Yo, today's QOD is you need to meet yourself.

Here we go.

Welcome back to the Quotat the Day Show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and a Sean Croxon.com.

We got a brand new speaker on the show today. Her name is Nico Everett.

And today Nico is going to share a powerful talk about self-esteem, how to raise your self-esteem

because as you've heard me say many times before, your self-esteem is everything.

Nico Everett, coming up.

I was 11 years old and I was rubbing makeup all over my legs to cover up my freckles

because I hated them and I thought they were so ugly.

I was 15 and I lived with my dad and my stepmom and I lied about my mom.

I lied about her because she was a waitress and she lived in a tiny apartment

and because she was a recovering drug addict.

I lied about her because I was too ashamed to tell the truth.

I was 17 and I was down on my knees on a bathroom floor and I was forcing myself to throw up everything

that I'd eaten that morning. I was desperate to be thin.

I was trying so hard to be perfect.

I was 21 and I didn't even realize what I was doing but I was droning on and on to my friend Julie

telling her about all the people that we knew and how great they were and how amazing their lives were

and how much I wanted to be like them, how jealous I was.

And my dear friend Julie, she stopped me and she said, Niko, you need to meet yourself.

And when she said that to me, it was like something changed.

It was like she held a mirror up for me and what she was showing me was so different

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