NursePreneur Academy

When we have industry senior leaders leaving healthcare and changing careers to coaching, we have to get curious about it! Eva Storey did just that! With an impressive span of international senior director positions and a wealth of knowledge and experience, Eva made the leap.

In this episode, we meet the founder of Eva Storey Coaching and the host of the Real Nurse Story Podcast, Eva Storey! 

Eva has over 39 years of international nursing experience and has worked from being a clinician to becoming director of nursing and general manager in multiple healthcare institutions.

Eva shares her journey and experience with us, particularly the principles and values she embodied to achieve success. We learn how to be prepared to grab opportunities to further your career even if sometimes you haven’t figured out the “how” yet. Eva relates to us the power of mentorship and coaching and how it changed her life and enabled her to find herself on the path to moving forward.

We are so excited to have someone as experienced and energetic as Eva join us and give us wisdom and insights on navigating our way in our chosen nursing career! If you’re starting as a nursing graduate or believe you’re in a position to move forward in your nursing career, this episode is for you!

Key Takeaways: 

0:20 - Introducing Eva Storey

12:05 - Achieving without the How

15:00 - The Power of Mentorship

19:10 - Nursing Lack of Support

24:05 - Director of Nursing Experience

32:10 - Healthcare Leadership Coaching

41:05 - How Coaching Changed Your Life

51:15 - How to fix nursing culture and leadership?

51:55 - Advice to Younger Self

52:45 - What Are You Celebrating this Year?

🚀 Want to start your own nurse-led business with the skills you already got?

✅ Download the Bedside to Business Roadmap – a step-by-step launch guide for nurses ready to build an online income stream.

🎓 Watch the Make Nursing Optional Masterclass – discover the 6 steps to turn your nursing skills into a profitable business (without needing another certificate).

📲 Follow me on Instagram: @nursepreneuracademy

📩 Got an aha moment from this episode? I’d love to hear from you!

Email: [email protected]

If you’re a nurse who knows you’re made for more—and you’re craving bold conversations about building a freedom-based, impact-driven business using the skills you already have—The NursePreneur Podcast is for you.

You’ll love this show if you're already tuning into The NursePreneurs Podcast with Catie Harris for nurse entrepreneur spotlights, the Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley and Sara Fung for advocacy and raw honesty, The Nurse Break by Jackson Heilberg for real career stories, Scrubs and Stocks by Ellaine Maala for nurse wealth and investing, or Nurse John’s I Beg Your Pardon for comedic truth-telling from the bedside trenches.

Here, host Liam delivers behind-the-scenes strategy, belief-busting mindset shifts, and practical steps to help you build a soul-aligned nurse-led business—without needing another certificate to get started. This is the podcast for nurse entrepreneurs who are done waiting and ready to lead.

We, nurses, are no strangers to burnout! It may even feel like it's an inevitable part of our jobs as clinicians and caregivers. However, over the years, I have discovered that you can manage burnout and, in time, even harness it to help you find what you truly what to do in your career and come out to the other end of burnout with a whole new perspective.

Dex Randall, expert Burnout Coach, life coach, and certified master life coach, joins us in this episode to talk all about understanding the signs of impending burnout and recognizing if you’re in burnout! In our discussion, we discuss our predispositions and how internal and external forces contribute to burnout.

The goal is to transform from burnout to buoyancy and even beyond to achieve success and be passionate about your chosen profession. Understanding how burnout works and recognizing the stigma that goes along with it is essential. 

If you think you may be experiencing burnout right now, feeling exhausted, having trouble sleeping due to work and what's going on in your mind, or being overworked and overwhelmed, this episode is especially for you! 

Key takeaways:

0:35 – Introducing Dex Randall

1:40 – What is Burnout and Who Gets It?

3:50 – Signs of an impending burnout

5:20 – Recognizing if you’re in burnout

6:55 – Doing more doesn’t fix issues

8:00 – External world issues

10:25 – Preventing and Curing Burnout

15:30 – Managing Thoughts and Emotions

18:00 – Burnout to Buoyancy

20:25 – Impact of the stories you tell

23:00 – Burnout in men and women

25:00 – Managing the stigma 

29:15 – Experiencing burnout after overcoming it

🚀 Want to start your own nurse-led business with the skills you already got?

