Nurse Coaching promises more freedom and fulfillment. Motherhood demands presence. Entrepreneurship rewards performance. 

Trying to hold all three at once can leave even the most capable nurse feeling stretched thin, wondering if balance is just a moving target you’re never quite meant to reach.

In this episode, Heather sits down with Nurse Coach, yoga teacher, retreat host, and soon-to-be published author Jenna Hardcastle, who shares what it has actually looked like to build a multidimensional career while raising two young children.

Jenna explains how messy action helped her grow her practice, write “The Human Beneath the Hero”, and co-create mindful medicine retreats that integrate yoga, breathwork, and ketamine-assisted healing.

After walking through miscarriage, grief, and motherhood, she began redefining what success actually means. Her goal shifted from doing more to being more present. Today, she shares:

• Why messy action matters more than perfection 
• How to choose how much of you goes to motherhood vs business
• How breathwork builds presence in motherhood and business
• How ketamine supports new neural pathways and habit change

This episode is a reminder that you can have it all. Just not all at once.

🎧 Tune in now.

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Connect with Jenna Hardcastle:

🌐 Website: www.jennahardcastlecoaching.com 

🧘‍♀️ Mindful Medicine Retreat: https://cascaderetreatcompany.com/mindful-medicine 

📖 Jenna Hardcastle’s book “The Human Beneath the Hero”: https://a.co/d/cqTRmOk   

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In this episode, Heather reconnects with board-certified Nurse Coach Sally Davidson for a deeper conversation about burnout in nursing and stepping into conscious leadership.

Sally once worked as a director of nursing in critical care, where she put in long hours and carried immense responsibility. But at one point, it became clear she was “not growing, just working.” She believed the system was the problem. And in many ways, it was.

But over time, she began to see something else.

Even after leaving the hospital, the same hustle patterns followed her. The overachieving. The fixing. The need to prove herself. She realized her old “operating system” was still running the way she lived and worked.

Through Nurse Coach training, breathwork, somatic work, and deep self-reflection, she started to understand her nervous system, and see how her own patterns were shaping the way she led. She came to understand that conscious leadership is about staying open, getting curious, and actually listening before reacting.

Today, she runs masterminds, one-on-one immersions, and international retreats in places like Costa Rica and Peru. She’s intentional about creating spaces that feel genuinely safe, not performative, so leaders can grow at a pace that actually feels sustainable and true to who they are.

Last time, Heather and Sally just scratched the surface. This time, they go deeper into the missing connection in healthcare culture, the anger nurses feel toward the system, and how meaningful change begins with individual awareness.

🔊 Don’t miss this one. Tune in now.

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Previous conversation with Sally Davidson

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Connect with Sally Davidson:

Website: https://sallydavidsoncoach.com/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sallydavidsoncoach_breathwork/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100082406424764 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sally-davidson-14641586/ 

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Heather talks with board-certified Nurse Coach Ginnine Morse about what it actually looks like to build a faith-based Nurse Coaching practice inside an incredibly diverse space like modern healthcare.

After 15 years working in oncology, cardiology, postpartum, and case management, Ginnine began searching for fulfillment and wholeness beyond tasks and roles. Motherhood and a growing relationship with God started to change how she saw herself and how she practiced nursing. 

In this episode, she shares how Nurse Coaching gave her language and structure for things she already felt were missing in healthcare: choice, stillness, spiritual health, and identity beyond diagnosis.

You’ll hear how faith-based Nurse Coaching creates space for curiosity and safety without imposing beliefs, and how releasing attachment to outcomes changed the way she shows up for her clients.

Heather and Ginnine also discuss why spirituality is often avoided in healthcare, how community eases nurse isolation, and why slowing down creates real healing for nurses and patients alike.

🎧 Tune in now.

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Connect with Ginnine Morse:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ginnine-morse-7283a635a/

Website: https://christiannursecoach.com 

Join the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/761553485781821 

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Did you know that nurses have been at the absolute forefront of psychedelic healing since the 1950s, long before it became a modern wellness trend?

In this fascinating episode, host Heather sits down with Angela Ward, a board-certified holistic nurse coach and certified psychedelic practitioner, to discuss the intersection of nursing, coaching, and psychedelic-assisted care.

She argues that the nursing framework is uniquely suited for this work today because nurses have a long history of walking alongside people through profound transformations such as  birth, death, and healing crises.

By blending clinical expertise with a coaching model, nurses possess the specific capacity to monitor a client’s physical safety and medication responses while simultaneously holding space for transpersonal or non-ordinary human experiences.

This approach allows nurses to move away from a prescriptive medical model and instead empower clients to discover their own definition of wholeness and actualize their personal visions for well-being.

🔊 Don’t miss this one. Tune in now!

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Connect with Angela Ward

Website: https://guardianatthegateway.com 

Email: [email protected] 

Instagram: @guaradian_at_the_gateway 

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

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In this episode, Heather sits down with Nurse Coach and mom of two, Ellen LeBleu, who shares what it was really like to launch a coaching business while navigating pregnancy, postpartum, and toddler chaos.

Ellen worked in the ICU and hospital leadership before finding her way into nurse coaching… thanks to a random Facebook ad.

