Take A Chance On YOU With Cat Golden

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Take a chance on YOU. If you don’t want to continue on the path you are on, take action to change the course of your life. When you are drained with your career or life in general, it causes you to lose your purpose and balance. This is especially true for nurses who are stressed out in their work. Cat Golden, RN, BSN, helps nurses find purpose, presence, and balance through her campaign called Nurses Inspire Nurses. In this episode, Cat talks about what inspired her to start this campaign and how it’s helping make nurses feel fulfilled.

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Take A Chance On YOU With Cat Golden

I am so honored and grateful to have my friend, Cat Golden, on the episode. I was scrolling through Instagram and I couldn't help but stop to scroll because every time I see a post by her, she is so raw and real. She says it like it is, but points out the good and how to take that good life to a great life. Let me give you a little bit of background on her. She took her passion for helping nurses find the confidence they need to create their own schedules, take a chance on their dreams and maintain self-care. It sparked a movement called Nurses Inspire Nurses and she created literally a huge shop and she hosts monthly events and coffee talks. She has created a movement and platform for nurses to succeed inside the nursing practice. If they're not feeling fulfillment there, how to jump out in faith and start their own thing and everything in between. She has even a 90-day mentorship program and it all revolves around The Leap Land Live Method and she is nothing short of a boss. Cat, thank you so much for coming on this episode.

Thanks so much for having me. I'm excited to be here.

I am inspired by the start of your story. I want you to share everything and give all the details, but basically you stepped into the nursing practice not feeling very fulfilled. You didn't know what to do, but you've dialed into those things that sparked you and ignited your soul in different things that friends pointed out that you were good at. A lot of entrepreneurs may be stuck in that "9:00 to 5:00." They're not feeling fulfilled, they're not in their zone of genius and they don't know how to pivot and create that side hustle that could eventually become that full-time hustle. If you can dissect your story, that would be awesome.

I went into nursing because I wanted to help people feel better. I've always loved helping people. I previously have a business degree and I worked in nonprofit and a drug and alcohol rehab. The things that made me a good nurse was never related to medicine. I've always been great at connecting with people and meeting their needs, seeing what they need, seeing how I can help and offer a solution. I would do that sometimes in nursing. I'd bring my patient's coffee in the morning and I make funny jokes and I'd say, "I've harassed the doctors." I was this almost rebel nurse in a way like not your average. It was frustrating to me though because I didn't quite fit the mold.

I thought I would be in health and wellness because I did like helping people so much. I'm passionate about health. A little different from the medical side of nursing, more holistic. I hired a mentor to help me scale my health and wellness business. She was like, "No, you need to get your life under control." What she was basically saying was I needed to find happiness inside, not looking outward into all of these other things. I started on a journey to find my own happiness. In that, I was doing things that made me happy and like what was natural to me. When I focused on that and took the pressure off of it having to be a business or having to make me money or any of that, I started helping the nurses at work.

I realized through that, that I was onto something because it opened this whole can of worms where nurses were sharing their stories and talking about things that were sometimes uncomfortable to talk about. It got to a point where I was even at work like, "I have to hang my meds. I have to take care of patients. I can't just take care of you." Through that experience of me trying to be happy and do what I was good at, I realized I'm onto something. That's when I had my first coffee talk. I was like, "We need to get together outside of work because at work is not the place to be having these conversations." There's not a time nor is it necessary at that moment. I started hosting coffee talks.

They were free and I was like, "I'm going to be at this coffee shop from 4:00 to 6:00 or whatever time, two-hour window, come and we'll have a topic. I'll help you take care of yourself. We'll figure out what's going on." That's how I started. No one came to my first one. I'm open about that. I had this whole great idea and a big plan, then no one came and I kept going. I snapped a photo and I'm like, "Here's the next one." Every time after that, that was many months ago and we've always had people come. We've even gone international now and I provide resources. They're happening all over the country, which is awesome. 

What's intriguing is what sparked you at the beginning? Did you have an eloquent plan at the beginning and a vision of what you thought that this could be? Were you like, "Let me dial into this, throw a couple of events and see what happens?" How did it start?

