Built By A CRNA, For CRNAs

The Only Journal You Need to Live Intentionally as a CRNA

The Intentional CRNA is a 90-day planner for nurse anesthetists ready to trade autopilot for intention, in your career, your health, your relationships, and your wealth.

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  • Debuted at AANA 2026
  • Written by a CRNA
  • One-time payment, no subscription
The Intentional CRNA 90-day journal cover

As Seen At AANA 2026

This is where the journal met its first readers: real nurse anesthetists, in the room, before it ever went online.

Leslie Awasom with CRNAs holding The Intentional CRNA journal at AANA 2026
Two CRNAs holding The Intentional CRNA journal
CRNAs with their copies of The Intentional CRNA at the Empowered CRNA booth
Three CRNAs holding The Intentional CRNA journals at AANA 2026
Leslie Awasom with three CRNAs holding The Intentional CRNA journals

A Note From Leslie

“You don't need another journal.”

You have notebooks half-filled with goals from January. Apps you downloaded and forgot. Planners that lasted three weeks before life took over. You're not short on ambition. You're short on a system built for your actual life.

Eighteen months into my career as a CRNA, I was averaging 64 hours a week, started with over $200,000 in debt, and told myself the exhaustion was just the price of getting ahead. Then one evening I came home and watched my daughter run across the floor laughing, with more teeth in her mouth than I remembered. She'd been born four months into my career. I had missed most of her first year.

I realized I'd been trading the most irreplaceable thing I owned, time, for money I was too exhausted to enjoy.

That night I decided not to work less, but to stop letting my career be the only thing I was building. I immersed myself in personal development and financial education, and started building a real estate portfolio and a business while still wearing scrubs.

Today I've co-founded XSITE Capital, which has acquired $276 million in apartment communities since 2019, and my wife and I have co-founded Vita Nova Wellness Clinic. I take my kids to school every morning and run my business from anywhere in the world. None of that happened because I had a perfect plan. It happened because I stopped living by default and started living with intention.

“The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.”
— Mike Murdock

This journal is that system: eight areas of a fully lived life, tracked week by week for ninety days, built for someone who comes home from a twelve-hour shift with no energy left for complexity. Don't use it to be perfect. Use it to be honest.

Let's begin.
Leslie Awasom, CRNA

How The Journal Works

Six parts. Ninety days. One system built to survive a 12-hour shift.

Each part builds on the last, from an honest look at where you stand to a quarterly reset that sets up the next ninety days.

Part 01

The Honest Look

Before you plan anything, you assess where you actually are. You'll rate yourself across all eight areas of life on the Empowered CRNA Wheel. This is the diagnostic that makes everything else land.

Part 02

The Foundation

A dedicated chapter on habit formation. You'll learn the science behind why habits stick or fail, and how to build the ones that align with your goals: the exact framework that changed Leslie's life.

Part 03

The Eight Areas

One chapter for each area of a fully lived life. Research-backed context, a story from Leslie's own journey, a Stoic perspective, a habit prescription, and reflection questions that guide you to your 90-day intention.

Part 04

The 90-Day Design

You choose your three focus areas for this quarter. You define what progress looks like. You make the commitment.

Part 05

The Weekly Tracker

Thirteen weeks of structured weekly pages. Planning on the left, execution on the right, designed to be completed in under 10 minutes. Every four weeks, a deeper review and a word from Leslie.

Part 06

The Quarterly Reset

Day 90. You look back, measure your growth, and set the stage for the next ninety days.

The Empowered CRNA Wheel

Your life doesn't fit in one lane. Neither does this journal.

Part 1 puts a number on where you actually stand: not just career and income, but health, relationships, and wealth alongside them. No sugarcoating, just a starting point.

Is This For You

Built for a specific kind of reader.

This is for you if:

  • You're a CRNA (or in the pipeline) whose schedule doesn't look like anyone else's, and you need a system that doesn't assume a 9-to-5.
  • You're earning well but haven't translated that income into the life, health, or relationships you actually want.
  • You've started journals before and stopped. You want structure that meets you where your energy actually is after a shift.
  • You'd rather spend 10 focused minutes a week than an hour you'll never find.

This isn't for you if:

  • You're looking for a to-do list app or a productivity hack. This is a print planner meant to be written in by hand.
  • You want a plan someone else executes for you. This journal asks you to do the honest work.
  • You're not willing to look at the areas of your life outside the OR. This journal spends most of its pages there.
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Leslie Awasom

About The Author

Leslie Awasom

CRNA · Founder, The Empowered CRNA · Co-Founder, XSITE Capital

Leslie has spent over a decade in healthcare as a CRNA, and combined that clinical career with real investment acumen. He co-founded XSITE Capital, which has acquired $276 million in apartment communities since 2019, and co-founded Vita Nova Wellness Clinic with his wife.

His work now focuses on helping healthcare professionals and other high-earning, time-starved professionals build a life that matches their income, through financial education, real estate, and the daily systems he wishes someone had handed him eighteen months into his own career. To date, he's helped over 30 professionals realize their dreams as entrepreneurs, and hundreds more take their first steps toward financial freedom.

The Intentional CRNA is the system he built for himself first, condensed into ninety days and written for the schedule only another CRNA truly understands.

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Questions

Before you buy.

Is this a physical planner or a digital download?

The Intentional CRNA is a physical journal designed to be written in, revisited, and kept close throughout your 90-day journey.

Do I need to start on a specific date?

No. The journal is undated, so your 90 days begin whenever you are ready.

What if I miss a week?

Simply return at the next available page. The system is designed for demanding, unpredictable schedules—not perfect streaks.

Is this only for CRNAs?

It is written with the life and language of CRNAs in mind, though the planning framework can benefit other healthcare professionals too.

How do I check out?

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90 Days Starts On The Day You Open It

Stop living your life by default.

You've already mastered the hardest room in the building. This is the system for the sixteen hours a day you spend outside of it.

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