Nursing the System

Episode Overview Middle leadership is the loneliest job in healthcare. I know because I've lived it—and I hear it from my nurse leader clients every single week. Even when you have a great one-up leader, a peer to share...

Episode Overview Today's episode was sparked by a question from Jessica, a podcast listener and Changemaker Essentials grad—thank you, Jessica. She asked how to actually cultivate belonging on a team, because most of...

Episode Overview We're back. About a month ago, in my mid-year reflection (episode 75), I made a decision on air: pause the podcast, force myself to rebuild consistency on Instagram, and see what happened. This episode...

🎙 Episode Overview It's Wednesday, the first week of July. I just spent three hours writing my mid-year self-review for corporate, and it hit me: I haven't done this for the rest of my life. The first half of 2026 is...

🎙 Episode Overview I coach a lot of nurse leaders, and one pattern comes up constantly: "I want to get better at X." The hard conversation. Strategic thinking. Making data-informed decisions. And when someone tells me...

🎙 Episode Overview I just got back from California, where I spent a few weeks on sabbatical that culminated in my Grandma Marge's 90th birthday celebration—what she lovingly called her "dead or alive party." She said...

🎙 Episode Overview A huge passion of mine is giving nurse leaders a map of what strong leadership actually looks like across all the dimensions that matter—because that map isn't something most of us are given by our...

🎙 Episode Overview You put in all the effort to design a change project. You launch it, you train the team, you celebrate. And then a few months later, you look back and realize nobody's doing it anymore. The momentum...

<h2>🎙 Episode Overview</h2><p>This is my first-ever TV show case study episode, and it's one I've been sitting on for three years. After watching the pilot of The Bear on FX back in 2022 (the first episode is literally...

<h2>🎙 Episode Overview</h2><p>This one's a crossover. If you're on the System Sunday email list, it might sound familiar, I adapted this week's email into podcast form because I want podcast-only listeners to know...

<h2>🎙 Episode Overview</h2><p>My default move is never to hand you a list of everything wrong with your organization—not because I think it's fine (I know it's not), but because I want to push you past the complaint...

<h2>🎙 Episode Overview</h2><p>This one's a little different. Taylor (my right-hand at NTS) is putting me in the hot seat, running a Q&A pulled from Instagram submissions and a few of her own curveballs. I'm going in...

<h2>🎙 Episode Overview</h2><p>This episode is not "Five Ways to Prep for Your Interview." It's about the relational and strategic dynamics that most people completely miss because they've been conditioned to think...

<h2>🎙 Episode Overview</h2><p>This episode is a follow-up to last week's conversation on action bias—and it's one I think a lot of nurse leaders need to hear.</p><p>Today, I'm introducing a framework I've been using in...

<h2>🎙 Episode Overview</h2><p>In this episode, I’m breaking down a trap I see all the time and one that most nurses don’t realize they’ve fallen into. We’re talking about the difference between seeing a systems problem...