76: Uncover Your Aligned Purpose as a Nurse Coach- Stephanie Page, BSN, RN, NC-BC

76: Uncover Your Aligned Purpose as a Nurse Coach- Stephanie Page, BSN, RN, NC-BC Transcript

Nicole Vienneau  00:00

Welcome, everyone, to the Integrative Nurse Coaches in ACTION! podcast. My name is Nicole Vienneau. I am your host, and I’m also a Board Certified Integrative Nurse Coach. I’m coming all the way from Tucson, Arizona, where it is in the hundreds temperature right now. Very warm here in Tucson, but I love it. And I love this podcast. 

And today I’m excited because we get to listen to a newer Nurse coach, which is exciting. She is all the way from Carthage, Texas, and I love my Texans. I love my Texans. And what’s exciting for her, and I’m sure she’s going to share a little bit of this, is that she just received her board certification certificate in her email yesterday. So it’s really fresh and exciting and new. 

And I love talking with newer Nurse coaches, because they bring such a positive energy into the space and a different energy, which we can all learn from. So I’m really excited to welcome Stephanie Page, and she is a health coach from her business, Unlimited Potential Health Coach, and she will have so many exciting things to share with us. So we welcome Stephanie.

Stephanie Page  01:17

Thank you so much. It’s so good to be here. I’m really excited. This is my first podcast to ever be on, so I’ve got that nervous excitement, but I’m really, really thrilled to be here. And I’m so glad you asked me.

Nicole Vienneau  01:33

I think it’s amazing that you said yes. You know, sometimes we have to say yes to things that make us nervous and excited at the same time, right? And I thank you so much for having the courage and vulnerability to be with us today.

Stephanie Page  01:45

Absolutely.

Nicole Vienneau  01:46

So, Stephanie, we love to take a trip down history lane and learn a little bit about your history, like, how did you even decide to become a Nurse?

Stephanie Page  01:56

Long story. I never wanted to be a Nurse as a kid, was not the medical field inclined child. Never wanted to be a doctor. None of that kind of thing. I really always wanted to be a teacher, I thought, and I for sure wanted to be a mom. And so my goal was to have children, raise children. 

My mom was a stay at home mom for us, and that’s what I wanted to do. And so my husband and I met when I was in my associate degree program right out of high school. Like I said, just wanted to be a mom. Didn’t really have a aspiration to go any further than my associate degree, but I thought, you know what, I’m gonna get my associate, and then we’ll go from there. So we married in 2000. 

And in 2001, of course, 911 happened. And he joined the military the next January, and was gone, you know, in basic and that kind of thing. And then we moved to Germany a year later, and I almost immediately got pregnant with baby number one. We’d been trying for two years. Wasn’t happening. 

And it just took a move to Germany. We lived in Germany four and a half years, and I had three children in that four and a half years. People always said, you go to Germany and you come back with a cuckoo clock, a grandfather clock, or a baby. Three babies and no clocks. But while we were there, he was deployed to Iraq twice. 

So I was, you know, in a foreign country with our children, by myself. I was strong, independent woman. I had friends there, we were like family. It was a great experience. When we came back to the States, we had baby number four, maybe a year after we came back to the States. And then pretty quickly after he got out of the military. 

And we moved to Arizona for a couple of years, and then he lost his job due to some government contract shutdowns. And that led us to moving back to Texas, closer to family. And we had not been here in, at that time, 10 years, so we didn’t really know what to expect, but we just knew we wanted to be back closer to family. 

Still all this time, I’m home, you know, raising my kids, involved in a lot of volunteer work, but primarily a mom. And when we moved back to Texas, he went through a process of, well, one, he was diagnosed with diabetes almost immediately. He worked down in South Texas for about six months and got really super overheated, and could not work in the heat. 

And so he had to quit that job and come home and find something that was, you know, a little safer for him to work. So he did get a job, worked there for a while, and then the company moved to Austin. We were not moving to Austin. So again, he was in, you know, a job hunting season. This led to multiple short term jobs. 

