In this episode, let’s kick off the new year by reconnecting with our "Career Why." The healthcare industry is currently facing significant challenges. And exploring more about our Why will assist us, nurses, in determining what our career goals are. Assisting us in making informed decisions about our careers and future. For many of us, change equates to uncertainty. Everything changes as we progress through our careers. And as humans, it is our inability to maintain stability that holds us back...
Jan 26, 2022•33 min•Season 1Ep. 36
Can you believe that we are celebrating our anniversary episode of High-Performance Nursing? I still remember that fateful day of January 17, 2021, when I was full of fears about the launch of this podcast. Now I can confidently say that I’m glad I chose courage and did not let my fears or doubts consume me. This courage also helped me build a community of high-performance nurses and healthcare professionals from all over the world. Today’s episode highlights what we have achieved as a community...
Jan 17, 2022•1 hr 24 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Happy 2022 Beautiful people! In this first episode of the year, I want you to take a moment to reflect on what you achieved and were proud of last year. It was a beautiful experience to see how much we had all changed and grown. It might have been confronting for most of us, but it was so nice to just be there and see how much everyone had grown and developed as individuals. We make new year's resolutions on a regular basis. But what I've realized is that when we make resolutions, we tend to foc...
Jan 12, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 34
In today’s episode of High Performance Nursing, let’s talk about some top tips for responding to interview questions. We are diving deeper into a couple of key components that I would love you to get your head around so that you can approach your interviews confidently. There is a lot of work, but preparation is the key for making it work and getting your dream job. In this episode, we will be covering three different types of questions that you will come across in the interview and how to respo...
Dec 13, 2021•39 min•Season 1Ep. 33
In this episode of High Performance Nursing, I will walk you through the exciting process of preparing for your next nursing interview. What if you can feel more confident and happy with what you can do and achieve in your interview? When we receive a call or email from a potential future employer and land an interview, we immediately go into fight or flight mode. It is because of our self-limiting beliefs and inner critic that we are unable to get past the interview. In this episode, we'll talk...
Dec 06, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 32
In this week’s episode of High Performance Nursing, I'm sharing a Heart to Heart chat I had with Lauren Belle on self leadership and leading others. Nurses are among the most trusted professionals, and leading by example is how we begin to develop our self-leadership. It’s about us doing the work and understanding who we are at our core. I hope that this episode empowers nurses to thrive in their careers and helps to fill some of the gaps as they advance and avoid burnout so that they have a tru...
Nov 29, 2021•37 min•Season 1Ep. 31
In this week’s episode of High Performance Nursing. I have a lovely chat with Kay Reynoldson, founder and full-time director of SustainHealth Recruitment. Kay may not be a nurse, but a nurse’s blood runs within her, she comes from a family of nurses and carers. She has seen firsthand how hard the nursing profession can become and what kind of vocation it truly is. In this episode, Kay shares her nursing career insights as a leading healthcare recruiter. Kay makes sure that she knows the story be...
Nov 22, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 30
In this unique episode of High Performance Nursing, I have a fabulous conversation with Elaina Mullery and Lauren Bell. Elaina is the founder of The Happy Nurse. When Elaina noticed that there was a rise in fatigue, stress, and burnout in healthcare workers, it prompted her to launch her advocacy. For her, self-care is an important factor in making sure that nurses offer the best version of themselves to patients, themselves, and their families. While Lauren is a Wealth and Wellness Coach commit...
Nov 17, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 29
In this week’s episode of High-Performance Nursing, I speak with Nurse Jacqui O’ Connor of Heart Place New Zealand. Jacqui is an advocate of healing and empowering carers. Her unique life experiences, deep spiritual connection, and practitioner tools are an indicator that she is not your average, traditional coach. It is Jacqui’s mission to offer the kind of care that has long been missing. Through this, caring professionals feel supported and develop their self-confidence and self-worth. In thi...
Nov 12, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 28
This week on the High Performance Nursing Podcast, I catch up with the remarkable Hannah Sawyer. Hannah is a registered nurse for 7 years, a timeline therapist, a master NLP practitioner, and a dog mom to a mastiff. Hannah is the founder of The Breakthrough Nurse, and she is on a mission to empower nurses. By helping nurses heal from their past traumas, acknowledge limiting beliefs and hindrances they become the best version of themselves. In this episode, Hannah shares the importance of doing t...
