This was such a fun episode as I snuck into my wife's espresso prior to conducting this interview!!!

This season is focusing on Medical professionals turned professional coach and Tiffany is definitely taking this new profession of Nurse Coaching and running with it!

She is big into Somatic Healing and it was Pure Joy listening to her journey to becoming a Nurse Coach.

So join us as we help you gain a better understanding into how Nurse Coaches are changing the World!!!

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Join me as I host another Board Certified Nurse Coach Kathleen!!!  

Like every episode from season 4 Racheal is a Medical Professional who is now a Professional Coach!

Find out how she started her Nursing career and how her journey has led her to where she is now!  

She uses her training to be a Holistic Nurse Coach Writer and like last weeks guest, helps people Heal through writing.

So join Us as we share how there’s more to Nursing than just the Bedside…

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Thanks for listening! To Find out more about Scrubs in the Trenches check out my website at www.scrubsintheTrenches.com and if you want to book a call to find out more about Nurse Coaching and how it can help you check me out at www.higherreflectioncoaching.com

Join me as I host a Board Certified Holistic Nurse and Nurse Coach Racheal Dick Plonka!!!  Like every episode from season 4 Racheal is a Medical Professional who is now a Professional Coach!

Find out how she started her Nursing career and what happened to her during the pandemic that woke her up to Nurse Coaching.  I don’t go into these episodes planning on talking about the pandemic but so many Nurse Coaches had a crisis of identity during this time so it naturally comes up during our conversation.

Hear about her program The Write Way to Heal and how she uses Somatic Writing to help heal her clients!  

She also goes over Self Love and how her business and life has changed 💚

I also have a writing session with her that I couldn’t help but have some fun with the silence 😁

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Thanks for listening! To Find out more about Scrubs in the Trenches check out my website at www.scrubsintheTrenches.com and if you want to book a call to find out more about Nurse Coaching and how it can help you check me out at www.higherreflectioncoaching.com

I'm super excited to introduce another first time Podcast Guest, amazing Human Being, and Medical Professional now turned Professional Coach... Gabriel RN NC-BC!!!  

She's  a Holistic Anxiety & Nervous System Coach that also shares a lot of similar medical conditions and genetic mutations as me and we had more in common than we realized than when we first started recording this episode...

So hear how she fell into nursing in April of 2020 while the world was temporally losing its mind and what it was like to enter the nursing field in the middle of all that craziness!

Thank you for listening and Find out more about what a Nurse Coach does and how they can help you 💚

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Thanks for listening! To Find out more about Scrubs in the Trenches check out my website at www.scrubsintheTrenches.com and if you want to book a call to find out more about Nurse Coaching and how it can help you check me out at www.higherreflectioncoaching.com

After a week off for spring break your used to be 5th but now your 3rd favorite Medical Podcast is back!!!

Join your host ICU Isaac and his latest Medical Professional turned Professional Coach Sammi NC-BC.  And still not sure how these Board Certified Nurse Coaches are helping people, well listen up to Sammi and how she helps mostly Medical Professionals deal with stress and burnout...

As a former ICU RN herself Sammi understands the long hours and demanding work conditions because she's been in the Trenches and she's done the self work to be able to support others in a way that only Nurse Coaches can.

So join me on another episode of Scrubs in the Trenches and Enjoy!!!

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Thanks for listening! To Find out more about Scrubs in the Trenches check out my website at www.scrubsintheTrenches.com and if you want to book a call to find out more about Nurse Coaching and how it can help you check me out at www.higherreflectioncoaching.com

Happy April Fools!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!??!?!??!??!?!?

This Episode is sooo Gooood because you can just see Kerri's Huge Heart from start to finish and she was a pleasure having on the show!!!

Only problem was her internet went down in about the 38th minute or so and things get a little Darth...  HHHuuuuhhhhhhhhh

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Thanks for listening! To Find out more about Scrubs in the Trenches check out my website at www.scrubsintheTrenches.com and if you want to book a call to find out more about Nurse Coaching and how it can help you check me out at www.higherreflectioncoaching.com

A fairly new Nurse Coach and first time podcast guest Cicily NC-BC is opening up bout her journey into Nurse Coaching!  She, like a lot of Nurses in the medical profession, are getting back to our Florence Nightingale roots and trying to help people actually get HEALTHY!!!

We talk about how even though we are trying to leave the MAN and his paycheck, we also appreciate our bedside role even more now that we have gone through this specific training.

She’s passionate about a Mind, Body, Spirit approach that we feel is missing from the traditional medical model.  People hear Holistic and automatically think WooWoo crystal healing but Holistic really just means Whole.

