The Ambitious Nurse Podcast

About The Ambitious Nurse Podcast

You are a high-performing nurse with experience, credentials, and a graduate degree, yet you may face barriers like visibility or self-promotion. Not because you're unqualified, but because you haven't yet learned how to position yourself as leadership-ready. The Ambitious Nurse is the career strategy podcast for experienced nurses who are done waiting to be chosen and ready to start engineering the outcome. Hosted by Bonnie Meadows Nursing Professional Development Specialist, Clinical Nurse Specialist, and President of the North Carolina Nurses Association this podcast gives you the strategic thinking, visibility frameworks, and identity shifts that most nurses never get access to. If you are ready to stop being the most reliable person in the room and start being the one they actually advance this is your show. New episodes drop weekly, providing you with ongoing strategies to elevate your leadership journey. Subscribe wherever you listen to stay ahead.

Publisher

Bonnie Meadows MSN, APRN, ACCNS-AG | Nurse Career Coach, Influential Leader, Nurse Career Coach, Well-Being Coach, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse

Category

business · education · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Aug 2022

Latest episode

27 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

92 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Aug 2026

   65// Why Tiny Steps Trump Big Plans

   Got a Career or Work question? Send me a text right here. Support the show Trying to figure out your next career step? Download my FREE Nursing Career Growth Roadmap Tired of being overlooked for promotions? Book a Nurse Leadership Positioning Intensive—a 60-minute 1:1 session to pinpoint what's blocking your advancement and map out your plan to get there.

2. 

   15 Aug 2026

   64// Leadership, Dialogue, and Positioning Lessons:3 Lessons From My First Year as Nurses Association President

   I'm back. My last episode dropped in November 2025, right as I was stepping fresh into my presidency — and then life got busy in ways I couldn't have predicted. You don't really know the time and capacity you have until you're juggling all of it at once and have to recalibrate. So in this comeback episode, I catch you up on where I've been, what I've been building behind the scenes (a one-on-one coaching offer that goes deep into leadership positioning), and why so many of my conversations wi...

3. 

   4 Nov 2025

   Voting as a Nurse: A Call to Action

   Got a Career or Work question? Send me a text right here. Support the show Trying to figure out your next career step? Download my FREE Nursing Career Growth Roadmap Join me for a **1:1 Nurse Career Clarity Coaching Call**—a 1:1 coaching session where we’ll get you unstuck and find clarity to make the next move in your career.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

16 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 65 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

98

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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