Clock Out & Connect with Marc and Shantall
Two CRNAs. No filter.
Clock Out & Connect is the podcast that goes where most healthcare shows won't. Marc and Shantall work in anesthesia, one of the most high-stakes, misunderstood corners of medicine, and every episode they clock out, sit down, and get into it. Work culture, burnout, the money nobody talks about, what really happens behind the OR doors, and the life you're trying to build around all of it.
Honest conversations. Real experiences. No sugarcoating. If you're thinking it, we're talking about it.
Episodes
11 episodes
High Earner, Not Rich Yet | Episode 11
"Tuition is 250, 300, 350, almost 400,000 dollars" at the pricier programs, our guest says, and that's before three years of no income on top of it. Add the two together and you can graduate CRNA school half a million dollars behind be...
The Gaslighting of Birth: What Really Happens in the Delivery Room (Part 2, The Room) | Episode 10
It's just anxiety. That is the sentence women kept hearing back, the ones on the Retrievals podcast whose spinal or epidural was not working during a C-section, told the problem was in their head. That is medical gaslighting in childbirth, and ...
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The Gaslighting of Birth: Why Women Stop Trusting the System (Part 1, The Data) | Episode 09
A Black woman in this country is more than three times more likely to die having a baby than a white woman, and the United States is the most dangerous wealthy country to have one in. So we opened with the question we actually wanted answered. ...
Functional Chaos: How Two Demanding Careers Make a CRNA Marriage Work | Episode 08
Two CRNA couples, both spouses on mic for the first time, comparing what school and money actually did to their marriages. That's this one.Everybody warned us the same way, "CRNA school's gonna be hard, the divorce rate is through the ro...
Teen Mom to CRNA: The Part of Anesthesia School Nobody Warns You About | ft. Chris O'Connor, CRNA | Episode 07
Everybody loves the after photo. CRNA, six figures, living happily ever after. Almost nobody talks about what it actually took to get there.Chris O'Connor was a teen mom who had her son in high school, then a single mom of two who put he...
The Money Myth ft. Naseema McElroy, RN, FNP: How Nurses Build Wealth on a Nurse's Income | Episode 06
Naseema McElroy looked at almost a million dollars of debt on a nurse's salary and, in her words, instead of crying about it, she did something about it. A few years later she was debt-free, and she says she did it without winning the lottery, ...
Occupational Hazards ft. Bilal Mohammad, CRNA: The Emotional Toll of Anesthesia, and How to Carry It | Episode 05
Everybody sees the anesthesia provider in the chair, cracking jokes, looking calm. What they do not see is the bag on your shoulders. Bilal Mohammad, CRNA, the Miami provider some of you know on Instagram and TikTok as thatcrnawholifts, came on...
Selfish ft. Dr. Dani Williams, DNP, CRNA, IFBB Pro: CRNA Burnout, Work-Life Balance, and Choosing Yourself | Episode 04
Dr. Dani Williams trained and competed in physique shows straight through anesthesia school, clinicals and all, and came out the other side without burning to the ground. She is a CRNA who practices independently in Arizona, and in December 202...
They Stayed: What CRNA School Costs Your Marriage and the People Around You | Episode 03
Two marriages went into CRNA school, same pressure, completely different shape. Marc had been married to Becky nine months when he left, so she was right there in the apartment and still lonely, the two of them ships in the night while he studi...
What Saying Yes Actually Cost: The Real Price of CRNA School, Military vs Civilian | Episode 02
There is one photo Marc still has from his ICU days. His preceptor on one side of the bed, him on the other, both turning a patient, and a friend walks in and snaps his face mid-turn. His back screaming, in that gray sweater he wore all the tim...
Two CRNAs Walk Into a Podcast: How We Went From the ICU to Nurse Anesthesia | Episode 01
One of us was born in the Dominican Republic and joined the Army at 17. The other was born in Jamaica and started helping care for his grandmother after her stroke at eight years old. We met years later in an El Paso operating room, one of us t...