What happens when the universe puts an opportunity at your door—but fear tells you to close it?

In this heart-opening conversation, Laura sits down with Alana Beittel, NICU nurse turned Master Certified Life and Performance Coach, author of Elevate Your Frequency, and now one of Nurse Life Coach Academy’s newest lead learning coaches.

Alana shares her powerful journey from bedside nursing and burnout to finding her voice, reclaiming her energy, and stepping fully into her purpose as a coach and leader. Together, she and Laura explore how fear disguises itself as logic, how to trust your intuition when everything feels uncertain, and why saying “yes” before you’re ready might be the most important decision you ever make.

In this episode, they discuss:

• How Alana turned grief and burnout into purpose and leadership
• The fear behind “Who am I to do this?” and how to reframe it
• Why bravery and fear always coexist
• How nurse coaching helps you reconnect to yourself and your worth
• Letting go of guilt, shame, and the “overworked badge of honor” in nursing
• Bringing presence, intention, and mindfulness back to patient care
• The difference between external validation and internal inspiration
• Manifestation, intuition, and trusting the whispers that guide your next step
• What it means to live and lead with heart, courage, and purpose

About Alana:

Alana Kay Beittel is a NICU nurse turned Master’s Certified Life & Performance Coach, newly Board Certified Nurse Coach, and the author of Elevate Your Frequency: A Workbook to Organize Your Life, Uncover Your Strengths, and Rise Above Overwhelm.

She is the creator of the Triage Your Life™ and Burnout Zones™ frameworks, helping nurses and heart-led humans disrupt burnout culture, reclaim their energy, and redefine success in a way that’s both sustainable and soul-aligned.

With over a decade of experience in healthcare and a heart for leadership, Alana blends no-fluff coaching with deep compassion, bold accountability, and purpose-driven strategy to empower her clients to live and lead at full frequency.

Outside of coaching, she is the president of A Scoop of Hope, a nonprofit supporting individuals in recovery, and she loves spending time off-grid adventuring with her husband and two boys.

Now stepping into her new role as a Lead Learning Coach with NLCA, Alana is honored to guide and mentor the next wave of nurse coaches as they rise into their own purpose and power.

Connect with Alana:

https://www.facebook.com/alana.droege

https://www.instagram.com/alanakaybeittel/

Watch on Youtube:

https://youtu.be/OdUI1xIjxOQ

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In this episode of The Successful Nurse Coaches podcast, Shelby discusses the challenges and transformative power of selling nurse coaching. She reframes sales as a deep service to humanity, emphasizing the importance of ethical selling and advocating for clients' potential. Shelby shares personal experiences and insights on how to approach sales with confidence and integrity, encouraging listeners to view selling as a form of leadership and transformation.

Shelby emphasizes that selling is fundamentally about helping clients make decisions that honor their potential, rather than merely closing a transaction. Ethical selling is likened to advocating for a patient's healing in a hospital, where the focus is on service to humanity. The goal of a proposal is to reach a decision, not just a 'yes', as leaving clients in a 'maybe' is not effective coaching leadership. Shelby highlights that sales calls should feel magical and empowering, and that confidence in sales comes with practice and repetition.

Watch on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/y-mSCSv1F6A

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Can you grow a private practice while also navigating depression, anxiety, or trauma? In this heartfelt episode, Shelby sits down with Amy Frame, Director of Education at Nurse Life Coach Academy, to talk openly about the reality of mental health and entrepreneurship.

Amy shares her journey with lifelong depression, military service, and a misdiagnosis that kept her stuck until coaching helped her face the root causes. Shelby opens up about her own experience with anxiety, birth trauma, and the messy middle of being a coach, mom, and business owner. Together, they break down how to show up for your clients when you’re not at 100%, why vulnerability matters, and how to stop carrying clients’ “rocks” home with you.

Whether you’re at 72% today or just hanging on by your fingernails, this conversation is proof that you don’t have to wait until you’re “fully healed” to pursue your dream. Healing and building can happen side by side.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• How to stop waiting for perfection before starting your business
• Practical ways to show up for clients even during mental health lows
• The role of vulnerability and shame in entrepreneurship
• Why your “why” matters more than grit when things get hard
• Tools to return to neutral when life throws curveballs

Resources & Next Steps:

• Join our community: The Successful Nurse Coaches Facebook Group
• Learn about Nurse Life Coach Academy: thesuccessfulnursecoaches.com/nlca

Connect with Shelby: https://www.instagram.com/nurse.coach.shelby/

Connect with Amy: https://www.instagram.com/amy.frame.rn/

Connect with us:

• Instagram: @successfulnursecoaches
• Website: www.thesuccessfulnursecoaches.com
• Join the conversation in our Facebook group: The Successful Nurse Coach Community

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In this episode, Laura dives into one of the most common misconceptions in both life and business—the idea that you need to feel motivated before you take action.

After recovering from a two-week illness that left her feeling drained and unmotivated, Laura began reflecting on how easy it is to equate motivation with success—and how dangerous that belief can be for entrepreneurs and coaches alike. What happens when you lose your spark? When the excitement fades? When you simply don’t want to do the work?

Laura shares honest insights from her own experience, blending personal reflection with neuroscience and coaching tools that will help you understand motivation in a new way. She reminds us that action—not inspiration—is what creates momentum, and that discipline, systems, and alignment are what sustain it.