Nov 03, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 27
In what I think is the most exciting episode yet, I chat with Tim Ferris, a private strategic advisor to CEO's and CEO of Leadership genius. Tim is one of Australia’s leading strategic advisors to CEOs having had particular success in leading, coaching, and developing CEOs who are new to their role to unlock their leadership genius. He has served as a business advisor for the past 15 years, along with leading companies and large mission-based not-for-profits. Tim specialises in saving humans fro...
Oct 20, 2021•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 26
In this episode of HPN, I interview the amazing Lauren Bell, Wealth Mindset Mentor who helps heart centred professionals make a difference in the world by overcoming burnout and helping professionals understand what they are truly worth. Lauren has over 30 years of clinical experience and throughout this time has amassed exceptional coaching, counseling and mentoring skills to assist and support professionals in the move from surviving to thriving within their careers. In this episode, we talk a...
Oct 03, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 25
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Cynarra from Health Insight HQ. A nurse mentor/coach who helps nurses thrive in their career search, applying for roles and managing their university workload! Cynarra shares her career insights from working in the private system in Gynae, Anaesthetics, Recovery, Tertiary education and how that led to setting up her business Health Insight HQ. In this episode, we have a good laugh and bust some common myths that come up when we coach nurses throughout...
Sep 22, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 24
On this episode of High Performance Nursing, I had the privilege of interviewing the founder of The Breakthrough Nurse, Hannah Sawyer. Hannah Sawyer is a Registered Nurse of 7 years, a dog mum and Master NLP practitioner and Timeline Therapist. She is the founder of The Breakthrough Nurse. A brand on a mission of empowering nurses to heal from their past trauma, limiting beliefs and everything holding them back so that they can be the most empowered, confident, authentic version of themselves at...
Sep 09, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 23
On this episode of High Performance Nursing, I share my thoughts, concerns and genuine worries for the future of the nursing workforce. Over the last 2 years we have as a profession faced some unprecedented challenges not seen for over 100 years. I unpack some of the challenges we face in our day-to-day work, our career sustainability, our progression as nurses among many other key challenges. This episode is heavily influenced by my thoughts and opinions and does not reflect my employers. I wou...
Aug 31, 2021•32 min•Season 1Ep. 22
On this episode of High Performance Nursing, I catch up with Zara Lord (RN), the founder of uPaged an on-demand healthcare marketplace solution to connect healthcare facilities, nursing agencies & compliant clinicians in a single, fully integrated ecosystem. Zara was first and foremost a proud ICU and shares her career experiences whilst working in a busy tertiary hospital ICU. Zara's discusses how by stepping back and getting innovative within her spare time, she was able to identify a sign...
Aug 11, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 21
In this week's episode of HIgh-Performance, Nursing Liam gets deep as he talks about quitting a very high-paying dream job( >160K per year) after being in the role for 4 weeks! Liam talks about the challenges of finding a role that is in alignment with your personal values and professional career goals. Chasing your dreams doesn't always result in happiness, especially if you are chasing the wrong thing! This has been ongoing learning that Liam wants to share within the High-Performance Nursi...
Aug 03, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 20
In this episode of High-performance Nursing, Liam unpacks the two common types of mindsets that exist and how we can navigate them within a clinical nursing context. Drawing upon his personal learnings, studies, and experiences Liam dives into what affixed mindset is, how it may present, and how to spot it on your peers and self. Liam explores how you can coach someone with a fixed mindset to move on the mindset continuum towards growth. Furthermore, Liam unpacks what it means to adopt a growth ...
Jul 28, 2021•11 min•Season 1Ep. 19
This week on the High Performance Nursing Podcast, I was lucky enough to interview the amazing Nurse Jacqui O' Connor from Heart Place New Zealand. Jacqui is a champion of carers, noting the importance of carers (nurse, AIN's, students, PSA's, NDIS carers, OT's, Physios etc) filling their cup first allowing them to give more to the vulnerable they care for holistically via natural osmosis. Jacqui dives into her backstory, where she courageously shares her episode of burnout and her "aha moment" ...
Jul 12, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 18
In this episode of High Performance Nursing, I share with you the top tips that I have tried and tested to ensure that you have all the information and more required, prior to putting pen to paper and applying for the role! In this episode, I talk about how doing your research about the role you are interested in (yes even if you are a graduate nurse) can make a huge difference and potentially save you from the dreaded toxic healthcare workplace. I also share some insights from the recruiters pe...
