Everyone talks about what it costs you to chase CRNA school.Nobody talks about what it costs them.

The spouses who held down households alone. The parents who stopped calling because they didn’t want to add to the weight. The friends who slowly disappeared. The marriages that survived — but barely.

In Episode 3, Marc and Shantall get honest about the people who didn’t sign up for anesthesia school but lived every second of it anyway. Marc opens up about what it was like being newly married to Becky while trying to survive clinicals, and how their first year of marriage became something neither of them could have planned for. Shantall goes there about being geographically separated from Adam during military training and USAGPAN — almost failing out her first semester, hitting a wall she couldn’t climb alone, and what it actually took to ask for help when everyone around her looked like they had it together.

This episode doesn’t wrap itself up neatly. It talks about loneliness, resentment, guilt, jealousy, and the quiet grief of watching someone you love disappear into a version of themselves you don’t quite recognize yet.

And then — it talks about what comes after. Where their marriages are now. Why strong relationships aren’t luck. What it means to keep choosing each other through school, kids, career pivots, ambition, and every season that follows.

If you’ve been through it — or if someone you love is in it right now — this one is for you.
Off the Record: Real talk for the person who is in the middle of it right now.
Up Next: Marc and Shantall are joined by Dr. Dani Williams, DNP, CRNA and IFBB Pro card holder, for an episode called Selfish — about what it looks like to actually choose yourself in a profession that never stops asking you to give.

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Chapters
00:00 Cold Open: Everyone Paid for the Yes
03:00 Welcome Back to Clock Out and Connect
04:00 What They Thought CRNA School Would Cost
07:00 Realizing This Was Harder Than Expected
12:00 When Your Spouse Feels Alone Too
17:00 Living Separate Lives While Staying Married
22:00 Communication, Distance, and Survival Mode
27:00 Almost Failing Out and Asking for Help
36:00 How School Changes Every Relationship
57:00 Off the Record: Keep Going, But Stay Human

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