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114. 3 Things I Wish I Knew Before Going For Flight · The Shift Podcast

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Welcome to Frontline Static, we will get to hear interviews with
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some of my clients journeys of getting into flight and how they
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utilize coaching to help them create success of getting hired
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with less confusion and more ease.
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Make your dream a reality of getting into flight.
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Listen in as you hear some of the stories of the people
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getting there and come join the flight prep group.
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Hey guys, welcome to this Instagram live.
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I wanted to do something a little bit different for you
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guys as I'm recording this week's podcast episode.
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This week's podcast episode, I am titling the three things I
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wish I knew when I was starting to get to flight.
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I was thinking this week as I was thinking about the theme for
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the podcast episode, what would be something that I wish that I
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could tell my pre flight nurse self and all the students that
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I'm currently working with and all the ones that want to get
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into flight that are going to help you create momentum to get
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there. Three things that I wish I would
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have known and someone would have told me while I was trying
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to get into flight nursing. So I'm going to talk about what
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those three things are today on this live and this is going to
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also drop as a episode this week, but I thought it would be
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fun to do both of these simultaneously.
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So for those of you guys who are joining me who I haven't met
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before, my name's Janessa. I'm a flight nurse and flight
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paramedic coach. I run an entire program that
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helps nurses and medics that want to get into flight get
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there. I take you through a five step
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process that I've created that has helped people get on track
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and get hired in flight in a shorter amount of time.
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In fact, I've been running it the last almost four years now,
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and I'm helping people cut their time virtually in half of
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getting into flight. This is the mentorship, the
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program, the things that I wish someone would have told me while
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I was trying to get into flight. And so I want to just share a
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couple of those things with you guys today and the three
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pertinent things that that I wish I would have known and that
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I share with my students today and the people inside of my
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program. And for those of you guys who
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want to get into flight, I really just want to share this
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wisdom with you guys as well. So I want to start out by saying
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if flight has been on your mind and you felt unsure, under
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qualified or have thoughts or feelings of I don't, I don't
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know if I'm enough. I don't know if I have the
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confidence. I don't know if I have the time
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and experience. I don't know if I'll ever feel
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like I have enough. And for those of you guys who
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think, oh, I have to be 100% confident before getting there,
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I want you to know you're not alone.
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I want to also let you know that those same thoughts do not go
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away once you get hired. Those are thoughts and things
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that I still continue to help my flight nurses and flight medics
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work through because imposter syndrome is something that is
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always gonna be there with you. Doubt is something that is
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always gonna be there with you. That's why the most common
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mistake that I see people make is waiting to feel 100%
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confident before going to this goal.
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And I am really going to show you today and talk to you today
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a little bit about starting to take actions and what actions to
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start taking towards this goal right now that are going to move
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you forward. I want to start out by
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ingraining and telling you guys that you belong here.
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If you know that you want flight nursing or flight paramedicine,
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you belong in this career. And I just wish that someone
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would have told me that earlier on, that you can believe in this
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goal before you've even done it, that you can start to really
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work towards it and feel like it's obtainable before you do
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it. You can have the confidence and
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start to grow the confidence of getting to this goal before
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obtaining it. And I just want to offer you
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like if you've had this thought, I knew that I wanted to get into
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flight as soon as nursing school.
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And if flight nursing or flight paramedicine has been the thing
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that you have wanted to create ever since you started your
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nursing journey or your EMT or medic journey, know that really
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that thought was created for you for a reason and you are meant
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to be doing this job. So I just want to offer you a
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couple thoughts before we get started and I share with you the
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three things that I wish someone would have told me.
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One is you belong here, you are enough and flight companies are
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looking for who you are, what you value and the team player
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you are. They really are not looking for
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time and experience. And I'm going to touch on that a
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little bit today throughout this episode and throughout this this
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training with you guys. So the first thing that I wanted
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to share with you guys was a little bit about my story.
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It took me 4 years of working medical surgical ICU before I
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decided to apply. And for most like companies in
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the United States, it's only three years, either ICU or ER
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experience. Now it does not matter if it's
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rural bed level, on what type of specialty, ERICU, it doesn't
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matter. And they don't want both.
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And I'm going to talk about that a little bit in this life as
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well. But it took me 4 years of
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working ICU before applying. And let me tell you why it took
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me an additional year and why I didn't get in it at the three
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years. And it was only because I didn't
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have this belief in myself, I thought I had to be 100%
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confident about this goal. I thought that I needed to make
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myself look better. And that extra time that it
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really took me to get on board with it was time that I was
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taking away from eventually getting into flight.
