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So Nurse Lexi, congratulations 
first and foremost, welcome to 

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your side. 
I'm going to ask you a couple 

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questions so you can share with 
people that were just in your 

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shoes on what to do to get to 
the other side. 

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So first and foremost, what 
attempt was this for you? 

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This is. 
My first attempt. 

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One and done. 
So people that are coming out of

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school that are like, I don't 
know what to do. 

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You decided to go with NCLEX 
high yield. 

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How many questions were you? 
85 questions deep and it set off

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on me. 85 and out 85 What made 
you choose NCLEX high yield? 

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Well, I actually volunteer. 
I have several opportunities 

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through volunteering in 
different hospitals. 

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And so I interact a lot with new
graduate nurses especially. 

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And I have a very close friend 
of mine who I met through 

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volunteering, who told me about 
NCLEX high yield and she said, 

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I'm going to go home. 
I'm don't even stress. 

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I promise you doctors is great. 
I'm going to send you all the 

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resources and you'll be fine. 
Take the self-paced course and 

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that's all you need. 
And doctor Z. 

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And so I go home, she sends me 
the, the details and I look into

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it and I'm like, wow, this looks
great. 

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So I gave it a shot And I looked
at your into your podcast, 

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listened to some testimonies and
I was like, OK, this, this 

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sounds reassuring. 
I'm going to go with this. 

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I, I trust this. 
So that's what I did. 

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There you go. 
And so now my question is 

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because again, the reason why we
do these testimonials is 1. 

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There are so many people that 
are in your shoes right now and 

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they need to hear from somebody 
like you. 

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Like I said before, I was like, 
I can tell you it'll work. 

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I know it works because I've got
a track. 

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But you are that student. 
You are that person that has the

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ability to offer advice to 
people that are trying to get on

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the other side. 
What is your advice? 

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My advice is to 1st off, take 
the course that is the I. 

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I've had so many people come to 
me and ask for advice, people 

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who graduated with me, who 
didn't pass their first time, 

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and tell me, what did you do? 
Because you know you passed and 

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I see that you're successful. 
How did you do it? 

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And the first thing I offer to 
them is take the course. 

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I feel that nursing school only 
prepares you so much. 

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And I mean, it's great, right? 
But most of these programs, 

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they're one to two years and 
they go over things very quickly

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versus how you go over things in
the course. 

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It's very organized. 
It's separated. 

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There's sections for 
pharmacology, which was my 

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weakest subject and in nursing, 
and I feel that I saw a lot of 

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pharmacology on the NPLEX. 
Oh yeah, I needed those acronyms

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that you went over that helped 
me remember the airborne versus 

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droplet. 
Those things saved me. 

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And especially the AB CS. 
I used to think that that was 

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applied to everything. 
And then learning the aspect, I 

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was like, wow, it really is just
this simple it. 

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It's a game changer. 
It really is a game changer. 

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Yes, but my advice is just not 
to give up. 

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So I had a fear even before 
nursing school of taking the 

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NCLEX, before I even stepped in 
foot into a nursing program into

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nursing school. 
I, I was always scared of the 

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NCLEX. 
And I realized as I went through

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the course, I, I felt confident.
I, I did, I felt ready to take 

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my test. 
And so there were days that I 

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wanted to give up when I was 
studying, but I stuck to your 

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videos. 
I on my free time, even when I 

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wasn't watching lecture videos 
with you, I was listening to 

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your podcast. 
I was showering, cooking, doing,

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listening to this while I was 
doing everything. 

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And so it really did make a 
difference. 

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And it, it does stick. 
It's not a trick. 

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Yeah, there's not a trick, I 
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So there's a couple of things 
that you hit that I think are so

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important. 
The first thing is, is that you 

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said the word confidence. 
When you are confident in the 

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material that you know and 
you're testing strategies, it 

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affects your anxiety levels when
you take the exam. 

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The second thing you said was 
that whether it be cooking, 

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cleaning, walking around, 
whatever it was, you had my 

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annoying voice stuck in your 
head. 

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And I know you're laughing 
because you know, I say that 

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and, and on test day, hearing 
that voice during studying, it's

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annoying. 
On test day, a little 

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comforting, let's be real. 
And then the last thing, it's so

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important that everything that 
we did is not about a trick. 

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The content that you learned, 
you're now practicing. 

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How much of that stuff did you 
just forget or are you actually 

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like, wow, this is stuff that I 
actually truly understand now? 

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Oh, I am for sure understand a 
lot more on a deeper level than 

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I did in nursing school. 
There's a lot of things that I 

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know that I'll, you know, I 
still keep in touch with touch 

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with my friends and we'll talk 
about certain things with topics

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that we learned and they're 
like, how do you know that? 

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And I go, well, I took and I 
clicked force and it taught it 

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to me. 
So it's it sticks, it sticks 

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with me. 
I see it. 

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I again, I still volunteer in 
hospitals and a lot of what I 

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see I'm like, wow, Doctor Z 
showed me that. 

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And, and I think that's, that's 
so cool because the goal of this

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program is in just to help you 
pass the exam. 

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That is obviously the primary 
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However, making you into a 
strong, confident nurse is the 

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ultimate goal because you're 
going to be touching people's 

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lives every single moment of 
your career. 

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So I think that that's so great 
that you're able to experience 

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that. 
I'm so glad that and 

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appreciative that I was able to 
be a part of your journey.