Nurse Wellness Podcast

🎙️ New voices. Meaningful conversations. A shared commitment to nurse wellness.Our advisory board members Natacha Cambell and Dr. Rosale Lobo recorded this video to introduce you to the new voices joining The Nurse Wellness Podcast: CT Nurse Wellness Project Edition! They’re bringing their perspectives, experiences, and passion for supporting nurses to conversations about protecting our well-being, using our voices, and taking steps to be our best, do our best, and give our best.

Listen to the episode, help us welcome Natacha and Dr. Rosale, and stay tuned for more conversations that keep nurse wellness front and center.🎧

Learn more about CT Nurse Wellness Project at at www.ctstatetofnursewellness.com

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What happens after we listen to nurses? We take action.

In this episode of Know the Data LIVE, we explore the CT Nurse Wellness Project Action Framework—our statewide response to what nurses and future nurses are telling us about their mental health, well-being, and workplace experiences.

The Action Framework moves the work beyond identifying the problem to building practical, sustainable solutions across Connecticut. We discuss the six initiatives designed to strengthen Capacity, Safety, and Connection:

• CT Nurse Mental Health & Well-Being Day
• Annual CT Nurses Mental Health & Well-Being Run/Walk™
• CT Nurse-Friendly Practices™
• WenWell® Circles
• CT Nurse Wellness Community
• The 8-Minute Conversation™

Each initiative creates another opportunity to make wellness visible, accessible, actionable, and embedded into the places where nurses and future nurses live, learn, work, and receive care.

The data told us where attention is needed. The Action Framework is how we begin responding—together.

Learn more, get involved, or explore bringing an initiative to your organization:

Website: www.ctstateofnursewellness.com
Email: [email protected]

Making Wellness the Standard of Care™.

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We collected the data. We listened to Connecticut nurses. Now the question is: What do we do with it?

In this episode of Know the Data LIVE, the CT Nurse Wellness Project explores how findings from the CT State of Nurse Wellness Survey are being translated from numbers into action.

We discuss how nurse voices can inform programs, partnerships, education, organizational practices, and statewide initiatives designed to strengthen nurse mental health, well-being, and workforce sustainability.

The data are not meant to sit in a report. They are a starting point for understanding where nurses need greater Capacity, Safety, and Connection—and for building solutions that respond to what nurses are actually telling us.

This is how we move from listening → learning → action.

Learn more about the CT Nurse Wellness Project and how you or your organization can get involved:

Website: www.ctstateofnursewellness.com
Email: [email protected]

Making Wellness the Standard of Care™ for nurses and future nurses across Connecticut.

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Know the Data LIVE is a CT Nurse Wellness Project podcast series that brings the CT State of Nurse Wellness Survey findings to life.

In each episode, we go beyond the numbers to explore what Connecticut nurses and future nurses are telling us about their mental health, well-being, workplace experiences, capacity, safety, connection, and ability to sustain themselves in the profession.

Through conversations with nurses, healthcare leaders, educators, and community partners, we examine what the data mean, why they matter, and how the CT Nurse Wellness Project is translating nurse voices into meaningful statewide action.

Know the data. Understand the experience. Be part of the action.

Learn more about the CT Nurse Wellness Project, explore our initiatives, and find ways to get involved:

Website: www.ctstateofnursewellness.com
Email: [email protected]

Making Wellness the Standard of Care™ for nurses and future nurses across Connecticut.

#CTNurseWellnessProject #KnowTheData #CTStateOfNurseWellness #CTNurses #NurseWellness #NurseMentalHealth #WenWell

One of the hardest parts of building something new is saying it out loud before you know exactly how it will happen.

In this episode, Dr. Wendy shares the fears, uncertainty, and courage behind publicly announcing the Connecticut Nurse Wellness Project—and why waiting for perfect confidence often keeps us from creating meaningful change.

You'll learn:

How fear shows up during big ideas

Why action creates clarity

The importance of public accountability

How courage grows through momentum

Connect with the movement:

📩 Join the CT Nurse Wellness Project Newsletter for exclusive updates, resources, and opportunities to get involved.

🌐 Visit: www.ctnursewellnessproject.org

▶️ Follow Dr. Wendy Garvin Mayo on YouTube for weekly conversations on nurse wellness, leadership, emotional intelligence, and building initiatives that transform healthcare. https://www.youtube.com/@drwendygarvinmayo

Every movement begins with a question.

In this season premiere, Dr. Wendy Garvin Mayo shares the moment she realized that traditional approaches to nurse wellness weren't enough. What started as one question became the vision for the first statewide nurse wellness initiative in Connecticut.

