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105. From Stuck to Action · 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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Hey you guys, welcome to another podcast episode this week.
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It is rounding out the end of the school year for my kids.
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And for those of you guys who have kids, I know that you're
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feeling it too. It's harder for them to get up
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in the morning. We have lots of events planned
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towards the end of the year and I think my kids have 3 1/2 more
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weeks of school if we're counting this week.
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So I know some of you guys are feeling it.
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And also it is weird weather here in California.
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I know some places of the country it's already really warm
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and we had a really hot week last week.
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It was like 100° this weekend. But I feel like it's become a
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little bit bipolar and today we've dropped into the 70s.
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So I actually have a jacket on inside, but that's kind of
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what's been going on with me lately as I'm rounding out this
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school year with my kids. I have a set of twins who are
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finishing off their junior year. They're going to be seniors next
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year, so I know that it's going to be really busy.
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And then my youngest is going to be starting middle school.
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And then I have an older child who is serving a mission right
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now in Brazil. So my life is kind of all over
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the place. But I hope for those of you who
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are mothers who are finishing up the school year that you are
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able to confidently get through it while also that you had a
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good Mother's Day. This past Monday.
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I know I did. I got or this past Sunday I got
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spoiled by my family. I had a topic this week that I
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really wanted to talk to you guys about and I kind of
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switched gears. I sat down to record it and I
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was like, no, this is something that I feel like a lot of people
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in the realm who want to get in a flight are kind of struggling
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with. And so I wanted to talk to you
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about this. And this is commonly one of the
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hardest parts of getting started towards this flight goal.
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When I wanted to become a flight nurse, I, I, I didn't know
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anybody else in the industry. It was actually something that I
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knew that I wanted to do early on when I first started nursing
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school, I was fortunate enough to be in a hometown who had a
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flight company and a medevac company that flew into the
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hospital pretty regularly. So I was exposed to it and got
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to see it and it flew above my house.
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And so it got me really excited for early on in nursing school.
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When I knew that I went to nursing school, I knew I wanted
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to work in critical care. I had twins that spent 75 days
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in the NICU, and so I knew I wanted to work in that kind of
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aspect of helping patients and families on the worst day of
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their lives, like people had helped me and kind of give back
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in that way. That's what really spurred me
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into going to nursing in general.
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And for those of you guys who've been following me, you know that
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this is my second career and I've ran this program now, the
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Flight Prep Academy. And I've ran my simple strategy
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and this plan for three years. And it's really helped create a
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lot of success of getting people into flight.
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And what makes my program different is that I not only
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give you the simple strategy and the map out plan, but there's
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this mindset piece because the plan is so simple on how to get
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to flight. And I really teach you, no
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matter where you're starting with that plan is, but what gets
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in the way is all our thoughts about ourselves, the thoughts
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that we have of other people and the thoughts of getting there.
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And those are the things that have people quit ahead of time.
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So this week I just wanted to talk about that getting started
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is the hardest part. And what makes this this hard is
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not having a plan. And usually This is why people
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don't even get started. They know they want it, but they
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don't start to work towards it until it's too late.
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And when I say too late, I mean they wait till their three-year
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mark and then they're having to try to play catch up.
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And there's been people who have been making connections and
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doing ride alongs with these companies since they were in
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nursing school. And those are the people that
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ultimately are being invited to the team.
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So This is why having a plan and taking action on it and making
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that plan as soon as you decide you want flight is really
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important. Creating that plan, that mapped
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out plan and working on it step by step keeps things simplified.
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It keeps you from not getting off track.
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I see a lot of people that come to work with me around being
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critical care nurses for 10-15 years, 20 years, 30 years, and
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it's because they didn't have a plan.
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And so when they felt uncomfortable or they've had
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thoughts, like I don't know enough, then they jumped units,
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they jumped apartments, they started to get more
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certifications. And this is just what has kind
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of taken them longer. So making a plan and being able
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to keep it simple and working towards it and knowing each
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year, each month, every so often, what are the things that
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that you need to be focusing on and keeping it simple.
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Again, like I said, is the key to creating success of getting
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to flight. So this is the hardest part, I
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think is, is the simplified version.
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I really teach you how to get to flight in three ways.
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One, have your mapped out plan to do ride alongs and make
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connections with like companies early on as soon as nursing
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school or graduating nursing school.
