Jineen R. Huff CRNA, MSN’s Stories, Lessons & Insights

We’re looking forward to introducing you to Jineen R. Huff CRNA, MSN. Check out our conversation below.

Hi Jineen, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What are you being called to do now, that you may have been afraid of before?
What I’m being called to do now, that I once feared, is to stand fully in my voice as a coach, author, speaker, and resilience strategist. I’ve spent over 20 years in nursing, including my time as an award-winning Nurse Anesthesiologist, serving in some of the most high-pressure environments. For years, I thrived clinically, but I often stayed behind the scenes. The truth? I was afraid of being seen.

Now, I realize my mission is to help others no longer suffer in silence. I’m being called to lead the charge and be the domino — the one who falls first so others have permission to rise. I’ve seen the cost of silence: research shows that 40% of new nurses leave the profession within just two years, largely due to burnout. That’s not just a healthcare crisis, it’s a human one — impacting families, organizations, and communities.

One of the greatest lessons I’ve learned is the power of giving yourself permission to pause. In a culture that glorifies overwork, pausing feels like weakness. But it’s the opposite — pausing is where healing, clarity, and strategy live. It’s how I rebuilt myself after burnout twice, and it’s what I now teach others to do through my “I Choose Me Bootcamp”, my FREE Positive Sexy Self-Talk Checklist, and the BLOOM™ Telegram community.

What used to scare me was visibility. Today, I understand that visibility is not vanity — it’s responsibility. When women and healthcare leaders hear me speak, read my book “I Choose Me- The Intentional Guide To Never Lose Yourself Again”, or join my community, they realize they are not alone — and that pausing isn’t failure, it’s resilience in motion.

So, my calling now is refinement: to prune back what no longer serves me, step boldly into the rooms where change happens, and lead with a voice that empowers others to pause, rise, and BLOOM™.

Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
I’m Jineen R. Huff, MSN, CRNA — an award-winning Nurse Anesthesiologist, coach, author, speaker, and resilience strategist with more than 20 years of nursing experience. After facing burnout twice, I realized my mission was bigger than the operating room. I founded Intentional Queen Journey® five years ago to help ambitious women, nurses, and healthcare professionals reclaim harmony, confidence, and purpose so they no longer suffer in silence.

What makes my brand unique is that it blends lived experience, clinical expertise, and transformational coaching into strategies that work in real life and in high-stress workplaces. My signature BLOOM™ framework teaches how to move from overwhelm to resilience, while my Positive Sexy Self-Talk Checklist and private BLOOM™ Telegram community give people daily tools and accountability to keep going.

Through my book, I Choose Me: The Intentional Guide to Never Losing Yourself Again — which has sold hundreds of copies globally and earned 35+ five-star reviews — and my Intentional Queen Podcast with 20,000+ downloads, I’ve built a platform that empowers others to give themselves permission to pause and bloom forward.

Currently, I’m focused on expanding my “I Choose Me Bootcamp”, a 12-week group coaching experience where women achieve three core goals to go from burnout to harmony based off my top selling book:

– Overcome overwhelm and create harmony without guilt.

– Rebuild confidence and self-worth.

– Design a personalized roadmap to never lose themselves again.

I’m also leading the charge in corporate and healthcare resilience training, bridging the gaps in burnout prevention where the stakes are highest. My mission is clear: to use my story, my frameworks, and my voice to help people build resilience, restore harmony, and create lasting change — both personally and professionally.

Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. What part of you has served its purpose and must now be released?
The part of me that had to be released was the perfectionist and people-pleaser. For years, I carried the weight of being the ‘strong woman’—the one who had it all together, never complained, and always put herself last. That mindset may have helped me survive early on, but eventually, it cost me my health, my joy, and almost my purpose.

Letting go of that version of me was painful but necessary. Burnout forced me to pause, to release what no longer served me, and to bloom into who I am today. Now, I teach women and healthcare leaders the same lesson: boundaries are not selfish, self-care is not optional, and your voice matters.

That release became the foundation of my BLOOM™ framework, my book “I Choose Me – The Intentional Guide To Never Lose Yourself Again”, and the tools I’ve created like the FREE Positive Sexy Self-Talk Checklist available at our website @ www.intentionalqueenjourney.com. By releasing the old, I made space for refinement, resilience, and a mission that now impacts women globally.

