Colleen Rosenberg for Share Your Nurse Coach Certification Experience

Speaker: Colleen Rosenberg

Colleen Rosenberg: Hi nurses, my name's Colleen. I'm so excited to tell you how becoming a nurse coach has impacted my career. I have been a nurse for about 28 years and I've worked in many different areas and. I pictured myself retiring from the hospital that I have worked at for many years and that. With what I thought my career was going to be, and I was happy with that, I was content with that, um. And then I started listening to Lauren Shelby's podcast and. It's like their words opened up a whole new world, a whole new possibility. Just. Ideas, thoughts. Inspirations just keep pouring out of my brain. Such excitement for the idea of nurse coaching and what it could mean and what I could learn and how I could transform as a person. And being a nurse life coach academy, all of that has happened and even more than I could imagine, the transformation that I've been able to. Just go through myself, the things I've learned about myself, the things I've. Seen and learned practicing coaching with other people. Just so inspirational and so exciting and. It's helped me to be more present when I'm with patients and families and to really. Have the conversation with them. In a totally different way and listen to them in a totally different way. And I was a nurse leader for 12 years. I've had a lot of difficult conversations with. Families, I've sat with families in a lot of difficult times. And the ability to sit with someone and hold space for what's coming up for them. That you learn through nurse life coach Academy. Has given me an incredible feeling of. Just peace and presence when I'm. Um, sitting with patients, sitting with families, listening to them. And um just really tuning into what they're saying and hearing, hearing them in in such a different and deep way. Um, and I feel like they respond to that. And so, learning those coaching skills has really impacted my career, and also opened up a whole new career, so many learning options, so many growth opportunities, um, and really. Sitting with. Uh. Coaching clients that you practice with in Nurse Life Coach Academy, you get to practice coaching people, practice coaching your peers, practice coaching people that volunteer for free, and um if I can tell you what that feels like. It Feels like The conversations that you don't really get to have with patients and families that, but that you always wish you can have. It's like this feeling in nursing. When you're busy, you have so many tasks you're carrying around meds, IV bags, a blanket. Uh, a bunch of paperwork, uh, a bunch in your mind of things that you have to do, and you, you're carrying that with you everywhere when you go talk to a family, patient. You know that you have so many tasks that you have to get to. Um, and you can spend time with them, but. Say you come to someone who's crying. Say you come to a patient that had a difficult conversation with their wife. And you know you want to stay there and have more conversation, but you have to go to do those other tasks. Coaching feels like. The rest of that conversation. Each of the practice coaching clients that I've had sitting with them, listening to them so deeply, hearing about their life. And it just feels such like such a relief to be able to spend that time and sit with them and not have to leave and not go do something else and completely focus on the serving the other person in such a deep and profound way. It feels like the conversation. That you never got to have the rest of the conversations that you've wanted to have. It feels like that mom that's crying, you can sit down. And talk to her and hold her hand and spend an hour talking to her. It's amazing. I'm so happy that I made this choice.

Colleen Rosenberg: So I just decided to. I decided to pursue. Certification with Nurse Life Coach Academy. After I had a very long leadership role that really left me kind of feeling crushed, kind of feeling just incredibly burned out. Feeling like I didn't know what my identity was. I just felt like some of those core pieces of me as a nurse had been lost with the role. And it took me a long time to really. Um, decompress from the role and really think about it and really think about what parts of it I could really take with me in my career, what parts of it had such meaning for me and were so important, and the thing that I always came back to was that I loved having one on one conversations with nurses, inspiring them to. Um, to pursue a passion, to, to present at a conference, to talk to a family after they made a mistake, um, and really help mentor them in those things and having those great conversations and in changing their lives. And I knew that that was one on one conversations that I had with nurses, um, were the things that would always stick with me. They were the best part of being a leader, um, being able to inspire and motivate people. It's always so special and so important to me, and it always inspired and motivated me to be able to do that. And so I I just was thinking about that and I just typed in nurse coach, because those things really. Or just sitting with me and ringing through with me and. There were Laura and Shelby, they popped up, their podcast popped up. And I started listening to it and. It just opened up a whole new world and I was like, this is it. This is, this is what I was meant to do. I was meant to find them. I feel like I was meant to hear those words. I listened to them for one whole winter. I walked my dog every night. I listened to their podcast every night. I was inspired. I was excited. And a commitment grew so so strong inside me. I knew that that's what I wanted to do. I knew it before I had any call with them. I knew it, I knew that I wanted them to mentor me after Nurse Life Coach Academy, because I I believe in their program and I believe in them. They're they're real people who really made this happen, and it inspires me to think of that, um, and they are just as authentic and amazing. In the program as they are on their podcast and. I am really been so thankful that I found this program, um, and I've joined the residency to help continue to have support, and just today, I signed my first paid client. We didn't sign a contract yet because I didn't even make a contract yet, but she still wanted to work with me, and I was super excited that you're catching me on a day where this happened and it happens to be the. First conversation that I had just out of certification, and it's someone that I worked with and that I that I work with, and um and she wants to work together and I'm so excited about it. I can't even wait for it to happen. Um, and it wouldn't have, it would never have happened without Nurse Life Coach Academy and Laura and Shelley Shelby's inspiration and confidence in us. I love the program. It is a, it is a great choice. You will never regret it. Um, and even if you don't choose to open a private practice, you don't choose to use a certification, what you learn about yourself by going through it. It's completely worth it. It changes you as a person. It is absolutely amazing and I'm so happy that I made this choice. And you will be too.

Colleen Rosenberg: I Feel like. I have grown in incredible ways, personally and professionally from the nurse Life Coach Academy. I feel like I have had different conversations in my marriage, different conversations with my kids. The ability to sit and hold space and truly listen to the other person, listen. Not to respond, not to jump in, not to react, but really listen to their perspective. Has totally shifted some really important conversations with my kids, and really important conversations that I've had with my husband about topics that have been difficult to talk about in the past, where we've had been able to Have conversations in a, in a much different way. Um, and I'm so grateful for that transformation. Um, and I have had different conversations with patients and families, um, in ways where I can sit and be present and listen to them, and I have always done that. You know, as nurses, we always do that, but it is with a different. Purity of intention when you're just listening, sitting, holding space, listening to the other person to explore their perspective, to think about their perspective, not to respond to them, but to truly hone in and be present and pay attention to the words they're saying. Their experience of life and how that's different from yours, and not even in not even spending time comparing, just curiosity about that person. All of my pro bono clients that we have been practicing with in the nurse Life Coach Academy, so that you build skills to become a coach, every single conversation, I come away from it feeling like. Wow, what an interesting person this person is. And it's because you're spending so much time just like honing in and listening to them tell you about their experience of the world, and you just don't get to do that. That's just not, uh, something that we give ourselves the time and the space to do. And so being able to do that is, is just, uh, an experience that is unlike any other, and is really Um, given me just feelings of profound, I think, connection to other people when you're listening to them, hearing their human experience. Feeling their energy and knowing how. Mirroored it is to all of our human experiences. It doesn't matter what our role is, it doesn't matter who we are. There's such a connection there, and to be able to experience that and experience that kind of exchange of energy when you're really closely listening to someone else, it's just amazing, and I'm so grateful for this program, for Teaching me those skills and. Letting me have those conversations to practice because uh I have learned so much about myself and so much about just human nature and. Um, and it has been so excited. I can't wait to learn to be a better coach. I can't wait to keep coaching and coaching and coaching and practicing. Uh, because every single time I learned something about myself, I learned something about the other person, and I grow as a person, and each conversation is so valuable, and I am so grateful for this professional and personal growth.