The Ambitious Nurse | Career Strategy for High-Performing Nurses Ready to Advance in Leadership

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67// How to Network as a Nurse (Even If You're an Introvert)

2026-09-2420:38

Here's something that surprises people: my last seven nursing jobs came from networking. Not from cold applications, not from perfectly timed job postings, but from relationships I built over time with people who knew my work. And here's the twist you might not expect: I'm an introvert. I would rather stay in my lane and do my work. So if networking has always felt awkward, transactional, or just not your thing, this episode is for you. This is part three of the Small Steps, Big Moves series,...

66// How to Align Your Nursing Career with Your Strengths & Values: A 5 Step Checklist

2026-09-1015:07

Last episode I gave you one tiny action to take, so before we dive in, I have to ask: did you do it? Whether you did or didn't, no judgment. This episode picks up right there and hands you a clear roadmap you can start today. Because here's the truth I've learned the hard way, with two master's degrees to show for it: education alone does not create career advancement. A plan and a strategy do. I walk you through a five step checklist to figure out what you actually want, what you're genuinel...

65// Why Tiny Steps Beat Big Plans: How Small Actions Build a Nursing Career

2026-08-2716:33

Here's something people don't believe when I tell them: I became president of my state nurses association, and it did not start with a big, dramatic decision. It started seven years ago with something almost embarrassingly small. I showed up to one convention meeting, then one regional event, then volunteered for one tiny committee right there in the space where I already worked. That's how real career growth happens. Not in the big cinematic moments, but in the small ones that feel like they...

64// Leadership, Dialogue, and Positioning: 3 Lessons From My First Year as Nurses Association President

2026-08-1523:59

I'm back. My last episode dropped in November 2025, right as I was stepping fresh into my presidency — and then life got busy in ways I couldn't have predicted. You don't really know the time and capacity you have until you're juggling all of it at once and have to recalibrate. So in this comeback episode, I catch you up on where I've been, what I've been building behind the scenes (a one-on-one coaching offer that goes deep into leadership positioning), and why so many of my conversations wi...

63// Voting as a Nurse: A Call to Action

2025-11-0415:03

I recorded this one live on Election Day, and I couldn't wait to get it out. It's my unscripted call to every nurse who's ever claimed the title "patient advocate" — and then stayed silent at the ballot box. It started in the simulation lab: a pediatric scenario with a baby admitted for hypoglycemia and a mother diluting formula to make it stretch. A scenario I'd written months earlier and run many times before. But during the debrief, one of my nurses connected it out loud to what's happenin...

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The Ambitious Nurse | Career Strategy for High-Performing Nurses Ready to Advance in Leadership