DNP Ep. 26: The Journey of TheNetWorth Nurse

Sandra Pagenta: [00:00:00] Hi, Savannah. Welcome to the doctor nurse podcast. So happy to have you on today. I’m super stoked. I have one today, the net worth nurse Savannah, is it , is it hard for you to use your last name? Perfect. She is been pretty much building her brand and her business online teaching nurses, how to get involved in real estate. One of my best friends reached out to me and was like, Sandra, you have to check out this nurse. I reached out to her and I’m able to sit down and have a chat with.

She is an RN with a master’s degree in leadership administration, which she completed in 2015. And she also has her BSN that she completed in 2013 clearly. She’s going to come on today today guys, and just explain her journey, how she got to where she is today. Pass on a couple of nuggets to our listeners and you guys going to check her out?

 She wants nurses to be free. She, and I really connect over those concepts. Savannah welcome. 

Savannah Arroyo: Yeah. No, thank you. I’m super excited to be here. I love connecting with other [00:01:00] nurses, especially on podcasts. This is fun. 

Sandra Pagenta: Tell us a little bit about your current role your job title.

What do you do for a living? 

Savannah Arroyo: I’ve worked in a bunch of different specialties throughout nursing. I went up to, I was in school in Sacramento. Really knew from a young age, I wanted to go into nursing and I just loved the profession, loved the flexibility and the different specialties within it.

Moved into that right out of high school. Graduated from second. Up in nor Cal at, in 2013. And then I worked in a couple of different specialties. Did oncology MedSearch tele then ended up going back to school. Got my master’s degree in nursing leadership and administration really just cause I was taking on different leadership roles, process improvement stuff.

I was just naturally drawn to it. I went back, got my master’s degree and then relocated down to Los Angeles, California for love. My husband was down here and my most recent job I was working. Full-time at a hospital here in LA as the assistant nurse manager for peri-operative services.

So cath [00:02:00] labs specials GI I saw that oversaw the pig team and noninvasive cardiology, a bunch of different specialties. But I had, I’m starting to investing in real estate at the beginning of 20 and 20 to allow myself kind of the freedom and flexibility to move to a per diem role eventually. And so I was actually able to do that within the last few weeks.

I stepped down from that position and working on my real estate business full-time and now, now I work per diem at a hospital in the pre-op area. So love the flexibility of nursing and that it’s allowed me to do that. It’s been amazing. 

Sandra Pagenta: So, how did you figure it out? How to initially get involved in real estate?

What peaked your interest, especially in California, 

Savannah Arroyo: right? I know, right. I’m in Los Angeles too. At the beginning of 2020, I just had my second daughter and I was at home on maternity leave. And just thinking about how I had to go back to work when she was three months old and hand her over to someone.

That feeling of, I didn’t need. Get a [00:03:00] choice. , I have to hand over my baby because I have to go to work and get a paycheck. So that feeling of, of like, I am a slave to this job type thing, and I love nursing and I love my job, but it was just when it came to that, it kind of shifted my priorities.

And so my husband and I were thinking like, okay, we have two daughters under the age of two now. We’re trying to, we want to be involved in their lives as much as possible as they’re growing up. As they start having soccer practice and swim lessons and all that fun stuff, we want to be flexible and available for them.

And so we both work Monday through Friday eight to five jobs that just really wasn’t there. And so. I’m trying to figure out ways that we could bring him passive income or multiple streams of income, or really build our wealth so we could have the time freedom. And so we started educating ourselves, looking at different strategies.

I mean, up until then, we had been putting 15 to 20% of our paychecks towards retirement and that’s a big chunk of money. It was a good thing. People were congratulating us. Like you’re going to be set by retirement age. Like you [00:04:00] guys are doing the right thing and it was just. Are we though, like, we can’t touch this money until we’re at 59 and a half.

Like how, , it just didn’t feel like we were doing the right thing. And so we found real estate, we started watching YouTube videos, listening to podcasts. We bought a bunch of different books and just kind of. Dove into everything we could. I mean, I was on maternity leave, walking around the park and I would just listen to podcasts on two X speed and just listen to as many as I could, , go on to our walks and started learning about real estate and just listening to all these people that were out there doing it and making it work and all the different strategies and me and my husband were like, all right, like I, , let’s do it.