What I'm good at is making people feel supported and appreciated and connecting with them. I wanted to host a nurse give back night and that's what I called it, Nurse Give Back Night. It was a party for nurses because it bothered me. I worked in pediatrics and we would have athletes come in or different events, celebrities, different people and they shoved the nurses aside. Where it’s like no photos with anybody. Stay out the way. It was very rude to me. I'm a human being, “Don't talk to me that way.” It pissed me off. I was like, "I'm going to do something for the nurses. It would be Nurses’ Week." I'm not exaggerating. At one hospital I worked at, they gave us Twinkies. I was like, "Do people even eat Twinkie?" I didn't even know they still made Twinkies. I'm like, "How is this even still a thing?" It made me so mad. What I'm good at is I love gifts, which is why I love my online shop. I feel like I'm sending gifts and I love making people feel appreciated and that's something I am good at.

I was like, "I'm having this nurse give back night party and it's going to be amazing.” There's going to be wine and snacks. I had some local vendors come. I did chair massages and henna. I had my coach come and do mini life coaching sessions and it was awesome. There were tons of swag bags that I'm saying like free workouts, tans, blow outs, waxes and everything. At that event my mentor was like, "You need to have a physical product to sell." I was like, "I don't want to sell anything. It's to give back." She's like, "That's fine. It can be a give back, but people are 79% more likely to interact with you if you have a physical product." I slap "Nurses Inspire Nurses” on t-shirts. I spent $200 on t-shirts. It was a pure whim because she told me to. Through Instagram, I'd never gotten so many DMs. Everyone was messaging me like, "What are these t-shirts? How can we get one?" I realized through that, that I was onto something.

Taking A Chance: Find your happiness inside, not outward into all of these other things.

Taking A Chance: Find your happiness inside, not outward into all of these other things.

It was an organic transition. It was filling a need at the end of the day at your own life and the life of a lot of these nurses and ask yourself what would make me feel phenomenal, loved and appreciated? How could I do that for other people and pay that forward? That's awesome. With all your merchant sales, I know that your store has taken off on Instagram. Had there been a lot of issues or troubleshooting or has it been smooth sailing? What does that look like? I know there are a lot of people that want to dive into the eCommerce and to be able to create a product that they would love and they feel there's a missing point or gap in the marketplace.

For me, it's a little bit different because my merch is movement-based. People want to be a part of this movement. That's a realization I've come to, it's not even about fashion or any of that. It's different. It's more about the meaning and how it makes you feel. It's a little bit different than, "I like pink t-shirts. I'm going to open up a shop with pink t-shirts,” or something like that. It's very movement-based. That differentiates it.

Even a lot of Millennials crave to be something and to be a part of something that's bigger than themselves. They connect to it on the heart level. The amount of scalability in its own right is through the roof because it's truly linking arms with like-minded lady bosses. Where do you see the shop going? Where do you see this movement going?

I’ve got a physical space. I and another one of my girlfriends are sharing a 3,200 square-foot warehouse office space. It is coming up. I need a little more space and systems in place. I've already hired. I do have the bandwidth to grow. That's what I'm focused on is going deep with what I have in supporting this community. I'm working on some other big licensing type deals behind the scenes, but most of all, I want everyone to feel supported. The merch is one way we do that and help nurses even recognize each other.

With that office building, what does that going to entail? Is that where a lot of your merchandise is going to be? Are there going to be some employees there? What is that going to the house?

It's going to be a warehouse studio space. It's not going to be an actual shop with office hours. Although we do have an area that I can host little Meetups there or workshops and then also we'll do pop up shops there, but it will be more of a workspace and not a storefront.

What inspired you to pull the trigger on that?

I don't know. I wish I could articulate better. I feel things and know things and then it gets to be time and then I do it. I don't ask too many questions if I feel it inside and know, then I move on it. I was in the process of selling my house. I've always had my shop at my house. I've done probably $150,000 worth of sales in 2018 through my house. It's been wild. My neighbors are like I have so much stuff getting delivered. The work-life balance was hard. It was getting tough and I was not feeling the right energy in my house. I was in the process. I'm supposed to close on my house. I moved to a small apartment downtown and I love it. Moving downtown with that decision, I have to do something with my shop.

You said that one of the keys to your success you believe is jumping and let the net appear and going with your gut. I know that there are a lot of entrepreneurs out there that we call wantrepreneurs where they want it, but they're not willing to put the massive action behind those God-sized dreams. What would you say have been a couple of key principles that have helped you get out of your own way? I was even listening to a podcast. This guy said, "It's not usually the enemy that's holding us back. It is you that's holding you back." Could you be crystal clear on this?