And during all of that, our baby was almost in pre K at that time. And I thought, you know what, kids are almost all in school, I’m either going to volunteer all my time away, or I can go back to school and, you know, at least help support my family. And so I took a year to… I was actually about a year away from getting a teaching certificate. And I thought, okay, that’ll be the quickest, easiest thing to do, but let me take a year and substitute teach and see what age group I want to teach in. 

At the end of that school year, I told them all to please remove me from their list. I was no longer interested in teaching or subbing. Hats off to teachers. Y’all have a really hard job, and I, you know, just really appreciate all my children’s teachers so much from that experience. 

But probably in that same week, I went to our local college, which is where I had gotten my original Associate degree, and said, tell me about your Nursing program. I know it’s good, like, you know, tell me about it. And their May minimester was starting the following Monday, and they said, we can get you in prerequisite courses for that. 

You can get, you know, you can have these classes in May, these in June, these in July, and start in August with your… or no, August fall semester, and then start in the spring with your Nursing degree. And I was like, okay, sign me up. I mean, this was like, instant. I feel like this is maybe the right thing to do. And so that’s what I did. I took a May minimester class, two June classes, one July class, and these were AMP, y’all. I mean, these were not easy classes to do in a four week time. 

I was like, this is insane. I have four small children at home. What was I thinking? And but I made it through. Got into the program in the spring, and graduated in 2013. During that time, I also took an EMS class, and so I became an EMT for a little while just to get some medical experience because I had none, and I was like, you know what? 

That’ll kind of give me at least a little bit of experience to kind of know. And I also worked in the ER as an extern during my last two semesters of Nursing school. The doctors there asked me, so, when you’re done with Nursing school, are you just going to come on full time with us? 

And I was like, absolutely not. You could not pay me the money in the world to be in the ER Nurse. And I really wanted to do labor and delivery. I was 19 when my baby sister was born, and she was a home birth, and I got to be there, so I kind of was like, okay, you know, I could do that. And then, of course, having my own children and all, it’s like, I can do an L&D Nurse. I’ve never been an L&D Nurse. 

I did accept a full time position in the ER, right out of school, at a very small rural ER, we had eight beds, but I worked there for six and a half years. Nights. I saw a lot. Those of you in small, rural areas, you know. You see it all because you’re the only hospital to come to. And I was there for Covid. 

We had ICU patients for days and weeks on end in our very small ER. It was very… it was very tough. Due to some things after that, I actually had a friend who took a travel Nursing job, but it was a kind of a local travel job. It was… we could stay home, we could drive back and forth to work, that kind of thing. 

And she said, come work with me over here. Well, it was a bigger ER. I think they had 18 or 20 beds. But it was way, way busier, and gunshot wounds all the time. I was like, oh my gosh. I was not prepared for this. And so I was there for six months. During that time, I had horrible anxiety. 

I would drive… be on the drive to… 45 minute drive to work. There were times I had to pull over on the side of the road because I could not get myself together to drive to work. There were some issues with a manager there that kind of fed that anxiety. There were several events that I had experienced through working in the ER that were just traumatic events that I had not dealt with. And so they were leading to anxiety, fear for my kids being on the road. Because, you know, by this time, my kids were driving. 

And just irrational fears of them, you know, something happening to them while I was 45 minutes away, that kind of thing. And so at that point, I knew that I really had to get out of the ER. I needed a break from the ER, or I was not going to be a Nurse anymore. I was very disillusioned by the allopathic way of medicine, the let’s throw some pills at them and get them out the door. 

That just was not what I signed up for in Nursing. I wanted to be a Nurse to help people, and I felt like we were just, you know, like I said, throwing some pills at em. Here, here, have some pain meds. Let’s get you out. And so I’d really been praying and asking God, okay, how do I get out of this, but still use what I felt was my calling as a Nurse and my education, because by then, I also had my bachelor’s degree. 

So my husband is, of course, has now, by then, he’s been a manager of a welding supply store for quite some time. I think he’s been there 10 years now. And a man came in and said, hey, your wife’s a Nurse. Does she know anybody who’d be interested in being a school Nurse? And he said, I don’t know, I’ll ask her. 

