So, Hey everybody, Mike here, Mike here, Mike here, welcome to the Vox Podcast.

So glad you are tuning in, so glad to be a part of your life.

Got a very, very special guest with me today via Skype

from the great city of Columbus, Ohio, a different suburb of Columbus, Ohio, but my friend

Nicole, Nicole, say hello.

Hello.

Nicole is, so she's a big deal, first of all, that's just all her Twitter bio says, it's just a big deal.

Nicole and I shared a stage together years ago and she just published her first book

I think right it was hush right was your first one? It was my yeah hush was my first I actually had two out my second was breathe and we were talking about

So at time my third one and you told me if you have a third book your third book should be called Lie and I love that so much and I

ended up naming my third book sore perfect yeah or or it could be Thor if you have a lisp.

So, so either way,

okay.

Either way.

You're so weird.

So all, beyond, beyond, I mean my wife yeah yeah she just had no idea so

so Nicole tell us tell the sweet vox audience tell us a little bit about what you're doing and then we'll kind of work backwards into how you got to be doing this.

Sure. Well, so I grew up in a small town in Ohio and almost everyone who knew me sort of considered me like the perfect girl from the perfect family.

You know, I was the poster child of a small community so I was real involved in school and all that on the outside everything looked ideal I was an athlete I was homecoming Queen student council president

But what others saw on the outside,

that big smile I ordered to school every day,

was a mask that was covering up a lot of hurt

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