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41. Webinar Replay: How To Become A Flight Nurse or Flight Paramedic · The Shift Podcast

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  Welcome to fight my datak, a podcast that helps bridge, the
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  gap between healthcare workers and First Responders and
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  everything in between. I'm excited to share with you
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  this replay of the webinar that I hosted on how to become a
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  flight nurse or how to become a flight paramedic.
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  I go over the common objections that I hear from people in the
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  common fears that come up from the clients that I work with,
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  are the people that are just interested in getting into the
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  industry, but feel like something is holding them back.
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  I talk about my philosophy and how getting there, and what do
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  you have to believe about yourself, to be able to sit in
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  that seat and get extended an offer?
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  And I talked about how I show my clients head, To do this in a
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  simple easy, doable less stress and overwhelming Manner.
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  And you'll also get to hear some people who are on the call, get
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  coached and get to hear some of their fears or some things that
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  they're facing that they have questions about on that are
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  holding them back and from getting there.
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  So without further Ado, I hope you enjoyed this episode Okay,
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  I'm going to just go ahead and get started, as people are
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  trickling, and I'm going to let them on thanks for turning on
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  your camera. That I'd love to see everybody's
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  lovely faces. Thanks for coming today.
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  I really appreciate you guys showing up.
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  I don't take it lightly. I know you guys are all really
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  busy with your shift work and your lives.
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  So just great to have you guys here and I just want to offer
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  for you guys to get what you came for out of this webinar.
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  Like get your questions answered.
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  Ask me questions and I'll be here for you to help facilitate
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  getting what you need. So I just want you to also think
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  about, if you are having that question someone else on here
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  today is as well. So I wanted to start out with
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  introducing myself. Most you guys have been
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  following me or see me on Instagram, but just wanted to
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  tell you a little bit about myself.
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  First, I have been a nurse for about 12 years, six of those.
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  I spent in a med-surg, I see you and then I moved on to flight
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  and I spent the last like six and Have seven years in Flight,
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  I left flight nursing. Totally and January, because I
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  started coaching full time. I started coaching about a year
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  and a half ago and I help all healthcare workers.
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  And First Responders, I've been General Life, coach for
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  healthcare workers and First Responders.
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  So I coach them anything on gaining confidence, getting to
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  their goals work-life balance. The stressors of the job,
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  anything that comes up for them. And then the other half of that
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  is, I helped paramedics and nurses that are trying to get
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  into flight. Might help them do it in a
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  simple and doable and easy way and help.
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  Also other people whether they're wherever, they're
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  starting in their Journey, create a path for them.
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  That's going to give them confidence with less stress and
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  overwhelm to move themselves towards that direction of
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  eventually getting into flight as well.
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  So that's a little bit about myself.
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  I feel free to put anything in the chat as well.
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  Like as questions are coming up for you.
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  I'm going to spend the majority of this time.
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  Together coaching you guys and answering any questions.
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  So this isn't going to be me just talking and be very
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  interactive as well. The first 10 minutes.
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  I'm just going to talk to you guys about some things about
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  flight and then for about 35 minutes, I'm going to open it up
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  for questions for you guys and anything that you guys want
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  coaching on, so that you can kind of see a little bit of my
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  coaching style and get your questions answered that you have
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  for me as well. Like I said if there's something
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  that comes up for you someone else definitely is thinking
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  about that in this room so offer for you to just ask me the
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  question and or get coaching on things that are maybe coming up
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  for your obstacles that you're facing at the end of this.
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  Our time together, probably about 10 minutes before the
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  hour, I'm going to do a deeper dive of what I offer with my
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  coaching services and talk about my one-on-one coaching and then
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  my flight prep group that's currently open for enrollment.
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  So so I'm going to just start with talking to about people,
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  add their own personal flavor of what else they think is needed
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  based on either what they've read, or what they've heard, or
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  whether what they've researched on how to get into flight, and
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  it is so simple. But people want to add confusion
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  to it, it's so simple. Most companies do just require
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  three to five years of ice. You or ER, experience there is a
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  caveat to this. Of course, there are some
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  Hospital based companies. There are companies that want
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  pediatric, or there are companies that want both, but
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  the majority of flight companies out there just require that
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  three to five years of ICU. Or ER, if you're a paramedic
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  they usually require three to five years of being a paramedic.
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  They like a little bit of CCT or critical care experience.
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  If you have that in there as well, the second requirement
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  some of them are looking at and are but are moving away from is
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  some require the CCRN or the Een.
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  I'm seeing that most companies are moving away from this
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  because it is a canes requirement.
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  Now of what you do, get hired in the flight, you have to get your
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  seat FRN, but they give you two years to do that once you get
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  hired with a company. So I always recommend to my
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  clients to get their CC CC RN or the Cen, but it isn't a
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  requirement. And I've had clients get hired
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  without that, as well. So, just those two things that
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  mainly the first one, three to five years of, I see or
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  experience. The problem is, once people read
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  these requirements and they start to make it a problem, and
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  they start to get some excuses in their head and your brain is
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  going to offer you different flavors of this.
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  And this is what I've seen, you're too old, you're too
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  young, it's not the right time. I don't know enough and the big
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  one is, I need more experience. And so I just want to offer you
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  guys that are all on today, no matter where you are, in this
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  journey for me. I knew I wanted to get into
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  flight when I started nursing school and so wherever Ever, you
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  are on this journey. I want to start offering you.
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  These thoughts, you know, enough, you have what it takes.
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  It can be done with less stress and overwhelm.
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  And you belong here and some things that I was some
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  objections. That I hear from people that I
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  just want to go over and talk with you guys about is that you
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  don't need both ICU and er experience you don't need
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  devices or specialty I see use and you don't need level one
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  trauma ER or ice use to get into flight.
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  Were some things where I see my ER nurses lacking and where I
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  really helped them. Make up some of those weaknesses
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  is the ER nurses who are trying to get enough light, usually
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  lack a little bit of ventilator and advanced hemodynamics as
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  your nurses we just don't get to play with the ventilators very
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  much. We have our teas that do a lot
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  of that and so I'll help you figure out the basics of the
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  knowledge that you do need to know for the ventilators in
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  advance. He my dynamics of going into the
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  interview and the rest are going to really teach you hands on how
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  to do what Their particular ventilator.
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  And their protocols that they're going to be using as far as
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  ventilator management for their patient.
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  My ICU nurses that are trying to get in Flight, usually lacks
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  some trauma and pre-hospital and Trauma surveys.
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  And so I'm going to tell you exactly what they're looking
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  for. Going into the interview at the
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  basic level of kind of like what you need to know for that as
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  well. The main thought that I hear
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  from a lot of people is just thinking that you need more
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  experience because you've been told no before.
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  So A lot of people that come to me, have been have interviewed
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  have applied and they they got told no or they gave someone
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  else a job. And so, what they do with that
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  is that they say, well, I don't have enough experience and so
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  they go out there and they try to get more experience and
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  action their way of gaining more experience.
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  Instead of focusing on the strengths that they already
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  possess and who they are, and what they value, this is what I
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  teach that companies are looking for who You are and what you
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  value, and the strength and super powers that you have to
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  bring to the table as the team member your mindset and what you
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  are thinking in the interview is what they will hear.
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  Whether you say it or not and I'm going to give you an example
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  of what a hear, a lot of my clients say who have done
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  interviews and maybe not been successful before, is I don't
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  belong here and that's what they will hear.
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  And sometimes it's created just from nervousness of the
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  interview and that's okay, too. I'm going to show you how to
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  navigate the Nervousness and still do really well because our
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  brain tries to tell us we can't be nervous and still be
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  successful. But we all know that's not true
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  because we all do jobs where were nervous and we're still
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  really successful where their patients so, but I do want to go
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  back to this. Sometimes our nervousness takes
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  us over and those people go in like with this lot.
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  Like I don't belong here, I don't have enough experience.
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  And that's what they will hear whether or not you say it or
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  not. And I'm going to go go into that
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  a little bit like what we can switch that phrase.
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  Then our mind to. So that, that is what they hear.
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  Whenever we have this thought, I don't belong.
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  That's what the words. And the actions that come out of
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  our mouth display in the interview and that's ultimately
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  like what they're thinking as well when the interview is over,
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  like, I don't know if they have enough experience.
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  I don't know if they belong here.
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  And so we want to go in with more confidence.
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  I'm going to really teach you guys how to do that.
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  Another thing that I hear is, I've applied to many companies,
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  and I've never heard anything this is.
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  A big one. I want to offer you guys in the
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  way that I teach my clients is that this is not like a hospital
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  or a ground application, where usually these hospitals reach
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  out to you, right away, or ground companies, reach out to
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  you right away because you have that critical pric.
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  You experience. They, we have like this
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  entitlement sometimes because we apply to these hospitals and
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  companies and people reach out to us, right away.
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  But flight companies aren't like that they they Want to find
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  extraordinary people and so that requires us to be a little bit
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  more extraordinary. And I say that in a way, that
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  means that it requires you to seek them out, you have to show
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  them your willingness. You have to reach out after
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  submitting applications. Not once twice three times
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  multiple times. As many times as you can, who
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  you start to hear something from them, email, managers basis, or
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  companies that you're interested in and ask about their openings,
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  Even if you don't see one online, it's almost like
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  creating the job for yourself that you want.
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  When you show that willingness this is what separates you from
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  everybody else. Because the majority of the
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  people will put in applications not hear anything and then
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  thinking that their mind that I don't know enough, they don't
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  want me, I don't have enough experience, but that's not it at
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  all. They want the people who are
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  willing to be extraordinary and go out there and get it, that's
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  what's going to separate you from everybody else.
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  So I talked about that kind of as well in my coaching and how
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  to go about. Doing that.
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  And then just again staying on top of exactly where you are in
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  the process and pursue the recruiters and the company's
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  most like companies have recruiters and I call them.
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  They're basically Gatekeepers. They usually don't have any
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  medical experience at all but they're the ones that once we
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  can get through to them and really be on top of them that
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  they're the ones who are going to give us the interviews with
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  the managers and the clinical Personnel.
