3 Healthcare Decisions That Derail Early Retirement for Nurses

About this episode

Brett Fellows discusses three healthcare decisions that can negatively impact early retirement for nurses.

A CRNA or nurse practitioner can save consistently, build a $1.5 to $2 million portfolio, and be just a few years from retirement and STILL lose tens of thousands of dollars a year without knowing why. The answer? Because of these three specific decisions that got made quietly in the background right before retirement. In this episode, Brett Fellows walks through the story of Sandra, a 58-year-old CRNA with $1.9 million saved. Two of those decisions had already been made wrong. The thi...

People in this episode

Host: Brett Fellows

Topics covered

• early retirement
• healthcare decisions
• financial planning
• nursing
• investment strategies

Keywords

• early retirement
• CRNA
• nurse practitioner
• financial decisions
• investment portfolio

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Organizations: CRNA, nurse practitioner

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