✅ Download the Bedside to Business Roadmap – a step-by-step launch guide for nurses ready to build an online income stream.

🎓 Watch the Make Nursing Optional Masterclass – discover the 6 steps to turn your nursing skills into a profitable business (without needing another certificate).

📲 Follow me on Instagram: @nursepreneuracademy

📩 Got an aha moment from this episode? I’d love to hear from you!

Email: [email protected]

If you’re a nurse who knows you’re made for more—and you’re craving bold conversations about building a freedom-based, impact-driven business using the skills you already have—The NursePreneur Podcast is for you.

You’ll love this show if you're already tuning into The NursePreneurs Podcast with Catie Harris for nurse entrepreneur spotlights, the Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley and Sara Fung for advocacy and raw honesty, The Nurse Break by Jackson Heilberg for real career stories, Scrubs and Stocks by Ellaine Maala for nurse wealth and investing, or Nurse John’s I Beg Your Pardon for comedic truth-telling from the bedside trenches.

Here, host Liam delivers behind-the-scenes strategy, belief-busting mindset shifts, and practical steps to help you build a soul-aligned nurse-led business—without needing another certificate to get started. This is the podcast for nurse entrepreneurs who are done waiting and ready to lead.

As a proud Nursepreneur myself, let me be the first to say that there's a whole wide world out there in the business world for nurses such as us! And who better to tell us all about it than the person who has inspired thousands of nurses to find their passions and build businesses around them, the founder of Nursepreneurs.com, Catie Harris!

In this episode, Catie shares her story with us, from her early struggles to her making significant waves in the nursepreneurship scene and changing lives. We'll learn the role failure plays in our journeys and how consistency can help us achieve our goals.

Nursepreneurship is a game changer for many nurses who may feel stuck in their careers as clinicians with little to no option to change. If you're dreaming of something bigger and want to explore the wonders of business as a nursepreneur, this episode is for you!

Key Takeaways:

0:43 - Introducing Catie Harris

5:25 - Getting Degrees and Certificates

8:55 - How Nursepreneurs Started

10:25 - Importance of failure in the journey

12:15 - Consistency is key

12:55 - What gets you through tough days?

14:05 - What is nursepreneurship all about?

18:45 - Working to make an impact

20:00 - Areas of growth to focus on Nursepreneurs

22:55 - Types of nursepreneurship areas

26:32 - Mindset about money blocks

29:00 - Importance of Mentorship and Coaching

31:05 - Navigating uncapped income and impact

32:30 - Top tips for kickstarting a business

🚀 Want to start your own nurse-led business with the skills you already got?

✅ Download the Bedside to Business Roadmap – a step-by-step launch guide for nurses ready to build an online income stream.

🎓 Watch the Make Nursing Optional Masterclass – discover the 6 steps to turn your nursing skills into a profitable business (without needing another certificate).

📲 Follow me on Instagram: @nursepreneuracademy

📩 Got an aha moment from this episode? I’d love to hear from you!

Email: [email protected]

If you’re a nurse who knows you’re made for more—and you’re craving bold conversations about building a freedom-based, impact-driven business using the skills you already have—The NursePreneur Podcast is for you.

You’ll love this show if you're already tuning into The NursePreneurs Podcast with Catie Harris for nurse entrepreneur spotlights, the Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley and Sara Fung for advocacy and raw honesty, The Nurse Break by Jackson Heilberg for real career stories, Scrubs and Stocks by Ellaine Maala for nurse wealth and investing, or Nurse John’s I Beg Your Pardon for comedic truth-telling from the bedside trenches.

Here, host Liam delivers behind-the-scenes strategy, belief-busting mindset shifts, and practical steps to help you build a soul-aligned nurse-led business—without needing another certificate to get started. This is the podcast for nurse entrepreneurs who are done waiting and ready to lead.

You often hear me talking about how your nursing career is a license to create a career on your terms. Our guest for this episode, Jason Penberthy is an example of whats possible, he started working as an RN. Fast forward to today, he is a successful General Manager, CEO, and Director of Nursing within the New South Wales private healthcare sector.

