Shemeka had the titles—nurse, HR professional, and even business owner—but when it came to retirement planning, she still felt lost.

Sound familiar?

In this powerful nurse testimonial, Shemeka shares how, despite a career full of leadership and credentials, no one had ever taught her the simple, step-by-step approach to investing and planning for retirement. That is, until she joined Ultimate Nurse Investing.

👉 Her story proves: it's not about how much you earn—it's about having the right plan.

🎯 If you’re a nurse wondering “Why didn’t anyone teach me this?”—this episode is for you.

00:00 – Meet Shemeka: Nurse, HR Pro, Business Owner

03:42 – They paid me $30. Biilled $56. Something had to change.

07:46 – I'm a nurse & HR pro—I still didn’t understand retirement11:14 – I did the free courses. The webinars. The books. Still didn’t get it.14:06 – What if you try to learn investing—and still don’t get it? 👀14:57 – Saturday mornings changed my financial future.19:58 – This stopped me from jumping into the wrong investment.

24:56 – You know your paycheck... but do you know your net worth?

27:11 – I plugged in my numbers and realized... I could retire in less than 10 years.

28:39 – I used to think my employer managed my 401(k) for me. I was wrong.

31:24 – The sooner you do this, the sooner you stop winging it with your money.

💬 Want more stories like Shemeka’s?

Visit 👉 https://learn.nursesinvesting.com/proof ...to hear how real nurses & APRNs are taking control of their finances—and their futures.

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🎙 Why Nurses Are Ditching the System & Choosing Freedom Instead

Welcome back to The Nurses Investing for Wealth Mini Series Podcast! In Episode 8, we’re not sugarcoating it—nurses are in crisis, and hospital systems are still trying to mop the floor while the water main is bursting.

This episode pulls back the curtain on why nurses are leaving, how systemic mismanagement is costing everyone more, and what smart nurses are doing to protect themselves financially and emotionally. If you’re exhausted, underpaid, and ready for a way out—this one’s for you.

You’ll hear what I personally did to escape burnout, create financial freedom, and keep my license without feeling trapped by it.

💥 This is the episode that flips the script on toxic work environments.

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You’ll learn how to become work optional in one hour a month—even if you’re burned out, busy, or brand-new to money strategy.

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00:00 Welcome Back – Season One, Episode 8

00:18 The Toxic Nursing Culture Death Spiral

00:49 The Real Question: Why Isn’t It Being Fixed?

01:14 Healthcare Spending vs. Outcomes: Vomit-Level Math

01:39 Administrative Waste Is the Problem

01:55 Financial Common Sense: Why It’s More Costly Not to Fix It

02:29 How the Death Spiral Drives Up Costs

03:07 Agency Nursing Boom: Why Nurses Are Leaving

05:54 Locum Nurses & The Hidden Satisfaction Factor

07:18 The Dark Side of Travel Nursing: Still Burned Out

08:08 Is It Wrong to Leave or Unionize?

08:30 Real Nurses Are Choosing Boundaries, Advocacy, and Freedom

09:04 A National Workforce Crisis—And What Nurses Are Doing About It

10:18 Angel’s Nursing Journey: From Burnout to Financial Independence

11:55 Why Having a Money Strategy Means Never Feeling Trapped

12:57 Your License Shouldn’t Be Your Lifeline

13:21 This is What Work-Optional Freedom Looks Like

14:41 Why More Financially Free Nurses = a Better Healthcare System

15:00 Want This Too? Here’s Where to Start ⬇️

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I’m exposing the toxic reality of modern nursing culture—what's fueling nursing burnout, why it feels impossible to escape, and most importantly, how YOU can disrupt the death spiral and take control of your future.

The truth? The system isn’t designed to support you. But that doesn’t mean you’re stuck. It’s time to build a financial safety net that puts YOU in control, not your employer. 

💬 What’s your experience with toxic nursing culture? Drop a comment below—I read every single one. ⬇️

Visit this N.I.F.W. Blog to read along and access a full reference list

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▶️ CHAPTERS

00:00 - Welcome to the Nurses Investing For Wealth Mini Series Podcast 

01:00 - What “toxic” really means in nursing 

01:18 - The 5 traits of toxic workplaces (MIT study findings) 

02:50 - AI analysis of 50,000 nurse reviews: What it reveals 

05:45 - How the pandemic exposed nursing’s deep-rooted crisis 

10:30 - Why nurses are leaving the profession in record numbers 

12:00 - The flawed hospital interventions making it WORSE 

15:45 - How toxic environments directly harm patient care 

18:10 - The financial cost of staying stuck in a toxic system 

20:25 - The solution: Building your financial safety net 

23:45 - How to become work optional as a nurse 

26:30 - Get the #1 State Board-Approved financial literacy course for nurses 

28:45 - How leaders can take action to support nurses 

30:20 - What’s next: Nurses fighting back with financial power

🎧 If you’re done with burnout and want the freedom to work when you want (or not at all), this is your wake-up call.