You know, he texted me right then, and I said, me! I’m interested. Get me out of this ER. Anything, anything to get me out. So come to find out, the man was actually one of my school teachers years ago in high school. So we had, you know, had history there, and that was on a Wednesday. I interviewed with him on Friday, and I said, yes, I want the job. 

And my contract with the travel Nursing was ending in two weeks, so it was just perfect timing. That was in April, so I actually finished out that school year with them as their full time school Nurse, and then worked for the next two years as their school Nurse. Through that I got… and it was a very small school, so not super busy, but a lot of mental health issues in kids. 

And you know, these kids that had gone through Covid in junior high are now in high school, and just lots of mental health issues. And so I was able to, you know, minister for those kids through that, not, you know, just as a Nurse, but kind of as a counselor, you know, ish, because I was the only one in the school that had enough mental health training. 

Not much, but enough to, you know, help them out. And so that was really a good ministry for me, I felt, and a good way to use my skills. But also, because we weren’t real busy, I could do any kind of training that I wanted to during the day when I didn’t have students in my office, which was a lot of time. 

So I originally, back to the L&D thing, I thought I was going to become a midwife, and I started a midwifery program that’s kind of a study at home, but you have, you know, a preceptor, and you go to home births and that kind of thing with her. So I did that for about a year, and enjoyed it, but it wasn’t… 

I wasn’t, like, in love with it, you know, it was fun, but I was like, eh, I could take it or leave it. And she came to me and said, I’m selling my practice. The girl I’m selling to does not have enough experience to be a preceptor yet. I hope this isn’t ruining your life. And I said, you are an answer to prayer, because I wasn’t sure how to tell you I’m not real interested in this. 

But the funny thing is, she has since called me and said, hey, can you be on call? We have one of the moms that I was at one of her births during that year, is pregnant again and having a birth, having a baby, possibly any day now. She’s like, can you be on call to get to her? She’s only five minutes from you. 

So I’m like, okay, fine, I’ll be on call. But so it’s funny that I’m still having a little bit of that going on in the background. But in the meantime, I really started looking at, okay, what do I want to do? Really want to do as a Nurse? And I tell people when they ask me, well, what medicine should I take for this? 

I’m like, you are asking the wrong person, because I’m the most anti-medication Nurse you will ever meet. I do essential oils. I do holistic medication. I do like homeopathic medication. I do, you know, the weird things. My brother tells me, you’re a hippie. So I started looking at, okay, how can I incorporate some more natural things into Nursing, and what path can I take for that? 

And so I started looking at functional medicine, integrative medicine, that kind of thing. And came across INCA’s functional medicine course. And I was like, oh my gosh, this is perfect. So I actually reached out to INCA, and they told me about the Nurse coaching program in addition to the functional medicine. And I said, which one do you recommend going with first? 

And the person I talked to said, I really recommend Nurse coaching first, and then kind of go from there. So I was like, okay, I’ll listen to you. We’ll do it. So I did the Nurse coaching program. I was in cohort 44. So, started last September and finished this April, early May. And I could not believe the… I mean, it just felt like home. And I know they say that a lot, a lot of people say that, but it did. 

It just felt like, oh my gosh, where have you been all my life? And Love Hawkins was my supervisor. She’s amazing. We had a fantastic peer coach group who we still talk regularly. We had a great supervisory group. I’m actually co-coaching one of the supervisory group members. 

She reached out to me after we graduated, and said, I just really love what you’re doing. And would you meet with me once a week and maybe we can coach each other? And I said, absolutely. So we’ve been doing that for a couple of weeks now, and we’re really just motivating each other, kind of keeping each other accountable, not only on business stuff, but life stuff. 

And so that’s really cool. But I did take the functional medicine for Nurses course also in conjunction with my practicum. So I was able to kind of integrate some of the things I learned in that with my practicum clients, which was really cool. 