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  So I'm going to really show you how to navigate Recruiters in
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  the company's and how to be a little Bit different and you're
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  thinking, as far as that goes, so you have to pursue them, not
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  wait for them to pursue. This is a little bit of a
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  difference in it. You'll also get a lot of
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  opinions out there from friends and family members and others in
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  the industry. And I know if any of you have
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  been pursuing it, you're going to talk to a lot of different
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  people and they're going to give you a lot of different things,
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  but I really focus on your mindset and your belief in
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  yourself, and this will drive to actions, you take in this entire
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  process. And I'm going to talk about that
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  a little bit later and help you guys coach on that because your
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  mindset and your belief in getting there is going to be
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  what's key and getting you hired.
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  A couple other things that I hear is rural versus level one
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  Trauma Centers whether it's ER or ice you like which one is
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  best and I just want to offer you guys that both of them are
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  great. They're looking for both sets of
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  nurses and everything in between rural nurses or anybody who's
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  worked in a rural Hospital capacity.
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  Whether it's a five-bedroom We are at n bed.
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  I see you know that they are super They are the nurses that
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  are super resourceful and get what they need for their patient
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  because you don't always have a physician there.
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  And so these are the nurses that are really good.
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  Critical thinkers really good team players and always get what
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  they need for the patient because they have to they don't
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  always have a provider there to help them.
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  So that makes a really great nurse and on the other side,
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  nurses that have level 1 experience.
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  They've seen a little bit different to they've seen a lot
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  of different patient. These, they've been in a
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  teaching Hospital, they've been around a lot of Specialties, so
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  that offers a different type of nurse as well.
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  So rural versus level 1 and everything in between.
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  They want all of that and it's not necessary to have both of
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  those things. The other thing that I also hear
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  is it's not the right time and I want to offer all of you guys.
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  It's just like having a baby. There is no secret level of
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  experience or years that you need to be ready.
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  I have nurses that come to me that have been nurses or
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  paramedics for three years. And think that they don't have
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  enough experience, but I also have nurses and paramedics.
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  I've been doing it for 15, 20 years and have the same thought
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  we all know clinicians in both Fields who have been doing it
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  for 15 or 20 years and that doesn't necessarily make them a
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  great clinician. And so, this is one thing that I
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  help you work on and Coach onto that they experience and the
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  knowledge that you do have is enough.
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  And I've also had clients who have been under that amount of
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  time who have been at two years, or two and a half years, and
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  because they've done so Well in the interview, they have been
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  offered an offer for the company and so I always recommend as
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  well, even if you're not at the 3-year started playing six
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  months prior to the requirement for the companies that you are
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  looking for. I want to put an emphasis on if
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  you go in with some of this mindset and these thoughts that
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  you don't have enough experience and you're not enough that even
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  after you get a job that you're going to continue thinking like
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  this and you'll continue to struggle with this.
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  Even after you, get hired the not enough - and imposter
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  syndrome will show up and all of that.
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  And so this is really where I like to help you because if you
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  can work on your mindset prior to the interview, it's going to
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  be that much easier for you. Once you get hired to a lot of
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  people think it's going to be better once you get There, but
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  those same issues and not enough nurse and doubts will follow you
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  if you can't kind of work some of those things out.
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  So like I said before, people try to solve it the for these
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  things, by doing more, gaining more experience.
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  But I want to offer you guys again.
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  It's 100% what you think about yourself going into the
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  interviews, they focus on who you are and I really would offer
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  for you guys to focus on that focus on your strengths and what
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  you have to offer based on what you already know.
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  What I tell people in this part of it.
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  It is like, really, what is it about you when people see you on
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  the schedule? That they're like, oh I really
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  am excited. They're working today.
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  These are the things that we want to bring to the interview
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  because if they sit you down at the interview table, your
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  experience is already enough. They just want to know about the
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  team player you are, and why people want to work with you,
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  and I'm going to really help you with that.
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  Portion of it for the panel interviews as well.
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  There's for the things that I really teach that companies are
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  looking for, one is your critical thinking skills.
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  They're going to look at this through your case scenarios and
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  we're going to talk about that. Just like how do you critically
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  think? The second one is that you
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  always get what you need for your patient?
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  How do you go about going to get the orders or the things that
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  you need? Even if maybe the physician
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  tells, you know, the third one is creating rapport with
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  patients in your family's. How good are you at this?
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  This is so important in flight because sometimes we have 10
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  minutes or less to create that quick amount of trust with them.
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  And most of you guys are really good at that.
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  So we're going to highlight that and Fourth one is a team player.
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  You are like I said, why do people want to work with you?
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  Why? When they see you on the
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  schedule, are they excited to be there with you that day?
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  Those are the things we're going to bring out and highlight in
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  your interview. These are the things that I
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  teach you and these are kind of the things that I coach together
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  and I'll teach you the mindset, everything you need to know for
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  the interview prep that, navigating the applications, the
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  panel interview prep and the clinical scenario prep is a big
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  thing. I see my nurses really
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  Struggling this because we're used to ACLS and Pals where we
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  have a mannequin. But this is really an
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  opportunity where you have to be talking about the scenario and
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  talking about everything that you're assessing and
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  interventions that you're doing and you leading the
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  conversation. It is pretty simple and I just
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  don't think that a lot of nurses had the opportunity to practice
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  before an interview. So this is where I see a lot of
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  them kind of stumble and fail going into it without the
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  practice of it. Like I said again, I'm also
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  going to help my ear nurses with oxygenation Ventilation the
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  basics of what they need to know going into it.
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  And then the ICU nurses, just talk about the pre hospitals and
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  traumas that they might see the basics that they need to go know
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  going into the interviews and for the case scenarios, but the
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  solution to getting hired is your thoughts again.
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  And I want to tell you guys a story, I had a client who she
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  actually did multiple interviews, but on her very last
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  interview, she had this thought going into it that I just want
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  to Fly. I'll do whatever it takes to
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  just get there and I just want to fly and I know some of you
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  guys think that as well, and she thought that the whole
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  interview. She of course, never said that,
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  but she just like presented herself and was just so excited
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  to be there. And she found out.
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  She was up against a lot of different applicants but at the
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  end she was offered the position and she asked the manager after
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  she got hired like what was it that you know, with my lack of
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  experience because she had just met the three As with my lack of
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  experience, what is it that you liked about me?
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  And she's, and the manager said, I just like, had this feeling
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  that you just wanted to fly and it was just such a confirmation
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  that the thoughts that you're thinking are the what they're
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  thinking, interviewing you. And I just thought that was so
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  amazing for her. And now she's been flying for
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  over six months and on her own and doing really well in it.
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  So I want just want to say it again.
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  I know you guys are thinking about the, how, how do You get
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  there and I just want you guys to start focusing on who you
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  have to be to get there and the mindset.
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  You have to be to get there, no matter where you are in the
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  journey. If your clothes, or if you're
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  just starting nursing school or if you're in nursing school,
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  like who do you have to be, what kind of team player do you want
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  to be? What kind of clinician do you
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  want to be? Those are the things that they
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  really want to know about. I want to tell you guys one more
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  story before. We just start coaching our, I
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  open it up to questions. I wanted to tell you guys about
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  this car accident that I was involved in and we flew into I
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  had been flying about two years and we had we had the
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  opportunity to be so close to a level one Trauma Center.
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  In fact, it's only five minutes from our base and so because of
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  that, a lot of the traumas were just taken directly from the ALS
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  units to the trauma center. But this particular case, you
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  know, it was in the middle of the night.
• 19:42
  Of course, it's like 3 a.m. in the morning and I get alerted to
• 19:46
  it and I see that it's about six minutes away.
• 19:49
  And I'm like, oh, we're going to get cancelled because the ALS
• 19:51
  units going to pick it up and It in, but we go up in the air and
• 19:56
  we get overseeing and I'm like, we're not going to be canceled
• 19:59
  and I know in my mind like this is going to be a really bad
• 20:02
  trauma since they didn't cancel us.
• 20:05
  And so we land, we see the seen the cars, just like completely
• 20:10
  wrapped. I opened the back of the
• 20:13
  ambulance doors and the paramedic tells me that there
• 20:17
  was five people in the car, two females already done on arrival.
• 20:22
  And Two other children already that were already dead as well.
• 20:25
  And then we had a, she looked to be about 3 or 4 years old and
• 20:30
  the back of the unit and lifeless.
• 20:33
  And I told my partner, let's go. So we kind of did everything
• 20:37
  that we needed to do at that time.
• 20:40
  We started IVs, we started fluid, we started blood started,
• 20:43
  everything that we kind of needed to do.
• 20:45
  And then we knew that we needed to scoop her up and get her
• 20:48
  going. So, I put her in the helicopter
• 20:50
  and in that time, I thought To myself, we got six minutes to
• 20:54
  make this happen. We got six minutes to take her
• 20:57
  from the scene, and fly her to the trauma center and bring her
• 21:00
  back, and she wasn't coding it. But she just looked pretty
• 21:04
  lifeless and really needed our help.
• 21:05
  So, at that moment, we started our SI drugs, we intubated her,
• 21:09
  we needed her chest, we did all of these things kept the fluid
• 21:12
  and the blood going. And then I just remember at that
• 21:15
  moment, right? Before we landed at the hospital
• 21:18
  on the pad. I remember thinking one how did
• 21:22
  Do all of these things in this amount of time and my other
• 21:26
  thought was this is where I'm supposed to be.
• 21:29
  This is what I'm meant to be doing and I know that all of you
• 21:33
  guys wherever you are in, your journey have had that thought
• 21:37
  one time or another. In one case or patient or a call
• 21:42
  that you've ran and I want to just offer for you guys to hold
• 21:45
  on to that because if you believe that flight is where
• 21:49
  you're supposed to be, then I just want to offer for you.
• 21:52
  Guys to go and get it and do whatever it takes to get there.
• 21:55
  I want to offer for you guys. To hold onto your why, like, why
• 21:59
  do you want this so bad? Why does this mean so much to
• 22:01
  you? Because I hold on to that call a
• 22:04
  lot, especially in the times where I felt nervous or I had
• 22:09
  doubt. I held onto that thought, like,
• 22:11
  this is what I'm meant to be doing.
• 22:12
  This is what I'm supposed to do. And my job now is to help as
• 22:16
  many people realize that who want that as well.
