The Call Light Collective
Step inside the conversations that matter most in healthcare. The Call Light Collective Podcast brings together nurses, caregivers, and healthcare professionals to share real stories, hard truths, and practical insights from the frontlines. From navigating burnout and leadership challenges to celebrating wins and building community, we shine a light on the experiences that shape the people who care for others every day.
Episodes
8 episodes
From Silence To Strength: Mothers, Work, And Healing
The quiet rules we were handed—smile, cope, don’t make a scene—don’t stand a chance once real stories meet open air. We sit down with women who lead at work, parent at home, and carry the invisible load of being told to be capable without feeli...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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38:16
Answering The Call
We sit with three women we admire to talk about worth, voice, and why we stop apologizing. The talk moves from nursing and operations to belief, self-love, and boundaries that change how we lead and live.• why we said yes to the mission...
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37:38
Carrying Love Through Grief: A CVICU Nurse's Guide to Healing with Janna Holterman
Some stories don’t begin with a calling; they become one. We sit down with CVICU nurse and mentor Janna Holterman to trace a path that starts in a float pool, winds through critical care and credential chasing, and collides with profound person...
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39:15
From Classroom To Caregiver: Choosing Family Over Certainty
The day a daughter takes her mother’s car keys isn’t about control—it’s about love colliding with safety. Jennifer sits down with Christine, a 21-year teaching veteran who stepped away from the classroom to care for her mom, and together we tra...
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46:40
Keeping The Healers Whole
Some days in the hospital, the confetti falls while someone down the hall is still wiping away tears. We wanted to talk about that gap—the space between appearances and what caregivers carry—and how to close it with simple, human acts that actu...
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50:02
From Burnout To Boundaries: A Nurse’s Truth About Self-Love, Standards, And Living Without Regret
What if the real fear isn’t death, but waking up one day realizing you never chose your own life? We sit down with Crystal Snead, an LPN with years across long-term care and home health, to unpack what thousands of elders taught her about regre...
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46:30
Radical Candor In Nursing: Honesty, Purpose, And Psychological Safety
What if the bravest thing you could do for a colleague—and a patient—was to tell the truth with love? That’s the heartbeat of this conversation on radical candor in nursing: a clear, compassionate approach to feedback that protects patients, st...
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52:15
From Single Motherhood To Managed Care: Faith, Grit, And Identity
What if you stopped shrinking for rooms that were never built for you?In this debut episode of The Call Light Collective, host Jennifer Eddings (@jen_the_rn_82) sits down with Danielle Moran — a mom of three across three gener...
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42:25