I dedicated myself
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  to this goal from day one, I really feel like that's what
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  created the longevity of me flying for so long.
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  I flew for seven years and a lot of flight nurses don't last that
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  long because they don't they don't work on becoming the
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  person in the process and then when they get there, they
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  realize how hard it is. This is what sets people apart.
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  This is what sets apart. The people who actually get it
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  are the ones who push play. The ones who push play now.
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  The ones who start even though they have fear.
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  The ones who start even though they have doubt, The ones who
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  start even though their brain offers them a lot of
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  circumstances and a lot of obstacles.
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  A lot of people want it, but not everyone is willing to become
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  the person in the process. They want the result, but they
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  don't want to become the person who gets the result.
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  So I want to offer you, if you want flight, become the person
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  it takes to get it. It will not be easy, it will be
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  hard, but you can handle the hard it takes Believing in
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  yourself before you have the result.
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  Meaning a lot of people wait to have confidence until they get
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  the result or get the thing that they're working towards.
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  But I really teach you inside my program to grow the confidence
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  before you have the result, to grow the belief and the mindset
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  in yourself because you are allowed to have confidence
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  before you get there. And just while you did in
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  nursing school, how you carried that belief and confidence into
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  yourself that you were going to get through it before you did,
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  just like you did when you started out in critical care and
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  you had no idea what kind of critical care nurse you were
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  going to be. That's the belief and confidence
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  you want to learn to carry as you're going into this next
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  level of your life. I also want to offer you it
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  takes a mentor. I had a mentor every step of the
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  way and everything I did. I had a mentor in nursing
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  school, I had a mentor in the ICU, and then I had a mentor as
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  a flight nurse. I want to be your mentor.
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  I see the common mistakes that people make as they're trying to
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  get into flight that's taking them longer, having them quit
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  altogether. And then I know the common
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  mistakes that people make after they get hired that have them
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  quit before they can even transition and have them
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  burnout. And so I want to be your mentor
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  because I want to be able to prevent people from making those
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  same mistakes so that they can fly and create success for
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  themselves for the longevity of however long they want to have
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  this career. Most people go to this career
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  because they want to retire in it.
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  And that's definitely possible for you, but it's in the
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  becoming, it's in the process. The other thing that I want to
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  offer you is invest in yourself. I think as healthcare workers,
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  first responders, we give a lot of ourselves and we forget to
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  take care of ourselves. We forget to invest in ourselves
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  somewhere down the line. We spent a ton of money on
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  nursing school, on resources, on certs, but we don't spend time
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  investing in our mindset, investing in our thoughts and
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  our feelings. And I'm going to tell you, this
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  was the biggest game changer for me when I invested in a coach.
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  It really allowed me to work at the highest level of being a
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  clinician that's required of you and the hardest, most
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  pressurized days and process all of the emotions.
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  There's a lot of mental work, mental health that goes along
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  with this job even before you get into flight.
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  And I just want to offer you invest in your mindset, invest
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  in your confidence in your critical thinking.
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  Invest in a coach. And if that's not me, that's OK,
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  but invest in the person that you trust to help you with that
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  because this, this will be a game changer in you and really
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  being able to play big and play out and become the clinician
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  that you want to be. This will also help you not to
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  hustle and overwork. So many people get burnt out in
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  this career, both in nursing and in flight nursing.
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  And I really in my programs, want to teach you how to do this
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  in a simplified way, without hustling, without overworking,
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  with making this career move work for you and your family.
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  Be willing to become the person who does the hard, who grows the
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  capacity and then pushes even beyond that, but not in a hustle
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  way. I promise you, you will be so
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  proud of yourself in doing that. This is a person who's needed in
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  flight. Because when push comes to
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  shove, if you do this now, you will be ready and you will have
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  lots of moments in flight where you will feel the pressure.
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  Well, you will have to make the hard decisions where you will
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  have fear, where you will push up the ceiling and the capacity
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  of what you think that you're capable of.
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  And you will be asked to do things that you have never done
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  before. And you will be successful.
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  And so learning that process, how to do that now is what is
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  going to get you there. If you know that flight nursing
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  and flight paramedicine is for you, I, I want to be your coach.
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  I want to be your mentor. I am helping people cut their
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  time, literally some of them and half of getting to flight.
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  I'm going to help you cut out the fluff and I'm going to help
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  you do it without hustling and overworking.
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  I'm not only going to help you get hired no matter where you're
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  starting by mapping out your plan, but I'm going to create
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  success for you now for afterwards, for the longevity of
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  however long you want to fly. If you know flight nursing or
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  flight paramedicine is for you, come join us inside.
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  That's it for this week. Know you guys that it's hard,
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  but you can handle the hard. We'll see you guys next week.
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  Bye. If anything in this episode
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  sparked your interest into getting into flight, come join
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  my flight flight group. We are an entire community that
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  meets together on a weekly basis with an ongoing group chat.
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  And if you are already flying and you are currently a flight
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  nurse or flight medic, you can join my all flight clinician
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  group as well. You can click on the link to
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  join in the show notes or you can DM me on Instagram.
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  I hope to see all of you guys inside.