Part of it is my innate nature. I'm a little naive and I know that. I don't think about it can't work out. In my mind it’s going to work out. I also believe in what I'm doing so strongly. I don't think you can fail. I don't mean that arrogantly. I feel that it's something so much bigger than me, that it's not about me, that I'm just the vessel. This support is needed and it was this gift that was given to me to share. It's not about me. It takes the pressure off of myself in a way that I'm not going to make the wrong decision because I'm trying to offer support to nurses and giving them and supporting them any way that I can. I feel divinely guided for sure, but I don't think about it not working out. That being said, I do weigh risks. I try to be smart but also, I'm not considering whatever happens. I'll make it work out.

Taking A Chance: Find your happiness inside, not outward into all of these other things.

Taking A Chance: Find your happiness inside, not outward into all of these other things.

Either we win or we learn. We work hard and quick. We wanted to get to the win.

Worst case scenario, I have to back out of this warehouse. I'm signing this lease, it's going to cost me this amount of money. Would I be okay with that? I'm like, "Yes, that's an absolute worst-case scenario. I'd be fine. I'll figure it out."

I resonate with you on that because I signed a twelve-month lease for a big office space for the new employees and the business. I felt so nervous but then I did the same thing. Worst case scenario, I have way more than enough money in the bank that if this goes completely sideways and haywire, then whatever. It is what it is, but what if this works? I’m dialing into when this works, these are the beautiful fruits and this is the return on investment that could be. That can be monetary, but that can also be purpose-driven and that can be mission-driven. That's what can get us out of our own head and out of our own way. That's very well put, Cat. When did you feel in your gut that you wanted to transition from being a nurse to this business? What did that look like and how did you get that calling or prompt or feeling that, "Yes, I need to do this?”

This goes with taking action, but I don't worry about step 100. When I was putting off with this, I wasn't thinking about like, "When I go full-time, this is what it's going to look like and all of this.” I was like, "What do I need to do right now?" That's what I see a lot even with my own mentees. I'm coming out with a hilarious video about this because I've heard this over and over and it is one of my keys to success. It deters them from steps 1 and 2. I was waking up at 4:00 AM sending emails before I worked at twelve-hour shifts at the hospital. I was making candles until 2:00 in the morning. I was trying to figure out even how much I should order or what I should do. I was running to the post office at all hours. I was stuffing packages. I was doing everything in my little tiny office and I never thought about what it would look like when I go full-time. When that time came, I made that decision. With nursing, it’s a little bit different than a lot of people because there's a lot of flexibility. I can go down for hours and hours. It's not like we're a 9:00 to 5:00, 40 hours a week or nothing. I work full-time and I hadn't signed the deal yet, but I knew it was coming. This is showing me that this is the next step. When that next step came, then I took the next step.

When you say that, it sounds simplistic. Don't over analyze it, just do it. What I'm hearing you say is take the next best step and work out and course correct it, but take the next step and do it now and do it with urgency. One of the reasons that you've taken the action at the speed that you have is because you're so grounded in your why, your mission, your purpose and you're not looking back. You know that this is a part of why you've been put on this planet to be able to breathe that life and belief into nurses that they can step up into where they're being called. Through this entrepreneurial journey, it sounds like you're extremely positive, which is such a beautiful gift. What would you say would be two things for someone that maybe has been raised in a family that's had maybe a little bit more of a negative mindset? How do you get yourself from that low vibe to a high vibe? Right before this interview you said, "I have two emails and it's laughable.” They're sided by side. One is amazing and the other one I saw differently in my head. Tell us how we can pop up into that high vibration to become our best selves.

One thing I will say and this gives me chills a little bit when I reflect on it, is I didn't use to be super positive and it's so funny. People that know me now when I think about how I used to be, it was not this way. When I was 28, I got divorced and I went through this weird and awful experience. What I learned from that was I had done everything right and when you do everything right and then it doesn't go how you plan, that causes a little crisis in your mind. That started my whole mindset journey. I've been doing this for a few years now. It's daily choosing and I changed the course of my life because I didn't want to continue down the path I was on. I've worked very hard to focus on what I can control and that's myself and not what other people do or think. That is also what releases me from a lot of stress related to outcomes and different things like that because I'm going to focus on myself and what I can control. That's my attitude. I can choose if I want to be negative or positive and I make that choice every single day.

I know that you said you're an open book, so I'm going to go there. We were talking about break ups and relationships. I've gone through a very raw transition. When you went through your break up, how did that help you in your entrepreneurial journey or take you down for a period of time? Did it just straighten or it didn’t affect it? What did that look like in this relationship?