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And so I just want to offer you earlier on to start building
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that belief for yourself. That's really what we're doing
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inside of my program is starting to build the belief and then
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also starting to learn how to take that imposter syndrome and
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that doubt with you while working towards this.
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The only difference between people making it and the ones
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who don't are the ones who map out their plan and the ones who
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are starting to learn how to take imposter syndrome and out
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with them and still continue to take action.
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Because once you get into flights, your imposter syndrome
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and your doubt will be 10X. And it doesn't mean you have to
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be 100% confident. It just means you have to grow
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the capacity to become the person who can have doubt and
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still take action anyway. Who can have doubt and still run
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the mission and the call. And so I'm really gonna teach
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you how to start building that belief for yourself.
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The other thing that was a major factor for me to really push
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play and eventually go for it after four years of working ICU
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was I had a major death in my family.
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My brother died all of a sudden from an addiction.
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And I realized like life was so short to be just wondering, am I
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good enough? And wondering, do I want to keep
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working towards this goal or am I going to just go for it
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eventually? And I could just feel this pull
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of like, this is my time, this is when I need to seize the day,
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this is when I need to just go for it.
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And that major life event was, was what really changed it for
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me to really just take the next step and go.
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And one thing that I want to offer you guys with this is that
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a lot of you guys think that you need to have your family on
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board. You're, and this might be a
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little bit triggering for some of you guys who are going to
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hear this, but a lot of you guys have this thought.
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I have to have my family on board.
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I have to have my best friends on board.
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I have to have my spouse on board.
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I have to have my kids on board. And I want to offer you, you are
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the one who is going for this goal.
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You are the one who has to be on board.
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When I wanted to go for this goal, so I didn't 100% have my
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husband on board, my kids on board, my family.
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I remember my parents didn't want me to do it or my best
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friends that I worked with. And that was the first time that
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I realized I have to hold the belief for them.
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And there is a lot of courage that is required with that
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because as you level up, as you continue to grow in these ways,
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both in your nursing career and personally, the people that you
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hope will go with you don't always go with you.
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And I think some of you guys will hold you back is the belief
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that everybody needs to be in your corner before you go for
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it. But I just want to offer you,
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you have to be in your corner. You have to hold the belief, you
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have to believe it for everybody else because you're the one
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doing it, you're the one going through it, you're the one
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striving for it. And so I, I wanted to share that
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with you guys that not everybody was on board in my life that I
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wanted to be on board with me and going for this goal.
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And that was OK. And so hold the belief for
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yourself and for everyone else. OK, so let's start in.
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These are the three things that I wish someone would have told
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me as I was getting into flight. Number one, start mapping out
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your plan as soon as you know you want flight.
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I get asked the most when should I start working towards this
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goal? I say as soon as you want it.
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So if you know you want it in nursing school, if you know you
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want it pre nursing school, that's when you want to start
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mapping out your plan. I created a road map where there
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are things that you want to be working on every step of the
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way, no matter where you're starting.
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And so knowing what your plan is is so important because if
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you're anything like me and you're a doer and you make a
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like to make a long list of things to do, you're going to
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want to hustle and overwork to get there.
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And having a plan will keep you on track and not hustle and
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overwork. It's going to keep your To Do
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List very short. So you know what it is that you
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need to be working towards every month, every year leading up to
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this goal and what things that you want to take out.
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Because as you're getting to this big goal, this doesn't mean
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you let it take over your life. This means you live your life
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and you work towards the school at the same time.
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So having a mapped out plan is really important because it's
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going to prevent you as a doer for doing a bunch of different
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things and hustling and overworking.
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It will also help you cut out the fluff.
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A major thing that I did and I see a lot of people do is chase
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a lot of departments and chase a lot of time and experience.
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And this will help you not do that and stay on track because
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most flight companies do not require certification anymore.
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So you don't even need your CN or CCRN.
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People even ask me should I get my CFRN?
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I say always wait because a flight company is going to pay
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for your CFRN and they're going to pay for your study materials.
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I'm going to go over like time and experience next and the next
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lesson that I wish I knew. But mapping out your plan and
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doing it as soon as you want flight is imperative.
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It's about having a plan. It's not about having time and
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experience. So you want to know every step
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of the way what you're working on so that you can stay on track
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and not hustle and not overwork. OK #2 The second thing that I
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wish someone would have told me as I was trying to get to flight
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is focus on making connections, doing ride alongs, and
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leadership within the department that you're working.
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People think that it's all about time and experience and building
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your resume to get to flight. Flight companies are not looking
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for time and experience. There is a reason why flight
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companies only require three years of ER or ICU time.
