EBB 251 - Naseema McElroy, Founder of Financially Intentional, Shares her Courageous Story of Speaking up as a Labor and Delivery Nurse
Evidence Based Birth®
Rebecca Dekker
4.6 • 978 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
On today’s podcast we talk with Naseema McElroy, Labor and Delivery nurse and the Founder of Financially Intentional about racism, workplace trauma, and inequities in the US healthcare system. We also discuss how to find your voice and stand up for human rights within the system.
Naseema McElroy started as a Labor and Delivery nurse and later became the Founder of Financially Intentional, a personal finance platform normalizing Black wealth. Naseema is the mother of two daughters and loves sharing her passion for financial independence and nursing with her followers on Instagram and through her Financially Intentional Podcast: Nurses on Fire.
Naeema discusses her personal experiences in raising concerns about patient safety within a hospital system and how to protect yourself, legally and financially, in the process. She also shares her story regarding her viral Instagram video about the importance of representation in healthcare and the potentially far-reaching consequences when representation is lacking.
Trigger Warnings: mental health, workplace trauma, obstetric violence, systemic racism, racism and inequities in the US healthcare system, patient safety, Black mortality, Black morbidity
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone on today's podcast we're going to talk with Nissima Matt Galbrae, a labor and delivery nurse, and the founder of financially intentional. |
| 0:08.4 | About her experiences as a labor and delivery nurse and her viral video about representation in health care. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to the Evidence Based Birth Podcast. My name is Rebecca Decker and I'm a nurse with my PhD and the founder of Evidence |
| 0:21.9 | Baseball. Join me each week as we work together. and the founder of Evidence Base Bird. |
| 0:22.8 | Join me each week as we work together to get evidence-based information |
| 0:26.9 | into the hands of families and professionals around the world. |
| 0:30.8 | As a reminder, this information is not medical advice. |
| 0:34.0 | See EvieBirth.com slash disclaimer for more details. |
| 0:40.0 | Hi everyone, my name is Rebecca Decker, |
| 0:42.0 | pronouns she her, and I will be your host for today's episode |
| 0:45.3 | Today we are so excited to talk with Nissima a labor and delivery nurse and founder of financially intentional |
| 0:51.8 | Before we interview Nossima I want to let you know that we will be talking about racism and |
| 0:56.4 | inequity in the U.S. healthcare system. |
| 0:59.1 | If there are any other detailed content or trigger warnings, we'll post them in the description or show notes |
| 1:04.1 | that go along with this episode. |
| 1:06.0 | And now I'd like to introduce our honored guest. |
| 1:08.6 | Today I'm so excited to welcome Naseima McElroy, |
| 1:12.1 | labor and delivery nurse, and founder of financially intentional, a personal |
| 1:16.0 | finance platform normalizing black wealth. |
| 1:19.8 | Nesima is the mother of two daughters and loves sharing her passion for financial independence and nursing |
| 1:26.1 | with her followers on Instagram and her podcast which used to be called nurses of fire now |
| 1:31.2 | rebranded to the Financially Intentional |
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