And so that’s kind of the direction that I think I’m going to probably go with my business, is more the functional medicine route. And now that the nutrition course has come out or is coming out soon, I’m like, oh, maybe I need to take that too!

Nicole Vienneau  17:38

There’s so much to learn.

Stephanie Page  17:38

My husband just laughs and shakes his head and says, I love that you love to learn. He’s very supportive, though.

Nicole Vienneau  17:43

Oh, good, good. So Stephanie, you have had such a magical life, you know, not even knowing that you wanted to be a Nurse. You know, you thought you… I love how you say, I was just a mom. Come on, being a mom, especially when your husband was on deployments and having to go and be a single mom, in essence, and raising three kids at that time, and eventually four children. 

And, you know, not really expecting to become a Nurse, and then all of a sudden, hey, things aligned for you. You just jumped in and said, Yeah, this is what I’m going to do. And then all your different experiences in Nursing, from ED in a small hospital, working ED through Covid. 

And then moving to a larger hospital, and seeing things that you thought you had seen a lot in your hospital, and then seeing more and more. And then being influenced by the people that you work with, which so many of us are, and maybe not in the most supportive environment for you. 

But experiencing those bouts of anxiety that so many of us Nurses have experienced, and not really knowing sometimes where that’s coming from, you know, and in that chaos that can happen internally, and we not even expecting it. And then you still kept on with that exploration, you know, what is it that I really want to do and need to do for myself? 

Exploring, you know, school Nursing and midwifery, and then thinking, you know, what is it? What is it? And then finding Nurse coaching, and now exploring functional medicine with Nursing, and then maybe even nutrition. Who knows where it’s going to lead, right? Who knows. But so many experiences. 

And that’s why I said magical, because it’s just like, we don’t know sometimes where our lives will lead us. And yet you were… seems like you were listening and going through some challenges along the way and still taking steps forward and standing up for yourself, and looking internally to see where it is you want to be and where you could best serve. 

And so, you know, finding Nurse coaching and going through the program, and then discovering that there are other Nurses who align with you and align with this vision of understanding allopathic medicine. And then also knowing that we can combine different modalities and different healing practices to support our patients, our coaching clients and our communities, right, and our families and ourselves. 

So I’m curious to know, you know, what are some of the key things that you either really enjoyed about the Integrative Nurse Coach Program, or the things that really stood out for you, that supported you or that will support you through your… the rest of your Nursing career? 

Stephanie Page  20:41

So, I really have had a huge personal life change through this program. And I don’t know… it actually started a little bit before the program even began. I think when I signed up and said, okay, yes, I’m going to do this, it was probably a two week period before the class started. And I really just, in all authenticity, I have struggled with my weight my whole life. And you know, it’s been a myriad of dieting and, you know, yo yo, up and down, and never at a healthy weight. 

And so when I signed up for this, I thought, I mean, these are actually the words that came out of my thought process. Who’s going to listen to a coach that doesn’t practice what she preaches? Nobody. I mean, I wouldn’t, you know. And so in that process, I thought, okay, I need to start working on me. 

And so I did. And for the first half of the program, I attempted to do it on my own, just, you know, working on nutrition, that kind of thing, and things that I had known from the past, things that I was learning along the way, that kind of thing. And I lost 20 pounds before Thanksgiving, and then gained 10 of it back between Thanksgiving and Christmas. 

And I was like, this is just not going to work. I can’t keep doing the same thing and expecting different results, you know, every time. This has been a lifelong thing. I mean, I’m almost 45 and I have been doing this my whole adult life. And so I started, I actually think it probably was an ad that came across Facebook or something, and it was a weight loss for Nurses, or weight loss for Nurses over 40. 

I don’t remember what the ad was, but I clicked on it, and it led me to a coach that I ended up signing up with. And he told me, because I was vacillating about the cost, and this isn’t fair for me to spend this much on myself and yada yada yada, and he said, you’re going to ask clients to do the hard thing, but you’re not willing to do the hard thing. 