Jul 08, 2021•18 min•Season 1Ep. 17
In this episode of High Performance Nursing, Liam gives us insight into the tips, tricks and tools he shares with his nurses to tackle the dreaded selection criteria and cover letter. Liam dives into how to utilise the STAR approach to tackling complex Selection Criteria questions to ensure you brand yourself optimally, to increase your chances of securing a nursing interview! This episode is an excellent FREE resource for grads, established nurses and nurses seeking a promotion to help them put...
Jun 28, 2021•17 min•Season 1Ep. 16
In this week's episode of HPN Liam takes you through the simple, practical steps to make your CV a stand out at your next job application, he shares his views on your CV being your entry way into a new role + just how critical it is as part of the application. Although it may sound boring, thoroughly evaluating the format, layout, font and length of your CV is paramount when aligning yourself with the right role for you. He also chats about the preparation you can do to make sure the job role yo...
Jun 23, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 15
In this episode of HPN Liam chats with Dunja, social worker and case manager about her accidental journey into working with her heart in social work. Together they unpack what it means to listen to the inner voice and passion of yourself and how doing good in an area that does good for your heart also, is rewarding on so many levels. As a nurse health care professional, both Liam and Dunja dissect the cost of doing the job of caring and talk about how to confidently and politely call out bad beh...
Jun 16, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 14
This week on HPN Liam chats with The Happy Nurse Elaina Mullery, listen as they both share their personal experiences with stress and burnout having both experienced it twice in their careers. Elaina explains how getting external help from a therapist who helped her understand Cognitive Behavioural Therapy ignited a passion in her for personal development that ultimately led to the birth of The Happy Nurse. We hear about the power of self awareness and self reflection, and how really it comes do...
Jun 09, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 13
Liam shares with us his learnings after attending a Brené Brown workshop on leadership. He shares his personal insights around adapting the takeaways to the healthcare industry and highlights the need for more vulnerability and courageous leadership. Pointing out that work cultures that don't shame or blame are often more inclusive, effective and have better outcomes. Liam shares that the definition of vulnerability focuses on 3 key components; risk, uncertainty and emotional exposure and that e...
Jun 02, 2021•33 min•Season 1Ep. 12
Crossing international waters we chat with Darisha Datt, Program Manager at the Fiji Cancer Society in this episode of HPN to highlight the underpinning public health has on the work nurses do and of course the different paths you can take with your nursing career. With 12 years experience in the Public Health sector as Program Manager Darisha's core focuses are on cancer prevention and cancer care support. Liam's internship at Medical Services Pacific in Fiji where he met Darisha opened his eye...
May 26, 2021•43 min•Season 1Ep. 11
In this episode of the HPN podcast Liam chats with Dr Bhushan Joshi, not only one of the most senior doctors in a busy Sydney ED department but also Founder of the Australian Association for LBGTQI Doctors + Dentists. This fascinating chat illuminates the way Dr Bhushan intertwines his knowledge of NLP to improve not only his patient outcomes but also his interpersonal relationships + depth of life outside of medicine. He attributes his life outside of work as the grounding to excel in his high ...
May 19, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Listen to the most powerful episode of HPN yet as Liam shares his real time experience searching for a new nursing job after moving interstate. He talks to the pressure felt as he embarks on this process + how identifying what he wants from a new job role really helps him stay focused. He shares with us how he busts through his limiting beliefs as they play havoc on his psyche, really unpacking Imposter Syndrome + describing his process for moving through this so that he can get comfortable bein...
May 11, 2021•35 min•Season 1Ep. 9
This is perhaps one of the most important episodes for HPN to date... Liam chats with Tammy Copley an extraordinary skilful leader with a heart as big as her selfless vision. Listen as we dive deep into the bullying culture alarmingly common in the nursing and midwifery culture, as Tammy starts off by giving us the context of her vast and esteemed career. Tammy tells us how the Nurses and Midwives against bullying Facebook page was born and her thoughts on why bullying has become so commonplace,...
Mar 28, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Liam chats with Nichola Browning who has an impressive & extensive nursing career spanning many specialities & disciplines, we hear her baptism of fire in the UK as Nichola speaks to the impact the mentorship of key senior nurses had on her burgeoning career to progress, grow & lead. We also hear her unpack the vitally important part debriefing & reflection have on processing emotionally challenging times to avoid burnout as Liam asks Nichola about her time in MDT practice within...
Mar 21, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 7