📌 Take the next step—click here to access my free nurse financial independence training:

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Is your nursing career sustainable for the next 40 years? Doubtful. Discover the truths behind the nursing profession that no one talks about.

Nursing has long been viewed as a stable, lifelong career. But what if the system itself is fundamentally flawed, failing to consider the intense physical and emotional toll it takes on individuals? 

This video dives deep into the unsustainability of nursing as a 40-year career, the financial dead ends many nurses face, and the alarming rates of burnout leading to an exodus from the profession.

I explore the reality behind intent to leave among nurses, the generational gap in job satisfaction, and the misconception that the pandemic is the sole cause of the nursing exodus. 

With insights from over 253,000 nurses, I reveal the systemic issues plaguing the nursing industry and the urgent need for a paradigm shift in how nurses are supported financially, emotionally, and physically.

But it's not all doom and gloom. I propose actionable solutions and a revolutionary new money system designed to accommodate the realities of modern nursing. This video is a must-watch for anyone in the nursing profession, those considering nursing as a career, and anyone interested in the future of healthcare. 

Click play now to uncover the hidden truths of nursing sustainability. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe for more insightful content on the realities of modern nursing.

Visit this N.I.F.W. Blog Post to read along and browse references

https://learn.nursesinvesting.com/blog/money-and-the-nursing-exodus-part-2-managing-your-finances-in-a-burnout-role

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▶️ CHAPTERS

00:01:38 Nursing Is Not Sustainable

00:02:52 253,000 Nurses Speak

00:07:01 Real Challenges of the American Healthcare System

00:08:42 To Achieve Nursing Career Stability Develop Financial Savvy To Quit

00:11:11 Firefighters Have What Nurses Need

00:17:40 How To Establish Your Own Financial Safety Net

00:21:16 Recap

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“What if I don’t have enough money and I have to stay in this burnout nursing job?”

“What if I look at my finances, don't get the right answers, and discover I have to go back to work in this horrible, burnout healthcare environment.”

“I think I wanna join Ultimate Nurse Investing but I don't know if I'll get enough value out of your program.” 

“I want to be able to consolidate my finances and have a strategy going forward… a strategy that’s mine and not a strategy that somebody told me about.”

These 👆👆👆are just some of the reasons why nurses and APRNs are jumping into Ultimate Nurse Investing! 

I hear from nurses and APRNs every single day who are in this exact same spot. 

Maureen, MN, MPH, ARNP spent YEARS here. Finally, she was fed up. Stuck in a horrible burnout FNP job and tired of trusting a fiduciary and hoping things would click, she emailed me. 

“Do you really think Ultimate Nurse Investing will be of enough value to me?” 

I said, “Of course. Yes, 100%.” 💯

Maureen’s basic investment knowledge was beyond the financial skills most nurses have. Even still, she did not know how to translate that to work optional financial freedom.

It was clear to me that Ultimate Nurse Investing would change her life. 

But not to her (yet).

After all. No one really knows if what they will learn will help them until AFTER they learn it! 

That’s why, now that Maureen has successfully plugged into the Nurses Investing For Wealth™ Method, I asked her to share her experience in detail. 

And boy did she come through! I love all my client transformations, but this one is particularly juicy. 

Listen now.

Listen now.

Listen now.

Visit this N.I.F.W. Blog Post to read the transcript:

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#nursing #healthcare #nurseentrapment #NPburnout #nursefinancialfreedom

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▶️ CHAPTERS

00:00:00 - Breaking Free From Toxic Work: Maureen’s story

00:05:39 - Handcuffed to burnout NP job

00:07:23 - Financial Advisor fallacy

00:09:10 - Strategies to overcome money fears

00:10:47 - Ending NP role entrapment

00:15:02 - Essential steps to control finances

00:19:51 - Customize your personal money plan

00:24:32 - Increase net worth without working

00:26:42 - Enough money to live forever (or not)

00:30:40 - Money clarity, confidence, space and ease

00:37:50 - The key to a nursing job you love

00:38:57 - Summary and recommendations

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Angela Lynn–Money Mindset Expert 

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Increase nursing salaries to solve the nursing exodus?

