Dori Johnson for Share Your Nurse Coach Certification Experience

Speaker: Dori Johnson

Dori Johnson: you know, you will begin to change yourself. I heard her say it, but I'm just like, what do you mean change yourself? Like we're trying to help other people change. But unless you go through this yourself, you will not know how to relate to someone else, you

Dori Johnson: Good evening everybody. My name is Dori Johnson. Um, I also have a special guest, Sheila. She is my wig. Uh, Sheila, say hello to everybody. Everybody say hello to Sheila. But, uh, anyway, um, oh my gosh, where can I start with the way that Nurse coach. Becoming a nurse coach has greatly impacted my career as a nurse. I currently practice as a worker's compensation nurse case manager, and we, a lot of my, everything I do is on the phone, uh, so I can't physically assess someone, but I can hear, um, their tone of voice and, you know, and even the words they say and the words they don't say. And I have been able to pick up on that, um, through the courses that I've taken with becoming a nurse coach. Um, that is one of the, uh, lessons that we go through all those nonverbal cues, um, that you pick up on. So it has allowed me, you know, um, the opportunity to broaden my assessment skills in such a phenomenal way. To the point where, you know, just giving someone, you know, a few more minutes. So, for an example, um, I had to call a guy the other day. Um, he's recovering from knee surgery, so he's going through physical therapy. So I just called just to reassess and to see how he's doing, how's therapy going, and, um, the tone of his voice changed and I picked up on that. Normally I'm not able to pick up on that. I'm just going through the day. How's it going? You know, let me know if you have any questions. But I said, hey, is everything OK? And he just started crying. He just said, Miss Dory, you know, a lot is going on right now. And I just don't know where to start, and you're the first one to ask me if I'm OK. So you know that that just touched my heart, you know, because. Becoming a nurse, you never know when that may be you on the other end receiving care. You never know if when that may be you in the hospital bed, or on the operating table, or, uh, you know, uh, about to go through a pain management procedure or something, or you never know when it may be you who is out of work and is only receiving 60% of your income, but you're paying 100% of your bills. Um, so anyway, I just, I, I cannot speak enough to as to how. Becoming a nurse coach has really. Impacted my nursing career, even to the point where my organizational skills. Have become so much. Yes. Like I'm more organized. I don't get as angst when I'm not able to complete my task. Like And just seeing all this unfold, it is blows my mind. It just blows my mind, but I am so grateful for these courses. I am.

Dori Johnson: Hm, what motivated me to pursue certification with Nurse Life Coach Academy? Well, I will say that I had initially looked into another certification program, um, I'm not going to say the name, um, but it was a bit pricier and it seemed as if no one was willing to take time to talk with me, um. And so um I just, I left it alone. I've just because I. Nurse life coaching, it, it popped up as something that I thought I would be interested in doing. Um, and like I said, I, I've reached out to a particular, um, uh, program before, um, and it, you know, I didn't, it didn't seem to appease me, so I actually left it alone for maybe 2 years and I think it was. Maybe on Facebook I want to say, or maybe it was YouTube. I came across Shelby and Laura and I know I know what it was. I just, I googled again nurse life coach programs and their program popped up and just looking at their videos and just seeing how. They seemed more down to earth, they seemed more practical, and it seemed to give more of a well rounded approach to becoming a nurse life coach. Um, and then the thing that really just sold me was I had an actual conversation with Laura. It was a Sunday, um, she called me, I think she was doing laundry or something, and she took time out of her day. To call me. Y'all, I was on top of the world. I was like, Lauren's calling me. Um, but just for her to. Give her time because time is precious, right? And time is something that we, you, you can't get back and you cannot put a price on time, right? Um, and so just her talking to me and her just encouraging me as a single mom, you know, she gave me some, uh, information on how well her single mothers did in the program. On top of that, she gave a breakdown of the financial options that they have, financing options that they have. And to me, that is definitely one of the things that helped to like put the icing on the cake, you know, and she was willing to work with me and And for that, I am forever grateful. And just having that conversation with her, it just showed me, you know what, Dory, she's human just like you, you know, and it just, it just helped that personal touch. Really helped.

Dori Johnson: Oh, goodness gracious, you guys are digging deep with this one. It says, how have you grown personally and professionally? Wow. Let me start with personally. Um, you know, Michael Jackson did a song years ago and I think I may have mentioned it on one of our, uh, coaching labs, um, or one of our cohort, uh, Um, tapings. I'm not really sure, but anyway, Michael Jackson did a song and it said, I'm starting with the man in the mirror. Wow, I remember, um, Laura, and maybe Shelby, I think maybe Laura maybe mentioned in one of the coaching labs, she said, you know, you will begin to change yourself. I heard her say it, but I'm just like, what do you mean change yourself? Like we're trying to help other people change. But unless you go through this yourself, you will not know how to relate to someone else, you know. Um When I came into this program as a single mom, I'm not going to say I was bitter. I'm not going to say I was bitter, but I definitely was overloaded with a lot of things, um, probably. I probably did fuss a lot with my children. And I, I probably did more than I was aware of. There was one day when my daughter said, both my daughter and my son, um, my daughter is 12 and my son is 7, well, he's 18 now, but they both said, Mom, why are you fussing so much? And I said, I am not fussing, but then I had to realize. You are. Then I asked myself, why was I fussing? Is it really that big of a deal? Like nobody was hurt, nobody was bleeding, nobody was in jail. Everybody was fine. Um. But as I've taken the courses, as I've gone through my peer coaching, peer coaching, woo, Lord, have mercy. Goodness gracious. Yeah, peer coaching has really helped to reveal some things about myself that I didn't even realize. You know, they say two eyes are better than one, you know, um. Peer coaching has really helped to open my eyes to a lot of things and even with doing the coursework, it has opened my eyes to a lot of things, a lot of things that I have buried deep down, um, that I need to just let go. Even to the point where I'm kind of embarrassed to say this, I'm not saying I'm a hoarder, but I had a lot of things in my house. That I just had. I'm not gonna say it was junk, but I just had a lot of things, just a lot of stuff. To the point where it was like, why I was feeling claustrophobic, but I'm not a hoarder or anything like that. But anyway, um, as I'm doing this course, I look. And I just start clearing stuff out, getting rid of these clothes. I had tons of shoes. I don't need all these shoes, you know, I had to clean out my closet. I had clothes all in my closet that I've never worn or that are too big and I'm just still holding on to them. Why? I'm not that person anymore. I'm a totally different person, and that is symbolic of what the nurse Life Coach Academy is doing. It's it's, I'm not that person. I'm a totally different person from when I first started this course until now. And then professionally I spoke on a little bit in the other video. I'm more organized, I'm more relaxed. I, you know, I am more in tune to those nonverbal skills. You know, I can just say that I have more. More upbeat days and I don't leave work feeling defeated. When 5 o'clock hits. That's it for me. I don't stay over no more. I don't. I do not because you have to have that work-life balance. And plus, you know, I have a life outside of work. You know, I got to refill my cup because my cup is empty at the end of the day, you know.