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Welcome to The Bold Brief—

You are part of a community of expert nurses and healthcare professionals redefining what it means to lead with authenticity, balance, and meaningful challenge—driving forward with confidence.

We do not follow traditional career paths. We build them intentionally with strategy, systems, and clarity.

Every edition delivers practical insight, bold reframes, leadership, and career-building tools for true happiness in your life and career beyond the bedside.

This time of year, we all want it: To hear about the non-traditional roles Bold Nurses landed in 2025! I have 4 great success stories to share!

So, let’s be bold in reigniting your spark for a non-traditional role … and let’s celebrate 4 bold nurses with new non-clinical roles in AI healthcare!

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The Spark That Changed Everything

There wasn’t a dramatic breaking point. No single moment where I said, "Enough is enough."

Instead, it was a slow burn, a creeping realization that something felt off.

I had built my professional nursing career with intention, worked my way through many years of medical-surgical nursing, early & mid-career leadership, industry, consulting, and academia until tenured, while I developed expertise across key corners of nursing and healthcare. I became an expert. A high-performer. A nurse and leader that people could trust, rely on, and look up to.

But even with all that success, something was missing.

✨I had lost my spark.✨

It wasn’t just exhaustion from long shifts, never ending weeks, or the pressure of leadership and non-stop learning. It was deeper than that.

I felt trapped in a roles and sometimes, in my career that no longer fit the person I was becoming.

There is a Silent Struggle No One Talks About

If you’re an expert nurse or healthcare professional, you know this feeling.

You dedicated years, and sometimes decades to your career. You’ve built a reputation, gained experience, and mastered your craft. You built your personal brand.

But then, one day, you wake up and ask:

“Is this it?”

You love being a professional. But you also crave more:
🔥 More happiness.
🔥 More balance.
🔥 More control over your time and future.

Not because you’re ungrateful. Not because you want to abandon nursing.

(My BIGGEST Fear - Abandoning nursing - what would my family, friends, and colleagues think if I left the bedside and nursing after so many years committed to my traditional nursing career?)

But because you know, deep in your soul, that you were meant to do more than survive—you were meant to thrive.

I Needed an Answer to That One Question That Could Changed Everything

One night, after a particularly draining series of shifts, I asked myself:

“What if I don’t have to choose?”

What if I could still use my nursing and leadership expertise, still make an impact—but in a way that gave me authenticity, balance, and meaningful challenge?

This one question set me on a path I never expected.

The Real Problem: Why So Many Nurses Stay Stuck

Here’s the truth that I think no one talks about:

Most nurses don’t stay in their careers because they love every aspect of their job.

Most nurses stay because they don’t know how to pivot—how to take their expertise and translate it into something new.

Nobody teaches us how to:
✅ Leverage our existing education and skills for new opportunities.
✅ Build life-work systems that prevent burnout, and prevent dissatisfaction.
✅ Make career moves that align with who we truly are - as you grow through your career.

So we stay. We settle. We tell ourselves, “This is just how nursing is.”

But it doesn’t have to be.

❌Don’t get another degree. ❌Don’t get another certification.

✅ You are already more that you realize!

Giving Myself Permission to Evolve

I knew I had two options:

1️⃣Keep going down the same road, hoping something would change.
2️⃣Take control of my career & life and intentionally design a life that felt aligned.

I chose the second path.

1. I started studying traditional career transitions - starting with my own traditional career as a medical-surgical nurse and applying all that I learned from my time in the staffing industry and later from the life sciences (biotech) industry.

2. I studied self-leadership, self-discipline, productivity, emotional intelligence, and personal development. I experimented, I failed, and I refined my process.

And in doing so, I built something life-changing:

Once I integrated ABCDs into my own life and career, everything changed.

Then, I knew I had to help other nurses do the same.

A New Approach to Career Success

My work in coaching and mentoring expert nurses is not just about finding “a new job.”

It was about helping expert nurses and other healthcare professionals ✨reignite their spark ✨and thrive in careers ✨that align with who they truly are.✨

So I created The BOLD Nurse Academy—a strategic, proven program that helps nurses and healthcare professionals:

🚀 Build personalized life-work systems to prevent burnout and maximize happiness.
🚀 Navigate a lifetime of career transitions with confidence and clarity.
🚀 Step into non-traditional roles (read examples below) including industry leadership, entrepreneurship,, education, training, and quality roles with strategy and self-assurance.

NEW in 2026: AI-Adjacent Roles Are Here. Nurses Are Leading!

The ABCD’s work! The rise of AI-roles are here. Below are 4 success stories to share. I explained the AI shift in the 2025 Bold in Innovation series. These roles are here and I helped nurses get these types of roles!

We spent 2025 helping members of our BOLD community successfully transition into non-traditional, high-demand roles that most nurses never hear about. These roles are:

💻 Remote💸Starting no experience @$87/hour 🛠️Require no tech industry education

🎯 Filled only by referral, and not found on job boards!

These AI-adjacent roles are the behind-the-scenes human intelligence that supports safe, ethical, effective use of AI in healthcare and beyond.

Here are 4 AI non-traditional successes from Bold Nurses in 2025!

🎯 James, a former cardiac step-down nurse charge RN with an MSN, now reviews clinical AI output for a major MedTech company, ensuring it meets safety and evidence standards.