• 94. Celebrating 2500 downloads and episode recommendations
    Sep 3 2025

    Wow 2500 ~Downloads and counting

    Tina and Kate take a moment to celebrate this milestone and signpost you to some of the useful and most popular episodes

    Recommendations

    Above and Below the line Episode

    Have you ever made a mistake episode

    Reframing episode

    Guest episodes you might try

    Vicky the Clinical Director in a Hospice

    Chloe the Nurse Lecturer

    Gina the strategic Nurse talks about end of life

    Ali on Mental Health

    Gina the practice Nurse and Author

    Kendal the emergency care and RCN colleague

    Sarah Director and governance lead

    Helen retired nurse talks about her role in the RCN

    Heidis chat about Autism

    Jasmins chat about decluttering

    Jo' the RMN and Coach for alcohol misuse






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    Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nurses and NLP Coaches help you to retrain your brain, sharing everyday wisdom's and handy tips for better thinking and day to day living. Think of it as a little bit of yoga for the mind. Imagine how good you will feel after listening.

    Tina and Kate have years of clinical and leadership experience in the UK National Health Service, and Hospice sector as well as in Training and Education. They collaborate with Universities, other health care providers and charities, working with individuals and teams to maximise everyone's potential.

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    10 mins
  • 93 Sarah James Executive Nurse Talks about her role, governance, patient safety and more
    Aug 26 2025

    Sarah James joins the show. She is an executive nurse and Chief Governance and improvement officer at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

    Sarah talks about what this role involves, her own journey into governance as a nurse. How Nurses in all roles can engage with governance and quality improvement

    She also shares how coaching has helped her navigate her way to a role she finds so rewarding and fulfilling and how she keeps her sanity in such a responsible role

    Listen in for an enlightening and eye opening episode

    Resources

    Cornwall Partnership NHS Trust

    find Sarah at sarah.james80@nhs.net

    episode 83 on Psychological safety

    episode 7 Ever made a mistake? dealing with mistakes

    episode

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    Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nurses and NLP Coaches help you to retrain your brain, sharing everyday wisdom's and handy tips for better thinking and day to day living. Think of it as a little bit of yoga for the mind. Imagine how good you will feel after listening.

    Tina and Kate have years of clinical and leadership experience in the UK National Health Service, and Hospice sector as well as in Training and Education. They collaborate with Universities, other health care providers and charities, working with individuals and teams to maximise everyone's potential.

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    51 mins
  • 92. The importance of simple things in nursing
    Aug 19 2025

    Kate and Tina chat about the impact of the small and simple things that nurses can do.

    Resources

    six simple things to improve patient satisfaction

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    Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nurses and NLP Coaches help you to retrain your brain, sharing everyday wisdom's and handy tips for better thinking and day to day living. Think of it as a little bit of yoga for the mind. Imagine how good you will feel after listening.

    Tina and Kate have years of clinical and leadership experience in the UK National Health Service, and Hospice sector as well as in Training and Education. They collaborate with Universities, other health care providers and charities, working with individuals and teams to maximise everyone's potential.

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    13 mins
  • 91. In conversation with Kendal Andreason , RCN lead for Emergency medicine and so much more..
    Aug 12 2025

    Kendal Andreason joins the podcast for a chat about her roles as Royal College of Nursing lead for Emergency medicine, Nurse with world extreme medicare and Nurse in the TA.

    This episode covers a lot of bases, including what helps when you want to have multiple jobs as a nurse, mindset for change and whats happening with the RCN to support early careers nurses.

    listen in and enjoy.

    Resources

    Find Kendal here Kendal.Andreason@rcn.org.uk

    World Extreme Medicine link

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    Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nurses and NLP Coaches help you to retrain your brain, sharing everyday wisdom's and handy tips for better thinking and day to day living. Think of it as a little bit of yoga for the mind. Imagine how good you will feel after listening.

    Tina and Kate have years of clinical and leadership experience in the UK National Health Service, and Hospice sector as well as in Training and Education. They collaborate with Universities, other health care providers and charities, working with individuals and teams to maximise everyone's potential.

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    41 mins
  • 90 How to get your voice heard at work
    Aug 5 2025

    This episode explores how we sabotage our voice being heard by apologising before our point is made.

    Tips are offered for being heard yourself and for making space for others to be heard to in healthcare.


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    Tina and Kate have years of clinical and leadership experience in the UK National Health Service, and Hospice sector as well as in Training and Education. They collaborate with Universities, other health care providers and charities, working with individuals and teams to maximise everyone's potential.

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    15 mins
  • 89 Gina Pitts, practice nursing, Hayden Magazine and a whole lot more
    Jul 29 2025

    Gina chats to Tina and Kate about her career, the inspiration of her mum as a nurse from the wind-rush generation, her nursing work as a practice nurse and independent and Hayden Magazine for nurses.

    We cover lots of bases, and there is a lot of laughter as we need help from Gina to close the episode.

    Resources and links

    Nursing voices of the Windrush generation

    Hayden Lifestyles magazine

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    Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nurses and NLP Coaches help you to retrain your brain, sharing everyday wisdom's and handy tips for better thinking and day to day living. Think of it as a little bit of yoga for the mind. Imagine how good you will feel after listening.

    Tina and Kate have years of clinical and leadership experience in the UK National Health Service, and Hospice sector as well as in Training and Education. They collaborate with Universities, other health care providers and charities, working with individuals and teams to maximise everyone's potential.

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    40 mins
  • 88. Feedback from the Shame and Medicine conference
    Jul 22 2025

    Tina attended the excellent international Shame and Medicine conference hosted at Exeter University.

    She shares some of the highlights and her refkecitons with Kate

    you can find excellent resources for this stand out conference here

    Resources and links

    link to the shame and medicine conference presentations

    theshamespace.com link

    shameandmedicine.org

    the nocturnists podcast featuring shame and medicine


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    Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nurses and NLP Coaches help you to retrain your brain, sharing everyday wisdom's and handy tips for better thinking and day to day living. Think of it as a little bit of yoga for the mind. Imagine how good you will feel after listening.

    Tina and Kate have years of clinical and leadership experience in the UK National Health Service, and Hospice sector as well as in Training and Education. They collaborate with Universities, other health care providers and charities, working with individuals and teams to maximise everyone's potential.

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    16 mins
  • 87 The Barriers to newly qualified nurses getting NHS jobs. A chat with Vicky, campaign leader.
    Jul 15 2025

    This episode is with Vicky Atkins a newly qualified nurse who is yet to find a qualified nurse role in her area. She talks to kate and Tina about the parliamentary petition she has started in the UK, the attention it is getting and her reasons for being determined to be the nurse she trained to be

    Tips are offered for interviews and resources are shared here

    Resources and links

    link to the petition , please sign and share

    link to the interview and resource pack

    link to previous episodes, finding work in times of scarcity


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    Join Tina and Kate in light-hearted conversation and chat as they coach you to a better way of thinking. These experienced nurses and NLP Coaches help you to retrain your brain, sharing everyday wisdom's and handy tips for better thinking and day to day living. Think of it as a little bit of yoga for the mind. Imagine how good you will feel after listening.

    Tina and Kate have years of clinical and leadership experience in the UK National Health Service, and Hospice sector as well as in Training and Education. They collaborate with Universities, other health care providers and charities, working with individuals and teams to maximise everyone's potential.

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    34 mins