So we didn’t really have money to start investing, but we were in the process of potentially refinancing our house. To bring down the interest rate and our lender, we worked with an amazing lender who I had kind of told them we were interested in real estate investing, but didn’t have money. And he was like, Hey, do , you have over a hundred thousand dollars with the equity in your home.

And. Do I like, what is that? , I literally had no real estate knowledge [00:05:00] of like, what is equity? Like what can I do with that? And he’s like, you, you can take it out and use it to buy investment properties. And it was such a switch of, oh, this is how you leverage debt. And you hear about people doing that.

But when it comes to maybe friends and family, people are like, oh, don’t do it. It’s risky. Don’t you don’t pull out a second mortgage. Like, why would you do that? But then when you talk to people, Space that are leveraging debt, buying investments, wealthy building wealth. It was like, oh, this is what they’re doing.

They’re taking out this loan, , a hundred thousand dollar loan at three and a half percent interest rate and using it to invest in assets that are earning us 15 to 20% average annualized return. It’s a no brainer mathematically. And so that’s kind of how. Started investing in real estate. And then I kinda moved to new multifamily, syndications and pairing up with healthcare, healthcare professionals and all that.

Okay. 

Sandra Pagenta: So is that, so I guess the first question I have is, are you doing the fixing of these homes? Because I kind of felt like when I’ve [00:06:00] talked to my husband about similar concepts, Well, what if they need repairs? That’s the part that starts to kind of pull away at the money that you’re making is because you’ve got to repair the facility, like, , whatever building you buy or house or whatever, or in your case, multiplexes where you’re, , having multiple people staying in in your building. How did you overcome that hurdle? Cause that’s one of the things in my mind that I was like, that’s a hurdle. Like that’s even more risk than just buying the building. I can buy the building, but how do I keep up with it? What I’m saying? 

Savannah Arroyo: Yeah. That is nerve-wracking for sure. So for us, we originally were going to go out.

We learned about the burn method. So if anyone doesn’t know what that is, you’re buying a house really below market value. You’re renovating it, putting a renter in it, refinancing it to really pull all that capital back out and repeat it. it’s a real estate strategy out there that we were set on doing.

And we were thinking of investing in Atlanta, Georgia, but as we started researching it, we didn’t feel comfortable overseeing a complete renovation across the country. And so we ended up buying a new build townhomes and then [00:07:00] shifted into multifamily syndications, which are. Us going out and buy an apartment complexes with a group of people.

So people who want to passively invest. Yeah. It’s, it’s such an amazing concept. And it’s allowed us, like, when we started investing in real estate, people were like, oh, I want to get started. Can I partner with you? Can we hand you over money and you kind of do it for us type thing. And we realized there’s a term out there for this it’s called syndications and real estate syndications allow people to pull together resources.

So we have people that passively invest with us. They hand over their money. We go out and we buy apartment complexes, which overall have way less risky. Huge returns because you have multiple tenants in there paying all this stuff. So I’m really, really high returns in these assets. And so now we go out and pair with like a lot of healthcare professionals.

I have nurses and doctors who want to get ball involved in real estate, earn double what they’re earning in the stock market, through their retirement accounts. And so they invest with us past. We go out and buy apartment complexes and yes, they need a lot [00:08:00] of work. So we’re pretty much flipping these apartment complexes over a three to five-year period, going out and buying something completely undervalued rents really below market, something that needs a lot of work and we’re going and doing the work.

And then through a three to five-year period. Flip it, and we’re able to sell it for a huge, huge value. So during the three to five year period, we’re cashing out our investors. We send them checks every three months and then when we go to sell the building, they get all their money back that they invested pretty much double is what we’re looking at.

So, yeah, it’s an amazing strategy. That is a huge hurdle of overseeing the renovation. So my husband and I have worked really hard to build out teams. So we invest in Oregon. Our apartment complexes are up there. So we’ve created a really good team of contractors, property managers, brokers, lenders, and that’s really just built over communication and finding people who you work with.

We have. Specific strategies in mind, and we make that clear to people of what we want to do, and if they, if they can come on and help us out with it. And so that’s kind of [00:09:00] how we develop relationships and partnerships to help us with a lot of that. 

