In partnership with

Welcome to The Bold Brief—

You are a member of this community of top-notch expert nurses and healthcare professionals who aspire to be “bold” in career and life.

We want to be bold in our life’s purpose, and bold in life and career choices so that we can live with authenticity, balance, and meaningful challenges, driving forward with confidence.

So… the 2025 summer reading series book 2!

Welcome to the 2nd edition of the 2025 Summer Reading Series!  

This series is designed to ignite your life and career with practical tools and ideas you can implement right away from a variety of sources.

You do not need to read 5 books because I have done that for you!

🔍Book 2 is Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us by Dr. Tasha Eurich

Core Concepts from Insight

• Self-Awareness: There are 2 types of self-awareness that we all need to consider

  1. Internal Self-Awareness: Understanding your own thoughts, feelings, and motives.

  2. External Self-Awareness: Understanding how others perceive you.

• The Insight Loop is a specific process of seeking feedback, reflecting on it, and adjusting your behavior to improve self-awareness. The insight loop involves:

  • Asking others for honest feedback

  • Listening non-defensively

  • Integrating insights into your actions

• The Blind Spot: Everyone has areas where they are simply unaware of how they are perceived by others, often due to biases, defensiveness, or lack of feedback.

• The Power of Reflection: Regular self-reflection helps bridge the gap between your internal self-awareness and how others perceive you, fostering growth and authentic leadership.

My Take for You

This book delivers powerful insights on how our self-awareness, especially how others see us. The focus on self-awareness impacts our relationships, leadership, and career success. Dr. Eurich’s focus on internal and external self-awareness resonates with what we teach at the Bold Nurse Academy (BNA): to truly transform, we must understand both our internal drivers and how others perceive our actions and decisions.

In the BNA, we address key concepts of emotional intelligence, self-leadership to enable self-awareness and address blind spots.

• Emotional Intelligence: Self-awareness is a central theme, building upon both EI and leadership research; we learn how understanding our emotions and those of others leads to better leadership and relationships.

• Self-Leadership influences your thinking, behavior, and actions towards your objectives. It involves self-awareness, self-regulation, and the proactive approach to leading oneself through life's complexities and relational dynamics. This ties in with the ideas of self-awareness and reflective practice, helping you build more impactful relationships to identify and overcome blind spots.

• Reflective Practice: Reflection is a skill and practice of looking back on experiences, insights, and achievements to extract meaning and purpose. Reflection empowers us to recognize growth, celebrate wins, and refine our future goals. We cultivate self-awareness by leveraging feedback and self-reflection.

What You Might Find Useful: Key Takeaways from Book 2 and The Bold Nurse Academy

• Feedback is Essential: Receiving honest feedback is crucial for understanding how others see us. This is all about hearing constructive feedback that helps us grow. At BNA, we teach nurses to seek feedback proactively from managers/directors, supervisors as well as peers, patients, and mentors.

• Reflection Drives Clarity: As leaders and healthcare professionals, we are often too busy to pause and reflect. We can agree that reflection is key to improving self-awareness, especially in high-stakes environments. We teach nurses to carve out regular time for reflection, essential for career growth.

• Recognizing the Blind Spot: Everyone has blind spots … those places where we do not see ourselves clearly. Identifying these areas can be a game-changer in career development. At BNA, we guide nurses to confront their blind spots in terms of “gaps“ using gap analysis and use them as opportunities for transformation. We also enact specific evidence-based methods that has been well studied to address blind spots, proactively.

Actionable Insight →Take One Small Step Today

Take a moment today to seek feedback on something specific:

1. Ask a colleague or mentor for feedback on a key topic important to your leadership style, communication, or performance in a recent project.

2. Actively listen without defensiveness.

3. Reflect on the feedback you receive and take note of any recurring themes.

4. Apply the feedback by making a small adjustment to your daily routine or work habits.

The key is to act on one piece of feedback at a time and integrate it into your behavior; seek opportunities to integrate the feedback overtime. By focusing on one small change, you can improve self-awareness and begin to shift how others perceive you over time.

Remember that we all have 1440 minutes per day. Use each minute wisely!

Scroll Down for Summer Reading Series Poll 2

Take the poll to be registered for a summer reading series prize!  

We 💗1440 Media!

Thanks for Sponsoring The Bold Brief!

Receive Honest News Today

Join over 4 million Americans who start their day with 1440 – your daily digest for unbiased, fact-centric news. From politics to sports, we cover it all by analyzing over 100 sources. Our concise, 5-minute read lands in your inbox each morning at no cost. Experience news without the noise; let 1440 help you make up your own mind. Sign up now and invite your friends and family to be part of the informed.

Sign up today!

Why This Matters

The self-awareness concepts in Insight are essential for nurses and healthcare professionals who are striving to lead with authenticity and confidence.

Feedback and reflection are powerful tools that can help you align your internal motivations with the way others perceive you, driving your success in life, leadership, communication, and career.

By regularly working on both internal and external self-awareness, you can build the life and career that aligns with your vison, goals, and purpose.

This approach is at the heart of what it means to be a Bold Nurse: Embracing growth with openness, curiosity, and a commitment to improvement.

Poll 1 Summer Reading Series

⚔️ Book 3 is next week!

In case you the goal this series, we will focus on 5 books handpicking practical tools. 

Book 1 🔄 Clarify your next career move with inward focused strategies - Working Identity by Herminia Ibarra.

Book 2 🔍 Break down the barriers keeping you from acting on new opportunities - Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us by Dr. Tasha Eurich

Book 3⚔️ Leverage your strengths to open doors in new roles

Book 4-5🌟Boost your confidence and visibility as a leader in your field

As you consider your next bold move, remember that career reinvention doesn’t happen overnight. It’s about taking small, aligned steps that help you explore new roles/responsibilities while still holding onto your existing identity.

The first step is often the hardest, but with guidance and experimentation, clarity will follow.

Stay tuned for next week’s edition of The Bold Brief

🔍 Book 3 ___________________ by ___________________.

Are you ready to learn to ___________________ and how that can ___________________?

Well - I have done all the work for you so, let’s enjoy a meaningful book - together!

I'm here with you every book of the summer. 💗

💗💗P.S. If you want to learn from me on a daily basis, come connect with me on LinkedIn

Remember that this is a dedicated space for you, the nurses at the bedside and beyond, the committed healthcare professionals ready to explore transformative career paths beyond traditional roles. Every week, we'll dig into evidence-based strategies, insights, and stories designed to empower you to take bold steps toward a fulfilling career and life outside the hospital setting.