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Episode 20

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14th Sep 2020

020: The 5 steps to courageous conversations with Ally Nitschke

Are you experiencing conflict in your professional or even personal life but sweep them under the rug instead of confronting them? If you are, then it’s time that you had a Courageous Conversation with those involved. These conversations are where you speak up about what you feel and what is weighing you down. However, more often than not, we are scared to have Courageous Conversations because of the stories we have in our heads.  In this episode, we talk about the 5 steps towards having a Courageous Conversation. They can be confrontational with a lot of emotion involved. Through these tips and strategies, we can learn to better deal with what is going on in the mind chatter, step out of our comfort zones, and start these conversations.  When we lean into the uncomfortableness, we can find that there are so many good things on the other side when you can have these Courageous Conversations.  TOPICS WE DISCUSSED INCLUDE: Importance of mastering Courageous Conversations (3:36) Who needs you to be on your A-Game? (9:26) Encouraging others to follow their dreams when you follow yours (10:29) Resilience and challenging the status quo (10:30) The 5 Steps to a Courageous Conversation (11:36) Step 1: Mastering your story (11:55) Pattern interrupting technique (12:50) Step 2: Go on a fact-finding mission (13:30) Is that true and how do I know that it is true? (14:03) THINK: Is it true, helpful, inspiring, necessary, and kind (14:18) Step 3: Begin with the end in mind (14:39) Step 4: Plan it out (15:40) Step 5: Find the space (16:20) Resolution, solution, progress (17:05) Pre-frame (18:36) Communicating outside the courageous conversation (18:51) Moving out of the comfort zone (20:08) The inner critic (22:21) World Health Organization has declared burnout as a syndrome (23:14) The stories that we tell ourselves is a huge cause of stress (23:29) Compassion fatigue (24:24) Filling your own cup through self-care (26:55) CONNECT WITH ALLY NITSCHKE MadeForMore.com.au Connect with Ally on Instagram and Facebook  Connect with Ally on LinkedIn CONNECT WITH ELAINA MULLERY HappyNurse.com.au Connect with me on Instagram and Facebook Connect with me on LinkedIn Subscribe to my Youtube channel
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The Happy Nurse
Winner — APAC Insider Australian Enterprise Awards 2024 | Most Empowering Self Care Provider for Nurses. Burnout, compassion fatigue, and stress are rising in healthcare. This podcast exists to change that — one practical, honest conversation at a time.
Nurses are the backbone of the health system — always there to care for a stranger as if they were one of their own, forsaking precious moments with their own families to ensure others' loved ones are in good hands.
Compassion fatigue, stress, and burnout are rising across healthcare. Self care has never been more important — or more overlooked.
Elaina Mullery McDonald RN has 25 years of clinical nursing experience, a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology, and a Master of Business Psychology in progress. She is a certified NLP Practitioner, hypnotherapist, and mindfulness practitioner — and the founder and host of The Happy Nurse podcast. Having experienced burnout firsthand, she is passionate about equipping nurses with practical, evidence-informed strategies to protect their wellbeing and sustain the career they worked so hard for.

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Elaina Mullery RN has spent 25 years working across some of nursing's most demanding clinical environments — orthopaedic trauma, operating theatre, endoscopy, recovery, and day surgery. She knows firsthand what it feels like to run on empty, and it's that lived experience of burnout that drives everything she does.
Elaina holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Psychology and is completing a Master of Business Psychology at Edith Cowan University. She is a certified NLP Practitioner, hypnotherapist, and mindfulness practitioner, and has developed the 3R Framework — an original evidence-based methodology for building sustainable human performance at individual, team, and organisational level.
Through The Happy Nurse podcast, her online courses, and her white paper No Margin for Error, Elaina is on a mission to change the way healthcare treats its most valuable resource — the people who show up every day to care for others.