First of the Family | Top Money, Real Estate and Investing Podcast for Generational Wealth Builders · The Kitti Sisters

Everyone Dreams. Few Actually Do: This Is Why You're Not Moving Forward

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Ten Filipino nurses were nearly deported after false evaluations in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1. First of the Family centers on Vanessa and Noel, a Filipino couple whose migration story is tied to multifamily wealth-building language and immigrant sacrifice. 2. Vanessa is a nurse and Noel is a doctor, and both matter because their credentials shaped the way they moved from the Philippines to the United States. 3. The episode asks how two people with no money, no nearby family, and long work hours could turn a dream into a stable American life. 4. Vanessa says her U.S. dream began in elementary school after a casino hill view made New York look like glittering lights. 5. She says a neighbor who had come from the States asked, 'Why have you been to New York?' and she answered, 'one day I will go.' 6. She chose nursing partly because her sister in California was already in nursing school and because she saw nursing as 'my ticket to go to go to the US.' 7. Noel says he and Vanessa met in 1987 at a birthday party connected to her classmate and his best friend's cousin. 8. He says there was no attraction at first, and Vanessa says she made him wait two years before they became a couple. 9. Vanessa describes her mother as a home economics teacher who also ran a rice mill family business and did not let her go out at night. 10. Noel says he was a doctor who sold dressed chicken on the side so he could fund the wedding and a one-way ticket to the United States. 11. Vanessa says she arrived in Milwaukee in 1992 with no money, no family nearby, and 'barely enough to eat.' 12. She says the first airplane meal of macaroni and cheese felt 'the most disgusting thing' she had ever eaten. 13. She says the hospital housing was far from work, she got lost on her first day of orientation, and winter made the early months harder. 14. Vanessa says the agency nurses gave the Filipino recruits poor evaluations and wrote that they could not auscultate lung sounds, bowel sounds, or give insulin shots. 15. A Filipino cardiologist called the nurses to a meeting, checked the evaluations, and helped overturn the false reports. 16. Vanessa says the hospital changed their supervision so the director of nursing, ICU manager, and clinical educator became the preceptors. 17. She says the pay started at $13 an hour, rose to $14 and then $16, and later she learned new graduate nurses were making $25 to $26 an hour. 18. Noel says residency applications required paid exams, interviews, flights, rental cars, and hotels, and he finished his residency in four years by getting credit for two years in the Philippines. 19. The tone is conversational and reflective, with long back-and-forth storytelling and detailed memory work from both speakers. 20. Listeners who want immigrant success stories grounded in nursing and medicine will get the most from this episode.

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