In this episode, we’ll learn about Jason’s journey from his experience as an RN, taking on various roles to build up his skills to prepare him to become a senior executive.

Jason shares his tips and advice for moving up the ladder. We’ll see the importance of maintaining a grounded connection between executives and RNs that can bolster communication and transparency.

If you have your sights on becoming a nursing executive, from RN to CEO, then this episode is perfect for you!

Key Takeaways:

00:45 - Introducing Jason Penberthy

02:30 - The journey from RN to GM and CEO 

03:00 - Bullying in the workplace 

9:08 - Developing your management style

10:10 - Graduate program misconceptions

18:30 - Connections between executives and RNs 

23:55 - Tips and advice for moving up the ladder 

26:20 - Setting up RNs for success 

30:28 - Impact of COVID on healthcare culture 

36:15 - Non-clinical challenges nurses face 

40:45 - Performance Management as a CEO

47:15 - How to build a leadership career?

51:55 - Importance of consistency 

Are you a senior healthcare leader who is burntout, lacking support and unsure how much longer you can survive in your role? I work with NUMs/Leaders throughout the country to navigate the challenges this role present on a personal and professional level. You can book a call below to chat about your situation and we can make a plan to get you moving forward!

🚀 Want to start your own nurse-led business with the skills you already got?

✅ Download the Bedside to Business Roadmap – a step-by-step launch guide for nurses ready to build an online income stream.

🎓 Watch the Make Nursing Optional Masterclass – discover the 6 steps to turn your nursing skills into a profitable business (without needing another certificate).

📲 Follow me on Instagram: @nursepreneuracademy

📩 Got an aha moment from this episode? I’d love to hear from you!

Email: [email protected]

If you’re a nurse who knows you’re made for more—and you’re craving bold conversations about building a freedom-based, impact-driven business using the skills you already have—The NursePreneur Podcast is for you.

You’ll love this show if you're already tuning into The NursePreneurs Podcast with Catie Harris for nurse entrepreneur spotlights, the Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley and Sara Fung for advocacy and raw honesty, The Nurse Break by Jackson Heilberg for real career stories, Scrubs and Stocks by Ellaine Maala for nurse wealth and investing, or Nurse John’s I Beg Your Pardon for comedic truth-telling from the bedside trenches.

Here, host Liam delivers behind-the-scenes strategy, belief-busting mindset shifts, and practical steps to help you build a soul-aligned nurse-led business—without needing another certificate to get started. This is the podcast for nurse entrepreneurs who are done waiting and ready to lead.

Working as a nurse unit manager was a huge adventure for me! I think that it’s a unique leadership position that has a lot of capacity to positively influence change in our teams and our patients' lives.

In this episode, I will share my thoughts and ideas about being a nurse unit manager based on my personal experience. For me, it has been quite a learning experience, and it has definitely shaped how I function as a nurse coach to this day.

I’m going to tell you about the power of our team’s collective thoughts, the value of believing in our ability as a leader, and how it can impact the results in our ward. If you are wondering what it feels like to be a nurse unit manager, or if you’re a nurse unit manager yourself, this episode is definitely for you! 

Key Takeaways:

1:58 - Working as a nurse unit manager 

4:33 - It’s not better there than here 

5:40 - Blind Leading the Blind

7:22 - Healthcare and its lack of technology

9:10 - People Pleasing

11:15 - Your mindset matters 

12:33 - The importance of your belief in your ability as a leader 

14:25 - The value of sharing thoughts about the ward 

15:58 - Impact of our thoughts as a team 

17:40 - Growth vs loneliness

20:47 - Setting up boundaries as a NUM 

21:55 - Knowing your low, middle, and top performers 

23:36 - Circle of influence and circle of concern 

27:57 - Having your own back!

Interested in how coaching can help and support you as a NUM? I work with NUMs/Leaders throughout the country to navigate the challenges this role present on a personal and professional level. You can book a call below to chat about your situation and we can make a plan to get you moving forward!

🚀 Want to start your own nurse-led business with the skills you already got?

✅ Download the Bedside to Business Roadmap – a step-by-step launch guide for nurses ready to build an online income stream.