It definitely affected me. It's hard as an entrepreneur. I'm like, "This is how I pay my bills and a backup plan.” It’s me. It was hard. At the end of the day, it's Tony Robbins that says that quote, "Life is happening for me, not to me,” and you have to live that way. I believe that so strongly that this is all happening for me. In the past, the thing I learned from this and this is something that's applicable to anybody, whether it's a breakup or business or anything. We shy so much away from pain and discomfort, but if we can ask what is this teaching me and what do I need to learn and how can I use it, it's empowering versus being a victim of our circumstance. Going through that experience, what is this teaching me? Where is it leading me? Now, I'm in a much better place. I tried to learn from it what I could and what I can control. That's only me. We can't control other people. I always go back to that.

As a side note for our readers, you should go onto her Instagram. There were a couple of different videos that struck a chord with me, especially with The Season of Life That I'm In. Share that now so they can look that up.

It's @NineLivesHealth on Instagram. I wanted to show videos for entrepreneurial tip 101, but the video talks about the document you create. I create some content, but I do like to document because it's so much more relatable. I felt The Season of Life I Was In, what could I learn from it? What is it teaching me? There are many valuable lessons there, so it had to be shared.

Taking A Chance: At the end of the day, you have to believe that everything that happens to you is happening for you.

Taking A Chance: At the end of the day, you have to believe that everything that happens to you is happening for you.

That was the reason that I reached out to you for the show. I watched one of your videos and it hit home on another level when I was not in the mindset I should have been. It helped me to think twice. You can’t think of yourself to the higher level of thinking, you can produce so much more. You can be the best version of yourself. You can be able to give back that much more. Thank you for being such a light on Instagram. It's so fun watching your journey.

Thanks for the support.

If you could go back in time and tell yourself one piece of advice from day one in your entrepreneurial journey, what would it be?

I will tell myself, "You're enough. You're on the right path.” We get so caught up in all the things we're doing. The things that I have to offer to this world are myself, my energy and who I am. If we're looking at things I do, I’m not very good. I'm not an artist. I'm not going to create the best site. I'm not going to be able to do. I make a lot of mistakes, but who I'd be as Cat is enough to do this and to have the impact that I want to have. If we can focus on that, it takes off a lot of pressure. I would stay focused on that.

In your entrepreneurial journey, what would you say would be one of the best pieces of advice you've ever received? It sounds like you've got some great mentorship and you've paid that forward. What would you say has resonated with you?

It was my move like thinking about yourself. This is interesting. I've always felt I've worked hard on my money mindset and I pride myself on that. Someone called me out because I was stressed out about this physical space, this warehouse, moving downtown and selling my house like is that the right thing to do? He said to me, "This is an investment in yourself and your business. You're investing in your energy. That's your currency. That's what you have." I was like, "You're right. I'm teaching that and telling everyone else to do that and then I'm hesitating." The second I realized that I'm like, “I have to invest in my own self-care and energy,” and to see what shifted from that blows my mind.

I went through a very similar thing through Fast Foundations, which is how we met in that mastermind. One of the moments that I wrote, I felt with the cold weather, for whatever reason, I couldn't thrive in that environment as much as I could. I'm such a sunshiny person. I had to be honest with myself. I'm like, "I could totally make things happen in Minnesota, but I would be a much better version of myself if I would get some vitamin D on a regular basis.” It creates those friendships and connections in person in a warmer climate. For me, it's been amazing.

After I made that leap of faith when I don't know anybody in the Florida area hardly at all. I'm looking for the sunshine. I started making connections and it's amazing how things appeared. I was able to create the confidence inside myself to be able to shift my career path when I wasn't in Minnesota. It's amazing when you do invest in that environment. When you look at the return on investment maybe on paper, it's not the best, but how much is your energy worth? Truly it is priceless. You justify certain numbers in your brain. Sometimes it might not be in your best interest. You can't so bottom line and you're like, "How much is my energy worth? How much is my positivity and being in an environment and infrastructure for growth worth for the company as a whole?

It’s important what you said after you decided and you took action. You didn't say that, but you took action. All of these things started coming and that's what happens. It’s the same exact thing that I'm saying. You take that one little action and then I got an idea when I was running about this physical space and I can share it with a friend. She was like, "I wanted to reach out to you except I didn't think you'd want it in this area." I'm like, "Actually, that works better for me. I do need to get out of the city. It's closer. My mom works for me, it's closer to her. My dad does a lot of driving for me and taking up product. It's closer to him.” I'm like, "That works perfectly for me." Once I took that first action, things appear.

Let's jump back to the emails, side by side. Explain a little bit more about that and where you're at.