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Now the reason why focusing on ride alongs and making
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connections is so important is because you want to do this as
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soon as you want flight. You want to start doing ride
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alongs as soon as you're in nursing school.
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I actually recommend and I teach the people inside my program to
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be doing 6 to 8 ride alongs a year.
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And the reason one why this is so important is because getting
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into flight is all about making connections.
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So as soon as you do ride alongs and you're making connections
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with flight companies, they know, hey, Janessa wants flight
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nursing. She's going to be there in three
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years. She's we need to start focusing
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on her. And every time she does a ride
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along with her, we're going to start thinking about her being
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on our team. And so This is why ride alongs
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are so important. Yeah, you need the three years
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of ERICU, but you want to be doing these ride alongs and
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making connections ongoing with multiple flight companies and
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dating multiple flight companies.
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Meaning you want to be doing as many ride alongs and making
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connections with flight companies multiple times, even
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with the same ones as you can. Because this is eventually
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what's going to get you an interview and this is what's
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going to get you a seat at the table.
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And so if you're waiting to do ride alongs and make
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connections, so you hit the three-year mark, that is too
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late. I'm seeing flight companies now
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interview people 18 months to two years in advance.
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Meaning if they like you, they're going to start
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interviewing you a year and a half to two years prior to when
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you can get hired or prior to when they're hiring people.
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They're creating rosters of people.
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And so this is for people who know that they want flight.
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You need to be starting to do these ride alongs and making
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connections early on from the time that you know you want
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flight. The second part of this is
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building leadership in ER or ICU.
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So a common question that I get is, is ER better or is ICU
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better to flight? And I tell people, steer
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yourself towards ER or ICU depending on which one you're
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more more interested in. One is not better than the
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other. And it also does not matter if
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you work a rural bed ERICU or a level 1 ERICU.
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Flight companies are looking for everything in between and not
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just level 1. The most common mistake that I
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see people make is bouncing around from department to
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department or chasing level 1 experience.
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That's the worst thing that you can do.
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Flight companies are not wanting people who are bouncing around,
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they're wanting people who are most likely going to stay in one
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department. The reason for this is because
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they are really looking at leadership qualities where
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you've gone above and beyond your staff position.
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What committees have you been in?
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What fill in leadership have you done?
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Fill in chart, fill in RT? What trainings have you helped
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roll out? Have you been a super user for
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anything? These are the candidates that
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they're looking for and so you don't want to focus on time and
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experience. You want to stay in one
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department, grow your leadership qualities and do as many ride
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alongs and making connections as you can.
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I teach you exactly how to do this inside the Flight Prep
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Academy. OK #3 The third thing I wish
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someone would have told me as I was trying to get to flight.
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Get a mentor, get a coach, get support.
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The reason why I think that this I, I've created so much success
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in my nursing career is I've always had a mentor of, of
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someone of where I wanted to be. So when I was in nursing school,
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I got a mentor of a nurse, a critical care nurse.
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When I became an ICU nurse, I got a mentor of someone who's a
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critical care nurse for 15 years.
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When I became a flight nurse, I, I got a mentor of someone who
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was a flight nurse. And so mentorship support is
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really important to level up. There's a couple reasons for
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this. One, they're not going to let
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you go out alone. I think it's really important to
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have someone who understands what you're going through that
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you can vent to and that will also point out your crap.
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That person that can be like, no, like this is some critical
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feedback that I want to give you.
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And they know what you're feeling, where you've came from,
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they know where you're going, what obstacles that you might
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face. And they're also helping you
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face prevent yourself from making the same common mistakes
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that a lot of people make. And so as your coach and as a
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flight coach specifically, I know the common mistakes people
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are making and I don't want you to get stuck making the same
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ones. These are the mistakes that I
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see people pull back, quit ahead of time and not get to flight.
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So that's why I think this third lesson of having a mentor,
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having a support group, having a community is so important.
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Mentorship gives you direction too.
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It gives you accountability, and it also helps you not quit.
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I really have this belief that 90% of people don't get to
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flight because they don't have the support of not having
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someone let them quit. I think accountability is so
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important in having a coach because some people want to rely
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on friends and family to give them that support.
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And I just don't think when you're going for a professional
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goal like this, you can rely on your friends and family.
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Most of the time. They, I mean, aren't in
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healthcare. None of my friends and family
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were in healthcare, so they didn't understand what I was
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facing. And also they're not they're
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they're not going to give you point out critical feedback.
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They love you so much and want to support you so much that
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they're always going to give you pleasantries and nice things.
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Oh, you're doing so well. Hang in there.
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A coach and a mentor specifically like myself.
