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126. Belief Flight Plan · The Shift Podcast

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Hey you guys, welcome to episode 126 of how to become a Flight
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nurse. I'm titling this episode belief
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flight plan. Before I continue on talking to
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you about what I want to bring you this week, I just want to
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make sure that you guys took a listen to last week's episode
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125 where I got to interview Skyler who is part of the flight
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prep Academy. She has just such a great story,
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so take a listen if you haven't listened to it already.
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She came from a rural bed, ER, just 10 beds, worked part time
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for three years and got hired on with the flight company that she
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wanted to get hired on with. And she's going to be able to be
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transferred to the base that's closer to her home in the next 6
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months. And I, what I especially love
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about her story, and I think that we touched on it and in the
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interview, was that they just had to ask her one question, one
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psychosocial question. And that was tell me about
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yourself. And she was so good at
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articulating who she was, what she valued, the team player that
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she was, that they didn't need to ask her any other questions.
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And she did so well that they wanted to offer her the position
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directly after the interview, but wanted to kind of wait and
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give her the 24 hours so that she could squirm a little bit
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about the position. But what I also hope that you
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picked up on that is that she said that was a lot easier than
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I thought. And that's the complete opposite
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of most people that I work with or who come to me and who want
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help with the interviews. They say the flight interviews
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are nothing like what I thought. They're so hard.
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And so I just want to offer you guys to come get coaching, come
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find out what the Flight Prep Academy can do for you so that
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when you show up in your very first flight interview, you can
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convey exactly who you are, what you value, the team player you
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are, and you can leave that interview thinking.
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That was a lot easier than I thought.
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And that's the level of confidence that I can provide
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for you in my process and in my program.
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OK. One thing that I want to start
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with today as I want to talk about a belief flight plan and
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creating that. This is kind of been a
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discussion and ongoing thing that I coach on inside the
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Flight Prep Academy and I'm always wanting to bring you
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topics that I know are relevant and that a lot of the people
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inside my programs are dealing with.
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One for an extension for the people who are currently working
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with me to elaborate more on what we're coaching on.
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And then two or so for those of you guys who aren't inside my
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program to get a little bit of value from that as well.
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And hopefully it can help you along in your process.
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And hopefully you will come and join us so that you can get the
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full picture and the full five step process of getting to
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flight with the support. But one thing that I felt like I
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wanted to mention before we got started as well is I in the 6
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1/2, seven years that I flew, I trained a lot of new flight
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medics and a lot of new flight nurses and they got there and
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they got hired. But a lot of them didn't make it
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through orientation. And it wasn't about time and
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experience that didn't have that.
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They obviously that they didn't make it through because they got
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hired, but it was because they didn't have the mindset and they
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let the doubt and the fear overcome them while they learn
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to learn new skills, new protocols, a new job, be a
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beginner again. And they failed out because of
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the mindset and the doubt and the fear taking over them.
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And so one thing that I told the Flight Prep Academy group this
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week in our weekly coaching call was that everything, all the
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fears, all of the weaknesses that are coming up for you
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before flight will be magnified 10X after getting hired.
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So if you can work through them now, if you can develop the
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tools and see them now instead of ignoring them, then once you
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get hired in a flight, when those weaknesses become
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magnified, when the doubts become magnified, you will have
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the exact tools in your tool belt to take out, utilize and
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help you to create success. Once those are 10X magnified.
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And, and I just want to reiterate that everything that
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you are facing now is going to be what you're going to face as
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a flight nurse. And it might be at a different
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level and again, it might be magnified.
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But if you can learn how to navigate this now for yourself,
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then that's what creates a successful flight nurse
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afterwards. Because being coming a flight
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nurse will require you to become a whole different person.
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It will require you to create all new beliefs about yourself.
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So that's what we're going to talk about today is a belief
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flight plan. I want to start out with the
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question, what are your thoughts of getting into flight early?
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OK, when I say early before the three years, my coach, my
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mindset coach offered that to me this week when she was talking
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about a goal that I'd set for myself for this year.
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She didn't say what are your thoughts of getting to the goal?
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She said, what are your thoughts of getting to the goal early?
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When you add the early to the end, it flushes out a lot of
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more thoughts and a lot more doubts.
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And so normally I ask this question of what are your
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thoughts of getting to flight and rate it one out of 10.
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But I'm going to ask this a little bit differently.
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If you were under the three years, if you're over the three
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years, what are your thoughts of getting to flight 1 out of 10/1?
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Being I don't feel confident at all.
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There's no way 10 being I got this no matter what, no matter
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how long it takes, no matter what I got to do.
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If you are under the three years, I want to offer you this
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sentence. What are your thoughts of
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getting to flight early? One out of 10 early meaning
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before the three years. There is a reason why I've
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helped people get hired at the one year, 2 year, 2 1/2 years
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prior to the three years prior to the requirements.