🎓 Watch the Make Nursing Optional Masterclass – discover the 6 steps to turn your nursing skills into a profitable business (without needing another certificate).

📲 Follow me on Instagram: @nursepreneuracademy

📩 Got an aha moment from this episode? I’d love to hear from you!

Email: [email protected]

If you’re a nurse who knows you’re made for more—and you’re craving bold conversations about building a freedom-based, impact-driven business using the skills you already have—The NursePreneur Podcast is for you.

You’ll love this show if you're already tuning into The NursePreneurs Podcast with Catie Harris for nurse entrepreneur spotlights, the Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley and Sara Fung for advocacy and raw honesty, The Nurse Break by Jackson Heilberg for real career stories, Scrubs and Stocks by Ellaine Maala for nurse wealth and investing, or Nurse John’s I Beg Your Pardon for comedic truth-telling from the bedside trenches.

Here, host Liam delivers behind-the-scenes strategy, belief-busting mindset shifts, and practical steps to help you build a soul-aligned nurse-led business—without needing another certificate to get started. This is the podcast for nurse entrepreneurs who are done waiting and ready to lead.

Today we are joined by the amazing Rory Tanner and Beth Montano on the podcast to talk all things, nursing career success, myths and everything in between.

Find out about the reality behind popular myths in the nursing system. As you listen to our experiences, you’ll realize how much control you have in deciding what you want to do with your life and nursing career. 

With the right mindset, vision, and support, you’ll be setting yourself to run your own race! 

Key Takeaways:

01:13 Why did you choose nursing? 

08:20 What was your ultimate impossible goal? 

10:05 The importance of knowing what you want 

10:45 The reality behind getting new roles in nursing 

11:45 Gaining new skills when you do something else 

12:40 The myth of the graduate nurse program 

14:30 The value of getting longer placements  

16:55 Join our graduate career launch program  

18:05 Not getting your pick in grad programs  

20:05 The importance of students asking questions during the interview process  

21:00 How to have a vision of where you want to go to 

22:35 The importance of running your own race  

24:10 Adjusting your mindset when getting bad placements 

28:20 What is the missing piece that needs to be taught to nurses? 

29:40 The importance of going down your path intentionally 

31:00 Having personality testing and career coaching

33:30 Find support for yourself 

36:15 What you love about the type of nursing that you do and why  

42:35 Anything is possible 

🚀 Want to start your own nurse-led business with the skills you already got?

✅ Download the Bedside to Business Roadmap – a step-by-step launch guide for nurses ready to build an online income stream.

🎓 Watch the Make Nursing Optional Masterclass – discover the 6 steps to turn your nursing skills into a profitable business (without needing another certificate).

📲 Follow me on Instagram: @nursepreneuracademy

📩 Got an aha moment from this episode? I’d love to hear from you!

Email: [email protected]

If you’re a nurse who knows you’re made for more—and you’re craving bold conversations about building a freedom-based, impact-driven business using the skills you already have—The NursePreneur Podcast is for you.

You’ll love this show if you're already tuning into The NursePreneurs Podcast with Catie Harris for nurse entrepreneur spotlights, the Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley and Sara Fung for advocacy and raw honesty, The Nurse Break by Jackson Heilberg for real career stories, Scrubs and Stocks by Ellaine Maala for nurse wealth and investing, or Nurse John’s I Beg Your Pardon for comedic truth-telling from the bedside trenches.

Here, host Liam delivers behind-the-scenes strategy, belief-busting mindset shifts, and practical steps to help you build a soul-aligned nurse-led business—without needing another certificate to get started. This is the podcast for nurse entrepreneurs who are done waiting and ready to lead.

As nurses, we have been conditioned to focus on landing our dream graduate role, as if thats the only approach. Good news, there are so many opportunities out there and the bad news is that picking yourself up after a rejection is the hardest part!

In this episode, I will show you why you have the power to control what happens to your nursing career. I share five tried and tested things you should do when you don’t land a graduate nursing role to optimise your success!

We’ll talk about how to focus your head on the game, improve your approach, and adopt the right mindset. I’ll tell you the success stories of nurses who applied these things and were met with astonishing success.