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And then three, really prepping confidently for flight
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interviews. And you want to start doing this
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at the two year mark of working critical care so that you can be
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ready. I really am helping people with
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these three simple steps get hired at the 2 1/2 year mark and
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some even before the 2 1/2 year mark.
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So that's why keeping it simple and doable is really important
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as well. You don't want to overcomplicate
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things. Overcomplicating things ends up
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happening from you feeling embarrassed or fear or
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disappointment and that's why I see people jumping from
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different units and getting more certs and getting their EMT or
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their paramedic license or pre hospital when none of that is
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really needed. So the third thing that I want
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to offer for you that I really teach in my program is this
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mindset piece is allowing the feelings that come up for you.
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Which means when you have a set back or you have thoughts of I
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don't know enough, you just allow the disappointment.
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You allow the embarrassment. You don't try to push it away.
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Pushing it away will go, will have you take very different
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actions and usually people overcomplicate it again by doing
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more. And none of that is really
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necessary versus just allowing yourself to feel a little bit of
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fear. Fear of failure, fear of
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disappointment, fear of embarrassing yourself, fear of
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hearing a no. And really and realizing that
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you can have these feelings and you can still be really
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successful. You can have doubt and still
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show up confidently. You can have fear and still be
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successful in this endeavor. In fact, getting into flight is
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going to require you to feel these emotions, and they're at
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that magnified level once you become a flight nurse.
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It's not like they there's this magic wand that just gets rid of
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all of those feelings. No, like you, you have magnified
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fear, magnified disappointment, magnified doubt.
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And I'm really teaching yourself and your brain that it doesn't
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have to be 1 or the other. It doesn't have to be doubt or
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confidence. It can be doubt and confidence
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and really teaching yourself how to do that.
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That's, that's what I really think is, is important in my
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program and, and I'm teaching along the way so that when you
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get the offer, you can transition confidently into that
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flight nurse role or that flight paramedic role.
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You can learn to become the person who has doubt and is
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still successful. And I maybe your brain is
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wondering, how do you do that? It's just not allowing yourself
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to have the doubt and then stop. Where I see this happen for a
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lot of people is they have doubt and then they stop and then they
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quit ahead of time. And I'm going to talk about that
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again in a minute. So I want to follow this up with
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a couple questions that I want you guys to ponder and really
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think about. And I, I think these are some
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questions that I help the people in the flight prep Academy in my
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program navigate. And we ask these on a weekly and
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a regular basis. How are you feeling about your
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plan to flight? Do you have one?
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Are you clear or are you unclear about what are the steps to get
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there? Are you certain about it?
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How are you feeling about that plan?
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And if you don't know the answers to any of those, come
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join the Flight Prep Academy. I'm going to give you a simple,
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doable plan to get you on track no matter where you're starting
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so that you can stay on track and not do more and keep it
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simplified and doable for you. The second question I have for
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you is what is keeping you from taking action on that plan?
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What's keeping you from taking action?
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Now? Maybe your brain is offering you
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a couple different things. This is commonly what I hear.
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Maybe your brain's telling you I don't have the time right now to
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commit to this. I don't know enough.
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I need more time and experience. It's going to be really
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complicated and hard, but I want to help you get really clear
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about what are these specific thoughts that are stopping you.
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Because when you get clear of what those are, this is how we
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can evaluate them. This is how we can work through
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them. This is how you can get unstuck
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and get clear on how to move forward.
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We don't have to let these thoughts stop us.
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In fact, this is our brain trying to keep us from growing
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and stretching. And think about how many times
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in nursing school you had those thoughts and you kept going.
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And so I commonly, I see a lot of people get stuck right here
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when they have those thoughts, they pull back, they start to
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feel inadequate and the fear has them quit ahead of time and say,
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oh, I'll do it later. Or when this and this happens or
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when things align better for me, when they're just prolonging
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really kind of going for it and stepping into the next version
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version of themselves and growing.
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I want to address the not having enough time.
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I actually teach you. I, I think that this thought
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comes from overachievers because I'm an overachiever myself.
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And there's been moments in my career and my life where I've
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just like given so much time and my energy and overworked and
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over hustle to get there that sometimes I get triggered with a
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big goal and I'm like, Oh, I'm going to have to overwork and
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over hustle. But I really teach you in my
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program how to reprogram your brain to not do that.