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And it is simply this. It is because they have the
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belief in themselves and when they believe it, the companies
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and the flight crews will too. So it starts with you.
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And so I want you to rate this one out of 10/1 being I don't
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feel confident at all 10 being I got this no matter what, where
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are you? And then I want you to think
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about if it is less than a 10, tell me why.
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Write down all the reasons why your brain is offering you that
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it's not possible. Here are the common ones that I
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hear. I don't have enough time and
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experience. I don't know enough.
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I'm not smart enough. I don't know if this is what I
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really want. And all of these are normal
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thoughts, but we need to flush them out so that we can see them
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instead of ignoring them and that we can create thoughts and
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beliefs that we can answer our brain back.
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The key to success for anybody is what goes on between your two
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ears. It it's like the powerful
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thoughts and beliefs that you can create for yourself inside
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your head. Our thoughts and our brain can
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be our worst enemy. And, and all of you guys I know
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have experienced this. And so really getting to flight
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is yes, about strategy. And I teach you the strategy
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inside my programs, but it also is about what are the and
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beliefs that you create for yourself because you can know
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the strategy and the beliefs can't be there.
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And that's going to stop you every time or that's going to
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get you hired. But have you fail out of
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orientation? And I know also a lot of you
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guys are just thinking about getting hired in a flat and
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getting an offer. What's more important is
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transitioning confidently into the role because that's where I
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saw a lot of people fail out. So when you come to work with
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me, I am really talking to you about who's the future.
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You already as a flight nurse, what are the beliefs that you've
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created about yourself so that when you do get that offer,
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you're already able to be that person.
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You know who that person is. You've been living that person,
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so becoming her or him is easier and that's why you transition
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more confidently. OK, so flesh out why you are not
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a 10. What are all the thoughts that
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are holding you back from being a 10?
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And this is the next question that I want to offer you to
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navigate this. What are the beliefs you will
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have to get you, you have to have about yourself to get into
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flight. And my coach said to me this
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week this and I want to share with you because this is so
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powerful as well your current brain that you have right now,
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your current brain and thoughts are not the ones that will get
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you there. OK, I'm going to repeat that.
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Your current brain and thoughts are not the ones that will get
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you there because your brain will try to base it on past
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experiences. It will tell you, well, I've
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never done this before, so how can I be thinking that?
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How can I believe, be believing that the brain of the future you
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who has already got there and her thoughts and her beliefs,
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those are the ones that are going to get you there.
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So if you're trying to muster up from your current brain
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thoughts, that's going to be hard.
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We have to spend time with the future you.
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We have to spend time with the you who has already gotten into
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flight, who has already arrived, who has gotten the offer, who
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has transitioned into the role. So if we go to her, him and you
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as a flight nurse or flight paramedic and that one who's
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already transitioned in the role, clocking into your shift
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everyday, working with your team of three, getting on that
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helicopter and completing your missions and your calls, what is
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that person thinking and believing about you?
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What does that person believe about their patient care?
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What does that person believe about their critical thinking
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skills? What does that person believe
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about how they handle critical patients?
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Write all of those things down. Some examples might be I'm
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capable. I'm going to always figure this
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out no matter how hard it gets. I got me and my team's got me.
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I will trust myself in hard situations.
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I know how to navigate hard situations.
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I know how to adapt, overcome and continue to evaluate and do
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that for my patient and my team. What are all those thoughts that
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the future flight nurse is thinking on a daily basis when
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they're clocking in? Write those all down.
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This becomes your belief flight plan.
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I'm giving you the strategy. Map out your plan.
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Start doing ride alongs, making connections with flight
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companies and prep confidently for flight interviews.
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That's the strategy to get to flight.
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That's it. And notice in there, there's
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nothing about time and experience.
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That's how I'm getting people hired at the 1-2 year, 2 1/2
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year mark. What will get you there is your
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belief flight plan. So write down all of these
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beliefs and thoughts that you as a flight nurse or flight
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paramedic are thinking about yourself, your critical thinking
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skills, how you deal with critical patients, your patient
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care. I'm going to write all those
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down. This is who you want to become
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today. The quicker you can get on board
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with this belief flight plan and believing this about yourself,
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the quicker you will get there. When you believe it, like
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companies will believe it too. You will be able to convey it
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easier. You won't pull back, you'll push
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forward, forward. What happens when you don't
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believe in yourself is you pull back.
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You have thoughts of I'm I'm being annoying.
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I don't want to pester to them. I don't want to bother them.
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But when you have a belief plan and you believe those thoughts,
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you're playing out 100%. I know this, I see this.
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When you believe it, you give it your all.
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When you don't believe it, you pull back and you, you silently
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have those thoughts. I'm being annoying, I'm
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pestering them, I'm being too much.