If you are feeling lost after getting that rejection email and are trying to find out how to go about your nursing career after losing your dream graduate role, then this episode is specifically for you!

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Do you believe we should first heal our healers before they do any healing? That’s definitely what HeartPlace Hospital founder Nurse Jacqui O’Connor believes! She’s leading a movement of hospicing and feminizing our health and education system.

There is a need for us to start caring for our carers. Nurse Jacqui is taking the massive opportunity to heal frontliners and work on providing them regular energy support. Her work continually challenges the norms and takes giant steps to improve how we do things as nurses.

In this episode, we learn more about Nurse Jacqui’s journey and her ideas on having safe havens, giving future carers space to be creative, and ultimately reclaiming our wisdom so we can advocate for a life that best suits us.

If you have witnessed the rampant victim mentality within the nursing industry and are searching for a hopeful safe haven led by someone with the right experience, then this episode is perfect for you!

Key Takeaways:

0:45 Introducing Jacqui O’Conner

1:50 Nurse Jacqui’s journey

6:40 Seeing burnout with the people you work with.

8:40 The movement of hospicing the system

12:00 The importance of healing our healers

13:15 Feminizing our health and education system

14:05 The importance of safe havens

15:10 Work with high vibin’ people!

18:05 Let’s celebrate our future carers and give them space to be creative

18:40 Challenging the norms and being the example

19:50 The power of self-confidence

20:55 What makes your belief unshakable?

25:30 Witnessing and supporting victim mentality

26:50 Advocating for a life that best suits me

28:50 Reclaiming your personal wisdom

31:30 The wonder of following your intuition

32:33 The vision of frontliners having regular energy support

34:00 The prolonged state of stress in our system

35:15 Understanding sacred wisdom

36:13 Creating change from this chaos

37:00 The need to document what we do

39:00 What do you do in Heart Place Hospital?

🚀 Want to start your own nurse-led business with the skills you already got?

✅ Download the Bedside to Business Roadmap – a step-by-step launch guide for nurses ready to build an online income stream.

🎓 Watch the Make Nursing Optional Masterclass – discover the 6 steps to turn your nursing skills into a profitable business (without needing another certificate).

📲 Follow me on Instagram: @nursepreneuracademy

📩 Got an aha moment from this episode? I’d love to hear from you!

Email: [email protected]

If you’re a nurse who knows you’re made for more—and you’re craving bold conversations about building a freedom-based, impact-driven business using the skills you already have—The NursePreneur Podcast is for you.

You’ll love this show if you're already tuning into The NursePreneurs Podcast with Catie Harris for nurse entrepreneur spotlights, the Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley and Sara Fung for advocacy and raw honesty, The Nurse Break by Jackson Heilberg for real career stories, Scrubs and Stocks by Ellaine Maala for nurse wealth and investing, or Nurse John’s I Beg Your Pardon for comedic truth-telling from the bedside trenches.

Here, host Liam delivers behind-the-scenes strategy, belief-busting mindset shifts, and practical steps to help you build a soul-aligned nurse-led business—without needing another certificate to get started. This is the podcast for nurse entrepreneurs who are done waiting and ready to lead.

When it comes to nursing education, nothing really beats having access to a nurse Educator like Rob Timmings with over 35 years of diverse nursing experience and a passion for all things science! Imagine sipping a Margherita on a cruise ship, whilst filling gaps in your clinical knowledge? Its possible with ECT4 Health!

Nursing Educator Rob Timmings shares his wealth of experience with us this week as we explore what it means to be a good nurse educator, learn to stay in your lane of expertise, and leverage your passion in what you do to achieve success.

Rob is the Founder of ECT4health, providing nursing education online, in person and on vacation!

This episode is perfect for you if you are a nurse seeking an exciting hands-on, in-person nurse education to complement your job onshore of offshore!

Key takeaways:

Introducing Rob Timmings – 0:30

What makes a good nurse educator? – 6:00  

Knowing your topic as an educator? – 8:35

Importance of staying in your lane – 10:35

Nurse educators as leaders – 11:38

The biggest gap in the nursing – 13:26

Understanding the rules and the why behind the tasks and policies – 14:52

We want to care for our patients – 18:36

Top tips in nursing education – 19:30

How the ECT4Health started – 24:45

Main insights as a Nursepreneur – 30:00

ECT4Health Courses and Offers – 33:00

Final messages of wisdom - 39:00

🚀 Want to start your own nurse-led business with the skills you already got?

