Healers with Hustles Breaking cycles and building freedom: Nadine Muller’s shift from frontline health worker to life mentor
Jul 31, 2025
55:16
When Nadine almost collided head-on with a truck, her body gave her the message her brain kept ignoring: something had to change.
This ep, Caitlin chats with Nadine Muller, former emergency nurse and Australian military officer turned life mentor, about what it takes to walk away from the identity and career you’ve always known. Together, they unpack the cost of always keeping it together, the quiet reckoning that follows, and what it takes to choose yourself.
If you’re a healthcare professional who’s starting to question the career you’ve built, this one’s for you.
Tune in to learn:
- The one sentence Nadine repeats to every burnt-out healthcare worker who's “great at their job” but dying inside
- What happened the day Nadine almost collided head-on with a truck (and why she says it saved her life)
- Why she believes your career becomes your identity and the brave decision it takes to let it go
- How Nadine hacked the system to earn triple her income while secretly building her business
- Why leaving the military as a woman leader shocked her boss—and how she took her power back
- What she means when she says “healing isn’t in your mindset, it’s in your soulset”
- The moment that made her realise she was holding her entire family together while slowly losing herself
- Her metaphor of the “backpack of bullsh*t” and what happens when you finally put it down
- Why she says generational trauma isn’t the whole story and what most people are missing about ancestral wisdom
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