The Nurse Coach Collective

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ENCORE: She Left Her Nursing Job and Built a Six-Figure Practice Mar 27, 2026

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What does it actually take to walk away from the security of a nursing job and bet on yourself?

In this encore episode, host Peter sits down with Nurse Coach Shawne Arceneaux to talk about exactly that. Shawne left her full-time nursing position — benefits, 401(k), and all — and within about a year and a half, had built a six-figure Nurse Coaching practice. But the journey wasn't about strategy first. It started with inner work, mindset shifts, and a willingness to be seen.

She shares how she launched her practice by simply connecting with people — reaching out to former oncology colleagues, attending networking events, and showing up consistently without the pressure to sell. That visibility led to one-on-one clients, a partnership with a nonprofit survivorship program for cancer patients, and eventually a six-week burnout prevention program she co-developed for oncology healthcare providers.

Shawne also gets real about the harder parts: learning to receive support, balancing a growing practice with new motherhood, and how the same delegation skills nurses use at the bedside translate directly into building a business.

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The Nurse Coach Collective is a podcast for nurses and Nurse Coaches who want to make a positive change in the world.

ENCORE: How Nurse Coaches Are Changing Healthcare from the Inside Out Mar 20, 2026

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What if the change healthcare needs is already walking the halls? In this episode, Heather sits down with Nurse Coach Amanda Johnsen to explore how nurses are building new roles, programs, and departments from within their own organizations.

Amanda shares real stories of Nurse Coaches who spotted a gap, started a conversation with leadership, and watched one idea grow into something much bigger. She breaks down what it looks like to bring Nurse Coaching into a system — from integrating it at the bedside, to supporting new grads through their first year, to creating oncology coaching programs that change patient outcomes.

She also gets into the mindset shift required to walk into a leader's office and make your case. Remove the hierarchy. Approach it like a coaching conversation. Ask what their biggest challenges are and speak to how Nurse Coaching can help.

The shift inside healthcare is happening. And it's being led by nurses like you

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Connect with Amanda Johnsen

Check out Amanda’s Website: https://www.amanethwellness.com/

Check out Amanda’s Wellness Academy: https://amanethwellnessacademy.cohere.live/about

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The Nurse Coach Collective is a podcast for nurses and Nurse Coaches who want to make a positive change in the world.

ENCORE: She Built a Nurse Coaching Department in One Year Mar 13, 2026

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Can nurse self-care change patient outcomes — and what happens when a hospital system finally listens?

In this encore episode of The Nurse Coach Collective Podcast, Nurse Coach Nicole Lohonen shares how she went from bedside burnout to building a nurse coaching department inside her hospital — within one year of graduating from the Nurse Coach Collective.

Nicole breaks down how she made the case to leadership that nurse self-care is a patient safety issue, secured grant funding, and built a peer coaching model across multiple units.

If you've ever thought about bringing nurse coaching into your workplace, this episode shows exactly what that can look like.

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Connect with Nicole Lohonen

Follow Nicole on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicole.lohonen

Email Nicole: Nicole.lohonen22@gmail.com

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The Nurse Coach Collective is a podcast for nurses and Nurse Coaches who want to make a positive change in the world.

ENCORE: What Nurse Coaches Actually Charge (With Real Examples) Mar 06, 2026

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How much money can you make as a Nurse Coach?

In this encore episode of The Nurse Coach Collective Podcast, Transformative Nurse Coach and Nurse Practitioner Karena Hammon shares how she earned $14K in coaching income before even graduating from The Nurse Coach Collective.

In this conversation, Karena breaks down how she structured her coaching packages, found her confidence around pricing, and started turning early clients into paying clients. If you’ve ever wondered what Nurse Coaches actually charge—or whether people really pay for coaching—this episode offers a real-world example.

Karena also shares how Nurse Coaching transformed her work as a Nurse Practitioner and allowed her to build a practice focused on deeper conversations around behavior change, mindset, and long-term wellness.

If you’re curious about the income potential of Nurse Coaching—and the freedom it can create—this episode is a great place to start.

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Connect with Karena Hammon:

Check out Karena’s website: https://themindfulnp.org/

Join Karena’s Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/600973195070759

Follow Karena on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_mindful_nurse_practitioner/

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The Nurse Coach Collective is a podcast for nurses and Nurse Coaches who want to make a positive change in the world.

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Balancing Acts: Nurse Coaching, Motherhood, Breathwork, & Mindful Medicine Feb 27, 2026

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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.

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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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The Nurse Coach Collective is a podcast for nurses and Nurse Coaches who want to make a positive change in the world.

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A Nurse Coach’s Journey From 70-Hour Weeks in Hospital Management to International Retreats Feb 20, 2026

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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.

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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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The Nurse Coach Collective is a podcast for nurses and Nurse Coaches who want to make a positive change in the world.

Exploring Faith-Based Nurse Coaching: Bridging Spirituality and Care Feb 13, 2026

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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.

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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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The Nurse Coach Collective is a podcast for nurses and Nurse Coaches who want to make a positive change in the world.

How Nurse Coaches Are Changing Psychedelic Care w/ Angela Ward Feb 06, 2026

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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.

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Connect with Angela Ward

Website: https://guardianatthegateway.com

Email: angela@guardinggateways.com

Instagram: @guaradian_at_the_gateway

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

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The Nurse Coach Collective is a podcast for nurses and Nurse Coaches who want to make a positive change in the world.

Finding Balance Between Nursing and Motherhood w/ Nurse Coach Ellen LeBleu Jan 30, 2026

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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.

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Connect with Ellen LeBleu:

Website: renewalwellnesscoaching.com

Email: ellen@renewalwellnesscoaching.com

Instagram: @postpartum_renewal

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The Nurse Coach Collective is a podcast for nurses and Nurse Coaches who want to make a positive change in the world.

$19,000 Months and More Time With Your Family? The Nurse Coach Way Jan 23, 2026

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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.

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Connect with Meg Laidlaw

Website: profoundwellness.net

Email: meg@profoundwellness.net

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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The Nurse Coach Collective is a podcast for nurses and Nurse Coaches who want to make a positive change in the world.