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And you always want to be putting your your your best foot
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forward. So in this belief flight plan,
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these are thoughts now that you want to take and you want to
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practice every day. So when your brain offers you,
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I'm not good enough, you offer it back.
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I'm going to figure it out and I can do hard things because
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that's what the flight nurse you is thinking.
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And then you want to take this belief, flight plan, all these
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beliefs that you know that you're going to be thinking as
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that future flight nurse. And you want to apply this to
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every shift that you go into. So now you're going into your
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shifts in critical care, whether it's ERICU, you're thinking,
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hey, if I'm not flight nurse, what am I thinking?
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What am I believing about each and every one of these
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situations? And what you will find and what
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people in my group now are finding is the more you practice
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that, the more you become that person to stepping into that
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interview. And then once you get into that
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interview, you just already believe you're meant for it.
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You already believe you're doing it because you have been doing
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it and you have been practicing it.
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It will be quicker the more you believe in you others being
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flight companies, your mentors and coaches that are helping you
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get there and the process. So I'm going to say this again,
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it's a triple threat with these three things.
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It will be quicker you getting to flight the more you believe
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in, one, you two other people, which includes companies or your
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mentors and coaches helping you get there.
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And three, the process, which means the strategy that you take
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to get there. So I'm going to talk about each
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of those for just a second. First one, believing in you.
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That means believing in your capability to do hard things.
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What are the thoughts that help you do that and create belief in
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you? You've wrote some of those down,
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probably on your belief flight plan, but I'm going to offer you
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a couple that I think are really useful for me and might be
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useful for you too. I am capable.
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I know that this sounds so simple, but I have to tell
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myself this a lot. I am capable, I am smart, I can
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figure it out. The second thing is your belief
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in others, which includes the companies, which means believe
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in them as an entity, that they value what you value.
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I see a lot of nurses not believing in the company that
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they work for. And I think that this is really
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key in creating beliefs for yourself and creating success is
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believing in the company that you're going to be working for,
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Believing in flight. Companies in general believe
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that what they value is what you value.
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And then the second part of this is believing others is believing
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in your mentors and your coach, trusting them to guide you in
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the right direction. Whether it's inside my program
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or you have another mentor, you have another coach, I highly,
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highly, highly advise having one.
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That's what I has created a lot of success for me.
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That's what helps you level up. That's what also helps you see
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your own crap and not be afraid to call it out because they're
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maybe not your closest friend or family member and want to just
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give it to you nicely. And they're also the person
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that's going to help you overcome obstacles, prevent you
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from having obstacles and making mistakes that they know you will
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make. So prevent those mistakes ahead
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of time. So the second part is believing
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in others, the company that you, the company, the fight companies
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and the mentor and coach, trusting them to guide you in
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the right direction, that the plan that they have given before
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you is the one that's going to get you there and believing in
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that plan. OK, the third part is, and I've
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alluded to this a little bit, I mean, I'm not believing in the
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plan, but believing in the coach and the mentor.
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The third part is believing in the plan, which is the process
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you want to believe in you, one of you want to believe in
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others, the flight companies and your mentors.
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And the third part is you want to believe in the process.
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And this is a plan you have made for yourself to get there, or
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this is a plan that your mentors and coaches have helped you
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create and develop to to get there.
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You need to believe in the process.
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Because if you don't believe in the process, you don't commit to
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the process. You're going to be all over the
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place. You're going to be stuck.
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You're going to be wavering. You're going to be not
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committing. You're going to be undecided.
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Commit to the process and the plan that you have made or your
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coaches have made for you to get there.
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When all these things come together, something magical
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happens. You become the person who can
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work for any company, on any aircraft, with any pilot and any
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team. But it has to start with belief
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in yourself. This is the key to all three of
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these other things. It's start and that's why I list
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you first. Your belief flight plan is the
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key 1st one example that I want to give to you is that the
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company that I flew for had this opportunity and I I don't know,
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this might be true for other flight companies.
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I'm not sure just because I only worked for one.
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But when there was like a national disaster, they would
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call out any clinicians who would be willing to work
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overtime to fly with any team pilot aircraft to how help like
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mitigate the situation or take patients in and out of a
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hospital to another hospital or whatever was needed for critical
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patients and movement of hospitals or getting patients
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from the areas and taking them to a higher level of care.
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And I remember there was lots of times in my career of flying
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where there were national disasters, hurricanes, floods,
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things like that. And I always volunteered to be a
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part of those teams. If they were, we were never
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called or I was never called out or needed.
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But I felt like I could do that because I had a high confidence
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that no matter who I worked with, no matter what aircraft I
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stepped in, if it was even an airframe I've never been in, and
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no matter what pilot or team I had, we would confidently get
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the job done. And I could only feel that way
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because I trusted me. I believed in me.
