Last month, I graduated from The Nurse Coach Collective’s Transformative Nurse Coach Program that trains nurses to become Board Certified Holistic Health and Wellness Coaches. It is accredited by the American Holistic Nurses Credentialing Corporation. When I first heard about this program, I thought, “I love it, but how legit is it?” After doing extensive online research and networking, I had enough information to satisfy my inner critic and so I moved forward. Once I finished the program, the practicum, graduated, the question became, “Now what?”

Hold onto your panties, friends… This is the part where a Former Operating Room Nurse with a Business Past turns into (finally) an Entrepreneur, Founder and CEO, Bad Ass Bitch, Nurse Coach!!!

Entrepreneurship

When I started the program, I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do upon completion. Should I return to a hospital and try to find a job as a nurse coach? This is still a new specialty so not every hospital has this position. Some nurses who have finished this program were able to create a position for themselves in their institutions.

And then it occurred to me… I have always wanted to be an entrepreneur, a business owner, my own boss.

I took an Entrepreneurship class in college and loved it. I never pulled the trigger, because I was intimidated, so young, so very green. I thought that I should do what everyone else was doing which was trying to find the right job, the right boss, the right company who would propel to me to a successful career which would then lead to a happy life.

But doing what everyone else was doing was not working for me.

My path was long and winding, starting in business and leading to healthcare. And here I am, a holistic nurse coach building my own practice. Every step in my career has prepared me for this. My weird combination of experience in Advertising, Recruitment, Management, Nursing, Public Relations, and Coaching, has brought me to this moment. As I have shared my new mission with friends and former co-workers, they told me that I have been coaching all along. “You coached me,” they testified. I never realized that. I never gave myself credit for that. Never.

Right now, more than ever, I feel like I have found my Purpose, my Calling, my Path.

This is where I am. I’m digging deep into the archives of my Entrepreneur brain and refreshing my skills. I have already given my practice a name, and, like building a boat, the frame or the bones are under construction.