• 22:19
  And so, I just want to offer you that thought this job is meant
• 22:24
  for me. We do heroic things in our job
• 22:27
  that some people think are not humanly possible just like I did
• 22:31
  that one night with that kid and what would you do?
• 22:35
  If this, if you believe that this is what you were meant to
• 22:38
  do. What would you think of all the
• 22:40
  excuses and obstacles that come up in your mind then?
• 22:44
  And if you don't believe this job is meant for me, I want to
• 22:46
  coach you guys on that today or what are the thoughts that are
• 22:50
  holding you back from believe? That and this is the difference
• 22:54
  between no offers and multiple offers is the simple thing which
• 22:57
  is your belief and I teach you that they are not picking you,
• 23:02
  you are picking them. A lot of people go into the
• 23:05
  interviews thinking. Well there, I don't know if
• 23:07
  they're going to pick me but I want to offer you guys.
• 23:09
  Like you guys are picking them. You're picking like this is the
• 23:12
  company. I feel I want to work with.
• 23:14
  This is the culture I want to be in.
• 23:15
  This is the team I want to be in and start having you guys think
• 23:18
  that way. And so I'm going to give you
• 23:19
  guys an opportunity at the end too.
• 23:21
  Take this even deeper and what I offer in my coaching and how I
• 23:24
  get my clients. There individually no matter
• 23:26
  what stage that they're in, and set out a plan to get there, but
• 23:30
  I'm going to open up coaching now till about a quarter till
• 23:34
  with you guys and I'm just going to repeat this.
• 23:36
  What would you do? If you believe this is what you
• 23:38
  are meant to do. What would you think of your
• 23:41
  excuses then? And if you don't believe this
• 23:43
  job is meant for me, I want to coach you guys on that or any
• 23:47
  thoughts that are kind of holding you back and believing
• 23:49
  that. And so I'm going to end at Till
• 23:52
  and open up to anybody, who has any questions, or wants any
• 23:56
  coaching on any obstacles that are coming up for them?
• 24:03
  And don't be afraid to just, like, unmute.
• 24:11
  And don't be afraid to go first because I know you guys all have
• 24:13
  questions since you're here today.
• 24:18
  Or put them in the chat, if you can't come on.
• 24:25
  I think the biggest obstacle with me is, I started travel
• 24:27
  nursing about a year ago and so making that bridge back to First
• 24:31
  a staff position because I don't work in, ER, or in ICU.
• 24:36
  So making that decision. First of all, which is the best
• 24:39
  way. Like I lean towards the, ER,
• 24:41
  that's where I kind of want to be, but taking that initial step
• 24:44
  back to staff position I think, is one of the biggest hunches
• 24:48
  for me. But even after that, I mean, I
• 24:50
  know you've already spoken on it as choosing between I've
• 24:53
  shadowed and I see you, I've shadowed in the ER, I like the
• 24:55
  ER better but when it comes to vent management and that kind of
• 24:59
  thing, that's that's one of the biggest.
• 25:01
  You know, just the knowledge deficit is very scary and a very
• 25:04
  real obstacle. Yeah.
• 25:06
  Okay. Tell me what units you do travel
• 25:09
  nursing on right now. All right.
• 25:12
  Now I'm traveling on odds units and somehow I ended up on
• 25:16
  oncology which is supposed to happen, but it does happen a lot
• 25:19
  with traveling, but when I stopped I was working.
• 25:23
  Trauma on like a step down. Yeah, I guess it was more of a
• 25:28
  step-down unit more than, you know, in between, I see you and
• 25:31
  just, ER, just that in between. Okay.
• 25:34
  Well, how long have you been a nurse and have you ever done any
• 25:39
  eeric besides that? Step down.
• 25:42
  I've been a nurse right at three years, this month and the only I
• 25:46
  haven't done any. ER, the only I see you.
• 25:48
  I did was while I was in nursing school.
• 25:51
  I worked three different hospitals as a CNA trying to
• 25:53
  like kind of figure out where I wanted to land and so I did work
• 25:56
  in ICU as a CNA but I've not worked at in like a functional
• 25:59
  like are in position. Okay.
• 26:01
  And your end goal still is quite correct.
• 26:04
  Yeah. So one thing, I mean and I want
• 26:07
  to offer you I don't know exactly how it works a trouble.
• 26:10
  You probably have to have Experience traveling being ER
• 26:13
  ice you before going and traveling in that, but I have a
• 26:16
  lot of trouble. Nurses that aren't staff,
• 26:18
  nurses, that get directly hired in the flight but it will
• 26:22
  require you to have that. ER I see you time.
• 26:26
  Sounds like you've made a decision know about what unit
• 26:29
  you would prefer to go to. Yeah, well the only I see you,
• 26:32
  you know I have tribe shouted on, was the neuro trauma Unit
• 26:37
  were at the hospital, I used to work at and when things are
• 26:41
  Meaning it's great when there's new traumas coming in and
• 26:43
  everybody converges together and works on that same patient.
• 26:46
  That's the best part of it. But when it's just like, and I'm
• 26:49
  not saying that I see you is Easy by, it's like, by any
• 26:51
  means, but just like the two patients and this titrating
• 26:54
  drips constantly, and that's kind of like, you know, they're
• 26:57
  already stabilized but kind of not really.
• 27:00
  Yeah. Like, I know, it sounds
• 27:01
  terrible, but it was almost kind of boring to me to Shadow purple
• 27:04
  flowers where I was when I was in the, ER, and the trauma
• 27:07
  Bay's, and it's just happening like all the time.
• 27:09
  There's things happening and so, I think it's like the probably
• 27:12
  more of an adrenaline thing than anything but yeah exactly.
• 27:17
  Oh, go ahead. The hospital.
• 27:19
  I left. It's only level 2.
• 27:21
  It's in Western North Carolina. I mean, they do cater to like
• 27:24
  about 17 counties out here. They haven't made it to level on
• 27:26
  yet so don't really know. Also you know how different it
• 27:30
  will be going from like a level 2 to a level 1.
• 27:33
  What is your kind of plan as far as your time period and moving
• 27:37
  out of travel and then going to an ER position?
• 27:41
  I was looking to do it towards the end of this year.
• 27:43
  I'm contracted right now through August.
• 27:45
  I wanted to finish out like, the rest of the summer looking
• 27:47
  either towards the end of this year, if not the, beginning of
• 27:49
  next year. So like this is all way off in
• 27:51
  the future, but the hospital I left, I still like, that's my
• 27:56
  home base. It's still, I'm still right down
• 27:58
  the road, but it's a lot of unfortunately political stuff
• 28:03
  that go into. It is an HD a facility.
• 28:05
  And so it's hard to make that transition back to working for a
• 28:07
  hospital that you left for a reason.
• 28:10
  I do have options to work at rural hospitals like you said.
• 28:13
  And I know you know, that could still be a good starting point
• 28:16
  to work in an ER in a rural hospital.
• 28:18
  It's just, you know, do I want to go back to the hospital?
• 28:21
  I came from where I'll probably have more experience in trauma.
• 28:24
  Yeah. If I can help, you get some
• 28:26
  clarity and that right now, I would love to do that.
• 28:28
  It sounds like you don't need clarity as far as like what
• 28:31
  words you're gonna go to ER I see you.
• 28:33
  It sounds like you want to go to the ER okay, one thing I want to
• 28:36
  offer you what the ER is apply to all of them.
• 28:40
  One even that, you're not sure you want to go back to and then
• 28:43
  the Royal bed ERS, I think you know, where I tell people an
• 28:47
  application processes for everything is that sometimes we
• 28:50
  get our mind set on one place and even for flight companies,
• 28:53
  we get our mind set on one place.
• 28:55
  But what I have on my clients do is list out in order like the
• 28:59
  applications one through whatever, which one's your top
• 29:03
  choice. But what I usually find with
• 29:05
  that is if you just fit in the seat and you interview with the
• 29:07
  companies, you're interviewing them to and you kind of Figure
• 29:11
  out like What's the culture? What are the things that you
• 29:13
  really like about them? And often times ninety percent
• 29:16
  of the time, my clients won't pick their number one, they get
• 29:19
  in the interview chair and they realize oh I really like my
• 29:22
  number four and so that's what I have to offer you instead of
• 29:26
  like making that decision in your mind.
• 29:27
  Now just apply to all of them and just feel them all out see
• 29:31
  which one's feel good for you as far as those ERS and then go out
• 29:34
  there and interview for all of them.
• 29:36
  And then based on that, just trust yourself that, you know,
• 29:38
  the best decision for yourself on that.
• 29:40
  What are your thoughts on that know that that totally makes
• 29:44
  sense? Like I said, I wish that the
• 29:46
  place that I want to work for, I wish that it wasn't an obstacle
• 29:51
  to return to that place because it's where I'm going to get the
• 29:54
  most education. But just the environment right
• 29:57
  now with the ER nurses they're everyone's super unhappy and I
• 30:01
  know that I need to I feel like inside I need to just suck it
• 30:04
  up. Get past you know all of the
• 30:09
  Ratio issues and that kind of thing.
• 30:11
  But I also want to make sure when I make my transition to ER
• 30:13
  you know I'm doing this for a time period to end to get all
• 30:16
  the experience, you know. So I don't know.
• 30:20
  Let me ask you, what is your thought right now?
• 30:22
  That's preventing you that's like in your way about
• 30:24
  education. Like higher education.
• 30:28
  I just mean like learning on the job.
• 30:30
  Yeah. Because you mentioned like I
• 30:31
  know I need to go back to the said this hospital because of
• 30:34
  their education. Like what is your thought that
• 30:36
  you're having about the education part of it?
• 30:38
  Yeah, I'm not going to get what I need the ERS.
• 30:41
  I mean I don't know. It's like this everywhere but
• 30:43
  especially at this specific Hospital in Asheville are
• 30:47
  overrun. They're still you know the beds
• 30:48
  in the hallways and that kind of thing and ratios are still
• 30:51
  extremely high to where, you know, am I going to learn?