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I believed in my capability. And I took that into a lot of
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situations because there will be times that maybe your partner or
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someone you wouldn't hang out with outside of work, maybe
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they're not someone that exactly you guys share the same values.
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But what's really important is that you become the person that
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is workable and is easy and adaptable with any partner, any
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pilot, any aircraft, in any situation.
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And when you learn to believe in yourself and have that deep
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level of trust, then your circumstances no longer matter.
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I just hear so many people, even outside of flight, be like, I
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can't do this job because my manager is terrible.
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I can't do this job because the hospital's terrible.
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And while all those things might be true, when you become the
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person who believes in themselves, circumstances don't
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matter. And in flight, this becomes
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really important because you have to constantly be dynamic.
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You have to constantly be adaptable.
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Your patient might change. The treatment plan might not go
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as planned. Once, twice, three times.
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Your situation might change. You might get a patient and then
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weather comes in and then you got a ground six hours.
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No matter what, you got to get the patient there.
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You might have to switch aircraft three times I to do
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that 11 call and so you have to become the person who believes
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in the outcome, who believes that you will give the best
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patient care and that comes with these three beliefs starts with
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belief in yourself, belief in others, the company, your
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mentors or coaches and belief in the process that you have
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created for yourself and I really.
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Knew that I could take me in any situation and I trusted my gut
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and my intuition to lead and guide me in situations that the
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answers might not be clear. And I created this by creating a
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deep belief in myself. And this doesn't mean that I
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didn't have doubt or fear. I I had doubt and fear on every
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call that I ran. But this just means that I'm
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always taking me with me. And that's the level of belief
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that you want to start to create for yourself now as soon as you
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want flight. I want to end with saying I'm
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hearing more and more from people that listen to this
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podcast that they've been listening every week, which I
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love because in the last three months, I've been trying to make
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weekly content that I really think is relevant and will help
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you. And if you found value in
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continue to support and you have the opportunity to tap into it
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any day, any time of the week. And you can see the member
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portal whenever you want to get access as well.
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This will make a difference. And so I want to offer if you
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found value in listening to it weekly, come get even more value
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so that you can put the pieces together.
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And if you need help creating your belief flight plan and you
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want the strategy piece as well as what I teach inside the
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You're going to get access inside the member portal, which
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is going to have the five step process and the interview prep
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course with as long with along with other courses as well.
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And then we there's a weekly coaching call component where we
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talk about your plan. We coach about your plan.
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We coach about the doubts, the fears, the mindset, the
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obstacles that come up. All the replays are available
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inside the member portal as well.
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If you can't make it live. And then the biggest thing is
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the community. You're going to get access to
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the community through a community group chat 24/7.
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Anytime you need it to for support or to tap in or you have
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questions or an obstacle comes up for you, you can tap into
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that community group chat. You're not just getting me,
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you're getting the whole community.
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And there's also flight nurses and flight medics that have
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already helped transition into flight in there too.
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So that's great. I want to offer you if you're
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listening to that this week when it comes out, if you hear this
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You want to take your flight resume with you no matter where
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you're at, even if you're in nursing school so that you can
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start to do ride alongs so that flight companies will look at
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And that's not going anywhere. That is going to continue, but
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I'm ready to do general life coaching for healthcare workers
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and any first responder. I want to open up these tools of
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coaching to this entity of people.
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I feel like we are a our own breed.
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There's things that we see, things that we do that the other
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people don't understand. And for a long time, I let that
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mean a lot about me. And I felt myself pulling away
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and I felt my relationships diminishing.
24:17
And there were really hard calls where there was weeks and months
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where I just secluded myself. And once I found coaching, I
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learned the tools that really helped me build confidence both
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on and off the job. I was super confident on the
24:32
job, but when I left the job and I came home, I felt like my home
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life was entitled in or I felt like I couldn't unwind, if that
24:41
makes sense. And I felt myself pulling back
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from relationships and people. And I'm creating this new
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healthcare worker and 1st responder group that includes
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anybody in those classifications.
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And I'm going to give you more information on that as time
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comes. But that offer and group is
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going to be opening up for enrollment next month in
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November. If you have been following me
25:05
and you want to create more confidence both on and off the
25:10
job and learn also how to create big things in your life, stay
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tuned, Join my e-mail list and be the first one to know when
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open enrollment opens next month in November.
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That's it for this week. Thanks you guys for joining me
25:25
on this episode and I'll see all of you guys next week.
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Bye. If anything in this episode
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sparked your interest into getting into flight, come join
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my Flight Pet group. We are an entire community that
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meets together on a weekly basis with an ongoing group chat.
25:39
And if you are already flying and you are currently a flight
25:41
nurse or flight medic, you can join my all flight clinician
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group as well. You can click on the link to
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join in the show notes or you can DM me on Instagram.
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I hope to see all of you guys inside.