Josh Johnson

Now, in your book, you are talking to people and you're asking them questions.

These questions take them to places that reveal something about them.

And I'm wondering if you think talking to people in the way that you do has made you a better nurse.

Yeah, that's a thoughtful question, Josh.

Honestly, I think they've both helped each other.

The questions that I ask all of these strangers are the same exact questions I use in the bedside.

You know, when I'm with a patient, especially in the ICU, you have two patients and you work with them for 13 hours a day, multiple times a week.

And so how's the weather only lasts so long?

You know, I mean, you have to start being able to understand what kind of conversation the person wants to have.

And so the questions in this book and many other questions that I ask, they are all bred from me being a nurse.

And without being able to do these stories, I wouldn't have been saved from the burnout that I was experiencing from the ICU.

But vice versa, making content as well, being a content creator, as you would know, it can cause its own type of burnout.

And without having nursing, I wouldn't be able to step away from the content side as well.

So they fill each other's cup.

Yeah, yeah.

And when you talk about one filling the other's cup, did you ever have any sort of... I'm trying to figure out how to word it.

There's almost like an imposter syndrome that can come with success, and there's almost a worry about what you're doing right when it comes to, I imagine, nursing.

And so that's also the same way that you could have that sort of upward spiral.

You could also have...

a lot of doubt in your life.