• 30:54
  Or I'm I going to go in for 12 hours and bust my ass and just
• 30:57
  Get the bare minimum done or am I going to get the hands on that
• 31:01
  I need? There's only so many trauma
• 31:02
  Bay's and you know, I know that I would not start, you know,
• 31:06
  straight into a trauma Bay because I don't, you know, have
• 31:09
  the experience for that. But and I just want to be
• 31:11
  managing to make it from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
• 31:14
  Or am I going to be getting the Hands-On that I actually need to
• 31:17
  if you had to answer that right now?
• 31:18
  What would it be? No.
• 31:20
  Okay. Be getting, I don't think it
• 31:23
  would be worth. The time and upper and stress.
• 31:27
  I don't think I would get what I need out of it.
• 31:29
  I think that you have your answer right there.
• 31:31
  Yeah. What are your thoughts on that?
• 31:34
  Are you? Yeah, I think that's always been
• 31:35
  the answer. It's just been hard in my mind
• 31:38
  to make it seem reasonable like an actual reasonable answer.
• 31:41
  A reason not to go back there. Yeah.
• 31:43
  Okay. So now that you know that now
• 31:46
  you like answer that for yourself tell me what is your
• 31:50
  barrier in education and going to these other places like
• 31:53
  what's the thought that you're having?
• 31:55
  About their education, just the exposure.
• 31:59
  Okay. I don't know Hospital.
• 32:01
  Yeah. Because we're, you know, I'm
• 32:03
  closer to a rural Hospital than I am my old hospital.
• 32:06
  That's a level one right now. Yes.
• 32:07
  But they're so close to each other.
• 32:09
  Anything trauma-related, it's Gonna Fly.
• 32:13
  They will fly it right over to Mission or they will put it on
• 32:16
  the ground and send it right over to the old hospital that I
• 32:19
  was at, because we're so close to.
• 32:20
  So, it's almost an advantage to be so close to a level one
• 32:23
  trauma center, but it's also not an advantage.
• 32:25
  To be so close because if I go to any of these surrounding
• 32:27
  hospitals, everything's just going to get pushed over to the
• 32:30
  actual trauma facility, as it should be.
• 32:32
  Okay, I'm going to ask you something because this is, this
• 32:35
  is a common belief for people who work rural hospitals.
• 32:38
  And what I do here from my rural Hospital.
• 32:40
  Clients is that they see really bad patients because they're the
• 32:45
  middle of either going or not going, or they're either,
• 32:49
  really, really bad or they're fine.
• 32:52
  Okay. So, but since you told me you
• 32:53
  did do step down, I see you. You tell me what you learned
• 32:56
  about the step down. I see you.
• 32:59
  Step out its it is almost kind of like that middle ground.
• 33:02
  They're not sick enough that they still need to be an ICU
• 33:05
  being you know, one to two to three page, you know, patient
• 33:07
  ratios. But they're not well enough to
• 33:09
  where they can survive on a medical surgical floor and get
• 33:12
  the care that they need. There are that middle ground
• 33:15
  essentially I'm kind of offer that you probably learned a lot
• 33:19
  about what was really sick and what was not really sick.
• 33:22
  And when to call that RT or when to move them up to ICU.
• 33:25
  Yes, this is what that rural hospitals going.
• 33:29
  I teach you is that in between of, hey, they're not really
• 33:34
  sick. We can release them or admit
• 33:37
  them, or they're really, really sick.
• 33:39
  And we got to get what we need to get them out.
• 33:42
  But it's going to often times like these step down units, you
• 33:46
  learn so much, then if you just went straight to ICU because I
• 33:50
  see you there already thick the step-down unit is where it
• 33:53
  taught you the in between and what to look for.
• 33:56
  And that's why rural bed I see or World bed, ER and ICU.
• 34:00
  Nurses make really good flight nurses because they are able to
• 34:03
  know what that middle ground looks like, how could that maybe
• 34:06
  be? So for you on a rural hospital
• 34:08
  that you're thinking about I think the know everything you're
• 34:12
  saying makes sense and I think that still that, the hospital
• 34:16
  the I've been leaning towards. It's still, you know, distance
• 34:18
  isn't really an issue. I travel that it would still be
• 34:22
  a good place to since we are so close that I would catch that
• 34:25
  middle ground and no, you know, be able to learn what's going to
• 34:29
  go, what's going to stay what my limits are and then kind of go
• 34:33
  from there. Because I know that, you know,
• 34:34
  if I take a job somewhere that it's not set in stone, what else
• 34:37
  is it going to teach you being at that rural hospital do you
• 34:40
  think if you had to guess, I guess just I mean immediate
• 34:46
  stabilization just not you know anything like first response on
• 34:51
  the road if I were on a truck but that second response as soon
• 34:54
  as you come into the hospital, just the stabilization to get
• 34:57
  them out. I won't offer you that you could
• 35:00
  often times be that first response to And that sometimes
• 35:04
  like even as nurses we know more than the Physicians that that's
• 35:08
  Moonlighting at that world. ER and so that's going to give
• 35:11
  you a really big opportunity to step up and like teach you a lot
• 35:14
  of things otherwise that you want to get at this level to
• 35:17
  hospital, really like how to get what you need and how to always
• 35:21
  like critically think for your patient.
• 35:24
  Yeah no that makes a lot more sense that I see what you're
• 35:26
  saying that I can learn just as much if not more just maybe in a
• 35:29
  different different manner by working at a rural Hospital.
• 35:32
  Instead of, you know, at the center and you make it an
• 35:35
  opportunity also to be more Hands-On with ventilators
• 35:39
  because of that. Yeah.
• 35:40
  Because in bigger hospitals level to level 1, level 3, you
• 35:44
  often have our teas because you have the Staffing for that,
• 35:47
  that's just going to do that for you.
• 35:48
  So you're going to run into that same issue.
• 35:51
  One thing I want to tell everyone to is like the number
• 35:53
  one thing that I would help people with that would precept
• 35:56
  people with after they got hired into flight was still
• 35:59
  ventilators in advance human dynamics, so ventilators no
• 36:02
  matter. You are and how many times
• 36:04
  you've touched them and messed with them, that is still one
• 36:06
  thing that people still need help with.
• 36:08
  So it's really like you are going to get that experience and
• 36:12
  in that rural hospital and just really thinking about what kind
• 36:15
  of experience that's going to give you, what kind of nurse
• 36:18
  that's really going to make you as far as.
• 36:20
  ER, you know, that's super helpful when you put it like
• 36:24
  that. I think a lot of the barriers
• 36:26
  are right here. Yeah.
• 36:28
  So it's nice. Yeah.
• 36:29
  I kind of gave that put out in the open.
• 36:31
  Sometimes I need it broken down and that makes It's a lot more
• 36:33
  sense. Yeah, and I want to also offer
• 36:35
  you if this is something that, you know, that you really want,
• 36:37
  I know your contracts up and August, but go out there and
• 36:40
  seek it. I just had a client who started
• 36:43
  a new travel, nursing contract, and she applied for companies.
• 36:46
  And they liked her so much. They waited six months to on
• 36:49
  board her. So, you know, whatever your
• 36:53
  brain is telling you, like, I need to start and stop at a
• 36:55
  certain time. Like, don't let circumstances
• 36:57
  getting your way, try to think outside of the box and think
• 37:00
  about how you can get there quicker for yourself.
• 37:01
  That this is something that you Really want, okay.
• 37:06
  Does that feel complete for you for right now?
• 37:08
  Yeah, absolutely. Thank you.
• 37:09
  Okay, you're welcome. Anybody else have any questions
• 37:12
  or want any coaching? Hi, hi.
• 37:18
  Hi. My name is hides and Hi there.
• 37:23
  Yeah, I can hear you guys. Can you hear us perfect?
• 37:26
  Yes, I can hear you. Yeah, I have my question is more
• 37:30
  about like the steps or how really to get there?
• 37:34
  I don't know the process as for what you were saying like the
• 37:40
  experience or what not. I mean, I don't have a lot of PR
• 37:43
  experience. I work in ICU since 2017.
• 37:48
  I work. Yeah, I started from like an
• 37:50
  intermediate step down here. And it also and then I
• 37:53
  transferred I see 2017 and then I got into traveling nurse.
• 37:59
  So I've always wanted to be a flight nurse.
• 38:02
  I mean, it's been years. Maybe 10 now, huh?
• 38:06
  One of those things that are like, I don't know.
• 38:09
  I just it's not like about laziness on how to like, like
• 38:14
  look for the process, but it's just kind of like getting just
• 38:18
  shove every time. Like so now I'm like, you know
• 38:21
  what? This is It's time.
• 38:25
  So let me ask you. I have you looked up the
• 38:28
  companies that you are interested in have you looked at
• 38:30
  the requirements in the hole. No really want to offer for you
• 38:35
  to start because it's you know it's dependent on a lot of
• 38:38
  areas. Some do require you to have your
• 38:41
  EMT or your paramedic licensure as well.
• 38:46
  So it I would start there and that's what I offer to all.
• 38:49
  My clients is start with all the companies what I say as far as
• 38:52
  starting to is in your mind, figure out how far you want to
• 38:56
  go. So for some people that's two
• 38:58
  hours for some people, they're willing to drive four hours for
• 39:01
  some people. They're willing to go to out of
• 39:03
  states and different states. So think about one how far
• 39:07
  you're willing to go to take that job.
• 39:09
  And then to look up all the companies and all the bases in
• 39:12
  that area whether or not they have an opening or not in those
• 39:16
  bases, or the for that company, and then research the
• 39:19
  requirements for those companies start there.
• 39:22
  R. Okay, because they may be a
• 39:25
  little bit different based on the County's you're in, or this
• 39:28
  or the state you're in. And then I would like get
• 39:31
  yourself organized with either a binder or a folder and list the
• 39:34
  different companies of the requirements, if they are
• 39:36
  different. And then also number, which ones
• 39:41
  are your? First choice is all the way to
• 39:42
  10. If you have 10 that you're
• 39:43
  interested in. I tell people treat this like a
• 39:47
  speed dating game, it's like date.
• 39:49
  One person to marry them. I mean I think some people do
• 39:53
  but I did it and we don't want to get ourselves a hooked on one
• 39:59
  company because if you do that you're going to find, maybe you
• 40:02
  said in the interview and you don't love that company.