For nurses and APRNs, money is most obviously about the question of fair compensation for what we’re asked to endure and what we bring to the world. 

But wages aren’t the whole discussion when it comes to money and the nursing exodus.

So what is? 

Listen carefully to the words in this episode and find out.

Visit this N.I.F.W. Blog Post to read along and browse references

https://learn.nursesinvesting.com/blog/money-and-the-nursing-exodus-everyones-missing-the-point

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#nursing #healthcare #nursecompensation #nurseexodus #nursevaluation #nursepay #nursesalary

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▶️ CHAPTERS

00:00:00 - Nursing exodus & money

00:01:54 - Comparable worth

00:03:56 - Ballooning hospital administrator pay

00:07:37 - Fair compensation feat. StellarNurse.com

00:12:35 - What pay equation makes the most profits?

00:14:59 - Increased wages won’t fix the nursing exodus

00:17:28 - How do nurses use their money to survive the nursing exodus?

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StellarNurse.com 

Only the highest paying travel nursing jobs. Never apply to a job blindly again. Land the highest paying jobs with confidence. Make informed job decisions based on objective pay insights, updated around the clock with AI.

https://stellarnurse.com/

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If you’re going to survive nursing, you’ll need to sort out your finances. But how?

Here’s what NOT to do: Do not put all your effort into pursuing a higher and higher salary without knowing how to turn it into work optional freedom. 

Learn the 5 steps when you listen carefully to every word in this episode. 

Imagine: You get this right and finally stop relying on that job or employer. 

✨ You work when you want IF you want. ✨

The steps are inside. 

🎧 Listen now.

Visit this N.I.F.W. Blog Post to read along and browse references

https://learn.nursesinvesting.com/blog/surviving-nursing-part-2

Specific Mentions:

Nursing Our Financial Health: Financial Habits for Overall Well-Being by Aileen Ramos

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▶️ CHAPTERS

00:00:00 - Welcome to the money episode! 

00:01:23 - Nursing is not sustainable for 40 years 

00:04:25 - The one thing in nursing you control 

00:06:18 - Claim the freedom to quit 

00:10:39 - What financial wellbeing for nurses looks like 

00:12:14 - Nurses’ stages of financial wellbeing 

00:12:32 - Step 1: Financial Inventory 

00:14:01 - Step 2: Safety Net 

00:17:59 - Step 3: Quit 

00:21:37 - Step 4: Work Part Time or Less 

00:23:37 - Step 5: Full Financial Freedom 

00:26:16 - Surviving nursing is NOT a self-care problem 

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People will tell you that the solution to the nursing exodus is to improve staff access to SELF CARE. 

But that’s wrong because research reveals that self care has little to no effect. 

Get ready to learn the game changer between feeling stuck in your job versus being able to quit when you need to.

Visit this N.I.F.W. Blog Post to read along and browse references

https://learn.nursesinvesting.com/blog/surviving-nursing

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#NursingFreedom #NurseBurnout #SupportNurses #NursingCareers #EmpowerNurses

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▶️ CHAPTERS

00:00:00 - Turn your nursing salary into work optional freedom

00:01:17 - Financial literacy is the key to surviving nursing

00:04:39 - Why self-care won’t let you survive nursing

00:07:20 - Entrapment: key driver of burnout

00:12:34 - Employers are unlikely to address entrapment00:13:53 - What helps you survive entrapment?

00:15:35 -  Surviving Nursing is up to us

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RESOURCES

Debriefing The Frontlines - for nurses and APRNs needing to debrief or get support

https://debriefingthefrontlinesinc.org/

Don’t Clock Out - peer support for nurses needing meaningful mental health support

https://www.dontclockout.org/

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500 nurses a day mash the phrase "I hate being a nurse" into Google. It’s crazy but it's true. There's a pathway to a better relationship with our profession. 

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Welcome! 00:00:00

If you hate being a nurse, you aren’t alone. 00:03:04

Our profession is in crisis. 00:04:21

Why do people hate being a nurse? 00:04:55

Nurses attribute their burnout to things like... 00:05:37

Here’s how I learned to not “hate being a nurse” 00:06:32

So how can you learn not to hate nursing? 00:11:19

Today's one takeaway. 00:14:23

How to put yourself in a financial position to survive 00:18:48

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