What started as curiosity turned into a shift that helped her step away from hospital burnout and into a career that fits her life now.

She gets real about using maternity leave as her “pivot point,” what it means to actually balance work and motherhood, and why self-care for moms is important (not selfish).

Ellen also opens up about the mindset shifts she helps other moms make, how she explains her work to her toddlers, and the honest truth about why people will pay for coaching.

🎧 Give it a listen. 

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Connect with Ellen LeBleu: 

Website: renewalwellnesscoaching.com

Email: [email protected]

Instagram: @postpartum_renewal

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What does a life of freedom as a Nurse Coach look like, and how do you create it? Think work-life balance, time with your family, and complete financial freedom.

In this episode, Heather is joined by Nurse Coach Meg Laidlaw, a former RN with 20+ years of experience who transformed her career by stepping into holistic Nurse Coaching and heart-centered entrepreneurship.

Meg shares her experiences of building a successful coaching practice, highlighting the importance of aligning one's career with personal values and aspirations - and how it all rewards her with more time with her kids and $19,000 months.

She has quadrupled her prices, built time freedom into her schedule, and found deep purpose by helping others remember they are whole, enough, and worthy.

🎧 You’ll also hear how she reframed sales from something scary into something joyful and how you can, too.

Tune in!

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Connect with Meg Laidlaw

Website: profoundwellness.net

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: facebook.com/megan.fikse

Instagram: instagram.com/m.laidlaw

Rooted & Rehumanizing Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rooted-rehumanizing/id1831495307

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Nurse Coach Brooke Forsythe, author of Dispensing Pills, Popping Pills, joins us for a raw, vulnerable conversation about the mental health crisis inside the nursing profession and how Nurse Coaching helped her reclaim her life and purpose.

Brooke has been a nurse for nearly two decades, working on a med-surg oncology floor. After years of internalizing patient losses, pushing through trauma without support, and cycling through 18 different medications for depression and anxiety, she reached her breaking point.

But instead of walking away from nursing entirely, she discovered Nurse Coaching.

In this episode, Brooke breaks down the flaws in the current medical model and how Nurse Coaches are filling the gaps by bringing presence, listening, and holistic healing back to the bedside.

We also discuss how she's now advocating for change from within her hospital, opening conversations with leadership, and mentoring new nurses to find peace and confidence in their practice.

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Connect with Brooke Forsythe

Website: https://www.forsythewellnesscoaching.com/

Book: https://a.co/d/9D29ZLk

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If you're a nurse stuck in a cycle of burnout or disconnected from your purpose, this episode will be a breath of fresh air.

Heather is joined by Danaysi Castañeda, a Nurse Coach and spiritual leader whose approach blends energy healing, mindset work, and lunar rhythms.

Danaysi shares how her journey from burnout to bliss led her to develop the Lunar Cycle Program. This is a 30-day detox of mind, body, and spirit.

Unprocessed pain and cluttered energy often block the change we need. Danaysi explains how releasing them opens the door to spiritual alignment and new patterns of leadership and love.

Danaysi also reveals her daily rituals and how her journey as a mother and nurse informs the healing work she offers now.

🎧 Ready to experience the new way of nursing? Hit play and explore what it means to detox your energy and reclaim your truth.

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Connect with Danaysi Castañeda

IG: danaysi_lunarcycleprogram

TikTok: danaysicoach

YouTube: lunarcycleprogram

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In a world filled with stress and chaos, the importance of mindfulness is undeniable.

Meet Laura Alessio, a board-certified health and wellness Nurse Coach based in Puerto Rico whofound her calling in coaching others to slow down and live with intention.

Laura shares her unconventional path through the nursing world, including time in the Peace Corps, public health, legal nurse consulting, and yoga training. But it wasn’t until a chance conversation at a conference that she stumbled into the world of Nurse Coaching. This specialty finally clicked with her desire to offer holistic, preventive, and empowering care.

In this episode, you’ll learn how mindfulness, meditation, and heart-brain coherence can be used as practical tools to manage stress, enhance health, and elevate client transformation.

Laura also opens up about the challenges and joys of building a coaching practice, her passion for helping clients find their voice, and her role in shaping this emerging profession.

👉 If you’re a nurse craving more freedom and purpose, hit play and discover the path to becoming a Nurse Coach.

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In this deeply moving episode, we connect with Nurse Coach Lauren Jefferson, a Board-Certified Health and Wellness Nurse Coach who works with patients facing a challenging medical journey, such as cancer, traumatic injury, end-of-life care, and grief following loss.

Her personal story of loss and transformation now fuels her powerful work supporting patients through life-altering medical journeys.

Lauren specializes in working with individuals facing terminal diagnoses, traumatic injuries, end-of-life transitions, and grief.

Her role isn't to fix, but to walk alongside, to witness, and to empower. From her own experience navigating her father's cancer diagnosis, she shares how grief cracked her open and led her to Nurse Coaching, a path that helped her rediscover her purpose.

In this conversation, Lauren reveals what truly changes when patients feel seen, heard, and supported. Her clients are learning how to really live again, even in the midst of dying.

🎧 Listen now for a dose of hope, healing, and what it means to be truly alive.

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Check out Lauren’s website: https://www.laurenjhealth.com/ 

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