✅ Download the Bedside to Business Roadmap – a step-by-step launch guide for nurses ready to build an online income stream.

🎓 Watch the Make Nursing Optional Masterclass – discover the 6 steps to turn your nursing skills into a profitable business (without needing another certificate).

📲 Follow me on Instagram: @nursepreneuracademy

📩 Got an aha moment from this episode? I’d love to hear from you!

Email: [email protected]

If you’re a nurse who knows you’re made for more—and you’re craving bold conversations about building a freedom-based, impact-driven business using the skills you already have—The NursePreneur Podcast is for you.

You’ll love this show if you're already tuning into The NursePreneurs Podcast with Catie Harris for nurse entrepreneur spotlights, the Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley and Sara Fung for advocacy and raw honesty, The Nurse Break by Jackson Heilberg for real career stories, Scrubs and Stocks by Ellaine Maala for nurse wealth and investing, or Nurse John’s I Beg Your Pardon for comedic truth-telling from the bedside trenches.

Here, host Liam delivers behind-the-scenes strategy, belief-busting mindset shifts, and practical steps to help you build a soul-aligned nurse-led business—without needing another certificate to get started. This is the podcast for nurse entrepreneurs who are done waiting and ready to lead.

Considering the overwhelming nature of our career as nurses, it’s normal to have a mind full of competing stories and thoughts, sometimes, its really hard to see what is story and what is fact! If you are feeling like your brain has you running round in circles, good news your human! It just so happens that our primitive brains are wired to entertain these thoughts without them being factual truth!

I believe we need to learn how to assess our thoughts and differentiate which ones are facts and which ones are simply stories we tell ourselves that we have practiced believing are true despite evidence to the contrary. In this episode, I discuss how our brain works and how we must actively distinguish facts from stories to take back our power and manage our mind for life and career success!

If you find yourself continually battling thoughts that are harmful to your mental health as you go about your nursing career, this episode is definitely for you! 

As always, if you need mental health support, please reach out to the appropriate services and get the help you need!

Key Takeaways:

Importance of self-coaching - 0:53

Becoming an observer of thoughts - 2:15

How to assess fact vs. story - 3:22

Thoughts causing negative mindset - 4:00

Know that there’s a choice - 5:45

Leaning into positive thoughts - 7:10

Creating new beliefs - 8:05

Free yourself from your primitive brain’s thoughts - 9:05

Take back your power - 10:20

The facts - 10:50

Understanding your brain - 12:00

Rewrite past stories - 13:00

How I manage my mind - 14:07

🚀 Want to start your own nurse-led business with the skills you already got?

✅ Download the Bedside to Business Roadmap – a step-by-step launch guide for nurses ready to build an online income stream.

🎓 Watch the Make Nursing Optional Masterclass – discover the 6 steps to turn your nursing skills into a profitable business (without needing another certificate).

📲 Follow me on Instagram: @nursepreneuracademy

📩 Got an aha moment from this episode? I’d love to hear from you!

Email: [email protected]

If you’re a nurse who knows you’re made for more—and you’re craving bold conversations about building a freedom-based, impact-driven business using the skills you already have—The NursePreneur Podcast is for you.

You’ll love this show if you're already tuning into The NursePreneurs Podcast with Catie Harris for nurse entrepreneur spotlights, the Gritty Nurse Podcast with Amie Archibald-Varley and Sara Fung for advocacy and raw honesty, The Nurse Break by Jackson Heilberg for real career stories, Scrubs and Stocks by Ellaine Maala for nurse wealth and investing, or Nurse John’s I Beg Your Pardon for comedic truth-telling from the bedside trenches.

Here, host Liam delivers behind-the-scenes strategy, belief-busting mindset shifts, and practical steps to help you build a soul-aligned nurse-led business—without needing another certificate to get started. This is the podcast for nurse entrepreneurs who are done waiting and ready to lead.