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I'm going to tell you exactly where I see you going wrong so
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that you can get yourself back on track, you can evaluate, you
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can get back up. You can not quit and you can go
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at it again. One big common thing that I talk
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about with my clients a lot is I'm not willing to listen to you
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unless you're playing inside the arena.
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Meaning a lot of people just think that they need to have all
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their friends and family on board and all this support and
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feel heavily confident before going for this goal.
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But the problem with that and the problem with being afraid, I
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think another common thing that I see is people don't want to
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tell other people that they're going for this goal because
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they're afraid they're going to fail or they're afraid of what
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people's reactions are going to be, that they might not be on
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board with them. And so when I give you like this
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thought, it's important to have a mentor and a coach, it's
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because we are playing in the arena for you.
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Meaning sometimes our brains very much go to people pleasing
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and wanting the support of people who are sitting in the
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Coliseum. And when I say playing in the
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arena, I want to listen to the people who are standing,
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fighting in the arena with me. And that's what a coach and a
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mentor is gonna do for you is they're playing in the arena
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with you. So I'm not willing to listen to
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anyone who's not playing in that arena with me because lots of
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people are going to have their thoughts and their opinions.
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And this is what having a mentor and a coach is really going to
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do for you. OK, so I just want to recap, and
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I'm going to get to some of these questions that you guys
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are asking, too. But I want to just recap the
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three things that I wish I would have known when I was trying to
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get to fly and that I really teach you inside my program.
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One, map out your plan earlier on as soon as you know so you
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want flight, that's when you want to start mapping out your
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plan so that you can stay on track and you can not hustle and
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overwork #2 focus on ride alongs and making connections with
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flight companies right away. You want to start doing 6 to 8 a
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year. I teach you exactly how to ask
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for them and how to do them anywhere in the United States
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inside my program. You also want to focus on your
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leadership qualities inside the unit that you're working in.
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So ERICU and not jumping around. You want to work ER or ICU and
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stay in one department. Doesn't matter if it's World
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Bed. Doesn't matter if it's a level
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1. They need nurses all in between.
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Don't just chase level 1 #3 get a mentor and a coach.
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You do not want to go out this alone.
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You go out alone, you're going to quit.
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Inside the Flight Prep Academy, I not only give you weekly
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coaching, but you have a community private group chat
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where you can tap into support either personally or
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professionally 24/7. It's so pivotal, so important to
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be in a supportive community and group with people who are
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working towards the same goal. It's really important to have
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that type of support because they're are not going to let you
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quit and they know exactly what you're going through and you do
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not feel alone in some of these thoughts and feelings that
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you're having. So those are the three things
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you do not have to feel confident before you start going
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for this goal. I see a lot of people wait for
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that to feel ready. You will never feel ready once
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you get hired in the flight. You still won't feel ready.
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And so it's really just deciding to take action before then
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decide you belong in this industry.
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This dream that was placed in your heart was placed there for
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a reason. And I.
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I can confidently tell you with all of the people that I've
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helped get hired and myself for flying for seven years to clock
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into a job or you feel fulfilled and you feel like what this is
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what you are meant to be doing. And you walk in with this level
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of autonomy, fees, level of skills and to be working with
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the best of the best is just something that you cannot
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recreate. And you will know if you are not
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living up to your full potential.
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If you feel burnt out in your current job and you feel
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unfulfilled and you still have thoughts of what if, if that is
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you and you know you want flight, come join us inside the
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Flight Prep Academy. Right now I am offering a bonus
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until this Saturday, July 19th. You're going to get a 20 minute
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bonus road map, one-on-one call with me.
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Meaning we're going to spend one-on-one time together
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building out your plan no matter where you are to get you on
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track as soon as you join the Flight Prep Academy.
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You do not have to do that before Saturday, the 19th.
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This Saturday you just have to join the program and then I send
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you a scheduling link where you can schedule out in the next
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couple months this 20 minute road map call.
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But this is where we're going to simplify your plan and build the
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belief together. Inside the Flight Prep Academy,
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you're going to get your exact process of how to get to flight.