Sandra Pagenta: That makes sense. That makes sense, because it just would feel pretty overwhelming, especially if you’re investing in places that are far away from you, you don’t know like , how’s the work looking.

And again, my parents were involved in real estate and I hear that they’re constantly, like, I got to go check on this. I got to go check on that. And so whenever you’re you’re far away from it, it would feel like it would be even more. Tedious and require a lot of trust to invest, but I think that’s incredible.

You’re right. Make a good team. And you just have to delegate, we learn that in nursing, right? I mean, that’s, what’s so great about being a nurse is that these concepts that we’ve learned in nursing school reverberate in different areas. And so you just have to go, like, I know how to do that. I know how to delegate, like I know exactly what that looks like.

I’ve just got to go ahead and make a really good team. And I know that CNA is going to make sure the job is done. Right. I’m going to go get her cause she’s going to go make sure it’s done. Right. ? And so that’s just, that’s really cool. And that’s really neat that that translates directly into that.

So as you were kind of moving along this career path and, and what else have you developed along your way? Because I feel like [00:10:00] when I’ve been kind of stalking you online and just. Figuring out what you were all about. I saw that you’re also about to launch a podcast you are involved in course creation.

And is that for nurses, like specifically for nurses to get into real estate? If there’s, , a nurse that’s like, okay, it was so how can Savannah helped me bridge these. 

Savannah Arroyo: Yeah, totally. So, I mean, that was kind of exactly it, as we were going out and doing these real estate deals and I would just come into work and people would be like, oh, what’d you do this weekend?

Oh, I went and saw one of our apartment complexes that we’re building just casually bringing it up. Right. And people are super interested in real estate when I started explaining, , why I’m taking. I was putting 15 to 20% towards my retirement. Now I don’t, I put 3%, which is matched not anymore actually, because I’m per diem, but I changed that, , and then now I’m investing all that stuff towards real estate.

It was really just talking to nurses about it. And then hearing nurses, especially throughout the pandemic of being like. There’s gotta be another way. Like I want the time freedom. I want the flexibility. I don’t want to have to beg for PTL from my [00:11:00] employer. I don’t want to have to, , do all this stuff for this career and not leave any time at home for family and personal, even self care is just like completely neglected within nursing that I’ve seen.

And so I became super passionate of sharing this with nurses and tell it, showing them, , how easily they. Started investing through one of these syndication deals. And I started helping a bunch of nurses start investing with me. And then I realized there wasn’t a lot of information out there. So as I started explaining the syndications, , no one knew what it was.

And so I’m like, all right, I got to create some sort of educational platform. And that’s when I launched net worth nurse. Yeah. Started doing YouTube videos. I started jumping on podcasts to share my story, to help motivate other nurses or women or people wanting to get into real estate. That’s huge for me.

The storytelling aspect of it. And I started putting out blogs, just a bunch of different educational content. So when nurses were interested And they had more questions I could say, Hey, check out my website. I have a [00:12:00] bunch of information on there. And then if they wanted to move forward and invest, I have weekly meetups that I do for real estate investing.

And then the course creation has been like people as my social media following has grown. I had people reaching out to. Almost every day asking how to get started. And I realized I don’t have any type of formal coaching and, people are wanting that. And I personally went through a coaching program, so I know how valuable that is to people.

And so it really motivated me to create a course. And so I’ve been doing that. Yeah, I’m launching it probably by the time this podcast episode airs, I’m going to be, I’m already launching it. It’s going to be a very immersive. Extensive real estate course. And then we have a personal finance course. Cause I realized there was a lot of nurses who are like, I don’t even know how to get out of student loan debt and credit card debt.

I don’t even know how much to contribute to my 401k or what is an IRA. I did a personal finance course and a [00:13:00] real estate course. And they’re both going to be launched separately with individual coaching for them, so that there’s a lot more interaction and accountability. , some hand-holding, which people want as they start learning about some of this stuff.

And so that’s really been the huge motivation behind all. This is like the gap for nurses. And I just have so much respect and love for the nursing profession that I just want to close that gap as much as possible. Give people the option to have this time freedom in their lives. 

Sandra Pagenta: Yeah, I liked that.

