Thank you for taking the time to read my story. It’s about how a girl learned to stand up for herself, a troublesome time as a new nurse, and a deep love for personal growth and development that supported her calling in life. I was born in a small town on the Quebec-Ontario border in Canada. I grew up French Canadian, speaking French. By the time I was 16, I was a lifeguard, swim instructor and synchronized swimming coach because I loved the water. I also fell in love with teaching. Teaching started the journey that would lead me to my current role as the CEO of Satori Health & Wellness Coaching Ltd, and The ProMind Experience. I’ll share more about my role as a CEO later; first let me tell you a bit about The ProMind Experience.
Created in British Columbia, Canada, The ProMind Experience™ is a subsidiary of Satorihealth.ca whose purpose is to coach and inspire healthcare leaders, practitioners and heart-focused individuals to step into their personal leadership with greater empathy, compassion, and emotional strength for one another. Rooted in core values of experiential learning and community development, this approach is intended to empower healthcare practitioners to create meaningful change where they feel truly seen, understood, and supported. It’s also meant to help hospitals have a more engaged workforce to align health practitioners’ better with the hospital’s vision.
From my early years as a synchro swimmer and coach, and eventually becoming an RN, I’ve been inspired by how people manage their thinking processes. After completing my Master of Arts Degree in Social Justice in Education, I decided to begin the journey to motherhood. Once integrated in parenthood, and we moved ourselves out to beautiful Vancouver Island, I got the sudden inspiration to study Breakthrough Coaching through Tony Robbins’ program. The ProMind Experience™ eventually grew out of my own personal experiences with my 1-1 coaching clients, and believe this will truly become the next generation wellness and retention strategy that all hospitals will come to know and adopt, as we move into 2025 (and beyond).
The Inspiration To Become A Coach
There are times in our lives when we work tirelessly to reach goals, but then find ourselves not as far along as we’d like to be. We can even doubt or question the path and what to do next. It’s common to want to get to our goals faster, and sometimes we focus tirelessly and let nothing stand in the way of that goal.
If you’ve ever experienced this as an athlete, you would simply ask your coach to direct you, so you get better clarity and focus. I recall being only 11 years old, as a synchronized swimmer and said to my coach “I can’t”…and she told me right away “never say you can’t”. And that was probably the life-changing moment that started this journey. And then I learned to ask my sports coach what I needed to do to improve, instead of telling myself I couldn’t do something. That felt so much easier than suffering, and she gladly redirected me to find a better way.
Fast forward into my adult years, I became a Registered Nurse. I started my career in Adolescent Medicine/Psychiatry. I saw first hand the mental health challenges that teens faced, often times due to mindset. When I started nursing on the frontline, I felt lonely and overwhelmed. I worked night shifts to avoid the politics, but it wreaked havoc on my emotional system. I meditated daily, to support my performance, but I was still facing challenges with my mental health. Everywhere I looked, I saw the same thing happening with my colleagues. In today’s world, health practitioners require a proactive approach to emotional wellbeing. Eventually, the universe stopped me dead in my tracks with a highway car crash. My life had to slow down for quite a few years after that. I learned to make better choices that would support my physical and mental growth.
From One-on-One Coaching To Course Creator
My journey into coaching evolved organically. Looking back at some of the challenges I was having as a nurse, I could see how a self-paced coaching/personal development/mindfulness/stress-management program could have been helpful. I worked so much as a nurse. It was non-stop! I learned to meditate when I graduated from my BScN in 1999, and each day I’d get in 2 twenty-minute meditations. That was a wonderful reset. But I worked so much, as a new grad, and I didn’t like going slowly either. That’s likely why the universe slowed me down, and I faced a major highway car crash. The truth is, I was going too fast. Metaphorically speaking, I did not want to put the breaks on. I know that I wasn’t unique to that experiences. Many of my colleagues did the same. We worked different casual positions, and fit in more and more shifts to accommodate a burdened health care system.
Sadly, I was seeing the same problems being repeated in my coaching practice, with my 1-1 clients. My clients would get overzealous and book appointments that they couldn’t keep – due to shift work. I started to work with a unique set of strategies that I eventually coined into a 5-step system. These performance enhancing strategies that I adapted in my coaching practice with Satori Health included tactics that helped me and many of my clients over the years. This system helps you find greater balance and be more effective during long and strenuous work days. In 2019, we created a digital coaching product called ProMind and with 2 beta tests, evaluating different data markers, we eventually launched it as an experience product, The ProMind Experience™..
From Course Creator to Visionary
The Pro-Mind Experience™. is a system that trains your teams to be peak performers, and helps one to see beyond their blindspots. It also helps you discover your needs in a deeper way, which helps you become a better leader for yourself, your community – and your workplace. The ProMind Experience™. really guides personal discovery, in a step-by-step experiential way…over 7 weeks. When you do the program, as a hospital-wide initiative, you’re giving your staff the opportunity I wish I had. I always wished I had a system to explore my personal and professional objectives. This would have helped me develop actionable strategies to accomplish better work-life balance. All too often, the workplace thrives on helping their teams be better health practitioners, but leaves out the human aspect of personal growth. I believe The ProMind Experience™. is what will take hospital retention programs to the next-level making hospitals the best they can be. When you have healthy and happy employees, in their own personal lives, they will naturally give to their workplace.
From Visionary To Humble Human
While I recognize there are many variables to building a thriving health care system. I hold the vision close that all workplaces will prioritize their health workforce in more personal ways. The case for The ProMind Experience™. goes beyond business; it is a social and moral imperative. The well-being of our health practitioners is not just a professional concern—it is a societal one. When we fail to support those who care for us, we undermine the very foundation of our healthcare system. Satori’s mission is to create better human outcomes for health practitioners across North America and beyond, ensuring they receive the support they need to continue their vital work.
My humble human self tries to remain grounded in the present reality, acknowledging the practical limitations involved in achieving those visions. We have encountered resistance from HR, Organizational Development (OD), and Occupational Health (Occ Health) departments when attempting to implement The ProMind Experience™ within Canadian Healthcare Organizations. This resistance isn’t just due to COVID-19, but continued to remain prevalent in 2024. We understand it’s common when introducing new approaches that are challenging the status quo. However, The ProMind Experience™. is committed to overcoming these challenges and demonstrating the value of The ProMind Experience™..
The Path Forward
As the ProMind Experience™. prepares to scale, our dedicated team is on a journey that’s true and authentic to creating a more supportive and sustainable environment for health practitioners. Each of us holds a personal stake in The ProMind Experience™.’s Mission; to get off the stressed-out treadmill in 7 weeks or less. Inside of this experiential program, your workplace learns the tools and strategies to build a life of peace, joy and happiness.
I want to help you reach your organizational goals and grow. There’s always a gap between where you are and where you want to be. If you’re interested in evaluating that gap so you can starting building better (team) habits, and shifting your mindset, connect with me @ info@thepromindexperience.com