And I was like, I just started crying. I was like, you’re right, you’re right. And so I signed up, and I had great success with it. Some things happened with his business, and it’s no longer a business, but I’m still using the things that he taught and working towards, you know, that. 

But that’s one of the things that I told my peer coach, or my supervisory coach girl, that we’re working together, I said, look, I’ve got to have some accountability on this, like, because he’s not my coach anymore, I need some help. So she’s, you know, willing to step up with that. But through the program, I had never been a journaler. 

I really still can’t say that I’m a journaler, but I do pick it up occasionally and write something more than I used to. Never had thought about awareness practices, meditation, that kind of thing. It was never really a part of my life, and it was really a difficult thing for me to integrate into my sessions with my practicum clients, because I was like, this is, I mean, the first time we did one in the course, I was like, this is kind of weird, but okay, I’ll play. 

But the more I do it and practice that awareness, it is just… it’s so interesting to me how it brings your heart rate down. It, you know, it calms you, it centers you, it grounds you. And so I definitely see the importance of it. And so that’s become, you know, a bigger part of my self-care. 

And then self-care itself, you know, we tell people, you got to care… we tell moms, you got to care for yourself so you can care for your children and that kind of thing, and making yourself a priority. 

And so that’s kind of been a new thing… not a new thing, but a more increasingly important to me, is that I take that time for me so that I can be the mom that my four kids need, and the wife that my husband needs, and the sister that my sisters, you know, my siblings need, and, you know, etc, etc. So just realizing how important that is too.

Nicole Vienneau  25:14

Yeah, I was really connecting with something you said towards the very beginning of answering this question, was, you know, if we are not—as coaches, as humans, really—if we’re not being a role model or walking the walk, how can we ask our patients, our spouses, our anybody, our friends, to do some of this hard stuff, if we are not challenging ourselves or doing those hard things ourselves. 

And I think back to when I did my RN to BSN program, and my capstone was all about behaviors of Nurses and how lifestyle strategies can support Nurses as role models for their patients. And one of the studies that I found was really interesting to me. It spoke to Nurses who are teaching smoking cessation but who continue to smoke themselves. 

And how they approach the topic of smoking cessation. It’s basically like, let’s check the box on this. You know, whispering behind the scenes, like you and I both know quitting smoking is really hard, but I’m still going to talk to you about this, even though I’m still haven’t quit smoking myself. 

You know, so kind of like behind the scenes, like rationalizing that style of behavior with the patient and really not making any progress for themselves or the patient. And I think of that, like those kinds of behaviors would continue on in other areas as well, when we haven’t addressed the things that we want to address for ourselves, and then we’re trying to work through those with other people. 

It just doesn’t make sense. Like, it just can’t because you haven’t achieved that success for yourself either. So anyways, I thought that was fascinating, because there are studies to support that as well. You know, and being that role model is an important factor in being a coach. So I’m really glad that you brought that up, and curious what other thoughts you have surrounding that?

Stephanie Page  27:25

Yeah, I mean, let’s say I don’t feel like somebody is… I know I, as a client, could not take a coach’s word for anything if they hadn’t tried it themselves. And not everything, I mean, obviously, if you don’t need a certain supplement you’re not going to try it, you know what I mean? Within reason. 

But if I’m going to a coach for weight loss, and they haven’t done the weight loss work themselves, I have a harder time listening to them, you know, than somebody who’s gone through it, who’s gone through the hard things, and can say, hey, I’ve been there. I know it’s hard. 

The donut box says you deserve a donut. I mean, come on. Of course I deserve that donut, the box says so, you know. But just really… you know, I do. I want to be that role model for my clients. Even choosing good nutrition. And, you know, we kind of use the 80/20 rule, and I feel like a lot of times it’s more of the 20/80 rule. 

You know, we choose good nutrition 20% of the time. But you know, even doing that, even for my kids, I feel like I’ve got a role model that for them before I can expect them to choose vegetables and fruit over, you know, junky chips, that kind of thing. So that’s, you know… and it’s a process. 