• 40:04
  What I tell them, treat it like speed dating.
• 40:06
  We want to date a bunch of different companies and we want
• 40:08
  to figure out what's the best fit for us?
• 40:10
  Just like they're figuring out what's the best fit for them?
• 40:13
  And so, I did offer for you to start there.
• 40:15
  I think about how far you want to go and then look at the
• 40:17
  requirements of the companies that you're interested in, Okay?
• 40:21
  So, So yep. Okay, so just look out for
• 40:24
  companies and then look at their specific requirements.
• 40:27
  Yeah because you may find that you already meet those
• 40:30
  requirements and if you do, I would just start applying for
• 40:33
  those companies that you that you are interested in even if
• 40:36
  they don't have any openings reach out to the recruiters or
• 40:40
  to the HR department and just say you're interested in this
• 40:43
  space at this place or you're interested in going this far.
• 40:47
  And then they can sometimes there's ones that are in the
• 40:49
  making that just aren't Yet. Okay okay.
• 40:56
  That sounds good. Does that feel complete for you
• 40:58
  to have any other? Yeah not.
• 41:00
  Yeah, I just have to it's like I said, you know, it's something
• 41:03
  that's like okay, what do I need to do?
• 41:05
  I just look at like on Google like you know, flight nursing
• 41:09
  openings or you know I would first think about how far you're
• 41:14
  willing to go for flat and then let me ask you because it might
• 41:18
  be deeper than us. I'm not sure.
• 41:20
  But what's kind of stopping you from doing that.
• 41:22
  Why haven't you done that yet? I just really it's it's always
• 41:27
  in the back of my mind but it's the taking the first step like I
• 41:32
  just don't know. Okay.
• 41:34
  I mean in my head I was like, okay is it just as easy as like
• 41:38
  looking flight nurses openings on Google or you know, like, you
• 41:44
  know, it makes sense when you said like look at the
• 41:46
  requirements because you were talking about, you know,
• 41:48
  certifications earlier and some of them doesn't need it or it's
• 41:52
  not required, you know. Yeah.
• 41:55
  Why do you think that taking the first step is so hard for you to
• 41:58
  do? What do you think that?
• 42:01
  Um, I think it's more of like I'm scared of what I'm going to
• 42:05
  find out and that I will. I will not.
• 42:09
  Oh crap like they need this certification.
• 42:13
  Do they need this kind of experience?
• 42:15
  Oh you know so I feel like that's more of like what if I
• 42:20
  don't have those and then what? Yeah.
• 42:24
  Then what? Uh me what if you don't have
• 42:25
  them well then I'm gonna go get it.
• 42:28
  Exactly. It's so funny because in our
• 42:31
  mind like our brains do that right?
• 42:33
  They work against us and we're like I'm so scared of what I'm
• 42:36
  going to find out but do you know what's probably you tell me
• 42:39
  like I'm curious. Is it scary or what you're going
• 42:42
  to find out or is it scarier to never take that first step.
• 42:46
  Um I think it's I am more scared of what I'm going to find out
• 42:51
  and that I am not ready enough or I'm not you know my my
• 42:55
  experience and what I have under my belt.
• 42:58
  It's not enough to to get there. And let me tell you let me ask
• 43:02
  you it this way to like what are you more?
• 43:04
  Okay with as far as uncomfortable.
• 43:06
  Because here's the thing either way, you're going to be
• 43:08
  uncomfortable. You're going to be comfortable
• 43:10
  thinking about taking the first step or you're going to be
• 43:13
  uncomfortable. Always thinking.
• 43:15
  What if Which one, which uncomfortability do you want to
• 43:19
  move closer to? I think the the what is Yeah.
• 43:26
  Yeah. So yeah, like the what if you
• 43:32
  know like or even like, you know, I know it took me already.
• 43:36
  Like, almost, I don't know how many years of thinking about
• 43:39
  doing it and then like I said, you know what, if they needed
• 43:43
  more and then how long is it going to take me to do this, to
• 43:47
  do that, you know, to meet the requirement.
• 43:50
  And here's the problem. I think that is really where
• 43:53
  you're getting stuck and why you keep going to the what if like
• 43:57
  your brains Gonna keep offering you to be thinking about the one
• 44:00
  F and being uncomfortable about that is what's stopping you from
• 44:03
  taking your first step. But here's the difference, is
• 44:06
  that you're really thinking about the now you're scared of
• 44:08
  what's going to, you're going to have to do now, but I want to
• 44:11
  offer all of you guys. You got to start thinking future
• 44:13
  wise, Yukata, start thinking about the you and that flight
• 44:17
  Sue, like, when you get your flight suit and you get your
• 44:20
  name badge, no one else fits in it, no one else can wear it.
• 44:23
  And that flight suit. And that name, badges already
• 44:26
  waiting for every one of you guys.
• 44:28
  Is a different amount of time that it's going to take for you
• 44:31
  to get there but no one else can take it from you.
• 44:33
  And so when you're really stuck in the thinking about like what
• 44:36
  do I gotta do right now, that's what doesn't help you move
• 44:39
  forward to getting to the Future.
• 44:40
  You who's wearing it exam? One offer.
• 44:43
  All you guys like start thinking about the future, you that's
• 44:45
  there. That's what's going to move.
• 44:47
  You closer to it and taking just the first step, sometimes we
• 44:51
  want like as overachievers, we want to solve for every problem
• 44:54
  that's going to come up, but I want to just offer you guys soul
• 44:57
  for the First problem, that's coming up for you.
• 44:59
  And for you, it's just solving for taking the first step.
• 45:03
  Great. What are your thoughts on all of
• 45:05
  that? So, that's, that's right.
• 45:07
  It's just, I mean, actually, for me, this is my first step to
• 45:11
  this, to the, you know, to the more step that are coming
• 45:14
  actually just like talking to someone and getting into this
• 45:17
  meeting, you know. This is actually like because
• 45:20
  I'm kind of planning. Yeah.
• 45:21
  You know, like, no. I'll just, you know, I'll do my
• 45:23
  magic. No.
• 45:24
  But I need to know. So yeah, this is actually my
• 45:27
  first step. Yes, I want to offer you,
• 45:29
  correct? Like tell your brain that you
• 45:31
  guys, all took that first step by just registering to be here
• 45:34
  today and getting more information, right?
• 45:37
  And then trust yourself that, you know what?
• 45:38
  The next step is to getting to your goal, right?
• 45:43
  Trust yourself. You know what it is?
• 45:44
  Maybe it's getting a little bit more help.
• 45:46
  Maybe it's getting coaching from me, whatever it is for you, like
• 45:50
  trust yourself that, you know what that is?
• 45:53
  Right, right? Is that helpful for you?
• 45:56
  Yes, thank you. Okay, yeah, you're welcome.
• 46:01
  I have a couple more minutes. I'd like to like, answer any
• 46:03
  questions or help coach anybody else on anything?
• 46:08
  Yeah, I have a couple questions. Yeah, sure.
• 46:11
  So, um, I'm a paramedic I have about three years of experience
• 46:15
  doing like I work City and then I work up in New Hampshire, I've
• 46:20
  worked were Rural and then I've I just started working in a
• 46:25
  hospital. I am interested in doing flight
• 46:29
  medicine, is it better? So our hospitals pushing us to
• 46:33
  get our critical care, sir. It's uh huh?
• 46:35
  It is it better to get your critical care of your flight
• 46:38
  medic cert before you start applying to flight jobs, I would
• 46:42
  offer for you to do it simultaneously.
• 46:45
  Okay, there's if you can go into interview confident and show
• 46:50
  what you have is a clinician. They're not going to care
• 46:52
  whether you have it. Not okay, it's not needed and
• 46:57
  then they're going to want you to get your FPC.
• 46:59
  Anyway, after you get weird, what are the critical care
• 47:03
  service that they're looking towards you getting they want to
• 47:07
  put on a ground Critical Care team so it's any like any
• 47:13
  Critical Care. Certs okay.
• 47:16
  Yeah I mean do it simultaneously.
• 47:17
  It's yeah yeah, hired a few with the three years of experience
• 47:21
  and now working in ER Like you're going to do that to look
• 47:24
  really good as an applicant to be brought to the table.
• 47:28
  Okay? Because it's kind of.
• 47:29
  So we're new Department of the hospital up until like nine
• 47:33
  months ago. They on have paramedics working
• 47:36
  in the ER, so it's been a learning process.
• 47:38
  Yeah, we started out kind of as text and then, you know, we're
• 47:42
  running calls at the same time doing transfer.
• 47:45
  So it's a very new program but they are looking down the road
• 47:50
  and they want us to do critical care.
• 47:52
  And I'd like, Do flight at some point.
• 47:54
  So, yeah, I mean, let me ask you what's kind of stopping you from
• 47:57
  applying for flight. Now, since you pretty much
• 47:59
  probably meet all the requirements, um, I think it's
• 48:04
  the experience peace because I was doing rural.
• 48:10
  I worked for some agencies that maybe didn't have great
• 48:13
  reputations in my area. So that's kind of holding me
• 48:16
  back and I'm wondering how to move past that.
• 48:21
  Well, here's the thing like Our brain wants to go to evidence,
• 48:24
  like all the negative evidence for yeah.
• 48:26
  Latches to that, right? But if it was like, did the
• 48:29
  opposite for a second? Tell me what you did learn by
• 48:31
  the experience of, maybe not working for a company with a
• 48:33
  great reputation. And that rural experience that
• 48:36
  you've had. What did what do you have?
• 48:38
  As a clinician that other people aren't going to have as
• 48:41
  paramedics? I mean, I guess I'm resilient
• 48:46
  like and I've had to manage some really sick patients for long
• 48:51
  periods of time with limited resources. you know, and and
• 48:58
  then I also learned that I'm responsibility responsible for
• 49:03
  being a good provider like I make the job what it is.
• 49:07
  So I have to go out and get the education.
• 49:09
  I have to, you know, work hard. I'm responsible for good patient
• 49:15
  care when it comes down to it. I'm going to read these back to
• 49:20
  you and then ask you a question. Okay?
• 49:22
  Okay. Okay.