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In fact, to get to flight, you are going to have to slow down
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and not hustle. Because if you overwork and
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hustle to get there, which a lot of people do, and I saw that a
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lot when I was training new people, you will burn out so
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quickly as a flight nurse and it would become overwhelming for
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you. So I am really teaching you how
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to pull back, slow down, keep your plan simplified, map it
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out, work through some of your brain chatter, really do ride
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alongs, make connections, date a bunch of companies so that they
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get to know you and you get to know them and then confidently
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prepare. This is going to take, yes, you
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are going to have to carve out some time to really go for this
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goal. And people in my program are
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giving themselves one hour each week.
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That's one hour on our group call to really check in with
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themselves. Like where am I in our plan?
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What am I doing? What steps am I taking to move
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forward with it while also still making it work for my family and
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my work life and balancing at all?
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I'm really going to teach you how to balance it.
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So one thing that I want to address with this thought that
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your brain offers you is I don't have enough time is you don't
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have to overwork to get there. In fact, you need to slow down
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and not overwork and not hustle. And then the other thing is time
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will continue to happen. I don't know about you guys, but
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I always things are continuing to come up.
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So I'm really teaching you also how to grow the capacity to be
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the person who has life is lifing.
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Life is happening, unexpected things are are going on.
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And how do you really still fight for your growth, fight for
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the best version of you and fight for where you want to be
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at the same time. And I really teach you how to
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confidently grow your capacity to become that person who has a
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lot of life things going on and still is moving forward towards
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that next version of yourself and where you want to go as far
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as it comes to flight. And really the core things that
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I'm teaching you with the mindset are going to help you
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with personal areas as well. So know that I don't have enough
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time is going to be something that is constantly going to be
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coming up because life happens and things can and and time can
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is continuing to be something that is constrained.
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And so instead of having this limiting thought for yourself
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that I don't have enough time, Why don't we just grow the
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capacity to become the person who no matter what is happening,
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you have control over what you're doing, what you're not
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doing and becoming the person who has the time to dedicated to
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the things that you want to all of the things at the same time,
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because I do want to offer you. It is available to you.
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It's available to balance all of those things out.
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I think that's really what's helped me progress confidently
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in my career. I started flight nursing when I
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had four small children. I did nursing school when I have
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3 kids under the age of 2 'cause I had just had my twins.
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And I never let that time constraint or that time excuse,
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I heard it a lot of my brain, but I never let it stop me.
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And I think it's really helped me progress in my career and in
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my goals because I let it be there, but I just kept also
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working at it. And I think that I think one of
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my strong suits is really being the person who believes that I
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have time for anything and especially time for going for
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what I believe in and what I want to do.
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And I think this also comes from working 24 hour shifts.
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When you are running four or five really busy calls and you
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have a lot of charting, it's like you go back to, you go back
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home and you're like, if I could run four or five really critical
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patients and really help them make it through some of these
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critical moments, Of course, I have time to do anything.
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And so I think like that confidence level has grown for
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me. And that's really what I'm
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helping critical care nurses and, and, and critical care
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medics really grow for themselves.
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So that time no longer becomes an excuse for you.
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I want to also address the I don't, I don't know enough.
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I don't have enough time and experience.
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I see people outrun this by changing departments or trying
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to get cardiac devices or working level 1 or trying to go
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to pediatric or pre hospital experience and I just want to
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offer you none of that is needed.
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You just need three years ER or ICU experience.
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It doesn't matter if it's a level 1 or a rural bed critical
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access center. And you also don't need any
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certification anymore to get into flight because they're
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requiring the CFRN within two to three years or a one to two
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years of being hired into flight.
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And they'll, I usually recommend waiting for that because they
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will pay for your resources and for you to be able to take the
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test. So this is a common thought that
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I see a lot of people outrun with switching departments and
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doing more to mitigate this thought of I don't know enough
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is you have to tell yourself. But what is it that I do know?
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What is it that I am good at? I was not the best test taker.
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I was not the smartest. Ask me a pathophys question.
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I, I pretty much could never answer it, but what I was really
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good at was doing well under pressure, pressure, critical
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thinking and working really well with the team.
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I loved the teamwork aspect of it.
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And so I really leaned into those things and then also
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allowed myself to feel inadequate, allowed myself to
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feel embarrassed when the intensivist and rounds asked me
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about the phys question and I didn't know.