It’s not a… it was not a, okay, I’m gonna do this and all the junk food’s going out of the house. That’s not how it works. Unfortunately, I have teenage kids who would revolt, you know, if I got rid of all the things in the house, or they go buy it themselves and bring it in anyway. So, you know, but it is a process, and I don’t feel like it has to be perfection ever. 

It doesn’t ever have to be perfection, but just moving into that healthier lifestyle, making choices that reduce our stress, you know, not doing all the things that we feel like we have to do. We don’t have to do all those things, you know, that kind of thing. So that’s just been a really big eye opener for me. 

And like I say, I am not perfect. I still struggle daily with this stuff, but I do feel at least that these courses have really… at least it’s in my mind now, it’s in the back of my mind. Okay, is this the best choice for me right now?

Nicole Vienneau  29:57

Yeah. I was just saying that yesterday. Same thing that you just said. I certainly do not know everything, and I still find myself falling into old patterns. And I think the difference now is that I am recognizing the patterns, and that I can then either stop or slow myself down or find a little bit of a different direction. 

And whereas before, I may not have ever noticed, I would just continue on in that pattern that really wasn’t serving me. And now I can see that pattern and say, okay, Nicole, let’s, you know, shift, shift a little bit, just a little bit. And just that little bit of shifting is really important for us to be able to really, truly honor who we are and do the things that really are supporting us instead of sabotaging us. 

Stephanie Page  30:48

Right. Right. 

Nicole Vienneau  30:50

Yes, it’s such a process and a journey, right? Because every day is so different, and we’re all just doing the best we can. 

Stephanie Page  31:00

Yes, yes. 

Nicole Vienneau  31:01

So I’m curious if we could take a couple steps backwards and talk about your experience of living through Covid? And some of the things that you have now, looking back, learned about your Nursing practice, about yourself, anything related to that. 

Stephanie Page  31:23

For sure, resiliency. We are super resilient. Thank God for that. It was such a crazy time. I mean, to go from one day we’re, you know, just cruising along, being ER Nurses, to the next day, boom, we’re ICU Nurses. And I’d never worked in the ICU. I had done, you know, however many, very few days in ICU, in Nursing school, and that was it. 

And I was not interested. I was like, no, thank you. I never want to be an ICU Nurse. But then I was. I mean, I was… we were, you know, we had patients on vents that we didn’t even have vents. We had to borrow them from the state. I mean, it was just crazy. And so we learned a lot, we grew a lot. 

We maybe supported each other better. I feel like in our small ER, we really grew closer through that, because of what we had lived through and experienced. It was just… it was wild. I mean, y’all know. And through it, I think maybe it even gave me the courage I needed to step out of what I didn’t feel was where I needed to be. 

I was a good ER Nurse. I mean, I did my job, I did it well, I took care of my patients well, but I never felt like that was where I needed to be. But I felt stuck. It was close to my kids school. It was close to home. I didn’t have a long commute. I mean, it was five minutes to work. It was very convenient. 

And so for me to reach out and look for something that was more fulfilling was hard to do because it was so convenient, you know. It worked with my kids schedule. It paid well it, you know. And so I just kept on with the status quo because it was easy. It was the convenient thing to do. 

And so then after Covid, and I… like I said, some other experiences that had happened even before Covid, and then the anxiety coming on and everything, I really just was like, I’ve got to do something else. And I had applied for a couple other jobs, and it just wasn’t… I knew that it wasn’t the right fit for me for various reasons, and so I turned them down. 

And then when that school job came, I didn’t even think about it. I mean, I was like, yes, sign me up, you know. And so… and it really did, it gave me the time that I needed to pursue other paths while I was still working, paths that were a little more in line with my values and beliefs as a Nurse.

Nicole Vienneau  34:17

I could tell when you were just talking about your experience in Covid, that it was… it’s difficult for you to recall those times. It’s difficult to think back and want to remember the things that happened during Covid. So I thank you for just going inwards a little bit there to see what came from it. 