Taking A Chance: We shy away from pain and discomfort when we should be asking ourselves what it's teaching us and how we can use it.

Taking A Chance: We shy away from pain and discomfort when we should be asking ourselves what it's teaching us and how we can use it.

I can't say who they are, but both different healthcare systems are wanting to work with me because nurses are leaving the profession at a very rapid rate due to burnout and not taking care of themselves. Many are going back to school, but that's also not solving the problem and that's not working either. One is closing a deal that I will be consulting and I'm doing a lot of work within an entire healthcare system. That's a good one. That's super exciting and I've been meeting with them for the last couple of months and it's going to be amazing. We've been going back and forth in the contract. I received the final contract ready to be signed. The second one was there’s every week in May a Nurses’ Week. I got asked to speak for a very well-known institution here in Michigan. I have that all dialed in and then because of something I posted on Instagram, they sent me an email saying that they cannot support it. They are canceling my speaking engagement and I was also going to be vending. I would've had my shops probably cost me thousands of dollars for sure.

It's hilarious because my motto is leap land live. Leap and take a chance on yourself, land confidently on your own two feet and live a life by your own design. This is what I help nurses with every day. I believe that some people want to stay in nursing full-time. They want to go back to school, they want to work in critical care and some don't. I did a post on Instagram about how I made $2,000 more a month by piecing together my own schedule, by working outpatient, inpatient and doing community nursing. It’s living life by your own design, like my motto.

At first when I saw the email, it hurts. I was like, "That sucks. I was looking forward to that." It would have been great on my speaking resume and PR and all those things. Right away I was like, "I would have said something very offensive to them and who knows what would have happened because this is everything about who I am." The other thing that's laughable is it's my highest engaging Instagram post to date. It had over 1,000 likes, which is a lot for me. The saves on it were a couple of hundred. It was interesting. I've gotten many messages and stuff about it. It's hilarious that my highest engaging post is also why I got rejected from this large speaking event. It's very fear-based because they also made a comment about not supporting nursing. I'm spending my own money to send 1,000 nurses Christmas gifts. I did 500 in 2018. I support nurses working all different shifts. I have many free resources. Coffee talks are always free and it made me laugh. Anyone that knows me knows that I support nursing and to me it's fear-based. They don't want that message shared with their nurses and that's on them.

It's such a beautiful gift that you've given yourself and therefore when you share that story with many other people is like owning your power. That could have devastated the average entrepreneur of, "I lost this opportunity.” It would take them off the grid for a while. For you, you're in such a high mindset that you probably were disappointed and it might have hit you in the gut initially, but you walk through it. You're like, "What is this teaching me? I don't understand why? I understand that this is working for my higher good and maybe because they don't hire me,” then there's someone else that catches the wind and they feel the opportunity in hiring you. You'll get even that much greater speaking gig. I found that in my entrepreneurial career. There have been some speaking engagements that I've landed and I'm like, "That's not all cracked up to be." Those other ones where you get asked and then maybe something changes or whatever, but then you look back and you're like, "I'm so glad I didn't spend the time and energy to go to that event or for whatever reason." You have to trust that God has your back and you just powering forward in faith. Whatever is supposed to happen is going to happen. It takes the anxiety down as an entrepreneur substantially when you can be grounded in that.

This happened to me with my last hospital too. I sent many emails about being a vendor and doing all this different stuff. Even the director of my department was on board and all this. They kept saying, "No, it's a conflict of interest." There was an article written about me that came out in a local paper and the second they saw that, it all change. They were begging me to come and I spoke at our nurse’s week conference and right away in my head I'm like, "Do you know what's going to be so funny? I'm going to print out this email and tack it up. I believe these people will be calling me back. This is hilarious. This is going to be such a great story to tell. They will be calling me back.”

I had a text from a guy that he was like, "Stef, I'll believe it when I see it." That has grounded me so hard in my why and I'm going to drive that much harder to get this done sooner rather than later. It's amazing how that reverse psychology or whatever you want to call it. It can truly go in your favor when you don't overanalyze it. You're like, "Game on, boss up. This is a sign that I'm going to go that much harder into my purpose and nobody can stop me." What's a book that you've been reading or that you're reading right now that's helped to ignite you?

I've read a couple of different books. I'm obsessed with Secrets of the Millionaire Mind. It's an amazing money mindset book. I also love The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer. If you have not read that book, it's outstanding. That's what's given me a lot of strength. It talks a lot about letting things flow through us and not holding on. Even with this email, I can see now when things are from a place of scarcity and lack. I don't want to hold on to that energy. I'll let it flow through and pass and not holding onto that.