• 49:23
  You told me that this rural experience had you more
• 49:28
  resilient taught you manage really sick patients with
• 49:31
  limited resources. You learned that I'm responsible
• 49:34
  for being the good provider. You have to go out there and get
• 49:37
  the education you need and that you're responsible for taking
• 49:41
  care of the patient. Yeah.
• 49:44
  And I'm responsible for good patient care.
• 49:45
  You said what do you have to believe about yourself?
• 49:48
  Elf, that, that's what they're looking for, in the job.
• 49:53
  Yeah. I mean that's probably what they
• 49:55
  are looking for in the job. Yeah.
• 49:58
  So right now like your belief is I don't have enough experience
• 50:01
  and over here it's like yeah I got the experience I'm going to
• 50:05
  hire but that's not believable right now and that's it.
• 50:08
  You don't want to make like a big jump and a big leap in that
• 50:11
  belief. But what is it that you know
• 50:14
  about yourself right now? um, I mean, I think that I could
• 50:26
  I could probably, I don't know, like I think that I would be
• 50:33
  able to do it as far as, You know, I don't give up easily,
• 50:39
  that's for sure. Yeah.
• 50:41
  Do you believe that thought? I don't give up easily.
• 50:44
  Yeah. What if that's enough?
• 50:47
  Yeah, it could be enough. What are your thoughts about
• 50:51
  just practicing that right now. I don't give up.
• 50:54
  Yeah, like you don't have to go into the interview thinking man
• 50:58
  I have exactly the experience that I need.
• 51:00
  I'm going to get this job because most people don't like
• 51:02
  that's too hard to believe and that's the thing is like if you
• 51:06
  believe that then you'd already be doing the job.
• 51:08
  So we just have to practice beliefs that we do know going
• 51:11
  into it. Yeah and what you do know is I
• 51:14
  don't give up easily and that could mean a lot of different
• 51:16
  things for yourself. I guess one barrier is I don't
• 51:20
  Don't like, I don't have a college degree.
• 51:22
  I have a paramedic certificate and I'm like, maybe I don't have
• 51:26
  the strongest academic background.
• 51:28
  Yeah, but I mean, that's something I can work on, also.
• 51:35
  Yeah. Let me ask you.
• 51:37
  What are the requirements in your areas?
• 51:39
  For a paramedic for flight paramedics?
• 51:41
  Do they require a college degree?
• 51:44
  Its preferred. Okay, but I'm also willing to
• 51:47
  move like I would move to another part of the country.
• 51:50
  Yes that man, you know, working, you know, in that part of the
• 51:54
  country for a couple years and then maybe coming back home so
• 51:57
  I'm not I feel I'm in an area that's pretty competitive, as
• 52:02
  far as flight medicine goes. Yeah, so I kind of know if I
• 52:06
  want if I want it. I'm going to have to move
• 52:09
  elsewhere. Yeah, well we'll work on that
• 52:11
  pot, too. Because if you believe don't
• 52:13
  easily give up and you believe that that you could get the job
• 52:17
  that wouldn't those circumstances wouldn't stand in
• 52:20
  your way. Way.
• 52:21
  Yeah. What are your thoughts on that?
• 52:25
  Yeah. I mean it's all I mean there's
• 52:28
  no reason for me not to apply. Yeah, I've worked nurses and
• 52:32
  paramedics that both had degrees and didn't have degrees and none
• 52:35
  of the meant. Anything about how good of a
• 52:38
  clinician, they were? Yeah, what are your thoughts
• 52:41
  about that? No, it's true.
• 52:44
  I mean, it goes back to you. Make the job what it is?
• 52:47
  It, you know, if you you care about the job, if you're
• 52:52
  passionate about it, if you're willing to go the extra mile.
• 52:55
  Yeah, that's all stuff that you can't really learn in a
• 52:57
  classroom if I had to choose if I was like on the panel
• 53:01
  interview team and I had to choose between someone who
• 53:03
  didn't give up easily and someone who has a college
• 53:05
  degree, I would always choose the didn't give up easily and
• 53:08
  that's what they're looking for. Yeah, if they bring you to the
• 53:12
  interview, See the experience you have is already enough.
• 53:16
  Yeah and that's what I'm going to.
• 53:18
  That's what I teach people to is in the interview.
• 53:20
  They're not they they're going to ask you about your experience
• 53:23
  but that's not really what they're looking for.
• 53:24
  What they're really looking at the team player that you are and
• 53:27
  what you value, and who you already are, and what that is
• 53:30
  going to be added bringing you to their team.
• 53:33
  Yep. Something to think about, what
• 53:36
  are some of your thoughts on that?
• 53:38
  Yeah, no it's definitely like it definitely gives me A New
• 53:42
  Perspective, you know? Yeah I would offer for you to
• 53:45
  start applying, okay, it'll be good even for you to be told.
• 53:50
  No so you can get get you out of like I'm afraid of being told no
• 53:55
  like this really good for you to build up that resilience like
• 53:58
  you did in that other job Oka? Because what would it be?
• 54:02
  Like if if you didn't care if you were told, no.
• 54:05
  No. Well, I mean I'm at know now.
• 54:08
  Yes. You've created a know now,
• 54:12
  right? Because you have yeah, yeah, I
• 54:15
  love that for you. All right.
• 54:18
  Does that feel complete for right now for you?
• 54:20
  Absolutely. Okay.
• 54:21
  Thank you. I appreciate it.
• 54:22
  Welcome and just like, remember that thought?
• 54:25
  Yeah, I don't give up easily and have that dry youth right now.
• 54:30
  All right. Okay.
• 54:31
  All right, thanks. Okay, you're welcome.
• 54:34
  Thank you guys for bringing all of those things I think.
• 54:36
  Yeah, everybody's gonna benefit from hearing that and I'm sure
• 54:38
  you guys did benefit from just hearing people talk about it in
• 54:42
  these last five minutes. I just want to kind of talk to
• 54:44
  you guys about my one-on-one and my group that I have going on
• 54:48
  right now. My one-on-one sessions are for
• 54:50
  anybody who's wanting to bridge, the gap of kind of where you
• 54:52
  are, and where you want to get into flight, no matter where you
• 54:55
  are in the journey. And like I said, like I coach
• 54:59
  you on gaining more confidence and getting to your goals.
• 55:01
  I do General life coaching to so that kind of seeps into their as
• 55:04
  you gain more confidence. Clinically in some of these
• 55:07
  areas, it's going to give you more confidence in the other
• 55:09
  areas of your life. And like I said, during the
• 55:12
  coaching, my coaching really focuses on, like, where you are
• 55:15
  now and where you want to be, and I'm always going to take you
• 55:17
  back to the future you and you getting there.
• 55:21
  And the biggest focus is going to be on the mindset so that you
• 55:24
  can create big things for yourself with less stress and
• 55:27
  more confidence and less overwhelmed.
• 55:29
  So I have that piece for one-on-one for anybody who's in
• 55:33
  any part of the process, if you want to kind of move forward
• 55:35
  with that. I do also bring a tutor in who
• 55:38
  has been flying for a very long time.
• 55:41
  He's a paramedic and a nurse, and he'll tutor you in any area
• 55:44
  that you feel. You need a little bit more help,
• 55:47
  12 leads, EKGs, abg's, whatever it is ventilator management that
• 55:53
  is included in my one-on-one sessions, as well to bring the
• 55:55
  tutor in for those different areas separately.
• 55:58
  I also have a flight prep group that is coming up, it's for
• 56:02
  paramedics are nurses with at least, one year, ice youõre are
• 56:06
  Perience. I'm going to teach you
• 56:08
  everything that you need to know as far as your mindset
• 56:11
  navigating applications. We talked about navigating
• 56:14
  applications in the recruiters a little bit today, but a deeper
• 56:16
  dive in that panel interviews. What they're looking at?
• 56:19
  How many people are usually on it and kind of questions that
• 56:22
  they normally asking and how to go about answering those
• 56:25
  questions. And then my other focus with
• 56:27
  this group is case. Scenarios really how to navigate
• 56:32
  going about running through them.
• 56:34
  And being the one, whose I'm moving them forward and being
• 56:37
  successful in case scenarios so we're going to talk about that.
• 56:41
  That is going to be 12 sessions. It's a three-month long program
• 56:45
  together. You are going to have the
• 56:48
  support of the group as well with a chat going on.
• 56:51
  So if anything comes up in between the sessions you can be
• 56:54
  a part of that group chat together and then of course
• 56:56
  you're going to get email or text support from me ongoing as
• 56:59
  well as things are coming up with applications or you have
• 57:01
  questions that's going to be 60 Minutes weekly every week that
• 57:05
  we're going to meet. Over Zoom just like this and
• 57:08
  then the recordings will be available to you as well to go
• 57:11
  back and re-watch. That is going to go June 8th
• 57:14
  through September 14th. It's going to be every Thursday
• 57:18
  from 9 to 10 a.m. Pacific Standard time.
• 57:21
  And then with those videos to re-watch, if you like to as
• 57:23
  well, I'm only taking 10 people, I do have a couple of slots
• 57:27
  already filled, but if you are interested in that, I just want
• 57:32
  to offer you. Like, what?
• 57:33
  I can offer you with that group is just that confidence and
• 57:36
  Stress and less overwhelmed of navigating these companies.
• 57:39
  And then also some things people aren't thinking about is you
• 57:42
  could start getting interviews and you could start getting
• 57:45
  offers and I'm going to help you navigate how to negotiate your
• 57:48
  offer and also how to step into that role with a little bit of
• 57:51
  less impostor syndrome. This is not going to be like any
• 57:53
  other class with homework or boring slides, and it's going to
• 57:57
  be just like this, you're going to show up every week.
• 57:59
  We're going to get some coaching and then you're going to have
• 58:01
  support by me and your peers. Also through that group group,
• 58:03
  chat for everybody who is on this webinar, Webinar today, if
• 58:07
  you sign up with my one-on-one or you sign up with my group,
• 58:11
  you're going to get one free one-on-one session with me to be
• 58:14
  able to use during any of that time together.
• 58:17
  So if you do sign up for a console, just put that in the
• 58:19
  notes that you made the webinar and you'll get that session.