And resilience came out of it, and courage to take a step and move out of something that was so convenient and move into something that could be more fulfilling, even though that’s scary. Yeah, yeah. And it turned out that it worked out. And it opened up new possibilities for you because you were willing to take that step.

Stephanie Page  35:10

It did. And I think that through that, it gives me that experience to relate to clients and say, hey, you know what, it does take courage to step out and desire health over a quick fix, a magic pill, you know, that kind of thing. And so, you know, I think experience says a lot. 

And when we have those experiences that make us grow personally and professionally and mentally, emotionally and all the things, spiritually, then we can be more present for our clients, because we’ve had to go through the hard things too, and have the courage to do that. 

Nicole Vienneau  35:52

Yeah, yeah. Beautifully said. Yeah, it just reconnects us to the shared humanity, and that all of us have gone through difficult situations. And what can come of that getting through or walking through because you can’t just jump over it. You have to go through it. You have to go through those challenging times. 

And then that leads to just a more, I can’t think of the word I want to use, but more well rounded story. That we, yeah, experience really difficult situations, and we can use those to help support other people along our journey, too. Yes. So I’d love to chat a little bit about the name of your business. So, I would love to know, like, the story around how you discovered this Unlimited Potential. You know, what is that all about?

Stephanie Page  36:55

So, before I even became a Nurse, this has been years ago. In fact, I was pregnant with my baby, so he’ll be 15 tomorrow. So this was 15 years ago. My parents had been through some master classes on finding purpose and finding your purpose in life. And my mom was hounding me, Stephanie, you got to find your purpose, you got to find a purpose. 

And I was like, Mom, I’m pregnant. My purpose right now is to make this baby happen. But one day I took… and they used… his name’s Steve Pavlina. It’s his How to Find Your Purpose in 20 Steps… or 20 Minutes method. And I took that sheet that she gave me printed off, and I took my laptop and I went to McDonald’s because they had internet and no distractions of my children, and I sat there for 20 minutes trying to find my purpose. 

And I was like, I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t have a purpose. My purpose has always been to raise my children. But that’s not the only purpose we have. You know, my purpose is not just to be a wife and a mom and a sister and a, you know, aunt and yada yada yada. My purpose cannot be tied up in those relationships. 

And so I think it took me longer than 20 minutes, because I couldn’t get out of my head, but I finally did find my purpose, and my purpose is to nurture an atmosphere of unlimited potential for those around me. And when I typed those words out, I cried, and I still get emotional about it, because I’m like, you know what? 

It doesn’t matter what situation, what relationship, what Nursing field I work in. It doesn’t even matter if I’m a Nurse, a teacher, a stay at home mom. My purpose can be fulfilled through every single thing that I do. And should be fulfilled through every single thing that I do. 

And because I have that purpose, it allows me to say no to things that don’t line up with my purpose, and it allows me to say yes to things that do allow me to line up with my purpose. And so it’s funny, because I’ve had this purpose for 15 years, but more recently, in probably the last two, it’s really become a part of my life. 

It’s always been, you know, there in the background, but I feel like the last two years, I’ve really said, okay, here’s my purpose. Am I doing it? And so when I was kind of looking at names for business and logos, I was, you know, kind of contemplating, okay, what? And I think it was my mom or dad said, why don’t you use your purpose statement? 

And I was like, you know, I could. And so that’s how Unlimited Potential came about. And I was like, of course, I want people to reach their unlimited potential in their health, in their relationships, in their, you know, emotions, their spirituality, all the things. So yes, Unlimited Potential is perfect. 

And with my logo, I was like, you know what? I want something that symbolizes potential and possibilities, and the blue Himalayan poppy flower symbolizes potential. And so that’s my logo. So when you look on Facebook and Instagram and you see the blue flower, that’s the reason behind that. 

So I’m really excited to pursue the business side of things, and it’s new. It’s new. I just released my Facebook and Instagram this week, and so I don’t have a plan past that, but…

Nicole Vienneau  40:59

And still, you are taking steps forward, right? 

Stephanie Page  41:03

Yes. 

Nicole Vienneau  41:03

Yes. Congratulations. That it is exciting. 