One of the podcasts I recorded earlier was with Jo Jill Weber ding, and she talks a lot about nurses have such a unique ability to in the hospital to identify gap closures or gaps that they can then close. And it is something that, again, I think our training also helps us do, because when you’re looking at a patient and they are, the doctors prescribed something and you’re like, okay, but the patient doesn’t have a car.

So like, how are they supported? Do that, like, we notice where the gaps are because we’re so close to people. [00:14:00] Right. And so, again, I just goes back to how our training is relevant because we are already doing that work every day. So I just encourage nurses. Wherever you are in your life. Be looking around for gaps, not just at your job, but in the world around you.

Because when you do that, you can find a niche just like you did. And you were able to step into that spot and fill it. Like I can fill this hole. I enjoy this. I like it. Okay. I’m good at it. And so people are recognizing that in you and they are responding. And I think every nurse has that capacity.

And I think that more of us need to be tapping into that because we are close to where the gaps are, so let’s fill them and 

Savannah Arroyo: Yeah, nurses are superheroes for real. I mean, I’ve just worked with so many nurses who exactly, like you said, just close the gaps. Like they see things from such a higher level that a lot of other people don’t see.

And that’s why you see in health care that nurses are moving up into the majority of [00:15:00] administrative leadership positions at a hospital are now brand by nurses. Love it so much because the critical thinking aspect is there, the time management, the organizational skills, all of that. And I mean, those are all the skills that you need to go out and buy real estate and invest in real estate and start your own business and be an entrepreneur.

And so exactly like you said, a lot of what I do even initially with nurses is just encourage and motivate them to. You can do this. If you are a rock star nurse, what you do at the hospital day to day, you can go out and create a business. You have the skills you have, what it takes like your nurses make the best entrepreneurs.

Sandra Pagenta: I agree. I totally agree. And so let’s go back a little bit. Tell me about one of the biggest successes of your career so far. And I’m talking about. Your nursing career working, , cause you were able to move up in to a position of leadership while you were working, but just also in your real estate career, has there been a moment where you were like, after you got your first building [00:16:00] or after you, where were these moments these little times, throughout your career that you said that was a real.

Savannah Arroyo: Definitely moving into my first like leadership position within health care. Cause I was still a pretty, not new nurse, but a younger nurse. And I realized that there is so much power in leadership. And unfortunately, a lot of people don’t want to move into that position because you have to deal with a lot of BS.

, you have to deal with. Situations hard doctors, hard nurses, hard patients it’s difficult, but it is also so rewarding. I have I learned early on that in my leadership roles, just supporting my team is everything. And just my day to day would be going out, Randy rounding on my units and checking in with nurses and seeing what I could do to support them.

And that just went such a long way and just being super genuine. Really paid off and in my nursing career. And then also my professional career of going out and doing this real [00:17:00] estate thing, because having the huge imposter syndrome of like, oh, I’m a nurse I’m going into this real estate syndication world.

That’s dominated by men. It’s dominated by big, big players in the game who you feel like have been in it forever, who come from a lot of money. It’s a very. Difficult mindset shift to move into that space and be like, I deserve to be here. And so really kind of just the support of my family, my husband, that kind of stuff.

It goes a long, long way, but really the empowerment that you feel. Step into those positions and really just be your most genuine self of, Hey, I’m out here doing this, sharing your story. This is providing value to people, supporting people. If you come at your life for, difficult situations or your career, that way, it just, it takes off.

So far, and it provides so many opportunities to add value and like you said, close the gaps. It’s been great. 

Sandra Pagenta: Yeah. So tell me about a time that you’ve had to overcome a [00:18:00] challenge. Did something not work for you? Did something fall apart that you were thinking, oh, this is it they’ve caught me. I’m an imposter, , like, is it, did anything like that happen along the way that, , 

Savannah Arroyo: Yeah, definitely.

So in one of our, well, in our first deal, it was a 12 unit apartment complex. We raised money from friends and family just for that deal that they were investing in. And there was a storage unit in the building that we were going to convert to a studio unit, which allowed us to generate monthly income by having a tenant in place and all this stuff.