• 58:22
  I want to just leave you guys with this is your time, you guys
• 58:26
  know enough you have what it takes and it could be done with
• 58:30
  less stress and overwhelm. And you belong in this industry
• 58:34
  thinking about the future. You That flight suit.
• 58:37
  And that name badge is sitting on the table, it is just waiting
• 58:39
  for you to grab it. I'm going to put a link.
• 58:42
  The first link is going to go into the chat right now.
• 58:46
  This is for my flight prep group.
• 58:48
  If you do have that one year of, ER, I see you experience.
• 58:50
  If you want to set up a consult with me there and then the
• 58:55
  second link is going to be for anybody who's interested in my
• 58:58
  one-on-one. It's four months working with
• 59:00
  me. One on Monday, one as well,
• 59:03
  wherever you are in the journey. If anyone Anything that you kind
• 59:07
  of want to talk about and work on together or gain confidence,
• 59:09
  clinically or tutor in some of these areas.
• 59:11
  This is the second link that's coming to you.
• 59:13
  So you guys can use that link if you'd like to book a consult
• 59:16
  with me. We can talk and see where you
• 59:18
  are in your journey and then you can decide if it's a good fit
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  for being on today. I really appreciate you guys
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  coming. Thank you.
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  I had a quick question. Yeah.
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  So I'm currently still in nursing school and I was going
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  to ask you, what is if there's anything that I could do.
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  While I'm in school, I have about a year left.
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  I graduate in the fall of next year and if there was anything
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  that I could do now to get where I want to be in fight nursing.
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  Yeah, great, great question. I helped a lot of nurses that
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  are currently in nursing school. One thing that I want to offer
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  for you to do is really get a Tech job or a student, nurse
• 1:00:40
  intern job, in an, ER, and ICU. Okay.
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  You don't have to have that to get hired in one of those
• 1:00:45
  departments, right out of graduating nursing school, but
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  it does make it easier for you. And those those departments are
• 1:00:52
  competitive as a new grad to get into, it's not impossible, like
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  I said, but it will set you up for kind of learning and getting
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  to know the manager and the culture and the people now.
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  So I would just look into the hospital's that you're
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  interested in working in and apply for some of those
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  positions. Okay, what are your thoughts on
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  that? No, I think it's great.
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  I think it's going to be a little difficult for me right
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  now because we have to clinicals and 13 class are our schedules,
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  pretty busy. And I only have Mondays and
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  Thursdays off. Yeah.
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  But I think because we're in med-surg right now.
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  So, next term or semester, I think our schedule is going to
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  To kind of calm down. So I think I might look into
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  doing that. Yeah.
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  So and I want to offer you two like this is where people start
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  to think when they start thinking about applying for
• 1:01:47
  these positions is that they're already saying yes, but I want
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  to offer for you to just apply and listen here.
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  Like if they do offer you something, let them know that
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  the managers because most student intern and student Tech
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  positions, they will work around your nursing schedule because
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  they know that that's the number one thing.
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  And so even when I was a student, intern when I was in
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  nursing school, they worked with me.
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  They said, When you have clinicals and Theory.
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  Okay, what day can you work? Oh, you can't work this week.
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  That's okay. Just come in next week on the
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  day that you can and so that might be advantageous for you to
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  just kind of see how much they're willing to work with you
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  because most of them want to invest in you because they want
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  to hire you after. Okay.
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  Yeah. And I think it's pretty
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  prominent because I'm in the LA area.
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  Yeah. The I've heard a lot of friends
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  or classmates or It's I have done that so I think I'm going
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  into that. Yeah, definitely do and if you
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  want coaching or help on how to navigate those interviews for
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  student nurse intern, or for Tech, come get coaching with me
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  because that's what I help. My nursing students do is get
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  hired into those units. Got it.
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  Thank you. You're welcome.
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  Anybody else have any questions or want to kind of get something
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  on the books? I do.
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  So I'm in my journey. I'm a new grad.
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  I got just hi. For neuro-icu.
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  Yeah, and so actually, I started July 5th orientation but I just,
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  I guess trying to soak it all in, listen to everybody's story
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  and just how to, you know, what to focus on during my first
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  year. I know I mean I've heard EKG ABG
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  drips and stuff like that. So that's what I was my what I
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  did in clinicals as well. I'm kind of familiar with it but
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  also you know, dive deeper in it.
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  And then my ultimate goal is to be a Flight nurse so awesome.
• 1:03:40
  Well, congratulations on getting that job like that is so great,
• 1:03:44
  you're going to learn so much and it's going to be so
• 1:03:47
  advantageous for you to have that neuro ICU experience,
• 1:03:51
  especially for flight. One thing that I offer my
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  Critical Care. New grads is to take a journal
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  with you and like Journal your patient and what's going on with
• 1:04:01
  each patient. And then look back on it, like
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  what and do an evaluation like the That I coach that are new
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  grads. I always like, have them bring
• 1:04:10
  their shifts back to the calls and we talked about like, what?
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  Well, I'm the shift, what didn't go?
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  Well, what do you want to do differently?
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  And then write that down in your Journal.
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  So that when you have that subarachnoid bleed, again,
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  you'll be like, okay, this is what we did.
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  This is what we didn't do, this is what I can recommend.
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  Really, as a new grad, what I want to offer you is to just get
• 1:04:31
  in there and absorb as much as you can.
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  You're going to figure out you're going to see how
• 1:04:35
  everybody does everything and Just really figure out for you.
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  Like, how do you, what do you start collecting evidence of?
• 1:04:42
  Like, how do you want to be as a neuro ICU nurse and and yeah,
• 1:04:47
  like come get coaching with me if that's something that you
• 1:04:49
  want to step into confidently, because you will have like that
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  mindset is going to be a barrier For You, especially going in and
• 1:04:57
  starting over really going from a, from a nursing student to a
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  neuro ICU nurse is going to be a big leap.
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  It's not impossible, but that's kind of what I can help you with
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  as far. Confidence wise and then if
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  things come up and you're like, ah, I need some help with a
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  DG's. Like that's really where I can
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  bring my tutor in and really help you.
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  But one thing I want to offer, you as just that journaling
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  piece of it, okay? And then just take in as much as
• 1:05:20
  you can, okay? That's what those, that's what
• 1:05:23
  those three years are about before, getting in Flight is
• 1:05:26
  just really figuring out. Like what do I like about
• 1:05:28
  certain clinicians? What how, how do I want to be as
• 1:05:31
  a clinician and what are like some things that are really
• 1:05:34
  really strong on and not focusing too much on the things
• 1:05:37
  that your Early week on. Okay, does that make sense?
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  Or do you have any other questions for me on that?
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  No, that makes total sense. Yeah, I mean, I think journaling
• 1:05:47
  for me, I don't I've never done it in my personal life and I
• 1:05:50
  think it's very helpful. I mean, I try to write stuff
• 1:05:54
  down so I don't my brain can relax.
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  So at least if I can Journal it and then look back on it.
• 1:05:58
  I think I'd be great and thank you for that.
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  Yeah, yeah. And just like, it can be so
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  simple, right? Like, I don't simple my, I don't
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  Journal my personal life but as a nice You nurse I did.
• 1:06:08
  Because I'd be like, okay, I have this septic patient.
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  These were this was their lactic acid.
• 1:06:13
  This was the thing I was looking at these are the drips that I
• 1:06:16
  started on them and then as a new grad, when I had a septic
• 1:06:20
  patient, again, I was like, okay, these are the things that
• 1:06:24
  worked for me. These are the things I should
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  kind of anticipate and I'll just help you like mentally go back
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  to that. Okay.
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  Yeah. Awesome.
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  Thank you. You're welcome.
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  Any other questions you have for me?
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  Um, so like you think the neuro ICU would be okay?
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  Like I thought I was kind of hoping more for a general.
• 1:06:46
  I see you just so I can see a wide range of stuff.
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  I mean, I got hired for a level two trauma here in Las Vegas.
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  I don't, I don't know where you're from.
• 1:06:56
  I'm in California in the okay, cuz I found you through Awesome.
• 1:07:05
  And I think he would well, how's that?
• 1:07:08
  I got hired on Sunrise and everyone says, if you can make
• 1:07:11
  it there, you can make it anywhere.
• 1:07:12
  I feel like it's more maybe more geared towards like med-surg
• 1:07:15
  because of the ratio but also I'm taking it with, you know,
• 1:07:18
  hopefully I see you as well. If I can make it there then you
• 1:07:21
  know I can make it anywhere as a challenge to myself in a sense.
• 1:07:25
  Yeah. Get what you came for and
• 1:07:27
  whatever you're learning experiences is like whatever the
• 1:07:30
  circumstances are you. Going to be able to come out
• 1:07:33
  with enough experience, just from that alone, to be hired
• 1:07:36
  into flight. So, just like figure out, like,
• 1:07:39
  what kind of clinician do you want to be like, what's
• 1:07:41
  important to you, what things are you really strong at?
• 1:07:44
  And you're going to learn so much, like just that neuro
• 1:07:46
  experience is going to teach you a lot.
• 1:07:49
  They are not expecting. Any flight nurse to have seen
• 1:07:51
  neuro cardiac Pediatric, and all of those things, what they're
• 1:07:55
  really looking for is that you're a good critical thinker.
• 1:07:58
  And that neuro ICU is going to teach you that, okay?
• 1:08:02
  And then utilize your contacts like if you know Nick reach out
• 1:08:06
  to him and get a ride along and ask him questions.
• 1:08:10
  Utilize that piece of it. He's a really good resource for
• 1:08:12
  people to. I don't know him, I don't know.
• 1:08:15
  He doesn't even know of me but I just follow him and okay, you
• 1:08:18
  know? Yeah, he doesn't know of me but
• 1:08:21
  I mean maybe I'll reach out to him and see you know if he's in
• 1:08:24
  the area, any advice or something?
• 1:08:26
  I'll definitely do that. Another question I had before.
• 1:08:32
  I see you. I went through upon myself to
• 1:08:35
  take my my pals and then ACLS and obviously BLS.
• 1:08:41
  Yeah, should I keep up with those are?
• 1:08:42
  Should I let like now that I'm in the hired by the hospital
• 1:08:45
  mean? I don't think since I'll be nice
• 1:08:47
  to you, I don't think though have me do Pals or pay for it.
