The Successful Nurse Coaches ™

How do you find your first paying clients as a nurse coach without feeling awkward, salesy, or overwhelmed by everything you think you need to do before launching your practice? In Part 2 of Laura’s masterclass, she shares a practical roadmap for building a nurse coaching business through connection, service, and word-of-mouth referrals. Learn how to start with the people already in your network,...

What if you could help people in the way you’ve always wanted to as a nurse, while creating a career with more freedom, flexibility, and purpose? In Part 1 of Laura’s masterclass, she breaks down what nurse coaching is, how it differs from traditional nursing and therapy, and why it can be a rewarding path for nurses who feel limited by the current healthcare system. Drawing from her own journey i...

What happens when you stop trying to figure out the entire path ahead and start following what you're passionate about? In this episode of the Successful Nurse Coach Podcast, Laura interviews Fedline Lysius, a Board-Certified Nurse Coach who has built a career across integrative health, staff coaching, and nursing education. After six and a half years at the bedside, Fedline discovered nurse coach...

In today’s episode, Laura opens up the floor for a Q&A session in Part 2 of the most recent masterclass. With approximately 150 nurse coaches in attendance, many topics were discussed throughout the session, covering how to introduce nurse coaching to hospital leadership, approaching healthcare systems, building profitable staff wellbeing programs, choosing the right certification path, and fi...

Today, in Part 1 from our most recent masterclass, Laura makes the case that nurse coaching is moving from an emerging specialty into a legitimate healthcare service line, and that the infrastructure needed to build nurse coach departments is already beginning to take shape. She explores what happens when a role that already exists in practice gets named, credentialed, supported by evidence, and e...

In today’s episode, Laura tackles one of the most common questions she hears from new Nurse Life Coach Academy graduates: do you have to be on social media to build a successful coaching practice? The short answer is no, but the longer answer is that it will make your path easier. This episode explores what's really behind the statement "I hate social media.” Whether it's about consumption, a fear...

In this special episode of The Successful Nurse Coach Podcast , Alana Beittel sits down with Nancy Thompson, a nurse with over three decades of experience who found her way to nurse coaching after feeling the weight of working inside two of the most broken systems in the U.S. - healthcare and education. Nancy shares her journey from seeing NLCA pop up in her social media feed, to trusting her intu...

In part 2 of the Cognitive Distortions Masterclass, Laura shares a step-by-step business roadmap from certification to first paying client, covering the four-phase timeline: weeks 1–12 for certification training, week 12+ for the business course where you set up your LLC and legal foundation, weeks 12–20 to learn enrollment conversations, and weeks 20–6 months for pro bono clients. She notes that...

In today’s episode, Laura teaches one of her favorite coaching concepts: cognitive distortions : the mental shortcuts and biased thought patterns that shape how we see ourselves and the world. Whether you're a brand-new nurse curious about coaching, a student in certification, or an established nurse coach, this episode breaks down the 10 most common cognitive distortions we see in ourselves and i...

In today’s episode, Laura continues with our series on the six human needs — this time focusing on how to use the model as a diagnostic tool in your coaching sessions to ask sharper questions and help clients get unstuck faster. In this episode: When a client "isn't making progress," ask: What is this behavior doing for them? Often it's meeting a deep need in a negative way. A powerful case study...

In today’s episode of the Successful Nurse Coach Podcast , we kick off a series with Tony Robbins' framework of the six basic human needs. We explore what each need is, how they show up in our lives (both generatively and destructively), and why understanding your top two needs is essential for designing a life of intention and fulfillment. The Six Basic Human Needs: Certainty : The need for stabi...

In today’s episode, Laura shares how her experiences with burnout, chronic illness, and the limitations of traditional healthcare led her from ICU nursing to nurse coaching. She introduces the concept of "soft nursing," a proactive, relationship-based approach that focuses on root causes and whole-person healing rather than crisis management. Laura also challenges the idea of work-life balance, ad...

