The Empowered Nurse: Recent Episodes
Lacey Magen Naematullah
The goal of The Empowered Nurse Podcast is to bring to you tips and empowerment with every single episode. Your nursing journey MATTERS and should be one that you are PROUD of. Let’s dive in and feel the power.
In this episode, Lacey is sitting down for a coffee chat with her fellow nursing school grad and friend, Angela. Angela is an Emergency Nurse at one of the busiest hospitals in the nation and she has a lot of experience beyond the bedside - from dealing with a mass exodus of employees (pre-pandemic) and then stepping up from the challenges that arose from that. She also talks about her personal journey why she left a career in the music industry to become a nurse.
Welcome back to the Empowered Nurse Podcast! In this episode Lacey is going over what you can expect from this season of the podcast and sharing her current takes on nursing. She talks about the biggest struggles and challenges she’s seeing with new nurses right now, why we need to be okay with some on the job learning, and seeking connection and community all while keeping it realistic. Get ready for some realistic optimism, motivation, and new mindset hacks for your empowered nurse journey.
This bonus episode was originally shared on the Thriving Joy Podcast with Katie Carroll. Katie interviews Lacey who shares her story and journey to becoming a nurse and nurse mentor, the beauty and uniqueness of being a nurse, building confidence, and more. Katie and Lacey also discuss how nursing has changed in the last 20+ years, networking and community building, why having a life, priorities and focuses outside of your career is important, and much more!
Lacey recently took a social media detox consisting of a week off of all social platforms and was able to gain some great insights. In this episode she shares those insights, what she learned about herself, and why you may want to try a social media detox yourself!
In this episode, Lacey shares a personal experience that led her down the path of better understanding delegation to do it more effectively. Delegation is not something new nurses are taught and is oftentimes one of the biggest challenges she sees for her mentees so she wanted to dive deeper into the subject. Lacey also shares how communication plays a critical role in delegation, who and how to delegate to if you don’t have nursing assistants on your floor, and creating a team camaraderie.
Lacey recently polled her Instagram audience on mental health. About 2000 people voted and 79% of those people stated that they experience anxiety frequently yet only 18% said they seek out therapy for their anxiety. After diving a little deeper she found that the reason why the number of those seeking out therapy was so low was due to three main reasons; cost, unsure of how to find a good therapist, or social shame. This episode explores and shares resources for therapy and mental health.
Today Lacey chats with her personal mentor, Ash Mcdonald, about cycle syncing and how it affects our lives (physically, emotionally, socially, and more). Ash is a therapist, mentor, self-care advocate, productivity coach, & time strategist and firm believer in all things transformation. She helps busy, ambitious women craft a life they’re obsessed with through self-awareness, intentional action, and soul-nourishing routines and rituals to live by.
Lacey talks thoughts becoming things - from failing tests and feeling bad to empowering herself by reflecting and creating positive practices in less than 10 minutes a day. In this third episode of a 3-part series Lacey shares on self-talk, affirmations, and why it’s a big part of the Empower 90 journal!
Today’s episode is two of a three part series where Lacey dives into another piece of the Empower 90 Journal & Planner before it goes on sale in a few weeks! Today’s episode is all about reflection and sharing her biggest tip for self-awareness.
Lacey is bringing back the Empower 90 Nurse Journal & Planner! The Empower 90 Journal & Planner is a 90 day empowerment practice that takes less than 10 minutes to complete each day and is the exact tool Lacey created and uses to reframe her mindset and beliefs about herself and her capabilities as a woman, wife, nurse, business owner and now mother! Lacey goes in depth to becoming an empowered nurse and focuses on how to manifest a positive end to the year of the nurse.
Lacey chats with Allie, The Debt Free Nurse. After being an RN for five years and stressing about her debts daily she decided to learn about personal finance and with that she’s been able to pay off 46K in one year, save 10k in 6 months and pay off all of her student loan and credit card debt. Today, Allie is a part-time nurse, student, and continues to help nurses by providing them with an approachable way to pay off their debt.
Lacey chats with fellow nurse and nurse mentor, Laura Wiley. Laura is a former PICU Night Shift Nurse with a passion for self care. But it wasn’t always that way. She was quickly headed for burnout until she was headed for vacation and finally had more than three days away from work to realize what she was doing to herself! She quickly developed a plan to create a balanced work life, avoid shift hangovers, and now helps others to do the same.