And we vetted it out. For we closed on the property. We’ve edited out with a contractor and engineer with our property management team and all this stuff. And they said it was a go and we were really relying on them and their specialties to guide us in this direction. And the contractor gave us the green light.

So we ended up closing on the property, started moving forward on converting it. And they went to pull permits from the city and it was a no-go. There was no way we could turn it. Seriously, my heart jobs. When I got the email at work, I had to [00:19:00] go outside. I felt like panic mode, , that flight or fight.

And I was just like, no way, , we have money invested in this. My father-in-law has money invested in it. It was just like, What in the world, like, I felt like we had done everything right. But the thing is in real estate and just life in general, any job you go out and you’re confronted with situations like that.

And you, my husband. And I think what makes us so successful at this is that when we’re confronted with a problem, we look at it, but we don’t dwell on it. It’s not like a blame game. We weren’t trying to shift the blame or justify anything. It was like, all right, this is what happened.

What do we do next? Like how can we solve this problem? And which I think is a huge skill in nursing too, of like, all right, what do we need to do to, to kind of fix this? And so pivot and pivot mode. And so we started brainstorming of different ways that we could come above on this and, and we ended up turning it into a paid storage thing chopped it up into seven different storage units that we’re now renting out to tenants.

And now. The same [00:20:00] income, actually more, right. So it’s like, , you have to get creative. And if we would have had, , a negative mindset victim mindset, it probably would have been a lot different, but we were just like, all right, how do we fix this? Ended up moving forward. And that’s kind of.

 How we handled that problem, but it hurt. It’s done. I’ll never forget how I felt when I saw that email come in and I was just like, no way. So, but we have overcame. 

Sandra Pagenta: Yeah. And I think that’s another important fact to kind of rest on real quick. It’s just the fear is there, it’s there. Like you could have like shut down and be like, oh my God, what are we do?

We’ve got to get out of this deal. Like this is an, and you just were like, Nope, let’s calm down. Because in the moment when you’re also in a room with a patient and I’ve been in the room when I’ve been in all like this, patient’s not doing well, I could be freaking out or I can just be calm and figure out what we need to do in here.

I need to call a code, , like whatever it is that I need to do, like you could panic or you could just take a second breathe. And figure out, all right, how do we turn this frown upside down? Once you just slow [00:21:00] down, now, all of a sudden you can turn it into something that’s even better than you even thought.

And so that’s another thing that I feel like constantly I find with people that are worried about starting their own side hustle. Looking in and, , learning about something new or taking the career in someplace, , in a different direction, like going per diem or part-time or whatever it is, it’s that what lies on the other side behind fear is always something sweeter.

If you just keep going, you just don’t give up. Pushing and don’t panic because it’s, it’s always going to be coming at you. You just have to keep, keep persistent, keep I keep your eye on the, why, keep your eye on what you’re trying to do. And it all works out to. 

Savannah Arroyo: Totally. Yeah. The book grit by Angela Duckworth is just all about that grit mindset of overcoming pushing through.

And I mean, even when we encounter stuff like that, my husband always reminds me, like, if it was easy, everyone would do it. Like this is the breaking point for a lot of people. When you encounter these situations, some people will drop it and turn away or freeze or not handle and overcome. [00:22:00] What makes the difference between people is, , pushing through, keep going.

And the, the reality is if you’re going out and doing something new, starting a new business, getting into a new specialty, anything like you’re going to encounter those situations, , even graduating, that’s a new nurse. You’re like terrified of making a med error, right? Like that’s like the biggest fear of making a med error, but , it happens.

It occasionally happens and you hope it’s not a life-threatening situation. Sometimes it happens. And then it’s like, okay, , how, how, how does this make me feel? How do I prevent it from happening? And again, it’s like almost, you have to make some of these mistakes to realize, okay, this is now what I’m going to do and put all these systems in place so that it never ever happens again.

Sandra Pagenta: Yeah. That’s a great book. That book by Angela Duckworth. I liked too. She talks about the resiliency and that’s what you’re describing is the resiliency to keep going. I’m going to show up every day, even though it’s hard. And even though I don’t feel like I’m capable. And even though I don’t, even though something bad has happened, like a [00:23:00] med error and I’ve experienced that as well, where I’ve made.

