For International Pride Day, I'm honored to introduce you to my dear friend Nicola at Mason,

an advocate for inclusivity, a designer and a content creator at Nicolaat Mason.com.

Today, Nicola and I talk about how we can be more loving and inclusive to those

specifically in the LGBTQ community, how to use inclusive language, how to make people in this community feel safe,

and how it all really boils down to loving your neighbor. We'll have all the resources Nicolette

mentions in our show notes at mentara.com slash podcast where you can educate yourself more

and find support groups for LGBTQ people and their family and friends.

Okay, you guys, today is such a special episode, and I am so excited to have my dear friend

Nicolette Mason on. Say hi, Nicolette. Hi. Thank you for having me. Oh my gosh, this is such a treat,

and we've been trying for so long to make this

happen. But I think it's perfect that it's happening during Pride Month and this is actually

going to go live on International Pride Day. Yay. So it's just, I think it was very much meant to be.

Nicolette is someone who I admire so much. She's disrupted a lot of the fashion industry with

just creating more inclusivity. Did I say that right? Inclusivity? Yeah, definitely. With plus

size and she's a designer, she's a content creator, she's an influencer. I admire her so much.

So I'm going to let her tell us what she's up to.

Yeah.

So I started blogging in 2008.

So definitely at the beginning of the wave of blogging, it was not monetizable then.

It was not something I thought would become part of my career.

It was just something I did to kind of have

like a scrapbook online of things that inspired me. I was working as a brand strategist and

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