Hi! I’m Janna

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I started this journey falling into nursing more than it being a calling, but it was the best path I could have taken. As new Registered Nurse, I was floating through different units of the hospital and very quickly found myself exhausted and overwhelmed. I felt unmotivated and was losing sight of the energetic person I used to be. I knew something needed to change so I did what I thought I needed. I changed to critical care float because it felt like it had to be the job that was the problem. The burnout stuck, despite the new job, increased skills and training. I tried what I though had to be the next thing, I hired a personal training and got my nutrition in a good place, this combo helped me create some more energy but I still wasn't where I wanted to be. I decided to invest in myself by hiring a life coach in 2019. I learned how influence and create my own reality. That’s when the burnout started to shift, I had more energy and joy than ever before and my desired life started to feel achievable.

A shift happened, people started to come to me looking for help. I knew this wasn't an accident. I decided to dive deeper into life coaching for myself and got my life coach training  through Co-Active. The tools I’d learned allowed me to heal my nursing burnout and remain burnout free ICU nursing through the pandemic in 2020. I started to help my coworkers and other nurses bounce back from burnout caused by this traumatic period in our healthcare system and started officially coaching clients in September of 2020.

In 2021, my husband and I moved from Canada to Tampa Florida. I continued to use these tools to navigate the stress of moving and nursing in a new country with the continued pandemic remnants on nursing practice. Shortly after moving my husband became severely mentally ill being diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder. We spent a year seeing specialists and trying every medication, therapy, all the coaching tools I had at the time, but nothing worked. He got worse.  All my tools I thought I had mastered, need to be reworked so I could handle the stress of became a full time care giver. The fear and anxiety of trying to help someone fighting a “invisible” illness and watching them worsen was devastating.

2022 the unthinkable happened, while at I was at work my husband took his own life. Just like that, everything I had thought I knew shattered. All the research and tools I’d learned to support him, felt like it was for nothing. But it wasn’t, it was for me, my healing, my recovery, I just didn’t know it yet.  All my coaching tools became the lifeline I used to pick up the pieces and build a new life. I learned who I actually was beyond the titles of wife or nurse. I learned what really matters to me and the things that no longer held so much weight. I went from experiencing my biggest trauma to healing and creating more purpose and understanding of myself. Through all this my business had taken a year long pause.

In 2023, I felt like I knew myself more than I ever had in my entire life. With that, my purpose seemed more clear than ever: my desire to help nurses with the tools I’ve cultivated through my training, my research and more importantly my life. Since 2023 I have continued to develop new methods to teach nurses resilience. I focus on mental, emotional and physical components that come together to be paired with a deeper understanding of how this broken healthcare system runs. This has helped me help clients completely transform their lives from lost and exhausted to purpose lead careers they are truly proud of.