Her bedside nursing has mostly been on the cardiac floor and she’s bringing her heart centered approach into her coaching space!  Listen till the end of this episode to get a heart centered mindfulness session as well!!!

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Thanks for listening! To Find out more about Scrubs in the Trenches check out my website at www.scrubsintheTrenches.com and if you want to book a call to find out more about Nurse Coaching and how it can help you check me out at www.higherreflectioncoaching.com

There's a bunch of Medical Professionals becoming Professional Coaches and RN's are the only Licensed Professional in any field that has a Board Certification in the Professional Coaching Industry!!!

So what better way to know that the Coach that you are hiring is a real adult with actual Life experience in one of the most demanding fields out there... than to hire a RN NC-BC to help you on your own personal journey to Health and Growth!!!

Megan has Nursed in some of the same areas as I have such as ICU and Cath Lab but really has a passion for technology.  She's part of a company developing an AI ring that can let you dip your toe (if that's where you where your rings) in the coaching world before you go out and hire a real life Coach.

This is a juicy episode that lets you hear our Nurse Coaching influenced OPINIONS on Ozempic and the Pandemic  along with her passion for AI in the coaching space…

She’s also the host of her own podcast “It’s your Story to Tell” so go check out her amazing work as well!!!

You don't want to miss this potentially controversial episode (depending on how you feel about other people's opinions) or any of my other episodes this season that highlights the amazing people trying to make this World a better place.

Be Blessed!!!

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Thanks for listening! To Find out more about Scrubs in the Trenches check out my website at www.scrubsintheTrenches.com and if you want to book a call to find out more about Nurse Coaching and how it can help you check me out at www.higherreflectioncoaching.com

This is the beginning of a 4 part series that details each of my grandparents endings.  As an ICU nurse I began seeing death of the elderly population in a whole new light and dealing with my own grandparents endings has forced me to really reflect on how we are dying these days.  It's not a pretty view in some of these 12 hour shifts where we as a medical team try to prevent the unpreventable.  Death comes to all and we need to talk about it...

This is my story of Arthur Wilmer Smith (Wilmer to Friends and Family)

I am very passionate about shining my light on what I believe our Loved Ones deserve and that includes an Enlightened Ending to their Life Story. 

One of my last meaningful conversations with Wilmer consisted of him telling me that he no longer felt like he was LIVING but rather EXISTING... This conversation probably happened 3 years before he passed but not long before he wound up in the land of Pillgatory...

More and more people are ending up in the place I have termed Pillgatory and most people can't even see it.  So I feel obligated to give it my best to Save as many people from this land as possible. 

Nobody wants Forced Health until they wish Death on themselves but that's the sad reality that many of our elderly Loved Ones face everyday and nobody seems to want to talk about it.  So I AM gonna talk about it and your welcome to listen.

This is where I start talking about it so follow me on a journey that will hopefully make you think about where we are going and whether or not you want to end up in the land of Pillgatory...

So if you think that you can handle my Truth then I'd love for you to join me on this  episode of Scrubs in the Trenches 

Ode to Papa: Tougher than Nails...

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This weeks episode tells the story of my Pawpaw.  He was an absolutely wonderful man that was a beacon of Joy wherever he went.  And even though my family and I were convinced that he would easily make it to 100 at his 90th birthday, the decline started rapidly after he broke his hip at 94.

This is the last story detailing how losing an older loved one looks through the eyes of a Nurse that has worked in virtually every hospital department possible.  The hospital is really good at solving acute problems but death isn't acute, it's inevitable.  I know that I have a skewed perspective from the things I've seen in the ICU, but I believe that it is worth sharing in order to bring an understanding that there are things worse than death in this world.

Pawpaw lived his life to the fullest and even though he couldn't get his butt more than a few inches off the water, I do remember him water skiing behind a pontoon boat at the age of 70 something. He was in his mid-80s tubing in the smoky mountains before he got sucked into a hydraulic for a second or two to get out.  Then he stood up and said, I'm getting too old for this.  And somewhere in his late 70s or 80s he had a stroke and then got west nile virus misdiagnosed as a second stroke and survived with a feeding placed and gave him many more quality years.

But at the end he agreed to a feeding tube probably knowing that it wasn't going to solve his problems.  He gave himself to the very end for the woman and children he loved dearly.  I feel blessed that he was able to keep his mind for 94 years and share it with the world.

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Thanks for listening! To Find out more about Scrubs in the Trenches check out my website at www.scrubsintheTrenches.com and if you want to book a call to find out more about Nurse Coaching and how it can help you check me out at www.higherreflectioncoaching.com