You’ll hear:

• Why waiting for motivation keeps you stuck
• How action actually creates motivation through dopamine and progress
• Why alignment—not passion alone—creates sustainable motivation
• How to coach clients who feel unmotivated or “stuck”
• The difference between extrinsic and intrinsic motivation, and how to work with both
• The importance of building systems and habits that don’t rely on feelings
• Why alignment with purpose fuels long-term consistency in business

Laura also offers practical tools for nurse coaches to help clients (and themselves) move forward even when the feeling isn’t there—from the “five whys” exercise to 21-day habit building and daily systems that strengthen self-trust over time.

If you’ve ever felt unmotivated, burned out, or disconnected from your purpose, this episode is a powerful reminder that success doesn’t depend on how you feel—it depends on what you choose to do next.

Tune in to learn how to take action without waiting for motivation, and how to create a coaching practice that’s driven by purpose, not fleeting emotion.

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In this week’s episode, Shelby gets real about the state of the coaching industry—the good, the bad, and the downright feral.

The coaching world has often been compared to the Wild West: full of opportunities, but also riddled with landmines. From overhyped promises and overpriced systems to heartbreaking stories of coaches being scammed out of thousands, Shelby pulls back the curtain on what’s really going on.

But this isn’t just a vent session—there’s a clear path forward. Shelby explains why nurse coaches are uniquely positioned to bring ethics, credibility, and standardization to coaching in a way that protects clients and restores trust.

If you’ve ever felt skeptical about coaching because of past experiences—or if you’ve witnessed the darker side of the industry—this episode will not only validate those feelings but also inspire hope. By leaning into our nursing values of care, ethics, and professionalism, nurse coaches have the power to raise the bar and transform coaching into a trusted, credible profession.

You’ll hear:

• Why the coaching industry exploded after 2020—and what went wrong.
• The red flags to watch for so you don’t get burned as a coach or client.
• How nurses’ training in ethics, scope of practice, and holistic care creates a natural edge in coaching.
• Shelby’s vision for a future where coaching is mainstream, trusted, and integrated into healthcare systems.
• Practical steps for raising the bar in your own private practice.

This is a must-listen if you’re ready to step into the role of not just coach, but also pioneer, builder, and standard-setter in a rapidly evolving industry.

✨ Tune in and join Shelby as she lays out why nurse coaches are the leaders the coaching world desperately needs.

Connect with us:

• Instagram: @successfulnursecoaches
• Website: www.thesuccessfulnursecoaches.com
• Join the conversation in our Facebook group: The Successful Nurse Coach Community

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In this episode, Laura discusses the importance of presence over education in the nurse coaching process. She emphasizes that patients often do not need more information but rather a supportive presence that acknowledges their experiences and feelings.

This conversation explores how curiosity, trust, and understanding can lead to better health outcomes, and how a focus on vision, energy, skill set, and strategy can facilitate transformation in clients. Laura also highlights the significance of mindset and the placebo effect in the healing process, advocating for a more personalized and empathetic approach to patient care.

TIMESTAMPS:

00:00 The Need for Presence Over Education

09:10 Transformative Coaching: Vision, Energy, and Skills

17:19 Mindset and the Power of Belief

23:25 Leveraging Placebo and Tailoring Education

Connect with us:

• Instagram: @successfulnursecoaches
• Website: www.thesuccessfulnursecoaches.com
• Join the conversation in our Facebook group: The Successful Nurse Coach Community

If you loved this episode…

Please take 30 seconds to subscribe, rate, and leave a review — it helps more nurses find this work and fall in love with the boring parts too. 💕

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In this episode, Shelby sits down with nurse coach Honey Hull, who turned job loss into a powerful pivot. What started as chronic pain coaching has evolved into something bold: helping clients reclaim intimacy and sex in the face of pain.

Honey shares how she retrained her own nervous system, why rest was the hardest medicine, and what she’s learning as she leans into a taboo (but deeply needed) coaching niche.

We talk about:

• What pain reprocessing therapy is and how it works
• Why communication is often at the root of chronic pain
• How Honey helps clients return to pleasure, intimacy, and joy
• What it takes to keep going when business feels hard

Connect with Honey:

Watch her (very good) videos on Facebook and follow her journey at https://www.facebook.com/honey.hull

Join our community:

The Successful Nurse Coaches Facebook Group

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You want to get better at coaching? Faster? The truth is way less glamorous than Instagram makes it out to be: you’ve got to put in the reps. Period. Your brain will try to talk you out of it. The personal development world will sell you the idea that it’s an energy or manifesting problem. But if you want to sharpen your skills, grow your business, and actually feel confident as a coach—you have to coach more.

In this episode, Shelby breaks down why the antidote to almost every problem in your coaching business is volume. Just like when you were a brand-new nurse fumbling through your first IV or assessment, confidence didn’t come from reading about it—it came from doing it. Coaching is the same.

You’ll hear why your first 10 hours as a coach feel wildly different from your first 1,000, how confidence is simply knowing what comes next, and why even if you are manifesting or calibrating your energy, action is still the thing that moves the needle. If you want more sales, more clients, and more impact, the answer is simpler than you think: do the reps.

• Discover why “confidence” isn’t a feeling but a byproduct of repetition and familiarity.
• Understand how the nurse-to-coach analogy proves that time in the chair is everything.
• Explore why manifesting and energetics might help—but never replace—consistent action.
• Learn how more conversations lead to more proposals, and more proposals lead to more clients.
• Get a no-fluff, straight-talk reminder that in business (and coaching), volume beats perfection every time.

If this episode hit home, make sure to subscribe to The Successful Nurse Coach Podcast so you don’t miss future no-BS coaching conversations. If you loved it, leave us a review—it helps other nurses find us. And come hang out with me and Laura inside The Successful Nurse Coaches Facebook Group where we keep the conversation going.

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