In Part 2 of this workshop, Laura dives into one of the biggest mindset shifts entrepreneurs can make: separating self-promotion from idea promotion. While many coaches fear that marketing means constantly talking about themselves, Laura explains that the most impactful marketing isn't about being the center of attention—it's about championing ideas that genuinely help people. She explores how to...

In Part 1 of this masterclass, Laura explores the foundational mindset shifts that every aspiring nurse coach needs before building a thriving coaching practice. While it's easy to focus on certifications, business strategies, and marketing, lasting success begins with something much deeper: your own personal growth. Laura shares why becoming a coach isn't simply about learning new skills. It's ab...

In today’s episode, Laura sits down with Teresa Taylor, a graduate of the Nurse Life Coach Academy and Residency Program, to explore the profound personal transformation that led her from a successful career in trauma nursing and healthcare leadership to building a life and business rooted in purpose and alignment. After experiencing the devastating loss of her younger brother, Teresa found hersel...

In the final installment of this three-part workshop series, we move beyond concepts and into lived experience. Through several courageous live coaching demonstrations, participants explore the deeply personal relationship between spirituality, trust, identity, and healing. Together, they unpack how religious conditioning, past experiences, and life's greatest challenges can shape the way we relat...

In Part 2 of our workshop series, we move beyond defining spirituality and begin exploring how it can become an embodied part of our coaching practice. This episode focuses on identifying your core spiritual values, understanding how those values shape your presence as a coach, and learning how to respectfully incorporate a client's own spiritual framework into transformational conversations. You'...

What role does spirituality play in transformational nurse coaching? In Part 1 of this special three-part workshop series, we explore one of the most powerful topics in coaching: spirituality. Whether spirituality is central to your life or something you're only beginning to explore, this conversation creates space to examine your own beliefs without judgment. Through personal stories, research, a...

Do you need a better planner, or a completely different relationship with time? In today’s episode of The Successful Nurse Coach Podcast , Laura explores the powerful distinction between time management and time ownership. Drawing from her own experiences as a nurse, entrepreneur, mother, and leader, she challenges the belief that productivity problems can be solved with better systems, color-code...

What happens when a nurse stops waiting for permission and starts trusting herself? In this powerful conversation, Shelby sits down with Canadian nurse coach Courtnie Breit to discuss her journey from burnout, stress leave, and questioning her future in healthcare to building a thriving private practice and helping lead the nurse coaching movement in Canada. After nearly 20 years as a registered n...

In today’s episode of The Successful Nurse Coach Podcast , Laura tackles one of the most common challenges new nurse coaches face: comparison. From feeling behind in your business to questioning your abilities and worthiness, comparison has a way of stealing confidence and creating unnecessary suffering. Laura shares personal stories from her own journey, including lessons from mentors, networking...

In today’s episode, Laura breaks down the real math behind building a profitable nurse coaching practice while cutting through fear and uncertainty to show you exactly what it takes to replace (and exceed) a traditional nursing income. Why it's "simple, not easy" - The framework for success is straightforward; what's hard is the internal shift in identity, fear of rejection, and limiting beliefs T...

In today’s episode of the Successful Nurse Coach Podcast , Laura dives into the power of identity and how the roles, systems, and environments around us quietly shape who we become. Laura shares personal stories from her nursing career, including the realities of working through exhaustion, pregnancy, and people-pleasing tendencies, while unpacking how many nurses unknowingly adopt identities that...

In today’s episode , Shelby sits down with Kris Christie, a recent graduate of The Nurse Coach Residency program, to hear her inspiring story of becoming a board-certified nurse coach while working full-time as a public health nurse. Kris became a nurse in her late 40s after working as a caregiver and discovering a passion for healthcare. She holds a Master's in Nursing (Clinical Nurse Leader trac...

Melissa Parsons spent more than two decades in nursing, from trauma and cath lab to becoming a nurse practitioner. But after years of feeling increasingly disconnected from the kind of healing she truly wanted to offer, she reached a breaking point. In this conversation with Shelby, Melissa shares the deeply personal journey that led her toward nurse coaching, spirituality, and building a business...