Nurse to CEO | Boldness, Purpose, Nurse Leader, Balance, Business Building

There is a particular kind of alone that only comes when God's hand is on you. Not the loneliness of abandonment. Not the loneliness of being forgotten. The loneliness of being set apart for something that the people around you cannot fully see yet.

Jeremiah talk about this. He said: I sat alone because of Your hand. Not because he had failed or because God had left. But because the calling itself create...

You say you do not have time. But you finished that series in four days. You say you cannot find a moment to build. But you have scrolled for an hour before the house woke up. You say the season is too full. But the secret place has been quiet for longer than you want to admit.

This episode is not here to shame you. But it is here to tell you the truth.

The time excuse is not a time problem...

You are a nurse, one of your many roles. Which means pouring out is practically your job description. You pour out at the bedside or clinic, at home, into your family, into your kids and every activity and responsibility that comes with them. Maybe you are in school. Maybe you lead a team. Maybe you carry more roles than most people would ever volunteer for.

And somewhere in the middle of all of that pou...

You are a nurse. Which means pouring out is practically your job description. You pour out at the bedside, at home, into your family, into your kids and every activity and responsibility that comes with them. Maybe you are in school. Maybe you lead a team. Maybe you carry more roles than most people would ever volunteer for.

And somewhere in the middle of all of that pouring, the question nobody stops to a...

This one is short. And it is personal.

September marks one year since the Nurse to CEO™ Podcast launched. But the real story is that God spoke to me about this podcast three years before that. Three years of sitting on the word. Waiting on His timing. Wondering when. Trusting that He knew what He was doing even when the delay did not make sense.

This episode is a ten-minute drop-in.

You are excellent at a job that does not see you.

Not the clinical you. That part gets evaluated, corrected, and documented. But the you that prays under your breath before entering a room. The you that carries a word of encouragement that lands with supernatural precision. The you that feels the spiritual temperature of a unit before the shift report ends.

That part of you is invisible in ...

Nothing on the outside has changed yet.

The schedule is the same. The badge is the same. The unit is the same.

But something on the inside is fundamentally different and has been for a while now.

That is the internal shift. And for many nurses it arrives quietly, without drama, without a crisis to point to. One day you are fully present in the season you are in and somewhere s...

Every shift you walk into that unit carrying something the hospital did not give you and cannot replicate.

Not your clinical skill. Not your certifications. Not your years of nursing experience.

Your anointing.

The presence that settles a room before you say a word. The discernment that tells you something is wrong before the monitor confirms it. The peace that follows you int...

You have been saying you do not have time.

But what would happen if you got an hour back today?

Would you know exactly what to do with it? Would you sit down and build something that moved your business forward? Or would that hour disappear into your phone, into content you consumed but did not create, into the paralysis of not knowing where to start?

This episode is practical and...

You are not short on calling. You are short on margin.

And the hospital owns most of your calendar before you ever open your eyes on Monday morning.

This episode is the practical one. The one where we stop talking about whether you are called and start talking about how to actually build when your schedule belongs to someone else. Whether you are a 12-hour shift nurse running three to four ...

This is not an episode about leaving nursing.

It is a prophetic word for the nurse who has already decided on the inside and has not moved on the outside yet.

The nurses God is raising up in this season are not going back to the floor. Not because bedside nursing is not honorable. It is. But because God is doing something specific in the earth right now and He needs nurse leaders who are wi...

The hospital will post your position before your resignation letter is dry.

That is not cynicism. That is the business model.

This episode is for the nurse leader who already knows the answer to every question she has been too loyal to ask out loud. We are going into the story of Ruth, a woman who left the familiar with no guarantee of what was on the other side and built something that car...

It happens in the middle of a med pass. In the middle of a conversation with a patient. In the quiet of a shift that is going smoothly enough that your mind has a moment to wander.

And it goes to the same place it always goes.

I know I am supposed to be doing something else.

Not because you do not love your patients. Not because you are not good at this. You are exceptional at...

The salary is good. The benefits are real. And leaving feels irrational.

So you stay. You pick up another shift, join another committee, climb the ladder in front of you because at least that one is stable.

But something in you will not be quiet.

This episode is for the nurse leader who is not miserable enough to leave but too called to be satisfied staying. You have been pour...

You are the one everyone calls when things fall apart. The one who holds the room together when nobody else can. The one who leads through the impossible and makes it look like composure when on the inside you are running on the last of what you have.

You have been leading so long and so well that nobody thinks to ask if anyone is leading you.

And the honest answer, the one you have not sai...

Somewhere along the way you picked up a phrase that has been costing you everything.

It sounds like humility. It sounds like staying in your lane. It sounds like not thinking too highly of yourself. But it is none of those things. It is an agreement with a lie that was planted in you; sometimes by a system, sometimes by a culture, sometimes by a specific person in a specific moment who looked at everythi...

Nurse friend, this episode is going to meet you exactly where you are.

I sit down with Lori Owens, host of Practical Solutions for PTSD and a former U.S. Army civilian with 16 years of service including a high-stress deployment to Kuwait.

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