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I allowed myself to say I don't know because here's the thing,
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no one knows everything. And if we limited ourselves by
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trying to know everything before we went to the next step, we
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would never progress anywhere. And so I want to offer you,
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allow yourself to make a list of what you do know.
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And if you are working critical care, you are good enough.
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There of course are things that you're going to be weaker in and
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things that you're going to be stronger in.
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So know that what you have is enough.
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Even if you work in A5 bed evening, we are rural ER in a
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hospital flight companies still want you.
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They want you for your resourcefulness.
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They want you for your critical thinking.
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They want you for getting things that you don't readily have
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available as a level 1 hospital. So I want to offer you that you
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are enough. Make a list of what those things
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are and and allow your brain to feel inadequate.
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Allow yourself to feel embarrassed.
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But what you have is enough. There is a reason why flight
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companies are only requiring ER or ICU experience.
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That's it. People like to over complicate
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that requirement. The last thing that I want to
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talk about is what sounds a lot of people is a thought it's it's
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going to be hard and I want to offer you it could be really
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easy. People who come to join my
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flight prep Academy realized it's a lot easier to get ride
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alongs and you thought it was going to be.
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I have someone in my group who did six ride alongs in the last
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four weeks and now I don't suggest that.
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And she really did enjoy them and have a good time.
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But it is easier to get a ride along and make connections with
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light companies and really get interviews than you think.
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It's just going about it the way and asking the right way and
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reaching out to them and connecting with them.
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It could be easy. I just want to offer you that
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thought. It could be a lot easier than
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you think. You could be over complicating
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it. Other people could be over
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complicating it for you. It doesn't have to be hard.
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And then I do want to offer you, if it does end up being hard,
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you have done hard things. We are not.
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I think I see some people feel like we are entitled for it to
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be easy, to get really what we want for our goals and our
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dreams. Sometimes we aren't entitled for
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it to be easy. And so if it is hard, know that
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you are the person who has done hard things.
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You've done many of them and you can get through them.
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But I do want to offer you a thought.
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It could be easy, and I am helping a lot of people get
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hired into flight in the Flight Prep Academy a lot easier than
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they thought it was going to be. And that's really by mapping out
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this plan and staying on track. At the end of the day, I always
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also feel better when I give it my all meaning.
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I love the version of myself that gives 100% versus you all
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know the days when you're only giving 80 or you're only giving
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50. I love living with myself who
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who stays in that version who gives 100% to the goal that I'm
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trying to achieve. It always feels better for me.
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Doesn't mean I'm not going to fail.
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Doesn't mean I'm not going to feel hard emotions, but I love
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the version of me that is dedicated to giving that 100%.
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This is the last question that I want to offer you guys is what
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do you have to believe about yourself to move forward with
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this action plan? Not what do you have to do, but
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what do you have to believe about yourself?
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I'm going to give you a couple thoughts that have really helped
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me get to some big goals in my life and my career.
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One is I will always figure it out.
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There has been. No, I mean on every single call
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that I ran, the seven years that I was a flight nurse, I was
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nervous and I had doubt with me, but I always knew that I was
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always going to figure it out and my team and I were always
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going to figure it out. So I love that thought.
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You can glean on it. You can you can accept it for
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yourself, but I will always figure out.
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The other thought that I have is I can have fear and doubt and I
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can still overcome this. I can have fear and doubt and I
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can still be successful. I can have fear and doubt and I
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can still be really confident. I want to offer you reconnect
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with what you want, what you value and what you feel like
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your greater calling is. When I started nursing school, I
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knew that my greater calling was going to be flight and I knew
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that every day that I didn't work towards that I wasn't being
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the best 100% version of myself. And it not at me the the days
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that I wanted to give up on it and not do it and not go for it,
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it not at me. And that little voice was harder
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for me to live with than the one that just said, let's get it.
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We're going to figure it out. For me, this was I was always
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connected to the work that I did and being a critical care nurse,
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then moving into flight, I always felt like this was my
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calling, always felt like this is what I was really meant to do
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and I wanted to be able to do this work at the higher level.
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I would have never left flight nursing except that I started
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this coaching business and I realized that I could help save
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way more lives by helping more people get into flight.
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And not only helping people get into flight, but helping them
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confidently feel good about the work that they're doing and
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confidently show up to these things, calls and these
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transfers and these critical patients.
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I could save more lives doing that.