And I’m still here. You’re going to be okay. You’re I still have my license, , I have made those errors. You’re not going to be negligent. That’s that’s different. Like you said, put those systems in place that you’re not going to take out more than one patient’s med at the time.

I’m not going to do that. That’s going to, that’s going to set me up for an error. And so you learn those things and you learn, okay. That’s why nurses, it makes such good business owners is because they are so resilient. We keep showing up. Even after you make a mistake, you got to go to work the next day.

Even after you made a mistake, you forgot. Don’t want to go back on. I want to see that patient. I made a mistake and you’re like, Nope. Hi, I’m your nurse. I’m so sorry. I’ll see you I’ll be back in your room. You have to just keep showing up this. That’s about what goes on, you have to up.

So, all right. And then anybody mentor you along the way as you’ve gone through this journey, I think you had said earlier, you’d done like a coaching program, so yeah. Did you have any mentors? 

Savannah Arroyo: Definitely. For sure, not really in nursing leadership, which was a huge struggle. I was [00:24:00] moving into leadership and administration positions with out any type of real leadership, which was.

A big struggle and honestly, kind of moving into that position. I ended up going back like a year later and coming, coming to my CNO of like, Hey, maybe we can work on this on the future. Cause I was kind of thrown into some of these positions and didn’t have a lot of resources and kind of support through it.

But definitely in the. State world. We actually invested paid money for a paid coaching program. And that was because we I’ve listened to tons of podcasts. I’ve, , tiger woods has a coach. He’s one of the best golfers in the world. , people maintain these coaches and that’s really what takes them to the next level.

I mean, even you hear about. All these stars and influencers with life coaches, , having that one-on-one personal connection with someone really does take you to the next level. And so we did do a paid coaching program when we moved into real estate multi-family because we were raising money and doing legality.

So we wanted to make sure we were doing everything the right way.[00:25:00] It’s super important for us to invest in something like that. And yeah, now that’s something that my husband and I both do because we realize the value in it and how many people want it. That’s something that we offer as well.

Is the 

Sandra Pagenta: coaching. So over the course of your career, what would you say has been the most worthwhile investment you have made in yourself? 

Savannah Arroyo: I would definitely say my master’s degree. I, that opened a lot of doors that I didn’t necessarily think it was going to. I had no desire to go back to school to get my master’s degree.

But when I graduated with my best bachelor’s degree in 2013, I was in. California trying to get a job. And it was so hard for a new grad to get a job. And I was applying and applying for 10 months before I found my first job. But after six months, I was like, I cannot sit here and not do anything. I wanted to be working so bad.

And so that’s when I enrolled in the master’s [00:26:00] program at that point, and then started going through it as. Finally got my first new grad job, cause it does happen. And ended up going through that. And it’s opened a lot of doors within my professional career. As a nurse. I’ve made so many connections at the hospital just by moving into those positions.

I felt like as a leader, I was able to really create a lot of good change in the units and departments I was working in. Okay. I loved that side of it. And I feel like it’s also given me the skills that I’ve needed to start my own business and my real estate business and still connect and grow relationships with other people.

It’s been very valuable. 

Sandra Pagenta: That’s awesome. And this is before my last question. So my second to last question again, just because I think you’re so interesting what you do, how can a nurse today change her net worth? What is one thing? If you had to give her one piece of advice to change her net worth right now?

What would you tell her to do? 

Savannah Arroyo: I would say, look at your income and expenses and your budget make a budget. I think a lot [00:27:00] of people don’t even do the basics of making a budget. And so they don’t really know where their money’s going and how much money they have coming in. And I think the first time I made a budget, I realize.

Wow, I’m making good money and it doesn’t feel like it because I have these expenses in my life that, , I don’t wasn’t really, even accountable for, they were just going to restaurants and doing other stuff, , as, as a young nurse that I was doing and spending my money. But as I said, I know I sat down and made my budget.

Oh, there’s a lot of power in this. I’m making good money and I can now take this and do other things with that. I can go out and buy a house. And so I think making that budget at first, I mean, every business runs on a P and L a profit and loss. That’s how businesses run. They’re constantly tracking their profits and then they’re lost, through expenses and other payments.

