#39 – The 5 Keys to Achieving Financial Independence with Shane Garner, MS, CRNA, NSPM-C

In this episode you’re going to hear from Shane Garner, MS, CRNA, NSPM-C on the 5 Keys for Achieving Financial Independence. This show was originally released in April of 2020 on From the Head of the Bed and I’m pulling it forward to Anesthesia Guidebook on August 30, 2021.

I’m pumped Shane brought this intel to the podcast… anesthesia providers are high income earners but it’s rare to see any formal training on financial literacy as part of core medical & nursing education or during anesthesia training programs. CRNAs & physician anesthesiologists get out and make great money but often fail to apply basic financial principals like living below your means, becoming debt free and saving & investing for the future. It sounds like boring stuff but these are some of the keys that will create freedom and peace of mind for your future. If you apply a fraction of what you’ll hear in the next 30 minutes, you’ll set yourself on a trajectory you can truly be stoked about and you’ll thank yourself down the road. You owe it to your future self to check this episode out and apply what you hear.

The 5 Keys to Financial Independence are 1. Set goals to live below your means. 2. Pay yourself first. 3. Avoid debt. 4. Invest in low cost index funds. 5. Educate yourself.

Shane Garner is a CRNA who works in Ripon, Wisconsin and is passionate about teaching anesthesia providers on personal finance as well as regional anesthesia. He has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Minnesota and graduated from Rosalind Franklin University with his Master of Science in Nurse Anesthesia in 2012. He went on to complete a fellowship in Advanced Pain Management at the University of South Florida before becoming board certified in Nonsurgical Pain Management through the NBCRNA. Shane is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Alabama at Birmingham’s nurse anesthesia program and regularly instructs with Twin Oaks Anesthesia & Cornerstone Anesthesia Conferences.