Stephanie Page  41:07

Yes, it is. It is very exciting. And to see, you know, people following it, I’m like, oh my gosh, I have another one! I have another follower!

Nicole Vienneau  41:18

And so tell me the name… the nurturing part again, the kind of the slogan… nurturing…

Stephanie Page  41:26

My purpose is to nurture an atmosphere of unlimited potential for those around me.

Nicole Vienneau  41:32

Yes, yes. I love that, just elevating everyone around you.

Stephanie Page  41:41

Yes, and I feel like when we have a purpose, we can live that purpose and be more intentional about our life, with our life. You know, when we wander around floundering for a path in life, it makes things pretty difficult. And so if you haven’t found your purpose, I really encourage that you do, and that Steve Pavlina’s plan is easy. 

You get your laptop or a piece of paper, and you just start writing. You say, what is my purpose? And you just start writing. And you may fill up pages of paper before you get to the one that makes you cry, but when you get to the one that makes you cry, that’s probably your purpose.

Nicole Vienneau  42:27

And I suppose if people wanted to figure out their purpose, they could also work with you. 

Stephanie Page  42:31

They could, yes. 

Nicole Vienneau  42:34

Yes, they could. In support of Steve Pavelina’s work, right? 

Stephanie Page  42:39

Right. 

Nicole Vienneau  42:39

Awesome. Yes, I love this so much. I also… I’m going to throw out just putting in brackets for other people, like, and others, but also put in brackets for myself. For myself. Finding unlimited potential in myself, too. 

Stephanie Page  42:55

Yes, yes. 

Nicole Vienneau  42:57

Yes, yes. So good. Yeah. So we have a few moments left, and so in these last few moments together, I’d love to ask the question, and you are welcome to take a few moments to just ponder and think about this before you answer. What is on your heart that you would like to share with our listeners, Stephanie?

Stephanie Page  43:25

I think I would reiterate, do the hard thing, have the courage to do the hard thing, to reach out and discover new things about yourself, to stretch yourself into things that you might feel are a little weird and uncomfortable, because they may lead you down a path that you were not expecting. 

And then, of course, like I said, to find your purpose and live that purpose. I feel like God put in each of us a purpose, and sometimes it’s harder for others, you know, for one than another, to find their purpose. 

And but I feel like when we do that, when we really find what we were put on Earth for, then it opens up so many avenues that we can use to use that purpose to reach out and minister to others. And so I really just encourage, encourage that, encourage doing the hard thing and finding your purpose.

Nicole Vienneau  44:34

Thank you so much. Thank you. Doing the hard stuff is hard, and I suppose that’s why we have coaches to support people who want to do the hard stuff. Yes, because you don’t have to do it alone. 

Stephanie Page  44:49

That’s right. 

Nicole Vienneau  44:50

You don’t have to do it alone. Yeah, yes. So Stephanie, where can we find you? We’re looking for you…

Stephanie Page  44:59

Yeah. So on Facebook, you can find me at Unlimited Potential Health Coaching. And I will just put a side note there, I went with health coaching because Nurse coaching is still so new and confusing for people. I tell people I’m a Nurse coach, and they’re like, oh, you work with Nurses. 

Well, no, I mean, I can, but that’s not all. I can help you too. So I went with the health coaching, just to be a little clearer. So Unlimited Potential Health Coaching on Facebook. And then on Instagram, it’s Unlimited Potential Health Coach without the “ing”, because they don’t allow a big, long you know, Unlimited Potential is quite a long name, so. But look for the blue Himalayan poppy. And that’s me. 

Nicole Vienneau  45:46

Awesome. And are you… I heard you’re still working on your website, so you’re still in the process of developing your business. That’s really exciting. So we can look forward to, you know, seeing your…  when we follow you on the social media, we can see that announcement when your website comes out, and all the great things that you’ll be doing to support your community. And we look forward to watching you thrive.

Stephanie Page  46:12

Thank you so much. I’m really excited about it, and I’m really grateful for the opportunity that you’ve given me today.