In this episode, you'll discover:

If you've ever felt called to create something bigger than yourself, this episode is for you.

Connect with the movement:

📩 Join the CT Nurse Wellness Project Newsletter for exclusive updates, resources, and opportunities to get involved.

🌐 Visit: www.ctstateofnursewellness.com

▶️ Follow Dr. Wendy Garvin Mayo on YouTube for weekly conversations on nurse wellness, leadership, emotional intelligence, and building initiatives that transform healthcare. https://www.youtube.com/@drwendygarvinmayo

If this trailer resonates with you, subscribe to the Nurse Wellness Podcast, leave a review, and share it with another healthcare professional who is ready to build something bigger than themselves.

The Nurse Wellness Podcast is back!

Over the past several years, you've watched the Connecticut Nurse Wellness Projectgrow—from an idea to the first statewide nurse wellness initiative in Connecticut. You've seen the milestones, the partnerships, the statewide survey, the national presentations, and the movement taking shape.

Now it's time to hear the story behind it.

In Season 2: Building a Movement, Dr. Wendy Garvin Mayo takes you behind the scenes to share exactly how the Connecticut Nurse Wellness Project came to life—the vision, the fear, the setbacks, the leadership lessons, and the strategies that transformed one idea into statewide action.

This isn't just the story of one initiative.

It's a blueprint for nurses and healthcare professionals who believe they can create meaningful change in healthcare.

Whether you're passionate about wellness, leadership, research, innovation, education, advocacy, or solving a problem in your own community, this season will inspire you to think bigger, lead with purpose, and build something that lasts.

New episodes drop every week.

Connect with the movement:

📩 Join the CT Nurse Wellness Project Newsletter for exclusive updates, resources, and opportunities to get involved.

🌐 Visit: www.ctnursewellnessproject.org

▶️ Follow Dr. Wendy Garvin Mayo on YouTube for weekly conversations on nurse wellness, leadership, emotional intelligence, and building initiatives that transform healthcare. https://www.youtube.com/@drwendygarvinmayo

If this trailer resonates with you, subscribe to the Nurse Wellness Podcast, leave a review, and share it with another healthcare professional who is ready to build something bigger than themselves.

Kris LeFebvre MSN, RN, NPD-BC, AOCN® works as an Oncology Clinical Specialist, at the national office of the Oncology Nursing Society. She works on a variety of educational and collaborative projects, including the ASCO/ONS Chemotherapy Administration Safety Standards, the Oral Chemotherapy Education Sheets, ONS Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Guidelines, and many ONS safe handling, international, and leadership initiatives. Kris has been an oncology nurse for more than 30 years, working clinically in the roles of staff nurse, nurse manager, and clinical nurse specialist in oncology and bone marrow transplant. She lives in western Massachusetts and began working at ONS in 2004.

Connect with Kris: [email protected]

Connect with Oncology Nursing Society: www.ons.org

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In this episode we interview Michelle G. Rhodes is the CEO of RNterprise ™ Academy, International Speaker and 8-time author who has a rich experience of 24 years in health care and Registered Nursing. Michelle is a Certified Executive Coach, Certified Mentor who has completed both the WellCoaches and Veterans Florida Entrepreneurship programs. which is why she can provide her clients with a nurse professional perspective. Inspired by her passion to help people realize their dreams and pursue bigger goals; Michelle founded RNterprise ™, where she offers personal development programs for nurses with the vision to create a national tribe of nurse entrepreneurs who coach, train, speak and write.

Contact Michelle G. Rhodes: https://www.michellerhodesonline.com/

Color of Wellness Magazine:http://www.ColorofWellness.co/

Color of Wellness Magazine Facebook Page: @ColorWellnessMag

Check out the The Color of Wellness Show Podcast launching on May 9th

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1. Download your FREE Mindfulness E-Book at stressblueprint.com/35

2. Follow the Nurse Wellness Podcast on Facebook and Instagram

3. Click the link to learn more about the Nurse Wellness Mentorship

4. Email Nurse Wellness Podcast at [email protected]

5. Background music produced by DNMbeats

Stephanie Wynn, Author, an IBD survivor and founder of the Stephanie A. Wynn Foundation, is passionate about patient advocacy for underserved African Americans and other marginalized (BIPOC)communities. Established in 2021 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, her foundation aims to eliminate healthcare and financial disparities faced by those suffering from Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, particularly Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease. 

Connect with Stephanie on:

Website: www.therestrn.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanieawynn

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/thesawfoundationinc/

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