The ELITE Nurse to Coach Podcast with Heather Colledge · Heather Colledge

#408: Nurses & Health Pros How to Grow Your Business While Working Full Time

February 24, 2026·24 min·1 clip

Heather Colledge built a seven-figure coaching business while working ICU night shifts and raising two young children.

The promise lands fast. Heather opens by naming the pressure point: building a business while still working full-time. She knows that squeeze because she did it. She started online coaching in May 2015 while working in the ICU, raising a little boy, becoming pregnant, and sharing nights, holidays, weekends, and childcare with her husband. That story gives the training its push. The point is not that listeners need endless hours. They need cleaner focus inside the hours they already have. She is especially sharp on hustle panic. By the fourth step, she tells listeners to stop chasing everyone else's pace and make fewer, stronger moves. Daily posting is optional. Her swap is quality over quantity: three strong posts each week and ten real conversations that can lead to two to five discovery calls. She says that is enough to grow toward consistent five to $10,000 months and beyond, with profit eventually replacing income. Then the training becomes an offer. Heather invites listeners into Next Level Nurse CEO, a monthly membership with live trainings every other week on CEO mindset and 2026 business strategy. She gives the prices: $97 per month or $897 for the year, with a bonus one-on-one call for paying in full. After that, she comes back to guilt. Guilt at work, guilt with family, guilt when resting. Her answer is blunt: decide what matters that day, be excellent where you are, and let momentum and conversations build the flexibility over time.

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Straightforward advice on growing a business around full-time work and family life.

Heather College treats this episode as a plainspoken guide to building a business while holding down full-time work. The strongest moments come from the day-to-day details: ICU shifts, a young family, and a home schedule where each parent alternated childcare, nights, holidays,…

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