What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Suffering taught me what success never could: how to pause, listen, and rebuild from the inside out to BLOOM™.

When I faced burnout twice in my 20+ year nursing career, including my time as an award-winning Nurse Anesthesiologist, I realized that success alone wasn’t sustainable. All the accolades and titles meant nothing if I was exhausted, broken, and disconnected from myself. Success taught me how to achieve, but suffering taught me how to live with harmony and joy.

Suffering forced me to release perfectionism, people-pleasing, and the “strong woman” syndrome. It reminded me that boundaries are not selfish, that self-care is not optional, and that my voice matters. Those lessons became the foundation of my BLOOM™ framework, my book “I Choose Me”, and tools like the Positive Sexy Self-Talk Checklist.

Today, I stand not only as an author and speaker but as a Resilience Strategist — helping ambitious women, nurses, and healthcare professionals reclaim harmony, confidence, and purpose. Through my “I Choose Me Bootcamp”, corporate resilience trainings, and the BLOOM™ Telegram Community, I now transform suffering into strategy for others to no longer suffer in silence like I once did..

That wisdom didn’t come from textbooks or titles. It came from pruning seasons that refined me into the leader I am today — and that’s something success could never teach me.

Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. What are the biggest lies your industry tells itself?
The biggest lie healthcare — and honestly, much of corporate culture — tells itself is that burnout is normal and self-neglect is the price of success. We glorify overwork and wear exhaustion like a badge of honor, but the truth is: it’s costing lives, families, and talent.

Right now, over 60% of nurses report symptoms of burnout. That number is staggering, but even more alarming is how often it’s dismissed as “part of the job.” Burnout is not a badge of honor — it’s a systemic failure that threatens retention, patient safety, and the future of our workforce.

I speak to this not only as a Resilience Strategist, but also as a nurse with more than 20 years of experience, including time as an award-winning Nurse Anesthesiologist. I’ve lived the reality of pushing through exhaustion until your body and spirit force you to stop. That’s why I’ve committed my work to filling the gaps — both for high-achieving women and for nurse leaders who are carrying far too much on their shoulders. There are five core gaps that I have identified that need to be filled as a nurse resilience strategist. It has led to me speaking on multiple stages, platforms, and podcasts to spread the word and give awareness to support others to never lose themselves again. The biggest thing I want people to know is that you can be an “and”, which means you can be multi-faceted in different areas with same ultimate mission. Don’t put yourself in a box!

Through my BLOOM™ framework, my book “I Choose Me”, and resources like the Positive Sexy Self-Talk Checklist, I equip individuals with tools to protect their energy and confidence. Through my I Choose Me Bootcamp and corporate resilience trainings, I help organizations move beyond awareness into action — shifting cultures so that resilience is recognized as a leadership strategy, not a luxury.

At the heart of my mission is this: I am both nurse and strategist. That’s what makes my perspective different. I don’t just talk about resilience — I’ve lived it, refined it, and now I teach it so that others don’t have to lose themselves before they learn the same lesson

Okay, we’ve made it essentially to the end. One last question before you go. What is the story you hope people tell about you when you’re gone?
The story I hope people tell about me when I’m gone is that I was the woman who showed others they didn’t have to lose themselves to succeed. That I was both a nurse and a strategist who used my voice, my story, and my platforms to help women and healthcare leaders bloom beyond burnout.

I want people to say that my work didn’t just inspire — it equipped. That through my BLOOM™ framework, my book I Choose Me, the Positive Sexy Self-Talk Checklist, the BLOOM™ Telegram Community, and my I Choose Me Bootcamp, I created practical tools and safe spaces that helped thousands reclaim harmony, confidence, and purpose.

But beyond the stages, books, and trainings, my greatest legacy is for my son and my family. I want them to remember that I modeled resilience not just in words, but in the way I lived. That I taught them: no one should ever suffer in silence, that you should never shrink yourself to fit a role, and that you are enough in every season of your life.

On a broader scale, I hope my legacy is that I filled the gaps in resilience training for healthcare and corporate spaces — shifting cultures to treat self-care as strategy, not selfishness. And on a personal level, that I left a blueprint of courage, faith, and intentional living that my child, my family, and generations to come could carry forward.

At the end of the day, I want people to say I lived intentionally. That I chose me — so they felt permission to choose themselves too.

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