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And so being able to do a job that you know, you were meant to
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do, you know, is your greater calling and successfully
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achieving that is something that I will always be proud of.
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And I want you to know that it's available to you too.
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Sometimes what's helpful for me is I always think that if my
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kids came to me and asked me, hey, should I, should I work
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towards this goal, this dream, what would I say to them?
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And of course, I would say yes, absolutely.
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Even if you fail, even if you have some setbacks, even if you
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stumble and you have to get back up, I would tell them, of
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course, it's worth working for. And I want to offer you guys the
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same thing. What would you tell your best
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friend? What would you tell your kids if
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they came to you and they said, hey, I really want to get into
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flight. But what I tend to see people do
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is give into that thought and quit.
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And so I want to offer you think of if your kids came to you,
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your best friend came to you and said, hey, I really want flight
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nursing, what will you tell them?
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Because at the end of the day, we are our biggest cheerleader
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and we have to hold the belief for ourselves when other people
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don't. And I had to do this a lot for
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flight. I didn't necessarily have family
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on board or friends or coworkers that I thought were gonna go
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with me. And so I had to hold the belief
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for them and for me because I had to be on board with my
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dreams. I'm the one who has to live with
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me. And so ultimately, it's our
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responsibility to go out there and get our goals, get our
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dreams. Lastly, having the support in
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this big goal of flight is pivotal, especially when you
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don't know anyone else who has done it or who is doing it.
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And it will be really, really easy in this process to listen
23:37
to your brain chatter or when someone offers you opposition to
23:40
cling to that, but only because you've had those similar
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thoughts too. So I want to offer you when the
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plan is clear, it's easier to stay on track.
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It's easier to stay the course coupled with the ongoing support
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so that you can vent, check in and prevent yourself from making
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the same common mistakes that people make.
23:58
And most important, not quitting ahead of time.
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My whole career, I've, as I've looked back, I really think
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what's created a lot of success for myself too is always having
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a mentor of someone who's ahead of me, of where I want to be.
24:10
And so in each and every level of nursing school and then ICU
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nurse and then as a flight nurse, I had a mentor who I
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could vent to, who I could check in with, who could not let me
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quit and who supported me. And that's really what I'm
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offering. Bring you inside the Flight Prep
24:25
Academy to get lifetime access membership all the way to
24:29
however long it takes you get to flight and to transition
24:31
confidently into the role. Anyone who wants flight, it's
24:35
possible for you, but you have to decide that you're going to
24:41
always figure it out and and getting that support again is
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pivotal. It's not just for the smartest,
24:47
strongest, best take, take, best take, test takers in the room
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flights for those who are willing to go to battle for
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their dreams, who want to do something meaningful and are
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willing to always strive to work at the highest level of
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themselves and with the highest level of teamwork.
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That's unparalleled in the hospital.
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I loved every men of it. My favorite, favorite part was
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autonomy of being able to work with a big scope of practice and
25:16
a big protocol and big protocol book and also to have advanced
25:21
skills. But the one thing that I miss
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the most is working with the most elite teams of the people
25:27
who wanted it the most too, and being able to work on critical
25:32
patients to save their life, to get them from one place to the
25:35
next, to use those critical thinking skills to work under
25:38
high levels of pressure, and to work with the best of the best
25:41
people. The teamwork was my favorite
25:43
part. It's the thing I miss the most.
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And so I just want to offer you, this is what's available on the
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other side of your doubts. And when you have a mapped out
25:52
plan, you know how to simply execute it and stay on track.
25:57
If anything in this episode sparked your interest and you
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know you know that you want flight nurse, flight nursing or
26:04
flight paramedicine and you want to get on track, map out your
26:08
plan, learn how to start doing ride alongs and then confidently
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sit in the interviews. Come join us inside the Flight
26:13
Prep Academy. We'd love to have you.
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We will help you with the strategy and the mindset piece
26:18
and all the brain chatter that comes along with it.
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That's it for this week. We'll talk to you guys next
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week. Bye.
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Anything in this episode sparked your interest into getting into
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flight? Come join my flight pet group.
26:28
We are an entire community that meets together on a weekly basis
26:31
with an ongoing group chat. And if you are already flying
26:34
and you are currently a flight nurse or flight medic, you can
26:36
join my all flight clinician group as well.
26:38
You can click on the link to join in the show notes or you
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can DM me on Instagram. I hope to see all of you guys
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inside.