I'm going on Amazon and buying Untethered Soul. I heard someone else talk about it. It was a podcast that I listened to and I was like, "I should buy that." I was driving and didn't write it down. I'm writing it down, thanks for confirming that.

Anyone that reads that too, I always recommend reading one chapter at a time. I know that sounds weird, but the book is deep. He takes these crazy concepts and inputs tangible analogies with them that I like, but it is very deep. 

What would you say are two of your biggest takeaways from that book?

Taking A Chance: Sometimes, we need the guidance and the next step is to hire a mentor.

Taking A Chance: Sometimes, we need the guidance and the next step is to hire a mentor.

That one is with letting energy pass and not holding on to things. We're not holding on to things, we're holding on to how they made us feel. The event has passed. Your breakup has passed. If you're holding onto it, you're holding onto the emotion. Why? It's passed. I'm like, "You're right." The second thing he talks, it's weird but I'm a nurse, I'm maybe more okay with it. He talks about death at the end of the book and I like it. One of my favorite quotes of all time is from it. He says, "What gives life meaning is our willingness to live it." I asked myself that almost every day, "Am I living?" That's what gives meaning. It's not doing all these things, it's living. What does that mean for you?

We go on a cruise together as a family every year and I do a lot of self-reflection even with this breakup and how everything came down at this time. Life was going in a good direction, but there were some things where I was like, "I don't want things to keep going down this way." Not that they've been bad, but I need a shift. I wrote my eulogy when you die. It helped me to reflect on who is the type of human being that I want to be on this planet? How do I want to be purposeful? A lot of these things, if they aren't going to matter in ten years, why are you stressing about them in the here and now?

You could be able to live in the moment and know that it's okay, to breathe through it and release the emotions. That's such a beautiful thing that you can teach. Even seeing you on Instagram, you've been able to teach that in a lot of aspects of tests like flowing with it and keep powering through. That doesn't mean not working hard because Lord knows you work like a boss, but you don't get stuck in the roller coaster of the things that are thrown your way as an entrepreneur. If someone met you and said, "Cat, I want to become the boss of my own life and call the shots. What's my first step?”

I'd say, "You already know what it is. I can't tell you. You already know you're not doing it."

That's hard love right there. I like it.

I guarantee, whoever is reading this, they're like, "I know." We all know. I don't want to be the one to tell someone and I don't want someone to tell me because then I can blame it on them. Sometimes we need guidance, but maybe that next step is to hire the mentor and you're not doing it. You know the next step.

What is your definition of a boss?

I would say 100% being yourself. That's why I feel grateful every single day. I do feel like the boss of my own life because I'm being true to myself and you cannot put a price tag on that.

Any other last words of wisdom, Cat? It's been so fun to peel back the layers, hear more of your story and open up to how you jumped out in faith and started your own business. Thank you for sharing everything.

I would say take action. There is never going to be a perfect time or a perfect circumstance and all this, whatever people are waiting for form just start and do something. It's so empowering. Even if it doesn't go right, you're so grateful. You're like, "At least I acted."

I've always said, “I don't want to have at the end of my life the, "What would have,” or the "What if.” I want to have the, “Oh wells.” Cat, how can people connect with you? How can people follow you? I know that there's going to be a number of nurses that have read this and want to dial in, and entrepreneurs at large that want to be inspired by the light that you put out into the world.

Thank you. Everything can either be found at NineLivesHealth.com and on Instagram. If you go to NursesInspireNurses.com, that reroutes to my website. We have @NursesInspireNurses on Instagram too. 

Cat, thank you so much. I love your tagline of the leap, land and live. It's very similar to what I say at the end of the show. Today is your day to fire your fear, build your faith and become the boss of your own life. Get after it and let's make it happen.

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About Cat Golden

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Her passion for helping nurses find the confidence they need to create their own schedules, take a chance on their dreams and maintain self-care sparked her movement, Nurses Inspire Nurses. She runs the Nurses Inspire Nurses shop and hosts monthly events and coffee talks, as well as, provides free resources to support nurses no matter their location.

She’s shipped thousands of Nurses Inspire Nurses merch out to nurses across the U.S., Canada, Europe and Australia and built a six figure business in under a year.

She takes nurses through her ninety day mentorship program, the LEAP LAND LIVE Method to help them look inside themselves and uncover what they’re truly passionate about. She believes that if nurse’s embrace their true BEing they will uncover their purpose and be able to live a life they’re obsessed with.