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I cut out all the fluff. You don't have to Google
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anything. You don't have to ask anybody
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anymore. I have a five step process that
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I take you through that has gotten dozens of people hired
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into flight before their three-year time, three-year
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time. I actually just had four people
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in their recent couple months get hired at the 2 1/2 year mark
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and one at the one year mark. And that's because I am really
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just focused on cutting out all the fluff and just the five
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things that you want to be working on as you're getting to
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flight. So you're going to get the five
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step process inside a member portal that you can tap into
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anytime. You're also going to get weekly
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calls with me. So we meet together as a group
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every Tuesday. Everybody work shift work in
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this group. So you don't have to make it
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live to every call, but every call will be recorded and how
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inside the member portal for you to go back and watch any time
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together. So you're going to have that
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You want to go in and be fully prepared for these ride alongs
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because I am seeing them use this as a part of the interview
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scenarios. And then all of this you're
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So again, if you join by this Saturday the 19th, you're going
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podcast right now, you can also click on the show notes to find
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out more on how to join. I just want to end with if
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flight doesn't happen by waiting, OK, It happens by
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deciding. And this week, I just want to
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offer for you to decide to start taking action now towards this
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goal. This is the only difference
23:47
between the people who make it and the people who don't.
23:49
They're not the smartest, they're not the most
23:51
experienced. They're just the ones who have
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decided that they're going to start taking action on it now
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before they feel 100% confident. I'm going to go through and
23:59
answer some questions that I see on this live before we finish
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up. And after I'm doing that, if you
24:04
guys have any questions while I'm going through the comments,
24:07
if you want to put them in the question box below, I'm able to
24:10
get to them quicker as well. What experience is a travel ER
24:14
nurse? I'm not really sure where your
24:17
question is, if you're still on that, Sophia, if you wanna give
24:21
me more clarification, but I it doesn't matter that you've been
24:25
a travel ER nurse, You just need ER time.
24:27
So if that's in travel nursing, if that's in CCT nursing, I'm
24:32
seeing a lot of my nurses now come from travel experience or
24:35
critical care transport. And that's fine.
24:37
You just need three years critical care time.
24:39
So it can be ERICUCCT travel nursing, but it needs to be in
24:43
critical care. But again, if you want it, you
24:46
want to be starting to do these right alongs and making
24:48
connections as soon as you know that you want flight.
24:51
OK, someone asks how is scheduling as a flight nurse?
24:53
Really depends on the base, the company and where you live.
24:59
So there are companies where you do 24 hour shifts.
25:05
That's like the company I worked for.
25:06
We did 24 hour shifts. So we did 2 shifts a week.
25:09
I actually worked 124 on, had 124 off, worked my second 24 on,
25:14
and had five days off in a row. It was seriously like winning
25:17
the time lottery. I loved it.
25:19
It felt like I wasn't even working a full time job and I
25:21
had five days off in a row to spend with my four kids at home,
25:24
which was like the perfect job for me.
25:27
A lot of flight nurses decide to go back to school or work a
25:30
second job. That's when I decided to get my
25:32
BSN was when I became a flight nurse because I had so much more
25:35
time left and available. But you do not to have to have
25:41
your BSN prior to getting the flight.
25:43
You just need to have your associates.
25:45
Scheduling can also depend on if you take a travel flight
25:49
position. So they have travel flight
25:50
nurses where you may work like a seven days on and then have
25:55
14-14 days off. There's flight nurse positions
25:58
that are hospital based where you just do 312 hour shifts.
26:01
They're all pretty different, but I would say the majority of
26:05
them are 12 or 24 hour shifts. Another common question that I
26:10
get asked to is how much do flight nurses make?
26:12
And this is all dependent on where you live, the base in the
26:14
company you you work for. Just like regular nursing, it
26:18
depends on the state you live in, the hospital you work at.
26:21
But for the most part, I mean, I doubled my salary when I went
26:25
into flight and it was mostly because you're getting, I got
26:28
paid time and a half and double time for every shift that I
26:30
worked. Someone said advice for someone
26:35
in Canada. I know that I do have a couple
26:38
Canadian students that are in the flight prep Academy.
26:41
I know that Canada flight requirements are pretty much the
26:43
same. They're about three to five
26:45
years of ER or ICU experience. US is about 3 years.
26:50
So just really depends on what part of Canada that you live in.
26:55
But my process will still take you through the same process of
26:59
getting to flight as is required in Canada.
27:01
So good question. OK, that's all I see for the
27:04
questions. I just want to remind you guys
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of this bonus that I'm offering till Saturday.
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This is going till July 19th. It's a 20 minute one-on-one road
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map call where we're going to map out your plan.
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So if you join by Saturday, July 19th, you'll get an opportunity
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to book that one-on-one call with me.
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And no matter where you are starting, if you know that you
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want flight, decide now that you want to start taking action
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towards it. And if you know that you want
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flight nursing or flight paramedicine, join us inside the
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Flight Prep Academy. I'm going to help you create
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success all the way there. And I'm going to help you all
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the way to an offer with lifetime access.
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OK, that's it this week. Thanks guys.
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We'll talk to you later. Bye.
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