• 1:08:51
  But should I personally myself going?
• 1:08:53
  Have that active for flight nursing when it comes to or what
• 1:08:58
  are your thoughts on it, like keeping it versus not keeping
• 1:09:01
  it. Um, I mean if my thoughts is why
• 1:09:05
  not, I mean if I have the time then why not?
• 1:09:08
  Yeah, I might, yeah, I guess I guess I could answer my own
• 1:09:12
  question, I guess. I mean, it can probably even
• 1:09:14
  serve, you know, at home or something.
• 1:09:17
  They're definitely like, I don't think it's needed.
• 1:09:21
  Like, I don't think you have to, but if your thoughts are like,
• 1:09:23
  why not? Let's just do it.
• 1:09:25
  I have it already, then I would just offer for you to continue
• 1:09:27
  on with that because if you do, it'll just be a racer, then you
• 1:09:31
  won't have to do that. Initial again, right?
• 1:09:34
  And then ask your manager because even if your job doesn't
• 1:09:38
  require it, sometimes the hospitals will pay for you to do
• 1:09:41
  it. They will, of course, bump up
• 1:09:43
  the people who need it for their requirement first, but you
• 1:09:46
  could, you might be able to get in at your hospital and take the
• 1:09:48
  course and then pay for it, right?
• 1:09:51
  So it's always worth asking instead of you having to pay for
• 1:09:54
  it separately, okay? And then my last question is
• 1:09:57
  like, but now that I'm in ICU there, anything that can be
• 1:10:00
  doing proactively. To gain the extra boost of
• 1:10:06
  confidence. I mean I'm a new grad so I'm
• 1:10:07
  like my feet aren't wet yet and I'm like so there anything that
• 1:10:12
  I can do proactively like certifications or stuff that I
• 1:10:14
  can like look up to towards the future with in my one year?
• 1:10:18
  Yeah, yeah. I would offer you to come get
• 1:10:21
  coaching because my that's gonna be huge.
• 1:10:24
  Okay. You're going to feel like a lot
• 1:10:26
  of nervousness a lot of Doubt, a lot of imposter syndrome and I
• 1:10:29
  would offer for you. If you can like keep up on your
• 1:10:32
  mindset that all those things are okay.
• 1:10:34
  And work on your belief on doing will really well in the unit.
• 1:10:38
  That's what's going to help you be successful.
• 1:10:41
  You know, of course like our brain wants to go to especially
• 1:10:44
  nursing student brain. What are all the things I need
• 1:10:46
  to do to help me be successful, but I want to offer you like
• 1:10:49
  that's going to be key for you. These are fat.
• 1:10:53
  So I went off you come get coaching.
• 1:10:54
  The second thing is just to really take in like this newness
• 1:10:57
  of this time and really absorb as much as you can.
• 1:11:02
  The important part, as a new grad is just really learning
• 1:11:05
  your floor and learning, like what your routine is going to
• 1:11:08
  look like and learning how to speak up and learning to have
• 1:11:11
  that confidence. Really focus on that on your
• 1:11:14
  first year, as you're finishing up.
• 1:11:16
  Your first year, I would offer for you to start looking at the
• 1:11:19
  CCRN, okay, and start looking into that and study material for
• 1:11:24
  that and and practicing for that, okay?
• 1:11:28
  But even in areas, like where you feel a little bit, Weaker
• 1:11:31
  where you're like, you have heavy like ICP management and
• 1:11:36
  you got your vent Rick's and all of that stuff like if you get
• 1:11:39
  coaching with me we can bring in some of that tutoring to if
• 1:11:43
  there's any areas but really just like focus on the newness
• 1:11:48
  of it and just figuring out like the clinician that you want to
• 1:11:51
  be. It's going to be your routine.
• 1:11:53
  How you're passing, meds likes you how you're doing around all
• 1:11:56
  those small, little things that you're going to want to focus on
• 1:11:59
  first instead of content. Really okay.
• 1:12:03
  And lastly, I've never worked a night shift, my shift from 7
• 1:12:07
  p.m. to 7, a.m. any advice on that.
• 1:12:10
  I mean, I'm kind of worried about it because I'm yeah, you
• 1:12:14
  know, other than like thing up, you know, celebrating one time
• 1:12:18
  most I stayed up so like any advice on that because I want to
• 1:12:22
  be as sharp as I can for my patients.
• 1:12:23
  And so that's kind of a worry for me.
• 1:12:25
  Yeah, I want to offer you. It's going to be trial and
• 1:12:27
  error. Okay.
• 1:12:29
  Everybody has like kind of a different Routine of working
• 1:12:31
  night shift. And what works?
• 1:12:32
  Well for them? So, just like, trust yourself
• 1:12:35
  that, you know how to prepare for it, even though you've never
• 1:12:37
  done it, just, like nursing school.
• 1:12:39
  Like, you never dead nursing school, right?
• 1:12:41
  But it was telling are to figure out how you were successful at
• 1:12:44
  it, right? So treat my shirt like that to
• 1:12:47
  like, okay, did it work for me to sleep 3 hours leading to my
• 1:12:51
  shift on my first day on? Do I need to sleep eight hours?
• 1:12:53
  Just like trial at are it and like just be willing to to be
• 1:12:57
  rough at it at first because if you do that, then you're going
• 1:13:00
  to get to a That's going to work good for you just like it kind
• 1:13:03
  of did for nursing school. Yeah okay that's on that.
• 1:13:08
  Yeah I mean definitely a child whenever I mean I got through
• 1:13:12
  nursing school if I feel like this is just you know yeah
• 1:13:15
  shouldn't be too hard you know now that I have free time and
• 1:13:18
  just focus on this one job that I have.
• 1:13:21
  Yeah think about like how nursing school was kind of tough
• 1:13:24
  at the beginning where you're trying to figure out like how to
• 1:13:26
  make that work in your life and your schedule and everything
• 1:13:29
  right. But like how How did you get to
• 1:13:31
  that point where you're like, okay, I got this now.
• 1:13:35
  Yeah, I mean, for enough for me, there goes to putting my head
• 1:13:40
  down and, and open your books and, and not really looking at
• 1:13:43
  at the clocks. Honestly, it's just, I need to
• 1:13:46
  finish this. And this is what my agenda is
• 1:13:49
  today. So yeah, nice ship is yeah.
• 1:13:53
  I mean, oh bleep, for me, I guess just sleep as much as I
• 1:13:56
  can and then go from there. If I need a little less sleep, a
• 1:13:59
  little more sleep and I guess adjust accordingly.
• 1:14:02
  Yeah, and how might you also be able to put your head down and
• 1:14:04
  not look at the time as far as night shift, I think just being
• 1:14:11
  busy like I know especially a nice if and then working to 21
• 1:14:17
  with drifts and stuff I guess for me not sitting down I just
• 1:14:20
  needed walk around and then get my steps in that way as well.
• 1:14:25
  Yep, trial those things out. See if those things really work
• 1:14:28
  for you and then offer for you, if they do like keep doing them
• 1:14:31
  and adding to that. But and then just like trust
• 1:14:34
  yourself that you know what's going to work, the best for you
• 1:14:36
  as far as night shift. Left.
• 1:14:37
  But allowed to have to allow yourself to fail at it a little
• 1:14:40
  bit. Yeah.
• 1:14:41
  Okay. The secret sauce for that is
• 1:14:43
  different for everyone. Right?
• 1:14:46
  Okay. Thank you.
• 1:14:47
  I appreciate that. You're welcome.
• 1:14:49
  Was that helpful for you? Yeah, definitely.
• 1:14:51
  Okay. Did you get all your questions
• 1:14:52
  answered? Yeah.
• 1:14:54
  Yeah. I did.
• 1:14:54
  Okay. Perfect.
• 1:14:56
  All right. Thanks for being on.
• 1:14:58
  Thank you. And then, are you having any
• 1:15:00
  more of these? Just so I can attend if my, you
• 1:15:03
  know, something new comes up or something?
• 1:15:05
  Yeah. I I don't.
• 1:15:07
  Very many of them but I'm thinking about doing more.
• 1:15:10
  I got a great response this time around.
• 1:15:12
  So if you did put your email which had to for this, you'll
• 1:15:18
  get emailed out anything else that I have going on, okay.
• 1:15:22
  And then just look on Instagram because that's where I post most
• 1:15:25
  of my stuff too. If I have any webinar coming up.
• 1:15:28
  But I'm thinking about actually working with my tutor and doing
• 1:15:31
  like a session either on 12 leads or a Bee Gees.
• 1:15:33
  That's what I get a lot of questions about.
• 1:15:36
  So I'm thinking about offering being some kind of educational
• 1:15:38
  piece to it too. Okay.
• 1:15:40
  Awesome. I'll be on the lookout for that.
• 1:15:42
  Thank you. You're welcome.
• 1:15:43
  Thanks for coming today. Alright, thank you.
• 1:15:44
  Have a good day, you tell. If anything resonated with you
• 1:16:01
  and you want to work on creating a path for yourself on getting
• 1:16:04
  to flight no matter where you are in the journey, book a
• 1:16:06
  consult with me and we can talk about the results that we can
• 1:16:09
  get to and getting there. A big thing that I help people
• 1:16:11
  work on is confidence and belief in themselves.
• 1:16:14
  If we can create that self-confidence and doing
• 1:16:16
  something that we've never done before, that's how we can get to
• 1:16:19
  our goals quicker and that's how we can start to see results in
• 1:16:22
  our life when we start to see those results have confidence.
• 1:16:25
  It seeps into all these other areas of Our Lives as well, and
• 1:16:28
  helps us Tour goals even quicker.
• 1:16:31
  If this is something you're interested in book a consult
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  with me and we can talk about exactly what working together is
• 1:16:37
  going to look like. And I am excited to chat with
• 1:16:40
  all of you guys and I'll see you next week.
• 1:16:42
  Bye. Tour goals even quicker.
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  If this is something you're interested in book a consult
• 1:16:34
  with me and we can talk about exactly what working together is
• 1:16:37
  going to look like. And I am excited to chat with
• 1:16:40
  all of you guys and I'll see you next week.
• 1:16:42
  Bye.