So. Something that I think nurses need to do to take that first step. Once you identify that, then you can say, oh yeah, I want to go out and invest here and learn about [00:28:00] this and other strategies. Yeah. ‘

Sandra Pagenta: cause I think what you just described was as you create discipline in your life, You actually create freedom and that’s what people don’t connect to.

Right? They think that like, oh, I just want freedom. And unfortunately, the only way you get freedom is through the discipline and the discipline is what this is the hardest thing to do is of yourself to discipline yourself is the hardest thing, because you have to really take a look in the mirror at yourself and really pick out I’m my biggest enemy here, right?

Because we can make so much money as nurses, but at the time when your kid is on the planet and you’re looking at him and you have to hand them to somebody to take care of, if you to discipline yourself prior, you could be at a different position where you can go. I don’t have to do. It gives you freedom to go.

I don’t got to give my kid to anyone I’m going to take care of them. And so I think that that is super sweet and amazing and so empowering. My very last question for you. [00:29:00] And I want to be respectful of your time. Savannah is what advice do you give to a new nurse starting off in her job and her career?

She doesn’t know what to do. She’s got a diploma in hand. What is something you wish somebody would have told you? Before you became a nurse. And give me a piece of advice that she’s going to hear that you’re going to tell her to toss aside. So a piece of advice to hold on to, and a piece of advice to toss.

Savannah Arroyo: Okay. A piece of advice to toss is that you have to start off in med surge. I think that, that, I’m sure you probably hear that all the time. It’s if you, as a nurse, there are so many different specialties. And if you want to go out there and do a specific specialty, go out and do it, you don’t have to start in med surge.

And I don’t, I’m not going to knock med surge because I started in med surge and it really did give me a foundation of skills that then I was able to look at it. Yeah, I don’t really like med anymore. I’m going to move into this side of nursing type thing. And so I, that would be definitely [00:30:00] something to hand out.

Something to hold onto is really that you can go out and do what you want to do and make a difference. And I would, I would say actually, To not fall into the hospital politics and drama, like the drama, the drama that you encounter as a new nurse coming into the hospital. You’re new. You don’t know what’s going on.

You hear these older nurses complaining and venting about everything and it can be so easy to just kind of fall into that to be like, all right, well, let’s just like the culture type thing around here, but I would encourage you definitely do not fall into that. Go into work. Do your job, make a difference and in your patients’ lives and come home and be with your family.

Like it is not, that’s not your all, , you don’t want to dive into that for sure. 

So the last part of the interview is the rapid fire questions. All right. So these are just fly by the seat of your pants. Quick answer. here we go. Cats or dogs?. [00:31:00] Dogs. 

 How do you like your eggs?

I don’t really eat eggs, but I would say scrambled.

Scrambled with cheese, no cheese, cheese, definitely cheese. Okay. And what book are you currently reading? I am rereading Gary Vander chucks. Oh my gosh. I’m blanking on the name. It’s upstairs on my nightstand. 

Is it called a crushing yet? I loved that book. Crushing it. He is absolutely. Inspirational. When you had said work, come home, be with your families.

That’s what you said. And I remember thinking, and then when you put your babies to sleep, go find that thing that you like to do that can become your passion, that you can pursue when you are ready to leave nursing, because you’ve built this up for yourself. That’s what I was going to say.

And he says it in the book crushing it that you should just, again, work your job. Take care of your family and be present for the people that are close to you. And then he says, and then on the off time, in those hours that you are away from your family. He’s like, spend that time figuring out what you like to do, you invest in yourself.

[00:32:00] And so, yeah, I thought that was really good advice. Last night I put my kid to. And I came out here and I worked on some pharmacology stuff, so I could get my autonomous practice license here in the state of Florida. And I was like, this is me investing in myself.

I’m crushing it. I feel like I’m crushing it. So, yeah. Yeah. Well, thank you for your time. Savannah today and where can people find you if they’re wanting to have you kind of walk them along their personal.

Definitely. So I’m on all social media platforms, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook. I’m just getting on Twitter. My website’s net-worth nurse.co. I just made a change in that and I love connecting with people. So if you’re remotely interested in real estate, if you heard something in here, you liked reach out to me.

I’d love to connect.

Sounds like a plan. Thank you so much guys for your time. Thank you. 

Thank you.