Ep. 10 - Ready, Fire, Aim: Jenell Kelly on Trauma, Leadership & Learning to Trust Herself

After 36 years as an ER nurse — stepping into what she now calls a daily war zone — Jenell Kelly thought the chaos was just who she was. It took a spinal cord injury that doctors said would leave her paralyzed for life, a stroke ten years later, and a night crying over a chapter of The Body Keeps the Score before she realized she'd been recreating the fight-or-flight of her childhood her entire career. Whitney sits down with Jenell to unpack how she left nursing leadership with no formal training, found her way into an entirely new identity, and finally did the deep, unglamorous work of healing the little girl inside her who thought chaos was normal. They talk belief before proof, the "roommate in your head," why journaling and five minutes of meditation beat an hour you'll never actually do, and what it really looks like to stop living out somebody else's story. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.